When you place your online coffee order with Columbia Street Roastery, you can choose to get a one time delivery or set up a coffee subscription. You choose the regularity, depending on how quickly you burn …
We’ve talked a lot about the Champaign County Forest Preserves and their importance during this time of social distancing. We’re fortunate to still have them available to us during this time. While you’re out enjoying …
Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA) and Friends of the BCPA have created a benefit concert series on Facebook live called Your Dinner & Our Show to raise funds for the Boys and Girls …
Shai Mauth, who you might know from Broadway Food Hall’s various restaurants and King Kuma at the Fields, has a new restaurant open in Mahomet. The Poké Shack had its grand opening today at 804 …
Though we can’t enjoy Parkland’s Giertz Gallery right now, we can enjoy the latest addition to its For Arts Sake video series, featuring artist Hale Ekinci, who offered a gallery tour for the recent Complex …
Montessori School of Champaign-Urbana currently offers educational opportunties for toddlers through elementary age students, and now they will be adding secondary education through 8th grade. From their website: “We believe our adolescents are the face …
The Champaign-Urbana Design Organization (CUDO), which had planned to bring back its beloved ABCU typography show during the 2020 Boneyard Arts Festival, will be launching the show and sale digitally. Designers can still …
D.P. Dough is always clutch for calzones in C-U. They offer the usual calzones like Cheese and Italian, but they serve up some unique calzones. The Awaken Bacon calzone (bacon, eggs, marinara, and mozzarella) is …
Even though you can’t browse the galleries at Krannert Art Museum, this is a good time to remind you that they have extensive online collections that you can browse whenever you’d like. There are over …
Here are a couple of opportunities to watch some live music and support a local venue simultaneously. Rose Bowl Tavern will be live streaming two shows this week, one of which is tonight at 8 …
After closing shop for a short period of time, Plant Mode in Midtown has reopened for curbside pick up. While their normal hours will remain roughly the same, they’ve identified that their new “normal” hours …
We’ve written before about Papa Del’s shipping their pizzas; it’s typically something they do a lot of during the holiday season. Now, with the country staying at home, they’ve seen an increase in shipping orders …
University of Illinois creative writing professor Janice N. Harrington and history professor David Sepkoski have each received a 2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. They are two scholars of 175 selected from a pool of 3,000 applicants. …
Champaign County Economic Development Corporation and the Small Business Development Center are offering more free webinars this week to help you with your small business. Follow the links to register for the free events. COVID-19 …
I was first introduced to Manual Cinema at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts way back in December of 2018. Their unique combination of live puppet theatre, live music, and literary texts was one of …
The Champaign County Economic Development Corporation has boosted a call for masks from the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District. If you have skills to make masks, please consider doing so. You can view the sewing tutorial …
Krannert Center has the supplies, and they are looking for community members who can turn them into masks and gowns for healthcare providers and the Champaign County Emergency Operations Center. The costume shop staff have created …
Grilling weather is upon us — okay maybe not this week, but it’s coming back soon — and Hamilton Walker’s is helping you out this week with some grill-ready kebobs. They are sold raw with …
Visit Champaign County has had to cancel their annual Toast to Tourism this year; it was scheduled for May 13th at the Virginia Theatre. The event was a way to honor those in the hospitality …
The University of Illinois Office of Off Campus-Community Living shared a valuable resource noting the change in hours for food pantries in C-U. In addition to the photos below, you’ll find a link to the …
Last week was the anniversary of the first documented radar image of a tornado. The tornado was detected by a radar at Willard Airport on April 9th, 1953, and it led to the establishment of …
Bob Nanna is best known for his work in Braid and Hey Mercedes, and as Pitchfork explains in more detail, Nanna’s first ever solo album under his own name will be released on July 10th. The …
Cafe Kopi is back open, serving drinks and food Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. They’re serving up coffee drinks, hot tea, and blended frozen drinks in addition to their paninis (the …
Aroma Cafe initially closed when the governor’s stay-at-home order went into effect, but now they are offering a limited carryout menu from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Saturday. They are taking walk-ins, or …
Central Illinois Bakehouse is offering an opportunity to order baked goods, produce, and Kilgus Farms dairy products this week. Orders must be placed by 8 a.m. on Tuesday, April 14th. You place your order and …
Families of school children have now been loaned Chromebooks for remote learning. Chromebooks require internet access. A team of people from the public libraries, public schools, cities, university and assorted technology groups would like to …
HUM‘s masterful record You’d Prefer An Astronaut was released by RCA 25 years ago today: April 11, 1995. There isn’t much more I can say about the record that hasn’t already been said by most anyone throughout …
Whether you’re actually looking to pledge your allegiance to Satan or not, you are probably willing to pledge your alliegance to coffee. That’s something I think most of us are able to get behind, at …
Local maker and illustrator Maxx Gogski of XXM will be streaming “crafting and illustrating alone together” classes starting this weekend. Even a quick glance at the Facebook event page is bound to inspire you with …
Members of the Silverwood neighborhood in southeast Urbana are rallying support for their neighbors. Calling themselves the “Silver Hearts,” they have launched a collaborative effort, with community partners including Quest Church, the City of Urbana, …
The weekend before everything began to shut down, I made a final trip to the library to stock up on some reading material. If you didn’t, or if you’ve already burned through those books, don’t …
Beauty Quest Group is a company in Rantoul that manufactures hair care and styling products for stylists and retailers. Now, they’ve shifted their production to hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial soaps. Here is the post from …
As we mentioned earlier this week in our Editorial, being a good citizen during the pandemic in part involves listening to the information that comes from Champaign-Urbana Public Health District. Here’s a nice piece of …
Now that we’re all being asked to wear masks when we go out in public, the scramble has been on to figure out on to get our hands on them. So many people are sewing …
If you’d like your favorite Triptych beer to keep flowing while you’re staying at home, and you have the setup for it at home, you can now purchase a sixtel keg. It’s a plastic, recyclable …
Here’s some good news for parents of budding musicians. The Community Center for the Arts (C4A) is now offering remote music lessons. Find out more on the C42 website. Top image: Photo of young girl seated …
If you live in Urbana, it’s time to get working in your yard. The City of Urbana will be doing leaf collection from April 20-24, so you have this week and next to get ready. …
While Hogchute’s summer installment, Hogchute Opry, is tentatively planned for June 6th, in the interim they’ve provided us with some tunes to get us through this COVID-19 time. Hogchute has compiled 15 songs from a variety of …
Sadly, Champaign Park District cannot have their usual egg hunt activities this year, so they are going virtual instead. No, it’s not the same, but is anything the same right now? Swing by their Facebook …
Unit 4 extended their deadline for kindergarten registration, but that new date is approaching quickly. Parents and guardians have until April 15th to register their incoming kindergartners and make school choices. The registration form can …
If, like me, you’ve missed seeing the Illinois Theatre students perform, you’lll be happy to know that the BFA Class of 2020 will be launching at digital showcase on April 23rd at 12 p.m. CST. …
Urbana’s Independent Media Center is launching a virtual event series featuring 30 minutes of curated content once a week until able to reopen to the public. This Thursday, April 9th features two 30 minute sets: …
History on Tap is a series, organized by Champaign County Forest Preserves, that travels Champaign County, offering interesting lectures in boozy settings. April’s event, “Women, Alcohol, and The Vote” was scheduled to happen at 25 …
On Thursday, April 9th, the University Library is hosting a panel discussion from 1 to 2:30 p.m., and anyone in the community is invited to join. The panel will consist of: Julie Pryde, Administrator, Champaign-Urbana …
The Land Connection and several other organizations around Illinois are working with Buy Fresh Buy Local Illinois, a website that connects farms, farmers markets, local food retailers, and more to those looking to support those …
Yesterday, legendary singer-songwriter John Prine passed away due to complications with COVID-19 at the age of 73. Just two years ago, Prine performed at the Virginia Theatre to a packed house, and you can revisit …
With the cancellation of the last few Market in the Square Saturdays (it’s be considered on a week to week basis), you might be missing fresh produce and other items you purchase at the market. …
The Eric Show is an annual juried high school art competition that takes place at the Illini Union. It was established by Dale and Peg Steffensen in honor of Dale’s son Eric, who was an …
This Sunday, Baldarotta’s is offering a made-from-scratch Easter dinner. The menu looks delicious: garlic rosemary brisket, lemon fennel roasted chicken, cannellini beans and spinach, proscuitto and snap peas salad, olive oil and sea salt focaccia, …
