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Urbana Arts and Culture Program’s 2022 Arts Grants cycle is now complete, with 30 projects funded and $90,000 distributed. The entire list of awardees is available on the Arts and Culture Program website. Some highlights …

Small Island Big Song, which features eight Indigenous musicians from Taiwan, Madagascar, Mauritius, Marshall Islands, and Papua New Guinea, employs music, spoken word, and cinema, to take its audience on “a musical journey across the …

Ebertfest returns to the Virginia Theater April 20-23, 2022 with an impressive roster of directors. Guillermo del Toro will visit with his latest film, Nightmare Alley, which will be shown in black and white on …

I mean, it’s a share of the title, but it is an absolutely massive accomplishment considering what they lost to the NBA and graduation, and how hard the team got screwed over last year. The …

Smile Politely Arts Editor, Debra Domal, has a creative endeavor called The Numbers Story Project. The Numbers Story Project was born from her book, Confessions by Number, and seeks to “[flip] the script on late …

Allerton Park and Retreat Center has announced the selection of five artists for its Spring 2022 In-Residence program. Nicole Anderson-Cobb, L Barber, Latrelle Bright, Jose Gobbo, and Simiya Sudduth will embody the goals of the …

Dance at Illinois will present Studiodance Spring 2022 on March 3rd-5th at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.  As the program announcement states,  Studiodance Spring 2022 features keystone projects of Dance at Illinois graduate students …

You may recall that Gibson City’s German restaurant, Bayern Stube, closed at the end of August last year. You may also be wondering what happened to all the stuff inside the restaurant, like the boar’s …

Da Shark is a restaurant that opened last October in Champaign. On the menu, find fried chicken by the piece, saucy bone-in and boneless wings, catfish, perch, tilapia, jerk salmon, and Chicago style sandwiches. There …