EIF hosts 6th Annual Hunger Symposium tonight
If you want to get more informed about hunger in the community and what the Eastern Illinois Foodbank is doing about it (or even what you can do about it), tonight, they’re hosting the Sixth …
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Re:Decatur launches
A few months back, I got an email from a fella who wanted to know dirty trade secrets. How does SP work? How do we function? What’s the structure? Naturally, I was all like, “What? …
Carmon’s becomes The Wedge
If you passed by Washington and Neil yesterday, you saw that the iconic Art Deco neon sign that played host to three different permutations of Carmon’s had been removed. There was good reason for it. …
Annual wine tasting gala next Friday
Join the annual Corkscrew Gala Wine Tasting next Friday (that’s one week from today), September 14, from 5:30–8:30 p.m., for samples of more than 200 different wines from 35 select vendors around the world. Proceeds …
Forbes magazine puts Khan on the cover
Shahid Khan, the self-made billionaire and owner of Flex-n-Gate is about to take on his biggest challenge yet: taking the least popular NFL franchise, which has been hemorrhaging money for years, and turning it into …
Black Dog & Summit Brewing serving up next dinner on the farm
The upcoming installment of Prairie Fruit Farm’s “Dinner on the Farm” is set to feature local favorite Black Dog Smoke and Ale House, as well as purveyors of delicious micro brews from Minnesota, Summit Brewery. …
A link to The Atlantic linking to ViveloHoy about C-U jaywalking arrests
H/T to reader Kirsten: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/in-champaign-urbana-illinois-89-of-those-arrested-for-jaywalking-are-black/261522/ If you prefer to cut The Atlantic out of the equation, here’s the link to the ViveLoHoy article: http://www.vivelohoy.com/noticias/8121347/arrest-disparities-for-black-people-in-champaign-urbana If you want to read some (now outdated) analysis of C-U …
Local cheesemaker wins cheese award
The American Cheese Society awarded Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery of Champaign with a first-place award this month for their Black Sheep cheese in the category of soft-ripened cheeses made of sheep’s or mixed milk. …
Crave Truck hanging up its wheels
We’ve extensively covered the Crave Truck over the last two years; some may argue a disproportionate amount considering it was just a waffle truck. But hey, it was a cool project by a high schooler. …
Groce Administration loses 3rd staffer
Ramon Williams, Isaac Chew and now Lon Record. Illini Basketball named Mike Basgier its new Strength & Conditioning Coach today. Record, the Villanova S & O coach for the past five years, was announced on …