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From our BEST Culture of the decade feature: Prairie Fruits Farm is my favorite place in all of Champaign-Urbana. There’s a magic to the farm that is especially present if you’re there on a summer evening. …

From our BEST Arts of the decade feature: Choosing a single representative play or musical as the “best” thing produced in what we can confidently call a busy and ever-expanding theatre community is nearly impossible …

From our BEST new restaurants of the decade feature: When Maize Mexican Grill took over the little shack on First and Green in 2011, it was without much fanfare or anticipation. The restaurant, which previously …

Finals week is winding down, and soon the University of Illinois campus will clear out for a bit. Because of that, MTD will be reducing service beginning this Saturday, December 21st, and continuing through January …

Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the Creative Writing program are bringing a year’s worth of renowned writers to C-U for the Year of Creative Writers. From their announcement: “It’s a veritable feast …

Fans of Steel Magnolias will be happy to know that Jennifer Goran will be directing a production of it scheduled to hit Parkland College’s black box theatre in March 2020. If you’re a fan who …

Coming in just under the wire, with recreational cannabis becoming legal in just a few week, NuMed is now the second local establishment that is licensed to sell it. Phoenix Botanical was granted a license …

From our BEST Music of the decade feature: Owner Jeff Brandt knows that this whole thing is never going to turn around. We won’t ever return to a golden era of this business model, and …

From our BEST Music of the decade feature:   If there’s one idea that sums up the last decade, it is the idea of progress. No artist that’s ever spent time in C-U as one …