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Sad news from West Lafayette today, as Purdue University announced that Champaign Central product Jay Simpson will have to retire from playing basketball due to a heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Purdue coach …

This is what The News-Gazette ran in yesterday’s print edition:  Guess what isn’t funny? Not cool, News-Gazette, not cool.  You can see other newspapers’ stupid attempts at humor in the original post on theroot.com. UPDATE: …

Tonight my husband and I had dinner at Milo’s. We each ordered off the Restaurant Week menu, which included a starter, entrée, and dessert for $20. He ordered the macaroni and cheese, upside-down pizza, and …

Big Grove Tavern‘s Mexican pop-up is this Sunday, March 9th. Here’s the menu: 

At Figure One in downtown Champaign, their show, Social Habitat: The Porch Project, opened on back on February 21st. To follow that up, they have a number of upcoming events that are worth your time. …

This corned beef slider (corned beef, swiss, pickle, yellow mustard) at Seven Saints needs to be on your lunch plate today. If you read my November review of Seven Saints, you’ll know that I like this slider …

Mayor Don Gerard has signed the usual Emergency Order surrounding alcohol purchases as Unofficial draws closer here in C-U. Caleb discussed it last year, which is still worth the read. Let the official Unofficial games …

Urbana’s largest tree is in its final days. Friends and neighbors of the Big Hackberry Tree are invited to a community-wide group photo with the tree Sunday, February 2nd at 1 p.m., corner of W. …

The inaugural Phases of the Moon Festival, happening in nearby Danville, announced a pretty massive lineup yesterday. The festival is taking place September 11-14, 2014, and will apparently feature a ton of huge acts here …