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From last Friday’s release show for Withershins’ new album, Aeriel, with Take Care and Heyokas at Mike ‘n Molly’s:

If I am correct in thinking the White House shrubbery is looking slightly less kempt than usual, I applaud Barack and Michelle Obama. The hedges seem fluffier, less precisely edged. It’s like Urbana, where everything’s …

Meet the movie makers! Champaign Movie Makers is having it’s first annual party at Sleepy Creek Vineyard, between C/U and Danville, starting at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 22.  This event is an invitation to …

Think good old fashioned American ingenuity is the key to solving the “earth problem” while maintaining your necessary level of 21st century comfort?  The city of Champaign shares your faith in Progress, and is feeling …

Hey, better late than never, right? Check out GNAGM at the Red Herring tonight with Some Say Leland and You and Yourn. July 10th — Lee Harvey’s, Dallas, Texas Off the bone barbecue did not …

Ron Zook (in white, in the end zone) watches Juice Williams (in red, don’t hit him) line up the squad Thursday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.

After another fabulous outing to Danville Stadium, to take in a few Chicago-style red hots, and a ball game, we couldn’t resist heading north on Vermillion Ave. (which is Highway 1 in Illinois — also …

Taken from today’s CBS News in Chicago: The blogosphere is abuzz about an ancient Egyptian bust at the Field Museum that seems to be a spitting image of Michael Jackson. The Chicago Sun-Times’ Michael Sneed …

“Let’s get all you pussy lovers up here! This song’s called Oozing Vaginal Discharge!” So hooted Von Young of Lividity, Peoria’s own Pornmetal bonanza. Pornmetal is an unfortunate mix of metal, a genre meant to …