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Jamestown, New York musician Christopher Bell is playing a house show in Urbana tonight at 8 p.m. The venue is known as the Anthill, and it’s located at 107 N. Coler. Here’s the Craigslist announcement. …

You can read Part 1 here to get yourself up to speed. July 6 — Dosey Doe Coffeehouse, Conroe, Texas With our New Orleans pseudo-vacation over with, we made our way to Texas. We had …

Ed. note: We’ve been talking about the Safe Haven tent community a lot lately, as Heather Dillon’s excellent three-part series concluded on Tuesday, and she provided a SPlog update on Wednesday. Unfortunately, the powers that …

You can see Secretly Canadian’s Catfish Haven for free at Mike ‘n Molly’s on Tuesday, July 28, courtesy of Smile Politely. The show starts at 8 p.m. in the beer garden. They’re bringing along The …

Sherry Helfer of Savoy was riding her bicycle yesterday morning on County Road 600N, just west of US 45 south of Tolono, when she was knocked down by a green SUV. The driver of the …

With News-Gazette hosting their first “Tweet Up” at Esquire this Thursday, perhaps we should stage an intervention, or suggest a change in venue for the person in charge of their tweeting? Mistakes happen, but four …

Courtesy of the American Farmer blog: The largest tractor in the world Big Bud arrived in Rantoul, Illinois this week. It’s final destination will be the I & I Historic Farm Days in Penfield, Illinois …

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I’ve been remiss in my Going Slowly updates, and it’s been more than a month since we checked in with Tara and Tyler, who are moseying their way across a good part of the globe …