Zine Lecture Tomorrow at Art & Design Courtesy of Eye Rocket Books
Have you ever wanted to start your own zine, but just couldn’t figure out how to get from A to B? If so, and you have some free time at 10 a.m. tomorrow, head on …
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South Farms are More Than Just Cows
No, it’s not really a motel. It is, however, a barn-like structure (actually, more like a garage) with the smell of manure in the air. The farm animals live close enough, but the South Farms …
Joan Rivers Loves GWAR
Before GWAR was one of the most outrageous metal bands known to Mankind, there was nothing. The supreme being of the universe was bored and therefore created the members of GWAR to wreck havoc on …
Get Your Qi On This Friday at ARC
Three different Qi gong workshops will be held at the U of I Activities and Recreation Center this week, and they are being facilitated by members of a delegation from China. The first workshop, “Chinese …
Elizabeth Royte Brings Garbage Land to CPL Tonight, Parkland Tomorrow
Over the next couple of days, author Elizabeth Royte will be taking Champaign-Urbana by storm, speaking about and signing copies of her 2005 book, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash on two different …
Check Out Trio X For Free Thursday Night at Krannert Art Museum
This Thursday is a wonderful opportunity to experience an intimate performance from some of the heaviest hitters in free and improvised music, well, for free. In the second installment of this semester’s Sudden Sound Concert …
Throw Me The David Dondero
This fall semester, the Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant has kept its doors open later on the weekend and started hosting live music once again. Yes, one the sun goes down and the moon is on …
Hopewell Returns To C-U Tonight at Cowboy Monkey
Mercury Rev, the once-proclaimed “weirdest band on planet Rock,” performed alongside local heroes HUM at the old Blind Pig in 1995, just after the major label signing spree that included almost half a dozen of …
Furniture Lounge Consignment Gallery Grand Opening Tomorrow
My friend Michael Mapes will be angry that I transduced his breathtaking, jaw-dropping portrait of Heather into a web page sized JPEG. Here it is. He gets mad when I watch episodes of Poirot on …
Bang on a Can Marathon From Noon to Midnight Saturday at Krannert
I must confess that I dismissed the Bang on a Can Marathon listing when I first perused the fall line-up at the University of Illinois’ Krannert Center. I instinctively associated the name Bang on a …