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While I’m on the brink of losing it due to stir-craziness inside during the Champaign-Urbana (and beyond) freeze, Smile Politely contributor and Chambana Weather weatherhuman Andrew Pritchard is outside doing this. Watch and enjoy, because …

C-U ex-pat Janelle James has arrived, as we discussed in BEST Culture 2018, and she performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers the other night. She’s not the only person with connections to this community …

Stephen Larson, an Urbana High School grad, has been using old photos of UHS after it was first built to put together a digital “flyover” of the building. I did not go to Urbana High …

Many of you are probably familiar with NowThis News. Well, I’ve just learned that they have a series of videos entitled Apocolypse NowThis which examines various ways that we all could die and/or the Earth could …

Poetic.         View this post on Instagram                   America has fallen. A post shared by Virgil Bryce Grider (@vgrid101) on Dec 31, 2018 at …

Once again, Travis Wayne Hurt’s Christmas Special has arrived, and the always-bizarre production features a variety of clips and components within the special. Urbana Public Television hosts the special, which features some familiar faces: Travis …

The house show/DIY scene in Urbana looks like it is alive and well. Emma Sielaff has published a short documentary film, DIY in Urbana, which is worth a few minutes of your time. Sielaff speaks …

Relevator is a blues/rock/folk outfit lead by singer-songwriter Kenna Mae, and the band recently released this “home movie” from their show at the Loose Cobra a little while back. Recorded and shot live by JP …

Our friend Erin Erdman has added Illini Hillel at Cohen Center for Jewish Life to the list of places you can find her amazing Page Roasting Co. coffee. Check out this fun video they shared yesterday to …