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Common Ground’s Owner Appreciation Days begin May the Fourth. (…Be with you. And also with you.) Owner Appreciation Days feature sales, raffles, and 10% off your total shopping trip. This week you can also pick …

Uniting Pride is organizing a protest at the Champaign County Courthouse at 5 p.m. in light of the recent news regarding the Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. From Uniting Pride: …

The Filipino-Cambodian restaurant A Taste of Both Worlds now offers boodle fights. What is a boodle fight? I learned what it was from this Facebook post by the Broadway Food Hall restaurant. The boodle fight …

Parkland’s Staerkel Planetarium will once again be hosting musical light shows starting this Friday, May 6th. The shows will run on the first Friday of every month at 9 p.m. Friday’s show will be none …

Last summer was the inaugural growing season for Royse + Brinkmeyer’s urban garden, constructed with the help of students in the Metropolitan Food and Environmental Systems (MFST) program at the University of Illinois.  They are now …

If you have kids ages 6-12, bring them out to Japan House on Saturday, May 7th for Kodomo no Hi, or Children’s Day. This is a national holiday in Japan, and likely originated in China as …

Because of its location across from Edison Middle School, the Champaign Public Library sees a lot of teens and tweens come through their doors. Soon, those kids will have a brand new expanded space for …

After much anticipation, the brand new bottle shop and wine bar Ladro Enoteca is now open on Main Street in Downtown Champaign. Ladro offers natural wines from small wineries by the bottle or by the …

In celebration of Good Night and Good Morning’s album Narrowing Type hitting 10 years old this April, Energy Crow Records is putting out a vinyl reissue of the seminal album.  Image from Energy Crow’s website.  The …