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Check it out folks… http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/04/30/hype-monitor-finale-electric-owls-new-ruins/

Tonight (Thursday) at 7:00 p.m., C-U’s other film festival, the film noir series, sponsored by C-U libraries and The Big Read project, culminates with a screening of the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon. It’s …

Leading Ladies, an independent feature film written and produced by a team of past and present Champaign-ites and with cast and crew from C-U, Chicago, Denver, and LA, will be filming at locations throughout the …

And really, how can you afford to not be health conscious? The AARP/Walgreens Wellness Tour is rolling into Champaign-Urbana this week offering six free health screenings: total cholesterol levels, blood pressure, bone density, glucose levels, …

As Sarah Palin (pictured above) preps for her appearance on American Chopper, a Boston TV station preps a news story about increased motorcycle noise in Beantown. A Google News search for “Noise Awareness Day” turns …

Illinois Baseball Report posted this interview with Brandon Wikoff yesterday.

Received an email from the LER’s Helena Worthen: The Workers’ Rights Consortium is taking a group of Honduran garment workers on a tour of various universities that have contracts with the garment manufacturer, Russell, to …

Something about the current level of hype surrounding swine flu isn’t adding up. Could it be the actual numbers??? 149 number of deaths globally from Swine Flu (all in Mexico) 40 number of confirmed U.S. …

From Geoff Merritt: University of Illinois School of Music students perform an abridged version of Mozart’s Magic Flute with keyboard accompaniment. Production team includes Julie Gunn and Katherine Syer, Brett Jones and Rajinder Sodhi (projection …