Joshi delves deeper into the flavors found in beer. Ever savored that first sip and found it to taste like a bloody lip, a coin, or a rusty nail?
Flavors of beer
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Putting strawberries away for winter
Before you pop every last farm fresh strawberry into your mouth — wait! — and freeze or preserve some so you, too, can re-create this season any month of the year.
Fucked, perhaps, for the rest of his life…
This just in from the University of Illinois police department: The University of Illinois Police Department seeks the public's help inidentifying the suspect responsible for…
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Help fund a local chocolate-making startup
U of I grad student, Daniel Schreiber (completely unrelated to the Smile Politely editor and contributor Dan Schreiber), is starting a chocolate making company. He…
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Puzzlers and Minis pique interest
Justin reviews a pair of Nintendo DSi releases, Pictobits and Minis March Again!, that will keep you entertained on the cheap.
Beyond their years
Farmer City's finest, The Jips, take WEFT Sessions by storm tonight. Get to know the Battle of the Bands winners.
Last opportunity to be a film extra
The film Leading Ladies is wrapping up filming this week in CU with a big bang -- a scene of an amateur Midwestern ballroom dance…
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Blind Pig Brewery impresses
The Blind Pig's new digs have some advantages over their sister location, even before they start brewing their own.
I am having a partial thyroidectomy today…
and this is how they make sure to cut the right part of my neck! Yeesh!
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The Overture: June 15–21
This week you can catch Dottie & the Rail in an unusual setting (for them), some creepy punk rock from Canada, and a little chamber-pop from Belgium.
A question of political identity
Is the dream still deferred? A seemingly flippant but heavily racist comment on Jared's Facebook page led him to start questioning his own political identity.
Starlight Mints and Evangelicals at Highdive
Here are a couple of videos from Friday night's show at Highdive, in case you missed it: Starlight Mints, "Zoomba" Evangelicals
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