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This page is a Monthly Archive of entries from March 2008 listed from newest to oldest.
Mark Charles of Vandaveer: Cowboy Monkey – 10:45 p.m.
At Smile Politely, we're interested in what the people of Champaign- Urbana think about this place we call home. So how do we find out what they think? Simple. We ask them.
Name: Dimitria Johnson
Occupation: Secretary III
Original Hometown: Omaha, Neb.
Current Hometown: Urbana, Ill.
Number of Years Living in the C-U Area: 12 years
Age: (No answer)
Unless you've been living under a rock, a beer can, or a pile of other books, you've probably been hearing a lot about this guy Ivan Ilyich and his kicking of the bucket. That's due to the fact that this weekend, the University of Illinois, Champaign Public Library and Urbana Free Library are launching a "Big Read," putting the community's collective nose in the pages of Leo Tolstoy's classic The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
The Illinois men’s basketball team fell short in the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis yesterday, losing to Wisconsin 61–48. With the season over, Assembly Hall, which last hosted the men’s team on March 8 and the women’s team on March 2, has begun a hiatus from college hoops that will last until October. Next on tap at Assembly Hall: Cheap Trick and Joan Jett on March 28.
Successful businesses often have humble beginnings. The first Apple computers were assembled in Steve Jobs’ living room. YouTube’s first office was in a garage. eBay’s first sale was a broken laser pointer.
For Book Glutton, a website that allows users to form virtual reading groups and comment on online books, the origins were no less humble. The idea was born out of a night of drinks at the Esquire in downtown Champaign and the initial notes were scribbled on cocktail napkins. Of course, for Travis Alber and Aaron Miller, the company’s founders, designers, principle investors and only full-time staff, Book Glutton’s success is still a distant goal that depends on users taking advantage of what the site has to offer.
If anyone truly knows the fabric of Chicago, it's Timuel Black.
From running the playground of Burke Elementary School on the city's South Side to receiving his master's degree at University of Chicago in Hyde Park and finally, penning the book Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Great Migration – it's quite possible Black's pulse beats in step with the sounds of the windy city.
Tonight, the Chicago-based community leader, oral historian, teacher, activist and philosopher presents the discussion "Black Chicago: What Was, What Is, and What Is Likely To Be." Black discusses the economic, political, and social elements that make Chicago a dynamic hub for African-American culture.
A few months ago, Louis Lefebvre and two other biological researchers published an article on kleptoparasitism, the act of snatching food that someone (or something) else has already gathered. Along with his colleagues, Lefebvre, who specializes in birds, constructs a scientific study that examines the ornithological equivalent of this question: Why did your buddy suddenly start stealing your Big Mac and fries rather than just getting his own? Is it because he's bigger than you? Was it the way he was raised? Is there simply no safe place for you to stash that fast-food feast until the bully has gone away? Or maybe because his brain's telling him there's an advantage to grabbing your goods?
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