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This page is a Monthly Archive of entries from April 2008 listed from newest to oldest.
When Julian Burger takes the lectern at the University of Illinois tonight, he’ll turn his attention to one question: What’s the state of human rights in today’s world?
As the guest speaker at the 17th Annual Daniel S. Sanders Peace & Social Justice Lecture, Burger will deliver a talk titled, “After 60 Years of Human Rights: Is there Cause for Celebration?” Burger is well qualified to address this topic; he currently serves as the coordinator of the Indigenous and Minorities Unit at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which his based in Geneva, Switzerland. He’s also an internationally renowned authority on indigenous cultures and human rights.
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: Jessica Paris, aka DJ Hellcat
Occupation/Education: Strategic Project Coordinator at Wolfram Research, DJ at Mike 'n Molly's (Fridays), Photographer, retro culture geek
Original Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Current Hometown: Champaign, IL
Number of Years Living in the C-U Area: 13 (I tried to move away a few times but always end up coming back.)
Age: 32
Five things I really like about C-U:
Five things I really don’t like about C-U:
... otherwise, no complaints!
DJ Hellcat will be spinning tonight at the Grand Opening of Artists Against AIDS at Orpheum Children's Science Museum (346 N. Neil St., Champaign) and again on Sunday, during the artists' meet and greet.
Every tree has a story to tell. Some have been planted merely to beautify to land, others have been planted to provide refuge from the sun and on Arbor Day, more trees are planted than any other day of the year. Tomorrow, Friday, April 25 is Arbor Day and Parkland College will honor and remember friends and loved ones of local supporters by planting several trees on the south side of the campus in the Memorial Grove. Each tree planted is a part of the Living Tree Program, where each tree is adopted and maintained for life by the college. A dedication plaque will accompany the tree.
The tree planting ceremony will be held in the Donald and Alice Dodds, Jr. multi-purpose room within the campus' Child Development Center at 10 a.m. Parkland College is located at 2400 West Bradley Ave. in Champaign.
A message to all you homeowners out there.
Your chance to get all that winterized gunk out of your yard could end as early as today, depending on where you live. The city of Champaign authorizes Spring and Fall collections of yard waste each year, and according to this map, May 2, next Friday, will be the last day that you can take advantage of the service.
I've got $100 dollars on the notion that west Champaign neighborhoods in the B–5 zone are subject to midnight drop-offs from procrastinating citizens come Thursday night.
For those who miss the deadline, there is always the Landscape Recycling Center in Urbana that operates year-round.
If you see an excess of streamers, painted bodies, tall bicycles or decorated floats tomorrow at West Side Park, you've stumbled upon the genius of OPENSOURCE'S "Biking the Boneyard Arts Festival." This parade is yet another fun-filled event during the Boneyard Arts Festival and OPENSOURCE invites everyone and anyone to make themselves and their bikes into moving pieces of artwork and travel though Champaign-Urbana. OPENSOURCE also encourages all artists, activists, poets and writers to bring their distributable work to pass out to the Boneyard crowd.
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: Alfie McCool
Occupation/Education: Transportation/Junior college
Original Hometown: Champaign, Ill.
Current Hometown: Champaign, Ill.
Number of Years Living in the C-U Area: 50 years
Age: 50
The sun is out and the weather is fine, so why not take your little one outdoors and explore nature? Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve is hosting "Wild About Water" this Saturday, April 12 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. It is a hands-on educational program designed for preschoolers, ages 3 to 5, and their chaperones to discover the wonders of water. The children will be engaging in scientific activities such as buoyancy and the movement of water.
When Drew's Pizza, the take-out restaurant on Green Street between Sixth and Wright streets known for their $5 pies that tasted like cardboard closed, their darkened storefront became the third on the block, until now. Offering bagels, sandwiches, spreads, and treats, Howbowda Bagel will open in summer 2008, and if they serve matzo ball soup, I will have no reason to travel back to the Chicago suburbs ever again.
Ben Smith of Big Grove Zydeco: The Iron Post — 11:45 p.m.
It’s 1939 and a small Polish village is overtaken by Soviet forces. A young boy, Wesley Adamczyk, along with his family, is taken captive, deported and sent to a series of brutal camps in Siberia. In the far reaches of a frozen and unfamiliar continent, they encounter everything from scorpions to communist double agents.
Adamczyk’s childhood was as difficult and unique as they come, and he will bring his story to the Urbana Free Library this Sunday, April 6, at 2 p.m. The author will read an excerpt from his memoir, When God Looked the Other Way, followed by a screening of Children of Exile, a documentary based on Adamczyk’s memoir.
Greetings.
This Thursday, April 3, Smile Politely will congregate at local watering hole Mike 'N Molly's at 7:30 p.m. It's been four months since we launched, and we'd like to invite all of YOU to come out and tell us how much you love us, how much you hate us and what we can do to make Smile Politely, and this community, even better.
See you there!
Editors
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: Cara Maurizi
Occupation/Education: Masters of Music Education, music teacher, actor, singer, songwriter
Original Hometown: Galesburg, IL
Current Hometown: Urbana
Number of Years Living in the C-U Area: 9
Age: 33
This past weekend saw capoeiristas from around the world gather in Champaign-Urbana for the 6th Annual International Capoeira Conference. Over 15 capoeira masters from Brazil, Mexico, Paris and all points in between spent four days teaching capoeiristas new skills and techniques for this growing discipline.
If the previous paragraph does not make much sense to you, it is probably easier to see than to describe. Capoeira is a Brazilian dance-like, martial-artsy, game-like, cooperative interplay of two people set in a circle of drums, percussion instruments and Portuguese chants. People who enjoy this kind of thing are called, appropriately enough, capoeiristas.
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