…from local author, Heidi Esther, who came to my recent open house and thought I would enjoy it, I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet but I’m hoping for…
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Learn about the 2023 Tagore Festival
…since 1989. The festival is a cultural celebration of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), a Bengali activist, poet, author, artist and scholar. His wide range of prose can touch any human emotion,…
An inside look at Rent with music director Justin Brauer
…also proposed New York Housing Authority and Mixed-Use Development. I still like that last one, maybe I’ll use it sometime. Justin Brauer SP: Besides Rent, what else from this season…
The Murder at Old Willow Boarding School is a spooky new choose your own adventure book
…The Murder at Old Willow Boarding School by Jessika Fleck, a Champaign-Urbana based author who focuses on young adult and middle grade fiction. This choose your own adventure book came…
Brendan Slocumb’s visit to the Champaign Public Library
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the great authors series at the Champaign Public Library. For the first time, there was an afternoon music event and an evening…
Let’s talk about book bans
…and local authors. Just last month was Lit Fest at PYGMALION, and we even have an annual Edible Book Festival. So, if everything is so great in Champaign-Urbana and Illinois…
Homecoming: An Illinois tradition
…event I have coming up in a few weeks with the author Luis Alberto Urrea.” Ross worked with me to share some of his extensive knowledge with a Homecoming history…
It’s Friday the 13th…are you superstitious?
…the superstition surrounding Friday the 13th, various traditions attached misfortune to Friday and to the number 13 separately, then a Victorian author merged them into one with a novel called Friday,…
Take a look behind the scenes of October Dance
…performance will evidence this. Their conviction and authority in the work is quite amazing. Dance at Illinois on Facebook SP: How is this year’s October Dance different from previous years?…
Five things in arts: October 2023
…hooping and fire dancing, and music. Urbana Fall Fusion Festival Downtown Urbana Oct 7 Sa 4 to 8 p.m. Free Katherine Gaffney Poetry Reading and Author Event: Katherine Gaffney Katherine…