…$6,000 to $8,000 short of its goal. To help close the gap, the station is throwing a benefit concert featuring local bands and authors at the Cowboy Monkey on Saturday,…
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Spend a Night with Bruce Campbell
…TV shows like Ellen and the X-Files. He’s also the author of two books, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor and How to Make Love the Bruce…
Listen Up: Speakers in C-U from November 17 – 23, 2008
…and interests and beliefs are very similar to the kinds of things modern authors do, too. SP: How has the way that people interact with medieval texts evolved over your…
Hoarding Food for the Apocalypse
…their DNA. But if authorities can’t rescue me after a week of self-survival from the middle of Champaign-Urbana, human culture will just have to be passed on via someone else….
BookGlutton Wrapped Up in (More) Books
…that you won’t find in the stacks of Champaign or Urbana’s book repositories. Such rediscovered treasures include: a robust collection of obscure 1950s-era science fiction, a turn-of-the-century cookbook authored by…
Listen Up: Speakers in C-U from November 10 – 16, 2008
…of significantly greater importance than an equally large increase for someone who is better off. My co-author Alex Voorhoeve and I argue that this shift in the moral weight that…
Tim Johnson Wins Re-Election… and Here is Where He Stands
…over $126,000 from construction interests. He’s also taken $98,000 from building trade unions. Iraq War Johnson cast a vote for the resolution giving President Bush the authority to wage war…
Hugh Meets Obama — “La Muerte es un Sueño”
…man making short work of a Sol cerveza 40-ounce answered his cell phone when his wife called. For a few seconds, he said nothing, then answered “working,” to the laughter…
Listen Up: November 3 – 9, 2008
…are right! Monday, November 3, 8–10 p.m.: Author Roundtable: Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor, Levis Faculty Center Music Room Illouz, author of Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of…
Obamnia
…center. Obama’s just a Harvard-educated lawyer, bestselling author (of books this expert finds pretty solid), United States Senator, wildly loved, with a gift for elocution, and damn if he isn’t…