Interviews

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Champaign-Urbana’s favorite new restaurant/live music venue, The Space, we asked part owner, and also the drummer for Snack’d Out, Doug Hodge some strange questions to commemorate the occasion.  Smile …

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is an organization that connects people who are part of every facet of the gaming industry. Champaign-Urbana has their own chapter that is open to developers, but also to …

In his brand new book Food Power Politics, Dr. Bobby J. Smith II builds on the stories and legacies of Mississippi activists and researchers to tell more of the food injustice story. With a background …

Andrea Hunt considers herself a dreamer and artist at heart. After a painful divorce, she funneled her creative passions and independent spirit into floral design. The CU Flower House is a bit like a phoenix, …

Next Monday, April 8th, we’ll get to witness a total solar eclipse and parts of Illinois will be in the path of totality. The next one won’t be until 2045, so I reached out to …

I was thrilled to sit down and talk with experimental electronic music artist John McNally, AKA “twoleggedzoo” about his brand-new album, Introspective Reflections. McNally is a Champaign-Urbana mainstay in the ambient and immersive music scene, …

The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Open House is well-known in Champaign-Urbana as a way for the community to connect with researchers, students, and science. Lexie Kesler is …

Early in After Party, the new short film written and directed by Urbana native Jonah Koslofsky, we encounter Ben and Ellie preparing for a Halloween party in Chicago in 2021. The party invokes memories of …

Nathan Tolbert is a lead research software engineer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, and for the past 15 years he has also been developing indie games in …