URBANA — As part of a rotating art-in-the-park exhibit, a sculpture in Meadowbrook Park is set to be loaned to a new sculpture garden in Peoria.
A quiet, powerful story of love and determination, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” emerges as a testament to perseverance as well as the power and fragility of family.
1999 Centennial graduate is a professor of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, with a significant portion of her research focused on Black female representation in comic books.
She no longer has children at Centennial High School, but Evette Bolton-Campbell continues to cheer on the Chargers.
Guest narrating today's trip down memory lane: Paul Lewis, former Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, Judy Woodruff, Mike Schmidt, Randy Wittman, a pair of Illini astronauts, the Hon. Rita Garman, a dozen as-seen-on-MTV '80s acts and more special guests.
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Throughout the 1930s, photographer Dorothea Lange tirelessly chronicled the plight of the victims of the Great Depression, her black-and-white images bringing the story of millions of suffering Americans to the masses.
In the introduction to “Four Hundred Souls,” Dr. Ibram X. Kendi describes the work as “a Black choir singing the spiritual into the heavens of history” — an apt description for this many-voiced collection of essays and poetry by 80 different authors who explore 400 years of Black history.
Are all computer bugs bad? This year’s Insect Fear Film Festival proves that’s not the case when it goes online, like so many other film festivals, in response to safety concerns for viewers in this continuing COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Kingston’s brother, Khalid, an 18-year-old soccer star, inexplicably dies on the field. Twelve-year-old Kingston (King) James lives in rural Louisiana and thinks Khalid has returned to this world as a dragonfly.
Out of the past gloom,
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Country singer Hardy will be among acts at the 2021 Mahomet Music Festival.
A worthy companion piece to Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” Moan Fastvold’s “The World to Come” is an intimate look at loneliness and longing.
Look for a Savoy wedding planner on Wednesday’s episode of “Marrying Millions” on Lifetime.
“My plan was to die before the money ran out, but then I kept not dying, and here I am.”
Today’s column, like most conspiracy theories and fake news, is based on coincidence and spurious correlations but, unlike them, is intended simply for your amusement.
Lindy West is best known for her best-selling book “Shrill” and the Hulu series made from it starring comedian Aidy Bryant.
If you’ve read my previous reviews, you’ll remember that I raved about a book a few years ago written by Stuart Turton.
Red cardinals sing —
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There’s a quiet beauty to Robin Wright’s “Land,” a moving testament to resiliency and faith in the face of unbearable grief.
Lyndsey Groth’s photo on display this week at Urbana’s Lincoln Square Mall pretty much sums up 2020.
Some Black history will be made right here this summer, when Champaign superintendent-to-be Shelia Boozer joins Urbana’s Jennifer Ivory-Tatum and Danville’s Alicia Geddis — three African American women leading the area’s three largest school districts.
Both of our local cineplexes relit their marquees, inviting limited numbers of people to partake in the thrill of big-screen cinema.
Anyone who has been paying attention to kidlit for the last decade or more will tell you nonfiction is no longer the dry reciting of facts (which, of course, you can now get online), but instead has evolved into some of the most engaging, creative writing there is.
The 2021 American Library Association’s awards were announced last week.
The library director talks about a special visit by a Pulitzer Prize winner, her 'sacred' ease-into-the-morning routine, the challenges of leading during a pandemic and much more.
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Celebrating Year 20 of Champaign County Camera Club’s Best In Show Print Competition.
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