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In conjunction with University of Illinois homecoming weekend, Hua Nian of Urbana, whose son is a member of the Marching Illini is showing her artwork about the band this week at the Harding Band Building.
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What if I had to totally relearn an essential skill I'd always taken for granted, one that was part of my very identity? I can only imagine, but I know it can be done — because the following films have already imagined it for me.
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'It is about being accepting of others, their faults, vulnerabilities and human-ness; and recognizing the value and possibility of contribution for each life — and how to help them to "stand in the light,"' said Lisa Gaye Dixon, who portrays the 'mystical' 285-year-old matriarch Aunt Ester, a former slave brought over on the 'middle passage.'
Like most of Disney’s productions, this is a delight to look at, yet the visual finery hides something rotten, a recycled mess of a movie that demands to be worshipped by the unthinking masses, which it surely will be.
Ghaliyah 'Gigi' Cunningham, 21, plays a young woman named Chante in an episode set to air Oct. 29.
A few years ago, I reviewed “The One Man” by Andrew Gross. It remains one of the best historical thrillers I’ve ever read. Outstanding suspense, fascinating historical details and based on a true story, this title continues to be one that I often recommend to others.
Carl Orff’s most famous piece, “Carmina Burana,” (“Songs of Beuern”) begins with a chorus “Fortune, Empress of the World,” which depicts mankind afflicted by the fickle moods of Lady Luck, one minute up and the next moment, in the depths.
Generally speaking, I like my kidlit with unambiguously happy endings, but this week I’m reviewing two books that put me on edge, each in different ways. Considering the Halloween season is upon us, I suppose that is appropriate.
George Thorogood — who's been rocking with his Destroyers for 45 years and 8,000 live shows — is set to perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Virginia Theatre.
Leaves so crisp and bright.
Champaign Public Library
Provost Andreas Cangellaris expressed full support Thursday for the project first made public a year ago, but he said planners need to continue their consultations with library users, who had plenty of questions Thursday.
This week's stop in our series on local businesses with stories to tell: Champaign’s Dixon Graphics, a 2019 Arts, Culture, and Education Award winner for, among other things, 'going out of their way to support, advocate for, advise, encourage, and promote local artists as they conduct their art businesses.'
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Joey Wright is coming back to where his broadcast career started. The Bradley University sophomore and Urbana High grad will call tonight's Urbana-Peoria Richwoods football game for Clutch Sports Media.
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While the film may be guilty of the usual biopic sins, its star's powerful performance negates them all, making for a worthy tribute to its troubled subject.
The singer/songwriter performs at 7 tonight. Her guest artists are Maren Morris, Pistol Annies (her trio with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley) and Tenille Townes.
A new photographic documentary called “5th Grade Dreams” lends a glimpse into the adult lives of the Danville school district students who were selected to participate in the Motivating Academically Talented Students program during its inaugural year at East Park Elementary in 2002-03.
The channels had been blacked out since Sept. 26 because of a contract dispute that each side blamed the other for.
The University of Illinois Symphony concert on Sept. 20 climaxed with an enormously convincing performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”). This symphony ends with a thrilling finale and dominates one’s memories of this concert. But there were other pleasures of a smaller scale a…
If you follow movie — and TV-show — news very closely, you may have heard that Netflix recently announced a television adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s young-adult novels: the Grisha trilogy (beginning with “Shadow and Bone,” the title of the upcoming show) and the Six of Crows duology.
A storefront fortune teller could have imbued TV channels with as much meaning as associations of engineers and the federal government. While radio stations advertise their actual frequency, TV stations proclaim an arbitrary channel number. The government allocated FM radio stations “channel…
The Ottawa International Animation Festival, which ran this year from Sept. 24-29, is the Western Hemisphere’s oldest and largest festival of animation.
“The Downstairs Girl” (Putnam 2019) by Stacey Lee is set in 1890 Atlanta, 13 years after Reconstruction has ended.
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