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Posted inNews & Politics

Central Illinois police training for mental health cases questioned

by Kelsey Turner and the Invisible Institute October 3, 2022October 18, 2022

Significant issues remain around police use of involuntary commitments.

An illustration of four-piece art-rock band Stark embedded in the title card for the Secret History of Chicago Music
Posted inMusic

Short-lived art-rockers Stark emerged from the late-80s bloom of the Champaign-Urbana scene

by Steve Krakow November 18, 2021November 18, 2021

I’ve been doing the Secret History of Chicago Music for 17 years, and by now I hear from plenty of folks hoping I might cover their old bands. This can make it easier for me to find and research a subject, but the people who pitch me often misjudge what I cover. Unofficially, I restrict […]

Posted inMusic

Frank Leone’s hip-hop experiments make for a beautifully bizarre debut album

by Leor Galil September 10, 2020August 18, 2021

Rapper-producer Frank Leone grew up in the town of Monticello, just southwest of Champaign, and began taking music seriously after a chance meeting with Vic Mensa at a downstate Lupe Fiasco show in 2011. Since dropping his debut mixtape in 2015, he’s reworked his sound, moved to Los Angeles, and scrubbed the Web of large […]

Posted inMusic

Peter Berkow has spent five decades traversing at least that many genres

by Steve Krakow September 10, 2020August 18, 2021

Chicago native Peter Berkow has been a producer and a professor, and moved from folk to funk to fusion to prog and back.

Posted inMusic

Musical and literary polymath Thom Bishop has a second career as Junior Burke

by Steve Krakow May 19, 2020August 18, 2021

For 50 years Thom Bishop has been writing songs, lyrics, plays, movies, and more—and his new novel (as Junior Burke) starts with James Dean shooting Ronald Reagan on live TV.

Posted inBlogs

Illinois senate overrides Rauner’s amendatory veto of the school funding bill, and other news

by Kate Shepherd August 14, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, hundreds of Chicagoans gathered Sunday to denounce racism and bigotry after the violence at a white supremacist march in Charlottesville.

Posted inBlogs

A Central Illinois game developer gambles on Agents of Mayhem

by Ryan Smith August 9, 2017August 18, 2021

Unlikely Champaign, Illinois-based developer Volition veers from its Saints Row series with a profane 80s cartoon of an action game.

Posted inMusic

Eighties synth-pop duo the Arms of Someone New just played their first show ever

by Steve Krakow October 15, 2015August 18, 2021

Inspired by the likes of New Order, the Cure, and the Teardrop Explodes, Steve Jones and Mel Eberle founded the Arms of Someone New as a recording project in 1983.

Posted inBlogs

Illinois pot policies are inconsistent and unjust, report concludes

by Mick Dumke May 19, 2014August 18, 2021

Researchers at Roosevelt University find that marijuana enforcement depends on geography and race more than justice.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Sabotage
Posted inFilm

Armed to the teeth and led by Arnold Schwarzenegger

by J.R. Jones March 28, 2014August 18, 2021

Renegade DEA agents begin mysteriously dying off in David Ayer’s brutal actioner Sabotage.

Posted inBlogs

Destihl brings its beers upstate to Chicago—including the medal-winning Strawberry Blonde

by Philip Montoro August 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Destihl Brewery finally hits the Chicago market, and it’s bringing a lot more than its festival-favorite Saint Dekkera sours.

Posted inBlogs

First Flush of youth

by Ted Cox February 29, 2012August 19, 2021

The charms of knocking down those face-card tiles in the pinball game Royal Flush

Jay Rosenstein
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The Atheist Mother’s Tale

by Deanna Isaacs April 14, 2011August 19, 2021

As the Supreme Court weakens church-state separation, a new documentary tells the story of the Champaign housewife who got religion out of the public schools.

Posted inBlogs

Former Rocker Don Gerard Elected Mayor of Champaign

by Peter Margasak April 6, 2011August 19, 2021

Veteran rocker Don Gerard has been elected mayor of Champaign, Illinois.

Posted inReader

I Think About You During Commercials

by Heartbroker February 14, 2010August 19, 2021

You have dance moves like Hammer but those are about the only moves your have.

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