Sepelas African Restaurant has closed in Urbana. Opened in 2023, the plaza restaurant served Congolese cuisine on golden ...

In late June, I was lucky enough to tour James Dorner’s workshop. Dorner, who works under the artistic name Art by Dirt, ...

Make Music Normal returns for its 12th year in Uptown Normal. The two-day event is packed with free, live entertainment. In ...

Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery’s awesome goat cheese has won another award. The 2026 American Cheese Society’s Annual ...

Stand still at the edge of a field near dusk, and you can hear July arrive: the corn rustling as it stretches in the heat ...

It appears that The Dispensary Champaign is closed. First opened the summer of 2024 in the plaza near La Bamba and Garcia’s ...

Back in the old days, a big storm would come through (what felt like) once or twice a season, the emergency siren would sound ...

It’s too hot to be holding hands. Let’s hold some delicious handheld foods instead. Sweet potato handpie from Everyday Feast ...

Champaign Urbana Theatre Company’s Kathy Murphy Student Production has been bringing high schoolers together from across the region every summer since 2006, when Managing Director John Stuff saw an ...

July is here, and she is hot. This month, we need to stay cool. Might I suggest popping into places with air conditioning and great food? I want all the good things a Champaign-Urbana summer calls for ...

It’s a big weekend. Well, it is if you want it to be. There are many celebrations happening in the next several days for the Fourth of July, and while I could comb through them, ...

There is something really magical about the fact that Independence was ever declared in July in Philadelphia 250 years ago. That struggle and debate are at the heart of the 1969 Tony Award-winning ...