David Sedaris’ evening at the Virginia
April 28, 2015
David Sedaris has a key to the city and promised to steal Champaign’s riches while its citizens sleep. The author was honored with the key by Mayor Don Gerard before his performance, “An Evening with David Sedaris,” at the Virginia Theater on Sunday. “He was everything that’s advertised,”...
Mike Love and the ‘sonic oasis’ of The Beach Boys
By Sarah Soenke and Alice Smelyansky
December 13, 2014
On Monday night, one of the world’s most iconic rock bands of the past five decades will visit Champaign as part of its winter holiday tour. The Beach Boys, now synonymous with California-surfer rock and pop music, will take the stage at the Virginia Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale and range ...
Q & A with Phantogram’s Sarah Barthel
April 9, 2014
For the electronic-rock duo Phantogram, 2014 has been a long-awaited return to promoting an album release. Nearly four years after their 2010 debut album, “Eyelid Movies,” the band released “Voices” as their most recent full-length studio album on Feb. 18. It quickly made its way to the numbe...
Ebertfest 2014 to maintain message, atmosphere of late host, founder
By Declan Harty
November 7, 2013
For the first time in its 16 years, Ebertfest is being planned without longtime host and co-creator Roger Ebert — University alumnus, Urbana native and the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. Ebert passed away in April 2013 due to thyroid and salivary gland cancer, leaving behind many thing...
