Weekly Wednesday Meltdown

Don't have a mid-week meltdown! 

Here's something to do tonight to forget how rough your humpday was.

Meet Luke Boyce of Shatterglass Studios (based out of Champaign-Urbana). Luke is an award-winning filmmaker and co-owner of Shatterglass. You will have the chance to soak up his knowledge at this lunchtime lecture series put on by the Graphic Design department at Parkland College and is sponsored by 40 North|88 West and CUDO. 

See him today, at Parkland College in Room C118 between 12-1pm.

Luke Boyce, pic from Meet the Pros Website

More information on Luke and the Meet the Pros lecture series available here.

For Funsies

Two things I have to self-promote:

TONIGHT, my husband's band "Cody & The Gateway Drugs" are playing Cowboy Monkey with Decadents and Finer Feelings. Three really awesome bands, go get a cocktail and sit back and enjoy. Link to the FB event page.

aren't they pretty?

Then, there is the magnificent Porkapalooza happening this Saturday at Big Grove Tavern. If you've never heard of this event, I feel sad for you but also happy because we're changing that and your life is forever effected (with an 'e'!) This is the forth year of this event, put on by Surfabilly Freakout, the radio show I've been involved with for years now!

The deets:
Porkapalooza IV…Porkadelic!
Saturday, January 26th
The Bacon Room at Big Grove Tavern (One Main Street, Champaign, IL 61820)
Bacon Room Doors 7:30p (music begins at 8:30)
• Food & Beverage available in the Bacon Room
• Big Grove Tavern open regular business hours (217/239-3505 for reservations)

Thanks to our porktastic sponsors!
Triple S Farms, Ippatsu Salon, Pepsi Cola…Champaign-Urbana Bottling Co., Exile on Main Street, Furniture Lounge, Dean’s Graphics, WPGU 107.1 FM & Surfabilly Freakout Radio

For funsies, pics from previous years of Porkapalooza:

See you this weekend!
Chelsea

Weekly Wednesday Meltdown

Don't have a mid-week meltdown! Here's something to do tonight to forget how rough your humpday was.




Meet a space cowboy!! Or better yet, the actor/director/musician Cory McAbee! Cory is coming to Champaign TODAY for a meet-and-greet, made free to the public by the support of an Urbana Public Arts Grant. This is a part of the Champaign-Urbana Film Society's Visiting Filmmaker Series. 

Cory is best known for The Billy Nayer Chronicles (stemmed from his band The Billy Nayer Show), Sundance Film Festival's first multi-media event in 1995. Then, in 2001, for The American Astronaut, a story about a space cowboy! Okay, it is more serious and Westerny-cool than that. But he is a cowboy of sorts, and there is space involved. A perfect combination if you ask me. Check IMDB to see the full synopsis and its 7.1/10 rating. I'll be honest, I've enjoyed a lot of movies with a much lower rating...

Meet him tonight at Crane Alley in Urbana at 8pm. Desserts and non-alcoholic beverages will be served :)