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    Shh..ambana

    Go Big Ten or go home.
    Go Big Ten or go home.

    Go Big Ten or go home.

    1. Sonics. Yes you read correctly. Two. Need you read more?

    2. Murphy\’s Pub. Excellent mock-Irish bar. Always a babefest. And it’s got a pool table, too!

    3. Geovanti’s. Calzones the size of your head. Chicken “strips” so big, just one could feed a family of 4. As if that’s not enough, there’s a bar downstairs. A place where everyone knows your name, karaoke Wednesdays, and Lady GaGa is constantly on repeat. Just look at these specials. Personal favorite. Oh and it starts selling booze at 6 in the morning. Not that I’ve been there for that, of course, but it’s nice to know.

    4. Home of REO Speedwagon. I “Can’t Fight This Feeling” that the above picture is kind of tacky.

    5. Fat

    6. Sandwich

    7. Company

    8. Kam\’s. Home of the Drinking Illini. Sticky, loud, smells like butthole, but damn it if I don’t contribute to the stickiness and smelliness every weekend.

    9. NEIL street

    10. Birthplace of Ludacris (suck it Atlanta) and hometown of Roger Ebert, who hosts “Ebertfest” every year. Sounds pretty cool. April 21-25.

    11. Canopy Club. Cool set-up with 3 bars, a stage, and tables and junk. Piano Man every Tuesday, who plays your favorite pop and 90’s music on piano. $3 Long Island Iced Teas. AD (lightning bolt) HD, the infamous AC(lightning bolt)DC cover band, is playing there. Bunch of old townies rocking out, and the butt of me and Brian’s jokes.

    12. Papa John\’s. Yes Brian, I’m rubbing it in. 6 meats?!?!?!

    13. Townie Bars. Tempted Joan?

    14. Disappointing Sports: $77 for football tickets and countless hours I’ll never get back. I can’t stand Ron Zook. Basketball isn’t shaping up either. I feel like a Cub fan.

    15. Horseshoe Sandwich Not in Champaign, but in Springfield, an hour away. Saw it on the Travel Channel. I was born to eat this sandwich.

    16. Activities and Recreation Center (ARC). Home of Illini Water Polo. Dirt cheap rock climbing wall and massages.

    17. What It Is! with Booker T., Mavis Staples, and JJ Grey. At the Krannert Center March 30. I have 2 free tickets, and extra ones are 30 bucks. I offered to Brian, but seeing as it is his birthday, I’m thinking this may be Neil’s excuse to come down here.

    Oh yeah, there’s the University of Illinois, which is really awesome. So if you haven’t visited Champaign-Urbana yet, or haven’t visited here for me, it’s about time.

    Now, I believe it’s time for me to fly.

  • New Music

    stinkyandhim

    While they may not be as cool as WuTang/Beatles, here are a couple new things worth checking out.

  • Come Visit the More Scenic GRAND RAPDIS

    So not that any of you needed a better reason than me living in Grand Rapids to come and visit, I thought I would give you a taste of what you could be passing up:

    1. A cooler Sonic

    2. Mmm…Microbreweries: Grand Rapids Brewing, B.O.B.’s House of Brews, Founders Brewing, Schmohz Brewing
    The Hopcat

    3. Giffins (hockey) $1 beers & $1 hot dogs or Whitecaps (baseball) $2 double hotdogs & $2 beer

    4 The Bob: A multi-faceted entertainment center and restaurant complex featuring five restaurants, a micro-brewery, night club and comedy club.

    5. G. Love & Special Sauce March 11 at The Intersection

    6. Rain: a Tribute To the Beatles March 5 at DeVos Performance Hall

    7. Hometown of Gerald R. Ford the 38th President of These United States (cause someone has to clean house after Nixon’s bullshit)

    8. Grand Raggidy Roller Girls

    9. Mojo’s Dueling Piano Bar

    10. Yesterdog (not quite a Chicago Style dog but when it’s close enough to walk to, that’s good enough for me)

    Ooh and this shit is pretty cool too (ARTPrize 2009 Winner):

    (11. Nora smells)

  • Come Visit Scenic MILWAUKEE

    Not that any of you needed better reasons than Brice and myself living in Milwaukee to come visit I thought I would provide a little incentive of some exciting happenings.

    1. Sonic

    2. Betsy and Bernie

    2. Admirals College Night Games = $5

    3.  Dr. Dog February 4th at Turner Hall

    4. .357 String Band February 12th at Turner Hall

    5. Brian, Ellen tells me you are a huge fan of hippies/long-hairs and Sound Opinions

    6.  The Chieftains February 6th at the Pabst

    7.  Many others including Vampire Weekend, G. Love and Special Sauce, Magnetic Fields, Tegan & Sara, Tossers

    If you had not already noticed I have spent a lot of time on the Pabst/Riverside/Turner Hall website.

    On the cheaper side there is Dice every night of the week at the Harp and Sham (Ellen, Brice, and Kelly know it well)

    Finally, obviously Sobelmans… highly delicious