Many artists and creators in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond are stepping up post-pandemic. Good for them! Where does that leave C-U Blogfidential, though? We’re not sure, and that’s not good.
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Self-restriction has been lifted as your humble editor rockets out the gate with fresh words on important topics and miscellany as well as dear old Dad. He might mention a few filmy things on top of that.
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Our second post today is to field the idea of publishing the next issue of C-U Confidential this year. For the interim, we will need to handle it different since it began in 2007. Are you on board?
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What a crock of hooey. The Art Theater is closing. The New Art Film Festival is in limbo. C-U Confidential #10 is still not fully distributed. What next? Oh, yes. We’ll always have MICRO-FILM. Right.
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A cold, hard chill can put a little snap into your step when dulled by a clammy reality. That’s what finally broke us from our rut and resulted in C-U Confidential issue 10, now available for your reading pleasure!
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Now that C-U Confidential is guaranteed to return for a tenth round, we simply have to finish it off. Life never makes it that simple, though, even when bonus goodness steps into the pathway before the finish line.
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We are legitimately excited to be able to issue C-U Confidential #10, folks, although it’s clear we won’t be doing Confidential business as usual going forward. Give us a moment to have a moment, then.
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It feels like we’ve been greasing the wheels forever to put C-U Confidential issue 10 on the board. We are hours away from the end of our current funding campaign and a third strike against it looms.
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Advertisers may contact us at any time about reserving space in the next issue of C-U Confidential, tentatively slated to street in January 2019. Want to be a pal? Take the info down and pass it around!
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It’s come to this. It could be worse. Let’s make the cultural life of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, a little bit groovier with a new issue of C-U Confidential digest. We need your help on this one, dearest C-U. Dig?
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Just like the headline says, we’ll begin our on-line drive to partly fund the printing of C-U Confidential digest #10 on November 26, 2018, also known as (shudder) Cyber Monday.
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We may also have legitimacy and dependability in our print history, but our budget lifeline has dried up. It’s finally time to beg and grovel publicly for help to put C-U Confidential back on the board.
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Both C-U Confidential and editor Jason Pankoke made rare public appearances at the inaugural Indie Art Convention & Film Festival in Savoy on July 14, 2018. Unfortunately, very few others took in the show.
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The tenth issue of C-U Confidential has been rescheduled for August-September 2018 release in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and other cities. Make sure your advertising message will be seen in its pages!
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Quick! Get your relevant summer reading in order with our suggestions! Here we title-drop a few media-centered books and journals that share some fiber of their being with publishing pros in central Illinois.
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