{"id":13967,"date":"2021-01-26T13:45:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=13967"},"modified":"2021-01-26T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T19:45:04","slug":"all-things-must-pass-because-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=13967","title":{"rendered":"All things must pass because of\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Family Video in north Champaign (and across America) is closed for good. This post isn't about that. (Photo: Jason Pankoke)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_MFHQ_community.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over the last few weeks, removing the contents from the <strong>Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong> has meant car trips to several corners of Champaign-Urbana when I wasn\u2019t hauling things northward. It allowed me time to reflect on the familiar that was still there, acknowledge the absence of what had been there before, and take a fresh look at new constructions and features in the landscape. After living a quarter century in <strong>MFHQ <\/strong>and more than 27 years total in Champaign, I know that changes will never cease yet I could always count on bringing back something intellectually or photographically from our communities and farmlands that might inspire and be put to good use. I don\u2019t really feel like going over the locations I\u2019ve written about previously to lament their loss to our film culture and everyone else. I\u2019d rather share with you a short list of the locations I might just frequent when I inevitably return to visit without a home base to hide away in. Places I\u2019ll always make a moment to include when I hit the beat on the C-U streets:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong>Bentley\u2019s Pub<\/strong> and the <strong>Brass Rail<\/strong>, ensconced in the corners of downtown Champaign, where everyone who is anyone knows my frat name;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caf\u00e9 Kopi<\/strong>, nestled in the heart of downtown Champaign, will always be my forever shop for downing a coffee and spending time at the keyboard, with a good book, or chatting up an even better friend;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caffe Paradiso<\/strong>, still brewing on the corner of <strong>Lincoln Avenue<\/strong> and <strong>Nevada Street<\/strong> in Urbana, to soak in its artistic ambience and pay mind to its role in the launch of both <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MICRO-FILM<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">C-U Confidential<\/span><\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Espresso Royale Coffee<\/strong>, the <strong>Oregon Street<\/strong> location in Urbana, which to me is the perfect spot to sit outside on a warm summer evening as the sun sets over the docile <strong>University of Illinois<\/strong> campus;<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Street<\/strong>, those first six blocks to the west of the UI <strong>Main Quad<\/strong> in Champaign, as it has always served as my portal to <strong>Campustown<\/strong> off the well-beaten <strong>Green Street<\/strong> path;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robeson Park<\/strong>, where <strong>Phinney Branch Creek<\/strong> crosses under <strong>Duncan Road<\/strong> in southwest Champaign, for its foot bridge served as my thinking place during many a lunch and work break over many years;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Courier Caf\u00e9<\/strong>, just reopened on <strong>Race Street<\/strong> in downtown Urbana, because it is the local restaurant that most fits me like a glove and I appreciate the site\u2019s newspaper credentials;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Urbana Free Library<\/strong>, storehouse of knowledge down the street from the Courier, for it reminds me of browsing the small-town library of my youth with a comparable coziness;<\/li>\n<li><strong>West Side Park<\/strong>, the public landmark equidistant from <strong>MFHQ<\/strong> and downtown Champaign, to unwind and say hello to a diversified C-U populace on common ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are more points of personal interest for me in the area, of course. I could spend all day naming names and telling stories about what they mean to me. That might be an angle for a different weblog at another time, if I feel the need for it. Take a walk, bike ride, or drive today and see C-U for yourselves, dearest readers, and be sure to treat your favorite and sacred spaces well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can value the worth of &#8220;location, location, location&#8221; in our lives, and it isn&#8217;t about real estate prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,16,1769],"tags":[2311,1772,2312,2090,2310,1770,1515,2309],"class_list":["post-13967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-places","category-jp-confidential","category-secret-mfhq","tag-caffe-paradiso","tag-champaign-il","tag-coffee","tag-local-businesses","tag-local-parks","tag-mfhq","tag-ui-campustown","tag-urbana-il"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}