Melissa Merli

Arts reporter at News-Gazette. Arts lover. Arts blogger. Photographer, reader, artist.

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

@complexfields Thank you @complexfields! You've always been one of my favorite #art professors. Keep in touch!

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

Thanks! I truly enjoyed covering the #arts in #chambana! Great people and great things are happening here. https://t.co/4RuxC0D0be

[hugh bridgeford @moonshinejug]

All the best in retirement to @mmerli . We will miss the way you have shone your journalistic flashlight on creatives in Champaign Urbana.

[Urbana Pops @UrbanaPops]

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever... https://t.co/iijMgll4Qt

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

@ericbroslin Yes, while objectifying women.

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

@marybschneider The UI Assembly Hall name was changed a year or two ago to State Farm Center. I still call it the Assembly Hall.

[NCSAatIllinois @NCSAatIllinois]

For the 4th time, scientists at @LIGO and Blue Waters have discovered a gravitational wave from a black hole merger: https://t.co/h6YWeyrYSo

[Norman Lear @TheNormanLear]

As a combat vet, I fought Nazis ofWWII. Today I #takeaknee, once more, in solidarity w/my brothers&sisters still fighting 4 equality&justice

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

@UrbanaPizzaM All that needs is anchovies!

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

@therealjanisian Enjoyed your talk & intimate concert at #ELLNORA @KrannertCenter.

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

@Nick_Offerman & wife optioned for film George Saunders' novel Lincoln in the Bardo. It's shortlisted for Man Booker Prize.

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

@Nick_Offerman makes surprise Skype appearance during George Saunders talk @ThePygFest @KrannertCenter.

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

George Saunders fans wait to have books signed by him after his @ThePygFest talk @KrannertCenter.

[FAA at Illinois @FAAatIllinois]

Look for @TheatreIllinois alum Lisa Rothschiller on the TV show “The Middle” @ABCNetwork.

[Gies Business @giesbusiness]

Summer-like temperatures, but we're starting to notice those fall colors around BIF 🍂

Stay cool out there, #Illini!
#LastDayofSummer

[ARTnews @artnews]

Kerry James Marshall has created a mural for Chicago featuring Oprah Winfrey, Suzanne Ghez, and more https://t.co/VGpRqNERON

[Gies Business @giesbusiness]

Former business professor Mark Roszkowski to be recognized with memorial bulb garden at Allerton Park https://t.co/UOmaWjBw9E

[Krannert Center @KrannertCenter]

Thanks to @news_gazette for highlighting the work of our own Sam Smith: https://t.co/jHkITwRPme

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

one of my favorite visual artists.... https://t.co/pohyAKBC6Q

[Outsider Art Fair @OutsiderArtFair]

Read @latimes review of @theicala inaugural Martín Ramírez exhibiton:
https://t.co/0MIG0N8zvP

[Melissa Merli @mmerli]

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[Craig Wall ABC 7 @craigrwall]

Republican #Ilga @_ErikaHarold gets endorsement from House GOP leader Jim Durkin @ABC7Chicago