The Virginia Theatre

The Virginia Theatre opened December 28, 1921 with a live stage performance of "The Bat". The following night, the silent films Tol'able David and The Boat were shown at the theatre. Since then, it has been presenting movies, live concerts, and plays to the Champaign-Urbana community and has only been closed for short periods of renovation by the Park District.

Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, journalist and screenwriter. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collections of reviews.

The Virginia Theatre is host to the Roger Ebert's Film Festival, originally known as Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival but commonly referred to as simply Ebertfest, is an annual film festival held every April in Champaign, Illinois.

As you can see passes are now being offered for the next Film Festival. People come each year from all over to be part of this Festival. (as a personal side note I actually attended high school with Roger).

P.S. I just had to come back and add this evening sunset blip. Walked out on my porch this evening and this is what I saw.