Before Billy Joel wrote "The Entertainer," before Roger Waters sat on "The Wall," Melanie wrote the song about the song. "Look What They've Done to My Song," is the theme for the down-trodden and compromised. Sometimes "the only thing" you can "do half...

NIU's New Music Ensemble will perform Steve Reich's piece, "Music for 18 Musicians" at 8 p.m. today in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building. "If people already know the piece, then they know why they need to come," said Greg Beyer,...

Rating: 7 / 10 Starring: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler Plot: On a secret island, a little girl named Nim (Abigail Breslin) reaches out to her favorite adventure author, Alex Rover (Jodie Foster), for help to find her missing father. The...

Increasing temperatures, chirping birds and warm sunny skies not only indicate the beginning of spring, but also the beginning of the season for the fastest growing sport in the United States: disc golf. Still, not many people know about disc golf, or...

Director: John Schlesinger Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Laurence Olivier Synopsis: When his brother "Doc" (Scheider) drops dead at his doorstep, Thomas "Babe" Levy (Hoffman) gets caught up in a world of espionage, diamonds and masochistic,...

Rating: 7/10 Starring: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski Plot: Dodge Connelly (Clooney), an over-the-hill pro football player convinces college hotshot and war hero Carter Rutherford (Krasinski) to play for the disastrous Duluth Bulldogs....

For many, the thought of electronic music brings up images of loud, sterile, robotic beats at a trendy, drugged-out dance party. But Brazilian artist Gui Boratto shows a different side of the genre on the transcendent "Beautiful Life," the centerpiece...

The House Cafe was filled Saturday night with sounds not typically heard there. The J. Davis Trio, a hip-hop group from Chicago, headlined the show with a unique set that had audience members dancing. The group's rapper, known simply as Stuart, is a talented...

Art is starving, and only a handful of people seem to care. Robert Redford visited Capitol Hill with singer John Legend and actress Kerry Washington. Their request: raise funding for the National Endowment of the Arts to $176 million dollars per year,...

"The Persians," directed by Christopher Markle, is not for the squirmy or asthmatic. The show strides forward on legs of lengthy orations. The dialogue, addressed to the audience as often as it is performed conversationally between the actors, brings...

The House Café hosted a captivating night of visual art Wednesday. The DeKalb coffee house, notable for its alternative music scene, dabbled in paint and cinema with sophomore Pat Marek's gallery opening, followed by the first night of the "Reality...