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...

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 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...

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...

DeKALB | NIU will host a free evening of eclectic music in the Altgeld Hall auditorium at 5 p.m. tonight. The Roby Lakatos Ensemble from Brussels, Belgium will perform. The show will also feature Myriam Fuks, a Klezmer and Yiddish folk singer. Lakatos...

DeKALB | Jazz trombonist Robin Eubanks will join the NIU Jazz Ensemble for a concert Thursday night. Eubanks is the brother of The Tonight Show's music director Kevin Eubanks and has collaborated with The Rolling Stones and Talking Heads. He is currently...

"Accelerate" - R.E.M. Rating: 7 / 10 After almost 30 years, 14 albums and an induction into The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, R.E.M.'s first album in four years revisits the alternative roots that immortalized the band's work. Under the production of Jacknife...

"Batman: The Killing Joke" - Alan Moore and Brian Bolland Sometimes all it takes is a single bad day to turn someone's world completely upside down. And who better than the mass murdering, psychotic, clown-faced Joker to try and prove it. Renowned comic...