"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...

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...

"Everything Is Wrong With You" by Wendy Molyneux (2008) Rating: 8/10 The title says it all. Molyneux's guide to shameless self-loathing takes 180 rainbow-colored pages to let readers know their self-doubt isn't just in their heads. The book is armed with...

Rating: 6 / 10 Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria Plot: Five years after leaving his pregnant fiancée (Newton) at the altar, disheveled Dennis (Pegg) decides to run a marathon to win her back. The good: "Run Fatboy Run" only works because...

Plaid shirts and hand-clapping were a prerequisite for all those attending "Indie Rock Night" at The House Café on Monday. Champaign's own Headlights headlined the four-hour show. The band is on a nationwide tour promoting its brilliant new album,...

Director: Peter Berg Starring: Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jeremy Piven Synoposis: After a rowdy bachelor party ends with a dead prostitute, a group of friends start to turn on each other while preparing for a wedding in this, the darkest...

With the popularity of online dating and Internet networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, it's safe to say that dating has evolved. This evolution, while still in its first stages, has changed some of the rules for many seeking companionship. However,...

Rating: 3 / 10 Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Channing Tatum The plot: Phillippe plays Brandon King, a soldier who has just returned from two tours of duty in Iraq. Just before he's ready to settle back into everyday life, he's "stop...

Rating 8 / 10 Starring Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, and Laurence Fishburne The plot A 21-year-old from MIT is drafted by his crafty math professor to play in a group of six students trying their hands at counting cards in Las Vegas. The...

"Mrs. Doubtfire II: Doubtfire in the Dorms" Robin Williams reprises his role as the cross-dressing nanny, but he faces a new challenge. His oldest daughter, Lydia, is heading to an all-girls college and Robin's character can't help but feel leery about...