Nine bands, some local and some from Chicago, played at the Huskie Healing Benefit Concert on Saturday night at Otto's with all the proceeds going to the DeKalb County Community Foundation's Memorial Fund and the NIU February 14th Student Scholarship...

In the Marley Marl-produced "Hip-Hop Lives," renowned intellectual emcee KRS-One raps, "Hip and Hop is more than music / Hip is the knowledge / Hop is the movement." With that in mind, the knowledge of hip-hop is alive and well at NIU, and the movement...

DeKalb showman and self-proclaimed theatrical philanthropist Brian Starr organized a variety show performed at Studio B on Thursday night. The ambiguously titled "Live from Budapest Variety Show" featured talents from stand-up comedy to belly dancing,...

Everyone from frat boys to black NIU students to middle-aged white women "cranked that Soulja Boy" Friday night at the Convocation Center. The 17-year-old Mississippi native, born DeAndre Ramone Way, gave a surprisingly exceptional performance to an energetic...

"The Graduate" (1967) Director: Mike Nichols Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross Synopsis: Aimless college grad Ben Braddock (Hoffman) fumbles into an affair with the neighbor's wife (Bancroft) before falling hard for her daughter...

There is a slogan in modern music: "Punk is dead." Otto's Niteclub and Underground proved punk just got young. Friday was a proving ground for the often misunderstood genre. Bands such as The Aquaholics and Moto demonstrated that young alternative rockers...

In theaters no more than 30 minutes from you, a social experiment is being conducted: Will hard-working Americans really hand over cash just to watch Naomi Watts get tortured? "Funny Games," the American remake of an Austrian film from the late ‘90s,...

This song is like a bedtime story for big kids. The glockenspiel starts the song off with a simplistic, childish innocence. The chord progression sounds like an upbeat, sad song, but then there's that driving beat. Sporadic harmonies by vocalists Steve...

"Mail on Sunday" by Flo Rida Rating: 3 / 10 Flo Rida's debut album "Mail On Sunday" is a 14-track joke of an album brought to you by the gentleman who rose to fame off the T-Pain-featured "Low" ("Apple Bottom jeans, boots with the fur," anyone?). In the...

Wednesday night was a perfect example of why foresight is an important trait to any show-going youngster. While an early sellout left many people out in the cold, the show inside was a striking opposite of the usual apathy that surrounds shows in DeKalb....

"American Psycho" (2000) Director: Mary Harron Starring: Christian Bale, Josh Lucas, Reese Witherspoon Synopsis: A high-end New York bank executive earns his fortune working on Wall Street during the day, but at night, he becomes a deranged killer fueled...

The Book: "Oil!" Written by Upton Sinclair (1927) Sinclair's novel views early twentieth-century capitalism pitted against the budding socialist and communist movements - all through the naive eyes of Bunny Ross, son of prosperous oil magnate J. Arnold...