Throughout this difficult time, indulging in arts and entertainment has proven to be tremendously therapeutic for me as well as a lot of my friends and colleagues. Listening to music serves as an especially fine escape. After being exposed to the reality...

"Be Kind Rewind" Rating: 7/10 Starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Melonie Diaz, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow Plot After his brain becomes magnetized, Jerry (Black) accidentally erases all of the VHS tapes inside a video shop. In order to replace the destroyed movies,...

DeKalb Mayor Frank Van Buer is coming to the Egyptian Theatre to announce Saturday, March 1 as Preservation of the Egyptian Theatre Day. In recognition of the 30th anniversary of the community takeover of the Egyptian, Van Buer will have a news conference...

Six years after a sold-out performance at Otto's, Umphrey's McGee is coming back to DeKalb. The jam band, originally from South Bend, Ind., returns at 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at the Egyptian Theatre. Tickets for this all-ages concert are $30 in advance...

Grief recovery in one word: babies. While Nyssa Bulkes retreated to pre-teen pastimes yesterday, I passed the time with a pre-teen in my own family. My cousin had a baby in January - the first of the new generation - and I finally got to meet him over...

Eight-year-old Nyssa was my best friend last week. To help myself through the emotional roller coaster, I did things I did as a kid. I played "Dr. Mario" on an original Nintendo system. My family and I broke out games such as "Tetris" and "Loopz," and...

To help NIU and DeKalb community members carry on, the Convocation Center announced two shows that fans of rock bands both old and new can attend CHEAP TRICK / JOAN JETT - SATURDAY, MARCH 29 Joan Jett will open for Cheap Trick, headlining. Tickets go...

10:48 P.M. CST | The 80th film to win Best Picture is "No Country For Old Men." The Coens win three awards in one night, and a new record is set. This is just another Oscar show with the only big suprise being Marion Cotillard winning for "La Vie En Rose."...

You may have class the next day and you may have homework to catch up on. But other than that, you can't say there's nothing to do in DeKalb for Valentine's Day. The NIU school of Theatre and Dance Studio Series presents a "Festival of Romantic Comedy"...

The Avalon String Quartet will perform in concert at 8 p.m. tonight in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building at NIU. The concert is free and open to all. According to an NIU School of Music news release, the Avalon Quartet, founded in...

1. ‘In the Garden of Eden' (from ‘Bart Sells His Soul') Bart circulates sheet music of Iron Butterfly's 17 minute '60s love ballad "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" during Sunday mass, changing the title and lyrics so that it reads as a sexually suggestive...

"Simple Plan" - Simple Plan Rating: 1/10 Simple Plan, back with another new album, has once again taken the listener back to another boring night in suburbia. Not an inspired boredom, a la Less than Jake, or a funny one like Tom Hanks. It's just a plain-old...