DeKALB | The NIU Jazz Ensemble will present its fall concert free to the public Thursday in the Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes Student Center. The concert is at 8 p.m. Concert attendees expecting Jazz Ensemble director Ronald Carter's signature...

With every variety of music comes the connoisseurs who consider their beloved genre superior. On the other end of the spectrum is the hater, who declares utter distaste for a particular genre of music. The behavior of the connoisseur can be easily understood....

chris krapek Staff Writer Fred Claus - 5/10 Starring: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Spacey, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates Plot: Fred Claus (Vaughn) is a repo man who asks his brother Nicholas, or Santa Claus, (Giamatti) for a loan. To get the loan, Fred...

In 1972, epic songs such as "American Pie" by Don Mclean and "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos were topping the charts. It's no wonder that Warner Bros. didn't release an album by The Modern Lovers. They were almost the exact antithesis of the day's rock...

Dillinger Four's album "Versus God" is an album everyone should own. It came out on Hopeless Records in 2000 and has been changing people's minds about pop-punk ever since. In the time between this album and Dillinger Four's 1998 phenomenal "Midwestern...

Rating: 2/10 Staring: Wes Bentley and Rachel Nichols Plot: Christmas has arrived and businesswoman Angela Bridges (Nichols) is in a hurry to leave work and get home to her family. As she walks out to her car on level P2 of a parking garage, Angela's car...

Lions for Lambs 5 / 10 Staring: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise Plot: As two U.S. Army rangers are put in peril in Afghanistan, their former college professor (Redford) tries to inspire an apathetic student (Andrew Garfield) in California....

Dear Hillary Clinton, It's great you want to be president. I am very fond of our next commander in chief not being a rich, white man. However, there is one issue that might stop me from wanting you as our next president, and instead hold out for Oprah...

The quality of art can be measured by its ability to be appreciated by multiple audiences. "My Back Pages" is the embodiment of a song taking on new meaning for a changing audience. Bob Dylan originally scored the song and introduced it as a folk track....

Journeyman Imagine talking to your wife, girlfriend or significant other while preparing to take out the trash. Next, imagine a piercing headache and then being sucked through a time warp and waking up in a different decade in the back of someone's car....

Making fun of Facebook is almost too easy. While people obsess over their own and others' profiles, as fellow Northern Star writer Sean Kelly pointed out this week in his column, they miss out on actual social situations with people. While I don't necessarily...