7.5 / 10 Ah, the Golden Age. Has it really been almost 500 years? "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" came to theaters Friday, and it was the 1500s all over again. Well, at least it felt like it as I sat in an empty theater. Maybe it was plague related. No background...

Despite a small audience, the quintet Georgie James played loudly and warmly at the House Cafe on Sunday. Sundays are inherently not good days for a rock shows, especially in a college town. A good number of students are either recovering from the previous...

The NIU Marching New Orleans Jazz Band, a new student-led combo, hasn't been so lucky in avoiding attention. Instead of rehearsing in the fluorescent-lit, linoleum-tiled rehearsal rooms of the music building, they rehearse on the sidewalks, roads and...

Rating 7/10 "We Own The Night" is a clichéd, retread of crime movies that have been reproduced countless times with the same results. There is nothing new or original and the two hour runtime could have very well be condensed into a script for "Law...

Despite a small audience, the quintet Georgie James played loudly and warmly at the House Cafe on Sunday. Sundays are inherently not good days for a rock shows, especially in a college town. A good number of students are either recovering from the previous...

The title track of St. Vincent's (nee Annie Clark's) debut album from this year is both utterly sweet and utterly twisted. It starts with Clark's pleading voice, singing "Marry me John / I'll be so good to you," and it's hard not to fall for it. Then,...

It's a small tragedy that most jazz aficionados only know jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal as some cat who Miles Davis really dug. Jamal is one of the most distinctive and artistically genuine jazz musicians. If fans know him as a Miles influence, then non-jazz...

8 / 10 For ten years, George Clooney has been one of Hollywood's most fascinating leading men. He's the kind of movie star who can carry big-budget capers like the "Ocean's Eleven" series and then be just as convincing in meatier, Oscar-worthy movies,...

9 / 10 Over the weekend, Tyler Perry introduced his second romantic comedy of 2007. Perry moves from the focus of "Daddy's Little Girls" (his first release this year) and highlights the joys and hardships of marriage in his latest film, "Why Did I get...

8 / 10 As easy as it is to love and admire Radiohead, it's very difficult to envy them. For more than a decade, the Oxford-based art-rock band has made a career of exceeding expectations, both commercially and artistically. There isn't a name in all of...

When Nas said hip-hop was dead, he obviously hadn't heard the mind-blowing collaboration between two of the genre's most decorated entities, UGK and Outkast. "Int'l Players' Anthem (I Choose You)" is a well-polished and unique, a breath of fresh air for...

The straight-to-DVD market has exploded into a juggernaut void of talent. Movies are supposed to be seen on the big screen, but when it comes to the overall production of making a film, it's a tiresome, stressful and above all, expensive process. I was...