Being primarily a fan of rap, I've never been too familiar with jazz music. And like most hip-hop heads who aren't familiar with jazz music, I can only cite a small number of jazz musicians that I know of - which is really pathetic on my part, seeing...

The elegance and glamour of society's women in the past are encapsulated in one exhibit at the NIU Art Museum in Altgeld Hall's Rotunda Gallery. The exhibit, "Some Enchanted Evening: 100 Years of Evening Gowns (1900-1999)," showcases finely crafted and...

Rating: 10 / 10 Sometimes a man has to be big enough to realize how small he is. This moral quandary is the underlying theme of the masterpiece, and the year's best film, "3:10 To Yuma." Every few years, Hollywood tries to rejuvenate the Western genre....

Rating: 8.5 / 10 No matter what criteria you use to judge a good action movie, "Shoot Em Up" delivers. The plot is almost non-existent, and the characters are not wasting any time with backstory or emotions. I would estimate that 85 percent of this film...

On Thursday, world-renowned opera singer, Luciano Pavarotti died due to complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 71. Pavarotti is remembered and recognized in the opera community as one of, if not the greatest, opera singer of all time. In many...

The House Cafe hosted a night filled with indie rock, piano-fueled-pop and even accordions Wednesday. The opening act was former DeKalb native Dylan Kloska who took the stage with an acoustic guitar and did his best Chris Carrabba impersonation. The sharply...

NIU's very own anime club had its first meeting of the year this Tuesday, in the Preview Room of Cole Hall. Amber Lewis, a senior studio art design major, became the president of the anime club this year. Michael Wright, a sophomore undecided major, is...

I'm sitting in one of about 50 folding chairs facing a foot-high stage that's held together by duct tape. The seats aren't even close to half full, and it's BYOB. The New Fracture Quartet is set to perform soon at Elastic, an art gallery/performance space...

On Aug. 24, "The Nanny Diaries" splashed onto the big screen, and Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansen) got a taste of what happens when you bomb the job interview you needed and end up unexpectedly in the right place at the right time. Usually by the time...

Over the weekend, The House Café, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, hosted a self-proclaimed "Pop-Rock Night." The four advertised bands were Farewell To Distraction, The Cobra Punchers, The Boy Who Thought, and Love Me Electric. Unfortunately, only two of those...

Rating: 3 / 10 Before I am assigned to review something, I try not to make any preconceived judgments before actually watching/reading/listening to whatever the subject is, no matter how ridiculous the concept. At first, "Balls of Fury" immensely challenged...

Rating: 2 / 10 "Halloween" is not what you want it to be. If a director tries to portray something to capture an audience, then Rob Zombie does not understand his generation or his audience. This generation, reviewer included, is tired of horror films...