DeKALB | NIU's resident Grammy-nominated chamber group, the Vermeer Quartet, will perform their final concert in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall and Recital Hall at 8 p.m. on Wednesday at the NIU Music Building. The performance will include Mozart's...

Otto's Niteclub and Underground proved that it is now host to a wide variety of fans over the weekend. The Effigies and The Tossers, two bands from the Chicago punk-rock scene, celebrated the release of their new albums at Otto's, 118 E. Lincoln Highway,...

On May 12, the Rockford MetroCentre, 300 Elm St., Rockford, will play host to multiplatinum-selling rockers Hinder and Fuel on the MadPackers.com "Door To Dorm" national tour. The tour began and will end in Pennsylvania, kicking off April 13 in Jonestown...

DeKALB | Larry the Cable Guy will greet the Convocation Center next Thursday with his comedy act. Tickets will be $40.75 for the general public and $35.75 for NIU students. "We've had Larry here a couple of years ago," said Kevin Selover, director of...

DeKALB | Get ready to rock out for a good cause. Alpha Phi Omega will present Rock the Cure in the Holmes Student Center on Friday to raise money for the Children's Organ Transplant Association. The show will take place at 7 p.m. in the Diversions Lounge...

DeKALB | A culmination of talent, drag and raffle prizes will invade Caven Auditorium (Gabel 126) this weekend, all to raise money for a good cause. Prism will host its 11th annual drag and variety show, the Gay Jam, Saturday to raise money for the Questioning...

Grade: C | Imagine a movie, "'Garden State" Meets ‘The Graduate.'" Now imagine that movie directed by a teenie-bopper Woody Allen. That movie would begin with an emo break-up between the young and attractive Adam Brody and Elena Anaya in an L.A. diner....

Grade: D+ | There's nothing quite like starting off a horror film with a broken-down car on an empty country road in the middle of nowhere. David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale), an exhausted, squabbling, soon-to-be divorced couple, are the...

Grade: B+ | Action films are hugely popular in the United States. Movies like "Rocky," "Die Hard" and "Star Wars" are some of the highest-grossing movies of all time, and these three in particular spawned a numerous sequels. So, when Simon Pegg and Edgar...

This past weekend I got to see my friend crucified on stage. It... was... awesome. It also made me think, my friend is going to school for theater, which is wonderful. I have so much respect for people who are pursuing careers they will actually enjoy,...

Grade: B+ | At last, a 1997 that doesn't involve Third Eye Blind or "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" Chicago's 1997 is a young, intriguing group featuring a pair of lead vocalists (one male, the other female), agile instrumentation and a batch of killer...

Grade: D+ | In the life and career of Trent Reznor, he has seen it all. He has released a record that can arguably be considered one of the hundred greatest albums of all time ("Pretty Hate Machine"), along with a slew of other chart-topping releases,...