Scenic paintings of colonial architecture, beaches and faraway lands come to NIU at the hands of Deborah Levy. As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Venezuelan artist Deborah Levy’s exhibit in the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies will run...

n listening to "Wildflower," one can hear the growth in Sheryl Crow’s music since her earlier years with the infectious "All I Wanna Do" on the album "Tuesday Night Music Club." Her tunes are still infectious, but perhaps a little more mellow and mature....

Ryan Adams doesn’t like you. Let’s get that bit of information out of the way. For an artist who’s known to change from album to album, Adams is slipping into a funk and continuing with the same vibe from his previous album, "Cold Roses." For an...

Semi-emo punk rock band Mae will head out on tour this month, after releasing its sophomore album, "The Everglow" earlier this year and spending the summer on the Vans Warped Tour. Guitarist Zach Gehring recently talked with Weekender about touring, creating...

Chicago has been voted the second-best city for art enthusiasts by www.ShermansTravel.com and American Style Magazine. The NIU Art Museum will host "Get on the Bus" in order to take advantage of the proximity to the big city. "This is a terrific way to...

The HIV epidemic has become one of the defining issues of African people, and while graduate student Brian Ekdale captures this struggle in his documentary "10 Days in Malawi," he contends there is more to Africa than meets the eyes of American people....

Gretchen Wilson, country music’s hard-rocking "Redneck Woman," was an instant sensation with her 2004 debut "Here for the Party." Now she’s back with her follow up album, "All Jacked Up," and she has taken country to a whole new level. Much like her...

Armed with a bachelor’s degree in accountancy, Brian Bulkley, like many other NIU students, went into the real world to see if the past four years and several thousand dollars would take him anywhere. They sure did. Bulkley graduated from NIU’s College...

With Homecoming a mere 16 days away, Sweeps decided to have a little contest for NIU students. After all, we are the student-oriented page of the Northern Star. This past spring, Sweeps crowned P.J. Pyka, a physical therapy graduate student, as NIU’s...

Ever wonder if that person you met online was really who he or she said they were? With everyone posting personal information on Web sites such as MySpace.com, you’re bound to come across some pretty fantastical profiles. Adam "Buddy" Burgess, a senior...

Take an aspiring actress, a woman suffering from amnesia because of a car accident, a mysterious cowboy and a sudden, out-of-the-blue lesbian scene and what do you get? That’s right, you get a David Lynch movie. Lynch, whose past credits include the...

For a genre embraced for its forward thinking, Brit-rock bands sure age poorly. With the exception to Supergrass, other mid-’90s giants have fizzled with nary the rock ’n’ roll chops or smarmy Englishness the genre’s name implies. Oasis hasn’t...