This 1955 classic gave way to the Coen Brothers’ troubled remake starring Tom Hanks and Marlon Wayans. In the original, several crooks posing as traveling musicians rent a room in downtown London from a seemingly helpless old lady (Katie Johnson). Several...

Mardi Gras exists all year long at NIU. The New Orleans Room, located in the basement of Stevenson North C, makes this fantasy true. The non-profit lounge is open to all students and is organized by the Residence Hall Association. The room’s theme is...

Room 337 of Founders Memorial Library will be the bustling apex of transcendental culture no more. For the last six years, NIU has been the world’s leading researcher on Henry David Thoreau. The research project, known as the Thoreau Edition or "The...

Pop-culture critic David Eggers theorizes we listen to songs to "solve" them. When a track loses its mystery, it loses its purpose. If so, The Cribs’ sophomore LP poses one riddle: "Where have we heard this before?" The English siblings’ mimicry is...

This Luc Besson film is a vivid portrayal of the life of a professional assassin. Jean Reno plays a skilled hitman who befriends a young, troubled Natalie Portman. Gary Oldman plays a short-tempered crooked cop who kills Portman’s family over a misplaced...

Scanning parking lots for damaged property and escorting students back to their dorms in the dark are typical job responsibilities for junior journalism major Tim Davis. Davis is a supervisor for the Huskie Student Patrol, one of 24 employed students...

Ever wish you could lay in bed every night, gazing up at the stars? For three girls in Douglas A, that’s exactly what they get to do. Lisa Gianpetro, a sophomore pre-elementary education major, Jacklyn Trznadel, a sophomore pre-elementary education...

The smell of alcohol in the air, loud cars peeling out and snack food everywhere. With this description, one would think it was a NASCAR race. But, sorry to disappoint, it’s DeKalb. It’s past midnight on Saturday. What is there to do? Well, if you’re...

Ready, set, spike! For more than a decade NIU’s faculty and staff have been getting together to play volleyball on their lunch breaks. No one is really sure why the weekly games got started, but according to Steven Lux, University Health Services health...

Wes Craven has a shaky relationship with the horror community. His "Nightmare on Elm Street" helped define the slasher genre in the 1980s, but his "Scream" movies openly mocked such conventions. After his last offering, "Cursed," proved to be too aptly-named...

It’s easy for someone to strap on a guitar, take their pent-up emotions and dedicate a whole album to a former flame. It’s easy because it’s been done to death. However, it’s tough to pull off a rebellious attitude when holding a mandolin or fiddle,...

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be middle-aged and still a virgin? According to this movie, it may not be so bad - unless of course, other people know about it. Andy (Steve Carell), aka "the forty year old virgin," is one such character....