G-Unit's member, The Game, sets out to distinguish his solo talents on "The Documentary." Straight out of Compton, his style has a hard gangsta' edge and confronts issues such as death that are relevant to many. The radio has already begun its routine...

It’s hard to believe family movies are still being made, and it’s even harder to believe they can be entertaining too. Take the "family road trip" movie. The "road trip" gives way to a host of gags and giggles as adventures are on the open road as...

Brit-pop band, Placebo, hits the shelves with a new singles collection, "Once More With Feeling, Singles 1996-2004." The album has already been on the UK Top Ten Album Chart, as high as NO. 8, since its first release. Placebo is re-releasing the singles...

oel Schumacher is probably among the worst-regarded movie directors alive today. Purveyor of such cheese as "Batman and Robin" and "The Lost Boys," it’s tough to imagine Schumacher at the top of any list to direct a big-screen version of Andrew Lloyd...

"Assault on Precinct 13" is the best B-movie of the year. But that’s not saying much considering how rare the traditional B-movie has become. Also, it’s January. Ethan Hawke plays Sgt. Jake Roenick, a down-and-out cop stuck at a rundown precinct in...

Digital is everywhere. Digital watches. Digital Video Discs. Digital cameras. Digital libraries. Digital classrooms. Digital dating services. Digital postcards. Digital recording. Digital landmarks on the digital highway of digital life. There is even...

There's not much to be said for an album whose strongest track is a cover song. "Prayer & Pretend," The Atari Star's third full-length on Johann's Face Records, unremarkably showcases the band’s influences in 10 hit-or-miss songs. Traces of Sunny...

Duluth, Minn., must be a pretty boring town if a band focuses on nothing but melodic tones and layers of vocals, like Low does. The trio never seems to get past the vocal combination of percussionist Mimi Parker and guitarist Alan Sparhawk. Harmonies...

DeKalb will host three concerts this weekend featuring Chicagoland natives. In addition to Bobby Conn, who will play The Rodeo, 249 Palmer Court, on Saturday evening, two other shows have garnered the attention of the concert-going public. Brian Moss,...

It’s the three-year-and-10-month anniversary of "Menopause the Musical," written and produced by NIU alumna Jeanie Linders. The musical about four women going through "the change," is set to parody ’60s and ’70s pop songs, such as "Help Me, Rhonda"...

I went to a Dance Dance Revolution party and an anime club broke out. From the moment the Jack’s weekly expedition to NIU’s Anime Club started, an interesting experience was bound to happen. Every Tuesday and Thursday evening at about 6 p.m. at Cole...

What separates a great songsmith from every fool with a guitar on his back and a heart on his sleeve is a knack for subtlety. John Mayer doesn’t seem honest while singing, "Your body is a wonderland." Instead, he sounds like a guy in a bar with cheesy...