Sweeps wouldn’t be Sweeps without a high-profile guest star every once in a while. Sweeps correspondent Laurel Marselle caught up with one of the stars of ABC’s red-hot “Desperate Housewives” at the 71st Annual State Street Thanksgiving Parade....

With nothing to do on a snowy afternoon besides go home and sleep, students can head over to the Jack Olson Gallery in NIU’s Art Building to check out student artwork from this semester’s graduating class. Ann O’Brien, acting gallery coordinator,...

Welcome to the last installment of Playback for 2004. This week’s edition comes from senior biology major Joanna Kula. Kula will be graduating at the semester’s end and is afraid of going into the real world, but can’t wait to go back home to Chicago....

From MTV to NIU, Cribs is in the house ... well, apartment. Throughout the semester, Sweeps will delve into the dopest domiciles that NIU students inhabit. This week, we visit the eclectic pad of four upperclassmen. This typical Regent Drive apartment...

It is your hope of hopes, your dream of dreams. It is the job you have been salivating over ever since “Career Day” in kindergarten. It is your dream job. From time to time, Sweeps will delve into what it takes to be an astronaut, fashion model, CIA...

From MTV to NIU, Cribs is in the house ... well, apartment. Throughout the semester, Sweeps will delve into the dopest domiciles that NIU students inhabit. This week, we visit the the spicy pad of Nirag, Kaushal and Viju Patel. The apartment itself might...

“You can get the funk out of my class, if you guys are going to keep talking.” Replace funk with another word starting with an “f” and you can imagine senior business administration major Cynthia Gaspard’s surprise when her professor dropped...

The messages appeared on the seemingly normal marquee without warning or explanation. Side one ominously cautioned,”ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.” Side two confidently boasted,”SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB.” It’s as if the Papa John’s Pizza...

Animation never looked so real! “The Polar Express” is about a young boy (voiced by Tom Hanks) who, excited and attentive, lies in his bed, hoping to hear the sound of Santa’s sleigh to restore his slipping belief. It’s five minutes to midnight...

Director Brad Anderson has done the unthinkable - he persuaded Batman to lose 63 pounds for the sake of a low-budget film. After talking with Anderson, director of the new film “The Machinist” which opens tomorrow in Chicago, he insisted that persuading...

Peter Blumenstein, known as Big Bear to his friends, is a sweet-natured artist. His work is on display in Neptune Central’s Artist of the Month display case. Originally from Bolingbrook, Ill., Blumenstein transferred from Joliet Junior College. Although...