From MTV to NIU, Cribs is in the house ... well, residence hall. Throughout the semester, Sweeps will delve into the dopest domiciles NIU students inhabit. This week, we visit the the oh-so-eclectic pad of two NIU students. What do the Chicago Bears,...

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...

R. Kelly and Jay-Z are back ... again, with their collaborative album, “Unfinished Business.” In 2002, the pair made their first joint attempt, “The Best of Both Worlds,” which flopped - and the tour was canceled. R. Kelly faced rape charges that...

The Sahara Hotnights are what The Go-Go’s would have sounded like if they had rocked as hard as they partied. Not that the four Hotnights are nymphomaniacal drug addicts. They just know how to write catchy pop gems while playing the role of femme fatales...

Remember those horrible images of cafeterias that you had when you were younger? You’d picture yourself standing in a mile-long line waiting for a bitter, stone-faced woman to slap a spoonful of unidentifiable gumbo onto a tray and shove it in your...

The holiday comedy “Surviving Christmas” opens with a montage of people miserable at Christmastime, including a grotesque scene of an old woman sticking her head in an oven. And the movie doesn’t get much better from there. “Surviving Christmas”...

In the past few weeks I have learned two things: A singer would dare to lip-sync on “live” television, and horse slaughtering is a delicate and unfunny subject. This week, I tried my hand at saving horses from slaughter by joining the National Student...

You’re tired, cranky and you really have a hankering for some Canadian bacon. What’s happening? It seems you’ve come down with a case of the “Lost Election Blues.” You stayed up all night Tuesday huddled in the warm glow of your television -...

Politics and music. When trying to juggle two hot coals, more often than not, you’ll get burned. Kathleen Hanna, however, has shown over the past decade that she is more than capable of making smart social commentary while carving a name for herself...

Coming off the success of their 2002 hit album “Spend the Night” and their brief cameo in the 1999 film “Jawbreaker,” The Donnas return with “Gold Medal.” It’s an 11-track album that glistens with guitar riffs and lyrics about - what else...

“Becoming Memories” hopes to move audiences emotionally. The heartfelt play about family bonds, courage and love runs Nov. 4-7 in the Stevens Building Player’s Theatre. Richard Poole, assistant professor in the School of Theatre and Dance, cast...

Christine LoFaso doesn’t want you to stereotype the fibers discipline. Fibers, an emphasis for B.F.A. majors in the School of Art, includes papermaking, book arts, fabric painting, printing, dyeing and textile construction. LoFaso, the program’s head,...