Some bands find success and then kind of stop. They have their sound and they’re sticking to it. Cake is one such band. With its fifth album, “Pressure Chief,” the group affirms, once again, its resistance to an overload of change. Full of easy...

Some people will always remember their first high school dance, or the day they met that special someone. For me, it was the day I did my first break-dance move called the “coffee grinder.” For my first time as the Jack of All Trades, I infiltrated...

Scrap Arts Music brings its blend of musical diversity to DeKalb tonight. The group features unique homemade instruments ranging from the Scorpion Drum to the Plankphone. Based out of Vancouver, Canada and led by founder Gregory Kozak, who doubles as...

“You want it. You got it ... for a limited time.” The enigmatic ad first appeared on this very page Sept. 27. It trumpeted “FREE FOOD,” such as a medium cheese pizza from Domino’s or a pepe sandwich from Jimmy John’s. All you had to do was...

“Welcome to the North,” may make you want to go south for the winter. The Music’s first release since its popular self-titled debut loses sight of itself as it grabs too far, too fast, trying to top its predecessor. Pop-ish melodies are littered...

If you want to see some junk in the trunk, there is no need to watch the newest Lil’ Jon video. The junk is closer than you know at Otto’s Niteclub, 118 E. Lincoln Highway, every Thursday night. For the next couple of weeks, Junk in the Trunk, a group...

Lonnie “Yogi - Da Jagaknot” Pollard and Anthony “Antidote” Currie are both seniors here at NIU who consider producing their mix-tape, “The Bright I.D.E.A. Mix-Tape Volume 1,” their greatest achievement thus far. Pollard is majoring in business...

Fresh out of high school, Raven-Symone is ready to break into the music industry with a new identity. “This Is My Time” is not her first album. She released “Here’s to New Dreams” at age 8 and, in 1999, released “Undeniable.” The entertainment...

A few weeks ago, English instructor Amy Newman visited the Barnes & Noble bookstore to read her newly published series of poems titled “Fall.” A crowd of about 50 NIU students, faculty and friends came to listen to Newman read sections from her...

For a movie about ballroom dancing, its outcome is pretty decent. Directed by Peter Chelsom (“Serendipity,” “Town & Country”), “Shall We Dance?” is a movie about Chicago accountant John Clark (Richard Gere), who is happily married but...

With the presidential election less than two weeks away, Weekender wanted to find out which celebrities you would like to see not endorse candidates, but take up a campaign of their own: Krist Novoselic, the former Nirvana bassist, with aspirations of...

Every year, the third Saturday in October provokes relationship carnage over non-existent gifts, half-hearted gestures and those strange looks you keep giving that poster of the hot Olsen twin. Sweetest Day (or as I call it, the annual “Greg, you will...