DeKalb | While the clock is ticking down to Valentine’s Day, DeKalb and Sycamore restaurants are preparing special holiday menu items to spice up the typical “dinner-and-a-movie” date. Hillside RestaurantHillside Restaurant, 121 N. Second St. DeKalb,...
DeKALB | If you’re not going home this weekend, celebrating Valentine’s Day early or questioning your existence during the Grammy awards, there’s plenty to do in DeKalb. Here’s a list of the choice events going on in town this weekend: What: The...
The DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St., is hosting an open house Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. to celebrate its 80th anniversary as the Haish Memorial Library. After DeKalb resident Jacob Haish died in 1926, he left $150,000 to the library, said Katherine Keyes,...
Sunday mass is coming to the Convocation Center. Famed gospel artist and Grammy-winner Fred Hammond will appear with the Northern Black Choir this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Hammond, whose career has spanned over several decades, is the second Christian-based...
In the same shelves that hold literary classics and timeless textbooks, there is an entry that is curious: Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Season 2. On the first floor of the Founder's Memorial Library, right behind the escalators, are rows and rows of DVDs that...
DeKALB | Outside, there will be below zero temperatures. Inside, there will be pictures of bicycles in weird places. Dynamic Formulations, a film fest and art show, will take place tonight at 7:30 p.m. at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. There...
DeKALB | February is Black History Month. NIU is hosting several events and attractions to celebrate the history and culture of African Americans. All students are welcome to join the festivities that the campus organizations have created.WHAT: Century...
So, we have our first submission up for review. Today’s submission comes from the “Emmaus College Boys,” who’s Brian Singer sent me their Christmas pictures for review. He wrote:Hey Tony, These pictures me and my roommates and next-door neighbors...
Billed as a 1960s Czechoslovakian absurdist black comedy The Memorandum by Václav Havel suggests that it may go over the audience's head. The parables to the communist regime might exclude the everyman, and the Kafkaesque themes of painful bureaucracy...
So, I got an e-mail a little while back that struck me as interesting. Someone e-mailed my editor asking me to review his friend’s music. I was honored to be mentioned specifically, but I’m still not entirely sure if they wanted me to give an honest...
Just wait until you see what happens when Torque Padroni comes to town. A five-piece progressive rock group from the Aurora/Batavia area, it has been a real pleasure to see Torque Padroni break into the DeKalb music scene. While "unassuming" would be...
The show must go on. But the question is: Can it? DeKalb was rocked by both live music and a massive blizzard Tuesday night and well into Wednesday morning. With inclement weather and slick, snowy roads, some venues and promoters have been hesitant to...
