Even if your CD collection is filled with NOW! That's What I Call Music albums and local music really isn't your thing, DeKalb still has plenty to entertain you with during the Winter. This semester, you can hear poetry, look at art, catch a play and...
Pink champagne and pearls was the theme of this year's NIU Bridal Expo and it greeted the brides as soon as they walked through the door. The Duke Ellington Ballroom at the Holmes Student Center was filled with pink beads, balloons, displays, and other...
Finals week got you down? Head to the House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, on Thursday. Seasoned ska aces Mustard Plug will be playing along with local bands The Love Shots, Bust!, Waste Basket, and Danger Boy. Take it from me, you will not be disappointed....
Rating: 4/5 Stars I've always liked ska -- 'liked' being the operative word. Saying that I ‘love' ska would be taking it too far, and the more I write about it, the less I like it. As with most broad musical genres, it has a tendency to become very...
DeKALB | The season of giving is starting early in DeKalb. NIU alumna Tamara Lyon will be giving away copies of her first book, Falling to Him while in town to promote her new book The Ugly Tree at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11 at Moxie, 230 E. Lincoln...
DeKALB | NIU's literary magazine, Towers, has extended its deadline to Sunday. Tower's president and co-editor, fifth year English PhD student Alisa Smith-Riel, said that the magazine extended the deadline to encourage more students to submit their work....
The past two years have been good to DeKalb band Legend Haz It. The sextet, fronted by MC Keith "Legend Mane" Winford, has gone from playing house parties in town to venues in Chicago. Last year, the group won a contest and opened-up for T-Pain and Yung...
What do Curtis Mayfield and Israeli Nationalists have in common? They both fall under the classification of “rebel music.” A small group of students and assorted faculty attended the Rebel Music Conference on Wednesday. The conference consisted of...
Minimum Wage Assassins are a DeKalb grindcore supergroup, featuring members of Sick/Tired and Gonzo Violence. Though they only have a few demos online, 2011 looks to be the year they release some original material. The Northern Star caught up with guitarist...
When I was 8 yearsold, my dad bought me my first goldfish and told me that we weregoing to watch one of the greatest movies of all time.That movie was"TheTerminator."From Arnold’s veryfirst "I’ll be back," I knew that my world had been unequivocallychanged...
If artists were always considerate, conservative and calm, we'd be stuck forever hanging bland, faux-watercolor landscapes on our living room walls and listening to Michael Bublé . If artists were to censor themselves for the public's sake, we would...
DeKALB | Chicago headliner Deals Gone Bad, along with local bands The Takeouts, Turbo Vamps!, and Danger Boy, proved Saturday night at the House Cafe that ska is not dead, it's only changed its suit and gotten a new tie. The Takeouts, a poppy ska ensemble,...
