By Jack Baudoin, Lifestyle writer
| January 27, 2021
In this time of global pandemic and quarantine, one of the best ways people can escape is through TV and film. Streaming services are a great way to leave behind the drama of the real world and venture into a different world of the viewer’s choosing....
DeKALB – NIU Recreation will host an Outdoor Adventure Craft Night from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Student Recreation Center. Participants who sign up will be making New Year's vision boards at the Rec Center, 325 N. Annie Glidden Road, according to...
With the lack of theaters to screen films, streaming services have been competing with each other to become the premium provider of new films. “One Night in Miami…,” the latest film to drop on Amazon Prime Video, is a captivating film with timeless...
DeKalb — With snow finally falling, people are shopping for sleds and looking for the best place to use them in DeKalb. A sled hill is at Hopkins Park, 1403 Sycamore Rd.
The sled hill is open during normal park district hours of operation —...
As January draws to a close, a new slate of media is to be dropped on Netflix. While many releases are pre-existing films and television series, there are a few originals to keep an eye on in February.
"Malcolm and Marie"
Directed by Sam Leinson,...
2020 was a brilliant year for music with releases from Playboi Carti, The Weeknd, Freddie Gibbs, Poppy, Conway the Machine, Kacy Hill and bands like Vein, Sightless Pit, Fluids, Protomartyr and Bedsore. That streak of great releases has bled into 2021...
Northern Star staffers recap the first two weeks of Season 25 of The Bachelor, featuring bachelor Matt James. Haley Galvin and Wes Sanderson are veteran Bachelor watchers who discuss all the crazy drama with newbie Yari Tapia. They go over all the...
Playboi Carti has had fans waiting impatiently for the release of his third project “Whole Lotta Red,”released on Dec. 25. Carti established himself as a punk rockstar on his sophomore album “Die Lit” through a rap lens and “Whole Lotta Red”...
2020 has been a severely disappointing year for film but not in terms of quality, in terms of quantity. COVID-19 ravaged the film industry this year leading to an immense amount of release date delays and movie theater shutdowns. Despite these uncertain...
The “awards season” of films has begun with several quality films, all competing for Oscars and praise, being released during November and December including “The Trial of The Chicago Seven,” “On The Rocks” and “Mank.” While many of these...
DeKALB — Jalen Smith, senior art illustration major, also known as “Visionary J,” will be dropping his new single “First friend” Friday on all streaming services.
The new single shines light on common themes shared on his album “Jalen”...
For a film about a heavy-metal drummer, “Sound of Metal” thrives in its most quiet moments. Released theatrically on Nov. 20 and on Amazon Prime Dec. 4, “Sound of Metal” is a film that delivers a heartfelt story about coming to grips with reality.
“Sound...
