Rating: 9/10 Kenny Chesney, with the talented contributions of former Eagles band member Joe Walsh and the "King of Country" George Strait, has produced, "Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates," sure to be a big hit among country music fans. Chesney once...

Rating: 10 / 10 Sometimes a man has to be big enough to realize how small he is. This moral quandary is the underlying theme of the masterpiece, and the year's best film, "3:10 To Yuma." Every few years, Hollywood tries to rejuvenate the Western genre....

Rating: 8.5 / 10 No matter what criteria you use to judge a good action movie, "Shoot Em Up" delivers. The plot is almost non-existent, and the characters are not wasting any time with backstory or emotions. I would estimate that 85 percent of this film...

On Thursday, world-renowned opera singer, Luciano Pavarotti died due to complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 71. Pavarotti is remembered and recognized in the opera community as one of, if not the greatest, opera singer of all time. In many...

The House Cafe hosted a night filled with indie rock, piano-fueled-pop and even accordions Wednesday. The opening act was former DeKalb native Dylan Kloska who took the stage with an acoustic guitar and did his best Chris Carrabba impersonation. The sharply...

NIU's very own anime club had its first meeting of the year this Tuesday, in the Preview Room of Cole Hall. Amber Lewis, a senior studio art design major, became the president of the anime club this year. Michael Wright, a sophomore undecided major, is...

I'm sitting in one of about 50 folding chairs facing a foot-high stage that's held together by duct tape. The seats aren't even close to half full, and it's BYOB. The New Fracture Quartet is set to perform soon at Elastic, an art gallery/performance space...

On Aug. 24, "The Nanny Diaries" splashed onto the big screen, and Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansen) got a taste of what happens when you bomb the job interview you needed and end up unexpectedly in the right place at the right time. Usually by the time...

Over the weekend, The House Café, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, hosted a self-proclaimed "Pop-Rock Night." The four advertised bands were Farewell To Distraction, The Cobra Punchers, The Boy Who Thought, and Love Me Electric. Unfortunately, only two of those...

Rating: 3 / 10 Before I am assigned to review something, I try not to make any preconceived judgments before actually watching/reading/listening to whatever the subject is, no matter how ridiculous the concept. At first, "Balls of Fury" immensely challenged...

On Thursday, August 30, The House Café, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, hosted a strange but enjoyable evening of music that went from rock and roll to techno to comedy. The headliner was perhaps the strangest act, Pleaseeasaur. Hailing from Seattle, the duo,...

Last Friday, we smokers took our last drags inside our favorite eating and drinking establishments. While this issue is a dead horse that has been beaten down in almost every possible way, there is one point about the smoking ban that really bothers me,...