With their new album “This Is Why,” Paramore defies the odds and delivers a daring and fresh collection of new songs.
While the album is quite good on its own merit, its mere existence is even more impressive considering the trajectory of some...
Celebrate Women’s History Month with these upcoming events at NIU, presented by the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center.
March 1-3, 2023: "Women's history is..." photo series
Students can have their photo taken and talk about what women’s history...
Escape the chilly weather and watch some performances or take a tour of an 1898 mansion.
Jean-Marc Fessard Guest Clarinet Recital
From 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at NIU’s music building, Jean-Marc Fessard, Armand Fessard and Minjung Kim will perform...
DeKALB – The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra will be holding a Spring Pops Concert. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. on March 10 in the Bountel Memorial Concert Hall located in the NIU music building
The show will feature compositions from Leonard...
As a part of a lecture series hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Catherine Raymond, a professor in art history and the director of the Center for Burma Studies at NIU, gave the lecture “Healing while Performing the Ritual to the Burmese...
Editor’s Note: The following piece contains spoilers about the film “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
“Judas and the Black Messiah” is a powerful and raw film unlike any other story told about the Civil Rights Movement.
A screening of the...
Take a look into my favorite childhood cartoons that my dad has mysteriously procured on DVD.
“TUTENSTEIN” (2003 – 2008)
If you’re thinking of the Egyptian boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, you are thinking correctly for this 20 year old cartoon....
By Daniel Massa, Lifestlye Writer
| February 28, 2023
DeKALB – At 8:00 p.m. Friday, the Celtic band Gaelic Storm, well-known for their music in the 1997 “Titanic” film, will be performing live at the Egyptian Theatre in downtown DeKalb.
Gaelic Storm is a Celtic band founded in 1996 by Patrick Murphy...
By Sarah Rose, Managing Editor
| February 28, 2023
TikTok was the most consumed social media app in 2022, according to Statista, and its population of users keeps on growing into the millions. Due to security speculations, America may have to wish their most beloved app goodbye.
Those who have been...
Outer Banks (Netflix)
On an island of Pogues and Kooks, the wealthy and the poor, one teen John Booker Routladge (Chase Stokes) is on the hunt for a treasure. John B’s father, Big John, went missing on his own hunt for the treasure and is presumed...
By Sarah Rose, Managing Editor
| February 28, 2023
The theater becomes silent as a spotlight shines down on a woman rocking back and forth in a rocking chair.
The rest of the room is dark, the focus being on her face which looks distant, as if she’s in her own world, remembering something. The...
By Eli Tecktiel, Lifestyle Writer
| February 27, 2023
I’ve always gotten the sense that comedy is a cathartic form of therapy for Marc Maron. In his new special, this has never been clearer.
Maron rarely prompts me to laugh out loud; that’s just not his style. While some observational comedians...
