I, like most people, have a mother. In addition, I have a sister and a bunch of female friends. I also have aunts and cousins, and I have had more than my share of girlfriends. But all of these women have one thing in common: they all menstruated. As...

To attend one of NIU’s public music recitals is to be cascaded by massive aural waves and inspired lilts, tender as a heartbeat, of aspiring students paying homage to the staples of music and the music-education process. In music schools around the...

The premise is simple - Jesus Christ is resurrected and finds out he is out of touch with the youth of today. Hilarity ensues. The premise is simple, but the story is silly. The acting is somewhat lacking, but there are enough laughs to keep the movie...

Punk bands can be like your significant other. They like to drag you along, offer some of the catchiest hooks, put a smile on your face and let the feeling of greatness sink in over and over again. They can make your day with upbeat riffs, put you on...

"Roll Bounce" is a "feelings" type of movie. It makes you feel immediately excited, sad, and at the end, pretty restless. In many ways it is reminiscent of "Saturday Night Fever," as both tell coming of age stories of kids in the city whose lives revolve...

Ryan Cabrera will have every pre-teen girl swooning over him after one listen of this album. "And even if we can or can’t be friends/ I’ll be with you until the very end so/ shine on/ you were made to." How many exes can say that? For a singer/songwriter,...

Products have claims which consumers take for granted; sometimes we’ve even fallen for a gimmick. The Weekender staff is not one for being taken for granted. Recently, we gathered in a small room with our chemistry set in hand and - like a team of trained...

With the music industry pushing legal downloads, digital music services have offered a not so appealing alternative - programs that are not free. The iTunes program comes with the purchase of an iPod. iTunes allows users to search through over two million...

Although the airline thriller "Flightplan" hits theaters more than a month after the Wes Craven air-bound suspense film, "Red Eye," there are numerous themes and situations within the two plots too similar to be coincidental. Lacking a famed director...

Take an aspiring actress, a woman suffering from amnesia because of a car accident, a mysterious cowboy and a sudden, out-of-the-blue lesbian scene and what do you get? That’s right, you get a David Lynch movie. Lynch, whose past credits include the...

For a genre embraced for its forward thinking, Brit-rock bands sure age poorly. With the exception to Supergrass, other mid-’90s giants have fizzled with nary the rock ’n’ roll chops or smarmy Englishness the genre’s name implies. Oasis hasn’t...

In a university setting, diversity is key. At NIU, programs like the foreign exchange program allow students to broaden their view of the world without physically leaving the country. French instructor Perrine Delcour-Trinta contributes such diversity...