112’s new single, "You Already Know," has been a good hit. It is considered one of the hottest songs out right now and one of their best since "Peaches and Cream." More than likely, their new album "Pleasure and Pain" will be a success due to the single....

Destroying everything around them and piecing it back together in a meticulous fashion involving rock, pop and punk elements of style, Troubled Hubble have created a masterpiece that defies the Indie rock label. While brothers Andrew and Nate Lanthrum...

Caesars 2003 debut, "39 Minutes Of Bliss (In an otherwise Meaningless Universe)" was a well-crafted exploration of mod culture. Yet, between the sharp guitars and snotty vocals was an organ-driven, dance-happy track tucked four songs into the record that...

"xXx: State of the Union" features opening credits that hint at the plot much like the old James Bond picturesque credits. But don’t look for meaning in this 007-wannabe - it’s about as well crafted as 2002’s "Die Another Day." And wouldn’t you...

Comics aren’t literature the way novels are, nor are they collections of drawings the way an art portfolio is. Comics are not even a simple combination of the two in the way a children’s book is laid out. Comics are their own beast because they have...

What would a first time President of the United States have to do to get impeached almost immediately after taking office? I’m not sure why a person would be concerned with such an issue, but I’ll try my best. The president would have to first order...

Don’t panic. After many poor novel-to-movie adaptations, the most recent being "Sahara," Hollywood seems to be getting it right for a change. With Robert Rodriguez’s dead-on adaptation of "Sin City" burning through the box office, Garth Jennings’...

Three and a half years ago, I was just a guy sitting in a bar, telling a Northern Star reporter how great it would be to write about movies for Weekender. As of today, I’ve reviewed more than 75 films, been to a junket in Los Angeles and interviewed...

More than 125 years of newspaper history sits within the walls of the Nehring Center Gallery, which is part of the "Art in Newspapers" event. Proposed by Midweek managing editor Josh Albrect, "Art in Newspapers" focuses on the publication history of local...

Inside the unassuming Centre Place apartment building on Lucinda Avenue is the sophisticated pad of newlyweds Brandon and Amber Wirtz. Entering the living space of Brandon, a senior family and child studies major, and Amber, a junior child development...

Robert Schneider, NIU theater professor and author of "Did I Promise You Moliere?" and "The Flaubert Project," introduced a new layer of the theater department in the spring of 2005. "The Third Onion is a medium for students to produce a play they’ve...