For more than a year, Brenden Kisiel has owned and managed the Wild Rose Bistro, 850 D Pappas Drive. His vision of the ultimate dining and entertainment experience has gradually expanded. On top of a changing food and drink menu, the Wild Rose Bistro...

NIU has more than 10,000 anthropological artifacts in its storage space in the lower recesses of Cole Hall. NIU’s Anthropology Museum, located in Stevens Building’s north wing, is officially staffed by one person, Ann Wright-Parsons. The museum is...

Two words: John Candy. He’s at his comedic prime in this 1989 classic (as is the nine-year-old Macaulay Culkin) and doesn’t give us a boring moment. Candy plays a bachelor uncle named Buck who takes care of his brothers’ kids for a few weeks, and...

Normally on a Tuesday night in DeKalb, there is not much to do. Yet this week a band called Of Montreal came to town. The House Café, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, was filled to capacity for of one of Polyvinyl Record’s biggest acts. While the show was only...

Tonight at The House Café, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, there will be a show that both talent buyer John Ugolini and Troubled Hubble Bassist Andrew Lanthrum feel comfortable calling "a barn burner." The lineup of the show consists of five bands - Troubled...

Thank goodness for Nick Cannon. While playing the only focused character in this confused teen montage, he makes this drag-of-a-movie not entirely unbearable. He manages to carry this formulaic bungling of tired clichés, a predictable plot and a generally...

The other night I went out for a few drinks with some friends and my roommate told me to be home by a certain time for dinner because she was making some lasagna. But I think I may have spoiled my dinner by eating a little bit at the bar. Should I confess...

It would be hard to deny DeKalb’s animal population is a bit out of control, especially if one were to consider the inhabitants of a certain area often called "Greek Row." There are a large number of squirrels, ducks, geese and cats which all have their...

What conventional wisdom says to a major label is the beginning of the end for bands just below the commercial-radio radar. Sign on the dotted line, and watch creative freedom drift to the wayside like a woman’s scarf in a 1940's film, waving goodbye...

Ah, childhood. Staying out until the street lights come on. Bathing every three days. Playing tag with the entire neighborhood. But if anything, the one element that stood out among the rest was playing board games. Chutes and Ladders. Candyland. Monopoly...

"Ahoj!," "Guten Tag!" and "Goedemorgen!" are foreign phrases many Americans mark off as oddities of international tongue. For associate history professor Nancy Wingfield, these words bring back fond memories of European excursions. The innovative professor...

Of Montreal will play The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, tonight at 8 p.m., but the Northern Star asked guitarist and singer Kevin Barnes a few questions before he hit the stage. Northern Star: You just got back from Canada. Tell us a bit about that....