Mild weather and blooming flowers make April and May perfect months to get married or propose to a loved one. During these two months last year, DeKalb County issued 95 marriage licenses. Throughout June and July they issued 142. Considering April and...

"Beauty Shop" is as disappointing as a bad perm. Queen Latifah stars as Gina (whose introduction in "Barbershop 2: Back in Business" now seems solely made for the spin-off), who has relocated from Chicago to Atlanta to further her daughter Vanessa’s...

Since this past summer, DeKalb has hosted its own arcade, owned and operated by Pat O’Malley, a veteran of arcades for 20 years. The Star Worlds Arcade is located on East Lincoln Highway between Simmons and Evans Avenue. The arcade includes a "Vintage...

Quote whores. Cheerleaders. Sell-outs. Kiss ups. Free loaders. The 60-plus print journalists at "The Amityville Horror" press junket have been called all of these names. But for the first time, I was one of them. MGM Studios offered to fly me to Los Angeles,...

If the third time really is the charm, the boys of Lifehouse just got lucky. Finally surpassing the dreadful comparison to Matchbox Twenty and Vertical Horizon, Lifehouse has moved on to a more serene maturity on its self-titled third album. Singer/songwriter...

During the first week of March, Weekender called out to NIU students and area locals with altered cars. The ad challenged car enthusiasts to put their cars where their mouths are and allow the section to showcase all those neon lights, buzzers and whizzy...

Marc Turnes can sometimes be swayed to root for the bad guy in the ongoing battle between good and evil. Turnes, a computer science major, said a superior film villain should be held in high esteem. "A good villain is calculating, intelligent and demands...

Eric Johnson is a man of many titles and not of the WWE variation. Johnson, a senior public administration major, serves as student trustee and is a member of the DeKalb County Board. He could hardly have imagined being so involved with the community...

Despite an offseason of steroid talk, Sweeps still embraces Whitman’s love and respect for the game of baseball. However, some fans of the game are more blessed than others, paticularly those who get to follow winning teams. Sweeps asked these students...

Every two weeks, Sweeps will take a look back at NIU decade by decade. This is in no way a rip-off of that VH1 series we’ve never seen and certainly never bought the DVDs of. In two weeks, we will remember the future in "NIU loves the 2010s." Just kidding....

Do we need another rock band emphasizing dance beats in its music these days? With Franz Ferdinand and The Killers enjoying success by exposing the nation’s inner desire to bust a groove, the gimmick seems to be approaching exhaustion. Bloc Party arrives...

Growing up in my neighborhood, the greatest day was when someone purchased a new refrigerator. When that Maytag truck pulled up at a home, kids could be seen gazing out their living room windows in excitement. We knew once the unpacking had finished,...