Jude Law’s devilishly charming good looks are entertaining, but they can’t save this film. “Alfie,” directed by Charles Shyer, is a remake of Lewis Gilbert’s 1966 film starring Michael Caine. A cockney womanizer, Alfie (Law) has to learn the...

Before Incubus graces the Convocation Center’s stage with its presence tomorrow night, The Music will warm up the crowd with its blend of guitar riffs and dance grooves. The four-member band from Leeds, U.K. is on tour supporting its sophomore release,...

Welcome to another amazing edition of the one-and-only Playback. This week’s dream compilation comes from Dan Nikolov, a junior mechanical engineering major. The Batavia native says his best concert experience was when he saw his two favorite bands...

A matchup for the ages will be transmitted on ESPN2 at 6:35 p.m. today from Huskie Stadium. The contest between the NIU Huskies and the Toledo Rockets is a huge event, with the MAC West conference title belonging to NIU if it wins. The Rockets have won...

From MTV to NIU, Cribs is in the house ... well, residence hall. Throughout the semester, Sweeps will delve into the dopest domiciles NIU students inhabit. This week, we visit the the oh-so-eclectic pad of two NIU students. What do the Chicago Bears,...

It is your hope of hopes, your dream of dreams. It is the job you have been salivating over ever since “Career Day” in kindergarten. It is your dream job. From time to time, Sweeps will delve into what it takes to be an astronaut, fashion model, CIA...

R. Kelly and Jay-Z are back ... again, with their collaborative album, “Unfinished Business.” In 2002, the pair made their first joint attempt, “The Best of Both Worlds,” which flopped - and the tour was canceled. R. Kelly faced rape charges that...

The Sahara Hotnights are what The Go-Go’s would have sounded like if they had rocked as hard as they partied. Not that the four Hotnights are nymphomaniacal drug addicts. They just know how to write catchy pop gems while playing the role of femme fatales...

Remember those horrible images of cafeterias that you had when you were younger? You’d picture yourself standing in a mile-long line waiting for a bitter, stone-faced woman to slap a spoonful of unidentifiable gumbo onto a tray and shove it in your...

The holiday comedy “Surviving Christmas” opens with a montage of people miserable at Christmastime, including a grotesque scene of an old woman sticking her head in an oven. And the movie doesn’t get much better from there. “Surviving Christmas”...

In the past few weeks I have learned two things: A singer would dare to lip-sync on “live” television, and horse slaughtering is a delicate and unfunny subject. This week, I tried my hand at saving horses from slaughter by joining the National Student...

You’re tired, cranky and you really have a hankering for some Canadian bacon. What’s happening? It seems you’ve come down with a case of the “Lost Election Blues.” You stayed up all night Tuesday huddled in the warm glow of your television -...