All the Super Bowl hype - costly commercials and halftime controversy included - doesn’t mean a thing if a viewer can’t watch the show in a comfortable venue. Those not wanting to spend their Sunday night in the confines of their Lazy Boys and sofas...

Bob Dylan. Bruce Springsteen. Robert Smith. Morrissey. Jeff Tweedy. It’s time to add one more name to the list of poetic singers who can twist and turn words with flawless ease and wrap their lyrics around chord progressions that would leave Ryan Cabrera...

The NIU School of Theatre and Dance introduces two Molière plays to be performed over the next two weeks. "Tartuffe" is about a 17th-century con man who poses in clerical garb to mask his less-than-virtuous intentions regarding a wealthy aristocrat’s...

One senior art education major has given an artist’s touch to the pad she shares with her female friends. Rachel Aberle, a senior art education major, has prominently displayed some of her artwork around the house, including a set of six paintings of...

"That’s just my cowgirl alter-ego," hums Ani DiFranco on the title track of "Knuckle Down." The singer/songwriter and guitarist is back with more of her hippie attitude and dynamic talent. Her attitude shows the confidence present in her music. "Knuckle...

... And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead tries very hard to be edgy. Unfortunately, the group sounds less like a band expanding its horizons and more often like 20-somethings kicking and screaming, "Pay attention to our attitude!" The group’s fourth...

It's great to be Jim Cameron. His new film, "Aliens of the Deep," is less about any aliens of any deep, and more about himself and how much his marine biologist pals love their jobs. "Aliens" tries to celebrate these scientists and the strange creatures...

Straight out of Philly (but originally Ohio and more recently New York), John Stephens - aka John Legend - hits us with his highly anticipated album "Get Lifted." Stephens isn’t exactly new to the business. He’s had his hands on numerous other projects...

Remember the saying, "If a tree falls in the woods and there is no living creature to hear it, does it make a sound?" That is the most perplexing question in history. This week I went into the firing squad of mind-boggling questions when I joined NIU’s...

Law student Nate Himert is just one of many major league baseball fans counting down the 14 days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training. Himert, a Chicago White Sox fan, said he has certain criteria for a player to crack his top ten all-time...

For most people, having good taste is a plus. For Rebecca Smith, having good taste is a necessity. Smith, assistant director of Residential Dining, runs NIU’s test kitchen, which tests foods for eventual placement on residential dining hall menus. Smith...

On Thursday, the front page of this very newspaper trumpeted the arrival of thefacebook.com, the free online directory that connects students through social networks at colleges nationwide. However, the article failed to touch on the seedy underbelly...