“You want it. You got it ... for a limited time.” The enigmatic ad first appeared on this very page Sept. 27. It trumpeted “FREE FOOD,” such as a medium cheese pizza from Domino’s or a pepe sandwich from Jimmy John’s. All you had to do was...

“Welcome to the North,” may make you want to go south for the winter. The Music’s first release since its popular self-titled debut loses sight of itself as it grabs too far, too fast, trying to top its predecessor. Pop-ish melodies are littered...

If you want to see some junk in the trunk, there is no need to watch the newest Lil’ Jon video. The junk is closer than you know at Otto’s Niteclub, 118 E. Lincoln Highway, every Thursday night. For the next couple of weeks, Junk in the Trunk, a group...

Lonnie “Yogi - Da Jagaknot” Pollard and Anthony “Antidote” Currie are both seniors here at NIU who consider producing their mix-tape, “The Bright I.D.E.A. Mix-Tape Volume 1,” their greatest achievement thus far. Pollard is majoring in business...

Fresh out of high school, Raven-Symone is ready to break into the music industry with a new identity. “This Is My Time” is not her first album. She released “Here’s to New Dreams” at age 8 and, in 1999, released “Undeniable.” The entertainment...

A few weeks ago, English instructor Amy Newman visited the Barnes & Noble bookstore to read her newly published series of poems titled “Fall.” A crowd of about 50 NIU students, faculty and friends came to listen to Newman read sections from her...

Welcome back to another flavorful edition of Playback, homes. This week’s jam session comes from junior photojournalism major John Lykowski. Lykowski, a Glenview native, loves ’80s music and longs for Chicago. If he were to make a mix CD today, these...

From MTV to NIU, Cribs is in the house ... well, apartment. Throughout the semester, Sweeps will frunk out the funkiest fly facilities NIU students inhabit. Close to campus and next to the endlessly exciting birthplace of barbed wire, five upperclassmen...

“Frisbee Tournament at NIU!!!!!!!!” “House Party Tonight” “IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES” These are but a few of the subject headers you will find at the NIU Community at livejournal.com. LiveJournal is an online...

Every week before NIU football games, Sweeps will bring you the real matchups that matter, like which team mascot would win in a street fight. Despite a loss in the mascot battle last week, the real-life Huskies defeated the University of Central Florida...

Michael Stipe sang,”It’s the end of the world as we know it” in 1987. It wasn’t, but the 1992 masterpiece “Automatic For The People” should have been called “It’s the end of R.E.M. as we know it.” What happened to the favorite sons of...

Recently, I had a discussion with one of my favorite Chicago-area film critics. He was telling me how he had just arrived from the Toronto Film Festival and about all the fantastic films he saw there. He was able to sit and talk with filmmakers like “Sideways”...