When NIU Forensics found out the Illinois Congressional Debate Association didn’t have a place to hold its state championship forensics tournament this weekend, the group seized the opportunity to host the event for high school students. Nicole Carreno,...

NIU’s chapter of the American Choral Directors Association will sponsor a student production of "Li’l Abner" this weekend at Kishwaukee College. Jon Dolieslager, a vocal music education major and director of the play, said the production of "Li’l...

The 1960s were a time of change - a time that crowned crooks out of kings and drafted a generation of young men to war in the dense jungles of Vietnam. Prior to the Kennedy assassination and Richard Nixon backlash, NIU was relatively unscathed by any...

Benny Gomes scribbles notes during a rendition of "Steam Heat" in the dust-filled O'Connell Theatre. Once the dancers come to a halt and the house lights come up, Gomes leans over my shoulder. -"You'll need at least three more cues there," he says. As...

"Kill Bill Vol. II" is an exercise in setup, while "Kill Bill Vol. I" was an exercise in payoff. After 90 minutes of such payoff with no setup, the audience is left exhausted. After two hours and 20 minutes of the backstory, we finally leave satisfied....

Bubba the Amazing Alligator, who measures in at 7-foot-2 and weighs 226 pounds, has been spending his time in the limelight. He has been seen with Oprah, he has been on the "Today Show" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," he has received a kiss from...

Hello, class. Welcome to action filmmaking 101. Today, we'll learn how to spend a few million bucks with little to show except two hours of head punches, bloody stabbings and car-flipping explosions. Now, for the sake of teaching stereotypical, clichéd...

Rock 4 Life, Public Relations Student Society of America's annual charity concert to benefit the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois, will hit Otto's Niteclub, 118 E. Lincoln Highway. Doors will open at 8 p.m. today, and bands will begin an hour later....

Why Britney? Why? We had a good thing going. Every four months you release a video that makes acting like a slut a female empowerment issue and I don't stalk you relentlessly. "Everytime," or as I like to call it "Every time I think about you, I kill...

Lostprophets, comes to the Convocation Center with the MTV Campus Invasion tour today. When the Weekender chatted it up with guitarist Lee Gaze, this is what he had to say about the band's current tour and its release "Start Something." -Weekender: How...

Thank God for Franz Ferdinand and its self-titled debut. Bands such as Hot Hot Heat, IMA Robot, The Rapture and The Sounds are just a few of the influx of acts with obvious roots in seminal new-wave acts The Smiths and The Cure. -But when The Darkness...

NIU accountancy faculty and students have been holding a fundraiser for the past two weeks to benefit the Brian Deets Memorial Scholarship Fund, said Scott Michelau, president of NIU’s Beta Alpha Psi, a professional fraternity for financial information...