Paintings hang on white walls in an unfinished garage with cracked concrete floors. Leaves and insects add decoration. "This place is just fun and funky," said Karen Brown about her garage-based Bad Dog Gallery. The assistant art professor at NIU has...

Though he officially worked in the art department at the Village Commons Bookstore, Uncle Bob held various positions in the store. "He called himself the store historian, and he was the fix-it guy," said Lee Blankenship, owner of the bookstore at 901...

For the uninitiated: Tortoise is a group of five Chicagoans that plays music that is a mixture of jazz, lounge, math rock and genres so obscure that I don't even know the names of them. They are in large part instrumental, bringing in vocals for the first...

It's 2004. Do you know where your Pantera is? Tuesday night, 25 percent of the iconic metal act was at Otto's Niteclub, 118 E. Lincoln Highway. Vocalist Phil Anselmo and his latest project, Superjoint Ritual, marched into DeKalb on 4/20, the most name-appropriate...

NIU speakers were awarded for their achievements at the annual American Forensics Association’s National Individual Events Tournament. The competition, which placed two NIU speakers in the top 13 of the nation and one as an All-American, was held at...

Phantom Planet came to DeKalb, and between bowling a few games in the Huskie Den, guitarist Darren Robinson talked with the Weekender — this is what he said. -Weekender: So, have you blogged anything yet today? Robinson: No, it's hard to get online...

The Barn dropped the lawsuit it had against the city about the amended liquor license ordinance. "We came to a mutual agreement," said Chris Gochis, son of the owner of The Barn. The Barn, 1215 Blackhawk Road, filed the lawsuit, which stated that the...

NIU hopes to motivate secretaries by recognizing them at the seventh annual Administrative Professionals’ Day at the Holmes Student Center’s Regency Room. Today, NIU External Programming of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is hosting a breakfast...

Class sizes in the College of Education have experienced steady growth over the past three years. Although class sections haven’t been cut, classes that normally hold 20 to 25 students lately have been holding 30 to 35 students, said Christine Sorensen,...

The Black Student Union held a meeting Tuesday evening to present candidates for the 2004-’05 executive board. DuJuan Smith, Student Association treasurer-elect, and Lonnie "Yogi" Pollard, a senior business management major, are running for BSU president....

NIU students and others will get the chance to meet and greet one of the bands of MTV’s Campus Invasion Tour on Thursday before they perform at the Convocation Center later that night. From noon to 3 p.m., one of the bands featured on the tour will...

In 1957, NIU opened its doors to the largest freshman class in its history. The university admitted 1,400 high school graduates - bringing the total enrollment to about 4,500 full-time students. Also, on Oct. 15, 1957, the Northern Star, then called the...