Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. A penny saved is a penny earned. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. While recording "Room On Fire," The Strokes' maxim of choice was: If it's not broke, don't fix it. In keeping so, the group recorded one...

Hollywood is nothing if not practical. Well, actually that's not true at all. It's probably the least practical place on the planet. Witness the success of the waste of space that is Ashton Kutcher or how anything starring Angelina Jolie or Kevin Costner...

What else would the Weekender do? We sent an idiot in a Winnie the Pooh costume to really important peoples' houses to rate their candy. How did the prominent NIU figures fare? Student Association Trustee Kevin Miller wasn't home. His roommate, however,...

Apple pie, baseball and John Wayne — just a few things muster up strong feelings of the heartland. Last Thursday, in the guise of the North Mississippi Allstars (NMAS), Otto's Niteclub, 118 E. Lincoln Highway, featured the final member of the patriotic...

Although the word “meningitis” isn’t that common at NIU, prevention of the disease is something health officials take seriously. The deadly disease is an infection of the fluid that surrounds a person’s spinal cord and brain, said Julie Robertson,...

The Midwest Asian-American Students Union is providing students with the opportunity to become better leaders annual. NIU will host this year’s MAASU fall leadership retreat. Sponsored by the Presidential Task Force on Asian Americans and the Student...

Recently, the Weekender was able to take a time-out with Robert Randolph of Robert Randolph and the Family Band. We spoke about the band, how fans perceive the band and just who Robert Randolph is away from the music. Weekender: Why Northern Illinois...

Where have you gone, Vanilla Ice? A nation now turns its hopeless eyes to you. Once a proud nation of party-rap lovers, we are now jaded to the latest wave of derivative hip-hop that all sounds suspiciously like Tupac. And it's sad that hip-hop, a potentially...

This is the paragraph where I'm supposed to write some cliché like, "The Oscar race has finally begun" or "It's time to start thinking about Oscars!" These whorish quotes have been smeared all over advertisements for "The Human Stain," causing many to...

"It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you without a strong rhyme to step to." From the first track on, the beats and lyrics are reminiscent of shell-top Adidas and the old-school hip-hop sounds of the '80s. -The lyrical flow sounds similar to...

The showing of "By Hook or By Crook," a ground-breaking film pushing issues like gender-identity and mental illness, left viewers mesmerized Tuesday night. The three dozen viewers gathered in Jack Arends Hall seemed intensely fascinated, openly sighing...

Finally, it's over. The trilogy has come to an end and the puzzles of "The Matrix" have reached their winding conclusion. Like a vacating president, we're left to argue the legacy the films will leave behind. "The Matrix: Revolutions" begins where "Reloaded"...