Aspiring filmmakers must hurry and get their submissions in for the NIU Reality Bytes Film Festival. The deadline for entries is Feb. 15 and must be turned in to Laura Vazquez, the festival coordinator and media production professor, at Watson Hall, Room...

Oh, welcome back Mr. Corgan, and I'm not referring to his absence since the last Smashing Pumpkins album, "Machina: The Machines of God" I'm talking about his absence since "Pisces Iscariot," the Pumpkins' last pure rock 'n' roll album. Between "Pisces...

A water main broke Wednesday morning on the west side of the Holmes Student Center, making it impossible for buses to use the turnaround. The water main broke around 7 or 8 a.m. "This is normal for this time of year," said Bob Albanese, associate vice...

With Sister Hazel's new song, "Your Mistake," making its rounds on the airwaves, its new CD, "Chasing Daylight," manages to crank a couple other good tracks for those willing to cough up the dough. There's a definite trend toward love songs on the CD,...

Sixty-eight million dollars bought a piece of my childhood - and I want it back. Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, known to most Chicagoans as Weasel, sold Comiskey Park's name to U.S. Cellular for $68 million. It must be easy selling the name...

Watch out "Kangaroo Jack," "Darkness Falls" might have you beat for the worst movie of the year. The Tooth Fairy is a real person. Matilda Dixon lived in the town Darkness Falls some 150 years ago, handing out cookies to kids in return for teeth. When...

A legend in both civil rights and American history spoke to a diverse crowd Wednesday night at the Holmes Student Center’s Carl Sandburg Auditorium. Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, spoke for two hours to a multi-racial, enthusiastic...

After an unlawful and humiliating arrest, Bryonn Bain speaks up about the prejudices that still exist today with his story "Walking While Black." Bain is a Harvard Law School student who, along with his cousin and younger brother, was wrongfully accused...

New information about the effect airplanes have on the atmosphere is coming to light. David Travis, a professor from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, will give a speech titled "Jet Contails and Climate: Information Gained from the Grounding of...

Originality is left behind with Jonasay's "Spare Dimes For Dust." Jonasay is a group of four men from Washington, D.C., that comes together to make music that doesn't quite fit an exact genre. Some call it folk rock, others call it pop rock. For the most...

Student Association President Kevin Miller appointed SA Senator Andrew Nelms the interim elections commissioner, which according to Brooke Robinson, SA director of public affairs, is not a conflict of interest. The elections commissioner is an executive...

Gary Colabuono loves his job more than any sane person has a right to. Colabuono, an NIU alumnus and former Northern Star employee in the ’70s, is in charge of marketing one of the most popular arcade video games in the country. He does so as marketing...