Released in May 1992, Pavement's master stroke "Slanted and Enchanted," an album of treble-charged, smart-alec sub pop from five guys living in five different locales, seemingly came from out of nowhere, and Matador records is celebrating the passing...

Welcome to Detroit, a city whose trailer parks are littered with hot female supermodels ready to age into old, tired, trashy ex-supermodel mothers. Not to worry, though. All the women have a superstar rapper in the making on every corner. Jimmy Smith...

One band used to live here. One band will tour Japan. One band lives in Iowa. All three rock bands have one thing in common: They rocked one stage Wednesday night. DeKalb's indie scene emerged late Wednesday night, supporting the formerly-local Bicycle...

The Northern Leadership Institute seeks nominations for student leaders to attend the third annual spring institute on March 26, 2003. "NLI is a group of students from various organizations that had made a commitment to work together to improve leadership...

Former Miss Arizona Stacey Kole has demonstrated the courage walk on a stage in front of a nation. On Wednesday night at the Carl Sandburg Auditorium, she used that same courage to tell more than 70 NIU students about her fight with an eating disorder....

Raoul Contreras believes in peace, and he will speak about it at 7:30 p.m. today at the Holmes Student Center’s Heritage Room. As a professor of Latino Studies at Indiana University Northwest, Contreras also works as a political activist. The Chicago...

A new anthology of World War I poetry edited by Mark Van Wienen, an associate English professor at NIU, may be a useful tool for teaching students about war in the early 1900s. The book, "Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War," includes...

Mops, churches and fire ... who knew? Apparently, the mops used to spread tar on the roof of the First United Methodist Church, 321 Oak St., started the roof fire Saturday. hree days after the fire, the DeKalb Fire Department determined the cotton mops,...

Residents of Greek Row soon may see changes in public safety and lighting. Landlords and property owners of Greek Row met Tuesday to discuss the Greek Row Revitalization Plan. Public safety was the main issue for most who attended the meeting. One improvement...

"So y’all wanna know about ‘The Real World’ and all that stuff, huh?" asked the grungy-styled, red-headed Aneesa. The 21-year-old Aneesa Ferreira, from MTV’s "The Real World: Chicago" spoke to about 800 NIU students Tuesday night at the Holmes...

Gender Communication Differences, presented by Mary Kaner at Blackhawk East at the Holmes Student Center on Tuesday, focused on the fact that men and women communicate differently. The program offered tips on how to avoid pitfalls that many people fall...

Who wouldn’t love clear skin, a stress-reliever and a confidence boost all rolled into one? Tony Glaudel, owner of Ultra Tan, 1023 W. Hillcrest Drive, said people can get all this at a tanning salon. However, tanning in a tanning bed can be risky. Skin...