The DeKalb Police Department is gearing up for this weekend after a brawl erupted outside of the Dungeon early Saturday morning. Lt. Jim Kayes said his department is concerned about the security of Huskie Derby after-parties that will be held Friday and...

Manny Sanchez came to NIU as a brash young man in the 60s not knowing what to expect, but today he’s the one who sets the expectations. Sanchez is the first NIU undergraduate alumni to serve as chairman of the NIU Board of Trustees, and he also has...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., the NAACP chapter at NIU presents the 13th annual MLK March, "Empowering Minds Today, With a Message from Yesterday." The march will begin at 3:45 p.m. today in front of Stevenson North and will travel past the residence...

DuPage County State’s Attorney Joe Birkett expressed a few of his political complaints Wednesday night in a speech hosted by the College Republicans. Birkett spent much of his speech criticizing Gov. George Ryan’s blanket commutation. He spoke about...

Somebody tell The Strokes, The Vines, The Hives and The White Stripes to move over and make room for the newest band to sport the "the so-and-sos" band name, The Exies. On second thought, never mind; these guys aren't worth the hassle. The Exies' first...

Four years have passed since Common's last album, and he has returned with a funky, melodic new album, "Electric Circus." The album is filled with a compilation of songs unexpected by Common fans. He has expanded his musical flavor in new directions including...

After hearing both sides of the proposed wind farm project, the DeKalb County Planning and Regulations Committee voted in favor of passing the petition to the full DeKalb County Board meeting on Feb. 19. Six members showed their approval, while three...

Get this: A soon-to-be groom attends a bachelor party, wakes up the next morning only to find one of the stripper/dancers from his party in bed with him, and later discovers the dancer really is the cousin of his future bride. This is the rather weak...

If your team didn't make it to the Super Bowl this year, if you lost all your money betting on the playoff championship games and if John Madden's uncontrollable ability to point out the blatantly obvious is in rare form, you still can bet on wild Super...

All too often some of the best albums ever made are overlooked by the general public. MTV and the average radio station choose to play only what they think the listeners will buy into. Last spring, acid jazz trio Medeski, Martin and Wood released one...

The NIU School of Theatre and Dance will put on "A Man's a Man," an anti-war comedic musical drama that follows an ordinary man as he travels the path to moral corruption. -The man, a waterfront porter, got tricked into the British army and became a killing...

More than two years have passed since the last Harry Potter book, but "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" finally has been announced to go on sale June 21. The fifth installment of Harry Potter will be 255,000 words long; which makes it 1/3 longer...