It smells like platinum sales for Courtney Love and the surviving members of Nirvana - Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. Love reached an agreement with Vivendi Universal Music Group allowing for the release of a Nirvana compilation album, a box set and...

Hip-hop is alive and well, thriving wildly in one of the most obscure places - downtown DeKalb. Cast against a dimly-lit atmosphere, poets, lyricists, dancers and rappers performed to a full crowd last Sunday night at The House, 263 E. Lincoln Highway....

ou’re in good hands with Matt Mangum. At least, your workout program is. In his second full year as NIU’s strength and conditioning coach, Mangum designs, implements and oversees workout programs for all of NIU’s nearly 350 athletes. "The most important...

The scariest stories are those that deal with human nature and what happens when that nature gets the best of us. "Red Dragon" (Universal, R), based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, is a story of transformation. Just as a caterpillar can...

Being on campus, a lot of freestyling can be heard in the strangest places - in front of DuSable Hall, Grant Towers' elevators and even public bathrooms. Well, here's a challenge for all you rappers/artists. Henkel Consumer Adhesives Inc., makers of the...

Blue, white and red are the three colors of France's national flag. The blue stands for liberty, the white for equality and the red for fraternity. These words inspired the colors, in turn inspiring Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski to direct his "Three...

NIU President John Peters got the University Council meeting in progress Wednesday by expressing his reaction to the Oct. 3 State of the University Address. "My belief was that when the clouds were gathering, I realized what an amazing vitality that this...

As students in black, maroon, brown, green and gray business suits looked for success, recruiters checked for potential. The Career Planning and Placement Center’s Fall Job Fair was held Wednesday at the Convocation Center. More than 120 employers attended...

Hip-hop group Nappy Roots is coming to DeKalb. The group will perform for the first time in DeKalb at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5th, at the Holmes Student Center's Duke Ellington Ballroom. The Nappy Roots' major debut album "Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz"...

Fareed Haque, a jazz and classical guitarist and NIU guitar and jazz music professor, will perform at 8 p.m. today at the Music Building’s Recital Hall. He has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, accompanying artists like Nigel Kennedy,...

"SpongeBob Squarepants" is a cable-network monster, an oddity in trousers that has clawed deep into Nielsen ratings, stomping on smaller, weaker cartoons along the way. Kids across America wear SpongeBob T-shirts buy SpongeBob hats and brush with SpongeBob...

Graphic designer and NIU alumnus Michael McMillan encouraged students to "think outside the box" in his presentation Wednesday afternoon. "McMillan is a very successful graphic designer who runs his own firm and has worked for huge multi-national clients,"...