Usually, 16 days in Utah means that the Mormons are having a convention. But for NIU students, it means outdoor excitement. NIU's Outing Centre is having its end-of-the-semester trip to Utah, featuring more than two weeks of backpacking, climbing and...

On those hot, sticky summer days, sometimes there's nothing better than chillin' in an air-conditioned theater. Here's a brief list of some of this summer's offerings. For a more complete list, click here. "Spider-Man" - Opens Friday. The classic superhero...

Concert goers left the cold, wet and windy weather of DeKalb Sunday for the warm Caribbean breezes found at the Music Building's Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. NIU's Steel Band performed its annual concert for a packed crowd. Many of the selections played...

Skyrocketing budgets? Computer-animated mutants? A Jedi craves not these things. But George Lucas does. Managing once again to raise the bar for ridiculous production costs with the May 16 release of "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," the...

Forget about grade-school English classes or Hooked on Phonics. There was no better way to learn about adjectives, nouns and verbs than by doing Mad Libs. Since this is the final Weekender section of the semester, the M.O.O.S.E. decided to give you the...

Come next fall, one local band and NIU's communication department both will be missing one well-known member. Communication instructor Will Anderson will leave NIU after this summer to become a professor at Central Michigan University. He's been teaching...

When you work, you don't feel all right. No, you won't feel all right 'til you get a party goin'. I say we all start the summer in the spirit of Andrew W.K. - the spirit of dumb rock and greaseball party anthems. This guy, who I'm sure we'll all be thoroughly...

After the Beatles landed at New York's JFK Airport on Feb. 7, 1964, the world took notice and never was quite the same. John, Paul, George and Ringo served as an inspiration for a legion of kids and young adults who mimicked them by picking up an instrument,...

Tom Trimble spent many nights in a chair, rocking his new baby, who only would sleep while in someone's arms. Thinking about the sensation of falling when the first instant of unconsciousness hits combined with the responsibility of a life in his arms...

"Sometimes God just likes to put two guys in a paper gag and let them go at it." This line of dialogue perhaps sums up everything "Changing Lanes" (Paramount, R) is about and then some. Top-notch suspense teamed with overwhelmingly moving drama makes...

"[You] struggle to find your skin," Jeff Tweedy sang fittingly on "Can't Stand It" from Wilco's 1998 release "Summer Teeth." Wilco's current struggles in releasing "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (Nonesuch) are a tired and sad story for music makers everywhere:...

Optometrists beware. "Wood/Water," the latest release from The Promise Ring, is sure to send the emo community scrambling for the thickest prescription glasses in stock. The album features 12 emotive tracks with a subdued blend of rhythmic instrumentals...