Picture this: The film "Dad" is playing in the DeKalb area and was skillfully directed by a protege of Steven Spielberg. It contains top-notch performances from the well-balanced cast of Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson and Olympia Dukakis. "Where does the line...

A major brewing company will sponsor a memorial scholarship fund for the children of American military veterans. The 1990 Coors Veterans' Memorial Scholarship Fund will award $500,000 in scholarships to a minimum of 100 sons and daughters of American...

One week from today we'll all be patting our ballooned tummies and saying, "Oh, I'm stuffed...pass the pumpkin pie, Aunt Bertha. Yeah, the whipped cream too." It's that time of year again. Thanksgiving and the ensuing holiday season conjure up many meanings,...

NIU graduate Peter Krysik currently is involved with a hot little telephone number called "It's Chgo" (312-487-2446). "It's Chgo" is an entertainment hotline that informs people of such leisure opportunities as restaurants, nightclubs, hotels, theaters,...

As the holiday season draws near, two DeKalb groups are planning events to benefit the soul and the body. McCabe's is continuing its Christmas Day dinner tradition which began in 1982. McCabe's owner Glen Goering said about 10 percent of NIU's students...

Facts and fallacies are a facet of every life. However, false statements aren't nearly as devastating for some people as they are for learning disabled people. Learning disabled people have lived with many uncomplimentary stereotypes for years. These...

With her new album, in many ways Joan Baez has come full circle. When the "folk scene" was blossoming in the mid-fifties, Baez was there playing the local coffeehouses of Boston. Her political activism was also beginning. She left the Boston University...

While browsing through the shelves of videos at the local video store my mind was whirling as to what video I felt like urging everyone to see. I walked past all the old favorites like "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind." Boy, that's when movies...

The semester is coming to an end and as a result students are looking forward to the holidays, family gatherings, no tests or papers and for a few, suicide. Across the country, 10,000 college students attempt suicide each year with 1,000 students succeeding...

I am beginning to think of myself as a naive believer in justice. Why, you might ask. Well, let me tell you. It all began when... (fade into blurred dream-type sequence...) my family and I went out for dinner on my dad's birthday. Scene: a crowded restaurant....

It was supposed to be part of a celebration. NIU freshman Michael W. Tubbs, 18, was flying his Cessna 172 plane to DeKalb Tuesday to take four friends, one of whom was celebrating a birthday, for a ride. However, barely two miles southeast of his takeoff...

For years, operas have been associated with overweight women in armor and pigtails, boisterously singing in Italian and boring audiences everywhere. Not true. The Minnesota Opera plans to dispel that myth on Friday, Nov. 17, with their production of Giacomo...