For many country music fans in DeKalb, Valentine’s Day was special. On Thursday night, opener Thomas Rhett and award-winning artists Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert hit the Convocation Center stage and excited many loyal fans with their sold-out...
A fire at 339 Chauncey St. in Sycamore on Saturday night caused about $200,000 in damage, according to a Sunday news release from the Sycamore Fire Department. The department arrived on scene at 11:58 p.m. and had the fire under control within 45 minutes,...
The following was taken directly from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. Thursday At...
The Sam Hight Sextet will play 8 p.m. Mondays at the Holmes Student Center Diversions room. The sextet had a recent lineup change. The members of the Sam Hight Sextet are Bobby Cooper on trumpet, Andy Czarnecki on guitar, Sam Hight on alto saxophone,...
A Russian infantryman stands beneath a shelled-out building in war-torn Germany. The man begins to light a cigarette. There’s a muzzle flash, and in the blink of an eye a 7.92x57mm Mauser round fired from a Karabiner 98 German-engineered scoped rifle...
“If music be the food of love, play on.” - Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene I Music and love, love and music. How can I separate the two? If I’m being honest, I can’t and I do not ever want to. To me, they are one and the same. Throughout the years,...
In 2008, I was still in high school and was not yet a student at NIU. I did, however, live in Sycamore, and I had always loved NIU and Dekalb. On Feb. 14, I was on my way to the music building for a guitar lesson when I got a frantic call from my teacher...
A collection of items placed at the temporary memorial for the victims of the February 2008 shooting; shown here are items placed in remembrance of Ryanne Mace. Items placed at both the temporary and permanent memorial are routinely collected by the Regional...
A collection of items placed at the Cole Hall Memorial Garden in remembrance of the victims of the February 2008 shooting are now being stored in the Regional History Archives in the basement of Founders Memorial Library. The Regional History Center routinely collects items placed at the memorial to preserve them.
An old elevator descends. When the doors open, a rush of air blows in and the basement of the Founders Memorial Library is revealed. The basement contains archives of days gone by. Among all that history, many shelves--and an entire room--are filled with...
Aikido Club offers students techniques to diffuse tricky situations. This club teaches students the basics of the ancient Japanese martial art. The club meets regularly from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Chick Evans Field House. There is...
International photojournalist Gil Cohen-Magen came to NIU Wednesday to share his experiences covering conflicts in the Middle East. Cohen-Magen exclusively covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and worked for the multinational news agency Reuters from...
