Ana Castillo, acclaimed novelist, poet and short-story writer, spoke about race, sexuality and gender in the Jack Arends Visual Arts Building Tuesday night.Castillo's novel So Far From God and her poem-turned-novel, "Watercolor Women, Opaque Men," both...
DeKALB | Audiences have come to expect singer/songwriters to take the stage with an acoustic guitar or keyboard. Eliza Rickman prefers her toy piano.The California artist, who played at the House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway last night, purchased the...
The Association of International Educators (NAFSA) is accepting submissions for its Student Diplomat Video Contest. The contest is for college students who are currently or have recently returned from a study abroad experience.The videos, which should...
NIU released the 2011 Clery Act security report last week.The report offers crime statistics for the 2010 calendar year.According to the report, the NIU Police Department saw an increase in burglaries in 2010, with 19 cases. This is compared to 14 cases...
A brown paper tree, its rainbow-colored leaves decorated with the dreams and hopes of abuse survivors, was a focal point at Monday night's "Fallen Leaves Bring New Growth" domestic violence vigil. Self-expression through artwork like the paper tree and...
Yellow caution tape roped off part of The Junction parking lot on Monday as film crews prepared to film a scene in Ramin Bahrani's Heartland. The movie, starring Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid, began filming in DeKalb County in the summer. However, students...
Andy Ametti, owner and operator of Flappy's Pancake House, 1406 Sycamore Road, worked in the restaurant business all his life.Ametti, originally from Long Island, New York first started working in his family's restaurant."I started going to school as...
The LGBT Resource Center will host several events in October in honor of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) History Month.The first event, the You-Are-Loved-Chalk Message Project, took place Monday. Ryan Mishler, senior civic leadership...
Artists gathered for the fourth annual Art Walk, showing off several collections of artwork in different types of media.The Sycamore Art Attack hosted Saturday's event."The main goal is to get local people out to see what kind of great artists we have...
NIU will hold a depression screening from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Lincoln Room of the Holmes Student Center. NIU's Counseling and Student Development Center will host the screening in recognition of National Depression Screening Day. "It...
The following was taken directly from area police and fire department records, or from DeKalb County court records. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. Saturday At 1:07 a.m., DeKalb County Sheriff's deputies observed...
The following was taken from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. Friday At 2:30 a.m.,...
