DeKALB | A storm will hit DeKalb tonight. Gaelic Storm will perform at 8 p.m. at The Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St. Tickets range from $30-37. The folk rock group has been playing across America for the last 15 years. In 1997, they appeared as a...
DeKALB | Roll out the green carpet. "Black and Yellow" rapper Wiz Khalifa will perform at the Convocation Center at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13 as part of the Campus Consciousness Green Carpet Tour 2011. "Pretty Polly Productions out of Massachusetts...
DeKALB | If you’re not going home this weekend, celebrating Valentine’s Day early or questioning your existence during the Grammy awards, there’s plenty to do in DeKalb. Here’s a list of the choice events going on in town this weekend: What: The...
In the same shelves that hold literary classics and timeless textbooks, there is an entry that is curious: Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Season 2. On the first floor of the Founder's Memorial Library, right behind the escalators, are rows and rows of DVDs that...
DEKALB | If you’re a sailor peg and you’ve lost your leg, you don’t have to ship out to Boston to find it -- DeKalb has you covered. Red Rebel County, a Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly tribute band, will play at 9 p.m. Saturday at Otto’s Nightclub,...
The building at 1215 Blackhawk Drive appears to be vacant. The spot, previously occupied by bars Reilly's and Tequila Roadhouse, is desolate. Notes are stuck to the door, demanding equipment inside not to be removed. A sign for Chicago Real Estate hangs...
Even if your CD collection is filled with NOW! That's What I Call Music albums and local music really isn't your thing, DeKalb still has plenty to entertain you with during the Winter. This semester, you can hear poetry, look at art, catch a play and...
DeKALB | The season of giving is starting early in DeKalb. NIU alumna Tamara Lyon will be giving away copies of her first book, Falling to Him while in town to promote her new book The Ugly Tree at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11 at Moxie, 230 E. Lincoln...
The past two years have been good to DeKalb band Legend Haz It. The sextet, fronted by MC Keith "Legend Mane" Winford, has gone from playing house parties in town to venues in Chicago. Last year, the group won a contest and opened-up for T-Pain and Yung...
You're loosening your pants. The tryptophan is kicking in and those candied yams are putting you in a coma. There's your family arguing over what year they vacationed to Niagara Falls. And oh, here's grandpa, talking your ear off about the merits of the...
Staple gun Russian roulette.As mentalist Christopher Carter performed his show in the Duke Ellington Ballroom Monday night, there was this bizarre feeling of fear.Either he was going to get hurt, or he wasn’t.Of course, it’s an act. A dude isn’t...
They just want to make you dance. Rock Candy, a Chicago-based contemporary cover band, will play tonight at 10 p.m. at Starbusters, 930 Pappas Drive. Fronted by lead singer Molly Pop, who appeared in "Dirty Dancing: The Musical," Rock Candy is a quintet...
