DeKALB | Father John Corapi’s Sunday appearance at the Convocation Center has been cancelled. According to a press release, Corapi, who was scheduled to speak for a fundraiser through Catholic Charities, has been placed on administrative leave from...

I have been known to steal. Technology has made it easy to obtain music. In a few keystrokes and mouse clicks, I can download a band's entire discography, and they will never see a cent. As a musician, participating in what has become a culturally-acceptable...

I've got March madness. While I don't follow college basketball, this month still has so much to offer someone like me. The next 24 days are jam-packed with enough awesome concerts and events to keep me plenty excited to stick around DeKalb and take it...

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards are this Sunday. The DeKalb Scene staff is used to giving you its take on local entertainment, but here are some of our writers' predictions and hopes for how things go down on Hollywood’s biggest night. CONNOR RICE DeKALB...

"How can a girl with so many lovers be so unlovable?" The protagonist of "One Foot In and One Foot Back" must ask this question of herself in the newest School of Theatre and Dance Third Onion production. The one-act play, written by senior theatre major...

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...

I never thought that changing my major would allow me to meet my heroes. In the coming months, I will be interviewing Henry Rollins for the Northern Star. Rollins, who was the volatile frontman for the legendary punk band Black Flag, has provided me with...

DeKALB | Famous jazz musician Wycliffe Gordon will join the NIU Jazz Ensemble tonight at a performance in the Duke Ellington Ballroom. Gordon has performed on such television channels as BET and PBS, and appeared in the Ken Burn's documentary "Jazz,"...