Country artists Chase Rice, Brett Eldredge and Billy Currington brought their A game to the We Are Tonight tour Thursday at the Convocation Center.Rice, an artist who blends pop beats and bass lines with country melodies and lyrics, opened the show. He...

Everette Benton, sophomore jazz studies major, had to plan how he would prepare for today’s Jazz Lab Band show.Benton listens to the tracks on his iPod whenever he has free time so he will feel more comfortable with his music when he performs.The Jazz...

DeKalb | Featuring a faculty guest soloist at a School of Music concert is common; but it’s rare when a concert features a student as the highlighted soloist.The Wind Ensemble performs 8 p.m. Thursday in the Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert...

When it comes to starting a band or learning an instrument, musicians from the School of Music have good insight.Guitar, amps, stringsUndergraduate jazz guitar students Brian Quinlan and Andy Czarnecki have their own preferences for guitars, strings and...

DeKalb and Sycamore public libraries are teaming up to build and donate books and bookcases for low-income families.The libraries will host the third annual Bookcase Project banquet 6 p.m. Thursday at DeKalb High School, 501 W. Dresser Road. The banquet...

Four concerto competition winners will perform original and renditions of compositions today, showing off their winning material and talents.The NIU Philharmonic will perform its first concert of the spring semester 7 p.m. today in the Music Building’s...

DeKalb | The Anthropology Department’s exhibit exposes viewers to the truth about the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.Fragments: Haiti Four Years After the Earthquake premiered Friday and will be displayed through May at the Cole Hall Anthropology...

1. “First Love” by James Patterson and Emily Raymond“First Love” is the story of good girl Axi Moore and her experiences with first love with her best friend, Robinson.Axi convinces Robinson to break all the rules and accompany her on an unplanned...

NIU alumna Gabrielle Walsh stars in "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones," which hit theaters Jan. 3.Walsh plays Marisol in the horror film. She received an acting degree from NIU and credits some of her success as an actress to her education in the...

On Nov. 26, employees and volunteers of the DeKalb and Sycamore Police Departments visited the towns of East Peoria and Washington, Ill., where tornadoes destroyed more than 1,000 homes and left one dead and many injured Nov. 17.The tornado disaster relief...

Students raised about $34,761 fundraising for charity in an eight-hour dance marathon.The first annual NIU Dance Marathon for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals was held for eight hours Saturday at the Recreation Center. Dance Marathon is a movement...