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Weir: A haunting effort by School of Dance

By Jessica Cabe | January 30, 2012

Life is full of ghost stories.Some rely on fear, some on loss and others on regret. But if there is one lesson to be learned from the School of Theatre and Dance's production of Conor McPherson's The Weir, it is that all humans are haunted.The play is...

Making love through music

By Jessica Cabe | January 24, 2012

Playing jazz is a lot like having sex.It's a little bit intimidating the first time, but it's also one of the most exciting things you'll ever do, and everybody does it differently.Maybe this is what senior music education and jazz studies/performance...

‘Ceremonials’ no celebration

By Jessica Cabe | November 2, 2011

Florence + The Machine made waves last year with the success of "Dog Days Are Over" from their 2009 album Lungs. Fans and critics alike have been eagerly anticipating the band's follow-up effort. Will Florence Welch fall victim to the sophomore slump?...

The Associated Press - A computer screen displays a picture of
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs with the inscription 1955-2011 at an
Apple store in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Jobs, 56, died
Wednesday following a long battle against pancreatic cancer.

Steve jobs: businessman, inventor, visionary.

By Jessica Cabe | October 6, 2011

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was a visionary businessman who changed the way we communicate.He shaped the music industry and, arguably, saved it from complete collapse with the development of iTunes. He changed the way we surf the web with his handheld...

Film crews prepare to shoot a scene of Ramin Bahrani's Heartland
at The Junction, 816 W. Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb. The film stars Zac
Efron and Dennis Quaid.

Monday’s film shoot draws crowds to The Junction parking lot

By Melissa Mastrogiovanni | October 3, 2011

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...

(From left) Sandy (drums, vocals), Bambie (bass, vocals), Dee
Dee (guitar, vocals) and Jules (guitar, vocals) look smart as Dum
Dum Girls. Dee Dee, whose name is actually Kristin Gundred,
recorded the band's first album, I Will Be, by herself.

Dum Dum Girls don’t suck

By Jessica Cabe | September 27, 2011

   Try to envision a fusion between the hypnotizing layers of The Cure's Disintegration, the dreamy guitar tones of Smashing Pumpkins circa 1993 and the overall style of early 1960s pop rock. Throw in a little Blondie-inspired punk and you've got an...

Batter up: See how DeKalb’s flapjacks stack up

By Jessica Cabe | September 20, 2011

 A good pancake can change your entire day for the better, but a bad one can be a crippling disappointment on top of an already disastrous morning. In order to help the residents of DeKalb from experiencing said disappointment, I took it upon myself...

Lizzie G take ova

By Jessica Cabe | September 16, 2011

Breaking into the world of hip hop is no easy task, but senior composition major Elizabeth Elie, better known as Lizzie G, is up for the challenge. "I want to work extra hard to please everyone," emphasizing that her main goal is to get her music out...