Get down with your bad self, and get freaky in DeKalb this weekend. The third annual Freakalb festival will take start at 7 p.m. Thursday and continued at 7 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. Tickets are $12 at...
About 15 bicyclists rode the streets on campus Sept. 21 to draw attention to the need for bike lanes. The bike ride, called Courteous Mass, was organized by word of mouth by members of the NIU Green Paws Environmental Alliance and the NIU Cycling Club....
For the love of the DeKalb punk rock music scene, stick around this weekend. Local musicians have collaborated on a compilation album, DeKalb Brawl City, which will be available at the release show 5 p.m. Sunday at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway....
Music has been called the universal language, but there are certainly many different dialects. Mathew Tembo’s World Music Celebration gives people the opportunity to experience different cultures through musical performance. Tembo, a Zambian musician...
Student life can be hectic, especially in the first few weeks of the semester. There are financial aid problems to straighten out, dorm room or apartment supplies to be bought and textbooks to be ordered for $8 from shady websites. It seems as though...
No, it’s not a showing of the gritty Vietnam-era film your dad always wants to watch with you during Christmas break. And no, it isn’t an Atlanta-based experimental noise band. It’s an alternative rock band from Rhode Island with a predilection...
Glasgow, Scotland to DeKalb, Illinois: a road not commonly travelled. Scottish rock group We Were Promised Jetpacks jetted through DeKalb Thursday for one brief night filled with frantic riffs and cascading walls of distortion at the House Cafe, 263 E....
Tis the season of giving at the 42nd annual Country Music Show Toy Drive Sunday.From 1:30 to 5:00 p.m., the House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, will hold a toy drive for the Salvation Army, 830 Grove St. The Salvation Army distributes the toys to children...
I have a confession to make. I haven't always loved my home, my birthplace -- Illinois. Without boring you with the details, I've been to far and away places and have seen some amazing sights. So when I eventually came back to the land of the corn, I...
The world don't stop for Thanksgiving. Even with the half-week break soon upon us, DeKalb will still be swinging with local events. If you're sticking around for as long as you can or coming back a little early, make sure to keep yourself enthused with...
"This is like velociraptor capitalism, like ‘eat-everything-in-your-path capitalism,'" said Sycamore resident Hannah Dwyer.Local economic justice activist groups gathered Thursday at The House Café, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, in hopes of obtaining petition...
Cauz ‘N' Effx is a study in cause and effect. Artists as varied as Led Zeppelin and Tech N9ne were the catalysts for the musicians of the Aurora-based quartet to start meshing their respective styles. The result has been years of collaboration between...
