The following needs to be prefaced with a "spoiler alert," so if anyone hasn't watched everything up until the end of season 4 of Dexter, they should stop right here. Dexter is the most criminally (see what I did there?) overrated show on television....

Today at 6 p.m., the NIU Art Museum will have a curator's talk with Catherine Raymond in Altgeld Hall for the Legacy in Lacquer: A Living Art From Burma show. The show, in the North Gallery, has an selection of Burmese art of all shapes, sizes and eras,...

Middlewest Fest is upon us. However, the plight of the over 21 attendee is often overlooked. With so much to do and so much to see, let's boil it down and find out where your time is best spent this weekend. Not all the best shows are 21+, but for the...

Score: 4/5 Sufjan Stevens is not a genius. Let's start off this review with that right away. He is a great songwriter, in fact possibly one of the best in the "indie-rock" game. His ambitious concept albums gained him a ton of publicity, and his other...

It seems like trailers for TV shows and movies have become more buzzworthy than the actual product itself. What better way to promote an upcoming program by throwing together a couple minutes-worth of grade-A moments from the show? At Comic-Con 2010,...

Passion Pit, best known for their hit single, "Sleepyhead", are making their way to NIU's Convocation Center Oct. 21. Passion Pit has opened up for bands like Death Cab for Cutie and have had their work featured in a commercial for Sprint's Palm Pixi...

RATING: 4/5 An artist as prolific as Usher deserves all the attention that he gets. It goes without saying that he has some of the hands-down best R&B slow jams ("Nice & Slow", "Burn," et al), club joints ("Yeah", "O.M.G"), and guest verses (R....