Because I scavenge music stores with an almost sexual intensity, corporate instrument franchises can seem salacious. It is unnerving to watch a Gretsch Electromatic being used for a tone-deaf 14-year-old’s rendition of "Iron Man." It seems wrong to...
DeKALB | The Nirvana baby, the Beatles walking across Abbey Road, Andrew W.K.'s bloody nose. -- some album covers are as iconic and evocative as the music itself. Sheet Music and Record Albums: Graphics of Their Time is a new exhibition in the NIU Art...
In Nicole Arteaga's professional opinion, my haircut is Bieber-esque. Like a classy bowl-cut, it's shaggy and swept to the side. Could it be said that I look like a lesbian who looks like Justin Bieber? Confused? You should be. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,...
Before Aladdin was swooning chicks on his flying carpets and playing the flunky to Robin Williams rapid-fire humor, he was just a figment of Scheherezade's imagination. Her imagination will unfold in the School of Theatre and Dance's production of The...
A number of adjectives could be applied to a 1960s pseudo-Roman farce crammed with slaves, eunuchs and whores. But Sue Johnson, director of the Stage Coach Players' production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," says that the show is...
DeKALB | To generalize, all bands have that one “jack of all trades”: the keyboardist who pulls trumpets, bells and bongos out of his bottomless bag of instruments. Because they’re often the most fun to watch, the quirky multi-instrumental sidekick...
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...
The Center for Latino and Latin American Studies wants you to know that it's here. Sharing a Garden Road address with the Latino Resource Center, it offers students a minor, a graduate concentration and a variety of programs to expand their knowledge...
When I asked director Anthony Perella Jr. how he was going to be delicate about issues of gender, race and class in a play about a homeless African American mother of five, he said he wasn't going to be sensitive. In the Blood, a gritty tragedy by Suzan-Lori...
In the spirit of New Year's resolutions, Sarah Tobias decided to take a step forward with her photography. One way of doing this was by inviting local residents to join her Wednesday for the first meeting of Sycamore Public Library's photography club....
Quoth the raven, nevermore. When it comes to Edgar Allen Poe's works, though, perhaps "evermore" would fit better. Poe Evermore-Showcase of Verse and Story, a production of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance, opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Stevens...
Company of Thieves almost sealed their fate in a casket marked "another literary band" when they quoted Oscar Wilde's The Duchess of Padua in their 2009 single. Fortunately, Wilde is not to Company of Thieves as Chuck Palahniuk is to Panic! At The Disco,...
