The onion is bloomin’. Two years ago, The Third Onion, NIU student-run theater program, performed its production of Selling Sex for Cash to two sold-out audiences. Because of the particularly raunchy nature of the show, it was determined to be the program’s...

JC Brooks' least favorite word used to describe his post-punk/soul group, JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound, is the lazy designation "throwback." Though it's an understandable prima facie label of the band's echoing blues guitars, jumpy horns and subtle...

Homelessness doesn't just affect drug addicts or the mentally insane. Nor is it a problem exclusive to males or adults. In fact, Associate Communications Professor Laura Vazquez says that many of America's homeless are women and children struggling to...

Even with her earplugs nestled safely, the nu-metal was too loud. Her ears were fine but the bass guitar vibrating against her sternum was so overwhelming she was forced to leave her front row seat at Disturbed's show. This was a disappointment because...

Looking nervously around the shadowy stage, Charlie Otto looks just like David Byrne. Then again, it's hard not to with his bobbing head peaking out of the iconic bloated suit that's become a symbol of the Talking Heads' singer/songwriter. Still, the...

If Tub Ring sounds like the name of a high school punk band from the nineties, that's because 17 years ago, it was. Since then, founding members Kevin Gibson (vocals) and Trevor Erb (bass) added Rob Kleiner (keyboards) to the mix and created a musical...