The popular alternative rock band My Chemical Romance released their latest album aptly named The Black Parade last month. Press sheets quote lead vocalist Gerard Way as saying that this album is one of the most difficult for the four members: guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Lero, drummer Bob Bryar, […]

NEIU alum Michael Villarreal directed The Ultimate Pendejada as part of the StageCenter Studio Series. It definitely struck a chord for many in the audience. Written by Ysidro R. Macias, the play features an ambitious, upwardly-mobile Chicano couple named Robert and Mary Gomes, played by Hector Vazquez and Linnea Carrera. […]

Rebecca Makridis Georgakis was taught early in life by her parents, Chrysanthi and John, that her education was the single most important thing. Despite being weakened by rounds of chemotherapy to treat a brain tumor diagnosed in February 2003, Makridis graduated cum laude in 2005 from NEIU with a bachelor’s […]