It’s Apr. 1 and you’re wondering what are the top stories in your average everyday entertainment tabloid. Well here’s what’s happening in entertainment’s neck of the woods. Heath Ledger, after being recently revived from the grave, accepted the Oscar bestowed to him forty-six years ago for the award of Best […]

Anne Waller of Northwestern University and Mark Maxwell of DePaul have been touring the western world for over twenty-five years. Needless to say, they have had plenty of years together, in the practice and recital halls of the finest universities and music foundations. It was both a pleasure and an […]

Come with me, and you’ll be, in a world of Pure Imagination. That was the song, fittingly playing as concertgoers left the Mutated Mini Fest at the Riviera on Saturday night. It was a black lit evening affair filled with creepy costumes, mangled masks and psychedelic sounds courtesy of Les […]

When I saw that spring break was just around the corner, I couldn’t get any more excited. Every single day that passed, all I could think about was the parties that would go down. There would be alcohol of the highest quality! There would be plenty of babes, all of […]

The original Kindle, produced by Amazon, was a landmark in the world of e-books. While e-books have existed for some time, they haven’t caught on quite as much as Amazon probably hoped. The Kindle 2 hoped to remedy that problem. It has a whole list of new features and enticements, […]

OK. This is the first column that will cover something that has little, if anything, to do with horror. I’ll be plugging my blog, titled “Skeletons in the Closet.” Yes, even though this is my outlet for madness-inspiring horror in its many forms, I have many other tastes and views. […]

In honor of Women’s History Month, on March 19, Professor Netiva Caftori gave a lecture in her first year experience class (FYE) about women and computing, which is a presentation about the history of women and computers, and about why there are so few women in computing and what can […]

What makes artists tick? And what about women’s art might be a recurring theme? As part of the International Women’s Month, the Ronald Williams Library hosted the sixth annual NEIU Women’s Artist Exhibit, which ran from March 2 – 13. Perusing the exhibit’s wealth and diversity of art definitely showed […]

#8220;I told my mom I was pregnant and she almost took me to the hospital. At first, she kept questioning me and when she started the car I told her April Fools.”Darlicia Montgomery, Freshman “When I was younger, my mom told me that there was a mouse behind me, I […]

Facing a budget crisis that could raise tuition for students and force cuts in developing and modernizing the university, Northeastern Illinois University President Sharon K. Hahs, announced a drastic solution to the problem March 21, 2009. Following the example set by many other Chicago institutions, most famously the former Comisky […]