The ladies of the NEIU Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance want to talk about vaginas and they want you to listen. Come March, NEIU will host performances of the acclaimed “The Vagina Monologues” at Recital Hall and El Centro. Eve Ensler wrote the first version of “The Vagina Monologues” in 1996 […]

The Nashville music scene invaded Chicago this weekend in the form of a new breed of southern rock. This relatively new band called American Bang opened for The Pretenders on Sunday night at the Riviera Theater, performing a short set for the tightly packed audience of mostly middle-aged rockers. The […]

The answer is yes, but only for the most part. “Taken” is the king of action movies that can really only be enjoyed for the spectacle of it. It is also a rather short film that moves so quickly that by the time the credits have started rolling it might […]

The movie “College” follows three high school seniors, Kevin, Morris and Carter, on a weekend trip to Fieldmont University. “College” follows the standards of a college drinking movie. They have fun, then it gets bad, and then they get even with the bad guys. Kevin is a photographer for his […]

When you think of Nashville, Tennessee, it’s hard to think of anything other than its long history of great country and southern rock musicians, like Hank Williams and the Allman Brothers. With places like the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville has been an epicenter […]

#8220;Silent Hill” is a great psycho-spiritual survival horror franchise. Sure, they’ve had their high points like “Silent Hill 2”. They’ve also had their strange, broken low points like “Silent Hill 4: The Room. Silent Hill 5: Homecoming” is in a weird state of limbo, being one of the best and […]

Stephen King has been one of the most celebrated horror authors ever since he started breaking into mainstream fiction in the late 1970s. Many of his books, and some of his short stories have been adapted to, or referred to, in films. Now there is a ‘new’ release from the […]

Last issue we were talking about “Warhammer.” As promised, this issue is on its futuristic counterpart, “Warhammer 40,000”. It will be focusing largely on “Dark Heresy”, “Warhammer 40,000” gone “Dungeons & Dragons” for the uninitiated. As stated earlier, “Warhammer 40,000” is the futuristic version of “Warhammer.” So, many of the […]

From Jan. 21- 31, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier hosted the North American premiere of Peter Weiss’s multiple Tony Award winning play, “The Investigation.” Any true theater aficionado would ask the question, “What do you mean by premiere, Weiss’s play came out over 40 years ago?” This production […]

Shannon Morley, a sophomore at Northern Illinois University (NIU), lives right across from Cole Hall, the building in which five of her fellow students were killed a year ago on Feb. 14, 2008. With the anniversary approaching, NIU students are still trying to cope with the tragedy. “We are all […]