Thanksgiving seems to officially kick off the “holiday season”, no matter whether that season for you means Christmas, Hanukah or Kwanza. It’s a season where many people in America do celebrate food in all its glory. It is also a time where people can feel overwhelmed by the busyness of […]

Bah Humbug. Penny-pinching, old man Scrooge (Steve Connell) is back and as nasty as ever in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, playing at Metropolis Performing Arts Center in Arlington Heights through December 24. In this lively rendition of the holiday classic, Scrooge journeys with the spirits of Christmas Past (Melissa […]

Students enrolled in 2004 may have their tuition increase 25 percent, students enrolled before 2004 may have their tuition increase 9 percent next school year. Members of the University’s Administration discussed in a town hall meeting on Nov. 20 about proposed tuition increases for ’08 – ’09, school year. Students […]

A letter recently published in the Independent has revealed an apparent rift between members of the English Department over what its author claims are grammatically incorrect and ambiguous MA exam questions. According to professor Harry White, a tenured faculty member with the English Department, part of the department’s MA exam […]

Food, dances and fashions with a multicultural flair were the highlights as celebrated the 32md annual International Day festival. The international celebration was created so that the different cultures of NEIU could come together and display their native traditions. The October 15 event, held in Alumni Hall was sponsored by […]

Avenged Sevenfold’s new self-titled album seems like it would have been a great album. Riding on the coat-tails of the successful release of their album City of Evil and the touring that followed, it just falls short of what the band’s potential was shown to be. Everything seems much more […]

Unlike most compilations, The Orange Box is mostly great games, and three of them are new. If there is one dud in the bunch, it is Team Fortress 2. There are only six maps and one game-type per map. It is also buggy and generally not that fun. Halo 3 […]

Mario is back and better than ever on the Nintendo Wii. Super Mario Galaxy never fails to live up to the legacy of the most-loved games in the series. Platformers had stagnated and all but died on the current generation consoles, but Super Mario Galaxy completely revitalizes the classic genre […]

R.E.M. once swore to never make a live album. Yet on Oct. 16, R.E.M. LIVE came out as a 2 CD and 1 DVD package deal. It covers a two-day live set on Feb. 26 and 27, 2005 at The Point Depot in Dublin. Covering classic R.E.M. hits, the band […]

All of the scripted television shows are going to a little vacation spot called hiatus. No one should worry because there will still be plenty of reality shows and news programming to tide the audience over until the end of the writer’s strike. To be clear, it is not just […]