The Northerner

Visit Picasso for free in Cincinnati

Claire Higgins January 26, 2011

For students who live on campus, it might feel like you’re stuck in Highland Heights, especially when you’re looking for things to do on the weekend or during a rare free weekday moment. Options are...

Indie horror film offers a novel source of fear

Derick Bischoff January 26, 2011

“The Haunting of Amelia” (The Other Side of the Tracks) is a movie that tricks the mind into believing one thing and then offers a unique twist at the end. The film is billed as a supernatural thriller...

Art professors practice what they preach

Shawn Buckenmeyer January 19, 2011

Just because you become a professor doesn’t mean you hang up your proverbial paintbrush for life. As an artist you have to keep expanding your artistic repertoire in order to stay in the creative loop....

Art show explores women in domestic American life

Shawn Buckenmeyer January 19, 2011

Being a woman means something different to each woman. Julie Mader-Meersman, an associate professor of graphic design at Northern Kentucky University, explores that concept and many others in her show...

Alumni night reunites grads

Matt Brewer January 12, 2011

Despite all the empty seats in the Bank of Kentucky Center, the Northern Kentucky University Pep Band added an element of excitement and school pride to the men’s and women’s basketball games. To add...

“To Kill a Mockingbird” to debut at NKU

Claire Higgins December 1, 2010

It’s a story most people have read in the classroom or watched in black and white on television — a timeless classic that sails through generation after generation, challenging the battle between good...

Changing India: Women helping women one image at a time

Shawn Buckenmeyer November 10, 2010

A baby is born in a village in India. She is promised marriage. When she reaches a certain age, she is sent to live with the betrothed’s family as a servant in that household. At the marrying age, she...

World culture converges on NKU

Jesse Call November 10, 2010

A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a filmmaker, and representatives from the American Red Cross will converge on the campus of Northern Kentucky University to join in a celebration featuring authentic international...

Bob Dylan: Music that spans the generations

Brandon Barb & Emily Christman November 3, 2010

At 8 p.m. on Nov. 3, the man who shook the world of music will perform at the Bank of Kentucky Center. Bob Dylan's concert will mark the first and only to play at the BOKC this semester. Dylan’s...

Transsexual Transylvania arrives at NKU

Brandon Barb October 31, 2010

If you can only see one play at NKU this year, make it “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Director Michael Hatton has put together a terrific cast and has done an amazing job bringing the cult classic...

Revisiting Lakeside Place

Claire Higgins October 27, 2010

Residential Housing Association transformed the Callahan Hall basement into a creepy, spine-chilling nursing home for the third annual Callahan Hall Haunted House Thursday Oct. 21. Before Callahan Hall...

Revelation Trail: Surviving the frontier just got harder

Shawn Buckenmeyer October 27, 2010

If you woke up tomorrow morning to a zombie apocalypse, would you arm yourself with a gun or a sword? John Gibson, a professor and media engineer for the Electronic Media and Broadcasting department and...

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