There were two main themes in the Big Ten this week: close games and rushing.

Andrew Brewer is the fourth straight Wildcat player to be selected for the national Good Works Team — one for every year Pat Fitzgerald has served as head coach.

For those readers who have never even heard of Dexter, you’ve picked the perfect time to get interested. This show really gets you thinking and probes your morals, all the while exploring the age-old debate of nature versus nurture.
Basically, Dexter Morgan witnessed his mother’s violent, bloody murder at the age of two, and after [...]

Sunday afternoon, thirty-nine Evanston eateries offered free samples in an annual attempt to connect Northwestern students with local businesses.

The Beautiful Life: TBL was canceled after only two episodes. Photo courtesy of the CW official website.

I’m a huge fan of the CW. Not only do I watch every show religiously, but also when it produces a brand new show I give it a fair chance and reserve judgment until after a few episodes.
Unfortunately, the [...]

You may have heard of them if:

You watch David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. (They performed “Ready, Able” on Letterman and “While You Wait for the Others” on Conan.)
You, for some reason, still watched Gilmore Girls during its season finale. (Some character mentions them in passing.)
You are looking forward to The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack. [...]

Hello Northwestern, Netplay has returned to bring you the highlights from the dark reaches of the Web. While we haven’t published them in some time, viral videos are still as prevalent in always. So, without further ado, here’s a little bit of Web comedy for your Monday:
1. Touch my Body

This is the latest in a [...]

Nostalgic for your childhood? You can still watch Toy Story 1 and 2 in theaters! Now available in 3D.

a meeting of whomsandwhos / as we passed under the bridge

Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with the rockin’ roller derby film Whip It .

One student catches the latest pandemic with no cure in sight: JoBro fever.

Staci will be in Barcelona, Spain, until June 2010.

In our little manual of Consortium for Advanced Studies in Barcelona, we have a little page about the choque cultural, or culture shock, that study abroad students are expected to experience, complete with a graph of highs and lows numbered by week. The third week is the [...]

Finally, NBC has given 30 Rock and The Office fans a chance to stick around for the rest of Thursday’s “Comedy Night Done Right.” The studio’s new sitcom, Community, is the first successful addition to the Thursday lineup since the departure of Scrubs.
The show stars Joel McHale from The Soup as Jeff Winger, [...]

Julie will be in Paris, France until Dec. 17.

Yesterday, I was in America for an hour and a half.
There were no Targets. No 7-Elevens. No pumpkin spice lattes (despite the wishes of many of my fellow students).
The Normandy American Cemetery lands, overlooking Omaha beach, were given to the United States by France as [...]

Dreams of a Chicago Olympics ended in Copenhagen, Denmark on Friday as the International Olympic Committee voted to host the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In a surprising turn of events, IOC delegates eliminated Chicago’s bid after the first round of voting despite strong support from President Barack Obama.
The first-round exit [...]