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DeKALB — NIU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will welcome Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley as their next guest in the Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series at 6 p.m., Sept. 15. The Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series shows how the liberal arts and sciences are at the center of a healthy democracy. The series focuses on various...
The saxophonist with New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra breathed a sigh of relief along with millions of others when President Joe Biden took office Jan. 20, but he expects even more of an outpouring when the impact of COVID-19 finally begins to wane. “I think the sigh will blossom into an expressive cry,” Nash said with a laugh in an interview Wednesday with the Times Colonist. If the pandemic hadn’t come crashing down on his plans, Nash, 60, would have been busy during the past year — both on his own as a bandleader and with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. With g...