Music lovers, get out your calendars – the first ever MusicFest will be held this weekend. The concert will be held Saturday at the Southern Kentucky Fairgrounds inside Lampkin Park. The show will feature Young Buck and G-Unit, Below Zero and Perfect Confusion.

The WKU Department of Theatre and Dance will be performing “Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)” starting tonight at Russell H. Miller Theatre in the fine arts center. The play, which was written by Ann-Marie MacDonald, is a comedy that combines two of Shakespeare’s plays, “Romeo and Juliet” and “Othello.

Crystal Davis is counting down the days until graduation. Davis, who majors in advertising and sociology, will receive her degree on May 6 alongside all of Western’s spring graduates. She can’t wait. The senior from Queens, N.Y., plans to move to either Chicago or New York after graduation and plans to find a job in web design or graphic design.

Red rose petals were scattered on the floor of the ballroom at the Carroll Knicely Conference Center Saturday night as Nelly and Kelly Rowland blasted on the speakers. Girls wrapped their arms around each others’ shoulders and posed for disposable-camera shots in the lobby, their formal dresses sparkling.

Patrice Gaines has been many places, and on Monday she’ll add Western to her list. Gaines, an award-winning journalist, will be the featured speaker at the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Convocation at 11 a.m. Monday at Van Meter Hall. The event is free. Gaines worked as a reporter at the Washington Post for 16 years and has written two books, including an autobiography of her life, titled Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color – A Journey From Prison to Power.

Thirty-six students will go to Chicago on Saturday to participate in a model U.N conference with a Political Science 300 class. In Chicago, the students will represent four countries: Slovakia, Congo, Somalia and the Philippines in the mock U.N. meeting. According to Roger Murphy, the faculty adviser for the trip, the students have had to research their particular country.