Willie the Wildcat with young Northwestern fans at Wildcat Alley, the designated fan fest area. Photo courtesy of Northwestern Magazine’s J.B. Spector. When Zoe Goodman (SESP ’19) stepped into Willie ...

Chicago’s music history is expansive and rich, and two Bridgeport record stores, Let’s Boogie Records and Tapes and Bridgeport Records represent the city’s music past, present and future. Listen along ...

Harrison Ball as Ennis Del Mar and Jack Cameron Kay as Jack Twist in Chicago Shakespeare’s North American premiere production of Brokeback Mountain. Photo courtesy of Kyle Flubacker. Warning: This ...

A member of the Mammoth Hockey Club, a local youth hockey team, handing out parade pamphlets. Photo courtesy of Arden Li. As the smell of cooked meat wafted past red-white-and-blue-clad passerby on ...

Basketball season is entering the final stretch of its 2024-25 season and it is no secret how passionate Northwestern students are about their fellow Wildcat teams. That, and their strong opinions ...

In September, Northwestern fourth-year Taeyoung Lee became the youngest person to complete Ironman races on six continents, clinching a Guinness World Record at 21 years old. Image courtesy of Ryden ...

Last year’s Oscars were exciting. Every movie nominated for Best Picture seemed to have a chance to win the top prize. There were constant controversies and drama (from AI accents to Twitter outbursts ...

Weinberg second-year Daniela Caceres was waiting at the bus stop on Chicago Avenue when a stranger approached her, gesturing for her to take off her headphones. Caceres thought the stranger needed ...

The students of Kingsway Preparatory School perform for the Foster Senior Club at its Black History Month luncheon on Feb. 25, 2026. Photo by Maya Mukherjee / North by Northwestern Eva Coley walked ...

Evanston residents start saving seats for the annual Fourth of July parade days beforehand. Photo by Will Hansen / Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute The Evanston Fourth of July Parade carries ...

The Chiu family opened Chiu Quon Bakery in 1986, serving Chicago’s Chinatown community after they immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong. As the oldest bakery in Chicago’s Chinatown, they have ...

Withered Chica jumps toward the camera during a jump scare in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Photo courtesy of Ryan Green/ Universal Pictures via AP. Was “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” incredibly better than ...