A neon Lollapalooza sign outside the festival’s main entrance on Ida B. Wells Drive. Photo courtesy of Caitlin Keller. This year’s Lollapalooza felt like lightning in a bottle. For many festival goers ...

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 ...

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 ...

You hear the exhibit before you see it. After walking through the imposing, vault-like doors that mark the entrance to The Block Museum’s main exhibition floor, you are immediately greeted by the ...

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 ...

“Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy.” With these famous words, classicist Emily Wilson opens her groundbreaking ...

A triple dipper from Evanston Chili’s, flying high amongst the clouds. Dallas Thurman / North by Northwestern. pausing just long enough to look inside — people leaning in close over half-eaten plates.

Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate. Photo courtesy of MGM. With another year passing, another summer beginning and a new batch of seniors graduating, let’s talk about possibly the ...

Listening to the thumping of the bass inside my sister’s car, “Body Language” by Kali Uchis marked my first experience listening to her album Isolation. Uchis’ hypnotic ad-libs beckoned me into full ...

Graphic by Ethan Bandaccari / Images courtesy of Exhibit Archives, Reel Reframe, IMDb, The Goods: Film Reviews, Baltimore Magazine, Glamour UK Crowds have rolled their eyes, and yet bought their ...

Outside of election cycles, Northwestern’s Rock is primarily a blank space to advertise upcoming events or the sailing team’s most recent shenanigans. But on a recent Monday night, it became a canvas ...

Arya Prachand sat with a 6-year-old boy who had nearly overdosed on drugs, monitoring his vitals as the ambulance raced from an emergency medical center to a hospital. The Weinberg first-year was ...