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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Daily Northwestern has eight newsstands around campus. Photo by Satvika Ramanathan / Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute When students thanked Kostadin Smoukov for delivering The Daily ...

In my senior year of high school, I took AP U.S. Government and Politics. In middle school, I went through a big government phase and wanted to be a politician, so this class was my way of ...

Currently, The Rock sits as a purple blob on the south side of campus, with “congrats class of 2026” painted in white. In a month, it may be anything but. Next year marks the 125 anniversary of The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The grass on campus is a mix of rye, bluegrass and fescue. Photo courtesy of Sirena Chen. To be trampled, squashed and even urinated on is the fate of the humble grass lawn. The over 50 acres of lawn ...

My older sister is ordering our drinks at Iconica cafe in Northampton, Massachusetts. You order on the ground level, but we like to sit in the loft. The wallpaper is a map of the world up there, ...

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 ...