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.

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 ...

Northwestern’s central utility plant is hard to miss as Weinberg fourth-year Martha Santiago walks across campus. The plant sits along the path that nearly every student walks past while traveling ...

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 ...

No feeling is more memorable than terror. Whether it’s nightmares from 10 years ago or a particularly scary horror movie, people remember fear. Perhaps this is why ...

Los Angeles-based alternative-pop singer-songwriter Audrey Hobert’s debut, Who’s the Clown?, is a success. The album offers a complete and humorous portrait of navigating insecurity and dating culture ...

The Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette is the oldest of eight continental houses of worship around the world. Photo courtesy of Declan Smith. Bob Hurley remembers his mother talking about the Baháʼí ...

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 ...

The shelves of Booked feature a variety of children’s books. Photo courtesy of Emily Hauck. Beyond downtown Evanston, residents gather at Booked, a children’s bookstore on Main Street, where they can ...

Intervallic is a rhythm game that helps you to practice any instrument as you play — including your voice. The project is coming out of The Garage by Overture Games, co-founded by fourth-year Steven ...

Heavy rain pours down on a historic European city intersection in front of a Bank Austria building. Oleh Pinchuk, an incoming freshman, rarely considered the possibility of a lightning strike killing ...

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 ...