So you’ve gotten your Elvis smoothie and veggie bagel at Robust on 63rd and Woodlawn, sent some emails to professors, and stepped back out onto the street. Half of your smoothie still waits for consumption...
I don’t know much about sororities. A friend in Pi Phi has told me about group songs and voting traditions and a brother getting kicked off a boat at formal. I’ve seen the aesthetic instagram accounts...
When I first set foot on campus, I collected club brochures like pastry selections at a lavish breakfast buffet—I wanted a little bit of everything. After the social appetizers and academic entrees,...
You may not have come to Chicago for its piles of teeth. Its living-room-sized theaters. Its late-night cafe jazz concerts. Its sculpture designed by Yoko Ono.
We certainly didn’t come for them—but...
You’ve just gotten out of back-to-back classes and you are starving. It’s not an uncommon place to find yourself, gastrointestinally speaking. Many of us can rarely afford the time it takes to prepare...
At 5:20 p.m. on May 11, Hull Gate faced a throng of college students dressed in shorts, bikini tops, and Hawaiian-print tees. Fresh from the darties across campus, students were ready for Summer Breeze....
From 56th to 57th Street between Ellis and University Avenues sit many studying students, Ex Libris Café, and over four and a half million printed volumes. While the Joseph Regenstein and Joe and Rika...
When someone from the University of Chicago visits the White House, it’s usually for a few reasons. Perhaps a Nobel laureate is set to receive an award for a remarkable achievement. Maybe a world-renowned...
UChicago United for Palestine (UCUP) launched an encampment on the quad outside of Swift Hall at 10 a.m. on Monday, following in the steps of pro-Palestinian groups at numerous other universities that...
Hours before Madonna emerges, as crowds pour into the United Center, excitement hangs in the air like a mist. A sparkly mist. The atmosphere is celebratory, and why shouldn’t it be? Less than a year...
This spring at Steppenwolf, Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night is an elegant, witty, and perceptive dramatic reimagining of the life and legacy of Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel. The famed author...
In Edgewater Glen, Chicago, Raven Theatre’s production of Sharyn Rothstein’s Right To Be Forgotten is powerful, touching, and opportune. The play, which premiered in Washington, D.C. four years ago,...
