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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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Smile Design Studio Welcome 2025
The film poster for Hedda. Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios.

Between Beauty and Chaos

By Mariana Meriles / November 4, 2025
Nia DaCosta’s Hedda is visually stunning yet restrained by its own ambition
The E.M. Skinner organ as seen from the chapel’s nave.

A Primer on Weekly Music Events at UChicago, From Pipes to Pints

By Gabby Mansilla / November 3, 2025
Looking for musical inspiration? We’ve got you covered with three concert series across campus.
Applause and standing ovation after the concert.

Arts Core Students Watch the CSO Bring Berlioz to Life

By Alkis Karmpaliotis / November 1, 2025
MUSI 101 students visited Symphony Center for an all-Berlioz program led by Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä.
Eight performers from the CSO wind ensemble. Courtesy of UChicago Presents.

CSO Wind Ensemble Showcases the Art of Remixing

By Alkis Karmpaliotis / October 28, 2025
The University’s CSO Chamber Music series opened with a program on the intersections between AI and art.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (09), 2004. Courtesy of Paul Pfeiffer.

Paul Pfeiffer Stages a Study in Spectacle, Media, and Mass Culture

By Elias Buttress / October 28, 2025
Over the summer, Paul Pfeiffer’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art explored sports and celebrity.
Album cover for Illinois. Illustration by Divya Srinivasan.

Revisiting Sufjan Stevens’s Indie Epic Illinois Two Decades Later

By Elias Buttress / October 28, 2025
Twenty years on, Sufjan Stevens’s sweeping indie folk portrait of the Prairie State remains a masterpiece—lush, ambitious, and emotionally resonant.
Installation view, Smart to the Core: Wise to Power, 2025. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago. Photo by Michael Tropea.

Smart to the Core: Wise to Power Makes Ideas Visible

By João Pedro do Prado Sanches / October 26, 2025
On view at the Smart Museum through 2026, the exhibit gives students taking the Power, Identity, Resistance SOSC sequence a new way to engage with course material.
The film poster for After the Hunt. Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios.

The Department of Pedagogical Failure

By Shawn Quek / October 14, 2025
Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt is a character study that explores the dark power dynamics underpinning academic life.
Mural on The Alley’s side depicting the surroundings of the original store at Belmont and Clark and one of Mark Thomas’s hearses parked nearby.

Long Live the Alley

By Agathe Demarolle / October 1, 2025
Rock ’n’ roll isn’t dead—the proof lives with Mark Thomas, founder and owner of The Alley, Chicago’s alternative haven.
Peter Michel leans into his guitar.

Hibou Dishes Up Summer Nostalgia at Chop Shop

By Saroya Ornelas Pagnucci / September 30, 2025
Peter Michel’s solo dream pop project freezes moments in time.
Sunrise at Promontory Point.

Hyde Park First-Date Spots

By Nolan Shaffer, Shawn Quek, Emily Sun, and Elizabeth Eck / September 22, 2025
Arts editors present a dozen options for dates—with budding romances, new friends or, in proper UChicago form, your course book.
Even in the enormous crowd for Gracie Abrams, it still felt like she was singing just to you. Courtesy of Charles Reagan.

What’s in a Festival Performance? Four Headliners at Lollapalooza Make It Look Easy

By Nolan Shaffer / August 21, 2025
Head Arts Editor Nolan Shaffer analyzes what made the biggest names of Lollapalooza so special.
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