Alex (Tom Blyth) and Poppy (Emily Bader) in Netflix’s People We Meet on Vacation. Photo licensed under IMDB. Rom-coms seem to be rare these days, and it’s even more difficult to find a good new ...

Ava Johnson hears and makes six-seven jokes up to 10 times a day at her high school in Odenton, Md. She loves how new numbers keep popping up in Gen Z humor, and the older ones now make her feel ...

Sarah Bock sitting on a couch in a café in Evanston. Photo by Esther Lian/ North by Northwestern. On her first day at Northwestern, Sarah Bock exchanged the usual introductions w ...

Graphic by Dallas Thurman / North by Northwestern. Photos licensed under Creative Commons. *Editor’s Note: Names have been changed to protect students’ identity. When I was 10, my parents sat me down ...

Up until last year, every Spotify playlist under my name had a title limited to its surface-level genre, whether it was “Salsa Mix,” “Old School Reggaetón” or “Bachata Favs.” But as I continued to ...

Starring Christian Bale as Frankenstein’s monster — charmingly called “Frank” — and Jessie Buckley as his newly resurrected bride, the film pairs gothic sobriety with operatic excess. Beneath the ...

The Chicago Stars faced the Orlando Pride on Sept. 7 in their “Lakefront Faceoff” at Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium. Photo courtesy of Mary Grace Grabill. The 2026 National Women’s ...

Ilya and Shane facing off on the ice. Photo licensed under IMDb. Hockey is all about face-offs, collisions and rivalries. It’s the kind of tension that simmers beneath sweaty helmets and leaks onto ...

The artist remembers experimenting and creating since he was a child. Whether it came from composing silly songs with his siblings in GarageBand or building his own bed when his family moved to a new ...

It’s Hollywood’s biggest night of the year: The 97th annual Academy Awards! But before anyone goes home with that precious golden statue–or is salty because the Academy chose another nominee–actors ...