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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DESIGNERS & ILLUSTRATORS Sofia Hargis-Acevedo, Sarah Brown, Sachin Chawla, Carter Chau, Jessica Chen, Kyra Doherty, Chase Engstrom, Sarah Jacobs, Isabella Millman, Lena Rock, Adelle Rubinchik, Marley ...

Follow Jorge Martinez as he covers a Supreme Court meeting in Washington, D.C., as a student reporter in the Medill on the Hill program. From an early morning commute to taking detailed notes, get a ...

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 ...