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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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“A Bright Night for the Arts” returned in person to showcase the art of Evanston

November 5, 2021

After COVID-19 forced the event to go online in 2020, “A Bright Night for the Arts,” an annual celebration of visual and performing arts of Evanston, was held in person on Thursday night at the Evanston...

Man in a black sweatshirt holds a black record. Behind him is a pink wall with other colorful titles.

Vintage Vinyl makes grooves in Evanston for 42 years

November 5, 2021

The “King of Rock and Roll” launched Steve Kay’s interest in music at the age of five. Several decades later, pink and black — Elvis’s favorite colors — adorn the walls of Kay’s record store,...

Band member playing the sousaphone facing the crowd

For fourth consecutive year, ETHS Wildkit Marching Band named grand champion at Marengo Settlers’ Days competition

November 5, 2021

For Evanston Township High School’s Wildkit Marching Band, this year was about rebuilding.  Because COVID-19 reduced the program’s membership, rehearsal time and performance opportunities in 2020,...

The storefront for Chicago Strings has the logo of the business with music notation graphics, as well as decorative violins in the window.

Jeff Yang serves local musicians at Chicago Strings, runs multisensory project

November 4, 2021

Violins of different sizes and colors gleam through glass windows, lining the wall of a little shop on Orrington Avenue.  The shop, Chicago Strings, is a local violin restoration store that opened...

Jacinda Ratcliffe, in blue, dancing in one of her recent shows with one leg in the air.

‘It just always felt like my field’: NU alumna Jacinda Ratcliffe talks dance career, from Chicago to Sundance

November 3, 2021

When imagining her future as a young girl, Jacinda Ratcliffe (Communication ’15) saw dance. Long before she was performing in venues across the country, the 28-year-old Virginia native fell in love...

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