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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


Polerize opens the show with angry undertones to emphasize the importance of destigmatizing sex work.

Polerize destigmatizes sex work, empowers performers through NU’s first pole dance show

May 5, 2024

Audiences gasped and cheered as pole dancers performed acrobatic sequences across the stage and a series of poles in Lutkin Hall Friday. Northwestern’s Polerize produced its inaugural show — and...

A dancer in a pink crop top and black joggers dances with arms outstretched in front of a pink-lit background.

The spotlight is on tabloids and gossip in Fusion’s spring show ‘Front Cover’

April 7, 2024

Flashing lights. Paparazzi. The highs and lows of the spotlight. The Fusion Dance Company’s spring show “Front Cover” captured the lure of being front and center this weekend in Ryan Family Auditorium....

The five members of “The Last Dinner Party” sit in medieval gowns with a yellow background behind them and “Prelude to Ecstasy” in white in front of them.

Liner Notes: The Last Dinner Party stuns with debut album ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’

February 5, 2024

If you told me the five members of The Last Dinner Party were time travelers, I would believe you.  With the release of their debut album Friday, the British indie-rock band seemingly popped up out...

“Unreal Unearth” spans multiple genres, from jazz to funk, all while telling a story that is loosely based on Inferno, Dante’s famed poem.

Liner Notes: Hozier mythologizes life and death on ‘Unreal Unearth’

August 29, 2023

It is 2023. “Take Me to Church,” the song that pulled Irish singer Andrew Hozier-Byrne out of his proverbial Irish bog and into international acclaim, is now a decade old. Over time, he has become...

Oktay in a gray sweater and sunglasses sitting outside.

Q&A: Lucas Oktay of Blue Boy talks creating an inviting sound, songwriting inspirations

April 20, 2023

Communication sophomore Lucas Oktay is no stranger to the music world.  “When I was born, I was probably singing,” Oktay said.  After starting a band with his friends in middle school, Oktay...

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