In September, Northwestern fourth-year Taeyoung Lee became the youngest person to complete Ironman races on six continents, clinching a Guinness World Record at 21 years old. Image courtesy of Ryden ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yukari Takamizawa takes off her glove after a bout. Photo courtesy of Northwestern Athletics. Fast, intricate footwork drew the crowd’s eyes to “the strip,” a narrow metallic runway, as second-year ...