Today on North by Northwestern, you might find my review of Miss March and interview with Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore and Craig Robinson. As a big fan of Moore and Cregger’s sketch show, The Whitest Kids U’ Know, I was thrilled to write these articles and get to meet these guys. However, I forecast that [...]

Bassist Victor Wooten played at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall to a packed house Thursday night.
Check out North by Northwestern’s Q&A with Wooten here.

The funnyman talks to North by Northwestern about dating, his Seinfeld days and his favorite TV show.

The Whitest Kids’ first feature film falls a little short.

After 158 years, Northwestern has gone from a one building college to the 240-acre campus we know today. Keeping track of all the changes is the University Archives, with 26,000 cubic feet of materials dating back to the days of the Fighting Methodists. Archivist Kevin Leonard dug deep and blew the dust off seven [...]

For warm weather natives, saying you go to Northwestern is always met with an “oh my, it’s cold there” response from friends and relatives back home. If you’re local, you might be wondering why you chose to stay in a city with some of the most brutally cold weather this country has to offer. Despite [...]

Does Evanston really live up to its nickname of “Dining Capital of the North Shore”? The staff of North by Northwestern tested and timed places around campus to see who really delivers for those nights when you’re studying hard, watching a movie or just too scared of the wind to go outside.
Sashimi Sashimi
Taste: 8
Service : [...]

You’re classy. We know it and you know it. But how can you be certain that will comes across when that special someone comes over for a little night cap? Here are five items to keep on hand that are certain to up your credibility, even if you’re on a budget. Whether you’re drinking for [...]

Modern science has taken the romance out of lots of things – religion, cigarettes, baseball — but what about romance itself? New research is trying to bring hooking up out of the dark corner of the party and into the scientific light.
I wanna be speed-dated
In 2004, Northwestern social psychologist Eli Finkel was teaching a [...]

The Wildcat men’s basketball team fell to the Minnesota Gophers 66-53 today in the first round of the Big Ten tournament. The loss effectively puts an end to the ‘Cats hopes for an at-large berth for the NCAA tournament.
Senior guard Kevin Coble was the only Wildcat to score in the double digits, finishing [...]

Weinberg senior Will Upton, who had admitted to writing the blog ImpeachASG, said his step down was a symbolic gesture of his dissatisfaction with ASG’s executive board.

Wooten will be performing at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on Thursday, March 12.

Episode Summary:
We see the group at the pub as usual, with Barney struggling to contain his laughter. He thinks that something involving Marshall is overwhelmingly hilarious, and finally persuades Marshall to tell the story, which he does over the course of the episode. To make a long story short, Marshall was playing basketball at the [...]

Jerry Springer was your typical college student. At age 17, his years at Tulane University in New Orleans were the first he’d spent away from home. And despite his self-admitted naivete, Springer took full advantage of his new found freedom, joining Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity in the early 60s. “It was a great way for [...]

With a jacket too light for a 20-degree day and earbuds dangling from his pocket, Mark Crain’s laid-back style doesn’t match the image most students have of him.
For Members Only headline-making events define the Weinberg senior in recent campus memory. Crain preceded Rev. Jeremiah Wright and delivered a speech detailing the university’s failings of the [...]