Along with hot chocolate and snowball fights, there are few things more quintessentially wintertime than ice skating. Luckily, Chicago is not short on places to hit the ice and channel your inner Michelle...

Music is available to stream or download in a variety of ways. Whether that’s through buying music through iTunes or streaming on Spotify, you have access to all of your favorite music.  But there’s...

As part of the decorated Chicago Humanities Festival, American poet Eileen Myles read at the Poetry Foundation Nov. 2. Myles has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, memoir and narrative since...

The evolution of digital media design, like any form of evolution, is a messy process. Forms are created, tested, refined, destroyed and created again — and no one innovation or feature is safe from...

The world of YouTube runs deeper than minute-long cute cat videos. Call it a cultish, virtual Hollywood, but DePaul students and graduates are using the platform to create quality content, build audiences,...

After almost three months, I’ve flown, bused, driven (or rather, been driven) and stayed in various accommodations across Europe. Studying abroad brings the world to your fingertips; all you have to...

The intimate setting of DePaul’s Healy Theatre, located in The Theatre School, which boasts a mere 100 seats and whose first row literally begins on the stage, was an apt compliment to its emotionally...

In 2009, after the Iranian people’s favorite contender for the president, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, lost in a landslide to radical conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, chaos ensued. The period that followed...

[slideshow_deploy id='5443'] WGCI hosted a huge night of hip-hop at the Aragon Ballroom on Friday, Nov. 7. The high-energy night featured Juicy J, Migos, Jeremih and Rae Sremmurd, among others. Photos...

Though we have yet to hit Thanksgiving and a few big releases are certainly on the way before the year closes out, 2014 has been a strong year for music. Here are some of my favorite albums that came...

[slideshow_deploy id='5408'] Despite the intense wind overpowering the city, I, along with roughly under a thousand other people, made the journey to House of Blues to see indie rockers Smallpools. But...