A small crowd of Chicagoans traveled through the snow and the bitter cold weather to Harold Washington Library last Tuesday, Jan. 21. to hear the inspirational words of Ishmael Beah. The Sierra Leonian...

Each day that comes and goes here in Merida is another page in a book that's slowly being written by all the culture we're seeing, the people we're meeting and the experiences we're having; at this point,...

To some, "bureaucracy" is a dirty word. It conjures up images of stacks of meaningless forms, wasteful spending and undue government oversight. It is easy to forget that the services the federal government...

It is always a pleasure to attend one of the DePaul Theatre School's children's shows. They are unceasingly colorful, poignant and energetic. This winter, though, the stage adaptation of Lois Lowry's "Number...

Women's fashion continues to make headlines year after year everywhere from E! News' "Fashion Police" to the New York Times' fashion column. But the winter season calls for much needed attention to the...

This weekend, us lucky Chicagoans will get a break from the polar vortex as the temperatures get all the way up to a tropical 31 degrees. So what a better way to celebrate the break from the subzero weather,...

"Madama Butterfly," my first opera, was amazing since the entire story is sung from beginning to end, making it fun to watch. I have never seen anything like it before. Everyone should have a chance to...

"Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus" - The Michael Cera we know and love has gone to Chile to experience life and immerse himself inside of director Sebasti’Û΍n Silva's story about a road trip...

With temperatures below 20 degrees, many people struggle to stay warm and fashion forward. Looking stylish in the winter is definitely more difficult than the fall, spring and summer seasons because people...

Negative 40-degree wind chill. Mounds of snow. Hunks of ice. Whoever is up for a walk out to dinner in this weather definitely has thicker skin than I do. Winter is the time of year when most everyone...

The Center for Interreligious Engagement's first speaker of the quarter chose to begin his lecture with silence. Lodro Rinzler caught his audience's attention without jokes or interesting facts, but rather...

Ginger Shulick Porcella does not use paint or pastels to create art. She will not be seen with a brush in hand or charcoal beneath her fingernails. Instead, this 2003 DePaul alumna's masterpiece is her...