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DePaul's Student Newspaper — Since 1923

The DePaulia

DePaul's Student Newspaper — Since 1923

The DePaulia

DePaul's Student Newspaper — Since 1923

The DePaulia

Arts/Life

Shamya Banks, a fashion studies student at Columbia College of Chicago, irons linen fabric at the university's fashion lab on Friday, May 9, 2025. Banks is a recipient of the 2025 Virgil Abloh Post-Modern scholarship, a grant organized by the late creative director Virgil Abloh to aid Black students studying fashion.

Met Gala inspires up-and-coming designers to tailor their style

Alana Eve Schacher, Contributing Writer / May 12, 2025

Every year on the first Monday in May, celebrities walk down the Fifth Avenue red carpet in their most avant-garde attire to the Met Gala, one of the fashion world’s biggest events. Hosted by The Costume...

Not another birthday DeJamz! birthday DeJamz

Not another birthday DeJamz! birthday DeJamz

Grace Logan, Arts & Life Editor / May 5, 2025

My mom and I have always shared a love for numbers — number games, number patterns, number puzzles. We’re fanatic Sudoku players. We’re quick to point out patterns on the clock: 11:11, 4:44, 5:55,...

Grace Johnson works on butterfly wing arrangements in The Insect Asylum’s taxidermy studio in Chicago on Friday April 25, 2025. The museum restores vintage taxidermy and provides mortuary services for pets.

Finding solace amid a sea of beetles, a 60-year-old antelope — and maybe even snakes and spiders

Weronika Lowczyk, Contributing Writer / May 5, 2025

On a recent rainy Friday afternoon, amid an endless sprawl of concrete and construction zones, a handful of curious city dwellers find themselves surrounded by dense moss, curious rocks, thousands of insects,...

Jill Carlson smiles as she tells the people on her tour about post-modern buildings in Chicago on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Carlson has been a docent for twelve years in the city.

From Loss to Landmarks: One woman’s journey through the heart of Chicago

Grace Logan, Arts & Life Editor / May 5, 2025

Adjacent to the Chicago Tribune Tower sits the Equitable Building with its tall windows and sturdy aluminum-covered spandrel beams. At first glance, these two buildings are complete contradictions: the...

Dalton Thompson, a customer, looks through records at Terror Vision on Thursday, May 1, 2025. The Southport pop-up sells DVDs, records and merchandise.

Terror Vision: Seeing film rentals in a new light

Brielle Kohlbeck, Opinion Editor / May 5, 2025

Listen up physical media fans: this isn’t your mother’s Blockbuster. Southport’s newest pop-up, Terror Vision Records & Video, is a fully functioning DVD and VHS rental that opened April 11....

Patrons stand outside the Harry Potter Shop on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile on Friday, April 18, 2025. Many customers had to wait in a virtual queue before entering the pop-up retail experience.

The Magnificent Mile’s ‘wizarding world’: Chicago’s ‘Harry Potter’ shop

Malin Denton, Contributing Writer / May 5, 2025

Since its opening three weeks ago, a new fixture on the Magnificent Mile has caused lines leading all the way down the block, diverse groups and families excited to get a glimpse of the magic inside.  The...

OK Go singer Damian Kulash performs at Chicago's Riviera Theatre on Friday, April 25, 2025. Kulash and OK Go is touring for the first time in a decade promoting their new album "And the Adjacent Possible."

‘Here It Goes Again’: OK Go at Riviera Theatre

Annie Koziel, Asst. Copy Editor / May 5, 2025

From an outside perspective, it might look like OK Go has been off the map — or on hiatus — for almost a decade. But according to bassist and founding member Tim Nordwind, their new album “And the...

Lead singer, Laurie Vincent, plays the guitar at the Bottom Lounge on Thursday, April 22, 2025, as a part of the group Soft Play. The group will be a part of the Riot Fest 2025 lineup in October as their next show in the U.S.

Soft Play comes to North America with a rebrand and a headliner tour

Zoey Duchene, Contributing Writer / May 5, 2025

Fans from all over Chicago and further came to the Bottom Lounge on Tuesday, April 22, to see Soft Play live. The group Soft Play is a punk rock band from the U.K. composed of lead singer and drummer...

Museumgoers observe “Tree of Hope, Remain Strong” (1946) at the Art Institute of Chicago on Thursday, April 17, 2025. It depicts Kahlo lying down on a gurney with incisions on her back, referencing a recent surgery, next to another version of herself sitting up, wearing a traditional Tehuana dress and looking at the observer head-on.

Frida in Paris: Art Institute exhibition traces Kahlo’s surrealist connections

Isabella Russomanno, Contributing Writer / May 5, 2025

Feb. 16, 1939: “I bet you my life I will hate this place and its people as long as I live,” an exhausted Frida Kahlo writes to her partner from her hospital bed in Paris. “There is something so false...

The 2025 CineYouth Film Festival sign hangs over the entrance on Friday, April 25, 2025. The festival  was held from April 25-27 and focused on the work of filmmakers 22 and younger across a variety of different genres

CineYouth film festival hosts student films from across Chicagoland

April Klein, Asst. Arts & Life Editor / May 5, 2025

Just down the street from DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus on Fullerton Avenue, a crowd of young cinephiles and filmmakers swarm in the lobby of the Facets Theater. The space, which operates both as a waiting...

A Boogie wit da Hoodie performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Sunday, April 16, 2023, in Indio, Calif. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Rapper ‘A Boogie wit da Hoodie’ to headline FEST 2025

April Klein, Asst. Arts & Life Editor / April 30, 2025

During the third volume of the Sounds of Sheffield event in the Lincoln Park Student Center, the DePaul Activities Board (DAB) announced that rapper Artist Julius DeBose, known by his stage name ‘A Boogie...

Rachel Platten performs at Lincoln Hall in Chicago on Friday, April 18, 2025. Platten performed songs from her 2024 album "I Am Rachel Platten" along with older songs like her 2015 hit "Fight Song."

From ‘Fight Song’ to freedom: Rachel Platten reintroduces herself

Annie Koziel, Asst. Copy Editor / April 28, 2025

There are a lot of people who know Rachel Platten as “the ‘Fight Song’ girl.” But she has a larger story to tell. On her latest tour, she’s determined to share it. Celebrating the release...

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