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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

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...

Mike Vicente shows couples how to make a bowl at blind date night on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Vicente started hosting blind date events at PotteryChicago in Ravenswood in December 2024.

Covered in clay, open to love: pottery blind dates take shape

LiLi Jarvenpa, News Editor / April 28, 2025

Twelve strangers arrive at a third-floor loft space in Ravenswood, Chicago, to learn how to throw pottery. But they are there for another reason, too. Blind dates. Mike Vicente plays matchmaker two...

Lucas Lona holds “Techniques of Solomonic Magic” at the Malliway Bros. Shop in Rodgers Park on March 7, 2025. Lona says this is one of his favorite items in the store.

Sorcerer Lucas Lona summons a world of witchcraft

Linnea Cheng and Aleksa Kirkus / April 28, 2025

The book-lined walls of Malliway Bros. Magic and Witchcraft lead directly to the register where Lucas Lona stands helping patrons and organizing inventory. Spellbooks, candles and crystals fill the shelves...

Mia Sakai, owner of Ándale Market, stands in front of her bodega-style shelves in her new Lincoln Park location on Saturday, April 12, 2025. Ándale Market houses everything from food, home, and body products, to essential products for pets.

Ándale Market, a love letter to the NYC bodega, opens second location in Lincoln Park

Sadie Springer, Asst. News Editor / April 28, 2025

Ándale Market, known for its bright colors and even brighter atmosphere, is a curated bodega designed for customers to pick up miscellaneous items in a pinch. A second location of the neighborhood corner...

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Amber Corkey, Copy Editor / April 28, 2025

If you’ve spent any time with me, you’ve no doubt had to sit through info dumps on my Dungeons & Dragons characters: my shapeshifter journalist bard Roman, my amnesiac halfling ranger Atlas, my...

'Moulin Rouge: The Musical' review: Dance until you’re dead at Cadillac Palace

‘Moulin Rouge: The Musical’ review: Dance until you’re dead at Cadillac Palace

Finn Morse, Theater Beat Writer / April 28, 2025

Musical theater is the most you’ll be immersed in any art form. Thanks to the variety of the music, complementary production design and emotional storytelling, you can feel any kind of emotion when watching...

Director Ryan Coogler speaks with actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo on the set of “Sinners.” The film, an action-horror story set in the Depression-era south, was shot on 70mm IMAX film cameras, allowing for a more open frame.

‘Sinners’ review: A tried and true vampire story with a blast of personality

April Klein, Asst. Arts & Life Editor / April 21, 2025

While the idea of the vampire has been an omnipresent cultural fascination since Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” debuted in 1897, there’s been a noted fixation on the monster in recent years. Long gone...

Mahmoud Saeed stands for a photo outside his longtime Wrigleyville apartment for a ride to a doctor’s appointment on June 2, 2022. Saeed had a nearly-fatal case of Covid-19 in 2021, before his leukemia returned shortly after.

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Chicago’s Iraqi Novelist: The life and legacy of Mahmoud Saeed

Grace Logan, Arts & Life Editor / April 21, 2025

In her 2011 article, “The Iraqi novelist on the second floor,” former Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich described Mahmoud Saeed’s apartment as having “just enough space” for his essentials...

Event host, Luna Eclipse, interviews Seana, a Chicago drag artist, during their performance at Purple Rain Extravaganza in Cortelou Commons on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The event featured seven performances from local drag artists that discussed their relationship to gender.

Fraternity drag show a hit despite some negative feedback from alumni

Eva Strazek, Contributing Writer / April 21, 2025

As Chicago drag king Peeper Johnson sprints down the alley between tables full of spectators, the brothers of Sigma Lambda Beta, clad in their letterman jackets, beam and cheer. Earlier this month,...

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