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With Northwestern’s season kicking off next Monday against Mercyhurst, The Daily’s men’s basketball reporters previewed the upcoming campaign. This roundtable features a guest contribution from former NU center Keenan Fitzmorris. What is the biggest storyline of the upcoming season? Anna Watson: Which new pieces will support Nick Martinelli? Martinelli, a senior forward, is more than...

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With Northwestern opening its season next Wednesday against IU Indianapolis, The Daily’s women’s basketball reporters previewed the upcoming campaign.  What is the biggest storyline of the upcoming season? Andrew Little: Replacing Caileigh Walsh and Melannie Daley’s production In recent seasons, the Wildcats leaned on Walsh and Daley as the team’s top scorers, as their veteran...

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Commencement for the Class of 2026 will be held on June 14. The celebration will return to the United Center for the third year in a row, Northwestern announced Tuesday.  Individual school convocations will take place on the Evanston campus during Graduation Weekend between June 12-15, according to the news release. In previous years, commencement...

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For Stumble & Relish owner Jaime Leonardi, tariffs have affected every single line of goods in her store.  Leonardi tries her best to source from local artists, and the store sells a variety of goods. From journals to jewelry, prioritizing handmade and small artisan items is key to the store. But, she said, tariffs are...

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Children darted around the gymnasium, hula hoops in hand, while families ate together in the cafeteria across the hall at Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies’ annual Fall Fest on Saturday. Outside, 5th Ward resident Taylor Carpenter watched her two daughters shout with glee on an inflatable bouncy house. Her eldest just started kindergarten...

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Wearing shades of green and carrying signs reading “One city, one union” and “Union busting is disgusting,” dozens of AFSCME Local 1891 union members arrived about 15 minutes early to City Council’s Monday meeting. They protested the potential separation of the Evanston Public Library from the city, as well as voicing internal library concerns. In...

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In 2020, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist — often known to fans as Alc — released their album “Alfredo.” Five years later, the rapper-producer pair returned with a sequel, “Alfredo 2,” released July 25, trading the first record’s Italian-mobster vibe for a Japanese Yakuza-inspired, crime noir sound. The legendary duo stopped by Chicago’s sold-out Byline...

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This review contains spoilers.  Season 2 of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This,” released Thursday, builds on the previous season’s humor while adding new growth and insight to its characters. But the show’s original charm is lost in the latest episode’s twists and turns.  The show picks up a few months after the ending of Season 1,...

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Kneeling in a wooded area of Harbert-Payne Park, a 13.5-acre city park nestled along the bank of the North Shore Channel, 4th Ward resident Allison Sloan pinched the leaves of a young buckthorn shrub with her pink gardening gloves. Its round leaves were untouched by hungry bugs, she noted — local insects have not adapted...

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Prior to arriving on campus, Weinberg freshman Ben O’Shaughnessy expected making friends to be hard, but he was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to make genuine connections. A resident of Elder Hall, located on North Campus, O’Shaughnessy described the dorm as fairly social, and he said Northwestern has a lot of communities that...

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This review contains spoilers.  Balancing newfound stardom with haunting memories of his past, Jeremy Allen White portrays singer Bruce Springsteen both on the road to fame and in the lows of his personal life. The new biopic, “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” follows Springsteen in the creation of the album “Nebraska” during a deeply depressive...

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Paintbrushes were swapped out for knives at ARTica’s pumpkin carving event as students rolled up their sleeves to carve intricate designs Tuesday on the Norris South Lawn.  The event offered students a chance to celebrate the Halloween season with free pumpkin carving from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Both individually and in groups, students gave...

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When Baja SAE members tried to access the Ford Prototyping Lab after hours at the end of the second week of Fall Quarter, their card access was denied, McCormick senior Ryan Kelly said.  Last academic year, the shop was open to any NU student from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. However, trained students were granted...

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This article contains spoilers. Throughout history, audiences have been introduced to a wide variety of monsters. While Count Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are some of the most popular, few have the same notoriety as Frankenstein’s monster. Since 1910, there have been over 400 feature-length films about the Halloween icon created by Dr. Frankenstein...

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Content Warning: This story contains mentions of violence. “It’s the granddaddy of them all,” President Donald Trump said before the Israeli Knesset, referring to the ceasefire deal he brokered between Israel and Hamas earlier this month. “This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.” But before it realizes a “new dawn,” Israel owes...

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Shortly before the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education scaled back its plan to close three schools at its Monday night meeting — opting instead for a two-school closure scenario, dozens of community members protested outside the Joseph E. Hill Early Childhood Center. The demonstration followed a Sunday afternoon rally in Ackerman Park, where...

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Northwestern interim President Henry Bienen appointed a 14-member committee to lead the search for the next provost, the University announced Monday. After five years in the position, Provost Kathleen Hagerty will step down at the end of the 2025-26 academic year, NU announced Oct. 23.  The Office of the Provost oversees NU’s schools and libraries,...

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In Today’s Crossword: 1 Across, 4 Letters: “The ____ Walk,” a novel by Stephen King with a 2025 movie adaptation

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The development proposal for the building at 605 Davis St. cleared its first hurdle at City Council Monday night.  Introduced with a 5-4 vote, the ordinance would allow for construction of the proposed 29-story, 419-unit mixed-use building, of which 84 residential units — 20% of the total — would qualify as affordable housing under the...

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