Evanston Fire Department crews had just rescued a dog in distress from the icy Dog Beach Jan. 25. The firefighters had started packing up their equipment when they got the word. Another dog down. “A guy comes up to us and says, ‘Hey, there’s a dog in the water,’” Capt. Ryan Roeder told The Daily. ...
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Howard Street’s Best Buy will close March 1, leaving customers to browse the electronics retailer’s website or drive outside the city to other locations in Skokie and Norridge. The shutdown comes as the company shuts down stores nationwide amid declining sales after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Verge. The Evanston Best Buy permanently closing...
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Downtown cafes like Colectivo Coffee, Egg Harbor Cafe and Le Peep are just a few of the establishments looking to add warmth to winter with new menu specials. Several restaurants in Evanston feature seasonal concoctions, ranging from holiday-themed pancakes to winter-flavored lattes. Colectivo Coffee, a Milwaukee-based coffee chain on Church Street, revealed its winter menu...
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A few weeks ago, while cleaning out her childhood bedroom, former Northwestern women’s soccer player Emma Phillips found a handwritten note, signed by her 12-year-old self. “Never give up on soccer,” it read, written in green marker and underlined in red for emphasis. “If you ever get the chance to play professionally … take it.” ...
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This article contains minor spoilers. When Communication freshman Sarah Bock walked onto the set of “Severance,” she joined a distinguished cast that included Patricia Arquette, Adam Scott, Christopher Walken and director Ben Stiller. “I was so starstruck,” Bock said. “I was pretty shy and quiet for the first couple of months, but after a while,...
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After securing five victories at the DeCicco Duals in its most recent showing, No. 10 Northwestern hosted its inaugural Schiller Duals at Ryan Fieldhouse this weekend, finishing with eight wins in 10 matchups. Previously known as the Northwestern Duals, the event was renamed to honor former Wildcats (26-7) fencing coach Laurie Schiller. In Schiller’s 38...
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Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a three-part column by Allen You. If nobody reads Northwestern’s campus magazines today, it’s not simply due to general apathy. The stories are boring, and the designs are repetitive. Really, who should be reading them? They are, for the most part, not worth reading. Despite this, magazines...
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1st Ward candidate Stephen Hackney’s recent Op-Ed reads as though it was penned by President Donald Trump himself. Hackney advocates to defund the federal government, seemingly believing that taxpayers should only support programs from which they personally benefit. This stance mirrors the Trump administration’s approach which led to threats against crucial programs like Medicaid, Head...
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Northwestern recovered from closing-time stumbles to outlast Georgia Tech 4-2 in a match lasting more than three and a half hours Sunday afternoon. Graduate student No. 3 Britany Lau and sophomore No. 6 Autumn Rabjohns each won three-set singles battles after failing to serve out their matches in the second set, clinching victories within a...
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Even graduate student Britany Lau lost track of how many match points she had during her three-set singles affair against Georgia Tech’s Given Roach. Eight match points came and went for Lau throughout the second and third sets. It wasn’t until she was up 5-3 in the third set on her ninth match point that...
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Only a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump declared that “America’s Golden Age” had begun. It was the culmination of a groundbreaking political movement. A lame duck, “last ride” of sorts, with an epic succession battle worthy of the most dramatic TV adaptation. We even got a new black “MAGA” hat, with the movement’s rallying...
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