“Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” For many who have read the best-selling novel “The Fault in Our Stars,” these were the words that introduced its many readers to the surrealist artist René Magritte....
Jake Aquino, asst. opinions editor October 3, 2014
Music critic Jake Aquino reviews his favorite album, song and live performance of the summer.
BEST ALBUM: GREEN LANGUAGE BY RUSTIE
One of the most underrated DJs simply due to his operating outside...
Chicago juke and footwork pioneer DJ Rashad passed away on April 27. He was found dead in his home in the neighborhood of Pilsen, and the cause of death is still unknown. He was 34 years old.
Rashad...
Pinstripes invited the Oracle staff to an hour and a half of free bowling on the evening of April 21. Since I hadn’t been to Pinstripes since it opened in 2007, I was interested in checking out the upscale...
Audiences were packed into the movie theatre in 2012 to learn the fate of Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man. They left with the death of Gwen Stacy’s father, Captain Stacy, and a promise from Peter...
“My daddy a gangsta.” With his 5-year-old daughter’s opening statement, Quincy Hanley, a.k.a Schoolboy Q, launches into the first song of his third studio album, Oxymoron, appropriately titled “Gangsta.”...
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire blazed a bright trail in box offices its opening weekend, earning its place as the best November movie debut of all time, according to Entertainment Weekly. This highly...
Homemade tortillas. Do you even know what that entails? Honestly, I have no idea, but the good people at El Mexican Restaurant in Glenview, are serving them daily.
The restaurant opened up just...
You know what I’m always thinking about right before lunchtime? The weight room: filled with sticky benches, rusty iron bars, sweaty pubescent boys, and smelly tough guys galore. That’s the kind...
Vampire Weekend has been making waves with their indie-pop sound since forming in 2006 after meeting at Columbia University in New York City. Their first two records, Vampire Weekend, released in 2008;...
The only thing more elaborate than the life of Jay Gatsby is Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of it on the big screen.
Earlier this month, The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic...
Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), a teenage girl from small town Louisiana, is one of the few humans left on planet Earth. With everyone else getting caught and transformed by the alien race, she is left...
