By: Charis Caputo

Everything about Molly’s Cupcakes is sweet: from the employees’ greetings to the school room décor; from the luscious buttercream frosting to the philanthropic mission inspired by its namesake....

By: Elizabeth Noel

The first sentence on the liability waiver at the Chicago Curling Club states, “I understand that curling is a sport played on ice — a hard and slippery surface.” When I showed up for my Learn 2 Curl lesson hosted by the club in Northbro...

By: Elizabeth Noel

Agnes Ntow did not grow up playing dress up and wearing tiaras. She has never been in a beauty pageant. In fact, until a couple of years ago, she had never heard of Miss Africa USA. So how did she end up on an eastbound plane, heading to Atlanta to repres...

By: Sidra Zaidi

Discreetly placed between the residential apartment buildings that line Greenview Avenue sits the only institution in the world that preserves the history of leather fetishism. The Leather Archives & Museum (acknowledged simply as LA&M on the buil...

By: Sidra Zaidi

It’s a well-known fact that February is Black History Month, but did you know that this national celebration originated in Chicago?...

By: Sarah Rogers

I think I can speak for most Loyola students when I say that it’s easy, especially in the freezing winter months, to get stuck on campus. One day you wake up and realize that you haven’t left Mertz in two weeks except to go to class, or the IC...

By: by Sidra Zaidi

There’s more to those greasy french fries in Rambler Room than you think. By next semester, Loyola’s shuttle service fuel will be combined with five percent of biodiesel made from leftover fryer oil by Loyola students....

By: by Nicole Charky

Here is a secret. I would like to take you on a date to my new favorite place. It will not be a formal date so forget your stilettos, but prepare to have your mind blown, intellectually. In five minutes, I will meet you at the Red Line. We will get off at...

By: Elizabeth Noel

The silent battle can be seen every day in Rambler Room and Market 820. “To get a cookie, or not to get a cookie?” students debate as they stare down chocolaty chunk goodness.  Fortunately, there is now a reason for Loyola students to fee...

By: Rob Liss

During my first experience with a refugee family, I was sitting in the family’s house with another volunteer I had just met, being served fruit and tea, and was asked, as politely as possible, what exactly it was we were doing there....

By: Mumtaj Chand

Imagine for once that you are not seeing these white letters in newspaper print, simply because you could not. You are shut off from all the color and beauty that surrounds you, and instead are immersed into a vast pool of darkness. Fortunately, you are n...

By: Elizabeth Esche

Eight years ago, Loyola’s mock trial team had six members, barely enough to scrape together a team, and failed to complete their first regional competition. Today, Loyola boasts 28 mockers and three separate teams, two of which are nationally ranked...

By: Charis Caputo

Just across from the Morse Red Line stop sits the Heartland Cafe with its casual ambience and rooftop gardens, where every Wednesday night at 10, patrons honor a 22-year-old-tradition. The In One Ear poetry night, a non-slam open mic, which began in 1987,...

By: Elizabeth Noel

Approaching Jackson and Columbus  Avenues this past weekend, ears rattled with the drone of bagpipes, nostrils filled with the scent of hearty shepherd’s pie and toes tapped to the beat of a traditional jig. No, St. Patrick’s Day did not ...

By: Gabriel Solis

Do you often wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, screaming for something a little more Polish? Do you find yourself tracing pierogis in your spare time and humming “Goralski Taniec” to your lover? If you answered yes to any ...