Jenny McCarthy confirms romance with Brian Urlacher, a man was charged in Friday's double murder, and other headlines. more ›

Someone up there is doing Chicago a solid because amid museum closings and NATO hoopla, cartoon genius and former Chicagoan Daniel Clowes touches down in his hometown tonight for a several events running through the weekend. more ›

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Cornell University have created a robotic arm that uses a different approach to grabbing and throwing objects. more ›

The University of Chicago's Doc Films Winter calendar is stuffed to the brim with insanely good choices. more ›

On this day in 1942, a University of Chicago team led by Enrico Fermi created the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, in converted squash courts under Stagg Field, the University’s football stadium. more ›

University of Chicago students don't exactly have a brawny reputation, so it might be surprising to hear about a recent bit of scholarly street justice that went down on campus this week. more ›

On this date in 1922, the first cross-country radio broadcast of a college football happened as Princeton's visited the University of Chicago to take on legendary coach Amos Alonso Stagg and his Chicago Maroons. more ›

As you gear up for the Bears-Saints game tomorrow, consider this: Julius Peppers owes a debt of gratitude to the nerds on the South Side who paved the way for football here. more ›

If "The Construction of Guido Identity" sounds intriguing, clear your schedule on October 28. more ›

In this roundup, a local writer wins a prestigious award. Poetry Foundation's new apps. StoryStudio Chicago readies some writing classes and more. more ›

U of C held a red carpet ceremony for that? more ›

Mayor Daley is expected to announce today his appointment to U of C's Harris School of Public Policy Studies more ›

It's the kind of thing that's just believable enough to be true, just disgusting enough to be shocking (and amusing), and just official-looking to be...well, official. There's only one problem - it's a total hoax. more ›

Who knew there was a lucrative market in helping college students get laid? UChicago Hookups has expanded past Hyde Park, changing the website name to eduHookups and widening its reach to Northwestern and Columbia College Chicago. eduHookups is also set to make an Ivy League invasion by launching for Brown University April 4. more ›

Two University of Chicago grad students are offering a $10,000 reward and set up a hotline for clues to locate the Chicago Police officers they allege beat them in the parking lot of Arturo's Tacos in Bucktown last year. Matthew Clark and Gregory Malandrucco claim in a lawsuit that they were beaten after Malandrucco accidentally bumped into one of the officers while putting on his coat to leave the restaurant. Malandrucco and Clark found the cops waiting for them in the parking lot, where they were kicked and punched so severely they had to seek medical attention. One officer allegedly punched Clark as he was trying to make a 911 call to report the incident and other policemen who responded to the incident reportedly told the two to let it drop. more ›

Two websites run by anonymous University of Chicago students aim to promote matchmaking and casual hookups between students on campus. Guess which one's getting all the press? more ›

The Academic community lost a titan last week, when Miriam Hansen, the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, died after a long battle with cancer. Although she taught in the Department of English, it was the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies and the Film Studies Center, which she founded, that the beloved scholar's legacy will be most be most indelible. Hansen redrew the boundries of film scholarship and influenced a generation of students around the world. more ›

We're going to get some snow tonight, but not enough to freak out about (Actually, you shouldn't be freaking out about tomorrow's snow, either.) Chowdah Fest Chicago, happening tonight at Columbia Yacht Club (here's Anthony's preview) has put up a block of discounted day-of-event admissions for $35. more ›

Hyde Park has always been a bit of an odd duck. Dominated by the University of Chicago, the neighborhood regularly looks for ways to be a staid rebel, thumbing its nose at both the City’s political machine and the academic powerhouse in its midst. Hyde Parkers seem ready to raise a reserved ruckus at the drop of a hat, whether it is over community gardens, alcohol-related zoning, or fair housing. That contrarian stance has helped to make the area what it is: a quiet, vibrant melting pot and perhaps the most boring campus community around. But does it also cost the neighborhood some serious cash? Five thousand U of C undergrads probably think so, every time they hop a bus or train out of the neighborhood in search of fun. more ›

For those of us who weren't lucky enough to traipse the grounds at this Lollapalooza festival during that breezy and beautiful weekend in August, and you missed the awe-inspiring spectacle that is The Arcade Fire, we have some wonderful news in store for you! Jam Productions just announced that The Arcade Fire will be careening onto the stage at the University of Illinois at Chicago's UIC Pavillion on Monday, April 25. more ›

Michele tips us to an online treasure of recently discovered and annotated African American historical artifacts, tirelessly collected by a dedicated researcher. more ›

A few years ago I was lucky enough to meet Darnell Witt, who had just decided to launch a new resource for Chicago movie lovers. That site, CINE-FILE, has been churning out weekly previews of Chicagoland screenings and film events ever since. And among the contributors is yours truly. Well, some exciting news: from January 3 - March 7, Doc Films will be presenting CINE-FILE SELECTS, a weekly film and video series organized by CINE-FILE contributors. Prior to each screening, the contributor who programmed the evening will present a short introduction. more ›

The “Beyond Words: Author Portraits” traveling exhibit by the late Swedish artist and sculptor Carl Köhler is not housed in a trendy gallery or abandoned Wicker Park storefront. You’ll find these paintings and collages of famous writers at the University of Chicago Joseph Regenstein Library. more ›

The University of Chicago recently conducted a study that showed pre-teen adolescents in crime-ridden neighborhoods don't make fast friends. Instead, like warlords in training, they have a "bunker mentality" regarding making friends, base their friendships on strategic relationships based upon the violence in their neighborhoods - who has one's back; who won't snitch. more ›

Metropolitan areas have long held the stigma of comprising the most poverty. But the Great Recession has impacted this notion with surrounding suburbs increasing in poverty while the big cities have seen a slight decrease. more ›

Earlier this month, Gapers Block posted that the University of Chicago was giving away a digital copy of the 1906 Chicago Manual of Style. But...for those of us that aren't dorks for writing rules, what the hell is a style guide? Why do you need so many rules? Why is the Chicago one so damn special, anyways? And will we learn the proper usage of that newfangled electricity stuff and how to cite the 22 cents per day we earn? more ›

We don’t read as often as we should. With such a short window of warm sunny days, we’d rather spend the time with friends outside. And those pesky desk jobs seem to cut into our reading time, too. Ironically, work is where we seem to have the most available free time. If only we could whip out a book instead of waste all that time mindlessly scrolling through Tweets and our Google Reader subscriptions, we’d have so many more intelligent things to add to happy hour conversations. To solve this problem, Get Lit at Your Desk explores some online literature that’s based right here in Chicago. more ›

Via CINE-FILE contributor Michael Castelle, we learn of a mind-bending paper written by former Chicago gay rights activist and linguistics professor Michal Brody. She argues that the Michael Jordan/Bugs Bunny flick Space Jam contains several uncanny parallels to the Popol Vuh, the sacred Mayan text detailing the ancient people's creation account. (The earliest surviving copy of this manuscript is actually in the collection of the Newberry Library.) more ›

It’s commencement season. Every year at this time, there is fierce competition among universities to find prominent figures with the right sort of cache to send their graduates off right. University of Michigan made a splash this year with a speech from President Obama which was less controversial than his Notre Dame appearance last year. What about the local universities? more ›

First they came for our River. Now they’re coming for our Lakes! more ›