If you wake up in the morning to find your lawn wet, you are probably more likely to attribute the wetness to rain or dew than to a giant sentient ice cube with legs that stomped through your neighborhood, leaving a trail of water in its wake.

Gunshots rang out on the afternoon of September 2, 1885, in Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory. Home to hundreds of Chinese coal miners who had come to the United States for work, the settlement’s Chinatown was facing impending bloodshed.

Who was Helen Pitts Douglass, and how did her marriage to Frederick become akin to a national scandal?

Sigmund Freud has always been a controversial figure. The Oedipus complex, a theory that suggests that every single person has deeply repressed incestuous instincts for their parents since childhood, is no less so.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Perhaps a transitional reptilian species that displays early mammalian physiology? The platypus, like Superman, is none of the above.

Sightings of mysterious floating balls of light have captivated humanity across many different cultures, inspiring a myriad of fantastical explanations and mythical stories.

For proponents of making AAVE a language, the status of a stand-alone language legitimizes the history and systematic nature of AAVE and ensures that educators will be better prepared to teach Black students.

Whether they are playing on the stage of Carnegie Hall, where they received critical acclaim for their performance, under the harvest moon at Juilliard, where they came up with their group’s name, or in UChicago’s own Mandel Hall, Trio Céleste never ceases to amaze.

Fiterstein is modest in his playing, not allowing his virtuosity to eclipse the music itself. Instead, his virtuosity and profound musical sensibility heighten the music he plays to an unmatched level.

When the 11th season of Doctor Who was announced, nobody knew what to expect. Not only was there a change in showrunner from Steven Moffat to Chris Chibnall, but the Doctor is now a woman and has three companions instead of two.

Working from strikingly different scripts, the directors of the shows brought forward a uniform desire for quality and their own individualistic interpretations of the stories they had to bring to life.

Before his upcoming performances, Barenboim speaks about conducting, language, and the way that music overpowers cultural tensions.

As the opening act for the 75th season of UChicago Presents, Takács Quartet delivered a breathtaking performance on the evening of October 12.