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Op-Ed: Look How Quirky I Am, I’m Drinking From a Silly Straw and Speaking in Tongues

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“I’m not like other girls” I think to myself as I sip my almond milk latte from my silly straw, listening to the least popular Lana Del Rey songs on Spotify. My laptop is adorned with quotes from shows obscure enough that people are impressed that I know about them, but not so obscure that they can’t recognize them and shower me with praise. And, if that’s not enough, I’m possessed by an ancient Babylonian demon and levitating and speaking in tongues.

Read more Featured, Latest News, Local, No. 397, Year 17

Breaking: Theatre Kid Pretty Sure “Defying Gravity” is what an Orgasm Feels Like

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“I’d only read about it in that book about my changing body my parents gave me when I was 13,” he told Flipside. Although he admits to doing some “online studying” about the subject before he came to Northwestern, he insists that was just so he could be better prepared in case the school put on a production of Cabaret. 

Read more Articles, Entertainment, Featured, Latest News, Local, No. 397, Year 17

Ask Flippy: How do I quietly warn tour-going High School students what they’re getting into?

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Dear Flippington, If you haven’t noticed, it’s that time of year again. All the high schoolers are lining up like lambs to the slaughter to visit our wonderful campus. But they don’t know the horrors. Those guides won’t tell them about the last-minute dining hall crowds at 7, they won’t tell them about the religious zealots on Sheridan that try to trick you into giving them your soul through free coffee, and they sure as hell won’t tell them that

Read more Ask Flippy, Featured, Latest News, Local, No. 392, Opinion, Year 17

Heroism: Local Woman Explains Manifesting to Homeless Person

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After driving five minutes from her Evanston home to Target, 26-year-old Rebecca White noticed what seemed to be an unhoused neighbor standing by the door. The woman then told the man that she could alleviate his suffering through one simple process: manifestation. “I normally would have just walked by, but today I heard one more voice than usual inside my head and it told me to talk to this unhoused man, that it could change his life,” she said. “So

Read more Business, Entertainment, Featured, Local, No. 391, World, Year 17

I think I’m going to eat a squirrel. They’re looking sumptuous.

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It flashes before my eyes. A streak of gray, a small chittering sound, and a set of wide eyes entice me. My mouth waters, soaks in anticipation. I must eat. The hunger consumes me, ravages my body. I am as ravenous as a skeleton waiting for its next indigestible meal. I lock eyes with the creature, my prey. It chomps on its acorn, daring me to bite. Oh squirrel, I must devour you! The sumptuous squirrels on this campus are

Read more Featured, Latest News, Local, No. 390, Opinion, World, Year 17
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