Stories by Nick Merrill

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“I think I may actually be one of the few, if not the only, black males to ever live in ...

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"Exit Through the Gift Shop" is the epitome of the postmodern documentary. It is a documentary about a documentary. But it's also about art, what art is and if the documentary itself is art. It’s all very meta.

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"The buildings all went up in the last two hundred years. It was flat. So it was the opposite of Taiwan I guess."

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He had this delivery like he'd watched too many American cartoons. And he chucked the rock at the waterwheel.

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The Oriental Theater 24 W. Randolph St. Back in the height of the Jazz Era, the Oriental Theater was among ...

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Talking chemistry with the creator of Lyrica, the drug that keeps Northwestern's endowment afloat.

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We're going back to the 90s for the original game that failed despite being awesome.

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And then all of a sudden, half-way through telling him some story of questionable appropriateness I realize I'm drunk and that I'm being an idiot, and I quickly try to change the topic to e-books.

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How the debate over the Rock excavation is about more then just a few layers of paint: it's about tradition.

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A group of students hacked decades of paint off the Rock on Monday, claiming the structure has history. But does the Rock itself carry more historic weight than the paint upon it?

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Soul singer Darrin James talks about his youth, the state of contempary music, and his latest album.

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The key to enjoying this dark dramedy comes in one of the film’s funniest lines: “Accept the mystery."