The year is 1990, and Carbondale is booming. Southern Illinois University enrollment is at an all-time high, and on a Friday night, there is no better place to be. The night would start in a friend’s...

When I found out I was going to get to write a column saying goodbye, I had no idea how I would even begin to write such a thing. There is far too much to say than will ever fit in this paper.   Then...

This digital age that we have cultivated demands immediacy — we scroll, think and live rapidly. We have lost the art of living in the moment, and we throw time around like there is an abundance of...

In the last few years, the Daily Egyptian has emerged as one of the leading sources of investigative journalism in southern Illinois, a place teeming with stories to tell, and hardly anyone to tell them.  Whenever...

After wrapping up a 75-69 victory over the Evansville Purple Aces on Sunday, March 8 the Salukis women’s basketball squad now turns their attention to Hoops in the Heartland, the Missouri Valley...

Forewarning, if you are over the age of 40, a few of these concepts may send you into some sort of psychosis. If you’d like to blame someone for destroying how my generation grapples with intimacy,...

Sometime in 2017 in a classroom at Galatia Junior High — after third period art class and before square pizza paired with milk for lunch — yours truly was 13 and watching a teacher put a condom...

I started working at the Daily Egyptian in late 2021 to delay some burnout I could see coming my way as a pre-med student. Also, I had just been fired from my maintenance job at Evergreen Terrace. It was...

For the last year and a half, I have spent a lot of time pouring myself into this newspaper through my role as editor-in-chief. Leaving at 10 p.m. most nights — and even 3 a.m. on some nights — shedding...

In an attempt to revitalize the Carbondale spirit that once bewitched over 20,000 students to SIU, the city, the university and alumni have come together to collaborate on creating a consolidated Halloween...

If you’re unfamiliar with “Falsettos,” the SIU School of Theater and Dance doesn’t hesitate to integrate you into William Finn and James Lapine's story of faith, love and family, set at the beginning...