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Northern Star A lot of people enjoy the mound of frosting that is almost bigger than the cake on most desserts you can buy from the grocery store, but that frosting deserves to be scrapped off into the trash and forgotten. The problem is that cake is already very sweet on its own, and frosting feels like straight sugar in a fluffy format. By adding it to cake, it overpowers it to the point that more than one bite will send you straight into a sugar coma. Not only that, the actual cake part of a birthday cake is the best part. It could stand on its own as one of the best desserts around, and y...

Northern Star The first day of April is not a day where people can pull practical jokes; it is a day where people are expected to pull practical jokes. April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582 France, when the country switched over from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, according to History. Many people were not accustomed to the new year starting on January 1, as the Julian calendar has it starting with the spring equinox around April 1, so many people rang in the new year three months too late. These people became the butt of many jokes and pranks due to this, and were called “A...

DeKALB – Gas prices continue to rise across the country. The average price of gas in Illinois on March 15 was $3 per gallon, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 4,378 stations in the state. That is a 10.7 cents per gallon increase from last week and see prices in the state 35.8 cents higher...

There has been a decrease in COVID-19 cases in the state recently as vaccines continue to be distributed, but this amazing development does not mean people should become any more relaxed in following COVID-19 protocols. On March 8, Chicago saw an all time low seven-day positivity rate of 2.8 percent, as well as a 6...

Northern Star García Peña is a Roy G. Clouse associate professor of romance languages and literature and of history and literature at Harvard University. Her studies cover a wide range of topics, including Latinx studies in global perspectives, Hispanic Caribbean literature and culture, performance studies, race and ethnicity, transnational feminism, migration, human rights, Dominican and Dominican diaspora studies,” according to Harvard’s official website.  Her book, “The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions,” which studies how both fictional and ...