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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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SMASH Boston gathers marginalized creators to share skills, experiences   

Hannah Shearer October 30, 2017

Like with many STEM fields, women are vastly underrepresented in music production and sound engineering, as reported by The Atlantic this summer. Only seven percent of the Audio Engineering Society’s...

BU’s Stage Troupe premiered Woody Allen’s “Play it Again, Sam” this weekend at the Student Theater at Agganis Arena. PHOTO COURTESY BU STAGE TROUPE

REVIEW: Stage Troupe’s “Play It Again, Sam” plays up humor, romance

Maisie Guzi April 4, 2016

The Student Theater at Agganis Arena is difficult to find. The door is tucked away in a small nook, cozily situated in the passageway between Agganis Arena and the Boston University Fitness and Recreation...

A café au Lait at Equal Exchange Café in the North End. PHOTO BY SONIA RAO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

FreeP vs. Food: Coffee Crawl

Becca DeGregorio February 11, 2016

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Due to the whirlwind nature of college, sleepy students often resort to the nearest coffee locale to keep their eyelids a little less droopy. More often than not, this...

Boston University alumna Rob Shore is the business manager for LCD Soundsystem, Ed Sheeran and Radiohead. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROB SHORE

Mobiles skwerking, mobiles chirping, manager Shore takes money and runs bands’ finances

Becca DeGregorio April 23, 2015

For Boston University alum Rob Shore, music means business, and business means finance. As the founder and CEO of Rob Shore & Associates Inc., Shore manages artists from hard-edged Slipknot to...

“Unfriended,” a story of friends being haunted by an online presence, will be released April 17. PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES

REVIEW: Audiences unfollow clichéd characters of “Unfriended”

Becca DeGregorio April 17, 2015

Six teens Skype on screen: brunette Blaire (Shelley Hennig), who enjoys settling arguments; her blue-eyed boyfriend Mitch (Moses Jacob Storm); seemingly ditsy Jess (Renee Olstead); token hot-head Adam...

Anya Oskolkova is a managing partner and director of media relations at Zazil Media Group. PHOTO COURTESY OF ZAZIL MEDIA GROUP

Media manager Oskolkova on company narratives, including own

Becca DeGregorio April 9, 2015

In the eyes of Anya Oskolkova, the business world’s cold façade is more than a stereotype: it’s an act. A Boston University alum, she runs media relations and is a managing partner at the Boston-by-way-of-New-York-based...

Students are served food at the Thai Festival in the George Sherman Union Thursday night. PHOTO BY BECCA DEGREGORIO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BUTSA pads Thai festival with even bigger taste of culture

Becca DeGregorio March 20, 2015

The BU Thai Student Association spiced up its annual Thai Festival with food, games and a celebration of Thai culture Thursday night. The festival is the student association’s biggest fundraiser of...

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan star as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in “50 Shades of Grey,” released Friday. PHOTO COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES

REVIEW: “Fifty Shades” whips up more laughs than lust

Becca DeGregorio February 13, 2015

It’s a touchy subject but conclusive all the same. This Valentine’s Day’s spotlight film, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” can be described best by its pre-screening banter more than anything: “I...

The RadioShack on Commonwealth Avenue is one of 1,784 stores the company will be closing. PHOTO BY BRIAN SONG/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Death of a Sales Floor: RadioShack faces bankruptcy, 1,784 closures

Becca DeGregorio February 12, 2015

In 1921, RadioShack first opened its doors in downtown Boston, serving radio operators of Boston Harbor ships. Now, after expanding to over 4,000 locations nationwide, the electronics retailer is jumping...

Spotzer, an app which finished its first round of funding this month, hopes to change the way visitors experience museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. PHOTO BY FALON MORAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston start-up Spotzer aims to sync mobile with Monet

Becca DeGregorio January 29, 2015

Digesting visual art, from cubist Picasso to dancey Degas, takes work. Developing artistic taste can beg even more. As fewer and fewer people find themselves making the effort, the museum industry is...

In 2014, Boston University researchers have made innovations in everything from combatting global warming to securing wireless information. GRAPHIC BY MIKE DESOCIO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Protecting ‘The Cloud’ and the Earth: A 2014 review of science at BU

Becca DeGregorio December 11, 2014

“Eureka!” might serve as a proper summary for Boston University’s scientific community in 2014. But given this year’s wealth of topics investigated by faculty, staff and students, catchphrases...

The new storefront, which opened Friday, offers a wider variety of frozen treats and baked goods than the original truck. PHOTO BY BECCA DEGREGORIO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Frozen Hoagies opens first brick and mortar shop in Somerville

Becca DeGregorio November 24, 2014

“How did I eat the whole thing?” Nuzzling up to a white window-bar, I stared at the last remaining licks of ice cream soup lining the walls of my Styrofoam bowl. That ice cream sandwich was the...

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