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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Dad music and South Campus | Maia’s Inner Monologue

Maia Penzer October 16, 2023
Welcome to the new week! I hope you had an enjoyable weekend. It’s a bit sad to transition back to the workweek, isn’t it? Let's take a moment to recap the weekend.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

I won’t mind it if you stay | On the Record

Addison Schmidt September 13, 2023
On Sept. 1, I received an email from the Boston Globe opinion section. I have the bad habit of allowing these emails to build up like dust in my inbox, unread and unnoticed, but the headline — which addressed a nameless subject — caught my attention. It read: “We can’t miss you if you won’t go away.” 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab scientist and artist Thomas Sanchez Lengeling and MIT researcher Brodi Elwood spoke about their synesthesia research at swissnex Boston’s “LASER Boston — Sensory Overload” event in Cambridge Friday night. COURTESY SWISSNEX BOSTON

LASER bridges gap between art and science in interactive experience

Amanda Cappelli February 13, 2020
Four art and science professionals taught a high-spirited audience about the concepts of sensation, perception and music at swissnex Boston’s “LASER Boston — Sensory Overload” event in Cambridge on Friday.
Alan Cumming performs at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University Oct. 6. PHOTO COURTESY ROBERT TORRES/ CELEBRITY SERIES

Alan Cumming visits Cambridge to sing ‘sappy songs’

Hannah Shearer October 13, 2017

“I’m here to sing you some sappy songs,” Alan Cumming said in the middle of his second tune last Friday. “Be warned. Have a hanky at the ready.” Cumming performed at a nearly sold-out...

Singer-songwriter Gabe Dixon releases "Live in Boston," his album recorded at the Red Room at Berklee College of Music’s Cafe 939, on Friday. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

REVIEW: Gabe Dixon’s “Live in Boston” is musician’s best album yet

Jon Ollom September 7, 2017

Singer and pianist extraordinaire Gabe Dixon has returned to the music scene with a new album, “Live in Boston,” which was recorded live in the Red Room atCafe 939 at Berklee College of Music. In...

WILSHERE: How well can we really know someone?

WILSHERE: How well can we really know someone?

Meredith Wilshere March 28, 2016

Recently, I was floored by some new information I heard from a friend about an ex. I do not wish to incriminate him, though I don’t think he would think twice about it, but it affirmed my post-breakup...

Historical society celebrates Allston-Brighton music scene

Daily Free Press Admin February 25, 2014

The vibrant music scene of Allston-Brighton was relived through a presentation Monday by the Brighton-Allston Historical Society  in an ongoing attempt to keep the musical history of the neighborhood...

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