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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

The renaissance of early 2000s music

Lavanya Menon February 28, 2024
From Britney Spears to Madonna to Nelly Furtado, 2000s music is coming back in full force, and here’s how I know: Its style and fashion are being revived by other artists. 
Samantha Sanders | Graphic Artist

‘The Woman in Me’: Britney Spears is sharing her story, on her terms

Lucas De Oliveira November 6, 2023
“The Woman in Me” was released on Oct. 24, and after starting the book the minute I was able to get a copy, I finished the memoir two days later. I just couldn’t put it down.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Bubble Burst: Empathy’s extent

Lydia Evans February 17, 2022
Empathy is essential, but accountability is as well. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Don’t be a hypocrite: Teen drama isn’t newsworthy

Viktoria Popovska February 10, 2022
These middle-aged men use children's drama for clicks, and it's disgusting.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The toxicity of tabloids can be lessened with respect, empathy

Editors March 29, 2021
Tabloids will never be fully ethical or accurate, but we can try to be respectful.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: The profound connection between conservatorship, exploitation

Max Ferrandino February 24, 2021
The conservatorship system is fundamentally exploitative and does not have the interests of the conservatee at heart.
Columbia University professor Tey Meadow speaks about her new book “Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century” Monday as part of Boston University Department of Sociology’s seminar series. HALEY ABRAM/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Columbia University professor shares research on transgender children at seminar series

Eleanor Ho October 25, 2018
Columbia University professor Tey Meadow recalled meeting Rafe, one of the research subjects in her new book “Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century,” as a young girl demonstrating a dance move from a Britney Spears video.
TENTINDO: We deserve better than celebrity gossip

TENTINDO: We deserve better than celebrity gossip

Will Tentindo December 4, 2016

So much is said about the way millennials grew up and what differentiates our generation from others, but one moment in time every young adult remembers is singer Britney Spears’ 2007 public breakdown....

Boston University alumna Mariana Agathoklis is the vice president of communications at MTV. PHOTO COURTESY MARIANA AGATHOKLIS

TERRIERS INBIZ: Mariana Agathoklis on managing communications at MTV

Clara Hudson December 10, 2015

Terriers InBiz is a series that highlights Boston University alumni who have been innovative leaders in their field and have played a significant role in businesses, locally or globally. MTV was a staple...

All-female Boston University a cappella group, Chordially Yours, will perform two songs at the Wilbur Theatre Thursday as the opening act for Lena Dunham's book tour. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHORDIALLY YOURS

BU a cappella group Chordially Yours opens Lena Dunham’s book tour at Wilbur Theatre

Hannah Landers October 2, 2014

When Boston University College of Communication senior Jen Gregorio heard that her all-female a cappella group, Chordially Yours, would be opening the sold-out Boston stop of Lena Dunham’s book tour...

MARK: Join me on my Soap Box

Daily Free Press Admin April 10, 2013

It seems like a requirement for being a celebrity is to skirt the line of sanity and to do so in the most public of ways. Sad to say, Amanda Bynes is the latest case of celebrity meltdowns. Over the weekend...

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