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Plants of BU Instagram Account

New student-led Instagram account features plants and community

Molly Farrar May 16, 2021
@plants.of.bu shares plant tips, tricks and trivia while supporting the BIPOC and queer community.
kristen bell in veronica mars

Dream TV spin-offs

Emma Simonoff April 15, 2021
Sometimes when I’m watching television, there are characters or storylines I want to see more of.
Alexia Nizhny

Sincerely, Ally: Broken language is a beautiful reminder of the way our worlds blend

Alexia Nizhny November 20, 2020
My misuse of certain vocabulary words painted its own picture — a vibrant world of Russian and English influence.
Director Eliza Hittman, shown at the 2017 Montclair Film Festival. In her latest film, “Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always,” Hittman tells the story of 17-year-old girl who must travel from her hometown in Pennsylvania to New York City to get an abortion, released on streaming services Friday. COURTESY FRANK SCHRAMM VIA FLICKR

REVIEW: “Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always” depicts the struggle of a teen pregnancy with grace

Ausma Palmer April 6, 2020
Director Eliza Hittman’s new film “Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always,” shares the personal story of 17-year-old Autumn as she travels to New York City to get an abortion.
Students at the Breaking Boundaries conference in the George Sherman Union. Next Wave in Business, a nonprofit organization aimed at providing Black and Latinx undergraduate students with employment opportunities, hosted a conference for college students from across the United States and Latin America last weekend at the GSU and the College of Arts and Sciences. COURTESY OF TONY RICE II/ NEXT WAVE BUSINESS

Next Wave in Business seeks to ‘Break Boundaries’ at inaugural, annual conference

Eduard Miska October 15, 2018
Black and Latinx undergraduate students traveled across the United States and Latin America to gather on campus this weekend for the Next Wave in Business’ inaugural “Breaking Boundaries” conference.
British electronic artist SG Lewis performs at The Sinclair in Cambridge Sunday night. LEXI PLINE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: SG Lewis brings chill vibes, big smile to Cambridge venue

Dahlia Maleh October 4, 2018
SG Lewis erupted onto the electronic dance music scene in 2014 with his remix of Jessie Ware’s “You & I (Forever),” and over the last four years, the 24 year old has racked up an impressive following with over 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Kelsey Regina Byrne, also known by the stage name Vérité performs at the House of Blues on Monday. She opened for the band EDEN. PHOTO BY HANNAH ROGERS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: EDEN and Vérité bring electro and pop together at House of Blues

Hannah Rogers April 4, 2018

EDEN, an Irish artist who produces ethereal, techno tracks accompanied by deep and soulful vocals, transformed the stage at Boston’s House of Blues on Monday with his unique use of lighting and effects...

PHOTO COURTESY PEXELS

EDITORIAL: Cities will always attract younger generations

Editors January 24, 2017

Hearing the constant sound of car horns, avoiding reckless drivers, trekking crowded subway platforms, maneuvering busy streets on their way to work — for some, that sounds like chaos. For many in the...

BURSTEIN: Ted Cruz's New York values comment divisive

BURSTEIN: Ted Cruz’s New York values comment divisive

Sarah Burstein January 19, 2016

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And by that, I mean it’s debate season. I usually love the presidential debates. Give me a nice cup of tea, some politically aware friends and a good presidential...

EDITORIAL: Success Academy's "Got to Go" misses the point of education, discipline

EDITORIAL: Success Academy’s “Got to Go” misses the point of education, discipline

Editors October 30, 2015

The Success Academy charter school system in New York has often been questioned for their practices of supposedly “weeding out” problematic students who they would like to see leave the program. Now,...

EDITORIAL: Rockefeller Foundation's "Hamilton" grant gives students unforeseen chance to "rise up"

EDITORIAL: Rockefeller Foundation’s “Hamilton” grant gives students unforeseen chance to “rise up”

Editors October 28, 2015

Students in low-income school districts around New York will be given the chance of a lifetime in early 2016: they will be seeing the continually sold-out production of “Hamilton” for the #Ham4Ham...

 “While We’re Young,” starring Ben Stiller as Josh (left) and Naomi Watts as Cornelia, premiered in Boston Friday. PHOTO COURTESY OF A24

REVIEW: Few wrinkles in forward-facing “While We’re Young”

Conner Reed April 6, 2015

Noah Baumbach’s latest film, “While We’re Young,” opens with a silent epigraph from 19th century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder”: “I’ve become so disturbed...

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