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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Is modern dating killing the anniversary?

Analise Bruno April 4, 2025
Whether it's your 36th wedding anniversary, your 16th birthday or even your 55th anniversary of establishing that one newspaper — milestones come in all forms — these dates are worth acknowledging. 
Emma Hart | Graphic Artist

Valentine’s Day: the holiday single people love to hate

Daniela Cejudo Curiel February 11, 2025
Learning to be alone isn’t easy, and it feels even harder during a holiday dedicated to love. But love isn’t only romantic — it deserves to be celebrated in all its forms. 
Liza Berdykulova | Graphic Artist

This is 20

Sophia Keohane December 4, 2024
I am officially a 20-year-old. Light the candles, pop the sparkling cider. A new chapter has begun. Many people say that this will be the best decade of my life. 
Parade participants cheer from a duck boat on Causeway Street. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Celebrators crowd Boston streets for the Celtics’ victory parade

Lauren Albano June 24, 2024
In celebration of the Boston Celtics claiming their 18th championship in the NBA Finals last Monday, the City of Boston put on its Rolling Rally victory parade.
Holi participants dance to music and throw colored powder in the air at the festival on Cummington Mall. MOLLY POTTER/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

GALLERY: BU colors Cummington Mall for Holi

Corinne Davidson April 4, 2024

  GALLERY: BU colors Cummington Mall for Holi   by Corinne Davidson, Kate Kotlyar, Zoe Ku, Molly Potter, Zach Schwartz and Xiaoya Shao The Boston University Hindu Cultural Association...

Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

How to survive Spooky Season without being spooked

Samantha Marshall October 22, 2023
Halloween is a holiday filled with scares, frights and trips to haunted attractions with friends. For many people, Halloween is the perfect time to visit a haunted house and get your adrenaline running. But if you’re like me –– Halloween usually is not so fun.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

You Had Me at ‘It’s Gay’

Kal Hawley October 1, 2023
Hi, my name is Kal Hawley. I’m 18 years old, and I am so, so queer. And whether you are too, or you’re not sure yet, or you’re just bored and scrolling through The Daily Free Press, I hope this column can help you find something a little more interesting than a forced romance between two characters who really were better as friends or the “shy girl inexplicably wins the heart of popular guy” trope.
Brett Abrams | Senior Graphic Artist

EDITORIAL: Borgston University might have an alcohol problem

Editors April 18, 2023
While some ran laps, students at Boston University and surrounding schools celebrated, not with applause and cheers, but with bottles and booze. April 17 marks another holiday known by most as “MarMon”— an abbreviation for “marathon Monday,” though it mainly describes an all-day drinking fest.
A crowd cheers during Holi.

BU Hindu Cultural Association celebrates Holi

Andrew Burke-Stevenson March 30, 2023
BU Hindu Cultural Association put on a 2-hour Holi celebration this past Sunday in Cummington Mall.
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Boston’s SubDrift chapter hosts art showcase at the MFA to celebrate Diwali

James Buckser October 31, 2022
Subcontinental Drift, a growing national arts movement uplifting South Asian communities, welcomed visitors from all over the Boston Area to their Diwali showcase at the Museum of Fine Arts for an evening of art, performances and cultural celebration on Oct. 27.
Holi Gallery

GALLERY: Holi at Boston University

Taylor Coester April 3, 2022

Boston University Hindu Students Council hosted a celebration for Holi, the Hindu festival of love, color and the coming of spring, at Cummington Mall from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. March 20. The celebration...

jack-o'-lantern on a wall

Disillusioned by holidays

Veronica Thompson October 14, 2021
About two years ago, I decided to stop participating in holidays because they were stressing me out.
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