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Performers hold up a lion costume during Lunar New Year celebrations in Chinatown on Sunday. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Gallery: Lunar New Year 2024 Celebrations in Chinatown

Andrew Burke-Stevenson February 21, 2024
A Lunar New Year parade marched through Boston’s Chinatown on Sunday, featuring traditional lion dances, drum performances and decorations to bring in the Year of the Dragon.
Students practice calligraphy at the Lunar New Year Culture Fair co-hosted by the Chinese Program and Global House at Myles Standish Hall on Friday. CORINNE DAVIDSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU communities ring in Year of Dragon with Lunar New Year celebrations

Sara Sugita February 18, 2024
BU celebrated the Year of the Dragon with the Chinese Student Association's Lunar New Year Gala, the Taiwanese Overseas Student Association's potluck, and the Chinese Program's Culture Fair.
Lunar New Year decorations in Chinatown

Boston Winter Express spices up the weekends with cold weather joy

Yoko Zhu February 11, 2022
The Boston Winter Express will begin with a Lunar New Year celebration on Feb. 13 at Chinatown.
Lunar New Year celebration Feb. 2, 2020. Lunar New Year 2021 began Friday, with celebrations across Boston taking place virtually. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DFP FILE

Virtual celebrations usher in the Year of the Ox

Taylor Brokesh February 17, 2021
Chinatown was unusually quiet this Lunar New Year, as the typical festivals and parade were replaced by virtual, pandemic-friendly alternatives.
Boston University Study Abroad Office. BU canceled its Spring Shanghai Internship Program Jan. 7 due to risks associated with COVID-19. SYDNEY MAES/ DFP FILE

BU Shanghai Internship Program canceled for cohort of international students

Colbi Edmonds January 25, 2021
The Boston University Shanghai Internship Program was canceled for the Spring semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those accepted into the program were a cohort of international students living in China, who are now re-registering for classes on the Charles River Campus.
Chinese lion dancers performing outside the Gates of Chinatown for their annual Chinese New Years parade Sunday. GABRIELA HUTCHINGS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Chinatown holds parade to celebrate Chinese New Year

Roshni Kotwani February 21, 2019
The Lion Dance Parade this Sunday was part of the celebrations for the Chinese New Year, which was on Feb. 5.
VALLUVAR: Food, glorious food

VALLUVAR: Food, glorious food

Revathi Valluvar November 11, 2016

Singapore is a country that is smaller than the city of New York. It’s a beautiful city, but after a while, there just isn’t all that much to do. So how do Singaporeans pass time? By exploring food....

Paul Horwitz, a law professor at University of Alabama School of Law, opens the “When God Isn’t Green: A World-Wide Journey to Places Where Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide” discussion of BU Law Professor Jay Wexler’s book “When God Isn’t Green" Monday afternoon in Barristers Hall. PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

INTERVIEW: Jay Wexler exposes conflict between religion and environment

Emily Langan March 28, 2016

What happens when religious practices are called into question because of harm to the environment? Which is more important: the freedom of religion or the preservation of our home? Jay Wexler,...

RILEY: North and South

RILEY: North and South

Rachel Riley March 4, 2015

Before starting my freshman year at Boston University, I had to make the most immense move of my life: leaving a rural college town in the South, smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt, for a small,...

$5 in Chinatown: Why we should all eat Chinese pastries

Daily Free Press Admin February 14, 2013

MUSE sent staffer Noëmie Carrant, a self-professed foodie, to Chinatown to find the most compelling food that $5 can buy in the area: February means one thing for me: Chinese New Year. Being half-Taiwanese,...

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