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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Lessons from abroad — and beyond | Maia’s Inner Monologue

Maia Penzer January 26, 2025
What I wrote in my journal abroad didn’t seem worth sharing since many entries were half-formed thoughts. But there’s more there than I initially realized. I wrote for the hell of it — which, I think, is the best type of writing. Now, I'm diving into my unfiltered journal entries from abroad — they’re raw, real and vulnerable. 
PJ and Megan Lutz canvas for President Biden outside a polling center at the Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire on Tuesday. Biden supporters launched the successful write-in campaign as a result of the President's name not appearing on the New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot. CLARE ONG/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

For canvassers, New Hampshire primary bears deeper connection with democracy

Siena Griffin January 24, 2024
Canvassers from across the country headed to New Hampshire for this year’s first-in-the-nation primary to make a stand for their chosen candidates on Tuesday.
Monet Ota | Senior Graphic Artist

A summer of peace, love and dancing with Cyrus’s eighth studio album, ‘Endless Summer Vacation’

Kritika Iyer March 28, 2023
Miley Cyrus released her eighth album, “Endless Summer Vacation,” on March 10, finally satisfying her fans as they waited for the next Miley era.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

OP-ED: A monolingual country can’t lead the world

Editors October 28, 2022
The world is globalizing fast, instead of adapting to the integration of foreign language and culture, the United States is waiting for the rest of the world to assimilate to us or to kindly keep out.
Kacey Musgraves album

Storytelling through “star-crossed”

Sam Thomas September 15, 2021
The honeymoon of “Golden Hour” is over. “star-crossed” leaves “two lovers ripped at the seams.”
taylor swift performing on her speak now tour

An impossible task: ranking Taylor Swift’s albums

Sam Thomas April 21, 2021
After too much thought, I present my updated ranking of Swift’s studio albums.
prison cell block

CFA faculty explores art, activism in Prison Arts Project event

Molly Farrar April 20, 2021
As part of the Prison Arts Project, BU groups held an event about how mass incarceration affects kids.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room With a View: Ancient Greece and Italy share hospitality and xenophobia

Antonia Lehnert April 12, 2021
Before being hosted in someone’s home, one should feel welcomed in their country first.
Miley Cyrus released her studio album “Plastic Hearts” on Friday. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: Miley Cyrus’ ‘Plastic Hearts’ takes musical samples and leaps

David Simon November 29, 2020

“Plastic Hearts,” released Friday, represents a return to form for Miley Cyrus. For the past decade, she had cycled genres between albums — from the hip-hop stylings on 2013’s “Bangerz”...

Netflix released “The Haunting of Bly Manor” on Friday as a follow-up to the 2018 series “The Haunting of Hill House.” ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ delivers quality spookiness

Molly Farrar October 15, 2020

October movie releases are of the spooky, scary variety, and “The Haunting of Bly Manor” stuck to the tradition when it debuted on Netflix Friday as a continuation of “The Haunting of Hill House.” “Hill...

Country singer Kelsea Ballerini’s acoustic album “ballerini.” ILLUSTRATION BY MIA KHATIB/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

‘ballerini’ whittles ‘kelsea’ down to its bare necessities, generating mostly positive results

David Simon September 13, 2020
Country singer Kelsea Ballerini’s “ballerini” is an acoustic, stripped album that's grounded to reality alongside Ballerini’s anxious and slightly world-weary storytelling.
Kat Iris, a BU student, writes and sings original American folk songs. PHOTO COURTESY KATELYN DOWD

BU student Kat Iris uses travels as inspiration for songwriting, remembers roots

Carina Imbornone February 15, 2018

Entering the bathroom in Kat Iris’s Allston apartment, visitors are met with the sight of a footed bathtub, preserved from another era. “Everyone notices the bathtub,” Kat says, with a smile. The...

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