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Award-winning ventriloquist Susan Linn and her puppet Audrey Duck. Linn performed her comedy show “WHAT THE DUCK?!?” at the Puppet Showplace Theater Friday and Saturday. COURTESY OF PUPPET SHOWPLACE THEATER

‘Watching Kermit the Frog’s PG-13 restrictions get torn off’: Susan Linn’s ‘WHAT THE DUCK?!?’

Ellen Dong March 3, 2025
Performing a stand up comedy puppet show sounded unreal before attending “WHAT THE DUCK?!?” — but what was more unreal was having a puppet deliver political satire on the United States.
A person watches a TikTok posted by KamalaHQ. Many college students obtain information about politics and the election through social media. MEGAN KWAN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Content creation and casting votes: Social media affects students’ political perspectives this election

Siena Griffin November 5, 2024
News clips, memes, footage of rallies and colorful infographics flooded social media in the months leading up to the 2024 Presidential Election on Nov. 5.
Eric Park

‘In Cod We Trust’: Two BU students win Sony Future Filmmakers Award

Vikrant Sabharwal March 21, 2023
Park and Edwards, both seniors in the College of Communication, have won in the nonfiction category in the Sony Future Filmmaker competition.
Boy playing saxophone in downtown Boston

The issues that matter: Preview of Fall features

Molly Farrar August 31, 2021

As we enter yet another school year plagued with COVID-19 concerns and pandemic uncertainty, the features section of The Daily Free Press is committed to diving deep into issues affecting students here...

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.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Canceled: Side profiles and beauty trends

Bini Ollivier-Yamin February 1, 2021
Our definition of beauty is subjective, and it can grow and change to include a diverse range of features, traits and ethnicities. The first step is to get rid of the seemingly harmless trends that perpetuate Eurocentric beauty — they’re clogging up my “For You page.”
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Creating community: A Spring preview of FreeP features

Lily Kepner January 21, 2021
The features section — “featz” for short — has always been a place where student voices are heard. This semester, in a time dominated by a climate crisis, a racial justice movement and a pandemic, the features team will strive to tell those important stories with the student perspective in mind.
Cullen Murphy discusses his new book “Cartoon Country: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe” at the Harvard Bookstore Tuesday evening. PHOTO BY LILLIAN BROWN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Cullen Murphy remembers hometown in ‘Cartoon County’

Lillian Brown December 5, 2017

Cullen Murphy, an editor-at-large for Vanity Fair and former managing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, combined his longform narrative skills and comic-filled childhood in his latest book, “Cartoon...

REVIEW: ‘The Disaster Artist’ is a love letter to ‘The Room’ that acknowledges its faults

Hannah Shearer December 5, 2017

How did this movie get made? Who is this strange man who will never reveal his age, his source of wealth or where he’s from? These are the questions people most frequently ask about Tommy Wiseau’s...

A café au Lait at Equal Exchange Café in the North End. PHOTO BY SONIA RAO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

FreeP vs. Food: Coffee Crawl

Becca DeGregorio February 11, 2016

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Due to the whirlwind nature of college, sleepy students often resort to the nearest coffee locale to keep their eyelids a little less droopy. More often than not, this...

The alien-invasion drama “The 5th Wave,” based on the Ricky Yancey young adult novel, opens Friday. PHOTO COURTESY CHUCK ZLOTNICK

REVIEW: “The 5th Wave” settles for amateur execution

Allegra Peelor January 22, 2016

“The 5th Wave” surpassed all expectations, but for all the wrong reasons. As expected, J Blakeson’s science fiction film, based on the novel of the same name by Rick Yancey, was cheesy and clichéd....

Electronic music DJ Destructo performed at Bijou Nightclub in downtown Boston Sunday night. PHOTO COURTESY NIKKO LAMERE

REVIEW: Destructo gives sold-out crowd powerful EDM experience

Laura Porecca January 22, 2016

The sounds of dark techno, deep house and G-house could be felt together in Boston Sunday night. Yes, felt — not just heard — as the walls of Bijou Nightclub vibrated with sets from Rezz, Justin...

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