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Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Fad-ulous: Reviving childhood crazes for a modern hobby

Andrew DiBiasio February 22, 2024
“What do I do with all of this free time?” Quite frankly, this question launched me into an existential crisis. I was so used to trying to trudge my way through a never-ending homework and extracurricular pile during my first three semesters of college that I never stopped developing any new hobbies since “leaving the nest.” So, I made it my mission to find one this semester.
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.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: TikTok perpetuates nepotism in the music industry

Editors April 8, 2021
We should use our collective power to actively seek out smaller artists instead of TikTok stars.
hannah montana singing on stage at a concert

Stuck in an early 2000s time warp

Katherine Wright March 24, 2021
I seem to still be trapped in an early 2000s time warp.

Music for every mood

Maya Frankel February 6, 2021
Every day is a cycle of laughing, crying, anger, happiness, excitement and about every emotion possible. Here are a few playlists for those many moods we all feel every day.
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”...

Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the Cancer Moonshot initiative at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute Wednesday afternoon. PHOTO BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Biden addresses nation as president-elect

Daniel Kool November 8, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States Saturday following four days of uncertainty during which President Donald Trump threatened legal action as key states’ final tallies trickled in.
Boston erupts in joy, relief after Biden named nation’s 46th president

Boston erupts in joy, relief after Biden named nation’s 46th president

Daily Free Press Staff November 7, 2020
Cheering and chanting as cars driving by honked in solidarity, hundreds of supporters of president-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris gathered near the Boston Common Saturday afternoon to celebrate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Lessons from the Left: In the wake of Parkland, black students deserve to be heard

Lessons from the Left: In the wake of Parkland, black students deserve to be heard

Anna Stroinski April 1, 2018
On March 28, black students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School called a press conference. Compared to the CNN town hall, “March for Our Lives” rally and President Trump’s roundtable, it wasn’t covered all that extensively. Some local media outlets broadcasted the meeting, but the big news organizations — namely, CNN, MSNBC, Fox — covered it in piecemeal, when everything was already said and done.
Ladies I Am Right: To ghost or not to ghost?

Ladies I Am Right: To ghost or not to ghost?

Meredith Wilshere November 13, 2017

Imagine this: The conversation has been going really well, and then suddenly the other person stops responding. You try not to check your phone every five minutes — maybe you throw it across the room...

Alan Cumming performs at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University Oct. 6. PHOTO COURTESY ROBERT TORRES/ CELEBRITY SERIES

Alan Cumming visits Cambridge to sing ‘sappy songs’

Hannah Shearer October 13, 2017

“I’m here to sing you some sappy songs,” Alan Cumming said in the middle of his second tune last Friday. “Be warned. Have a hanky at the ready.” Cumming performed at a nearly sold-out...

PHOTO COURTESY "THE VOICE"

TERRIERS INBIZ: Brendan Fletcher continues music career after “The Voice”

Antonia DeBianchi January 31, 2017

When Brendan Fletcher was in middle school, he persistently begged his brother to let him join his band, “Structured Chaos.” After learning the guitar and receiving a bit of help from his mom, Fletcher...

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