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Gianna Horcher | Graphic Artist

‘A Complete Unknown’ keeps Bob Dylan a mystery

Ruby Voge February 7, 2025
The film’s title, “A Complete Unknown,” serves as a guide for how it approaches its subject material. Mangold’s script works to uphold the mythology of Dylan as an unknowable artist — who, from the beginning, was reluctant to be defined by others and by himself. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

One Flegacy: Patrick Flegel’s impact on underground rock

Miguel Gonzales September 11, 2024

About two years ago, I was fortunate enough to catch the Canadian post-punk band Preoccupations perform at The Sinclair. Before the concert began, I was busy observing the stage set-up. The stacked amplifiers...

Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

I won’t mind it if you stay | On the Record

Addison Schmidt September 13, 2023
On Sept. 1, I received an email from the Boston Globe opinion section. I have the bad habit of allowing these emails to build up like dust in my inbox, unread and unnoticed, but the headline — which addressed a nameless subject — caught my attention. It read: “We can’t miss you if you won’t go away.” 
leland clarke plays the piano at a concert

Faculty musicians share challenges, upsides of a year without an audience

Tanisha Bhat April 8, 2021
Faculty musicians discussed how income, teaching and performing have changed in the last year.
babam musician plays a tuba at an aclu march

Boston remains soundtracked by protest

Jesús Marrero Suárez April 8, 2021
The Boston Area Brigade of Activist Musicians draw inspiration from New Orleans street bands.
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.
Kleos Live video gaming app. CEO Max Keating and Boston University senior Eli Bebinger created the app, which launched Monday and allows celebrities to play video games with their fans. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU student co-creates celebrity gaming start-up for charity

Molly Farrar March 26, 2021
BU student co-created “Kleos Live” — a gaming app with celebrity partners— while taking a year off.
Musician Haley Martin tunes her guitar before a brief set. Activists gathered outside South Station Monday afternoon for a rally honoring International Women’s Day. DANIEL KOOL/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Activists rally for progressive policy on International Women’s Day

Daniel Kool March 9, 2021
A series of speakers — ranging from musicians to nurses to union organizers — called for equal pay between men and women, noted the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mothers and emphasized the need for intersectionality.
mural in west campus at boston university

Boston Cultural Council approves 2021 grants for artists, organizations

Tanisha Bhat February 24, 2021
This year’s funding is composed of around $489,000 in grants from the council’s annual budget, leaving just under $7,000 available for later use. Applicants included local writing contest Boston in 100 Words, City Ballet of Boston and Chinatown’s Pao Arts Center.
PAIGE WARD/ DFP FILE

BU removes brass and woodwind players from group performances

Rin Velasco January 22, 2021
Boston University will restrict students who play brass or woodwind instruments in any college or club from performing in group ensembles due to COVID-19 guidance, according to College of Fine Arts School of Music’s Michael Barsano.
Boston University Hillel hosted its first talent show Thursday night on Zoom. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU Hillel hosts first talent show, a virtual, intimate event

Molly Farrar December 4, 2020
On Thursday night the BU Hillel's Care Fellowship Talent Show, organized by care fellow and BU student Moriah Schoeffer, premiered on Zoom.
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibit “The Visitors” reopened for Institute of Contemporary Art members on Wednesday. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Reinstalled, Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibit takes on new meaning after COVID-19

Chloe McKim Jepsen October 1, 2020
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors” will appear again at the Institute of Contemporary Art, where it was exhibited earlier this year before the pandemic.
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