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‘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. 
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EDITORIAL: The toxicity of tabloids can be lessened with respect, empathy

Editors March 29, 2021
Tabloids will never be fully ethical or accurate, but we can try to be respectful.
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Senate confirms Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor

Madison Mercado March 23, 2021
City Council President Kim Janey stepped up as acting mayor — the first woman and person of color.
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EDITORIAL: The University’s actions are unacceptable, we demand more

Editors February 10, 2021
BU needs to make a constant commitment to the cause, actively work to ensure students’ safety, dismantle the prevalent rape culture on its campus and establish trust so students will be willing to speak up and report assailants in the first place. It will never be as easy as one quick, overnight policy change.
Lighting the Lamp: Offseason Update

Lighting the Lamp: Offseason Update

Brady Gardner May 6, 2019

In a bonus episode of Lighting the Lamp, Brady Gardner, Paige Mautner, and Liam O’Brien provide an offseason update. Brady, Paige and Liam run through the BU men’s hockey team’s captain selections,...

East to West: March 1, 2019

East to West: March 1, 2019

Mike Reddy March 1, 2019

On this episode of “East to West,” we cover Boston University School of Theology Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore’s message regarding the United Methodist Church, a new working group on campus designed...

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EDITORIAL: Journalists are not the ‘enemy of the people,’ they are the people

Editors August 15, 2018
The effects of President Donald Trump’s rhetoric go far beyond the bubble of his supporters or even the right wing.
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