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Cozy tunes to keep you warm this winter | Liv Listens

Olivia Stapleton January 30, 2025
I curated a playlist of songs that make me feel warm, anticipating that I’d need some soothing music to help me get through the next few months of cold temperatures. 
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. 
The Boston University Community Gardens Club’s rooftop garden on top of Warren Towers. Rooftop gardens provide multiple benefits, including decreasing temperatures in urban spaces, managing stormwater runoff and providing a space to grow produce. AVA RUBIN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Rooftop gardens: A step in the right direction for urban environmentalism

Brontë Massucco October 23, 2024
In the vast concrete jungles of metal, glass and concrete urban centers are laden with, a newly-popularized, sustainable effort has begun to glimmer vibrantly — green roofs.
Women's soccer player

Notebook: Women’s soccer team growing one game at a time

Brett Abrams September 26, 2022
Aided by veteran leadership and a young core, the BU women's soccer team has the goal of growing one game at a time as the season enters its second half.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

OP-ED: Steps taken by BU administration to divest do not go far enough to warrant a full-out celebration

Editors November 1, 2021
BU administration's plan to divest is too vague and non-transparent to warrant a full-out celebration, and we demand better.
The BU Big Band and Jazz Combos I and II kicked off the BU Bands Homecoming weekend at the College of Fine Arts Concert Hall Thursday night with their first in-person concert since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. LUWA YIN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU Jazz Band is back to perform in-person, kicking off Family and Friends Weekend

Isabel Chambers October 21, 2021
The Big Band and two Jazz Collectives took the stage at the College of Fine Arts.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Don’t be a Hypocrite: What we should have already known about domestic violence

Viktoria Popovska October 3, 2021
After the Gabby Petito case, the current system of domestic violence response needs to be reevaluated.
film projector

‘Parasite’ film discussion incites conversation about class struggles, Korean culture

Yiran Yu October 3, 2021
The Education Resource Center featured the Korean language during September.
vaccine injection into an arm

It’s time to get vaccinated

Khadijah Khogeer April 29, 2021
Vaccinations are instrumental in making in-person events possible in the future.
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Boston Design Week returns virtually after last-minute cancellation last year

Jesús Marrero Suárez April 16, 2021
The 12-day festival celebrating the role of design in everyday life will return April 28.
blue horoscope wheel

April Horoscopes (warning: they’re not legit)

Sophia Yakumithis March 26, 2021
Vaccines, Taco Tuesday and NASA galore! Find out which unexpected fortune awaits you in April.
the king film

Cinephilia: Revisiting 2019’s ‘The King’

Andrew Harwood March 15, 2021
Starring Chalamet as the titular Henry V, Edgerton as Shakespeare’s Falstaff and Lily-Rose Depp as Catherine of Valois, “The King” is one of the best films of 2019.
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