Consisting of a series of albums, a foundation and a band, PFC has been able to reach millions of people across the planet. The Playing for Change Band, an assembly of ten musicians from eight different countries, breaks the convention of what it means to be a band.
For my entire life up until this point, summer break was it. It was the motivation for finishing school and working hard and pushing through exams. Three more weeks, one more week, two days, and finally, summer break. Three months that included trips to the beach, the lake and the river, new friends, summer loves and most importantly: freedom.
After a seventh-place finish in the 5,000-meter run Saturday at the NCAA East Preliminary Round meet, Northeastern sophomore Wesley Gallagher will head to the national championship.
By Travis Gschrey, News Correspondent The men’s rowing team capped off a successful season this past weekend at the IRA National Championship in Mercer, N.J. finishing fifth overall in team points. The strong results for Northeastern came from the depth of the team, as it...
As Government Center closed for renovations, nearby City Hall Plaza underwent a transformation of its own as it was converted into the spring Boston Calling Music Festival May 23-25. There was free food, cold beer and music galore as 21,000 people gathered to experience what is quickly becoming a cornerstone of life in Boston.
Two members of the Northeastern powerlifting team recently took their strength to the International Powerlifting Federation’s (IPF) 25th World Benchpress Championship.
By Caitlin Walsh, managing editor
Nick Droege always knew that the ultimate goal was to make his app available for free, and at last, it finally is. The co-owner of the safety app SafeTrek was happy to announce that now, safety is free at your very fingertips, thanks to...
Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, world-renown medicinal chemist known for creating a wide variety of psychoactive drugs and introducing MDMA (commonly referred to as ecstasy) as a psychopharmaceutical aid, died yesterday after struggling with liver cancer and various other health complications for several years, according to the Erowid Character Vault. Shulgin's research was controversial due to his experimentation on himself and his (consenting) friends and family with the MDMA analogs that he synthesized.
For many techies, San Francisco was the place to be today, at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). This year’s conference runs from June 2-4, and this morning’s presentation revealed a new iOS for iPhone, as well as a new operating system for Mac computers, Yosemite.
On Monday, June 2, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency will propose a plan to dramatically cut carbon emissions in the United States. The plan calls for 30 percent cuts by 2030, and is mostly targeted at coal power plants that create much of the emissions the EPA is fighting today.
On Saturday, Obama backed his actions by explaining that the planet must be a suitable place to live for children today, which is his responsibility both as the president and as a parent.
When folk music meets rock, you have my curiosity. Then when the blues shows up, you have my attention. The young band out of Lilitz, Pennsylvania by the name The Districts manage to capture all three.
They consist of Rob Grote (vocals, guitar), Mark Larson (guitar), Connor Jacobus (bass) and Braden Lawrence (percussion).
With crude humor, spontaneously graphic death scenes and even a short drug-induced musical number, “A Million Ways to Die in the West” was everything we expected from writer, director and star Seth MacFarlane. From the not-so-subtle sexual innuendos to the quick dialogue littered with expletives, the movie was filled with MacFarlane’s trademarks, even including a smattering of Hollywood references to both the actors’ and the director’s previous works.
