Uncanniness is the most elusive emotion for a horror movie to try to instill in its audience. Dread can be found by waiting in the dark, and shock can just jump from around a corner, but eerie uncanniness is hard to pin down. Defined by Sigmund Freud himself, the uncanny is “in...
There were corsets, there was tulle — and there were certainly conversation-starting costumes at the 2026 Met Gala’s red carpet.
On May 4, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Met, hosted the Costume Institute’s annual fundraising gala, where invited guests celebrated...
The future of art is starting to look a lot like its past. Increasingly, creatives are reverting to an analog technique that even new technology can’t replicate: human touch.
In an age of instantaneous digital imagery, the handmade approach to creating feels almost radical....
Two years after “Stick Season (Forever),” Noah Kahan’s new album, “The Great Divide,” was released April 24, arriving at the cusp of summer as the cicadas chirp and the sun is finally setting after 6 p.m.
Kahan is known for his soul-crushing lyrics hidden behind...
“The Devil Wears Prada” endures as an iconic stand-alone parable, though it is made somewhat less iconic by the fact that it is no longer stand-alone. Released May 1, “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” an unsolicited sequel made 20 years after the original, might serve as evidence...
In the third stop on the “Famesick Tour: An Evening of Stories and Togetherness,” multihyphenate star Lena Dunham graced The Wilbur Theatre April 16 with writer and friend Emily Sundberg. Dunham, best known as producer, writer, director and lead of sardonic hit television...
For the first time in nine years, The Nor’easters returned to the stage at The Town Hall in New York April 25 and won first place in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, or the ICCA. Earning 447 points at the final round, Northeastern University’s oldest...
The Fashion Society at Northeastern, or TFS, hosted its annual spring fashion show, “Synesthesia in Motion: A Fashion Sonata,” at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama April 5.
A sonata, as TFS describes it, is “a story told through sound” — a structured musical...
Jennie Koh, deputy lifestyle editor
• April 24, 2026
March 28 saw “Ladygirls” and “Sweet Boys” from all over Boston arrive in droves to Roadrunner for a glimpse of Northeastern’s Springfest Concert 2026 headliner, Malcolm Todd.
Following the release of his latest single, “Breathe,” the Council for University Programs,...
April 11 at 8 p.m. marked Alice Phoebe Lou’s third show of her 2026 tour with opening act John Andrews & The Yawns. Inside the Berklee Performance Center, fans and music supporters alike spent the evening swaying in sequence to Lou’s melancholy sounds and silky voice.
Seated...
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
We all want the kind of storybook romances we see on the big screen, but what do we do when baggage renders that idealized love impossible to achieve? This simple but achingly worrisome tension sits at the heart of Kristoffer Borgli’s “The Drama.”...
On April 8, indie-folk artist Jake Minch took the stage at AfterHours, joined by openers Syd Howard and girlhouse. For Minch, the concert was a long time coming.
When he saw an Instagram post by Live Music Association, or LMA, March 24, 2025, announcing an AfterHours concert...
