See one of Boston’s most famous and interactive museums for free this Friday night when the Museum of Science hosts its annual College Night. With a college ID, students are granted free access to over 20 museum exhibits, such as The Hall of Human Life, the Theatre of Electricity, Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic and New England Habitats. There will also be the opportunity to see a live animal show and go on a Boston Duck Tour. Additional exhibits including the Omni Theater, 4-D theatre, Planetarium and Butterfly Garden are available at a discounted $6 each. 1 Science Park; 5 – 9 p. m.; free with college ID.
Just because it’s a Thursday night doesn’t mean Boston nightlife is dead. For those that like to stay out ‘til dawn, midterm be damned, the new app BarUp may be the key to future legendary nights.
This Sunday, Sept. 28, the sounds of local bands will fill the North End as Boston Hassle presents its latest installment in the Fresh Air concert series. The show will take place from noon– 6 p.m. at Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park on the Boston Harbor and will be free and open to the public.
Julia Hechtman, an art lecturer for the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern, is being featured in a newly curated exhibit called “Transcendent Landscapes” at Drive By Projects in Watertown, Mass. from Sept. 18 – Nov. 1. Specializing in photography, film and video, Hechtman’s work ranges from animated shorts to black and white landscape shots.
It took me three days to write this column. That might sound like an enormous amount of time, but I want to assure you there was a lot of dedicated time and effort that went into not writing it.
By Rowena Lindsay, Deputy Inside Editor
Entry of the week: Wednesday, Sept. 24
Put together a team and show off your knowledge of the BBC television show Doctor Who this Wednesday night. The top three teams will take home Doctor Who-themed prizes and the first place team...
By Rebecca Sirull, Inside Editor
To say that OK Go played a concert Wednesday night would require a very loose interpretation of the word “concert.” A more apt description would include comedy show, audience Q&A or simply a hangout session with the band. Bringing...
Throughout August and September Roxbury’s Dudley Square has been invigorated with the creative talent of local artists. If you’ve been to the Dudley Square Station recently you may have noticed some added color or caught a glimpse of pop-up performance art. These performance art pieces and temporary public installations are part of Pop Up Dudley Connections, an initiative by the Boston Art Commission to draw attention to the area and the changes coming to Roxbury.
On Tuesday night Northeastern’s Council for University Programming hosted “Beyond the Finish Line: A Conversation with Jeff Bauman.” Photographed in one of the tragedy’s most iconic images, Bauman became a public figure overnight. He joined Northeastern students to tell his inspiring story of surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
For those tired of choking on the sugar-dense frosting on their supermarket cupcake or a sip of too-much-chemical iced latte – a bittersweet moment of instant gratification that happens all too often at American food chains – there’s a new place for dessert and coffee near campus, and with an Asian twist.
Fall classes have officially begun and with them come cooler weather, the ability to pumpkin-spice everything, and our annual newest additions to campus: freshmen. Whether they're getting lost or doing something painfully embarrassing, it's hard to escape the first year of college without having one of those "freshman moments." The confusion and mistakes are an integral part of the freshman experience, so it is best for us all to just embrace them. Therefore, we ambushed students around campus and asked them to share with us the best "freshman moment" they've experienced so far.
The first one of the day is always a little weak. The floorboards under your mat creak like your knees as they straighten to shoot your pelvis into the sky. “Pedal out your feet,” the instructor says. In the gap between your heels and the mat is every worry or concern from that day. You can and will conquer that gap. Blood flows to your peripheries as your palms press down, claiming the earth. Your downward dog goes from timid and hunched to a tower of strength with your heart at the crown. In the quiet of this studio you are alive. This is the only place you can go and count your breaths and feel the quality of your heartbeat to the rhythm of a soft, crooning playlist. There are no expectations here. The world can stop, if only for an hour.
