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Boston celebrates the new Year of the Dragon

January 26, 2012

Chinatown in winter is ordinarily blanketed with snow – but for one week in January every year, colorful stands beckoning with bundles of flowers dot Kneeland Street as far as the eye can see.

The Second City comes to Northeastern

January 26, 2012

Chicago’s famous comedy group visited Blackman Auditorium Thursday

Calendar: Jan. 26 – Feb. 1

January 25, 2012

By Emily Huizenga, News Staff Featured Event: A special card for a special someone Remember the days of filling out Valentine’s Day cards, making sure to choose the best one for a crush and spending extra time addressing it in the nicest handwriting? Bring back...

iPod Ambush, 1/19

January 19, 2012

As part of an occasional series, The News ambushed unsuspecting students and demanded they justify the songs that played when their iPods were put on shuffle, however embarrassing.

Students enjoy local talent despite the cold

January 19, 2012

After the first week of spring semester, last Saturday’s January Jam was a musical reprieve for Northeastern students and performers. The show at afterHOURS was created for student musicians to showcase their unique talents and for students to grab some coffee, sit back and enjoy a bit of musical downtime on their long weekend.

NU Band Spotlight: Tom Flash and the Lightning Band

January 19, 2012

NU’s Tom Flash and the Lightning Band shows the genre is a timeless one

Calendar: Jan. 19 – 25

January 19, 2012

By Emily Huizenga, News Staff Entry of the Week: Gardner Museum Renovation Premiere Anyone who even occasionally browses Boston.com or the Boston Globe likely knows all about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s recent $144 million renovation, a 70,000-square-foot...

Column: All my friends are gay

January 19, 2012

As children of the late ’80s and early ’90s, we’ve grown up in an age where homosexuality is a spotlight issue. Despite the constant debates it provokes in churches and legislative branches of our respective states, when it comes down to it I’ve found the people I deal with on a daily basis to be, for the most part, very accepting.