The finale of the first season of HBO Max’s “House of the Dragon,” the prequel to the “Game of Thrones” series, was released Oct. 23, wrapping up a 10-episode season and leaving fans excited for what’s to come.  It has been a long three years since the not-so-fan-favorite...

“The Banshees of Inisherin” delivers magnificent performances, breathtaking cinematography and a perfect balance between comedy and heart-wrenching moments. Pádraic Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell) and Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson) are close friends living simple and cyclical...

Fall is in the air, which means it’s time for new seasonal flavors —  and students’ desperate hunt for their daily fix of a pumpkin spice latte, or PSL for short. Starbucks coined the drink in 2003, but pumpkin spice has been around for more than a century. The classic...

Arden Cho returned to Northeastern’s campus Oct. 30 for the Asian Student Union’s biannual “A Night With…” celebrity speaker event in a very different place than where she was during her visit six years ago.  Cho, who is well-known as an early pioneer of Asian representation...

The arts are far too often deemed incapable of acting as vehicles for meaningful social change. At best, they are reduced to mere entertainment for the masses; at worst, they are labeled an exclusionary field only accessible to those in the upper echelon of society. With “All...

The film “Rosaline,” which premiered on Hulu Oct. 14, tells the classic story of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” from the perspective of Romeo’s former lover. The film gives Rosaline, whose name is a reference point rather than a real character in the bard’s...

Following two weeks of unrelenting antisemitic remarks, artist Kanye West is running into criticism online and corporate pushback.  Naturally, Northeastern students — on a campus with the 20th-highest Jewish population among private universities — had things to say. Sarah...

With dark blue glitter, wine stains and anxious introspecting, Taylor Swift made her record-breaking return to pop Oct. 21 with the release of her 10th studio album Midnights.  The album had been highly anticipated since its reveal in August, leaving fans drooling over the...

With a university lining every other block, Boston is a familiar, well-worn stomping ground for over 150,000 students. But this summer, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the city’s college-age population returned to their dorms with a new sense of uncertainty...

Throughout the month of September, the fashion industry filled runways in New York, London, Milan and Paris with a series of season-defining shows. The spring and summer 2023 showcases marked the first time in two years that many designers got to show their work in person...

Now that the jack-o’-lanterns have taken up posts on Back Bay front stoops, Halloween movie marathon season is upon us. This means a list of Halloween’s most frightening favorites is in order. From John Carpenter’s frightening “Halloween” in the late 1970s to Disney’s...

Almost 30 years after the Black Flame Candle was last lit in “Hocus Pocus,” the Sanderson sisters have returned to the big screen — and yet, this sequel fails to hold a candle to the original film. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy reprise their roles...