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Event Calendar: March 31 – April 5

March 30, 2017

By Sophie Cannon, deputy A&E editor   Thursday, March 30 In its 33rd year in Boston, the LGBT Film Festival is here once again. This year’s kick-off film is “Signature Move,” a movie about love, loss and Lucha-style wrestling. This timely film also highlights...

Posters included in the new Gallery 360 feature women's faces paired with discriminatory statements about their gender./Photo by Alex Melagrano

Gallery 360 installation promotes women’s rights

March 30, 2017

By Christina Philippides, news correspondent The newest display in Northeastern’s Gallery 360, titled “Women’s Rights are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination,” combines graphic design and storytelling to promote...

Boss Baby (Alec Baldwin) confronts his brother Tim (Miles Christopher Bakshi) in DreamWorks’ “The Boss Baby.”/Photo courtesy DreamWorks Animation

Review: ‘Boss Baby’ wins laughs but little else

March 30, 2017

By Logan Meyer, A&E editor In typical DreamWorks fashion, “The Boss Baby” is an adorable, feel-good animated film fit for the family. Also in DreamWorks fashion, it is largely lacking in cinematic merit. From the get-go, the story’s narration incites confusion. Constantly...

Brie Larson plays Mason Weaver, the Kong’s newest female opposite, in “Kong: Skull Island.”/Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

Column: ‘Kong’ film distorts history

March 30, 2017

By Vy Thai, A&E columnist From the original movie in 1933 to its remakes throughout the decades, the “King Kong” franchise has always been more than just a cliché about a giant ape climbing skyscrapers and pursuing forbidden love with women of the human race. Filmmakers...

The ICA's new expansion, dubbed the Watershed, is to be constructed across the harbor from the original location./Photo courtesy ICA

ICA plans new expansion across Boston Harbor

March 30, 2017

By Gianna Barberia, news staff Boat tours and cruises are not the only things you’ll find traveling across the harbor. Scheduled to open in summer 2018, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is expanding and opening a new location in East Boston, just a short water taxi...

Northeastern students and members of the nearby community gathered at Northeastern Crossing Friday for a workshop on slam poetry that was built around self-care and stress relief./Photo by Lauren Scornavacca

Students learn poetry in community workshop

Paxtyn Merten March 30, 2017

They were given 10 minutes to write a poem, prefaced with advice to write down what they felt: They couldn’t expect to write Shakespearean sonnets in 10 minutes, so they should just write whatever came to mind. However, at the end of the 10 minutes, nearly half of the 20 students...

The Northeastern Nor'easters take the stage at Boston Symphony Hall to compete in the ICCA Northeast Region Semifinal./photo by Lauren Scornavacca

The Nor’easters take home ICCA semifinal win

March 26, 2017
If the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) had a March Madness bracket, this past week’s semifinal competition would be the final four.
Review: 'Song to Song' fails fans of the indie genre

Review: ‘Song to Song’ fails fans of the indie genre

March 24, 2017
Malick embarrasses the good name of the independent film and wastes the talent of his cast and the time of his viewers.
Theatre department brings new elements to classic Shakespeare work

Theatre department brings new elements to classic Shakespeare work

March 22, 2017
The show features a new character arc for the changeling child, a normally insignificant character, as well as interesting lighting and technical aspects.
Film festival prepares to screen groundbreaking independent works

Film festival prepares to screen groundbreaking independent works

March 22, 2017
This year’s festival will include a secret screening of a film, which has never been done before at BUFF.

Column: Desperate times call for deeper reporting

March 22, 2017
Everyone has a need for truth, and the effort for journalists to inform the public does not stop at the water’s edge.
Review: 'Topdog/Underdog' is a potent, focused work

Review: ‘Topdog/Underdog’ is a potent, focused work

March 22, 2017
The existential claustrophobia at the heart of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize winner is turned up to a scorching degree.