It seems as though everyone nowadays has something to say about the upcoming presidential election. The Boston Camerata, an early music ensemble that has been playing around the world since 1954, offered its commentary on the election in the musical op-ed, “City of Fools: Medieval Songs of Rule and Misrule.”
Northeastern’s theater department is back for the 2016-2017 academic year with the tragic yet romantic, “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” a play directed by Jonathan Carr at the Studio Theatre.
Four musicians took their seats, center-stage. The rustling of their sheet music was all that could be heard as the audience held their breaths in anticipation. When the musicians raised their bows, everyone stilled, eager for the event to begin.
Humans are storytelling animals, yet we are extremely impressionable and vulnerable in the face of a story. The recently released documentary “Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt” articulates the danger of single-storyism by examining the life of the German-Jewish philosopher, whose experiences growing up under the shadow of German fascism fundamentally shaped her intellectual career.
Hundreds of bookish Bostonians descended upon Copley Square to celebrate the power of the written word at the eighth annual Boston Book Festival on Saturday.
The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) unveiled "Fertile Solitude," a visual art exhibition at the Mills Gallery on Friday, Oct. 14. The exhibit features pieces by 15 different artists, both from the Boston area and around the world, that explore the rush of everyday life.
Using comedy as a tool for social activism, Acting Out, Northeastern’s theatre group dedicated to promoting social change, hosted “Wednesday Night Live,” a performance at AfterHours in support of the NU Votes campaign and inspired by “Saturday Night Live,” on Oct. 13.
Walking down Forsyth Street, it’s hard to miss the Latino/a Student Cultural Center’s (LSCC) bright new exterior, which got a vibrant makeover this week in the form of a mural covering the building’s whole facade.
Every Saturday and Sunday, I work seven-hour shifts as a cashier at a pizzeria. Since I’m there until midnight, I get to see a lot of hammered college students and hungry football fans. In fact, there are so many of them ordering cheese and pepperoni slices at 11 p.m. that sometimes the line starts outside the restaurant. I learned that when people are hungry for cheap, oily carbs, they are willing to wait in the cold.
The Fenway Alliance celebrated the 15th anniversary of its Opening Our Doors festival by providing free activities from local cultural and academic institutions on Monday, Oct. 10.
