A drive-in double feature night requires some fair preparation. A packed cooler, some snacks, a full tank of gas for the long ride up, lawn chairs, blankets and pillows—all of which I had prepared this past Saturday night.
Apparently, I forgot the most important item: a box of tissues.
The annual Northeastern Underwear Run is held on the Friday night of parent’s weekend each year. Thousands of students strip down to their skivvies and run through the city. The traditional route takes students from Huntington Avenue, through the Prudential Center and back...
Northeastern University opened its own food truck in 2011 named the Hungry Hungry Husky, or H3. The name came from seven students who won a naming contest when the truck was first announced. The truck accepts Husky Dollars, dining dollars, cash and credit cards and can most commonly...
A staple of Boston’s North End, Mike’s Pastry is a famous Italian bake shop known for its multiple flavors of cannoli, tiramisu and classic pastries such as lobster tails. A line out the door can be expected on any given night, and the pastry shop will ship cannoli, cookies,...
TD Garden is the home of the Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics, also known as The Garden. IT is a multi-purpose arena in Boston that also hosts concerts and convention events. The Garden was opened in September of 1995 and was most recently renovated in 2009 when it was nominated...
The Beanpot is an annual hockey tournament between Northeastern University, Boston University, Boston College and Harvard University. The tournament sells out every year as schools compete for bragging rights across town. Both men and women’s hockey compete each year.
Every...
National disasters and terrorist attacks often bring confusion and fear to thousands of people. After the Boston Marathon bombing, Bostonians, runners and people around the world were left asking, “why?” In recognition of a year gone since the bombings, two reporters for the Boston Globe, Scott Helman and Jenna Russell, published their collaboration, “Long Mile Home” in an attempt to answer this question.
Coolidge Corner Theatre is a movie theatre in the Coolidge Corner neighborhood of Brookline. A not-for-profit Art Deco theatre, the cinema shows both big-name and independent films with regularity. Each year, the Coolidge Corner Theatre gives the Coolidge Award “honoring a...
Coolidge Corner is a popular neighborhood in Brookline, home to the popular Coolidge Corner Theatre. The center of the neighborhood is found at Harvard and Beacon streets, named for the Coolidge brothers’ general store that opened at the intersection in 1857. A very walkable...
Brookline, Mass. is a town in the greater Boston area best known for being the birthplace of John F. Kennedy in 1917. Brookline has a population of roughly 59,000 and is considered a cultural hub for Boston’s Jewish community. Additionally, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of...
The anguish was palpable as families gathered outside a coal mine in Soma, Turkey awaiting news of their loved ones who had been trapped inside after an electrical transformer exploded on May 13. The resulting fire spread smoke and carbon monoxide through the mine, claiming at least 282 lives. While 383 miners made it out alive, many with serious injuries, there could still be as many as 150 trapped inside.
“Flowers for the performers,” said the woman handing out yellow and blue carnations across from the bilingual picket line that had formed outside of Harvard's Sanders Theatre. But Vladimir Spivakov was not the performer she had in mind — it was a fellow Russian activist playing for free further on down the road. Blue and yellow are the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
