When alternative rock band Palehound stepped onstage at the Sinclair Oct. 18, it was the band’s second time performing in Boston in three weeks — and it showed. The band displayed its ease onstage...

The plot of two unpopular high schoolers trying to get laid before graduation is not an unfamiliar one; it’s been done in “American Pie,” “Superbad,” “The To Do List” and dozens more. But...

Usually played in crowded basements festooned with Christmas lights, DIY shows are the heart of Boston’s underground music scene — and valuable observation sites for Green Line Records Artists &...

“The bear…it fucking did cocaine!” This one line, while a concise way to summarize an outlandish plot, was repeated at least 20 times throughout Elizabeth Banks’ “Cocaine Bear.” Unsurprisingly,...

Lucy Dacus took to the stage Jan. 29 in Blackman Auditorium to put on a mellow acoustic performance. Audience members journeyed from as far as Middletown, Connecticut to see Dacus in person.

In 2022, Lifestyle had a lot to write about. The writers and staff that contributed to this section commented on prominent moments in pop culture, covered local art and music events and reviewed countless...

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...

Rina Sawayama earned a political science degree from the University of Cambridge long before her debut album SAWAYAMA launched her into pop stardom, and in her sophomore record Hold the Girl, she doesn’t...

Movies about getting too famous too fast and sacrificing integrity to get there are nothing new — but Quinn Shephard’s sophomore film “Not Okay,” which premiered on Hulu July 29, gives the genre...

Comedy, romance, sci-fi, kung fu. With so many diverse elements, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s genre-defying masterpiece “Everything Everywhere All at Once” undoubtedly delivers on its titular...

The Wicked Queer Film Festival was born in an unpopular movie theatre in downtown Boston, where contractor George Mansour began booking gay adult films that more well-attended movie theatres refused to...

“It’s a big night tonight,” S. Holden Jaffe, also known as indie pop artist Del Water Gap, said last week. “This is the first ever Del Water Gap show in a Starbucks.”  Del Water Gap headlined...

“Inventing Anna.” “The Tinder Swindler.” “The Puppet Master.” In just the first three months of 2022, three Netflix original productions have revolved around major scams. In each, a master...

Northeastern’s AfterHours is a relatively small venue, sandwiched snugly between the Curry Student Center and the campus Starbucks. But it’s also the largest stage that Boston-based indie band Winkler...

Ren Alvero has wanted to dye her hair for two years.    She initially felt the urge during quarantine in early 2020, when everyone was looking for a distraction from the mundane repetitiveness of...

“I guess this is the end/ I’ll have to learn/ To be somebody else,” Mitski Miyawaki sings mournfully in “I Guess,” the penultimate track on her latest album “Laurel Hell.” The album, which...

In 2018, just two years shy of the real-life pandemic, Ling Ma published her debut novel “Severance,” which follows cynical protagonist Candace Chen on her survival journey after a fictitious disease...

It’s December, which means that the weather is getting worse, grocery stores are playing Michael Bublé on a never-ending loop and a fresh onslaught of formulaic Christmas-themed romantic comedies is...

“Who does Lucy Dacus make music for?” my roommate asked me when I invited her to attend the Lucy Dacus concert with me.  “Young queer people who grew up in the church,” I responded, basing...