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Photo of Nora Kempner (center) a 17-year-old high school student from Medway, Mass., who is enrolled in the BU Summer Theatre Institute’s design program. Kempner is a young White woman with wavy hair, pulled back, wearing a black t-shirt and blue shorts. She sits at a table with lighting controls and a screen and smiles as she shows her lighting scene design with classmates. Other students can be seen seated behind her in the darkened room.

Theater

CFA Summer Program Gives High Schoolers an Intro to College-Level Theater

August 3, 2022

Photo of the St. Agrippina’s Feast celebration. A group of men hoist an ornate statue as the parade and shout during the night in the North End street.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: North End Celebrates Annual St. Agrippina’s Feast

August 3, 2022

A composite image with photos of Kendrick Lamar, Imagine Dragos, and Bad Bunny over a black background with white text reading "what's how in music this month", referring to the month of August 2022

New Music

New Music August 2022: Local Boston Concerts, New Album Releases

August 2, 2022

Composite of three images of Sujena Soumyanath wearing three different outfits. Soumyanath is a young woman of color with long, dark, straight hair. At left, she wears a white tank top, wide-brim baseball hat, light jeans and a chunky belt on a sidewalk near some industrial looking pipes. At center, she wears a colorful tube top, ripped wide leg jeans, and stands with her hands in her belt loops in front of a graffitied wall. At right, she wears a brown sweatshirt, black mini skirt, and brown, nearly knee-high boots. She wears dark round sunglasses and poses on a street corner.

Accolades

Society of Professional Journalists Honors Daily Free Press Writer for Fashion Column

July 27, 2022

Photo of the company of Much Ado About Nothing during a dress rehersal. On stage, seven people people are seven. At right, a person dressed as a park ranger looks upset and shakes a baton at young people dresses in camoflauge pants and green vests at right. Behind those folks, what appear to be cub scouts are seen. At the back, underneath a trellis, a Black woman reads from a binder.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Shakespeare on the Common

July 26, 2022

Poet laureate Robert Pinsky speaks to a room full of educators as part of a National Endowment of the Humanities-funded summer institute July 13 at COM. The program will run from July 10-22 and will focus on adolescent friendships as viewed through popular media such as books, TV, and film. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Education

Teachers Become Students as BU Hosts Institute to Address Adolescent Well-Being

July 26, 2022

A picture of a tiger at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Visit the Franklin Park Zoo

July 21, 2022

BUTI student Dorian Parker stands outdoors in a black shirt with glasses on

Boston

Bringing Different Voices to BU Tanglewood Institute

July 20, 2022

Photo of the white supremacist group, The Patriot Front marching thru the city of Boston on July 2, 2022. They walk by the statue in Boston Public Gardens holding Betsy-Ross-style flags. Their faces are covered by white-gray neck gaiters, tan baseball caps, khaki pants and blue polos. Many wear sunglasses so their face is completely hidden. There's about two dozen pictured.

History & Politics

Was the Patriot Front March in Boston a Sign of the New KKK?

July 7, 2022

Photo of Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). At left, Portman has long blonde hair, and wears what looks like a bodice and skirt of armor. She also wears a red cape. Thor has long blonde hair and a beard; he also wears a full-body armor suit and red cape, and has muscular arms. The stand in front of a brightly-lit field.

Movie Quiz

How Did You Do on Our Thor: Love and Thunder Trivia Quiz?

July 6, 2022

Image: collage of artists either hosting concerts in Boston in July 2022 or with new albums coming out in July. Black background with outline-font white lines features photos of The Weeknd, Beyonce, and The Backstreet Boys. Each photo has white, polaroid-style borders. At left, the Weeknd performs at Coachella in a black outfit, mic in hand; he is a young Black man with a small afro. At right, Beyonce, flanked with dancers on either side, all of whom wear bright, highlighter yellow dresses with feathers, during her Oscars performance. The The Backstreet Boys perform during The DNA World Tour at iThink Financial Amphitheatre on June 22, 2022 in West Palm Beach, Florida. All five are seen on stage in different black outfits, dancing. Behind them, a huge screen is lit with red and white jagged lines. Text on right behind image reads "What's Hot in Music" in a repeating pattern.

New Music

New Music July 2022: Local Boston Concerts, New Album Releases

July 6, 2022

photo of a group of young women with small backpacks and knee-length skirts or dresses stopping at a booth at the market called "fat cactus." The table underneath a white pop-up tent has fruits on it, such as pineapple, and a sign below the table reads "Fat Cactus" and is decorated with a smiling sun, a palm tree, and a flower. other white tents are seen in the background. A man in a white hat and black shirt, as well as a woman in gray sweatshirt that holds up a bottle of something are seen behind the table.

Things-to-do

To Do This Weekend: Seaport Summer Market

July 5, 2022

Photo of Elevate editors-in-chief Kat Quach (COM’24) (left) and Valerie Sanchez Covaleda (CGS’22, COM’24) with copies of their magazine in the Newbury Center. Both sit on the floor in the newbury center, leaning against a blue couch and holding first issues of Elevate open in their laps. Quach is a young Vietnamese-American and trans woman who wears a black blouse and small earrings; Quach has a shaved head and has long black lashes. Sanchez is a young, women of color with long brown hair with blonde highlights. She wears white pants, a green blouse, and gold necklack. Both smile.

First-Gen

Newbury Center Launches First-Generation Student Magazine

July 1, 2022

Photo of A visitor taking in the gallery space at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms show. They stand before a very large art piece hung in the gallery.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Brilliant Trash at the ICA Watershed

June 30, 2022

Composite image of ten book covers included in the summer reads listicle. Books include: “Love Marriage”. “Olga Dies Dreaming", ”Girl on Fire”, By the Book”, “Young Mungo”, “There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important", "Portrait of a Thief", "Girls Can Kiss Girls Now", and "Happy-Go-Lucky".

Literature

15 Great Summer Reads Sure to Keep You Turning the Pages

June 20, 2022

Screenshot of BUTV10 program Amber. Two young AAPI women wear black blazers and sit behind a news desk. At left, is Dalvina Bian, COM'23, who has brown hair and wears red lipstick. At right is Chunyi Xu, COM'23, who has black hair and smiles slightly. Behind them, on screen, a TV reads "Amber" in English and presumably in Chinese characters. The "A" of Amber is a broadcast towere and the design also features the figure of a chinese women in the lower right.

Film & TV

BUTV10 Wins Big—Again

June 20, 2022

Photo of Sven Birkerts, left, and William Pierce in the AGNI offices on Bay State Rd. Birkerts, a white man with light brown curly hair and a silver grey beard, wears a blue shirt and jeans as he leans back with one arm on a bookcase behind him. Pierce, a white man with grey and brown curly hair wearing a white short sleeved shirt and light green pants, sits on an armchair to the right of Birkerts, also in front of the bookcase. The bookcase behind spans the entire wall and is made of a light wood. Many books on it feature the title "AGNI"

Writing

AGNI, BU’s Elite Literary Magazine, Celebrates Its 50th Birthday

June 16, 2022

photo of André de Quadros, choir director and teacher of music in the BU prison education program, looking at the camera with a stoic expression. He wears black, rectangular glasses and a light blue collared shirt.

Helping Refugee Children

With Singing Our Stories Project, CFA’s André de Quadros Will Bring Music Workshops to Migrant and Refugee Children

June 14, 2022

Photo of BU playwright Kirsten Greenidge, aBlack woman with long, straight Black hair. She leans against a door wearing a white blouse as glasses res atop her head. The poster for "Common Ground Revisited" can be seen on the wall behind her.

Theatre

Can the Play Common Ground Revisited, about Boston’s Busing Crisis, Reach 21st-Century Audiences Like the 1985 Book?

June 9, 2022

Chris Pratt outstretching his hand toward a CGI dinosaur in Jurassic World Dominion

Film

How Did You Do on Our Jurassic World Dominion Trivia Quiz?

June 8, 2022

How Did You Do on Our Jurassic World Dominion Trivia Quiz?