By Rina Laby, Deputy Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ February 18, 2026
We are living in a world filled to the brim with AI slop. It's everywhere: social media, politics, education. This May, an OpenAI backed feature-length...
When Christopher Mathias was an up-and-coming journalist in the 2010s, the profession revolved around the concept of objectivity — or as he describes...
By Avary Amaral, Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ February 18, 2026
For about eight hours, participants of “asses.masses” sit in a theater, with a single PlayStation 4 controller sitting on a plinth in front of them....
The 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, headlined by Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, also known as Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, brought everything to the...
By Celina Cabral, Beacon Correspondent
/ February 11, 2026
College is a special time in anyone’s life. Alongside the regular studies, for some, it can be where they meet the person they will spend the rest of...
For many, the summer of 2024 could be described with just a single color: slime green. This was the mark of “Brat” Summer, the lifestyle and fashion...
By Iris Martinez, Beacon Correspondent
/ February 4, 2026
A colorful two-tier net sculpture hovers high above the stage of the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. Four of the eight total performers are on the upper...
By Avary Amaral, Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ February 4, 2026
Dimensions, portals, biologic (relating to living organisms), energy, pulp and goo, and living with rocks. These are the various abstract subsections the...
Like most modern writers, writing, literature and publishing professor and author Margot Douaihy uses a laptop to write. But, perhaps unlike most modern...
By Rina Laby, Deputy Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ January 28, 2026
In the middle of Downtown Boston, between mounds of dirt-caked snow and seemingly never-ending gray concrete, a posthumanist oasis stands. No, it's not...
By Rina Laby, Deputy Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ January 28, 2026
In 2016, a group of students began the semester in their Narrative Production Lab by starting production on a short film they had been selected to create...
Emerson College students may have noticed a new glowing storefront beckoning passers to peek in through its windows around the corner of Little Building....
By Meg Richards, Deputy Projects Editor
/ January 21, 2026
It’s that time of year again, where the soon-to-be graduating class speculates on which industry mogul, Hollywood starlet, or campus cornerstone will be enthroned as the 2026 graduation commencement speaker.
By Olivia Flanz, Beacon Correspondent
/ January 21, 2026
Walking into the exhibit on the 4th floor of the Institute of Contemporary Art, you are immediately greeted by a painting by Ojibwe artist George Morrison....