What happens when one of the East’s and one of the West’s most famous heroines are given a second chance at life, by each other’s sides, in the same...
By Rina Laby, Deputy Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ January 14, 2026
Giddy up Emerson! 2026 is the year of the horse, and with it begins a period of movement, ambition, and social momentum, according to astrologers.
In...
By Avary Amaral, Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ January 14, 2026
The first time Brendan O’Brien saw an Electronic Benefits Transfer card, the system used to deliver Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits...
Marking the end of the quarter century, 2025 was a year full of changes, innovations, and often unanticipated trends. Despite seemingly constant global...
By Avary Amaral, Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ January 14, 2026
Spoilers ahead for “Stranger Things” season five.
It started with the warmth of friendship, aching suspense, comforting nostalgia, and coming-of-age...
It’s awards season, with the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globes having aired their 2026 winners, the Actor Awards is next to present its awardees.
Last...
Inside TD Garden last Sunday, a large screen projected a fireplace design with Boston’s iHeartRadio station logo, Kiss 108, resting above. Thousands...
By Bryce Heilmann, Senior Living Arts Reporter
/ December 11, 2025
With Broadway blowing up the box office and the holiday season in full swing, Jessica Vosk has come to “Sleigh” at the perfect time. Vosk, the Broadway...
By Max Ardrey, Magazine Editor
/ December 11, 2025
As the fall semester comes to a close, short-on-cash Emerson College students without board bucks to spare often find themselves chomping at the bit to...
By Avary Amaral, Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ December 10, 2025
Makeshift walls of plywood and metal piping reach toward the high ceiling of the McKim Exhibition Hall at the Boston Public Library. In contrast with the...
By Marcia Cevallos, Beacon Correspondent
/ December 10, 2025
When someone we love passes away, they might leave us physically, but we still have stories about them. But does telling those stories keep them alive?...
When people think of Frankenstein’s monster, they think of a green, lumbering creature with a wide forehead and scalp studded with electrical bolts....
By Juliet Hysen, Beacon Correspondent
/ December 3, 2025
The epic culinary feat that is Friendsgiving at the Emerson Dining Hall fed most of the undergraduate population, and then some, completely on the school’s...
At first glance, the scene is nightmarish: hundreds of hungry Emersonians crammed into the Dining Center in relentless pursuit of a full plate. The bread...
Grammy-nominated author and multi-Juno award winner Jessie Reyez led a passionate and playful read along of her second book, “The People’s Purge: Words...
There’s a part of me, woven into half of my DNA, that shaped significant pieces of my childhood. This is my Greek side, which always colored my life...
By Sam Shipman, Editor-at-large
/ November 20, 2025
The note I jotted down in my phone read “a cross between Jeff Buckley and Radiohead.” I put it in my pocket and looked back up at the slender, frizzy-haired...
By Rina Laby, Deputy Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ November 19, 2025
Colonial America, by all accounts, was not a great time to be alive. Religion was paramount, royal taxes were high, and Bostonians, including Paul Revere,...
By Annie Sarlin, Dept. Living Arts Editor
/ November 19, 2025
In a college full of extracurricular programs, student publications, TV productions, and performance troupes, Liam Alexe, a junior marketing communications...