Arts
“Pastel” punk band to release new single and music video in January
January 16, 2020
Sophomore drummer Amogh Matthews posted on the Emerson Musician Mafia Facebook in 2018 in search of a group of fellow musicians to jam with. He received a response from sophomore singer and guitarist Karthik Ramaswami that led to the creation of Sunsetta, a band the two describe as a “pastel” punk...
Sophomores found Wack Magazine as creative outlet for all media
December 19, 2019
In September, sophomores Kate Cunningham and Hanna Marchesseault sat in a coffee shop and started to create an online magazine after hatching the idea their freshman year. Cunningham told Marchesseault she wanted to do something wacky. Marchesseault heard that word and became immediately attracted...
Junior’s stained sweatshirt launches creative business
December 14, 2019
Frustrated by her inability to wash stains out of a thrifted sweatshirt, Junior Juliet Walker uncapped her permanent marker and started to draw on the fabric covering the stains. Early in the semester, Walker wore her revamped sweatshirt to class, and many of her classmates asked her where she got it. ...
New play from Chuang Stage highlights 20th century Chinese societal issues
By Shruti Rajkumar, Staff Writer
December 4, 2019
Two students dressed in traditional Chinese clothing faced the audience and spoke indirectly to each other in Mandarin from opposite ends of the stage at the Greene Theater as they rehearsed the first scene of Chuang Stage’s fall production. At the beginning of July, senior Alison Qu and graduate students...
Waves early screening attracts crowds to AMC Boston Common
By Shruti Rajkumar, Staff Writer
November 14, 2019
Northeastern University sophomores Alex Pesek and Holly Devarger decided to enjoy a night off of their college campus on Nov. 13 to see their favorite actress from the show Euphoria in a free advance screening of the film Waves held at the AMC Boston Common. Devarger was happy to see such an eve...
Low-budget BFA film shows working life in Dominican Republic bateyes
By Eloisa de Farias
November 8, 2019
Hunched over a jacket to protect the sound, Emerson alumna Yesenia Rego recorded herself on her iPhone, reciting powerful excerpts from letters she once exchanged with women from small working communities in the Dominican Republic for her BFA film, “Through the Eyes of a Woman." Rego created ...
Alum secures dream fellowship at Huntington Theatre Company
November 8, 2019
Andrew Siañez-De La O ‘17 wrote a Boston bucket list following his college graduation. At the top of his list sat a playwriting fellowship at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, but Siañez-De La O never took that prospect seriously as he saw it as an impossible feat. Siañez-De La O appl...
Seniors capture viral YouTube family on film
November 4, 2019
When senior Eliot Lee was in his freshman year at Emerson, a high school friend of his reached out to let him know about an opportunity to work as a video editor for a YouTube channel. After a roughly month-long trial period, YouTuber Kyra Sivertson hired Lee, and he began editing videos for her family...
Neo-Political Cowgirls perform for Lucas Flint scholarship fund
By Taina Millsap and Abigail Hadfield
November 1, 2019
On a cold, rainy night in Boston, a silent audience sat in Old South Church under dim lighting, waiting in fear while veiled figures gradually appeared around them, whispering and shouting across the room. Eerie music began to play and more figures appeared, yelling in tongues, while young women, dressed...
Junior draws onstage persona from Bonnie and Clyde
October 31, 2019
One late night in July 2018, junior visual and media arts student Andrew Muccitelli searched the infamous American crime couple Bonnie and Clyde. Muccitelli unintentionally discovered Bonnie Parker’s lesser-known identity as a romantic poet and painter before her husband Clyde Barrow introduced...
Alum Georden West wins Student Oscar for experimental short film
By Domenic Conte, Managing Editor: Print
October 30, 2019
Georden West '18 watched in disapproval as their college in southern Virginia forced transgender students to leave, stripping them of their ability to graduate. As a queer media maker, they refuse to acknowledge the name of the institution and promote its existence. “I was making films about what it was like...
Emerson team takes home a slamming win in poetry competition
By Eloisa de Farias
October 23, 2019
A group of Emerson students won a national poetry slam tournament after setting out on a seven-month path of redemption following their loss at a collegiate poetry slam tournament in April. The four students took home first place and a $1,200 cash prize from the 2019 VOX Pop Slam Poetry Tournament i...
