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Ohio State Fair band celebrates EP release at Somerville show

Ohio State Fair band celebrates EP release at Somerville show

By Annie Sarlin, Dept. Living Arts Editor / October 15, 2025

The name Ohio State Fair brings to mind images of farm animals, deep-fried dishes, and country music. Ironically, the band is from Boston, not Cleveland,...

Illustration by Ally Rzesa

Rewiring cinema: What Emerson students can learn from Lynch’s “Blue Velvet”

By Brooke Lelia, Staff Writer / October 14, 2025

When “Blue Velvet” hit theaters in 1986, it didn’t just unsettle with its severed ear, sadistic villain, and the entrapment of Dorothy Vallens; it...

Søren Lind (left) and Larissa Sansour (middle) discuss “Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales” with Dr. Leonie Bradbury (right). (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff)

Echoes of the Heart: Art in the time of AI

By Jean Robert Delos Santos, Beacon Correspondent / October 14, 2025

Artists react. It’s what they’ve always done. In our modern world, there is a tension between technology and humanity, and between technology and nature....

In ‘One Battle After Another,’ political activism meets stoner comedy anarchy

In ‘One Battle After Another,’ political activism meets stoner comedy anarchy

By Henry Borgerson, Beacon Correspondent / October 9, 2025

What do you get when you mix political activism with just a touch of stoner comedy?  Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest film, “One Battle After Another”...

Boston Conservatory’s 2025 “Cinderella” finds its magic in performance, even when the glass slipper pinches

Boston Conservatory’s 2025 “Cinderella” finds its magic in performance, even when the glass slipper pinches

By Brooke Lelia, Staff Writer / October 8, 2025

When the clock strikes midnight in the Boston Conservatory’s “Cinderella,” nothing shatters—not glass, not illusion, not even expectation. Instead,...

Courtesy of Sam Penn

Lorde has risen: ‘Ultrasound Tour’ creates community at TD Garden

By Bryce Heilmann, Senior Living Arts Reporter / October 8, 2025

Last week’s anticipated Rapture may have yielded anti-climactic results, but the Lord did appear in Boston—Lorde with an ‘e’ that is. Previously...

Photo courtesy of John Packman

R.F. Kuang ends world book tour on the home front in Somerville

By Danielle Bartholet, Asst. Magazine Editor and Business Operations Manager / October 8, 2025

The perfect place to end a whirlwind book tour for New York Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang was her home in Boston. The venue was packed to the brim...

Photo courtesy of Danica Robinson

Marina, ‘Princess of Power,’ takes her royal tour to Roadrunner

By Bryce Heilmann, Senior Living Arts Reporter / October 8, 2025

The groovy vibrance of the 70s returned to Boston last week as Marina brought audiences of all ages into her sonically fueled arcade vector game at Roadrunner....

African cultures on display at Boston Common

African cultures on display at Boston Common

By Rosa Morales-Simmons, Beacon Correspondent / October 8, 2025

The damp, trimmed lawns of Boston Common became a space for percussionists, musicians, strong singers, and a multinational showcase of African cultures...

‘New Edition Way’ takes over Dearborn Street in Roxbury

By Rosa Morales-Simmons, Beacon Correspondent / October 8, 2025

On Aug. 30, a crowd gathered at the intersection of Ambrose, Albany, and Dearborn Street in Roxbury, awaiting the renaming of Dearborn Street to “New...

Eating around Emerson with Juliet: Surviving the Emerson plague on just a bowl of soup

Eating around Emerson with Juliet: Surviving the Emerson plague on just a bowl of soup

By Juliet Hysen, Beacon Correspondent / October 1, 2025

One of the greatest comforts when you're sick and far from home is food that tastes (and feels) like home. Whether that’s Campbell's chicken noodle straight...

Kai Thomani Tshikosi ‘15 brings Emerson’s revolutionary energy to 'Hamilton'

Kai Thomani Tshikosi ‘15 brings Emerson’s revolutionary energy to ‘Hamilton’

By Bryce Heilmann, Senior Living Arts Reporter / October 1, 2025

Wednesday night, an energetic crowd packed the seats of the Citizens Bank Opera House for the opening night of Hamilton’s Boston tour run. Gilded ceiling...

Feeble Little Horse gallops through Somerville

Feeble Little Horse gallops through Somerville

By Rina Laby, Dept. City Editor / October 1, 2025

An uninhibited energy permeated the air at The Arts at the Armory Monday night as Feeble Little Horse graced the Somerville venue with its unique, raw...

The Boston Triennial links public art across Greater Boston

The Boston Triennial links public art across Greater Boston

By Danielle Bartholet, Asst. Magazine Editor and Business Operations Manager / October 1, 2025

What combines 3D-printed monuments, sculptures designed for animals, and burning a ship model made entirely out of reeds? The first ever Boston Triennial.  Three...

Courtesy of ArtsEmerson

Beyond the comedy: The powerful message behind Kristina Wong’s ‘#FoodBankInfluencer’

By Evanthia Chapman, Beacon Correspondent / October 1, 2025

Guns N’ Roses, Cyndi Lauper, and Bonnie Tyler may not be known for their activism fighting hunger, but in Kristina Wong’s one-woman show “#FoodBankInfluencer,”...

Cornelia Murr

Cornelia Murr is either on the road or living ‘as rural as it gets’

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / September 28, 2025

Cornelia Murr can usually be found in one of two places: her freshly restored house in the middle of rural Nebraska or on the road playing show after show...

Turn a new page this fall—write for an Emerson lit mag!

Turn a new page this fall—write for an Emerson lit mag!

By Sam Shipman and Max Ardrey / September 24, 2025

Are you tired of writing all day—your pencil worn down to a stub, your laptop keys well-pressed—only to have your magnum opus sitting on your desk...

Courtesy of Tyler Kinney

And the Emmy goes to… Emerson alumni!

By Hannah Brueske, Dept. Projects Editor / September 24, 2025

On a hot July day this summer, Tyler Kinney ‘10 was riding his bike in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his boyfriend when he found out that he was...

Courtesy of Zubin Stillings

EDC and EUDT dance through the digital and bring the heat

By Olivia Flanz, Beacon Correspondent / September 24, 2025

When the Semel Theater’s lights dim and the music begins, anticipation hums through the theater. Bass vibrates through the audience and colored lights...

Courtesy of Leonie Bradbury

Hidden Histories exhibit brings untold stories to Boston monuments

By Annie Sarlin, Dept. Living Arts Editor / September 24, 2025

Augmented reality, poetry, and participatory performance art showcase Boston’s “Hidden Histories” in Emerson Contemporary’s latest exhibition....