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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

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Beacon Quick Picks

December 31, 2012

Davis Shipley and Will Schwalbe; Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home,James Patterson; The 6th Target; Available May 8In the latest novel...

Dull Running with Scissors needs sharpening

December 31, 2012

Dysfunctional casts of characters are not rare in contemporary cinema. Unfortunately, many recent releases have neither improved upon the paradigm nor...

Friday the 13th remake slashes audiences#039; faith in Jason films

December 31, 2012

Despite being a horror movie classic, Sean Cunningham's 1980's iFriday the 13th/i was panned by critics and deemed one of the worst pieces of cinema by...

The voice inside your head says #039;skip this#039;

December 31, 2012

In Stranger Than Fiction's ambitious case, not really.Stranger Than Fiction wears its ingenuity on its sleeve and is forcefully concerned with reasserting...

IFF Birth

December 31, 2012

The Independent Film Festival of Boston is like a child prodigy. Only five years since its birth, it has already discovered the keys to a successful festival...

Recipes from yuppie chef not very yummy

December 31, 2012

Lieberman's Food Network show, "Good Deal with Dave Lieberman," airs Saturdays and Sundays.,Dave Lieberman, author of the newly-released cookbook Dave's...

Beacon Quick Picks

December 31, 2012

The title pretty much says it all: in this volume of crap, D'Souza blames leftist American politics and a decline in morals for instigating terrorists...

MFA celebrates fifth anniversary of College Night

December 31, 2012

who need an excuse to go to the Museum of Fine Arts: There's a party! Tonight, the MFA is hosting its fifth annual College Night from 7 p.m. to midnight.According...

No dispute over the Savannah Disputation

December 31, 2012

The Savannah Disputation is chock full of all three in its New England premiere through Oct. 17 at the SpeakEasy Stage at the Boston Center for the Arts.,A...

Beacon Quick Picks

December 31, 2012

This is Barack Obama's mini-manifesto, which wouldn't be complete without his interspersed personal touch. He writes about that humble childhood on the...

Beacon Quick Picks

December 31, 2012

When Ishmael Beah appeared on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart acknowledged Beah's incredible journey as a boy soldier and refugee in Sierra Leone but was...

With no Patriots, ads dominate Super Bowl XL

December 31, 2012

staff), you watched the Super Bowl, if at all, for the commercials. Here's a rundown of the best:Old Habits Die HardShort of skin, animals always seem...

The Beacon explores the 2008 Boston Independent Film Festival

December 31, 2012

Forget Facebook and other mindless distractions, stimulate your cranium in between cramming for exams, drafting final essays or putting together your portfolio...

Polls and poles: Uys aims pointy satire

December 31, 2012

Uys has brought with him his repertoire of personalities-ranging from the current South African president Thabo Mbeki to prospective presidential candidate...

Forget Sarah Marshall, welcome Jason Segel

December 31, 2012

Forgetting Sarah Marshall, yet another comedy produced by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin), opens with this scenario and proceeds, through...

Looking to October at Harvard Film Archive

December 31, 2012

Catherine Viglienzoni

Blues master Derek Trucks slides into Boston#039;s House of Blues April 2

December 31, 2012

Ask any guitarist: Playing slide is tough. Real tough. One of the backbone elements of the blues, slide guitarists don't simply hit punctuated notes by...

Fast-talking, quick-witted banter makes for a strong Speech

December 31, 2012

"Oh, we're back in school," said one adult immediately upon entering the Lyric theater. As this woman's reaction suggests, the set is so familiar that...

Beacon columnist Wolk takes on the politics of W.

December 31, 2012

Jake Wolk, Beacon columnist