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

The Berkeley Beacon

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

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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Massive and majestic Renaissance emerges from MFA

December 31, 2012

It is no wonder that inside the Gund Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston viewers stand in hordes around each painting in its newest exhibit, iTitian,...

Vonnegut in Retrospect: Son reads at Brattle

December 31, 2012

Although he is no longer with us, author Kurt Vonnegut's words still echo through this generation. In his posthumously-published collection of writings,...

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

Trailer Park

December 31, 2012

bi17 Again/i/bIs it terrible to pray that Zac Efron's first post-iHigh School Musical/i studio film, i17 Again/i, fails in every possible way? Though,...

Fade fails to enlighten at Emerson#039;s Tufte

December 31, 2012

Terri Ciccone

Pierce#039;s film signals no Stop to failed Iraq flicks

December 31, 2012

Told from three returning soldiers' points of view, Stop-Loss hones in on the lives of what we are meant to perceive as simple, everyday American folks...