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Eating around Emerson with Juliet: Teatime at The Courtyard

By Juliet Hysen, Beacon Correspondent / November 6, 2025

With Halloween in the rearview mirror, I’ve been thinking a lot about nontraditional places where people dress in costumes while eating food: kids’...

A dog in a superman costume during the 11th annual Doggone Halloween event in Downtown Boston on Saturday, October 25, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff)

A doggone delightful day of Halloween fun sweeps Downtown Crossing

By Lila Reimels, Beacon Correspondent / October 29, 2025

A joyful Halloween tradition took over Downtown Crossing on Saturday as the streets filled with hundreds of dogs strutting, performing, and socializing...

Arthur Preston leading the “Ghosts and Gravestones Tour” (Beacon Staff / Bryan Hecht)

Emerson students explore spectres and serial killers on the ‘Ghosts and Gravestones Tour’

By Jack Silver, Beacon Correspondent / October 29, 2025

Arthur Preston, or so he calls himself, appeared dressed in a top hat, a red bow tie, a red and black button-up, a cane, gray gloves, and ghoulish face...

Scenes from Spicetober Fest 2025 in Boston City Hall Plaza. (Marcia Cevallos/ For The Beacon)

Spicetober Fest brings the heat with exclusively local vendors

By Karina DiMare, Beacon Correspondent / October 29, 2025

A variety of rich fragrances from curry to kimchi wafted through City Hall Plaza at Boston’s first Spicetober Fest. The event, which took place last...

(Nick Peace / Beacon Staff)

Select Markets brings fashion to the people

By Max Ardrey, Dept. Living Arts Editor / October 15, 2025

An assorted mass clothed in baggy jeans and long jorts lined a sidewalk in Charlestown early Saturday afternoon despite the beating sun overhead. The denim-clad...

Photo courtesy of Malala Yousafzai

In her new book, Malala finds her way through love, strife, and college life

By Meg Richards, Editor-in-Chief / October 15, 2025

For most of Gen-Z, the first introduction to activist-author-multihyphenate Malala Yousafzai was her book I Am Malala, released in October 2013. Written...

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...

Peach Pit

Peach Pit’s “microculture” of fans appears around the world

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / June 24, 2025

Peach Pit is what every indie pop band dreams of being: a success story. Their humble beginnings in 2016, based in Vancouver, were met with a burst of...

John Filo on Blanket Hill, by Beacon photographer Fiona McMahon

The Emerson connection to the 1970 Kent State shootings

By Meg Richards, Editor-in-Chief / May 17, 2025

At the height of the Vietnam War in 1970, America was divided into political camps that went beyond party lines. Students made up the bulk of anti-war...

Wendy Montero serves up a bread bowl on the dining hall's Mardi Gras night. (Max Ardrey / Beacon Staff)

Bourbon Street or Boylston Street? Mardi Gras makes its way to Emerson DH

By Max Ardrey, Dept. Living Arts Editor / March 5, 2025

Despite being 1,500 miles away from New Orleans, Emerson students could smell Mardi Gras on Boylston Street as the aroma from Cajun-inspired dishes wafted...

Brighton brings creativity and fun with weekly ‘Drinking and Drawing’ event

Brighton brings creativity and fun with weekly ‘Drinking and Drawing’ event

By Hannah Hughes, Staff Writer / February 19, 2025

Inside from the cold, tables full of art supplies fill the wide, open space of Zone 3’s large studio space. Warm from the music, laughter, and people,...

A vendor serves soup to customers. (McKenzie Cooper/ Beacon Staff)

Soup Fest is good for the soul, and small businesses too

By McKenzie Cooper, Beacon Staff / February 19, 2025

The Bow Market, a two-story outdoor marketplace in Somerville, is usually filled with small businesses and food vendors who sell homemade trinkets, used...

Boston’s newest bagel shop just popped up

Boston’s newest bagel shop just popped up

By Kristin Barrett, Beacon Correspondent / February 19, 2025

Viral bagel sensation PopUp Bagels, known for its “rip, grip, and dip” style recently opened a location in Boston’s Seaport District. Their official...

Attendees playing Bầu Cua Cá Cọp, a traditional Vietnamese dice game at Pao Arts Center. (Marley Noiwan/ Beacon Correspondent)

Representation in celebration: Pao Arts Center hosts their annual Lunar New Year Festival

By Marley Noiwan, Beacon Correspondent / February 12, 2025

While the Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade commenced with joyful music and lion dancers throughout the neighborhood, the Pao Arts Center on Feb. 9 hosted...

Bobby MacLean and Alexandra Whisnant, who opened Zuzu's Petals in 2021.

Zuzu’s Petals is Cambridge’s sweetest escape, with no phones allowed

By Hannah Hughes, Staff Writer / February 12, 2025

In Cambridge, the smell of deep, rich chocolate fills the room on Hampshire Street, wafting through shelves of wine bottles, around walls full of polaroids,...

Senior Missionary Elder Butt and Assistant to the Bishop Stephen Patterson catch up over holiday fanfare in the Latter-day Saints' chapel gymnasium. (Bryan Liu/ For The Beacon)

Latter-day Saints celebrate Lunar New Year

By Bryan Liu, Managing Editor / February 5, 2025

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held a Lunar New Year party celebrating Chinese culture in their Cambridge chapel last Friday night.  Latter-day...

Playwright Kate Hamill and Director Shana Cooper hug during a workshop of "The Odyssey." (Bryan Liu/ For The Beacon)

After 2000 years, Odysseus finally makes it to Boston

By Bryan Liu, Managing Editor / February 5, 2025

Actor and Playwright Kate Hamill’s latest production, “The Odyssey,” will have its world premiere on Feb. 9 at the American Repertory Theater in...

David Methven, piper for the 15th annual Burns supper at The Haven last Thursday night. (Bryan Liu/ Beacon Staff)

‘Everybody gets to be Scottish tonight’: In Jamaica Plain Burns supper honors Scotland’s national poet

By Bryan Liu, Managing Editor / January 30, 2025

Hundreds of locals celebrated the life and legacy of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, at the 15th annual Burns supper hosted by Scottish restaurant...

Candace Persuasian lip syncs "Defying Gravity," as Elphaba. (Bryan Liu/ Beacon Staff)

A birthday and a name change for drag artist Candace Persuasian

By Bryan Liu, Managing Editor / January 30, 2025

Candace Persuasian’s birthday show, Candyland, celebrated her official name change while performing a lip sync of "Defying Gravity" at Jacque’s Cabaret last...

Dray Drinks sells beer, wine, and spirits—sans alcohol

Dray Drinks sells beer, wine, and spirits—sans alcohol

By Hannah Hughes, Staff Writer / January 22, 2025

Dray Drinks offers evergreen beer, wine, and spirit selections, alcohol-free. In the South End, the store’s large windows, painted mural, and open floor...