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Trngle is a new matchmaking service for artists

Trngle is a new matchmaking service for artists

April 20, 2016

Two years ago, on the University of Oregon campus, two friends set out to make a music video but didn’t know where to look to recruit or build a...

Lions, tigers, and butt plugs—oh my!

April 13, 2016

The room filled slowly, but steadily as students entered in groups, chattering and pointing excitedly at the display of dildos, butt plugs, floggers, condoms,...

It's a buyer's market for students at Emerson

It’s a buyer’s market for students at Emerson

April 13, 2016

Akin to The Hunger Games, Emerson’s lottery housing selection process is a high-stakes gamble and students have just begun to volunteer each...

Dix Pix: Ivy Park crosses athleisure’s racial boundary

April 13, 2016

If “Formation” didn’t bless us enough, Queen B has just upped the ante yet again by co-founding a 200-piece activewear collection, entitled...

#FollowMe: Students enter internet stardom

#FollowMe: Students enter internet stardom

April 13, 2016

4,097,946. Make that 4,097,957. Wait, final count is 4,097,958. The number keeps ticking up every day, even though the YouTube video Mary Kate Carr, a...

Love Column: Finding one’s own freedoms

April 6, 2016

“Abstinence,” exclaimed Coach Brown, crossing his arms in front of his crotch, “equals,” he said, moving them up to his torso in...

Mentoring program helps students leap forward

Mentoring program helps students leap forward

April 6, 2016

Angela Cooke-Jackson, an assistant communication studies professor, spent most of her life straddling her at-risk community roots and her more recent suburban...

Costume makers stitch a show together

Costume makers stitch a show together

April 6, 2016

Madison Gordon perches on a stool with the sleeves of her Kelly green blazer rolled up.  She’s intently focusing on adjusting the hem of a dress,...

Accurate polling brings national credibility to society

April 6, 2016

On the brink of the 2016 presidential elections, the Emerson College Polling Society nearly tripled the number of polls it conducted this semester. The...

New podcast covers everything and the kitchen sink

New podcast covers everything and the kitchen sink

April 6, 2016

Tom Carroll can talk about almost anything— from March Madness to hot dogs, he’s creating conversation and casting it onto the interwebs in...

Kenzy Peach and Arden Jurskis faked a marriage proposal in front of Ted Cruz.
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#FollowMe: Students enter internet stardom

By Jackie Roman / April 6, 2016

4,097,946. Make that 4,097,957. Wait, final count is 4,097,958. The number keeps ticking up every day, even though the YouTube video Mary Kate Carr, a...

After finding value of verse at Emerson, alumna becomes poet laureate

After finding value of verse at Emerson, alumna becomes poet laureate

April 1, 2016

Emerson alumna Danielle Legros Georges, Boston’s new poet laureate, said she has witnessed the power of poetry in vignettes throughout her life....

New femme magazine designed for women in Mexico City

New femme magazine designed for women in Mexico City

March 30, 2016

Mariana Tinoco Rivera said she always wanted to start a magazine, or has at least for the past five years. Now, as the first writing, literature, and publishing...

Students bouncing and backing nearby nightlife

Students bouncing and backing nearby nightlife

March 30, 2016

Snaking through crowds of patrons, carrying heavy buckets of ice, and trying not to slip on spilt vodka cranberries made up a typical shift at the now-closed...

Carr on culture: Is HeForShe really for her?

March 30, 2016

This past week, the HeForShe campaign released videos of conversation between founder Emma Watson and Broadway phenomenon Lin-Manuel Miranda. It includes...

Michael Gilday created an editing monster: himself

Michael Gilday created an editing monster: himself

March 30, 2016

Near the northern tip of Chinatown, in a pod in WeWork, a red brick building built for innovation, sits Boston’s new marketing video production company,...

Neutral time and the living’s easy

March 23, 2016

Willa Segar-Reid grew up with two moms in a house of all women who were accepting of their identification of gender nonconforming. When they came to Emerson,...

Dix Pix: Confidence doesn’t require clothing at all

March 23, 2016

I was 12 when I took my first “nake.” I donned my finest Limited Too bra that made my cleavage sit just right. I stood in my bathroom mirror...

Women come together to speak about their voices

Women come together to speak about their voices

March 23, 2016

In a 2015 podcast from WBEZ’s This American Life host Ira Glass interviewed female reporters about the emails they receive that criticize...

Communication studies celebrating culture through food

Communication studies celebrating culture through food

March 23, 2016

The smells of cajun spices, fresh basil, and garlic filled the function hall at 151 Tremont St. during the first annual Potluck love.  Louisiana...