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Reel inclusive

Reel inclusive

April 3, 2014

Celebrate the Boston LGBT Film Festival’s 30th year, right here on campus. On April 4 at 7 p.m., the Bright Family Screening Room in Paramount Center...

Students hop on late-night T service

Students hop on late-night T service

April 3, 2014

It was five minutes past 1:00 a.m. on a Friday night, but over 20 people still milled around the Boylston outbound station, waiting for the next train....

Kiss and tell: Students create version of viral video

April 3, 2014

Delilah Kaufman and Tricia Sullivan had never met before. Kaufman walked into an empty room through a door on the left, while Sullivan entered the one...

Dutch Diaries: Ideal or real?

April 3, 2014

Paris is a city of clichés, from eating a baguette while strolling through Montmartre to seeing the “Mona Lisa” at the Louvre. And when...

Artists create works out of recycleables to raise awareness

Artists create works out of recycleables to raise awareness

April 3, 2014

Tim Johnson was flat broke and in the mood to paint when he began a project that would eventually win him a $100 prize. While living in Jamaica Plain for...

Through a different lens, alumni hope to shed light on culture

Through a different lens, alumni hope to shed light on culture

April 3, 2014

Sam Mathius walked into the Tam, a bar the 24-year-old has worked at since his sophomore year at Emerson. With his left hand rested against his right arm,...

Dating Tips: Under Pressure

April 1, 2014

You have a million film sets you have to be on, final projects to start, and papers to write. Not to mention you need to figure out your summer internships...

Springing fashion back into the past

Springing fashion back into the past

April 1, 2014

Black and white fringes gracefully swooshed down the runway this spring as designers such as Calvin Klein and Emilio Pucci embellished their work with...

Housing hunt: Exploring Boston’s neighborhoods

April 1, 2014

It’s rare to hear a student say they enjoy apartment hunting. Dealing with ever-increasing rent and exploring the questionable domains of some messy...

For teens with cancer, Emerson group plans second chance at prom

For teens with cancer, Emerson group plans second chance at prom

March 28, 2014

Most people see prom as an event that comes standard with their high school diploma. This is not the case for thousands of teens with cancer...

Pedaling for diabetes research, student makes and films history

Pedaling for diabetes research, student makes and films history

March 28, 2014

It was Thanksgiving Day and the sun was high overhead when Greg Auerbach slowed his pedaling and stopped his bicycle on the roadside. Sitting on his bike...

For the love of the movies, and $1000

For the love of the movies, and $1000

March 27, 2014

Of about 100 undergraduate and graduate student submissions, 18 shorts have been selected to be screened at this year’s Emerson Film Festival. The...

Guess who's coming to dinner? Race relations.

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Race relations.

March 27, 2014

A staged reading of the Pulitzer-winning play Disgraced is the latest example of The Office of the Arts’ effort to showcase stories with many perspectives.  The...

Pitch, please

Pitch, please

March 27, 2014

All four requisitely punny Emerson a cappella groups will gather for the first time ever for a grand ode to the unadulterated human voice. Acappellics...

Everybody X Dance now

Everybody X Dance now

March 27, 2014

Emerson Stage premieres its annual modern dance festival, X Dance, at the Greene Theater tonight. The show features the work of student choreographers...

Iconic women, with an Emerson update

Iconic women, with an Emerson update

March 20, 2014

Some images are everlasting: Lucille Ball posing as the title character from I Love Lucy, with her red lips puckered and her eyes wide with mock surprise;...

Dutch Diaries: Matters of Money

March 20, 2014

I didn’t realize I had bought my train ticket from Venice to Milan for March instead of February until the old Italian man scanning my ticket on...

ECLA interns gain real-world experience on set, in studio

ECLA interns gain real-world experience on set, in studio

March 20, 2014

Emerson’s Los Angeles Program opened this spring semester with a bang, as 124 students moved into the newly built center on Sunset Boulevard. As...

For student broadcaster, it’s never too early for ambition

For student broadcaster, it’s never too early for ambition

March 20, 2014

Just four episodes into the fall season of Good Morning Emerson, weather correspondent Christian Mudrick self-promoted his way into a promotion. “In...

Emerson CUPSI team competes in Denver

Emerson CUPSI team competes in Denver

March 13, 2014

The crowd was silent. They were waiting for the introduction of the 2014 Emerson College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational team. As soon as they got it,...