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The Berkeley Beacon

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

The Berkeley Beacon

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

The Berkeley Beacon

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Repo Man. (Criterion Forum)

Death, consumerism, and UFOs: the absurd nature of 1980s comedies

By Nathaniel Ruttenberg, Beacon Correspondent / December 3, 2024

A smoking pair of police boots on the side of a highway is never a good sign. It usually indicates that the officer has just been turned to dust by a...

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Curated

By Maggie Kaprielian, Beacon Correspondent / December 3, 2024

According to the National Institute of Health, adolescents who regularly use social media are at double the risk of experiencing poor mental health.   She...

Photos: Choose your own character

Photos: Choose your own character

By Helen Armstrong, Beacon Correspondent / December 3, 2024

Photoshoot concept: Helen Armstrong Modeled by: Nuala Dougherty, Rachel Blackman, Seanalei Nishimura

Terry (Edited by Maddie Barron)

The man, the myth, the Terry: the wacky world of third party candidates

By Kaitlyn Smitten, Staff Writer / December 3, 2024

The U.S. political system operates under two main political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—but what about candidates who go...

End Martian Law

End Martian Law

By Adam Nuñez, Staff Writer / December 3, 2024

Do Aliens Feel Pain? Leaked Document Reveals Extent of U.S. Torture Experiments on May 17th Martian Leaked documents uncovered in a hack on United...

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We want to hear those club classics

By Vivian Farris, Guest Author / December 3, 2024

It’s a Friday night, and you’re going out with your friends. You put your lipstick on in the bathroom mirror and put on the perfect outfit you picked...

"Expression Necessary for Evolution."

Photos: Expression Necessary to Evolution

By Fiona McMahon, Magazine Editor / December 3, 2024

Princess Exxen. (Modeled by Charlotte Pernicone)

An interview With Princess Exxen Nomuunus VI

By Sawyer Klipstein, Guest Author / December 3, 2024

The Alpha Centauri Solar System has endured much hardship in its three centuries of monarchy rule, from its unsteady founding to more recent economic...

"I shop therefore I am." (Barbara Kruger)

‘80s print: Curators of culture or boy-crazy product pushers?

By Solia Simpson, Guest Author / December 3, 2024

My mother was born in 1971. Her prime years of adolescence were spent maintaining a perm, working out to Jane Fonda, and observing hip-hop’s early...

Conan Gray. (Creative Commons)

Found Heaven: Toxic love against a neon background

By Hannah Hughes, Staff Writer / December 3, 2024

Conan Gray’s most recent album, “Found Heaven,” pays homage to the bright, chunky sound of the ‘80s with its bold instrumentation, electronic...

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The Workaround

By Jagger van Vliet, Guest Author / December 3, 2024

In a week’s time, the publishing house would have its hands on Jules’ magnum opus, and everything would be settled.  Jules had been imagining...

Don't let the world un-alive your tongue

Don’t let the world un-alive your tongue

By Rachel Choi, Multimedia Managing Editor & Chief Copyeditor / December 3, 2024

Technology has progressed to a point so vast that most people have the entire world at their fingertips. Collective knowledge of nearly everything that...

Letter from the Magazine Editor

By Maddie Barron, Magazine Editor & Assistant Opinion Editor / April 20, 2024

Readers,  I knew I wanted this edition of The Berkeley Beacon Magazine to be about the United States, because selfishly I needed to create something...

Modeled by Paige Victoria

Photos: Cigarettes in Gen-Z

By Carson Dyer, Beacon Correspondent / April 17, 2024

Cigarettes are back. Is it the inherent uncoolness of vaping or the nihilism of a younger generation? Photos by Carson Dyer, modeled by Paige Victoria...

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God bless history teachers, Colin Powell, and the ghost of Americana

By Gavin Miller, Beacon Correspondent / April 17, 2024

I had Mr. McAllen in mind when I started thinking about “Neo-Americana.” He was my middle school social studies teacher, and he bled red, white,...

Modeled by Sam Shipman and Maddie Barron

‘Till divorce do us part: a generation of marriage skeptics

By Beacon Staff Writer / April 17, 2024

As a woman, I know that, societally, my future goals should include marriage and children. One may call me a scorned child of divorce, but even as full...

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The resonating echoes of 9/11 in country music

By Meg Richards, Managing Editor / April 17, 2024

A year after the attack on the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, country music goliath Alan Jackson released the emotive and poignant anthem “Where Were...

Courtesy Rachel Choi

Monopoly on dreaming: Disillusionment of the American Dream

By Rachel Choi, Multimedia Managing Editor & Chief Copyeditor / April 17, 2024

Three things I learned when I became sentient: the alphabet lied to me, the world was, in fact, not my oyster, and the American Dream was the white man’s...

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The rise of MAGA and political extremism

By Emma Siebold, Beacon Correspondent / April 17, 2024

I’ve become fearful of red baseball caps.  It’s an involuntary reaction—I literally do a double-take. I analyze the design—is that white text...

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Saturn’s son

By Ty Gavin, Beacon Correspondent / April 17, 2024

A naked titan crouching in darkness, clutching the torso of a pale, dangling body, about to tear rib cage in two; some bold script pasted over in modern...