Nick Peace Archives

The People’s Party packs Church Street in Cambridge with Fashion, Music, and colossal clothing piles

By Nick Peace, Dept. Photo Editor & Video Editor / May 31, 2025

Crowded around a multi-colored mountain of shirts and pants, thrifters of all ages, each with their own unique style, sifted through piles of clothes at...

[Photo] Pro runner Michael Keebler’s ‘out of body’ experience running the Boston Marathon

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / April 23, 2025

Michael Keebler talking to Beacon news editor Sam Shipman (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff).

Photos: Sun, Sweat, and Tears, scenes at the 2025 Boston Marathon

By Arthur Mansavage, Nick Peace, Madla Walsh, Norah Lesperance, Jacob Goldberg, Abigail Hoyt, Anna Knepley, DJ Mara and Sam Shipman / April 21, 2025

An estimated 300,000 spectators filled the sidelines of the 129th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 21, 2025. See photos captured by Beacon photographers covering the event.

[Photo] The Salvation Army rallies support from Heartbreak Hill

April 21, 2025

The Salvation Army aid station on Heartbreak Hill offers refreshments to runners and spectators (Nick Peace / Beacon Staff)

[Photo] As it happened: The 129th Boston Marathon

By Jordan Pagkalinawan, DJ Mara, Sam Shipman, Nick Peace, Arthur Mansavage, Anna Knepley and Bryan Hecht / April 18, 2025

Waves of men's race runners wait for the starting gun in Hopkinton, MA (Nick Peace / Beacon Staff).

Photos: Remembering the start of the American Revolutionary War 250 years later

By Arthur Mansavage, Nick Peace and Sam Shipman / April 19, 2025

See photos captured by Beacon photographers at reenactment's of Paul Reveres' famous midnight ride and following Battle of Lexington, where 250 years ago a single shot started the American Revolutionary War.

[Photo] Boston’s Chinatown rings in the Year of the Snake in annual parade

By Sage Jezierski, Senior Reporter / February 12, 2025

A group of Lion Dancers perform in the street during this years Lunar New Year parade. Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025 (Nick Peace/Beacon Staff)

[Photo] City council deadlocks over resolution to pause and review White Stadium rebuild

By Izzy Bryars, Staff Writer / February 10, 2025

Boston City Hall Plaza in the evening on Monday, October 28, 2024. (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff, File)

[Photo] ‘Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales’: Emerson Contemporary’s newest exhibition gives a voice to Palestine

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

A sculptural installation in the Media Art Gallery. (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff)

[Photo] Josh Kraft announces campaign for Boston mayor, takes on incumbent Michelle Wu

By Rina Laby, Dept. City Editor / February 5, 2025

Boston City Hall Plaza in the evening on Monday, October 28, 2024.(Nick Peace/ For the Beacon, File)

[Photo] Frozen over: Bostonians skate and scrimmage in the Public Garden

By Max Ardrey, Dept. Living Arts Editor / January 22, 2025

Piling the snow up to make a makeshift rink, A group plays hockey on the surface of the Swan Pond.(Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff)

Photos: Thousands gather outside Capitol after Trump Inauguration moved indoors

By Nick Peace and Rian Nelson / January 22, 2025

Thousands of people flocked to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20 for the second presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. Despite the freezing weather...

[Photo] Trump delivers inaugural address

By Adri Pray, Iselin Bratz, DJ Mara, Hannah Brueske and Jordan Pagkalinawan / January 20, 2025

A Trump supporter wearing a MAGA hat looks toward the U.S. Capitol building as Trump is sworn in for a second term. (Nick Peace/Beacon Staff)

[Photo] Over 300 pounds of food donated by Emerson to Food For Free last fall

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / January 8, 2025

A Food For Free worker shows one batch of baby tomatoes to a spectator before loading it into a box truck with the rest of the Emerson dining hall donation...

[Photo] 100 of the best photos from Beacon photographers in 2024

By Arthur Mansavage, Photo Editor, Website Editor & Chief Photographer / December 28, 2024

Tycho performs at The Royale in Boston on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (Nick Peace/Beacon Staff)

Photos: Snowfall blankets Massachusetts ahead of holiday travel

By DJ Mara, Adri Pray, Sam Shipman and Nick Peace / December 21, 2024

Nearly four inches of snow fell across Massachusetts on Friday before temperatures rose and washed rain across the area. Between one and four inches...

[Photo] Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson arrested on federal charges, colleagues call for her resignation

By DJ Mara, Senior Political Reporter / December 8, 2024

Boston City Hall on Monday, October 28, 2024. (Nick Peace/ For the Beacon, File)

Photos: 83rd annual Tree Lighting ceremony brings holiday lights back to the Boston Common

By Arthur Mansavage, Nick Peace and Bryan Hecht / December 6, 2024

Hundreds gathered in the Boston Common for the annual tree lighting event Thursday evening. See photos captured by...

[Photo] Boston, music stars, and Santa celebrate holiday tree lighting

By Bryan Hecht and Sam Shipman / December 6, 2024

Hundreds of onlookers watch as fireworks are set off during the Holiday Lights celebration in Boston Common on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Nick Peace/ Beacon...

[Photo] The Christmas season begins with annual trellis lighting

By Rina Laby, Dept. City Editor / December 4, 2024

[Photo] Let’s get physical: physical media

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / December 3, 2024

(Nick Peace / Beacon Staff)

[Photo] Your version of music is outdated—try all new “Tycho at the Royale.”

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / December 3, 2024

Tycho performing at The Royale on Nov 11.

[Photo] From a shoegazey haze, Sweet93 emerges

November 19, 2024

Members of Sweet93 performing at The Sinclair on Oct 15. (Nick Peace / Beacon Staff)

‘Men’s March’ clashes with counterprotesters in Boston

By Sam Shipman, Yogev Toby, Nick Peace and Max Ardrey / November 17, 2024

Hundreds of anti-abortion marchers escorted by Boston Police were met with hundreds of counterprotesters Saturday over several waves of their three-mile...

Photos: Hundreds of counterprotesters clash with police at anti-abortion demonstration in Boston

By Arthur Mansavage, Yogev Toby, Nick Peace and Sam Shipman / November 17, 2024

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Planned Parenthood on Commonwealth Avenue Saturday afternoon for the annual Men’s March against abortion....

[Photo] ‘Magachusetts’ election party displays festive environment ahead of Trump blow out

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / November 7, 2024

(Nick Peace for the Beacon)

[Photo] Liam Payne dead at 31, along with my 13-year-old self

By Bella Nordman, Senior Opinion Columnist / October 30, 2024

Liam Payne memorial tree in the Boston Common on Oct. 28, 2024 (Nick Peace / For The Beacon)

[Photo] Boston City Council unanimously supports ban on staffer NDAs

February 12, 2025

Boston City Hall in the evening on Monday, October 28, 2024.(Nick Peace/ For the Beacon, File)

Photos: Thousands of athletes and fans take on the 2024 Head Of The Charles Regatta

By Madla Walsh, Nick Peace, Arthur Mansavage, Rian Nelson, Shannon Clark and Bryan Hecht / October 21, 2024

The world’s largest three-day rowing event drew over 12,000 rowers and thousands of spectators to the banks of the Charles River over the weekend.

Pro-Palestinian protesters march outside Israeli consulate, in Boylston Place Alley

By Hannah Nguyen, Nick Peace and Sam Shipman / October 9, 2024

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters marched outside of the Israeli Consulate in Boston Tuesday before gathering in the Boylston Place Alleyway.

Photos: Hundreds gather on the Boston Common for a rally in solidarity with Haitian migrants

By Nick Peace, Dept. Photo Editor & Video Editor / September 25, 2024

Hundreds descended on the Boston Common around noon on Tuesday, Sept. 24, to denounce false allegations made against the Haitian community.

[Photo] Goose delivers radio set in WERS studio while hammering out a three-night run in Boston

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / September 9, 2024

Goose performing at MGM Music Hall, Sept. 4, 2024.

[Photo] Levitate Music and Arts Festival offers a feast for every musical palate

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / July 14, 2024

Mihali preforms a 30-minute solo set in the VIP section of the Levitate Music and Arts Festival. (Nick Peace for the Beacon)

[Photo] TD Garden erupts in celebration after the Celtics win the 2024 NBA Championship

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / June 20, 2024

[Photo] The alarming implications of Emerson’s latest demonstration policies

August 26, 2024

A student holds a sign reading "Walid Daqqa Alley," the moniker protestors gave to the Boylston Place Alley to honor a Palestinian writer who died in Israeli...

[Photo] Students receive community service for April 25 arrests

By Bryan Hecht and Iselin Bratz / May 1, 2024

Emerson students enter the Municipal Courthouse, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 (Nick Peace for the Beacon).

[Photo] DEVELOPING STORY: The latest on 2 Boylston Place ‘Popular University Encampment’

By Sophia Pargas, Hannah Nguyen, Olivia LeDuc, DJ Mara, Merritt Hughes, Bryan Hecht, Sam Shipman, Iselin Bratz and Katherine Cressman / April 25, 2024

Protestors are bound with zip ties and detained in the Massachusetts State Transportation Building immediately after the arrests on Thursday, April 25,...

[Photo] Scenes from the arrests of 108 protesters in the 2B alley

By Berkeley Beacon Staff / April 25, 2024

Police can be seen wearing face shields from a blockade on Boylston Street as they look onto a group of protesters near Tatte, where protesters have gathered...

[Photo] Emerson Jewish students divided on claims of antisemitism on campus

April 23, 2025

Pro-Israel protestors stand across from 2B alley pro-Palestine encampments on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (Nick Peace for the Beacon)

[Photo] Team Hoyt cycles, runs, and cheers to honor 10th anniversary of last marathon finish for late Rick and Dick Hoyt

April 15, 2024

Riley Pathman awaits the start of the 2024 Boston Marathon with his dad, Jim Pathman, at the Hopkinton Town Common start line (Nick Peace for the Beacon)

[Photo] Team Hoyt cycles, runs, and cheers to honor 10th anniversary of last marathon finish for late Rick and Dick Hoyt

By Bryan Hecht, News Editor / April 15, 2024

Morrie Ripley, a Team Hoyt runner (left) with a spinal cord disability, approaches the halfway mark of the race in Wellesley Center. (Nick Peace for the...

[Photo] 2024 Boston Marathon: Stories racing to and beyond the finish line

By Hannah Nguyen, Olivia LeDuc, Rumsha Siddiqui, DJ Mara, Sam Shipman, Bryan Hecht and Emma Siebold / April 15, 2024

Runners are congratulated by Wellesley College students as they run down E. Central Street toward Wellesley Center and the half-marathon marker. (Nick...

[Photo] “Kiss me if you love the Patriots”: Best signs of 2024 Boston Marathon

By Hannah Nguyen, Editor-in-Chief / April 15, 2024

A spectator holds a sign supporting her mother who is running the 128th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2024. (Nick Peace for the Beacon)

[Photo] Sampha’s ‘Lahai’ tour transcends Roadrunner

By Rumsha Siddiqui and Sam Shipman / April 10, 2024

[Photo] Boston Common celebrates various festivities during Holiday Tree Lighting

By Bryan Hecht and Sam Shipman / December 6, 2023

Jennifer Hudson pulls the switch to turn on the Holiday Lights on Boston Common on Thursday, Nov. 30. (Nick Peace for The Beacon)

[Photo] Emerson students reflect on dull nightlife

By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor / December 6, 2023

Tremont Street at night.

[Photo] Dozens flock to Boston Common for annual Nova Scotian tree arrival tradition

November 29, 2023

A man dressed as Santa Claus stands in front of the Nova Scotia tree and greets participants.

[Photo] Dozens flock to Boston Common for annual Nova Scotian tree arrival tradition

By Sam Shipman and Bryan Hecht / November 29, 2023

A man dressed as Santa Claus takes pictures with the crowd. (Nick Peace for The Beacon)

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