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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

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

The Berkeley Beacon

Repo Man. (Criterion Forum)

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

By Nathaniel Ruttenberg, Beacon Correspondent / 20 hours ago

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...

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

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

By Solia Simpson, Guest Author / 22 hours ago

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...