Ogawa Coffee Gets Spooky with Halloween Latte Art
Why have a Pumpkin Spice Latte when you can have a pumpkin in your cup? Ogawa Coffee (Awe-gah-wah), located at 10 Milk St. near the Financial District, will provide Halloween latte …
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Fluff Festival Generates Fun in Somerville
Kids and adults of all ages gathered on Saturday, Sept. 26 in Union Square in Somerville to get sticky. The Fluff Festival, which celebrates the invention of Marshmallow Fluff in Massachusetts in …
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Review: “The End of the Tour”
I should begin by providing the following disclaimer: as a longtime fan of David Foster Wallace’s writing, I felt highly ambivalent throughout my viewing of “The End of the Tour,” …
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Review: “Black Mass”
Reviewers have referred to Black Mass as a gangster horror movie, and that’s certainly fitting. Johnny Depp skulks in the shadows, pale blue eyes glinting with uncanny menace, his sharp …
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BU Alum ThatOneEyedKid’s New EP
Have you ever run down a street at night wearing nothing but socks and shoes? Josh Friedman (CAS ’12) aka ThatOneEyedKid has. In the music video for “Hang Around” off his …
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The Rise of Fast-Fashion Stores in America’s College Town
On a Tuesday afternoon, customers could be found rifling through the colorful racks and shelves on all four floors of Primark in Downtown Crossing. Employees were distributed throughout the store, …
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Little Feet, Big Dreams: A sit-down with Littlefoot
Erica Sutherland has tiny feet and big aspirations. She is the lead singer and guitarist of the sort-of-surf-punk, ’50s-and-’60s-inspired, local Boston band Littlefoot which recently played a set at TT …
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Mitski steals the show at the Sinclair
Boston’s favorite indie rock band Speedy Ortiz headlined at the Sinclair in Cambridge last Wednesday, but the real star of the show was the opener. Brooklyn-based artist Mitski brought the …
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Review: Daredevil
If it weren’t for references to magical hammers, iron suits, and alien invasions, Daredevil wouldn’t feel like a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The scale is too small, the …
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How the BU Rocket Team Raised Enough Money to go to Space
At the beginning of the school year, the BU Rocket Propulsion Group faced a challenge more daunting to them than sending a rocket to space: funding. Never the kind of …
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Why the Star Wars Trailer is Magic
“Star Wars” is the first thing I can remember liking. I can only guess how I was introduced to “Star Wars” — I figure it was through my parents who, like …
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Low-Income Students at a Big, Expensive School
Boston University has a reputation of being an “expensive school,” along with other universities in its class like New York University, George Washington University, University of Southern California and Northeastern University. …
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