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Book It to the Boston Book Festival
Books, quite frankly, are awesome. They are doorways to other worlds; they are reservoirs of knowledge. They are almost always better than the movie. The Boston Book Festival (BBF) was …
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BU BioLab Triggers Community Concern
In 2003, Boston University became one of two universities to receive a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to construct a National Biocontainment Laboratory next …
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Halloween How To: Boston Edition
Hurricane Irene may have put a damper on pumpkin crops, but Halloween is coming quick whether or not you are squash-ready. The holiday falls on a Monday this year, so …
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BU TweetCreep: October 9 – October 14
If you have a Twitter, I highly suggest you read @courtneystodden’s tweets, at least once. Once might be enough for you, but if you are like me, you will not …
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Op-Ed: What the Occupy Movement Could Learn from the Tea Party
I have never been one to argue about the power of grassroots movements. They tend to be unfocused, unorganized and without a meaningful set of goals. Occupy Wall Street and its …
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Faces in the Crowd at the Occupy Boston March
If the march on Monday was anything, it was loud. It seemed like everyone had something to say. While all the opinions didn’t match, they were all illustrative of the …
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5 Napkin Burger Fails to Live Up to Name
Just because something is popular in New York City doesn’t mean that it has to be popular in Boston as well. Boston is its own city that can start and …
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The Best of All Possible Shows: Candide at the Huntington
Take a sunny, bright-eyed optimist. Throw him in a world full of warmongering Bulgarians, bloodthirsty Portuguese and thieving Dutch. Mix in one true love, some lecherous clergy and a few …
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BU Occupies Boston: A Community Reacts
At the beginning of this meeting, it was decided that, due to the sensitive nature of the incidents involved, the names of the students incarcerated and the students who spoke …
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The March to Dewey Square: A Photostory
All photos by Joel Kahn and Kelly Dickinson. At noon yesterday, a group of 50-odd students gathered in Marsh Plaza as part of the Students Occupy Boston march to Dewey …
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Occupy Boston: The Police and the Protest
On Saturday, October 8, the relationship between the protesters of Occupy Boston and the Boston Police Department was friendly. “The police have been cooperative.” Geoff Matheson, local entrepreneur and Logistics …
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Boston University Students Occupy Boston
Yesterday, Boston University students joined hundreds of other college students in an Occupy Boston march protesting corporate corruption and the rising cost of college education. The BU students gathered in …
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