INTERVIEW: Disconnect’s Henry Alex Rubin on authenticity, documentaries and Jason Bateman
“You can easily pitch this movie badly and have people roll their eyes and say, ‘I don’t want to watch a movie about technology and how it’s bad,’” said director Henry Alex Rubin over lunch at the Eliot Hotel in Boston. The film Disconnect, starring Jason Bateman and Alexander Skarsgård, is the first leap into [...]
Match Corps offer opportunities for BU graduates
While not directly affiliated with Boston University, the Match Public Charter High School, much like T. Anthony’s or the CITGO sign, is something of a landmark for BU students. The Match School, which is located at the Babcock Street Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority station, is a Match Education high school. Match students, most of whom [...]
Researchers come closer to HIV/AIDS vaccine
In the on-going battle against HIV/AIDs, vaccine developers are continually trying to find ways to promote immunity from this devastating virus. Fortunately, researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative have developed a new vaccine-design approach. The research team — which published its report in the March 28 edition of [...]
INTERVIEW: Spring Breakers’ Harmony Korine and Ashley Benson
Wild teenagers, an abundance of alcohol and sun-kissed screenshots dance across controversial director/screenwriter Harmony Korine’s latest film Spring Breakers. Four college girls, Brit, Candy, Faith and Cotty are fed up with their boring college lives and want to do something different. What better chance than Spring Break? Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson and former Disney stars [...]
Boston-based chef Ming Tsai on latest project Blue Dragon
Ming Tsai has a lot of friends, but he doesn’t know all of them. In the crowded dining room of his new “Asian-fusion gastropub,” Tsai leans back in his chair at the chef’s table, sifts through piles of paperwork with a crumpled brow, checks his ornate silver watch and asks about The Daily Free Press’s [...]
