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REVIEW: What Dreams May Come Tour (J. Cole with Wale, and opening acts Bas & Vic Mensa)

By Daily Free Press Admin September 26, 2013

As someone who was often referred to as the future of rap music and the second coming of Nas, J. Cole endures his fair share of flack nowadays. Constantly the butt of jokes on blogs and in social media,...

INTERVIEW: Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks porn, objectification and Don Jon

By Daily Free Press Admin September 25, 2013

Many women, either in stubborn denial or incredulous morality, contend to their dying breath that “their man” positively does not watch porn. And with perhaps an even stronger resolve, most women...

Turkey: A summer of protests

By Daily Free Press Admin September 24, 2013

At 7 p.m., people left work. By 8 p.m., people walked in the streets. By 2 a.m. they went home. It was becoming a routine, Ali Uslu explained as he sat in the George Sherman Union. However, Uslu,...

Catching Z’s keeps you beautiful

By Daily Free Press Admin September 23, 2013

Researchers at the University of Michigan prove “beauty sleep” is, in fact, real Great news, guys. Not only is sleep one of the most heavenly, sought-after scarcities of the college scene, but it...

Rising rap artist grows from Boston roots

By Daily Free Press Admin September 22, 2013

Life is eventful and constantly evolving for 20-year-old rapper and recording artist Cam Meekins, and with fall upon us and winter approaching, he’s feeling particularly creative. “During the summer,...

LBJ play brilliantly dares Americans to go ‘All The Way’

By Daily Free Press Admin September 22, 2013

Winston Churchill famously grieved that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Indeed, malice and stagnation have marked Washington “democracy” since its inception,...

Production duo ODESZA releases second addictive EP

By Daily Free Press Admin September 18, 2013

Although West Coast electronic group ODESZA’s new five-track EP My Friends Never Die is just shy of 16 minutes in length, the album itself is anything but minimal. ODESZA, the Seattle-based production...

Somerville welcomes The Kirkland Tap & Trotter

By Daily Free Press Admin September 18, 2013

Somewhere in Somerville on a street lined with dusky houses and neon-lit convenience stores stands The Kirkland Tap & Trotter. Yellow-tinted light pours out of the restaurant’s floor-to-ceiling...

Keeping up with the times: BU adopts alternative education methods to embrace modernization

By Daily Free Press Admin September 17, 2013

Attach the word “alternative” to a term and it instantly appeals to our generation. Alternative music, alternative lifestyles, alternative clothing, even alternative education are all concepts that...

BU students to compete in iGem competition

By Daily Free Press Admin September 16, 2013

While some of us spent our summers lounging on the beach, Jake Awtry, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, and Shawn Jin, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior, worked diligently...

Franz Ferdinand takes ‘right action’ with new album

By Daily Free Press Admin September 15, 2013

Fans of Franz Ferdinand probably expected something different from the band’s new album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. While 2005’s You Could Have It So Much Better was not exactly...

Mei Mei sets up ‘home base’ restaurant in South Campus

By Daily Free Press Admin September 15, 2013

Irene Li, co-owner of the popular Boston food truck Mei Mei Street Kitchen,  has big plans for the future: She wants to open the first brick-and-mortar Mei Mei restaurant together with her siblings...

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