By Sana Muneer, Managing Co-Editor
• April 30, 2025
Brookline’s political system makes it accessible to young people — and it has fostered an environment with a strong emphasis on civic and youth participation.
Despite the rain, over 3,500 people gathered April 26 to clear trash and invasive plants from green spaces surrounding the Charles River and its tributaries.
The Earth Day Charles River Cleanup, hosted annually since 1999, is one of the largest river cleanups in the county.
As diseases spread faster across borders, a team of scientists, engineers and public health experts launched a first-of-its-kind, open-source global surveillance platform to detect emerging biothreats.
The Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network, or BEACON, officially launched April 24 during an introductory conference at Boston University Center for Computing and Data Sciences. The platform is based at Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and developed in partnership with the Hariri Institute for Computing and Data Sciences at BU and HealthMap at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Five hundred people, consisting mostly of Berklee College of Music students, filed into Brighton Music Hall April 25 for the sold-out Berklee Popular Music Institute’s 23rd annual showcase.
Marathon Monday is not just a day off at Boston University — it's a campus-defining ritual. While runners chase records down Beacon Street, students fill the streets of Allston, celebrating the city...
From the moment I walked into the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre to see “Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief,” I knew I was in for an extremely niche specific experience.
Singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus, along with openers jasmine.4.t and Katie Gavin, performed at MGM Music Hall April 20 and 21, marking the fourth stop on Dacus’ “Forever is a Feeling” tour.
While procrastinating for an exam one night, now seniors Rafaele DiMaggio and Axel Bautista-Tienda theorized that they could make money from selling grilled cheeses on Pratt Street, an area known for its fraternity presence.
DiMaggio and Bautista-Tienda decided to bring a modified version of that idea to life for Marathon Monday 2024 by selling grilled cheese and pizza out of the Gardner Court Apartments — locally known as “G-Court.”
Madeleine Brason never planned to open a candy shop — let alone one that would draw lines of people down the street just days after opening.
Two months into running her South End storefront, the 29-year-old founder of Madeleine’s Candy Shop is still catching her breath.
