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Dalton and the Sheriffs plays their set on the Green Stage at Boston Calling.

Dalton and the Sheriffs called in to kickstart summer at Boston Calling

By Kate Kotlyar June 1, 2025
Doors for the Boston Calling Music Festival opened at 1 p.m. May 23, but Brian Scully didn’t know he was performing until he got the call at 10:30 that morning.
Boston-born Bebe Stockwell opens the performances on the Green Stage with her set.

GALLERY: Cowboy hats, colored hair at Boston Calling 2025

By Kate Kotlyar and Holly Gustavsen May 30, 2025

Country, punk rock, hip-hop and countless other genres came together at the Boston Calling Music Festival, a three-day annual music festival held from May 23 to 25. This year spotlighted numerous Boston...

Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Lessons from abroad — and beyond | Maia’s Inner Monologue

By Maia Penzer January 26, 2025
What I wrote in my journal abroad didn’t seem worth sharing since many entries were half-formed thoughts. But there’s more there than I initially realized. I wrote for the hell of it — which, I think, is the best type of writing. Now, I'm diving into my unfiltered journal entries from abroad — they’re raw, real and vulnerable. 
PJ and Megan Lutz canvas for President Biden outside a polling center at the Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire on Tuesday. Biden supporters launched the successful write-in campaign as a result of the President's name not appearing on the New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot. CLARE ONG/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

For canvassers, New Hampshire primary bears deeper connection with democracy

By Siena Griffin and Macie Parker January 24, 2024
Canvassers from across the country headed to New Hampshire for this year’s first-in-the-nation primary to make a stand for their chosen candidates on Tuesday.
Monet Ota | Senior Graphic Artist

A summer of peace, love and dancing with Cyrus’s eighth studio album, ‘Endless Summer Vacation’

By Kritika Iyer March 28, 2023
Miley Cyrus released her eighth album, “Endless Summer Vacation,” on March 10, finally satisfying her fans as they waited for the next Miley era.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

OP-ED: A monolingual country can’t lead the world

By Editors October 28, 2022
The world is globalizing fast, instead of adapting to the integration of foreign language and culture, the United States is waiting for the rest of the world to assimilate to us or to kindly keep out.
Kacey Musgraves album

Storytelling through “star-crossed”

By Sam Thomas September 15, 2021
The honeymoon of “Golden Hour” is over. “star-crossed” leaves “two lovers ripped at the seams.”
taylor swift performing on her speak now tour

An impossible task: ranking Taylor Swift’s albums

By Sam Thomas April 21, 2021
After too much thought, I present my updated ranking of Swift’s studio albums.
prison cell block

CFA faculty explores art, activism in Prison Arts Project event

By Molly Farrar April 20, 2021
As part of the Prison Arts Project, BU groups held an event about how mass incarceration affects kids.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room With a View: Ancient Greece and Italy share hospitality and xenophobia

By Antonia Lehnert April 12, 2021
Before being hosted in someone’s home, one should feel welcomed in their country first.
Miley Cyrus released her studio album “Plastic Hearts” on Friday. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: Miley Cyrus’ ‘Plastic Hearts’ takes musical samples and leaps

By David Simon November 29, 2020

“Plastic Hearts,” released Friday, represents a return to form for Miley Cyrus. For the past decade, she had cycled genres between albums — from the hip-hop stylings on 2013’s “Bangerz”...

Netflix released “The Haunting of Bly Manor” on Friday as a follow-up to the 2018 series “The Haunting of Hill House.” ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ delivers quality spookiness

By Molly Farrar October 15, 2020

October movie releases are of the spooky, scary variety, and “The Haunting of Bly Manor” stuck to the tradition when it debuted on Netflix Friday as a continuation of “The Haunting of Hill House.” “Hill...

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