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- Graphic Novels 101 July 24, 2014Laura Jiménez is an “expert reader” of graphic novels, though until graduate school she had never read one—much less read one with expertise. A book-length story narrated through text and illustration, a graphic novel “looks like a book and smells like a book, and you can flip the pages,” says Jiménez, a School of Education […]
- POV: Where Is Europe While Ukraine Burns? July 24, 2014A European Union policy last year is at the root of the Ukrainian conflict that saw last Friday’s horrific downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane (by pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists, according to the United States). The Union offered Ukraine an “association agreement” designed to tighten the political and economic links between the two parties. When the […]
- Play Ball July 24, 2014One of summer’s signature pastimes—taking in a baseball game—isn’t always an affordable option for the budget-conscious in Boston. Tickets to Red Sox games are often prohibitively expensive for students and families. Happily, there’s another option tonight, as the minor-league Lowell Spinners host the Hudson Valley Renegades at 7:05 p.m. at Edward A. LeLache […]
- Tracing America’s Earliest Photography July 23, 2014History, technology, sociology, and art converge in a picture-perfect exhibit currently on view at the MIT Museum’s Kurtz Gallery for Photography. Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840–1900) from the Wm. B. Becker Collection features more than 100 photos taken between 1840 and 1900, a period during which photography transitioned from an ob […]
- Spotlight on Sons of Serendip July 23, 2014Among the dozens of artists who auditioned during the June 10 episode of America’s Got Talent were a stand-up comedian, a teen dance troupe, a performing pig, and a professional archer. But one of the most impressive acts during the two-hour broadcast was a musical quartet featuring BU alums called Sons of Serendip. Comprising lead […]
