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Arts & Culture

Image of a tiger in the wild. A dry landscape and brush is seen behind it.

Media & Advocacy

The Animal Advocate

August 5, 2020

Composite image of Boston restauranteurs and alumni: Andrew Holden (SHA’04), Ali Fong (CAS’01), Michael Lombardi, and Fernanda Tapia (MET’09). Video play button is overlayed.

Restaurants

Can Boston’s Restaurant Scene Survive the Pandemic?

August 4, 2020

Portrait of Jay Roewe (COM’79) in a black suit in a stylish black chair. Behind him, a neon sign reads "HBO"

TV & Film

A Bridge to Hollywood

July 31, 2020

A photo of Whitey Bulger and Kevin Weeks walking

Books

COM Alum Casey Sherman’s Book Has New Details on Whitey Bulger

July 27, 2020

Comedy

Laugh Therapy on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

July 17, 2020

Chad William Kidd (’05,’05) (left), directs the Seminary Singers in Marsh Chapel.

Art at STH

Building an Artistic Legacy

July 16, 2020

Photo of Brooke Karzen (CFA’84) with a leather jacket and red shirt on in one of the judge chairs from the show The Voice.

TV & Film

Real TV

July 13, 2020

A portrait photo of Steve Locke in his studio

Arts & Culture

Alum Steve Locke Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

July 13, 2020

A composite image of some of the books discussed in the article below including The Real Deal: My Decade Fighting Battles and Winning Wars with Trump, Black Flag, A Clean Heart, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, Geode, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems, and Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

Literature

Reading List: Alumni Books That Caught Our Eye

July 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Lara Ehrlich

Books

Lara Ehrlich Finds Inspiration in Fairy Tales in Her Debut Collection, Animal Wife

July 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Valerie Coleman with her flute

Music

CFA Alum Named Classical Woman of the Year

July 7, 2020

A painting by Amber Vittoria

Visual Arts

Gallery: Amber Vittoria

July 7, 2020

Entrepreneurship

Celebrating the World of Cultural Muslims

June 23, 2020

Tributes

Acclaimed Sculptor Lloyd Lillie Dies

June 16, 2020

A portrait photo of Sopan Deb laughing

Books

Humor and Honesty Help Fix a Fractured Relationship with Mom and Dad

May 27, 2020

Image of Boston City Councilor and BU alum, Annissa Essaibi-George, who has started sew face masks for the Boston University Police Department at the Stitch House, a shop in Dorchester which she founded. Two BU PD officers stand at her left and right; the wall behind them is filled with skeins of yarn.

Community Service

Inside BU Alum’s Stitch House, a Business for the Times

April 16, 2020

A photo of Nancy Livingston (COM’69) with her husband, Fred Levin, and Robert Pinsky, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of English.

Alumni

Robert Pinsky Pays Tribute to Nancy Livingston

April 13, 2020

Photo of a Crip Camp creators at Sundance. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/ Brandon Cruz

TV & Film

BU Alum Edited Acclaimed Netflix Doc Crip Camp

April 6, 2020

A portrait photo of Elissa Altman

Books

Layers of Love, Loathing, and Longing

March 11, 2020

Photo of Christina Yu Yu (GRS'04), the Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of Asian Art (right) examining the sculpture Bishamoten, the Guardian of the North, with MFA associate conservator Linsly Boyer (left) in a conservation lab.

Arts & Culture

As MFA Asian Art Department Chair, Christina Yu Yu Oversees a Collection Spanning 6,000 Years

February 25, 2020

As MFA Asian Art Department Chair, Christina Yu Yu Oversees a Collection Spanning 6,000 Years