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Arts & Culture

Photo of a sliced Duck Breast and Onion Tarte Tatin on a white plate with a blue border.

Recipe

[Video]: Roast Duck Breast with Onion Tarte Tatin

December 15, 2021

Photo of Bianca Saffiro (CAS’24), at the front of the class in black, presenting her final project, “Eating and Psyche: Food as Emotional Compensation,” to the class on December 1. In the foreground, students with their laptops open are seen.

Food Writing

Writing with a Sense of Taste

December 15, 2021

Photo of a chocolate cupcake with pastel, rainbow sprinkles from Flour Bakery.

Food & Dining

10 Cupcake Spots in Boston For National Cupcake Day

December 15, 2021

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Music

Hot New Music December 2021: Local Boston Concerts, New Album Releases

December 9, 2021

Photo of Margarita Guillory, wearing a white face mask, red shirt and black jacket, lecturing at the front of her Religion and Hip Hop course. She extends her hand toward the class and the backs of students' heads are seen.

Classes

This Could Be the Coolest Religion Class You Ever Take

December 2, 2021

Dick Lehr stands in front of a white cinderblock wall wearing a suitcoat and glasses with his arms crossed

Books

Undercover with Homegrown Terrorists

November 30, 2021

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Food

10 Dorm-Friendly Thanksgiving Recipes

November 22, 2021

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Music

Bob Dylan Now: Hitting the Road Again, at 80

November 19, 2021

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Friendsgiving

Your Guide to a Successful Friendsgiving

November 19, 2021

Image of the Ghostbusters: Afterlife Poster. Poster features a drawing of the backs of 6 people coming of a Ghostbusters car as a neon strike of green and yellow lightening lights the sky and hits the ground.

Movie Quiz

Dying to Know Who Won Our Ghostbusters: Afterlife Quiz?

November 18, 2021

Photo of a slice of Butternut Squash and Potato Gratin topped with roasted hazelnuts on a white plate with ornate blue design. Cheese oozes from the gratin.

Food

Thistle & Leek Reimagines the Gastro Pub for American Diners and Shares How to Make Butternut Squash and Potato Gratin

November 18, 2021

Cover of the book "Animal" by Lisa Taddeo. Features a red and blue stylized image of a woman's face and text that reads "Animal. Lisa Taddeo."

Books

Her MFA Thesis Became an Acclaimed Novel. Here’s How Lisa Taddeo Did It

November 17, 2021

Disability

D&I Learn More Series Explores Disability in the Arts with Kristina Wong

November 10, 2021

Photo of a class walking through Arnold Arboretum. They are framed by a vine of leaves, it looks like early fall.

Classes

New Interdisciplinary Class Asks: “What Do Plants Know?”

November 10, 2021

Portrait of Harvey Young, a middle-aged Black man. He wears a blue quarter zip sweater and smiles. He leans against a wall with beams running parallel to the ground.

Accolades

Harvey Young Named This Year’s American Society for Theatre Research Distinguished Theater Scholar

November 9, 2021

Photo of James Schmidt, wearing a white face mask, and side-lit by a projector, as he lectures, with a clip from the classic 1959 movie Hiroshima Mon Amour projected on a screen behind him.

Humanities

Catastrophe & Memory

November 5, 2021

Studio photo of CGS senior lecturer Charles Henebry and student Rachel Do (CGS’22). Rachel stands in front in a Wonder Woman pose and Henebry stands slightly behind her and to the right with arms crossed and head tilted slightly up. Both where stoic faces as green and blue lights cast a heroic light on them.

Arts & Culture

Ms. Marvel Gets the Scholarly Treatment

November 5, 2021

Photo of a rehearsal featuring: fEmma Permé (CAS'22) as Demetrius, Ian Aquino (COM'23) as Helena, Anoushka Thakur (CAS’23) as Hippolyta (she also plays Titania), Elizabeth Kostina (CAS'24) as Theseus, Gayane Kaligian (CAS'22) as Egeus, Carolyn (Carrie) Welter (CAS'22) as Hermia, and Ella Moran (CAS'25) as Lysander. They all wear shiny clothing, and rainbow pastel-colored curtains hang behind them.

Theatre

Back to the Stage: BU’s Shakespeare Society Puts On A Midsummer Night’s Dream

November 5, 2021

Photo of Anne Everest Wojtkowski (1935-2014), the first woman to graduate from the Boston University College of Industrial Technology. The photo is black and white and pictures Wojtkowski writing at a desk with a lamp. She has short dark hair.

Arts & STEM

Honoring BU’s Women in STEM through Artwork

November 2, 2021

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Comics

Superman Is Queer: Is That a Big Deal?

November 1, 2021

Superman Is Queer: Is That a Big Deal?