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was pretty nervous and a bit excited Hill, at around 1,300 students. MCPHS
to be in a new place off campus. The follows with around 550, Wentworth
first week my roommates and I were has around 200, MassArt, 160, and
there in September, we walked down Berklee has around 50 students. A
to the Comcast center in Roxbury to lot of this has to do with the fact that
sign up for Internet. The woman who there is a lack of on-campus housing
helped us gave us instructions on how available. Northeastern is a large uni¬
to set up the modem, and couldn’t help versity, and while it does have
mi
STUDENTS EXPEWENCt WITH but make a comment that she used to CONTINUED PAGE 7
live on the Hill. We were so intrigued
GENTEllflCATlON ON THE Hill to met someone familiar with the area
that we asked her where. It turns out
she was on the street behind ours. The
landlords raised the prices, as the uni¬
This past semester I was tak¬ End in Boston, which was torn down versities needed more housing, caus¬
ing Seminar I and 2 for Art Educa¬ and rebuilt in the late 1950s. She was ing the current tenants of families to
tion. The goal of these two courses about 20 at the time. Forced out of be pushed out. They knew they could
is to give an opportunity for students where she Uved, she went to go live in charge a much higher amount be¬
to build their artist and teacher prac¬ Charlestown, and has been there ever cause students coming from all over
tices in urban contexts. Whenever we since. I think if you are forced to leave would need a place to live. They were
would enter a new location as a class, where you live, you may have a n^a- right.
we were briefed on the fact that we tive connotation of the place you relo¬ Before that moment, I didn’t
would be in an environment of mixed cated to. really understand what gentrification Dear boy with the beard,
Gentrification is a shift in the was; much less think I was to blame. You can be my lumberjack any day.
urban environment towards wealthy Now I can’t help but think that 1 live
residents and/or businesses. When 1 in an apartment that
belongs to someone
else. At the same time,
I think about you when I read my
I know that there is
fan fiction smut. I want to see you in
almost no chance at
finding housing on- all the racy cosplays.
campus as an “almost
Senior” at MassArt.
Mission Hill has a
ethnicities. This was crucial to our population of around To that guy that peed on my foot in
interactions, as I think we can forget 20,000, as of 2011. tower 6th floor mens room: don’t
that the thoughts and experiences of According to an article
pretend you didn’t know. #pissed-
others are often unlike our own. published this January
connection #heavyflow
For a few weeks we went to in the Mission Hill Ga¬
the Charlestown Senior Center to in¬ zette, the undergradu¬
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it. The woman I worked with was Two students drink on a porch on Mission Hill. Photos: Ashleigh Tait has dropped off a bit
pretty bitter about life. Trying to be from record highs in CONTINUED PAGE 7
optimistic, I asked her where she was put down the deposit on my first apart¬ 2013. Northeastern’s undergraduate
from. She mentioned the old West ment in early 2013 on Mission Hill, I students make up the majority of the ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥
around seven or eight at night. I’d trying to find the right spot on
ride my bike to work to get there the shelf. While I stocked I often
by ten thirty. I’d ride back around fantasized about different ways
six the next day; eat some break¬ of getting out of work, often in¬
fast while watching the sun come volving some kind of semi serious
up and then unwind with some work injury.
early morning Boy Meets World. I
usually fell asleep around nine or There are several names
ten. for the moments before fall¬
It took about four days for my ing asleep, such as: hypnagpgia,
body to get used to the new sched¬ the borderland state, and the pre
ule, but once I was acclimated, I dream condition. As we slowly lose
slept better than I had my whole consciousness we often have hal¬
life. The content of my dreams lucinations of colors and shapes,
also changed for the better during known as phosphenes, along with
this time. My dreams are gener¬ nonsensical sentences and free as¬
ally nightmares, but they became sociations in thinking. Writers as
much more tranquil when I slept early as Aristotle commented on
during the middle of the day. I’m seemingly alien thoughts and im¬
The summer after my for another four. During the time not sure why the majority of my ages drifting into yom" mind be¬
sophomore year I got a job as between sleeps people generally dreams were so pleasant that fore sleep, and the inspiration that
an overnight worker in a gro¬ read, prayed, had sex, or other summer, or why so many of them can be gained from them.
cery-fetOre. I was originally hired things that didn’t require leaving were set at Six Flags.
to work at a wine store in town, the bedroom; though some used My job consisted of mov¬ The average age of my
but shortly after giving me the job this time to go out and visit neigh¬ ing several palettes of boxes to coworkers was about forty. There
they decided it would be best to bors. This sleeping schedule faded the front and unloading them on was an army guy who nicknamed
never answer my calls ever again. away mostly due to new forms of the shelves. Afterwards I’d have me Air Force for some reason and
The grocery store near my house lighting, and by the twentieth cen¬ to crush garbage in the back. The always yelled at me when I put my
was desperate for third shift peo¬ tury bedtime had changed to what first few nights were miserable, as hands in my pockets. Denise was
ple, so 1 got the job immediately. is now considered the norm. Stud¬ I hadn’t yet reset my sleep sched¬ a single mother and glass artist
ies have shown that people de¬ ule. My thoughts and sense of whose taste in movies was almost
Up until the seventeenth prived of light for fourteen hours time became very strange after a identical to mine, especially her
century, segmented sleep was the a day will naturally fall back into few days of being sleep deprived. enjoyment of cult horror movies
norm— which is when people the circadian rhythm of segment¬ I spent forever staring at rows of like Eraserhead and Possession.
spend four hours asleep, wake up ed sleep. what seemed to me to be com¬ My boss Carter spent a lot of time
for three hours in the middle of pletely identical boxes of food— eating sandwiches in the front of
the night, then continue sleeping Most days 1 woke up
Overtly Oversized Outfits
Chances are you outrageously tight trouser trend. Maybe an oversized T will look
aren’t too obese to physically Why wear skinnies exclusively? good tucked into pants/skirts/
leave your house, so why not walk Peeps with peens (aka people whatever.
a mile in those pants? If all your with a penis) oughtta let the snake Where do the chicest
clothes “fit”, grab a belt your size hang free every now n’ then. If fashionistas/hipsters/nowsters
and run to the nearest thrifty- you’re parts are inverted, maybe shop for things Uke big pants or
nifty thrift shop. ‘Why?’ you may you can incorporate big pants into tops? Wal-Mart, of coursel They
ask. Because you NEED pants that your wardrobe, leaving legs to the come in packages of 5, 10, 15, a
are WAY too BIG. imagination of admirers. miUionl But, if you’re opposed to
What’s to be done with Shirts are more versatile child labor, maybe it would be a
Jared from Subway’s pants when when the ultimate fit is being sac¬ better idea to poke around a sec¬
he’s done with his miracle diet? rificed. A shirt is a shirt, but shit, a ond-hand shop.
Play with proportions. Prop up BIG shirt could double as a dress. Be free with what goes
your new oversized pants with a Maybe you can cut off a good on your bod. Take a tip from Tim
waist belt. Cinch away! Why not chunk of fabric from a shirt too- Gunn and “Make it work”, even if
throw on an XXXXXL T-shirt over big-for-’ya to make a crop top— that means adding a belt or sew¬
your fav tight jeans? less chance of a nipslipl Try cut¬ ing in some elastic.
Give your crotch a break ting off sleeves to make a comfy
n’ break free of the obligatory. inuscle T (no muscles required). NATURALSELECTION.NET
the store. The only other guy my during nightmares. interactions with customers were a week. It would have been a lot
age, a really gracious guy named more depressing. One night a man more interesting if I hadn’t been
Brendan, was taking classes to I was curious before start¬ whose jaw was wired shut tried stuck moving boxes of detergent
eventually become a cop. I always ing, to see what kind of people to buy groceries, but didn’t have and such the whole time. Anyone
felt guilty going home at the end would go grocery shopping in the enough money on his EBT card. who goes to an art school knows
of a shift, since it seemed that dead of night. For the most part it He frantically pointed to his items that staying up all night to finish
none of these people ever slept, was others who worked strange and grunted through his nose. We something is normal, especially at
as most of them also had day jobs hours and drunken people. But gave him a paper and pencil to the end of a semester. This essay
and children to take care of. 1 also encountered a couple of try to communicate, but what he was mostly finished around five
characters; such as a little elderly handed us back didn’t even look AM, because I work better this
Fatal familial insomnia: woman who told me she did all like letters. He ended up leaving in way.
extreme insomnia along with hal¬ her shopping at night because she frustration.
lucinations start occurring during hated children. There was also 12% of people dream in
the first few months. After about the guy who came into my aisle at With the rise of street black and white. Before color tel¬
nine months the sufferer entire¬ around four wearing a t-shirt that lighting, night became a time for evision it was 75%.
ly loses the ability to sleep. After said, “party animal” in bubble let¬ work and socializing. Pre-indus¬ Some dreams are universal and
three months of complete sleep ters in order to buy peanut butter, trial night was considered the span different cultures, such as
deprivation the patient becomes jelly, and bread. I realized he was time that criminals, prostitutes, ones about being chased, falling,
unresponsive and mute. Death probably tripping on some drug and other subclasses roamed the losing the ability to move, and be¬
generally occurs after six months as he tried to tip toe past me. The streets. It was also believed that ing naked in public.
of this dementia. At the moment way his eyes were darting around Satan and the occult were strong¬
there is no known cure. Another and the paranoid expression on er in darkness, furthering people’s
interesting example 1 found of his face looked as if he were walk¬ fear of the nighttime. LUKEHQJ.LYER
fatal sleep disorders was the un¬ ing through one of those murder- Animation
explained rise in the nineteen themed funhouses (you know, The novelty of staying ‘15
eighties of young Asian men dying we’ve all been in one). Some of my up all night wore off after about
STATS:
Height: 6 2
’ ”
Go to attack: The other
day I threatened someone
to write my name on the
inside of their underpants.
Beard Strength: Not
quite Norris.
The most important Preferred medium?
thing someone should
know about you? Wood.
I’m terrified of everything Where do you find in¬
and therefore don’t take spiration?
anything seriously.
Naps.
(Typical Boston student
question) Pizza or Chi¬ Describe your work in
nese food? one word.
Pizza, but burritos over Questionable.
anything.
How do you keep your /
What’s the dumbest gjrlish figure?
thing you’ve ever done?
Beer and burritos.
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I can’t talk about that one to
a newspaper. CASEY PARKER
(TALKING WITH DAVID
Favorite artist or art¬ FRICKE)
ists?
TO NOMINATE A STUDENT TO BE SHOWCASED IN
NEXT MONTHS ISSUE, EMAIL YOUR NOMINATION TO
[email protected], ALONG WITH SOME REASONS
“Shadows” Raquel Anghilante, Industrial Design, ‘17
FOR WHY THIS PERSON DESERVES TO BE SHOWCASED
AND ALL THAT JAZZ.
“Untitled-Ol” Derrick Woods-Morrow, Photography, ‘15 “Untitled-02” Derrick Woods-Morrow, Photography, ‘15

to say. ‘Cause really life isn’t all people, whatever they say, you’re Me: Why wouldn’t you stop push¬
that important, and if the stone still going to die. So none of that ing the stone though, ya know?
goes up or down it doesn’t really is going to affect your fate, so you It’s like, well, maybe something
matter, so you might as well enjoy might as well just fucking do what different will happeni
J pushing it around if that’s all you you want.
have. Eddie: It’s like if you stop pushing
Eddie: See like that’s the only fate the stone up the hill you’ll have
Eddie: Its like “Ya gotta push the that we have though, and some nothing to do.
stone around!” Zeus is holding a people don’t seem to recognize
lightning bolt to the back of your that. Everyone dies eventually. Me: Yeah, and it’s like, you’re
headi But some people get caught up in here. When you’re gone you’re
Eddie: It’s kind of like Camus’ phi¬ the idea that “I need to do some¬ going to be gone, so why get there
losophy on life, like the ‘have no Me: Oh yeah, well I guess in that thing other than diel” “I’m des¬ any faster?!
hope’. Where he’s talking about case, tined to do something other than
Sisyphus, w^ho was punished by diel” —Well, no your not. You’re Eddie: You might as well just give
the gods so he had to roll a stone Eddie: Yeah, in that case it’s dif¬ gonna do what you feel like doing, it a shot.
up and down a hill. Like he would ferent. But just Imagine that’s all until you die.
roll it up, and then it would roll he could ever do— it’s irrelevant Me: Maybe the stone will flyl
back down. He would have to why he’s pushing the stone. Me: Exactly, so you might as well
catch it at the bottom and roll it enjoy that. Like maybe we’ll find Eddie: Who really cares, maybe
back up again, only to have it roll Me: But in the same way all we something out, maybe we’ll stum¬ it’ll create like a groove in the
down again. And he had to do that can ever do is do what we’re do¬ ble upon some meaning while ground.... Haha maybe the stone
for his entire life. And his philoso¬ ing. The point I’ve gotten to is that we’re pushing the stone around, I will fly.... uQ -I
phy is that that is all life will ever you really can’t control your fate mean who knows.
be. But Camus wrote an essay on so you might as well, not worry *Joint laughter*
it and at the end said something about... like, I mean people are Eddie: Or maybe we’ll just get bet¬
along the lines of, “just imagine really bothered by what other ter at pushing the stone around TOM HILSEE (TALKING WITH
Sisyphus is happy though”. people are saying or thinking and get happier as a result of EDDIE)
about them or what they have to pushing the stone down the hill.
Me: That’s exactly what I wanted conform to. And it’s like, those
PHILIPPINES
The Philippines is a coun¬ divided carriageway that
try that is extremely stricken by bisects very old Spanish
poverty and has suffered count¬ houses, is very famous
less natural disasters and wars. and well known to most
Despite aU of these things that Filipinos. A giant balete
should defeat a nation, Filipinos tree that used to grow in
remain happy, fun loving, and the middle of the road is
carefree. There is a saying that what gives the street its
Filipinos are weatherproof and name. The baletes are a
love to laugh; they rely on their tree species that is na¬
good humor and faith in God to tive to the Philippines;
stay strong year after year. it is believed to attract
I am half Filipino. I was supernatural spirits. A
born in Manila and just recently family priest of ours
even warned us to never Drive area. For me this story for¬ car, continued along the street,
plant balete trees on our property ever confirmed Balete’s haunted driving past the two women. Their
because of its appeal to the spir¬ nature. One night, my mom and faces were inches away from the
its! Balete Drive has been deemed her three sisters were on their way car windows. The time it took to
haunted since the 1950’s when to go bowling. They were listen¬ drive past the faces of the two
frequent sightings of a “White ing to the radio and laughing at women seemed to take forever.
Lady” were reported. It is said whatever joke my tita Tinnie had Once past, my tita Glenda looked
that she was raped and killed by cracked. To get to the local bowl¬ into the rearview mirror and saw
a taxi driver, and frequently ap¬ ing alley from their house, they that the women had turned their
pears inside taxi cars during the had to pass through Balete Drive. heads towards them, watching my
returned from visiting my fam¬ graveyard hours. She is still seen As they turned onto the very nar¬ mother’s car finally turn the cor¬
ily there for Christmas and New wandering Balete to this day, and row street called Bouganvillia ner. Once the two Spanish women
Years. During my visit, my fam¬ has caused many car accidents... Road, the radio started to omit a were out of sight, the radio came
ily had countless ghost stories to or so goes the legend. low static sound. They all stopped back on. The four girls stayed si¬
share, as usual. The scars of war, There are other famous talking and everything got very lent for a bit, then turned to each
poverty and disasters past have Filipino folk tales that tell of scary quiet, and to this day they can’t other and screamed. They still
left their mark on the land; and monsters. Tales of mananangals say why. can’t explain what happened that
it seems to me that the country (vampires), aswangs (shape shift¬ Up ahead, they saw two night and get goose bumps when
itself is haunted. I have always ers), kapres (giants) and du- elderly Spanish women wearing- recalling what happened.
wondered if it was the land that wendes (dwarves) are well known nightgowns and holding lanterns This is one among sev¬
was haunted, or if it was perhaps amongst most Filipinos. However, aloft their heads. They stood on ei¬ eral ghost stories told to me by
the people. Filipinos are strong in the stories that really terrified me ther side of the narrow street star¬ my family. I too have experi¬
their religious faith yet still very as a. child were the ones that hap¬ ing at each other. Their bare feet enced things in Manila that have
superstitious by nature. When¬ pened to my family directly. These were flat on the ground, but their changed my views on the afterlife,
ever my family shares their ghost were no longer distant folk tales, straight bodies were leaning for¬ buts those stories are for another
stories with me, I am filled with they were real. ward at a 45 degree angle against time. There’s a reason why Filipi¬
wonder, curiosity and fear. How¬ A family ghost story that the street. Something was veiy off no ghost stories are so scary, and
ever, as a kid, I was scared shitless. always sent shivers up my spine about these women; no human it is because they are true.
A place where many happened to my mom and her being could possibly stand in that
“ghost sightings” have occurred is sisters. It took place on a street manner without falling over. My NICKY ROSE KAVENY
Balete Drive. Balete Drive, an un¬ called Bouganvilla in the Balete tita Glenda, who was driving the
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One of the first instanc¬ Dunham, Animation, ‘17
es of the city creating privileged
influx was when they renovated
(Atm-550 CACP (Center for Art and in close proximity to the school,
the Mission Main apartments
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into four groups: Student/Com¬ dering what could this do for
about the displacement of origi¬
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nal residents are the Back Of The
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foundation of which CACP stands Corps VISTA. (Which is just a long
are part of the problem, but a lot sion Hill. City Life/Vida Urbana
for is to bring MassArt students way of saying that she gets paid
of other young professionals can allows tenants to negotiate with
(past or present), faculty, people by the government and is here to
also afford the expensive price landlords on rent. Other non¬
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In a thesis written by Jes¬ and Action for Boston Commu¬
with any of
sica Elton titled, “Contending nity Development, which encour¬
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with Privileged Influx: Lessons ages and assists people with low
more than
From Boston’s Mission Hill,” El¬ incomes to pursue higher educa¬
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ton writes about the population tion.
employees
history as well as possibilities for Elton wrote this thesis
at the of¬
change in terms of what she calls in 2003, and things seem all too
fice. They
privileged influx, which “draws similar still, with students and
can di¬
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rect you to
of new residents”. Some strate¬ January.
partners
gies that have been created so
they’ve col-
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Dear Henry Novak, doing that; really try to pinpoint
TO PANS
Last semester I had a re¬ what is at the core of your enjoy¬
ally hard time coming up with ment.
ideas for my work. I’m in a crea¬ With my work I explore
Crystal Cove, Winthrop Laundromat at Tai Tung Vil-,
tive rut and don’t know where I the ideas of travel. Riding my Yo definitely go hang lage, Chinatown
can find inspiration that excites bike, going on walks, and taking
here. But go on a cloudy, gray You got some work to do,,
me enough to create great art. I the train have always been some¬
Sunday, with mild temperatures. but you don’t really need the In¬
need to get my act together for thing I loved to do. After thinking
Enough so that is comfortable to I ternet? Take a change of scenery
this upcoming semester and make about it I reahzed I liked traveling
sit outside, but still dreary enough and go work in the Laundromat.
something worthwhile. What because of how peoples’ paths in¬
that most people are gonna be ab¬ They got tables and they’ll let
would you suggest I do? tersect. With my personal work
sorbed into their couches. It’ll you hang. You mind your busi¬
-Would Be from JP I create drawings of how people
be great— you’ll have this whole ness; everybody else minds theirs.
have traveled over their lifetime.
cute little American town to your¬ You’ll get a great view of modu¬
Finding inspiration for What you’U find is, that
self. It’ll feel very much like your lar concrete high rises, filled with
your work can be one of the hard¬ when you’re working with a topic
own little world to project your Chinese immigrants young and
est things in the art making pro¬ that interests you; you will be¬
hopes and despairs upon. You’ll old. You can watch as a whole
cess, especially in a school setting. come more invested in your work.
watch the planes fly in from over¬ community goes about their
Often times we can get caught up This results in a stronger body of
head, with the water all around— day right outside the window of
in what the assignments are and work because you, are not only
but the marshy kinda ugly water, your new office. You get bored?
lose sight of what we want to cre¬ putting more time into the work,
ya know. Desolate streets and There’s a playground right in
ate. As students you need to be but you’re also putting your own
brownish green landscaping. Ah the courtyard. You get hungry?
able to fulfill the teacher’s assign¬ viewpoint into the work. In my
sublime. Pop into Chinatown Cafe and get
ment, but also create work that experience, when you start cre¬
some duck over rice.
shows your voice as an artist. ating work that you are truly in¬
The Wilderness
While it can be difficxUt vested in, your viewers will notice
at Franklin Park I Thomas Crane Library,
at first, once you start figuring and respond positively to it.
Oh no, totally go hang Quincy
out what you want to make, it gets
here. You got all these marked,, Nah man, this is the place,
easier. I would start by forgetting HENRY NOVAK
un-marked and semi-marked But don’t waste your time any-'
about art for a second. What do
paths winding up bedrock and where other than the Richardson
you like to do in your free time? (Send all advice questions to
down hills and stuff. If it snows, t Reading Room. Damn. Cubbies
When you’re working on a pro¬ Henry on the Center of Vision
go when it snows. Shit yes. You and nooks and crannies and cozy-
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and walk 2 minutes to Eggleston ^ windows give you just enough
M-F 7am-8pm Center, Monday &
Square to buy some beans and I natural light/views of the white
Center of Vision, Kennedy 261, Thtirsday 8-10
rice. clapboard houses of New Eng¬
Tuesdays 7pm Outdoor Adventure Club,
land. Read. Work. Dream. Exis-
Garden Collective, SIM, 2nd Floor Tower
Barber Shops on Blue Hill (tentialism.
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Green T Coffee, Thursday and Puppetry Club of Collaboration,
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Roots ‘Undun’ album. I mean of twinkle of the eye) it’s reaHy rad.
Kennedy Dining Hours, 260 Thursdays, 7pm
course. Then connect onto the Technically only open to MIT stu¬
M-TH 7:30am-8:30pm, Writers Workshop, SGA Room,
Mattapan Trolley, and that’s a trip dents, this makeshift pub in a cor¬
F 7:30am-6:30pm, Kennedy, Tuesdays
man. It has some real Philly kinda ner of old Walker Memorial Hall
Sat-Sim, 10am- 6:30pm 7:30pm
vibes. You’re raised up over Mat¬ has the ultimate New England
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one side and cemeteries and parks setup: shitty wooden tables and
what^ eoiN down in town
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yellow glow from the inside of the shitty carpet. A dozen classmates
old trolley and a bunch of black j and professors will crowd around
Alison Saar: Still..., Surface, Exhibition, about strategic plan¬
youth jabbering with each other. a small table, spHling pints of
Exhibition, Bakalar Paine Gallery, Jan 23 ning for MassArt and
Then continue the vibe in any one beer all over themselves and each
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of the barbershops, but now only^ other. You’H feel like Finny from
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Bill T. Jones: Story- Artist Talks, Arnheim Feb 5, l-2pm. Tower
Time, Dance Perfor¬ Gallery, Jan 23 - Feb Aud. jO.
mance, ICA Boston 6, 1pm
Feb 21, 7:30pm Farewell Officer ^TArr AND CONTDIDUTODDa:
Theresa-India Mel. After ten years
Films of Lars von Young, Exhibition, of service with Cam¬
Trier, MFA, Feb 1-23 Presidents Gallery pus Pohee, Sergeant Editor in Chief: Ashley Bussell, Architecture, ‘15
Feb 18-Mar21 Mel Plantenberg is Casey Parker, ArtEd/Glass, ‘16 Kayvon Edson, Fashion/SIM, ‘16
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