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McMansion Hell: Architectural Acoustics and its Intersections with Urbanism and Late Modern Architecture

Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Since its launch in July 2016, Kate Wagner’s viral blog McMansion Hell has become an internet sensation, featured in a wide range of publications, including the Huffington Post, Slate, Washington Post, and Paper Magazine. The site uses cutting humor and actual real estate listings to roast “the world’s ugliest houses” from top to bottom, all […]

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music

Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest—from our 2019 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco. John Corbett will transport us back in time to this thrillingly tumultuous era through a playful exploration of its music. Weaving musical excerpts with readings […]

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities