Henry Bova

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Henry Bova

When The Head and The Heart hit it big around the start of the 2010s, the warmth in the band’s folk-pop sound paired with the individual members’ clear connection to one another made them the talk of Seattle, and eventually, the indie folk scene. Now touring the band’s fifth album, “Aperture,” they feel like they’ve recaptured that initial spark.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Henry Bova

Evelyn Rydz does not know where her fascination with water came from, but it traces all the way back to the day she started speaking. “Agua was my first word, not mom or dad,” said Rydz, raised in Miami by Spanish-speaking parents. “ I’ve always been drawn to water.”As a multimedia artist now living in Arlington, Rydz has embraced her natural interests, creating work connected to aquatic ecosystems, human consumption, and the meeting of natural and unnatural elements.

1 month ago | huntnewsnu.com | Henry Bova

During the May 7 graduation ceremony for the College of Arts, Media and Design, or CAMD, Northeastern showed more reverence for artificial intelligence than for its student body. At least, that was how it felt after hearing my name read out in a booming, stilted AI voice rather than by a human after four years of working diligently in the School of Journalism.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Henry Bova

Raouf Jacob, founder of the Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston, understands the power of international film firsthand. He grew up in Sierra Leone in the midst of devastating civil war in the 1990s, and found solace in the local movie theater. “ At that time our fear was, is there a way out?” Jacob said. “Our people, our lives, our property were all destroyed. The only thing that kept the people hopeful in my hometown of Kenema was the Capitol Cinema that showed movies from all over the world.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Henry Bova

At the height of her artistic powers, Michelle Zauner made her boldest move yet: taking a step back. After recording Japanese Breakfast’s highly-anticipated fourth album, “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women),” in December 2023, Zauner spent the next year living in South Korea, immersing herself in the culture and, in the process, dodging some of the attention that seems to envelop her everywhere she goes.