Beat Recipe

3. After 1-2 hours, separate the editor-in-chief and contributors into equal amounts and let them rest for exactly three weeks and six days. This is very important!

4. Meanwhile, collect your artists and make sure they have access to digital drawing software. While it may be hard to find 2-3 artists, all with different skill sets, it will absolutely enrich the final product. Just be prepared for your artists to be finished at wildly different times.

5. Check in on your contributors. After three weeks and six days, they’ll be exactly 24 hours away from the deadline and should begin to furiously type away. If they don’t, you may have gotten some rotten contributors. At this time, your editor-in-chief should also be ripping out its hair in frustration. Again, this is normal.

6. Finally, after four weeks, collect all the contributions and artwork, and place them in a locked room with your editor-in-chief and colored paper. After another 5-7 days, your very own issue of The Beat will be complete!

- Toby Pannone

(Formally endorsed by MacLean Bishop, Editor-in-Chief of The Beat)

The Beat of Boston University was born in 2013 from the ashes of The Boston Phoenix. Intrepid DJs crafted the then-8x11, twopage pamphlet to fill the music coverage void The Phoenix left in its wake. Jane Fitzsimmons, our lovely little Zine’s first and unofficial EIC brought her skills and knowledge from a Phoenix internship to WTBU and plunged into a weekly endeavor dubbed “The Beat.” interested in submitting writing, interviews, graphics (or some other secret talent yet to be put to the page)??? you can become a contributor to this historic zine too! email wtbu.thebeat@ gmail.com and tell editor Maclean Bishop that you are soooooo interested in working with him :))

She made most of the graphics and write-ups herself, and it wasn’t until 2015 when Annaleah Eisner came on board as one of the first official editors that The Beat ramped up its production and found its home. With a team of 15 or so writers and graphic designers, The Beat kept churning out unbeatable content and was able to become the 7x5 multi-page beauty you hold in your hands today. It chronicled and continues to chronicle pop culture, college radio, Boston, Allston, and the thoughts of the quirkiest on our campus. Even when a fire forced our DJs out of their 3rd-floor studio home, temporarily displacing them, The Beat lived on. It is a hallmark of WTBU. Without it, we wouldn’t have our pulse on the beat of Boston University. From one lowly content creator to all the rest, thank you for contributing to the magic, and know that The Beat will always rise to the occasion. Happy 10th!