David Sedaris wants to hear your jokes — the raunchier the better. "Don't be afraid of a filthy joke," he told his audience at the Brown Bookstore Wednesday night. "It can't be too dirty for me."
Friends and family of Paige Hicks '11 gathered in Manning Chapel on Thursday night to share in a service of thanksgiving for the life of a beloved member of the Brown community.
Brown's on-campus theatre scene can seem like a slew of acronyms — MF, PW, BOP, BUGS, S&B — but they are acronyms worth keeping track of. It shouldn't be surprising that a school that can count stars like Laura Linney '86 and John Krasinski '01 among its recent alums should be home ...
A Gilbert and Sullivan show, when done right, is pure fluff — a delightfully absurd piece of entertainment that invites the audience to laugh without asking them to think too hard. Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan's production of "The Pirates of Penzance," running in Alumnae Hall through Sunday, ...
There's something vaguely disconcerting about seeing the professors you know and respect dressed in fancy suits and spangled dresses, whirling around on the dance floor — for the first 10 minutes, you long for the comfort of chalk-dusted blazers and lecture halls.
President Ruth Simmons has been named to the Council for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, an advisory board that will oversee the direction and administration of the museum as it prepares to open in 2015, the museum announced Monday.
Cable television on campus may have survived past its expected expiration date, but according to Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential life and dining services, the system will not last another year.
The Providence Police Department is unleashing a new weapon in the fight against crime — the BlackBerry Curve. According to a Nov. 30 press release from the Office of the Chief of Police, 92 supervisory staff members have been issued the phones as part of a "long-term strategy of putting real-time ...
University of California campuses were rocked by student protests and demonstrations in reaction to last Thursday's vote by UC regents to approve a system-wide 32 percent tuition hike, CNN reported last week.
Brown students, faculty and staff can now activate their cell phones for use as portable security devices, thanks to the Department of Public Safety's recent launch of Rave Guardian, a software system designed to protect registered users across campus.Rave Guardian, made by Rave Wireless, Inc., provides ...
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