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Chinese environmentalist decries spread of desert

Student dance show a 'giant lovefest'

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Memorial concert features renowned saxophonist

Music performed by the Brown Jazz Band accompanied by world-renowned saxophonist Rick Margitza filled Salomon 101 Saturday night for the fourteenth annual concert in memory of Daniel Milano '93, a former Jazz Band member. 

'Blasted' recounts violent disintegration into chaos

The director's note for Blasted reads, "Please do not look away from me. Please take me with you when you go." These are words of warning, as the violent, visceral intensity of Blasted tempts the audience to shut their eyes - anything to be spared the emotional assault. Blasted, by playwright Sarah ...

The Herald gets girly with Lena Dunham

The Herald sat down with Lena Dunham after the Ivy Film Festival screening Saturday to discuss her unique dialogical style, success in Hollywood and how to survive after college.

Sedaris talks family, taxidermy

For Valentine's Day, David Sedaris bought his boyfriend Hugh a box of chocolates - but only because a taxidermied owl didn't seem like enough. Sedaris' stories of life's small peculiarities, as well as some of its larger ones, kept audience members laughing on Saturday night at the Providence Performing ...

Campus gets folksy at annual festival

Saturday's fourth annual Folk Festival brought together an eclectic mix of students, faculty, families and European politicians.

Big names from big screen visit College Hill

Last week, the 11th annual Ivy Film Festival temporarily brought Hollywood to campus. Every year, the Ivy Film Festival features a selection of student films, advanced screenings and Q&A sessions with visiting industry professionals at various venues around Brown's campus.

Zany 'Wedding' probes 21st-century love

While college students might know how to party, rarely do they get to be wedding guests. "A Perfect Wedding," which runs until April 22 in Leeds Theatre, appeals to college-aged theater-goers in both theme and zaniness. "Plays don't come out of nowhere. They come out of tradition," said John Emigh, ...

Author reveals dark side of Peter Pan

"He's not a little boy who won't grow up," said writer Jenny Boully. "He's an old lusty goat. He's taking advantage of his boy body to frolic with the nymphs."

Acclaimed architect talks scale, going green

Chinese artists reinvent the classics

Exclusive: Q&A with Actress Laura Linney '86

Actress Laura Linney '86 addressed a lively audience of students during an Ivy Film Festival event last night in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The Herald sat down with Linney afterward to talk about her experience at Brown and changes in the movie industry.

Novelist explores Dominican identity

"You have different masks, depending on who you're talking to," author, professor and activist Junot Diaz told an audience that filled Salomon 101 Saturday night in the keynote address of the National Dominican Student Conference.

Senior textures paintings with hair

This semester, people began giving hair to Cecilia Salama '12. The visual arts concentrator - who previously went to barbershops to collect hair - has made good use of the donations in her current exhibition, "In My Absence: A Senior Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition," that features work created this semester. ...

AASA festival highlights cultural diversity

Piano recital features Bach, Mozart pieces

Jessie Ning, a junior at Rhode Island School of Design, and four of her piano students performed classical piano works at a recital Sunday afternoon in Grant Recital Hall. The program for the recital, entitled "Our Piano," prominently featured music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus ...

Senior thesis play merges virtual and personal

"If the results of the video game don't work, you can reset it, but the moral dilemma is, 'Can you do that in real life?'" asks protagonist Peter Hayes in "The Reality Effect," an original play by Michelle Meyers '12 that continues its run in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts ...

New color-changing installation lights up Granoff

The new permanent installation 2x5 - created by Berlin studio realities:united and on display in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts - defies the notion of art as paintings and sculpture. Instead, it brings the creative world into the current age via kinetic light images.

Black Lavender gives voice to marginalized playwrights

This week, the Department of Africana Studies is presenting the Black Lavender Experience, a festival of work by black queer playwrights. With four days of performances, staged readings and discussions, the festival aims to give exposure to a group whose voices are often underrepresented in national ...