Two hundred years ago, the population of American passenger pigeons was considered limitless, and observers wrote of migrations that completely blackened the sky. At the dawn of the 20th century, however, there was only a single survivor, and with her death, what had once been the most populous bird ...
Could Facebook notes appear on the pages of future history books next to tweets about someone's day? Could Facebook pictures one day be hanging in the Ratty next to the images of years gone by at Brown, documenting student life in the 2000s?
Visitors to the gallery in the Sarah Doyle Women's Center will have one last chance to catch "Night Garden" by Boston-based artist Hilary Tolan this week. The exhibit, which closes Nov. 27, uses wax flowers and delicate paper to depict life's fragility.
At first glance, nothing looks amiss in the budding metropolis below. It's a typical day in New York or Tokyo or London. Construction workers are busy assembling the newest skyscrapers. Steel and cement come together to create a new city ripe for progress. Initially, Arnie Zimmerman and Tiago Montepegado's ...
For its fall production this weekend, Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan is offering up a dynamic array of dancing and singing in "The Gondoliers."
Musical theater writing and performance were combined in a talk by American composer and lyricist Maury Yeston in Leeds Theater Thursday evening.
It's Friday night at Leavittsburg's small-town watering hole, Connie's. The local yokels are out in full force celebrating the end of yet another laborious work week. Enter into this scene Jake (Michael Williams '10). He's the quintessential boy from the big city come to steal away the resident golden ...
After an energizing opening performance by the electrofunk-inspired Javelin, psychedelic indie rock band Yeasayer played an infectious set Friday for the dance-happy audience in the RISD Auditorium for the Brown Concert Agency's Fall Concert.Students from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design ...
Chris Lashua has always liked wheels.
There's an obvious difference between using a set of directions to get somewhere and using a map. The former only provides one way of traveling from point A to point B. A map, on the other hand, is the sum of all directions, the totality of all possible routes. Maps open up options, and directions close ...
This weekend, a cruise director's voice instructed audience members to sit back and prepare for a journey of cultural experiences. The cruise ship was the Salomon auditorium, and the cultural tour guides were Brown's Mezcla dancers.Mezcla is a student-run Latino performing arts group. The group's name ...
Taking a break from installing her solo sculpture show Sunday, Cecilia Salama '12 looked around the small gallery room at the half-dozen works she had already put up. "I think I've become completely numb to the fact that all this stuff is gross," she mused.Gross is in the eye of the beholder. That said, ...
Editor's note: A number of passages in the original version of this article presented as direct quotations language that differed from the wording used by the individuals quoted.
Correction appended.
An exhibit about the contributions of black gay men to Rhode Island, its culture and its politics premiered Thursday evening at the John Hay Library. Rhode Island College professor Daniel Scott kicked off the display with a lecture about his work documenting the oral history of the traditionally overlooked ...
The drone of the audience quiets as the house lights dim. The stage lights brighten, and the audience sits back to enjoy a seemingly typical two-man show.The only catch? One of the actors has never seen the script.Thus begins Tim Crouch's innovative play, "An Oak Tree," which appears one night only ...
Every December since 2002, Providence shoppers in search of artisanal holiday gifts have relied on the annual Craftland show, a craft fair as homey and handmade as the work sold there. This year, the annual event has established a year-round presence at Craftland's permanent store at 235 Westminster ...
"I drink to excess, smoke a lot of dope, but I still can't forget anything. It's horrible."
Criticized by the locals and pitied by its neighbors, Rhode Island is frequently written off as too small to combat the titanic issues it faces. But despite the state's soaring unemployment and economic stagnation, one Ocean State native is getting the word out about what can be done to bolster a struggling ...
This fall has the masses anxious about "the swine," with college students in particular trying to avoid the H1N1 flu. But for the Hillel Gallery Project — a committee of Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students responsible for organizing art exhibitions at Hillel — the looming flu ...
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