In a world that sometimes seems connected only by airwaves between speakers on their cell phones, what would happen if all other communication between family, friends and acquaintances was lost?
"Musical Variations on Weather," a unique blending of weather systems, musical scores and intricate sculpture by artist Nathalie Miebach, is on display at the Sarah Doyle Women's Center Gallery through Feb. 26.
Born of an independent study at the Rhode Island School of Design, rock band Fang Island is preparing to release its debut album on Sargent House Records Feb. 23. The self-titled record is a jolt, a surge of energy. It's a call to get up and dance.
Internationally recognized British-Indian author and political activist Salman Rushdie spoke to a diverse audience in an overflowing Salomon 101 about freedom of speech, India's future and literature's relationship with politics.
If you haven't checked out the newly renovated Pembroke Hall yet, now there is an extra incentive — an exhibit of the works of Maqbool Fida Husain, considered India's most famous living painter.
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.
"My Perestroika," a documentary that director Robin Hessman '94 described as an "unusual look of life behind the Iron Curtain," was featured in the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, at the end of January.Hessman said the film follows the lives of five people who were childhood classmates ...
High-pitched notes ring quietly in the background — a prelude to a sinister outcome. The dim lights shine over the Hitchcockian apartment set, as an uneasy atmosphere settles in.
The second-annual Israeli Film Festival of College Hill begins on Saturday with the Providence premiere of the Oscar-nominated film "Ajami." For the committee of nine students who organized the festival, the seven films to be featured will serve to portray Israel in a cultural — as opposed to ...
Theater fans trekked through the cold to a crowded Salomon 101 Saturday evening to hear Stephen Sondheim discuss his life and creative process with New York Times columnist Frank Rich.The pair has had these conversations for the past several years at various universities. They met over thirty years ...
Deborah Heiligman '80, a prize-winning children's author, received the 2010 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award, which honors one young adult nonfiction book each year. Heiligman's book, "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith," was picked from a list of five finalists.
Blood and potato slide down the wall, a mother cries over her baby and the father looks triumphantly down at the vegetable's fragments.
While winter sweeps in the cold air and lingering darkness, Trinity Repertory Company's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" is sure to throw the audience into gusts of warm laughter with its feverishly energetic — if at times too hysterical — characters.
Damian Kulash '98, lead singer, guitarist and lyricist of the rock band OK Go, is "a little manic" right now, he told The Herald on Wednesday — and justifiably so.
By Fei CaiContributing WriterAt first listen, the Wingdale Community Singers' latest album seems somber, reminiscent of both a folk band and an Appalachian music group. But listen again, and you catch the lyrics: "Lies with his sister twice a month, her issue does he kill / buries them in unmarked graves ...
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An exhibit showcasing the art and craft of East Asian bookbinding is not only the first of its kind at Brown — but also in the nation, according to the exhibit's curator.
Running this weekend in Leeds Theater, Sock and Buskin's "Doris to Darlene: A Cautionary Valentine," by Jordan Harrison MFA '03, tells the story of how three characters from three different time periods relate to music and, through this relationship, find love. The play begins with the three main characters ...
Internationally recognized spoken word artist and activist Alix Olson addressed a crowd of students from Brown and neighboring colleges about "isms," identity politics and women's and queer empowerment in List Art Center Thursday night.Olson's performance included several of her more well-known works, ...
"The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything," composer Gustav Mahler once said.Mahler's Fifth Symphony will be highlighted at this weekend's Brown University Orchestra concert and is one of five fifth symphonies being played over the course of this orchestra season."As I was putting ...
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