The 24-Hour Play Festival, organized each semester by Shakespeare on the Green, challenges writers, actors and producers to collaborate on bringing a theater production from script to stage within 24 hours. Five plays were performed at two Saturday evening shows in T.F. Green Hall.
Throughout the history of Latin America, writers have challenged notions of a white-dominated literary canon by leaving an undeniable mark on literature in their home countries and across the world. Take Gabriel García Márquez, for example, who “deeply influenced” the British-Indian Salman ...
Cécile Fromont — a history of art professor at Yale — discussed her new book “Images on a Mission in Early Kongo and Angola” in front of an audience of Brown community members at the List Art Center Thursday. In the discussion, she outlined her analysis of illustrations created by ...
Poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen, the inaugural Asian American artist-in-residence in the Department of American Studies last semester, didn’t always know how to write about her experiences as a Vietnamese American.
In 2009, four teenagers from Calabasas, California, made headlines for successfully robbing the homes of celebrities like Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge and Orlando Bloom. The group, known today as the Bling Ring, is the subject of a new Netflix mini-documentary series detailing their crimes and ...
Many first-years spend the opening months of the fall semester looking for new communities to join. While Brown’s campus offers numerous options — the University is home to over 500 organizations — each year, a large number gravitate toward a cappella. With 15 groups, Brown is ...
Every three years, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Painting Triennial highlights graduate student artwork and diverse approaches to painting. Installed at RISD’s Woods-Gerry Gallery, this year’s show opened Sept. 30 and will remain until Oct. 16. For RISD Graduate Program Director ...
When it was announced that “Blonde,” starring Ana de Armas as Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, would receive an NC-17 rating, there was some confusion among the cast and general public. De Armas claimed that the rating was unwarranted, and people were left wondering how a film about the American ...
There are few performers who can arrive on stage in a sparkly green outfit with platform boots and greet an almost 20,000-person crowd with, “Hi bitch, did you miss me?” But for Lizzo, commanding an audience in this signature attitude is a breeze, and her latest “Special Tour” Friday night ...
Teens in the 2000s looked to acclaimed foreign shows such as “Skins,” “Skam” and “Degrassi” to portray the complexities of teenage life, as do teens now with “Sex Education.” In spite of some struggles, the Netflix reboot of the ‘90s Australian show “Heartbreak High” aims to ...
The growing popularity of the creative writing degree over the last 50 years has come with a growing critique of the institutionalization of writing. This discourse has often circled back to the same question: Can writing be taught?
Every Wednesday, students and faculty of the Brown-Rhode Island School of Design community gather to appreciate the art of glassmaking at RISD’s “Hotnights,” a program held by RISD’s glass department with a new visiting artist each week.
In Angie Cruz’s latest novel “How Not to Drown In a Glass of Water,” protagonist Cara Romero explains that, in Spanish, “desahogar” means “to drown, to cry until you don’t need to cry anymore.” The story follows Cara’s attempt to “undrown” over the course of twelve ...
Netflix has made recent efforts to increase Indian representation in its content with the third season of Mindy Kaling’s teen dramedy “Never Have I Ever” and the second season of the infamous reality series “Indian Matchmaking” both hitting the streaming service last month. But, representation ...
Manny Quezada ’23.5 learned the basics of DJing from his best friend while attending high school in New York. He was quickly hooked – he soon purchased a controller, a device DJs use to mix music, and began practicing on his own, using his experience in guitar and piano to shape his craft. ...
Over 175 students flocked to MacMillan Hall Friday for the “Big Comedy Feast” — a show hosted by comedy groups and publications across campus. Starla and Sons, Out of Bounds Sketch Comedy, IMPROVidence, Brown/RISD Stand Up Comics, The Rib and The Brown Noser performed with satirical flair to ...
Look into the headlines too deeply, and you will quickly become a film pessimist calling cinema a lost cause. But sometimes it can be best to just move beyond the noise, make your way to a real movie theater with popcorn and an Icee and see a movie that you know nothing about but will inevitably ...
When you first walk into the studio of Rena Jiang ’23, it feels like you’re there to see an old friend. Though dotted with tattooing equipment, the space is far from clinical; an open skylight and window let in the breeze of a fall day, and the white wood walls create a cozy atmosphere. Sitting ...
Director Olivia Wilde and her film, “Don’t Worry Darling,” can’t get a break from the headlines; there are rumors that lead actress Florence Pugh
The 80s had “Heathers,” the 90s had “Clueless” and the 2000s had “Mean Girls.” These films defined their generations with their distinctive and sometimes unrealistic portrayal of teens of the time, becoming the blueprint for the high school romance genre.
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