Kristie Lee started her nail art business during her first year at the Rhode Island School of Design.
The Brown Arts Institute welcomed “Proof,” a touring exhibition showcasing the work of California-based multimedia performance artist Barbara T. Smith, to The David Winton Bell Gallery at the List Art Center on Feb. 22.
Watching five films in a row may not be a typical choice for the every-day theater-goer, especially when they are all going for Oscar-worthy emotional impact. But while this year’s selection of Academy Award-nominated live action shorts was certainly grave, the collection is worth the watch.
Usually, when audiences visit movie theaters, they know what to expect. Major studios tend to predict what the American public wants, resulting in most released films fitting a certain formula for decades at a time. Of course, there are exceptions. “Dune: Part Two” is one that stands out from its ...
The Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies’ Sock & Buskin production of “Barbecue,” now playing at the Leeds Theatre, is an equally hilarious and heartfelt play that tackles the difficulties of addiction and behavioral health.
Despite its name, the student club Women Build at Brown does much more than just build.
The Providence French and Francphone Film Festival, commonly abbreviated as the PFFFF, opened Thursday evening with the Oscar-nominated “Anatomy of a Fall” at Thayer Street’s Avon Cinema. Organized by the University’s Department of French and Francophone Studies, the festival is set to screen ...
R&B singer-songwriter SZA released her new single “Saturn” on Feb. 22 after debuting the song during the 2024 Grammy Awards broadcast. The single was released as a bundle pack alongside its live performance and acapella, sped-up and instrumental versions.
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Cord Jefferson’s deft directorial debut feature “American Fiction” criticizes the media’s celebration of inaccurate racial stereotypes that pander to white audiences. Initially released in 2023, the movie juxtaposes the absurdity of such stereotypes with the reality of Black American lives in ...
Remaking a classic is never easy — especially when the original is a cartoon unrestrained by budget, special effects or the laws of physics in which characters can manipulate water, earth, fire and air. But the Netflix live-action remake of the beloved series “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” ...
Pizza is vital to any vibrant college town’s food scene, and Providence is no exception.
Last week, The Centre for the Less Good Idea — a performance group based in Johannesburg — collaborated with the Brown Arts Institute to hold a series of performance-based workshops using “Pepper’s Ghost,” a theatrical technique that uses specialized mirrors to create hologram-like ...
Discomfort and joy serve as the basis for “The Holdovers,” Alexander Payne’s Oscar-nominated dramedy. Replicating the look of 1970s film stock, the cozy intimacy of this nostalgic stylization reflects both the beauty and forced introspection of Northeast winters. The film explores grief, loss, ...
Founded by Rhode Island local Patricia Weltin, “Beyond the Diagnosis” is an eclectic exhibit of artworks. After first being displayed at the Warren Alpert Medical School in 2015, the exhibit has returned in time for Rare Disease Day thanks to the efforts of Elyse Sauber ’20 MD ’26 and Assistant ...
Taiko performers from across the world assembled Saturday to present a community concert, “In Return,” at the Lindemann Performing Arts Center.
Aside from being about a cobbled-together, half-dead creature, “Lisa Frankenstein” has very little to do with Mary Shelley’s classic novel. The film, released on Valentine’s Day, more closely resembles a classic rom-com — as soon as it starts, you know how it’ll end.
For most Brown students, the second semester on campus means Spring Weekend, (hopefully) warmer weather and finishing up one more year of academics. For student dancers, spring brings increased rehearsal time, photoshoots, recordings and weeks of promoting their companies all over campus.
Biopics are typically restrained by the genre’s nature: there has to be some accordance maintained with real life. Sometimes, this results in films that appear to lack aesthetic depth — focused only on narrating the life of the person at hand — or films that drag, if the person chosen ends up ...
The Brown Chinese Students Association hosted its annual Lunar New Year banquet Friday, Feb. 9 in Alumnae Hall.
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