At the end of August, Taylor Swift announced her 10th studio album in an Instagram post and invited her fans to “meet her at midnight” on Oct. 21. “This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night,” ...
Down College Hill and across the Providence River stands a large brick wall, home to a mural that has become an integral part of Downtown Providence. The mural depicts a contemporary Narragansett woman holding a portrait of her tribal elder, surrounded by vivid and deeply symbolic imagery of native ...
“I’m coming back for you, baby. I’m coming back for you.” These catchy lines from Carly Rae Jepsen’s latest single “The Loneliest Time” took TikTok by storm, adding the single to a long list of songs that found popularity on the social media platform. “The Loneliest Time” ...
Didn’t realize Harry Styles was starring in another film this fall? You’re not alone. Now that the divisive, drama-packed press frenzy for “Don’t Worry Darling” has finally died down, the world is more than ready to move on. But Styles’s acting endeavors have not ended just yet, with ...
The 1975 are champions of a particular niche of the internet. With quotable lyrics and dreamy synths, the four-man band provides the perfect soundtrack to an indie aesthetic characterized by angst and grunge popular on Tumblr during the mid-2010s.
Amid the everyday bustle of Thayer St., Avon Cinema stands out as a relic of a bygone era. The incandescent marquee with hand-placed letters broadcasting the day’s films and their showtimes adorn the art deco building — a theatrical welcome hard to find in the current age of multiplexes. You ...
The third and final season of “Derry Girls,” a sitcom about the challenges of adolescence amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland, released in America on Netflix this month after airing on British Channel 4 earlier this year.
If there’s a band that knows how to deliver a slow-burn, it’s MUNA. With major label success almost in their grasp, the band was dropped by RCA Records in 2019. Although this decision was shocking and disheartening at first, looking back on the band’s time post-RCA, the drop might be better ...
As is common with reboots, “Halloween Ends” fails to provide a captivating case for its existence. Its plot centers on a cast of uncompelling characters and relies on gruesome bloodshed for the story, leading the audience to wonder what happened to the original plot of the franchise.
Filmmakers and enthusiasts gathered in Cranston from Oct. 13 to 15 for the 14th annual Southeast New England Film Festival, which featured several series of short films in varying genres, including comedy and horror shorts, an LGBTQ series and two film series focused on New England. Founders ...
“Luckiest Girl Alive” is one of the craziest and most unexpected films of this year — but not in a good way. The film was marketed as a typical psychological thriller with an attractive woman as its lead, but viewers would never guess the gory twists and turns at its core. It’s the kind of ...
The search for a show to match Bridgerton in its gripping romance, captivating characters and jaw-dropping costumes is over. Netflix’s newly released “The Empress” provides what is perhaps an even more binge-worthy watch than Shondaland’s popular series. That is, if you don’t mind reading ...
Halloween is just around the corner, meaning abandoned warehouses will be stocked with cheaply made costumes, candy will be filling the aisles of your local CVS and movie studios will go searching for the dead horror franchise they can resurrect for a quick buck. “Hellraiser” is a new Hulu-exclusive ...
Looking down on Benefit Street from the top of College Hill Saturday, only a sea of bobbing heads was visible — adults, children and dogs all making their way slowly through a vibrant crowd. Myriad tables lined both sides of the street, displaying the creations of student and alum vendors at the ...
Do you ever walk around campus and get a spooky feeling? Do you sometimes feel like a Halloween movie could be filmed behind your dorm? If so, you’re not the only one. “Hocus Pocus 2,” a sequel to the 1993 cult classic “Hocus Pocus,” which was filmed about a year ago on the East Side of ...
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 ...
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