Novelist Ben Marcus MFA’91 explored themes of health, vulnerability and technology’s dark side while reading his work “The Grow-Light Blues” for an intimate and enthusiastic audience in the McCormack Family Theater Wednesday. The story follows a man who works at a technology research and development ...
A peppery, full-bodied aroma of fresh basil filled the air as Assistant Chef for Brown Dining Services Aaron Fitzsenry welcomed students to the pesto pasta cooking class in the Ivy Room Sunday. In front of the students lay 12 promising piles of flour on a cooking work table. Friendly to all levels ...
Ben Ostrowski ’17 is a psychology concentrator, music enthusiast and likely the only student at the University who has turned an email exchange with his father into a book. This time next year, Ben’s collection of poems, co-written with his father Steven Ostrowski, will hit the stands. The seeds ...
When Connor Watts ’18 and Trang Le ’18 set out to raise money for the community service club Brown Circle K, their thoughts immediately jumped to Krispy Kreme. “Krispy Kreme is not found in this area,” Trang said. “It’s a staple in most places, but since Krispy Kreme is an hour away from ...
Three very different populations will take the stage in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Saturday — the performers include high school students from Central Falls, RI, a town known as the “smallest city in the smallest state,” a collection of professional and Brown dancers and a group ...
Sophia Narrett ’10 was living in her Providence apartment after graduation when she discovered the medium of embroidery. Since then, she has woven together many bold art pieces that take a close look at women’s sexuality and contemporary pop culture. Narrett came back to campus Wednesday to present ...
Mona Awad MFA’14 spoke at the Brown Bookstore Wednesday evening about the debut of her novel “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.” Awad spent six years writing the novel. When she started her MFA, she had only completed half of the first draft. Eventually, the story became her thesis. “The fat ...
A part of Providence’s local art scene for over 10 years, FirstWorks has brought artists such as DJ Spooky, Lauren Anderson and Sweet Honey in the Rock to the Creative Capital — often with the aid of Brown’s own Creative Arts Council. The partnership’s most recent guest to grace College Hill ...
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating: These are topics Americans have a hard time discussing; these words evade conversation. But the reality is that people suffer from these disorders, particularly within American culture. The media puts such a strong emphasis on the body that one’s entire essence of ...
The University welcomed Hans-Ola Ericsson, world-renowned organist and professor of organ and church music at McGill University, to perform as the featured artist in the annual E.J. Lownes Memorial Organ Recital in Sayles Hall Friday. Ericsson performed a repertoire of works from Jean-Philippe Rameau, ...
From March 3 to 13, Sock and Buskin will present Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the Stuart Theatre. The immersive production features steampunk costuming and on-stage audience seating, where the audience quickly becomes part of the set. Sock and Buskin chose to perform “A Midsummer ...
“I see friends here, ... and I see newly made friends here,” said Colin Channer, a 2011 transplant to the local Providence community, as he surveyed his audience in the McCormack Family Theatre to begin his reading Wednesday. Channer was born in Kingston, Jamaica, a heritage that is reflected in ...
Starting today, Providence’s Francophiles and cinephiles can unite at the Cable Car Cinema, where the Providence French Festival will run through March 3. In honor of the country that is credited as the birthplace of cinema and brought viewers “Amelié” and “The Intouchables” among many other ...
The Brown Band’s Tuesday night practice in Fulton Rehearsal Hall is lively with banter and laughter, both among musicians and with head student conductor Daniel Muller ’17 as he leads the group through various musical numbers. “We’re not like a high school marching band,” said Carol Medina ...
Facing an intimate audience of about 30 students, alumni and fellow novelists, author Paul LaFarge gave a talk on H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow’s lives Wednesday at the McCormack Family Theatre. LaFarge, who has earned critical acclaim for his novels “The Artist of the Missing,” “Haussmann, ...
Students from the fall 2015 American Studies course “AMST 1510: Museum Collecting and Collections” demonstrated their philatelic expertise in collectively curating the exhibition “Thousands of Little Colored Windows: Brown University’s Stamp Collections” that opened Feb. 10 and will run until ...
The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts will celebrate its fifth anniversary Friday with a party that fits its age — a toddler’s birthday party, full of candy and youthful decorations. While the building is young, the vision and achievements of the center are concrete. The Granoff Center’s glass ...
Maggie Smith has built her career playing characters with a defining air of dignity and nobility. From Harry Potter’s Minerva McGonagall to Violet Crawley in “Downton Abbey,” Smith crafts characterizations that are preeminent at their very core. In “The Lady in the Van,” Smith once again employs ...
Updated Feb. 16 at 2:15 p.m. “It’s here at Brown where my ideas radically changed, and I found chocolate,” said Kathryn Sampeck — professor at Illinois State University and a long-term fellow of the John Carter Brown Library — Monday night in her lecture “How Chocolate Came to Be.” Sampeck ...
The Chinese Students and Scholars Association’s sold-out Spring Festival Gala started at 7:30 p.m. Sunday night, but the Salomon Hall lobby was packed by 6:45 p.m. Students, faculty members, alums and family members from the Providence and Boston areas waited in line, eager to enter the auditorium ...
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