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 ...
Jon Birger ’90 returned to campus Tuesday afternoon to discuss his newest book “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game.” Birger started the hour with a prepared talk, discussing why an abundance of college-educated heterosexual women have been unsuccessful in their hunt for Mr. ...
“Music of the Night,” Shakespeare on the Green’s winter show, is running Friday through Sunday. The play combines Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” with “Phantom of the Opera,” but this show is unique. There is minimal talking and singing; instead, the story is expressed predominantly ...
Students and professors alike will waltz, rumba and tango their way into Presidents’ Day Weekend at the “Dancing With the Professors” ballroom dance competition Friday at 7 p.m. in Alumnae Hall. Presented by the Brown Ballroom Dance Team, the night will feature nine students from the team paired ...
Chinese Language Week The Department of East Asian Studies is hosting Chinese Language Week, five nights of festivities starting with a celebration of the Chinese New Year Monday. Throughout the week there will be film screenings, language sessions and a Chinese tea time ceremony. The week aims to ...
Carlos Sirah MFA’17 took the stage in a workshop-style performance of his play, “The Light Body,” Sunday night in the final installment of the theatre and performance studies department’s annual Writing is Live event. Designed to showcase and explore the work of first- and second-year students ...
Have you wondered why hookup culture has replaced old-fashioned dating? The explanation is more straightforward than expected. According to Jon Birger ’90, people have not lost the desire for first dates and romantic dinners. This cultural shift can be reduced to a simple numbers game. In his ...
The Department of Hispanic Studies is hosting Spanish Language Week, a series of movies, talks and programs, Feb. 8 to Feb. 12 in hopes of garnering greater interest in the department as well as the study of the Spanish language. “We are very excited about Spanish Week,” wrote Janet Blume, interim ...
Garnering widespread recognition from the classical music community, the Brown Orchestra released its first professionally recorded album, “Manhattan Intermezzo,” in early January. Produced by Naxos — the chief record label of the classical music world — “Manhattan Intermezzo” features talented ...
Noah Cowan ’19 will go head to head Friday with some of the most eclectic minds in America’s most famous game testing obscure knowledge and buzzer-pressing reflexes — “Jeopardy!” Tackling categories ranging from “U.S. Army Five-Star Generals” and “Say it in Latin” to “That’s Just ...
The film “Carol,” directed by Todd Haynes ’85, has received critical acclaim from journalists and critics all over the world. Receiving a standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival premiere, “Carol” has since gone on to garner numerous accolades, including six Academy Award nominations. ...
Unless you’re careful when visiting “Dead Animals,” the newest exhibition in the David Winton Bell Gallery, you might trip over the taxidermied Labradors or crush the stuffing from the baby chick next to them. Also called “The Curious Occurrence of Taxidermy in Contemporary Art,” the show ...
Three new exhibits opened at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum Jan. 22 — “Drawing Conclusions,” “Wild and Precious” and “Swagged and Poufed: The Upholstered Body in the Late 19th Century and Today.” “Drawing Conclusions,” which can be found in The Linda and Vincent Buonanno ...
With the University’s newly activated @artsatbrown Instagram account, Brown and Providence community members will be able to showcase their work in a shared digital space. Luyuan Xing, program coordinator for the arts, created the account, which published its first post two weeks ago. Xing said Instagram ...
Only five blocks up from the Thayer Street CVS, Blue State and a bevy of first-year dormitories lies Hope High School. Though only a two-minute drive apart, Hope and Brown speak to the two stratospheres of our education system. With less than half of the student body proficient in reading and roughly ...
An Instagram feed tells a variety of stories — the story of a friend’s family vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, the story of a distant acquaintance’s night out in New York, the story of a celebrity’s walk down the red carpet. For users following the account @heyharryheymatilda, Instagram also ...
Molly Guy ’99 is making weddings cool. In 2011, Guy founded Stone Fox Bride, a bridal boutique that has become the go-to spot for betrothed millennials. The boutique is hailed as the “current wedding-wear darling of the jammin’ and Instagrammin’ set” by the New York Times. Guy said she created ...
“Kill Wilson” is the fourth, and last, final project for PHP 1680I: “Pathology to Power: Disability, Health and Community.” This article is the final installment in a series covering students’ attempts to increase the visibility of disability on campus. Caroline Orr ’16 called out over the ...
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