Friday, the Brown Aerial Arts Society will put on its fourth annual spring showcase, featuring an underwater theme and titled “Aquaerials.” The show will be organized in several different acts with scenes played out both on the surface and underwater. The show will feature a wide range of ocean-related ...
With cuisine ranging from Citizen Wing’s beer-brined wings to Like No Udder’s vegan ice cream, 16 food trucks will come together Friday at the Eat Drink RI Festival: Truck Stop as part of the fifth annual Eat Drink RI event. A celebration of the Rhode Island “mobile restaurant” community, the ...
As classes are cooling down, ice cream season is heating up. The final month of the semester promises to be the sweetest yet, as warm temperatures begin to coax everyone’s favorite frozen delicacy out of hibernation. With new stands, new stores and new flavors, National Ice Cream Month is coming ...
It was 12:30 a.m. when the red and white University van pulled up to the curb to meet two eager students. “I have good news and bad news,” the driver said, smiling. “The bad news is I am not a shuttle driver,” he said, watching the students’ faces shift toward discomfort. “The good news ...
Thayer’s iconic Avon Theater was packed Sunday night as filmmakers, friends and film-enthusiasts gathered for Brown Motion Pictures' spring premiere of four short student films that the organization produced over the spring semester. The event marked the third consecutive semester that BMP’s biannual ...
Dolapo Akinkugbe ’16, whose musical career took off at Brown and has brought him as far as Abbey Road Studios, is ready to reflect on his undergraduate years as he looks toward the final performance of his collegiate days. Akinkugbe first started playing piano when he was four years old, inspired ...
The shrieks of a whistle and the clamor of seaside activity signal the beginning of the Musical Forum’s “Carousel,” the celebrated 1945 musical created by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Nick Healy ’17, the director and set designer, said that he chose “Carousel” because “it’s ...
Tucked away in the softly lit Studio One on the fourth floor of the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Fashion@Brown’s sixth annual fashion show drew an observant crowd of nearly 100 people. The show featured a total of 67 looks put together by nine different design teams — the organization’s ...
Brown community members lining up to see the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies department’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” last month may have been surprised to see gaggles of shoulder-high middle school students on the scene. Many of these students received ticket waivers to attend ...
Instead of hordes of students crowding together to hear “1738” or the echo of Mac DeMarco’s guitars, students will be treated to a somewhat more relaxed musical event this weekend. The annual Brown Folk Festival is bringing dozens of folk musicians to campus for two days of post-Spring Weekend ...
Growlers Wing Bar, the newest addition to the amalgam that is the Thayer food scene, opened April 4 above English Cellar Alehouse on Angell Street. Owners Umberto Sorbo and Sean Hannon create an ambiance that fuses a sports-bar atmosphere with certain diner-style decorations and an authentic New England ...
For one night this week, students can get all-local food for the price of a meal swipe. The Sharpe Refectory will act as the centerpiece of Brown Dining Services’ week-long celebration of Earth Day Tuesday. In addition to redecorating the Ratty, Dining Services is revising its menu to offer the finest ...
Spring Weekend kicked off Friday evening with clear skies, minimal wind and Funkinevil DJ-ing as students in the line stretching down George Street slowly inched their way onto the Main Green. Funkinevil’s set did not seem to do much for the crowd, but their graphics featured cascading dollar bills ...
The David Winton Bell Gallery in the List Art Center opened its doors to the general public Wednesday for the 36th annual student exhibition. The event was jointly organized by the Visual Arts Department Undergraduate Group and the David Winton Bell Gallery. The exhibition includes the work of over ...
Persevering on its quest to spread “nutritious, thick and creamy jams across Providence,” student band Young Hummus will play at downtown music venue Aurora Sunday. The band is composed of hummus cognoscenti Noah Goodman ’18 (also known as Gooey Noodleman) and James Wenz ’18 (Jim Bag), both ...
Joe Morgenstern, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and award-winning film critic, delivered the 16th Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture at the Faculty Club Monday. The annual lecture serves to honor the memory of Casey Shearer ’00, a promising young writer who died a few days before his graduation. A film critic ...
“I’d love to get Conner to the point where he’s just kind of everywhere … like oxygen or gravity or clinical depression,” said Sarah Silverman, who plays Paula, publicist for music’s hottest star of the moment, Conner4Real, in the upcoming film, “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.” The ...
“In my kingdom there is but one law: Do not love. It is a sin,” says Emily Blunt, starring as Freya, the Ice Queen, in “The Huntsman: Winter’s War.” The upcoming film is a spin-off sequel to the 2012 movie, “Snow White and the Huntsman.” While the film features characters reprising their ...
Sock and Buskin’s “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play” lights up the stage with superb acting, powerful commentary and candle lighting. Opening Thursday and running through April 18 in the intimate Leeds Theater, the production, directed by Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Professor Connie Crawford, ...
I still remember my most unusual — and potentially most embarrassing — Halloween costume. I was 10 or 11, and my movie-obsessed friends thought there would be nothing more clever than to glue a large slab of black cardboard to our shirts, stick half-eaten popcorn and spilled-drink containers to ...
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