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Film fest unites industry professionals, students

Sundance Film Festival draws Hollywood stars ready to hit the slopes, and Festival de Cannes attracts A-listers looking to lounge on yachts. But there are few festivals where audience members leave their backpacks in the aisle while rubbing shoulders with acclaimed film veterans. What distinguishes ...


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Varied musical acts, vendors spice up folk festival

There were babies, dogs and beards aplenty on the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle Saturday when the fifth annual Brown Folk Festival kicked off in a celebration of live music. The noon-to-midnight festival featured 13 acts from Providence and the Northeast, including two student bands. Bands performed on ...


The Setonian
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PW exposes dark side of Romeo and Juliet

Smoke billows across the stage, filtering and dampening beams of blue lighting. Jazz plays in the background. Columns connected by web-like arrangements of rope comprise a minimalistic set. The first players emerge, clad in punky leather vests and combat boots. From early on, the audience knows this ...


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Ebisu surprises with experimental options

With California rolls now offered at the Gate and a noodle bar featured at the Sharpe Refectory, Japanese cuisine has arrived on campus with less-than-fresh fish and dry rice. But for an experience beyond the sashimi platter and miso soup offered at Thayer Street joints, venture to Ebisu, a Japanese ...


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Poll: Arts events prove more popular than sports

Three quarters of undergraduate students reported attending an extracurricular event in the performing or visual arts at least once per month, whereas only a third said they attend varsity sporting events with the same regularity, according to a Herald poll conducted last month. Over 30 percent of ...


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Venda Ravioli offers classic Italian fare and more

Eating at Venda Ravioli will not exactly transport students to Italy, but on a nice day it is worth the 10-minute bus ride to Federal Hill — unless you are on a low-carb diet, that is. The establishment is not just a restaurant. Most of the space is devoted to an Italian market with glass cases full ...


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Los Andes brings Bolivian bites to Providence

Those who feel the Sharpe Refectory has dulled their taste buds should make the trek to Los Andes, where Peruvian meets Bolivian and flavor meets generosity. A casual passerby might mistake Los Andes for a low-rent incubator of food poisoning, but as all true Providence residents know, exteriors can ...


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‘Classic’ diner delivers modern comfort food

Students looking for a brunch experience off College Hill would do well to consider the Classic Cafe, a small and personable eatery in West Providence with a menu as long as the line at the Blue Room any weekday around 4 p.m. A few blocks from Federal Hill at 865 Westminster St., the Classic Cafe evokes  ...


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Tapas bar brings taste of Spain to Downcity

Upon entering Westminster Street’s Flan y Ajo tapas bar, there is a sense of having joined a world apart from the quiet streets outside. Dim lighting, loud conversation and air replete with the smell of grilling meat fill the tiny room. Bob Dylan croaks over the radio, adding a twist to the otherwise ...


The Setonian
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Lecture, workshop explore calligraphy

“A great person makes a great calligrapher,” said Kazuaki Tanahashi, a world-renowned painter and calligrapher, in his lecture “The Zen Poet Ryokan” Wednesday in List 120. Sitting on a stool in front of about 60 attendees, Tanahashi gave off an air of tranquility as he spoke quietly about Ryokan’s ...


The Setonian
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It’s raining (straight, white) men in Leeds

If you are at all familiar with the work of Young Jean Lee, “the most adventurous playwright of her generation,” according to the New York Times, you might be surprised that her latest project is set in a tidy, middle-class living room occupied by four straight, white men. But Sock and Buskin’s ...


The Setonian
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Campus cultivates ‘musical ecosystem’

Musically inspired by topics ranging from marine ecology to sketch comedy, Eric Axelman ’12.5, Michael Goodman ’13 and Ryan Glassman ’15 have joined the growing collection of Brown undergrads and alums sharing their musical talents with the world beyond College Hill. The three students are each ...


The Setonian
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Orchestra to launch Ireland tour

The Brown University Orchestra will perform in cities across  Ireland next week in its first international tour since 2007. The orchestra has already sold over 1,000 tickets for concerts in Dublin, Limerick and Wexford. Senior Lecturer in Music and Conductor Paul Phillips said he became inspired to ...


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Lecturers dig into creative process across disciplines

Humans like to make stuff. This exercise in generating objects, art and ideas — the act of creating — was the focus of the lecturers who spoke at the first installment of the Creative Mind Lecture Series Tuesday night in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The evening included ...


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