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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Attitude Dance Company’s ninth annual spring show premieres tonight with a colorful and successful display that highlights both the diverse talent of the dancers and student-choreographers and advanced multimedia work. The show features several different styles of dance including jazz, hip-hop, contemporary ...
Crispy on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside, a fried chicken patty is smothered in melted cheese and drizzled in a special spicy sauce. All garnished with lettuce and tomato and served on a chewy hamburger bun. The spicy with, as it is affectionately called, is served at Josiah’s Cafe and ...
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 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 ...
For Hushpuppy, heroine of director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature film, “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” the world is filled with beasts great and small. A young girl living with her dying father in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Hushpuppy narrates the film, reimagining the catastrophic storm the ...
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 ...
For some folks on campus, cracking jokes is serious business. Comedy groups run the gamut from sketch, improv and stand-up performers to humor blogs and print publications. Six of the groups are united under the mantle of the Brown Barrel, an umbrella organization formed last year to help facilitate ...
As a precursor to the Ivy Film Festival next month, the student group hosted its second annual seven-day screenplay competition for graduates and undergraduates of Brown and other universities. The competitors wrote and submitted screenplays March 11 to March 17 in response to a prompt that included ...
At 24 frames and 18 inches per second, or 90 feet per minute, film negatives rush by at lightning speed, illuminated by the brilliance of burning carbon. A 75-year-old machine at the Avon Cinema still functions with the same projection technology it did when it was installed in February 1938. But now ...
Over the last 10 years, the world has rapidly digitized, making the incorporation of multimedia natural everywhere — from classrooms equipped with iPads to children playing tennis on Nintendo Wii. Akiko Hatakeyama, a Ph.D. in the Multimedia Electronics Music Experiments program who performed four ...
It’s “A Clockwork Orange” with a comedic twist. It’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” with an electric chair. “Sappington!” also called “The Lamentations and Tribulations of Butlerhood,” written and directed by Emily Garrison ’16, features a multitude of small plots that invariably ...
Lost in a storm, a young professor stumbles into a trap. Mr. Shawqi, a man who loves nothing more than winning a game, holds the professor prisoner and changes the rules of his games so his opponent can never win or escape. Mr. Shawqi insists he is not crazy — this is the way of the universe. “Look ...
While some may consider concocting a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the Sharpe Refectory a substantial culinary feat, the members of Brown Culinary Palate take gastronomic endeavors further than the average college student. With restaurant excursions and a blog featuring a myriad of dorm-appropriate ...
Some with their heads craned up, some with their eyes closed — members of a crowd of about 250 people not only listened to the overpowering chords from the 3,555 pipes of Sayles Hall’s organ, but also literally felt the vibrations of the building, almost indistinguishable from the instrument itself. ...
Hip-hop, ballet, contemporary and jazz — as well as a few zombies — all found a place at Fusion Dance Company’s 30th annual spring show last weekend. Fusion — Brown’s oldest dance company — was started by Paula Franklin ’86 in 1983. Franklin “decided that there was need for more student ...
“Grab some paper and start taking your anger out on it!” said Rhode Island School of Design student Connor Lynch, urging fellow students to engage in a papermaking workshop last Saturday. Lynch, along with fellow RISD sophomore Ryan Mather, directs a series of student-led RISD workshops called “Quickies.” In ...
Public service announcement: “Goose and Tomtom” is completely insane, compulsively ambiguous and totally worth seeing. In a rare production of David Rabe’s violent, surrealist romp, directed by Jenny Gorelick ’14, the actors wander bravely into an absurd but oddly familiar world of darkness, ...
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