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Gennaro takes final bow at Trinity Repertory

Michael Gennaro will step down from his position as executive director of Trinity Repertory Company after seven years of running daily business at the Providence theater. In February, he will move to East Haddam, Connecticut, to take up the executive director position at Goodspeed Musicals — famous ...


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Food, language collide as students explore cultures

As the leaves fall and the winds become harsher, there is a special urgency for the warmth and comfort of food. The large role food plays in daily life makes it “a very motivating subject for students,” said Esperanza Godoy Luque, visiting teaching associate in Hispanic studies. Luque teaches HISP0710: ...


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Website sells student art through storytelling

Resurrecting artwork pushed farther and farther into the depths of a storage locker, Folkmade displays the pieces of five artists in a setting far removed from the traditional gallery: online. The student-run marketplace, which was launched Nov. 15 and seeks to celebrate the artistic community on College ...


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Classic American diner offers glimpse of another era

The American diner — once the mecca of hip social circles with its catchall of pop culture, vintage cars, delicious milkshakes and nervous first-daters — is making a comeback,albeit one riddled with identity crises. Falling a half-century after the golden age of diners, Wayland Square Diner must ...


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At the table with Susan Alper

Susan Alper is no stranger to culinary innovation. Clean Plate, a new restaurant on South Water Street that advertises itself as specializing in American cuisine, is the fourth eatery she’s opened with her partner, Lauren Speisman. With the constantly changing menu inheriting many of its flavors and ...


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Review

Taste of India fails to match Kabob and Curry quality

The temptation to draw a comparison with local icon Kabob and Curry threatens to color perceptions of any other Indian food on College Hill, and in visiting Taste of India on Wickenden Street, it’s hard not to judge the restaurant solely in relation to Sunday mornings in the Blue Room. While Kabob ...


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In conversation: Chris Duffy ’09

Comedy was always a favorite hobby for Chris Duffy ’09, a co-founder of the campus comedy group Starla and Sons, which specializes in long-form improvisation. A former Herald writer, Duffy initially aspired to be a journalist. When that fell through, he pursued teaching. Today he lives and breathes ...


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Tallulah’s Taqueria serves up taco of the town

With the excitement in her voice contrasting with the composure of her neatly folded hands, a woman introduces herself. “Hi, I’m Kelly Ann. I’m ‘Tallulah.’” The tattooed man next to her chuckles, as if at an inside joke, and responds, “Yeah, she is.” So begins the campaign video for ...


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At the table with Brandt Heckert

The word “Pastiche” belies a mix — a hodgepodge of sorts — and makes an appropriate appellation for the Federal Hill bakery specializing in cake, cookies, tarts, truffles and more. Yet the combination at the heart of this 30-year Providence powerhouse is not one of textures, flavors or colors ...


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New & Noteworthy Reads: Nov. 14, 2014

‘Lila’ | Marilynne Robinson ’66  On an average day, Robinson teaches at the nation’s best writing program, the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. On her good days, she wins awards like the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Humanities Medal. Robinson’s third novel — a ...


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Ryka Aoki speaks as part of Trans Week

Ryka Aoki, an esteemed trans writer and professor of English at Santa Monica College and of gender studies at Antioch University, addressed a small group of students in an intimate talk at the Brown/RISD Hillel Monday evening. Aoki’s lecture was the keynote address for this year’s Trans Week. Stories ...


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Students deconstruct circuits, redefine music

Loud fleeting beeps and soft humming whirs, pulses of static, autotuned voices, knocks, ticks and pitch-bent tones make up the describable sector of the myriad sounds emanating from the Grant Recital Hall on Thursday night. At this one-of-a-kind concert, student performers showcased the instruments ...


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The Lineup

Stevie Wonder | Nov. 11 | TD Garden’s Fleet Center, Boston Wonder has garnered more Grammy Awards than any other male soloist — 22, not including his 1996 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award — since he first signed with Motown Records at the tender age of 11. But as the angelic voice that launched ...


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Snooping through Schulz’s world

“Unhappiness is funny. Happiness is not funny at all.” Cartoonist Charles Schulz makes this statement in “The Man Who Saw Snoopy,” a play written and directed by Lenny Schwartz that opened Thursday in the Bell Street Chapel’s DayDream Theatre on Federal Hill. He reflects on the changing nature ...


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At the table with Mark and Pattie Federico

“It’s a labor of love,” said Mark Federico, who, along with his wife Pattie, owns Narragansett Creamery. For Federico, food is all in the family. In the late 1940s, his grandparents opened one of the first supermarkets in Connecticut, and his parents later opened their own produce market.  “I’d ...




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