What do Sarah Whitman, a writer and Edgar Allan Poe’s former lover, military historian Anne Kinsolving Brown, RISD founder Helen Metcalf and women’s education advocate Sarah Doyle have in common? They all helped to shape state history, and their contributions are honored in the new book “Remarkable ...
It seems that Ben Lloyd, executive chef and owner of the Salted Slate, has done it all. After not getting into dental school, Lloyd worked in insurance for Liberty Mutual and coached the Lesley College crew team. And when he discovered his passion for cooking, he added one more responsibility to his ...
Entering the ivy-covered brick mansion on Prospect Street, one is confronted by a collection of contrasts. Contemporary images in a modern medium are hung on the aging walls. A small, bright, experimental photograph of a slab of raw meat faces a large, dark inkjet of a traditional Chinese bathing scene. ...
Abject horror, dissociation and a general state of anxiety — these are some of the emotions elicited in “Grotesques,” an exhibition by Ellen Wetmore that opened in the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Oct. 6 and will be on display until the end of October. Wetmore, an artist and associate professor ...
It was reminiscent of a calm before the storm. All sounds ceased, except a quiet buzz in the air as throngs of people chattered with tangible anticipation. Suddenly, the sound of approaching drums distinguished itself, followed by a chorus of horns. The somber autumn weather was no match for the brewing ...
Colorful banners flapped in the rain Saturday morning, announcing the sixth annual Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire. The exhibition, attended by over 1,200 people, sprawled across four locations between the community arts center AS220 on Empire Street and the Rhode Island Convention Center on Adrian Hall ...
Last fall, the words “the Third World will rise again” were scrawled in chalk on the side of the John Carter Brown Library. The inscription, and the campus reaction it elicited, spurred the development of “The Earliest Americas: A New Initiative in Indigenous Studies at the John Carter Brown ...
EXT. SMALL TOWN — DAY. A girl, 21, crosses a leaf-strewn street to reach a coffee shop: Dave’s Coffee. A Dave’s experience deserves to be written into a screenplay, for this new espresso bar is a creator’s haven. Dave’s, which opened its second location in July, is both a fresh start on ...
‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ | Haruki Murakami | Knopf The Royal Swedish Academy shocked bettors across the world Thursday when it awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature not to Murakami, who was largely thought to be a shoo-in, but to Patrick Modiano. Part of this ...
Don Fecher, owner of the Thayer Street mainstay Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ, got his start in the restaurant industry at 14 working as a prep cook at a small Italian restaurant in Clearwater, Florida. But Fecher has come a long way since his days of dicing onions and peeling potatoes. A former personal ...
The comfortable silence draping the couple is interrupted by the end of the meal. The woman takes off her heels. “I’ll get a head start, then you follow when you think they aren’t looking,” she says. Seconds later, he sprints out of the restaurant, urging her on with the waiter in hot pursuit. ...
Four-, five- and six-fingered hand prints snake along Production Workshop Upspace’s walls, interspersed with questions and statements like “how many people have you seen naked?” and “#freethenipple,” all in multicolored chalk. A student plays a cover of Fleet Foxes’ “Mykonos” on his ...
One word: Unconventional. This word links the many dimensions one can use to describe Other People’s new compilation album, “Work.” To start off, the album’s concept itself is nonconformist. Other People is a subscription-based imprint that releases new music every week to its users. Only ...
The work of Edouard Duval-Carrié, artist-in-residence at the John Carter Brown Library, attempts to rebuild the lost narratives of history. A new book edited by Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice director Anthony Bogues, entitled “From the Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes,” ...
Twenty-two years in, the Providence Latin America Film Festival is leading with its typical selection of films that — atypically — directly confronts such permeating societal topics as religion, gender and cultural disparity. But underneath the art-house sheen, the films serve a dual purpose, celebrating ...
For eight years, Cara Marie Duskin — new executive chef of Lola’s Cantina on South Water Street — has been a vegetarian. Since the beginning of her tenure at the restaurant, she has worked to revamp its menu, incorporating recipes within a range of dietary descriptions, from vegan to gluten-free ...
Airborne Toxic Event | The Met | Oct. 5 Fun fact: The band’s name is an homage to Don DeLillo’s postmodernist novel, “White Noise.” Pretentious? Sure. But the literary reference fits with the band’s reputation for evocative lyrics, one of the features that garnered critical acclaim for their ...
An artistic endeavor doubles as a civics lesson in “Empowering a Generation,” a photographic essay by Liza Yeager ’17. Yeager created the work as part of Storytellers for Good, a program with the Swearer Center of Public Service that highlights stories of social innovation through multimedia journalism. ...
“Where are you really from?” “He’s not white. He is cool.” “Black girls can’t sing opera.” These are just a few examples of the quotes featured in the exhibition “Racial Microaggressions and Microaffirmations,” which opened Thursday at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity ...
Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Soyinka — Nigerian playwright, professor and cultural critic — has been as prolific politically as he has been creatively. In 1986, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work, which “in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones ...
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