“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 ...
“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 ...
Superheroes, armored robots and monsters of all shapes and sizes swarmed downtown Providence Halloween weekend in a take over of the Rhode Island Convention Center. As various Captain Americas congregated and Star Lord grabbed coffee at the food court, the only thing confused Providence Place Mall-goers ...
Multifaceted and vibrant, “GoodBye For Never,” Dolapo Akinkugbe’s ’16 newest mixtape, produced under his rap name, DAP, is a richly woven tapestry of stylistic elements. The fusion of genres — the album draws on neo-soul, gospel, jazz and blues — makes each song dynamic and interesting and ...
My first experience with “Hamlet” was watching an episode of “The Simpsons.” Bart was the thought-tormented prince, Marge was Gertrude, Moe was Claudius and Homer was the ghost of the dead King Hamlet. To a young boy of five or six, thrilled by the opportunity of maturity, nothing could be more ...
‘The Imaginary Invalid’ | Providence College Smith Center for the Arts | Oct. 31-Nov. 9 Given the subject matter, it is ironic that “The Imaginary Invalid” was the last work produced by Molière, the 17th-century French playwright best remembered for his comedies. The show follows the antics ...
Donald Margulies did not always cast himself in the role of a dramatist. Now a prolific playwright and adjunct professor of English and theater studies at Yale, he graduated with a BFA in visual arts. Since taking up the pen, he’s received a slew of accolades, including the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in ...
Every Wednesday afternoon during the fall, there is a farmers market next to the Sciences Library and it’s the students who aren’t munching on a crisp, locally grown apple who stick out. On Thursday afternoons, students, faculty and staff alike walk down Brown Street, juggling both backpacks stacked ...
The arts have never been a stranger to the vilification of greed, but the recent combination of economic recession, Occupy movements and increased populism have brought a resurgent relevance to the story of the systematic underdog. This dynamic manifests in recent releases like “The Dark Knight Rises,” ...
Smells of food — predominantly tacos — wafted through the air as students and their families lined up for nourishment from a diverse array of food trucks at the Brown University Oncology Research Group Food Truck Festival Saturday afternoon. In attendance were Mijos Tacos, Citizen Wing, O’Crepe ...
The first satisfying feature of “She” — the group exhibition with the ambitious subtitle of “picturing women at the turn of the 21st century” — is its not having been called “Her.” The nominative pronoun seems to promise a feminist inflection, a show that will deliver to us women as ...
“I don’t have any more. We’re all out,” Dodd Francis repeated to yet another customer. A handwritten “out of order” sign was taped to the frozen yogurt machine. Several cardboard boxes on the nearest shelf bore black Sharpie letters reading “send back.” These little red flags were the ...
Exploding magic tricks in the middle of an elementary school classroom and daily rounds of chess with Janitor Jim marked a journey governed by dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder for David Flink ’02. As part of the Swearer Center for Public Service’s Social Innovation Initiative, ...
Brown students can sometimes be out of touch with the realities of the city they live in. But they can at least partially remedy this by seeing “A Kind of Providence,” a play in which the essence of the city shines through in all its diversity, grit and creativity. Director Ashley Teague GS, a ...
Greg Abate and the ‘Monsters in the Night’ Band | AS220 Black Box Theatre | Oct. 24 The Providence-based jazz mogul has played saxophone in international performances with sultans of swing like Phil Woods and Ray Charles and has been hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the most exciting ...
Fanny Howe advocated for racial equality in the 1960s. She draws inspiration from philosophers of the early 20th century. But “Second Childhood,” the newest poetry collection by the visiting lecturer in literary arts, is anything but dated. Howe, who read from her works with novelist Bradford Morrow ...
“I want to be Rhode Island’s Pickle,” said Zared Goldfarb, his confident ambition providing a stark contrast to his unassuming appearance. The owner and “head pickleteer” of Fox Point Pickling Company, Ziggy — as his parents dubbed him at infancy — dressed his tall frame simply, in tattered ...
Music from the around the world resounded Friday in Alumnae Hall, where dancers’ festive choreography mingled with aromas of international dishes at Class Coordinating Board’s culture fair, “Around the World in 180 Minutes.” The fair featured free food and performances from student groups, ...
Parking his carriage in a suburban driveway, a vampire crashes a family’s Christmas celebration with hilarious results. At the peak of the Cold War, the decades-old secrets a farmer thought he had buried along with the evidence of a UFO crash landing site resurface. These are just some of the plot ...
Only rarely does a young adult novel achieve the complexity and gravitas of general literary fiction, which perhaps explains why writers in the latter category rarely seek to appeal to the former. Of course, there are notable exceptions, including Carl Hiaasen, Philippa Gregory and — as of the Sept. ...
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