Afaa Michael Weaver MA’87 became the most recent recipient of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award last week, a prize for mid-career poets from Claremont Graduate University. A professor of English at Simmons College, Weaver was once a factory worker and a member of the Army Reserves. He grew ...
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky is exceptional for his representation of the human soul, British novelist Virginia Woolf wrote in her essay “The Russian Point of View.” “Out it tumbles upon us,” she expounded, “hot, scalding, mixed, marvellous, terrible, oppressive.” Merging Darwinian ...
Three Squares and Inhabit, two Providence-based projects, are finalists for ArtPlace America’s Creative Placemaking grants, according to a Department of Art, Culture and Tourism press release. The organization received 1,270 applications for the grant from around the country, out of which only 97 ...
In the decisive moments of the pilot for NBC’s new comedy “About a Boy,” irresponsible 30-something Will stands off-stage at a talent show, cringing while his new neighbor Marcus gets booed by unsupportive classmates. He sees no other option — Will slides onstage with a keyboard, rocking out ...
Though neither Providence nor the University are hotbeds of St. Patrick’s Day activities, the shamrock holiday is still likely to bring its fair share of celebration this year. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, and the original holiday was a religious festivity commemorating the day of ...
Opera often connotes the stuffy Victorian era, the dismal Baroque era or the strict Italian aristocracy. Rarely is it a lens through which to explore meditation, sexual desire and anarchy. But in “Hydrogen Jukebox,” directed by Jonathan Adam ’16 and produced by Brown Opera Productions, this traditional ...
A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Azie Mira Dungey spent several years working as a historical interpreter at President George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. She spent her days as part of an interactive exhibit, portraying a slave whom visitors could ask questions ...
From film screenings and panel discussions to a keynote address from a Bollywood actress, the Creative Arts Council’s Feminist and Women’s Media Festival is taking over the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts and the Cable Car Cinema for a series of free events this weekend. Planning ...
University Artist-in-Residence Mohsen Namjoo has been described as the “Bob Dylan of Iran” by the New York Times — the Iranian pop singer and political advocate presented a lecture Wednesday entitled “Shahram Shabpareh: Honesty and Minor Scale,” one of several musical talks he has hosted this ...
In 2002, Bryonn Bain was pulled over for an extinct left taillight. He was arrested for three outstanding warrants — charges he denied — and spent three days and two nights in jail before he was released without being convicted. In the end, the wrongful charges were a case of identity theft. Out ...
Running the gamut of genres, ranging from mass appeal to up-and-comers, the Brown Concert Agency released a stacked Spring Weekend lineup at midnight, headlined by R&B legend Lauryn Hill and electronic producer and DJ Diplo. BCA revealed the artist names for next month’s concert — scheduled ...
Daniel Byers ’08 experienced the worst day of his life on assignment as a photographer from National Geographic. Forced to spend the night in an ice cave, his feet froze, and he drank water from melted snow. Even so, he said, looking out over the ancient landscapes the morning after breathed new life ...
A story is a mechanism for sharing a memory, relating the outcome of an event, expressing an opinion — but not all political systems allow their citizens to tell stories without fear. At the “Urgent Witness: A Freedom-to-Write” conference co-sponsored by the Department of Literary Arts and the ...
Graduate students from the Italian studies programs at Brown and Harvard gathered this weekend for Chiasmi, an interdisciplinary graduate colloquium featuring 19 professors, graduate students and independent researchers, 12 of whom traveled from outside the United States to attend. This year marks ...
Last year Marissa Bergman ’14, Emily Kassie ’14 and Jesse Weil ’16 found themselves discussing a mutual interest: “Les Miserables.” As the conversation wandered from the recent star-studded movie — they thought it was overdone — to the possibilities of ever seeing it on Brown’s main ...
As the hungry hordes at the cake-cutting ceremony of the 250th anniversary celebration eyed the 650-pound behemoth of a confection Friday evening, President Christina Paxson asked them to suppress their appetites for just a few moments more. Cake would come, but only after the student group Word! came ...
When people picture a “rhombic dodecahedron,” they might see a 12-faced geometric object, or maybe multiple long, mathematical-sounding words strung together. George Hart sees a sculpture. Hart, a research professor at Stony Brook University, works as a freelance mathematical sculptor and designer. ...
Like many films, “Her” spends most of its time espousing views on human existence. But to its credit, Spike Jonze’s new film is to the Encyclopedia Britannica what the average movie is to a pamphlet. In fact, it rewrites the Encyclopedia Britannica. Set in a glimmering near-future Los Angeles, ...
From the lofty parapet of Mount Olympus to the tortured currents of the River Styx, the gods have no fury like a woman scorned. None, at least, like the woman in “Medea,” directed by Celeste Cahn ’15 and opening tonight in the PW Downspace. The play was translated and freely adapted by Robinson ...
Okey Ndibe — author, political journalist, essayist, professor, editor and current visiting assistant professor of Africana studies — is a busy man. The release of his second novel, “Foreign Gods, Inc.,” in January is part of a flurry of acclaimed fiction by Nigerian writers in the last year, ...
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