Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
Seniors' home-spun podcast spins its own story
By Rosalind Schonwald | April 19The Ladies Village Improvement Society is the next logical step for the maturing MySpace generation. With their online podcasts, Rachel Blatt '09 and Lacy Roberts '09 aren't attempting radical moral "Improvement," but rather are transforming the traditional radio form to fit the do-it-yourself world ...
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AmCiv class studies local Cape Verdeans
By Anita Mathews | April 18Students in Professor Steven Lubar's AMCV1550: "Methods in Public Humanities" will unveil their collaborative final project –– an exhibit about the community of Cape Verdean immigrants that inhabited the Fox Point region in the 1930s –– on Saturday, May 9 at the John Nicholas ...
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Students compose GISP for a second session of songwriting
By Luisa Robledo | April 12As Ethan Reed '12 recorded the final words of his song, "Somewhere A Light Went Out For Somebody," he looked up and saw Associate Professor of Music Butch Rovan fidgeting with the buttons of the mixing console, he recalled. "I'd never had an experience like that," Reed said. "I felt like a professional, ...
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Festival draws all kinds of folk to Sayles
By Caroline Sedano | April 12In spite of the cold and the rain, the first Brown University Folk Festival brought an eclectic mix of musicians, Brown students and Providence locals to Sayles Hall on Saturday. The all-day music festival was organized by a group of folk fans in collaboration with the 2012 Class Board, the Creative ...
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'Inappropriate' re-envisions appropriation
By Anita Mathews | April 12The title of the David Winton Bell Gallery's current exhibit, "Inappropriate Covers," contains many shades of meaning.
