Schwanengesang: a swan song, a last performance before retirement, a final deed before dying. The swan song originates from the Greek mythological belief that a swan sings a unique farewell once in its life, just before its death. “Schwanengesang” is also the title of a cycle of 14 poems set to ...
The occupants of Samuel Beckett’s theater of the absurd — dithering and defunct — vacillate in and out of uncertainty. They search in vain for validation and reprieve. A new production of his juggernaut “Waiting for Godot,” directed by Patrick Madden ’15, opens tonight in the Production ...
Toto, we might be back in Kansas. Cornstalks? Check. Roads that stretch to the horizon? You got it. Days spent with beer and football? All there. While maybe not set in Kansas, “Nebraska” demonstrates director Alexander Payne’s familiarity with small-town America. The prospects of channelling ...
It’s easy to miss Flatbread Company — tucked away at the butt end of a large parking lot behind CVS — but the space is surprisingly roomy. The decor can best be described as a rustic, vegan-friendly ski lodge, with large windows overlooking the monochromatic landscape of the parking lot. It’s ...
Cucumber water, dreamy music and a host of students’ artwork greeted a lively crowd in List Art Center Saturday night at a reception to celebrate the Student Exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery. The exhibition at the gallery, a space normally reserved for professional artists, opened Jan. ...
Brenda Marie Osbey, distinguished visiting professor of Africana studies, has penned multiple volumes of poetry and prose, including “History and Other Poems” and “All Saints: New and Selected Poems.” In addition to receiving numerous awards and honors, Osbey was selected as poet laureate of ...
When Esther Mills, a 35-year-old black woman living in New York City at the turn of the 20th century, admits to a client from Fifth Avenue, “I’ve only been to the theater once,” the audience members are made all too aware of their own privileged position. Viewers’ suit buttons and diamond necklaces ...
Brown’s first Jewish Film Festival, complete with three award-winning movies, food and a forum for cultural, spiritual and academic discussion hits theaters near you — the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts and Wilson Hall — next week. Brown/RISD Hillel is sponsoring the free ...
Instead of the caged bird, it is the caged word that sings in slam poetry. At least, this was the case at this week’s Providence Poetry Slam Semifinals, where the raw, poignant emotion of nine competing poets filled the intimate performance space. Laura Brown-Lavoie ’10.5 organized and emceed Wednesday ...
When you walk into Figidini Wood Fire Eatery, the sleek metal tables contrast with the arboreal decorations, transporting you from snowy Providence streets to the warm Italian countryside. The domed wood-fired grill sits in plain view of the eating area, giving the restaurant an industrial cabin feel, ...
For some, shopping period is a time of stress, frantic emails and existential crises. But for Roberto Gedeon ’15 and Alexandra Kordas ’15, Shopping Period is simply the next step in the evolution of their personal aesthetic — a street style blog aimed at bringing the multiplicity of student fashion ...
Ethnographer Alfred Schutz was not the first to champion cultural estrangement. As the trope goes, he was not the last, either. Dadaist provocateurs and postmodern theorists would also demand that life be made “anthropologically strange” and “objectified” in pursuit of cultural reevaluation. ...
Political theorist Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” an account of the trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann that caused a veritable firestorm when it was originally published in 1963, turned 50 last year. The work remains a somewhat explosive text. Arendt’s treatment of the fascist killer ...
It’s quirky, dry, repetitive, dark and mysterious. In sum, it’s a Coen brothers’ film. This is why, more than a month after its release, “Inside Llewyn Davis” is still fresh. Through painstakingly deliberate shots that form an innate rhythm, the film elevates itself to masterpiece level. The ...
On an April Tuesday last year, Jaime Rosenstein ’10 MFA’13 received a call that she had landed the role of Nessarose in the national tour of the hit Broadway musical “Wicked.” Two days later, her bags were packed and she was headed to Dallas. The trajectory of Rosenstein’s final months as ...
John Banville, the author of 16 novels and recipient of many literary accolades — including the 2005 Man Booker Prize for “The Sea” — arrived on campus Wednesday evening on a delayed Amtrak. Despite the inhumane weather conditions, he managed to deliver a reading from “The Blue Guitar,” ...
It’s hard to believe that the same Brown Dining Services that serves bland, exhausted green beans and burnt, greasy grilled cheese sandwiches will now offer made-to-order, zesty vegetable stir-fry and crispy, gourmet pizzas hot out of a stone hearth. If there is one word to describe Andrews Commons ...
Brown Motion Pictures, formerly Brown Student Television, will host its biannual film launch premiere tonight in Salomon 101. The premiere will feature five films written, directed, produced and performed by undergraduates. The group, which adopted its new name to more accurately reflect its current ...
Theater and playwriting can foster dialogue and construct “a bridge of communication” between disconnected communities, argued William S Yellow Robe, professor of English at the University of Maine and a member of the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation, in a lecture Thursday night. In ...
Loss of innocence has been explored by writers from John Milton to Kurt Vonnegut, who famously wrote, “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. So it goes.” But innocence need not be gone forever — at least, according to “The Snow Queen,” a folk musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s ...
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