Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri offered insight into her work at an event hosted by the University bookstore Sunday afternoon. The celebrated writer read from her newly-released novel, “The Lowland,” and discussed her approach to writing with poet William Corbett in front of a packed ...
"We should all just put a sign on ourselves, tell the world what’s wrong with us.” After a summer of alien invasions and bromances everyone saw coming, the previews and press coverage of “Enough Said” tantalized audiences with the idea of an intricate adult drama devoid of the inevitability ...
Jerry Seinfeld opined on the nature of nudity during a monologue in the Seinfeld episode, “The Truth.” “When you have clothes on, you can always kind of make those little adjustments … but when you’re naked it’s like it’s so final — you’re, well, that’s it. There’s nothing else ...
After being discovered by Glee casting director Robert Ulrich on a plane home from college visits, Michael Weisman ’17 competed in the second season of the “The Glee Project,” which aired on Oxygen last summer. Three months of on-set life and stressful competition were edited into eleven television ...
The categorization of noise rock as a genre contradicts its most basic essence: to spill out of the bounds of musical theory and uproot everything it stands for. If tempo, tonality and scale comprise the skeletal structure of music, noise rock — a musical movement with a rich local history — jumps ...
History has shown propaganda to be a powerful force — for one country, it even helped to bring down a dictator. This power was explored in a screening of the film “NO” at Avon Cinema Thursday night, in honor of this year’s 40th anniversary of the military coup that took down Chilean President ...
Professor of Comparative Literature Arnold Weinstein, celebrated on College Hill for his insight into the seminal works of Faulkner and Proust, did not name a novel as his favorite book of 2013. Instead, he praised political journalist George Packer’s “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New ...
Though art and science often appear contradictory, students in two new classes this semester will have the chance to explore both forms, with some using animation to explain basic science concepts and others exploring the physiological benefits of dance. In VISA 1800: “Communicating Science” and ...
As summer turns to fall and the temperature outside takes its yearly dip into sweater weather, many people’s first instinct may be to retreat to the warmth of their dorms and apartments. But autumn is also the season when New England comes alive with distinctive cultural attractions. From scenic drives ...
A clear voice echoed through the dimly lit room as a crowd of students sat with all eyes on the spotlit performer alone on the stage. One absorbed audience member tapped his foot along to the rhythmic acoustic chords. Brown Unheard, a student music organization, held its first official event of the ...
Brian Cross ’12 will make his Broadway debut alongside Mary-Louise Parker in “The Snow Geese” Oct. 24, but only a few years ago, Cross was deeply entrenched in the theater community on campus and taking a range of roles — once even playing a pig for course credit. “While directing and acting ...
From Samuel Bridgham 1794 to Joseph Paolino, Providence mayors are part of a long tradition of mayoral portraits. Money raised through fundraising, private donations and grants over the past year have allowed for the restoration of 13 of these portraits, completing the collection of 32 artworks now ...
Algerian-born French intellectual Helene Cixous sat down last night and shouted. “First one cries,” she declared to a crowded Friedman Auditorium. “Then one writes.” So began an evening of poetic meditation, literary discourse and personal introspection with one of world literature’s most ...
Early in Quiara Alegria Hudes’ MFA’04 provocative play “Water by the Spoonful,” Yazmin Ortiz — an underpaid adjunct professor trying to infuse her Swarthmore College classroom with free jazz and “muzak” — instructs her students to go home and remember the first time they noticed musical ...
Telephone wires, loosely threaded through the streetlights studding a Jersey highway, crosshatch into the distance across a marbled grey sky. A TV dinner tray, its meat and vegetable portions neatly compartmentalized, sits crooked on a stovetop in a messy kitchen. At first glance, the photographs of ...
“I invited my friend to the show yesterday. She said, ‘Oh my god, there’ve been Brown Stand-Ups for 100 years?’” said Yotam Tubul ’14 in the opening act of the spoof “centennial anniversary” of Brown Stand-Up Comics. “No! There haven’t even been jokes for 100 years. You know how ...
Death by drowning is a familiar aesthetic preoccupation. Wading beneath the willow tree with Ophelia, floating with Hokusai in the shadow of Mount Fuji or chasing the white whale with Captain Ahab, readers have been here before. “Drown thyself?” Iago asks in William Shakespeare’s “Othello.” ...
Will Barnet ’12 has been making a name for himself in the Big Apple with a distinctive solo act, infusing canonical Shakespearean verse with the attention-grabbing energy of street performance. For over a year, Barnet has been performing Shakespeare on request around the city — frequenting such ...
When a restaurant boasts mastery of the cuisines of three continents, there are bound to be hits, misses and one or two dishes that border on bizarre. Such is the case with Gemini Bar and Grill — the restaurant that opened this summer in the Waterman Street space previously occupied by Spice Thai ...
Following a string of summer building renovations, the University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture continues to welcome change with the appointment of three new professors. The new faculty, Assistant Professors of History of Art and Architecture Courtney Martin and Itohan Osayimwese ...
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