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Hip-hop jam showcases break dance movement
By Alexa Pugh | November 5Corrections appended.
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Liszt makes comeback in Sayles concert
By Tonya Riley | November 5While the average Brown student might be more familiar with the Phoenix song "Lisztomania" than Franz Liszt's classical compositions, Saturday's "Listztomania! A Bicentennial Festival Concert" proved that nothing beats the original.
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Twee, emo, tweemo: a culture of contradiction
By Suzannah Weiss | November 2St. Anthony Hall is home to several Brown stereotypes taken to their extremes, and thus offers fertile ground for exposing their contradictions. Items I have at one point stumbled upon in the lounge include: a unicorn head above the mantle, a stuffed puppy with a sword stuck in it, children's books ...
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Eiko & Koma transcend dance
By Caitlin Trujillo | November 2The heap of black feathers stands out among sand and dry reeds. It takes seconds after the lights come on in the studio for the woman, dusted in chalk, to materialize in front of the pile. As a bird's caw sounds in the room, the woman's limbs shift and turn over before she finally sits upright, takes ...
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Ripping Berlusconi, Italian author cracks up audience
By Kristina Fazzalaro | November 1"Italian politics in the last several years reminds me of a spaghetti version of Mel Brooks' ‘Blazing Saddles' — everything goes," said famed Italian journalist and author Giuseppe Severgnini last night to a packed crowd in Smith-Buonanno Hall. Severgnini visited the University to discuss ...
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Steinbach delivers spooky midnight concert
By Erin Kilduff | October 31Portraits of former University deans and professors adorn the walls, and the space flickers with the eerie glow of camera flashes. Students with laptops, sleeping bags and tired expressions fill the cavernous Sayles Hall. Strange costumes abound, and couples scatter the floor, looking for the best place ...
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Occupy music fest draws small crowd
By Adam Toobin | October 29With the threat of eviction looming, Providence Occupiers spent the weekend at Occustock, a three-day concert organized by Matt Weisberg '12, Sarah Grimm '12 and Providence resident Jay Wills. Over 20 different artists played at three locations Friday through Sunday in support of the Occupy movement. ...
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Cult horror film lacks thrills
By Kate Nussenbaum | October 29Students whose pumpkin cravings were not satisfied by the muffins from the Blue Room certainly got their fill Friday evening. To kick off Halloween weekend, the Arkham Film Society and Malachi's cafe presented a screening of the 1988 horror flick "Pumpkinhead" in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for ...
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Eerie genre celebrated at Brown Bookstore fiction fest
By Hannah Kerman | October 29Authors Paul Tremblay, John Langan and Laird Barron congregated in the warmth of the Brown Bookstore Saturday night as cold rain and snow fell in the dark outside. It was fitting weather for the end of the bookstore's first Speculative Fiction Fest.
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13 spooky sights, spirited sites for the 31st
By Suzannah Weiss | October 261. Shades Plus is the perfect place to buy last-minute Halloween widgets like whiskers, wings and masks guaranteed to obstruct your ability to breathe, see and hear. The other day, as I was intently examining a plaid top hat, a fox mask on the wall turned to look at me. I'm not even kidding.
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Richard '09 founds 'NPR of India'
By Aparna Bansal | October 26Thane Richard '09, a self-proclaimed "NPR Junkie" was sitting in a crowded train from Bandra to South Mumbai, listening to downloaded podcasts, when he was struck by a realization. "Why am I listening to shows about Chicago and Boston when I am in Bombay?" he asked himself. "Why aren't there these kind ...
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With quirk and funk, motherly only in name
By Kristina Fazzalaro | October 23Like the newspaper itself, the logo of the free monthly publication Mothers News is undeniably unique.
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'Cole under pressure' makes diamonds
By Samuel Feldblum | October 23Hip-hop died in 2006. Some of you may have heard Nas' eulogy. The emcees from my childhood — the Jay-Zs, DMXs and Wu-Tangs of the world — remained mostly relevant but lost some of their luster as they struggled to reinvent themselves in a musical world thirsting for corporate beats and catchy ...
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Gabriel Kahane '03 titillates on banjo, piano
By Katherine Long | October 22Gabriel Kahane '03 is ambivalent about the banjo. "I'm just a dilettante," he said ruefully, "Although a banjo definitely has the element of surprise."
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Dance scholarship program expanded
By Amy Chen | October 22In collaboration with Northwestern and Stanford universities, Brown announced Oct. 11 the creation of a new dance studies program that incorporates doctoral fellowships and summer seminars for the expansion of research and scholarship in the field of dance studies.
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Artist exhibit poses grand question
By Ben Kutner | October 22Laurie Anderson spoke with the kind of voice one uses with babies — and a nearly full Martinos Auditorium listened with an infant's delight.
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Multiplicity mystifies in PW's 'Dr. Faustus'
By Alexandra Macfarlane | October 19Combining the text of Gertrude Stein's opera libretto with the original music of Deepali Gupta '12 and Zachary Segel '13, "Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights" mixes poetry, music and cages this weekend in the Production Workshop Downspace. The show leaves the audience stunned and in definite need of a seat. ...
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Comedic communists comment on commodity
By Marshall Katheder | October 19Correction appended.
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13 looks for the 31st of October
By Suzannah Weiss | October 19Some will let CVS or the Providence Place Mall provide their Halloween costumes. But not you. You are too original for that! Dress as one of these things instead:
