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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:
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'Tempest' enchants the Quiet Green
By Caroline Flanagan | October 15Shakespeare on the Green staged its traditional Family Weekend production this weekend with Director Christina Sauer's '14 adaptation of "The Tempest."
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Students explore 'Museum after Dark'
By Adam Toobin | October 15For one night each year, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum leaves the lights on late and opens its doors for college night. Last Thursday, students from Brown, RISD and neighboring colleges attended the diverse exhibitions and performances on display at the museum.
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Jazz group jams at Underground
By Marshall Katheder | October 12There's a rumble at the Underground. Upon approaching this Main Green venue, soft swung notes snake into your ears. You walk, and the bass takes a syncopate stroll. Its low grumble swings fluidly from plucked note to note, keeping pace with the soft clash of the drums.
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Refugee camp theater troupe tours U.S.
By Kristina Fazzalaro | October 12Going to the theater is a privilege often taken for granted in the United States. On campus alone, students can pick and choose the type of show they wish to attend each weekend — musical or play, comedy or drama, original production or reinterpretation. But in Palestine's Jenin refugee camp, ...
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A practice theory of theory and practice
By Suzannah Weiss | October 12It is commonplace for academic disciplines to laud their own integration of theory and practice, as if such a move constituted bridging a gap. But one cannot combine two things that are always already together and which are not even two things.
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Festival celebrates Ibero culture
By Gillian Michaelson | October 6Cultural exploration, self-discovery, immigration, transgender identity and toilet paper come together in the New England Festival of Ibero-American Film Cinema, which runs through Oct. 9. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the festival is screening Ibero-American films ...
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Granoff displays Appalachian adventure
By Marshall Katheder | October 6Michael Mount '12.5 is hungry. Everything at his disposal, including food, exists in his 10-pound bag. It's June 2010, and his slight frame faces the chilling edge of the Arctic Circle. He slogs on, numb-footed in spiked shoes, wielding a small hand ax. Since April he has been heading north, walking ...
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Sinful production 'measures' well
By Alexandra Macfarlane | October 6Turning both "head tricks" and "bed tricks," "Measure for Measure" is offering audiences a stark new look at the classic Shakespeare play in Rebecca Maxfield's '13 production, running this Friday through Monday in the Crystal Room in Alumnae Hall.
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Rock musical at PPAC takes audience back in time
By Caroline Flanagan | October 6"Rock of Ages," the hit Broadway musical that has been making headlines since it debuted in 2006, began its second national tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center Tuesday. A film adaptation is expected in June 2012.
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East Side antiquing: time capsules for the community
By Suzannah Weiss | October 6Time should not be measured in numbers alone — objects reveal the workings of time in where they go, where they came from, what they look like and how they are used. A century-old item in a recently renovated building is enough to remind us that time is not in constant motion, and the past ...
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Wilde drama puts jury on the stand
By Phoebe Nir | October 2"Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde," Sock & Buskin's current production running in Leeds Theater, plays a neat trick. Throughout the course of Wilde's 1895 hearings for sodomy, illegal in England until 1967, Wilde's own letters and literature were seized by his opposition as damning evidence. ...
