The growing popularity of the creative writing degree over the last 50 years has come with a growing critique of the institutionalization of writing. This discourse has often circled back to the same question: Can writing be taught?
Every Wednesday, students and faculty of the Brown-Rhode Island School of Design community gather to appreciate the art of glassmaking at RISD’s “Hotnights,” a program held by RISD’s glass department with a new visiting artist each week.
In Angie Cruz’s latest novel “How Not to Drown In a Glass of Water,” protagonist Cara Romero explains that, in Spanish, “desahogar” means “to drown, to cry until you don’t need to cry anymore.” The story follows Cara’s attempt to “undrown” over the course of twelve ...
Netflix has made recent efforts to increase Indian representation in its content with the third season of Mindy Kaling’s teen dramedy “Never Have I Ever” and the second season of the infamous reality series “Indian Matchmaking” both hitting the streaming service last month. But, representation ...
Manny Quezada ’23.5 learned the basics of DJing from his best friend while attending high school in New York. He was quickly hooked – he soon purchased a controller, a device DJs use to mix music, and began practicing on his own, using his experience in guitar and piano to shape his craft. ...
Over 175 students flocked to MacMillan Hall Friday for the “Big Comedy Feast” — a show hosted by comedy groups and publications across campus. Starla and Sons, Out of Bounds Sketch Comedy, IMPROVidence, Brown/RISD Stand Up Comics, The Rib and The Brown Noser performed with satirical flair to ...
Look into the headlines too deeply, and you will quickly become a film pessimist calling cinema a lost cause. But sometimes it can be best to just move beyond the noise, make your way to a real movie theater with popcorn and an Icee and see a movie that you know nothing about but will inevitably ...
When you first walk into the studio of Rena Jiang ’23, it feels like you’re there to see an old friend. Though dotted with tattooing equipment, the space is far from clinical; an open skylight and window let in the breeze of a fall day, and the white wood walls create a cozy atmosphere. Sitting ...
Director Olivia Wilde and her film, “Don’t Worry Darling,” can’t get a break from the headlines; there are rumors that lead actress Florence Pugh
The 80s had “Heathers,” the 90s had “Clueless” and the 2000s had “Mean Girls.” These films defined their generations with their distinctive and sometimes unrealistic portrayal of teens of the time, becoming the blueprint for the high school romance genre.
On Friday, the Bell and Cohen Galleries unveiled the traveling exhibition “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” which features artists who have either been or are incarcerated, as well as those whose work aims to shed light on the realities of incarceration.
The paintings were made with the help of various materials and utensils to a soundscape that included fragments of pop songs and compass directions.
This August, we saw the return of the lovable yet frequently infuriating Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) in Mindy Kaling’s Netflix original “Never Have I Ever.” Between more love triangles than one can count on their fingers and a range of emotional breakdowns, Devi’s third ...
It’s no secret that the last decade has been a slow descent into complete creative bankruptcy for Disney. The studio that once made dreams come true now lays out smorgasbords of uninspired, unoriginal content ranging from botched Marvel sequels to live-action remakes of Disney classics that feel ...
Fitt Artist-in-Residence Jazzmen Lee-Johnson MA ’15 spoke Thursday evening about her recent exhibition, “Not Ever More,” at a talk hosted by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Lee-Johnson’s work is “informed by a yearning to understand how ...
Netflix is known for producing a slew of romantic comedies of questionable quality — think “The Kissing Booth” — which become fun, bad binge watches. Unfortunately, “Love in the Villa,” released on Netflix Sept. 1, falls short of even that category, delivering a bad and boring viewing ...
Over three years after the severely suboptimal finale of “Game of Thrones,” the battle for the seven kingdoms has returned to HBO — with a completely different timeline and cast. Some names are familiar — Targaryen, for instance, is the show’s central house — while others have been added ...
If you didn’t know that a Netflix movie titled “I Came By” was released a little over a week ago, you would not be alone. Netflix seems to have adopted a quantity-over-quality release strategy, producing as much content as they can with the least amount of marketing possible. If a film ...
On Friday, Ali Sethi — a Pakistani singer, songwriter and author — performed at the inauguration of the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia, a new center at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Sethi shared the stage with musicians Shayna Esther Dunkelman and Grey ...
“End of the Road” could have been the next great roadtrip action-thriller movie — it has a stellar cast, including Queen Latifah and Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges, intriguing scenery and a strong premise. But the pacing and script ultimately led this Netflix original film to be 90 minutes ...
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