Persevering on its quest to spread “nutritious, thick and creamy jams across Providence,” student band Young Hummus will play at downtown music venue Aurora Sunday. The band is composed of hummus cognoscenti Noah Goodman ’18 (also known as Gooey Noodleman) and James Wenz ’18 (Jim Bag), both ...
Joe Morgenstern, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and award-winning film critic, delivered the 16th Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture at the Faculty Club Monday. The annual lecture serves to honor the memory of Casey Shearer ’00, a promising young writer who died a few days before his graduation. A film critic ...
“I’d love to get Conner to the point where he’s just kind of everywhere … like oxygen or gravity or clinical depression,” said Sarah Silverman, who plays Paula, publicist for music’s hottest star of the moment, Conner4Real, in the upcoming film, “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.” The ...
“In my kingdom there is but one law: Do not love. It is a sin,” says Emily Blunt, starring as Freya, the Ice Queen, in “The Huntsman: Winter’s War.” The upcoming film is a spin-off sequel to the 2012 movie, “Snow White and the Huntsman.” While the film features characters reprising their ...
Sock and Buskin’s “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play” lights up the stage with superb acting, powerful commentary and candle lighting. Opening Thursday and running through April 18 in the intimate Leeds Theater, the production, directed by Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Professor Connie Crawford, ...
I still remember my most unusual — and potentially most embarrassing — Halloween costume. I was 10 or 11, and my movie-obsessed friends thought there would be nothing more clever than to glue a large slab of black cardboard to our shirts, stick half-eaten popcorn and spilled-drink containers to ...
Martinos Auditorium at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts hosted the “The Audience in Revolt: Gender, Race and Representation in Hollywood,” a panel discussion Friday about diversity in Hollywood sponsored by the Ivy Film Festival and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. The ...
When actor Robert De Niro took the stage at the Salomon Center Thursday night, the focus was not on him, but on another Robert De Niro. The Ivy Film Festival’s third night of programming centered on Robert De Niro Sr. with a screening of “Remembering the Artist Robert De Niro Sr.,” a documentary ...
In a celebration of culture, history and identity, the Latino Heritage Series will host the annual Latino Gala through the Brown Center for Students of Color Friday in Sayles Hall. The theme, “The Beauty of Our Roots: Rewriting the Narrative,” was conceptualized with the intent of empowering Latinx ...
The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts will play host to a piece of history next week with the arrival of Shakespeare’s First Folio. The book comes to Brown as part of “First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,” an exhibit created by the Folger Shakespeare Library in honor of the 400th ...
Justin Bieber and Zadie Smith have more in common than one might think. The critically acclaimed British author walked onto the stage in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts’ Martinos Auditorium Tuesday and announced that Bieber recently said he does not want to participate in any meet-and-greets. ...
Casually gracing the stage in a hoodie and motorcycle boots, Jodie Foster presents herself as anything but a blockbuster celebrity who has been in the national spotlight since childhood. Tuesday morning, the Academy Award winner sat down with Ivy Film Festival Managing Director Oakley Friedberg ’17 ...
The 16th annual Ivy Film Festival kicks off today with keynote speaker Jodie Foster at 11:45 a.m. at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The IFF, the world’s largest student-run film festival, expanded this year to include satellite festivals at all eight Ivies as well as New York University ...
Berlin welcomed a group of students with ties to the German Studies Department and the Brown Jazz Band over spring break last week. Senior Lecturer in German Studies Jane Sokolosky led the former group while Matt McGarrell, senior lecturer in music, directed the band. Two other classes made the journey ...
Weezer’s latest album “White Album,” released April 1, hearkens back to California circa 2002. The opening song, “California Kids,” sounds exactly like an anthem for MTV’s reality show “The Hills.” Its upbeat, beachy vibes are reminiscent of songs played in the background while Lauren ...
Musicians from Silversun Pickups, Foals and Bear Hands closed out WBRU’s April Fools’ Bash Friday at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, embracing the members of headliner Cage the Elephant on stage. The four bands celebrated not only the final song of the evening but also of their joint month-long, national ...
Brooklyn-based indie rock quartet Bear Hands opened WBRU’s April Fools’ Bash Friday. The tour prefaced the debut of the group’s upcoming album, “You’ll Pay for This,” which is set to be released April 15. Guitarist and keyboardist Ted Feldman sat down with The Herald to talk about the new ...
Silversun Pickups will touch down in Providence April 1 to play at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center along with Bear Hands, Cage the Elephant and Foals. Nikki Monninger, the bassist of Silversun Pickups, said the band is excited to play with fellow indie artists. “It’s always fun to play with bands we ...
Tucked away in a bread box-sized storefront just off College Hill, Ellie’s Bakery, a Parisian-inspired bake shop, is commemorating the arrival of spring with its Easter celebration menu. With a staff barely the size of a “baker’s dozen,” according to manager Max Hodge, Ellie’s Bakery has carved ...
“I tried to unlearn all that I knew about what manhood means,” said Marc Peters, men’s health coordinator, as he discussed being a male feminist and how men can abuse this label to commit violence against women. Peters spoke during the event “Men’s Story Project: Looking Within, Speaking Out,” ...
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