Making a good movie about slavery is no easy task. Achieving historical accuracy demands a disturbing portrayal of brutality and injustice. Contemporary audiences seek entertainment and inspiration. “12 Years a Slave” skillfully walks this line, combining a stirring personal narrative with realistic ...
Cramming was a requirement — not a sleep-depriving reflection of poor time management — for the student artists and curators in this year’s MESH art show, sponsored by the Student Creative Arts Council. The annual art-creation-and-organization event was contained within a 24-hour period for the ...
Kevin Allison’s traveling show RISK! goes where most dare not — providing a forum for storytellers to cross conventional boundaries and share intimate stories they would otherwise never think to express in public. The Brown-RISD event Saturday night in MacMillan 117 included a range of stories chosen ...
Last April, New York Times best selling author Meg Wolitzer ’81 published her ninth novel, “The Interestings,” which won an Amazon Best Book of the Month. The book follows the lives of an artistically talented group that meets as teenagers at summer camp, where they face the challenges of pursuing ...
“Life — real life — as the way life enfolds, is never as you imagine it,” award-winning author Jamaica Kincaid told a packed auditorium in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. “And all that must come must contain right now.” Kincaid spoke Thursday on topics ranging ...
The red glow of Netflix is a familiar greeting to procrastinators seeking refuge in the warm embrace of “30 Rock.” Online content on demand with no commercial interruptions — this is the model of television consumption that has loomed large in public discourse about media over the last year. ...
Should you find yourself at Production Workshop this weekend, expect to be touched — literally. This is not meant to alarm. The caresses are encouraging, the embraces gentle. Viewers are also likely to be hit on, laughed at, danced with and offered a joint. But don’t get your hopes up — these ...
In her recent film “The Other Half of Tomorrow,” author and director Sadia Shepard examines the lives of Pakistani women determined to foster change in their homeland. In advance of her Nov. 6 appearance at Brown for the screening of her film, Shepard spoke to The Herald about her experiences making ...
Ninety years of singing, songwriting and musical poetry are surely deserving of a birthday party. Four well-known opera singers and pianists from the New York Festival of Song gave Ned Rorem, the famed American composer and Pulitzer Prize-winner, such a celebration Friday. In a concert in the Martinos ...
A glance around the newest exhibit at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts can be disorienting. With a miniature bike rack across the room from equestrian-inspired sketches and images of stars and fish, the display could at first be mistaken for a child’s show. This may be part ...
In the scene that gives “A Streetcar Named Desire” its famous name, Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle fallen on hard times, chastises her sister Stella for marrying a man Blanche deems too common. “What you are talking about is brutal desire — just — Desire! — the name of that rattle-trap ...
Hollywood is in the age of the ensemble cast. One need only look at a critic’s shortlist of upcoming films to see that — together, “American Hustle,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Monuments Men” feature 14 actors previously nominated for Oscars. It is almost inconceivable that a ...
The Brown Student Association and the Student Activities Office, in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Bartending, are now offering bartending courses on campus. The course, a two-day program held in the Underground, was offered this past weekend and will be offered again in November, said ...
The sounds of “Psychic” — the debut original album of Darkside, a collaboration between Nicolas Jaar ’12 and David Harrington ’09 — drift over listeners like a dense fog, rendering the songs not indistinguishable, but confused and blurry. “I know this is music, but what happened to it?” ...
In a contemporary gallery known for its clean cut lines and vast blank walls, one may be surprised to find an intricate set of traditional silver and an ethereal portrait of a woman in a pink ballgown. But together, this arrangement of historical artwork in a modern venue tells the story of a nation. “Making ...
On a crowded Saturday night at Apsara Palace Restaurant, a steady stream of patrons winds its way through tables of diners to the counter in the back corner, where a smiling woman forks over bags of food and tells other hungry customers to come back in 45 minutes for a table. Variations on “Sorry ...
Haven Brothers Diner may not break the bank, but it could certainly break your belt. While the famous institution serves an impressive variety of fried foods — from diner classics to gluttonous innovations — none of its entrees are for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. Housed in an old-school ...
Easy to miss among the bevy of eateries on Weybosset Street, UMelt might be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Specializing in gourmet grilled cheeses, from classic to quirky, UMelt boasts a casual atmosphere and a pleasant staff. UMelt, whose original location in Kingston made it popular with ...
Take a moment to recall finger-painting in preschool. The paint streaks on T-shirts, foreheads and friends — remember the chaos, the joy of working with bare hands. Fast forward to now, when these simpler times seem all but gone. Luckily, a portal to this past exists. It is called finger-eating, ...
In a New York Times story earlier this month, food critic Pete Wells noted what should be considered a universal truth — tacos, and Mexican cuisine in general, are better enjoyed not in an upscale restaurant but at a hole-in-the wall joint run by a no-frills kitchen. Mexican food has long been a ...
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