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 ...
Welcome to the operating theater. When you’re finished undressing, please lie down on the table and open your legs. In a matter of minutes, you will experience one of the miracles of modern science. For the characters of “In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play,” written by Sarah Ruhl ’97 MFA ...
Starting this month, a Brown student ID can swipe holders into much more than just Chicken Finger Friday — it can provide access to a myriad of arts events downtown. Local performing arts venues, including Trinity Repertory Company and AS220’s 95 Empire have collaborated with the University to ...
Amorphous shadows waltz upon the gossamer backdrop, billowing ever so slightly in the secluded courtyard. The occasional autumnal leaf flutters down to rest upon the stage, where the doomed Antigonus stands alone. One shadow grows larger, then larger, then — suddenly — could it be? A bear erupts ...
Listen to the album “Homesick,” a catchy Motown revival album, and you’ll be transported back to an era when Stevie Wonder dominated the charts and Detroit buzzed with a thriving music scene. Released in January, the EP marks the debut of Clyde Lawrence ’15. The album opens with the bright, ...
The watery blue of a bright sky recedes behind lush gardens and asphalt highways. Strangely intense faces look forward and sideways — both watching and ignoring you. Stories and thoughts travel in wide arcs and boxy texts, in Spanish, French, German and English. The Creative Arts Council displays ...
In a snapshot of a page from a writer’s notebook, strips of text overlapped at perpendicular angles like woven ribbons. The notebook belongs to Lecturer in English Michael Stewart, one of three speakers at the Creative Mind lecture this past Wednesday. The lecture, which took place in the Englander ...
Competition is heating up in Thayer’s pizza ovens. The Flatbread Company, with locations across New England and Hawaii, will open a restaurant on Cushing Street this November. Flatbread was first established in Amesbury, Mass., by friends Jay Gould P’17 and John Meehan, who sought to make pizza ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri offered insight into her work at an event hosted by the University bookstore Sunday afternoon. The celebrated writer read from her newly-released novel, “The Lowland,” and discussed her approach to writing with poet William Corbett in front of a packed ...
"We should all just put a sign on ourselves, tell the world what’s wrong with us.” After a summer of alien invasions and bromances everyone saw coming, the previews and press coverage of “Enough Said” tantalized audiences with the idea of an intricate adult drama devoid of the inevitability ...
Jerry Seinfeld opined on the nature of nudity during a monologue in the Seinfeld episode, “The Truth.” “When you have clothes on, you can always kind of make those little adjustments … but when you’re naked it’s like it’s so final — you’re, well, that’s it. There’s nothing else ...
After being discovered by Glee casting director Robert Ulrich on a plane home from college visits, Michael Weisman ’17 competed in the second season of the “The Glee Project,” which aired on Oxygen last summer. Three months of on-set life and stressful competition were edited into eleven television ...
The categorization of noise rock as a genre contradicts its most basic essence: to spill out of the bounds of musical theory and uproot everything it stands for. If tempo, tonality and scale comprise the skeletal structure of music, noise rock — a musical movement with a rich local history — jumps ...
History has shown propaganda to be a powerful force — for one country, it even helped to bring down a dictator. This power was explored in a screening of the film “NO” at Avon Cinema Thursday night, in honor of this year’s 40th anniversary of the military coup that took down Chilean President ...
Professor of Comparative Literature Arnold Weinstein, celebrated on College Hill for his insight into the seminal works of Faulkner and Proust, did not name a novel as his favorite book of 2013. Instead, he praised political journalist George Packer’s “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New ...
Though art and science often appear contradictory, students in two new classes this semester will have the chance to explore both forms, with some using animation to explain basic science concepts and others exploring the physiological benefits of dance. In VISA 1800: “Communicating Science” and ...
As summer turns to fall and the temperature outside takes its yearly dip into sweater weather, many people’s first instinct may be to retreat to the warmth of their dorms and apartments. But autumn is also the season when New England comes alive with distinctive cultural attractions. From scenic drives ...
A clear voice echoed through the dimly lit room as a crowd of students sat with all eyes on the spotlit performer alone on the stage. One absorbed audience member tapped his foot along to the rhythmic acoustic chords. Brown Unheard, a student music organization, held its first official event of the ...
Brian Cross ’12 will make his Broadway debut alongside Mary-Louise Parker in “The Snow Geese” Oct. 24, but only a few years ago, Cross was deeply entrenched in the theater community on campus and taking a range of roles — once even playing a pig for course credit. “While directing and acting ...
From Samuel Bridgham 1794 to Joseph Paolino, Providence mayors are part of a long tradition of mayoral portraits. Money raised through fundraising, private donations and grants over the past year have allowed for the restoration of 13 of these portraits, completing the collection of 32 artworks now ...
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