Algerian-born French intellectual Helene Cixous sat down last night and shouted. “First one cries,” she declared to a crowded Friedman Auditorium. “Then one writes.” So began an evening of poetic meditation, literary discourse and personal introspection with one of world literature’s most ...
Early in Quiara Alegria Hudes’ MFA’04 provocative play “Water by the Spoonful,” Yazmin Ortiz — an underpaid adjunct professor trying to infuse her Swarthmore College classroom with free jazz and “muzak” — instructs her students to go home and remember the first time they noticed musical ...
Telephone wires, loosely threaded through the streetlights studding a Jersey highway, crosshatch into the distance across a marbled grey sky. A TV dinner tray, its meat and vegetable portions neatly compartmentalized, sits crooked on a stovetop in a messy kitchen. At first glance, the photographs of ...
“I invited my friend to the show yesterday. She said, ‘Oh my god, there’ve been Brown Stand-Ups for 100 years?’” said Yotam Tubul ’14 in the opening act of the spoof “centennial anniversary” of Brown Stand-Up Comics. “No! There haven’t even been jokes for 100 years. You know how ...
Death by drowning is a familiar aesthetic preoccupation. Wading beneath the willow tree with Ophelia, floating with Hokusai in the shadow of Mount Fuji or chasing the white whale with Captain Ahab, readers have been here before. “Drown thyself?” Iago asks in William Shakespeare’s “Othello.” ...
Will Barnet ’12 has been making a name for himself in the Big Apple with a distinctive solo act, infusing canonical Shakespearean verse with the attention-grabbing energy of street performance. For over a year, Barnet has been performing Shakespeare on request around the city — frequenting such ...
When a restaurant boasts mastery of the cuisines of three continents, there are bound to be hits, misses and one or two dishes that border on bizarre. Such is the case with Gemini Bar and Grill — the restaurant that opened this summer in the Waterman Street space previously occupied by Spice Thai ...
Following a string of summer building renovations, the University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture continues to welcome change with the appointment of three new professors. The new faculty, Assistant Professors of History of Art and Architecture Courtney Martin and Itohan Osayimwese ...
With the recent departure of curator Ian Alden Russell, the David Winton Bell Gallery in List Art Center has embarked on a search for a new curator to select and maintain pieces for the gallery. Gallery Director Jo-Ann Conklin is spearheading the search. In the past, curators have stayed on the job ...
College, that liminal space between childhood and adulthood, steeps students in complex social interactions as well as academic pursuits. Theatrical productions on campus this fall will speak to relationships and human connections, exploring questions of identity and separation from the past. “Water ...
When it comes to vodka, there is more to know than if you prefer it on the rocks or with cranberry juice. The Herald recently interviewed Professor Emerita of History Patricia Herlihy to discuss the contents of and thought process behind her latest book, “Vodka: A Global History.” Q: What ...
Persistent violence is not a standard precondition for the growth of an internationally acclaimed theater company. But perhaps military conflict makes urgent the need for theater as a space for ideas about political agency and human dignity to reflect and refract one another. This is the basic belief ...
It is easy to walk through campus without a thought to the masterminds behind the buildings that shape the landscape of College Hill. But several core structures were designed by stars of the architectural field — referred to as ‘starchitects’ — who implemented innovative ideas of their ...
Centuries ago, the colony that would become the state of Rhode Island earned the nickname the “lively experiment” — a title stemming from the 1663 charter’s unusual nature and stance on government. In honor of that document’s 350th anniversary, the official Charter Museum opened at the ...
Western relations with North Korea have long been fraught, with multiple American citizens having been held captive in high-profile cases and State Department officials repeatedly being denied entry to the country. But, as an alum’s recent documentary demonstrates, American civilian access to the ...
What better way to blow off fall semester steam than by dancing the night away close to home? Though Boston consistently offers top-notch lineups, local music venues such as the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, the Met in Pawtucket and Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel in Providence will all offer ...
Alas, the weekend of revelry comes to a close. The Main Green lies worn and muddied from the foot stomping of thousands of Brunonians. The stage is dismantled and the Ratty un-Fratty’d. As students wander wearily back to the libraries, the time has come to reflect on a Spring Weekend lineup that ...
Fresh off her booty-poppin’ Spring Weekend set Friday, New Orleans bounce star Big Freedia, the Queen Diva herself, sat down with The Herald to talk about her music, performing live and the non-discriminatory dance party that is her life. The critics have had plenty to say about the kind ...
As students gear up for Spring Weekend with colorful tanks, kegs and perhaps — given Saturday’s forecast — rain ponchos, their attention is turning to the main event — a two-day musical extravaganza on the Main Green. This year’s lineup features DJ A-Trak and rapper Kendrick Lamar headlining ...
The Herald: The first question, which is something I’ve always wondered — Is Wes Craven the name that you were born with? Craven: Yes. I think it’s such a perfect horror name. Why is that? People always say that. Because Craven is close to The Raven, I think. So, have you been ...
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