Arts & Culture

'Concert lecture' examines modern Middle Eastern life

StorySlam turns humiliation into humor

Cable Car says 'salut' to French film fest

The world is going to end — and very soon. That is the problem Robinson, a French bathtub salesman, faces in the film "Les derniers jours du monde" (Happy Ends), which premiered Thursday night at the Cable Car Cinema. Robinson greets this looming global end with sexually ecstatic fury, leaving his ...

Same-sex pairs liven ballroom dancing

J. Ellen Gainor, professor of theater and associate dean of the graduate school at Cornell, asked an audience of mostly graduate students and faculty to consider the "broad cultural repercussions" of same-sex ballroom dancing during her talk Friday in Lyman Hall.

Criss Cross crosses genres at AS220

"What happens if no one shows up?" 

Alum uses dance as 'artistic ambassador'

The performing arts are an almost universal language that can build a bridge between China and the rest of the world, Alison Friedman '02 told a small audience in Petteruti Lounge in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center Wednesday. 

Navajo poet draws on heritage

"The poem is in my body, so in the process of reading it I try to draw it out," said Native American poet Sherwin Bitsui to a crowd of about 50 at the McCormack Family Theater Thursday. The poetry reading and question and answer session that followed were part of the second installment of the Writers ...

Festival connects art and technology

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Puppets illuminate stories of genocide

Lecture turns back time on Chinese art

Lupo's feels the funk Friday night

Times music critic chronicles career path

Hay exhibit rings in Chinese New Year

The John Hay Library's steps were lined with Chinese lanterns and its lobby was filled with the smell of dumplings Monday. The phrases "may everything go your way" and "may you be prosperous" were displayed on papier mache Chinese dragons to welcome guests to the Chinese Lantern Festival Gallery Walk, ...

Trinity Rep adds music to 'Merchant'

Anti-Semitism and light-hearted love stories are odd themes to share a stage, but the cast of Trinity Repertory Company shows why "The Merchant of Venice" still packs a centuries-old  punch.

"Trigger Hand" puts new spin on addiction

Prof's debut novel tells of music and memory

On the eve of World War I, tap dancer Lizzie Winrow and her accompanying jazz musician Osceola Turner live in Charleston, S.C., with dreams of making it big. Their journey to success proves difficult when they lose the money they have been saving and Ossie enlists to fight in Europe, where he thinks ...

First plays showcase new group's talent

Flawless beauty takes tremendous work — at least, that is the message conveyed in "Opus" by Michael Hollinger and "Speed-the-Plow" by David Mamet, the first plays to be produced by the Repertory Project, an independent theater group headed by Emma Johnson '14 and Skylar Fox '15. Both plays, by ...

Jazz show energizes older generation

Rhode Island jazz fans packed the Grant Recital Hall Sunday afternoon to hear world-renowned trombonist and Rhode Island native George Masso jam out with Paul Nagel on piano, Marty Ballou on bass, Steve DeConti on guitar, Bruce Abbott on saxophone and Paul Mason, teaching associate in the music department, ...

Seminar designs exhibit for Chinese New Year

In celebration of the Chinese New Year that began two weeks ago, a new exhibit on display in the inner lobby of List Art Center showcases a collection of images — meant to ward off evil and bring good luck in the coming year — to herald the Year of the Dragon.

Postcards mark sights and stories of city

Brunonians looking to soak in the spirit of Providence now do not have to venture far from College Hill. The Postcard Project, currently on display on small shelves lining two walls in the lower level of the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, is a collection of postcards featuring ...