Emma Wohl

Brazilians stay hostile to Republican foreign policy

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Novelist explores Dominican identity

"You have different masks, depending on who you're talking to," author, professor and activist Junot Diaz told an audience that filled Salomon 101 Saturday night in the keynote address of the National Dominican Student Conference.

Chronicling a never-ending plunge into grief

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance - we are taught to think of grief as a rationally ordered journey that progresses through five stages with relief at the end.

Recapturing Monet, with a modern twist

"I want to paint the air," said Impressionist painter Claude Monet in 1895. "And that is nothing short of impossible." He was drawing a contrast between the artists of his day who only wanted to replicate objects they saw and those — like himself — who wanted to capture less tangible aspects ...

With panini and pastry, Olga's delights

After 375 years, Providence still rocking

Providence Mayor Angel Taveras may disagree with a number of people on a variety of issues — public school teachers on their contracts, city drivers on the cost of parking. But as he demonstrated Nov. 22 with the event Hey Providence, It's Your Birthday! Celebrate 375 Years, held at Providence ...

'Future of chamber music' departs from norm, but not from tradition

The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts played host to a series of firsts Saturday night as string quartet Brooklyn Rider took to the stage in the Martinos Auditorium.

Libraries explore digitization

When a court order halted Google's efforts to digitize every book in the world last March, a number of institutions and non-profit organizations stepped in to take on the project.

Econ caps spur black market controversy

After failing to preregister for two newly capped advanced economics courses, Bradley Silverman '13, facing unexpected barriers to entry, decided to circumvent the regulations governing seats in those classes. Standing in Lecturer in Economics Maria Carkovic's class ECON1540: "International Trade," ...

Female directors dominate fall theater

Strong women take center stage and run the show at Production Workshop and on the Main Stage in the upcoming semester of student theater.