Katherine Long
Gambino only glitch in strong lineup
By Katherine Long | April 22On a very summery Main Green, Spring Weekend laid forth its mottled bounty. Friday's concert, featuring What Cheer? Brigade, Sepalcure and Childish Gambino, was characterized by tough crowds straining to catch a glimpse of Gambino's altogether bland performance. But Saturday's musicians - Twin Shadow, ...
True to tradition, BSA site crashes
By Katherine Long | April 4For the third year in a row, malicious outside activity may have caused the massive failure of the Brown Marketplace as students attempted to purchase Spring Weekend tickets yesterday, said Mike Caron '12, director of the Brown Student Agencies management team. The Brown Concert Agency made tickets ...
Rock group added to BCA spring lineup
By Katherine Long | April 1The Brown Concert Agency announced a surprise addition to the Spring Weekend lineup on their website last night. Rock group the Walkmen will play Saturday night of Spring Weekend in between rapper Cam'ron and electronic outfit the Glitch Mob, according to BCA Co-Chair Gillian Brassil '12.
Reactions to BCA lineup mixed
By Katherine Long | April 1Student response to the Spring Weekend lineup has been mixed. Many students have complained that they are not familiar with the performers, while some who know the bands have expressed enthusiasm. The lineup includes electronic acts the Glitch Mob, Sepalcure and Twin Shadow, hip hop artists Childish ...
Mythic plays leave audiences spellbound
By Katherine Long | March 21The Techno-Mythologies Project - two plays written and directed by Ioana Jucan '11 GS and Robert Snyderman GS - is overwhelmingly dense with meaning. To break through the plays' idiosyncrasies and begin to comprehend what Jucan and Snyderman are trying to evoke, you might want to do a little pre-play ...
BCA announces Spring Weekend lineup
By Katherine Long | March 20In response to student demand for up-tempo electronic artists, the Brown Concert Agency announced a Spring Weekend lineup heavy on dance music today. Providence brass band What Cheer? Brigade and understated electronic duo Sepalcure will join Childish Gambino at the Friday performance April 20, while ...
Festival features persecuted writers
By Katherine Long | March 15Art as Sin, the International Writers Project's annual cultural festival, is packed with big names from Iranian cinema, literature and poetry in honor of the Iranian heritage of 2011-12 project fellow poet Pegah Ahmadi. The festival began Monday and culminates today with a screening of Iranian director ...
Dual Degree show indulges disarray
By Katherine Long | March 1If Basket|Case is anything like the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program, it calls into question the sanity of whomever thought allowing students to earn degrees from both schools at the same time was a good idea.
Proposal for civil rights library under advisement
By Katherine Long | February 22Though Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 declined a proposal Monday to fund an on-campus Civil Rights Library for Racial Justice, he gave the project's supporters a "detailed message of how to move forward," said Geoffrey Eaton, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's ...