Kristina Fazzalaro

Times music critic chronicles career path

Menu becomes bestiary at Federal Hill's eclectic Julian's

Joyce adaptation explores emotion, loss

What does it mean to be truly touched? In our desensitized society — where we are constantly bombarded with Twitter updates, YouTube videos and overly revealing photographs — do we ever actually feel? "Dead City," Sheila Callaghan's modern riff on James Joyce's "Ulysses," explores this theme ...

Ripping Berlusconi, Italian author cracks up audience

"Italian politics in the last several years reminds me of a spaghetti version of Mel Brooks' ‘Blazing Saddles' — everything goes," said famed Italian journalist and author Giuseppe Severgnini last night to a packed crowd in Smith-Buonanno Hall. Severgnini visited the University to discuss ...

With quirk and funk, motherly only in name

Like the newspaper itself, the logo of the free monthly publication Mothers News is undeniably unique.

Refugee camp theater troupe tours U.S.

Going to the theater is a privilege often taken for granted in the United States. On campus alone, students can pick and choose the type of show they wish to attend each weekend — musical or play, comedy or drama, original production or reinterpretation. But in Palestine's Jenin refugee camp, ...

Empty seats and dubstep beats at free Fall Concert

Amidst confused and opportunistic WaterFire attendees, Brown students filtered into the intimate Rhode Island School of Design Auditorium Saturday night to hear psychedelic crooning and dubstep beats at Brown Concert Agency's annual Fall Concert.

With cheap artists, Fall Concert goes free

The Brown Concert Agency's Fall Concert this Saturday will be an unprecedented event — and not necessarily because of the dub-stepping talents of Starkey or the psychedelic strumming of Real Estate. The real surprise for students this time around is the ticket price: gratis, frei, free.

Good girls make bad choices in alums' film

"Who sits around boarding school obeying every rule?" According to "Tanner Hall," a new film by Tatiana von Furstenberg '91 and Francesca Gregorini '90 opening tonight in Warwick, no one does.

Grit over glitz: in defense of student theater

One stage is nearly bare, constructed of metal pipes and plywood. The lighting sharply illuminates the actors' faces — faces seemingly too fresh to dig into the hearts of the characters they portray. They are dressed in black, they wear the same sandals on their feet — only the subtlest ...