At America’s fourth-oldest library: Wednesday, 10/31 at noon: Poet Brett Rutherford’s Annual Homage to the Eerie and the Ineffable: Readings for Hallowe’en (for grown-ups). Bring a bag lunch and all your bravery – prepare to be scared! Brett will also launch his two new books, which will be available for sale and signing, both perfectly […]
Ian tells us that, for some reason or another, Al Franken will be at Blue State Coffee on Thayer tomorrow, from 3-4:30.
The Athenaeum’s excellent salon series continues this week. (For members and members’ guests only — But all the salon wine and goodies alone more than cover the cost of membership.) Fri 10/26, 5 – 7pm: SALON – Matthew Lawrence, creator of the multidisciplinary installation The Library Show and Anna Shapiro, Director of Firehouse 13, site
The Brown Student Labor Alliance and I are hosting an organizing training tonight, open to whoever cares to come: On Thursday at 6:30 in Wilson 105 on Brown’s main green we’re doing an organizing workshop with Sarah Flocks, co-founder of Young Workers United. YWU is an awesome group out of San Fran that helps organize
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This Friday Oct. 26, the Providence Zombie Film Festival commences with a lecture by Max Brooks, New York Times best-sellling author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and The Zombie Survival Guide. The festival runs through Halloween. They’ve got some real gems on the line up and tickets are free.
In a recent Q&A session given to at a packed house in Carnegie Hall, Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling announced that Albus Dumbledore was, in fact, gay. Tara Weingarten has the scoop in a Newsweek web exclusive: One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had
The Providence Geeks’ next dinner is tomorrow, Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 7 – 10pm, at AS220: Coming on the heels of September’s Geek Dinner blowout, we’ve got another great evening lined up. Joshua Gold, co-founder of Warwick-based Domodomain, will be presenting his company’s web-based sales & marketing intelligence solution of the same name. Domodomain has
There’s a lot going on at Brown this week. Check out the calendar for everything, but in there early part of the week, there’s this: Monday, 8:30-10PM Blood Diamond Macmillan 117 Come watch the movie Blood Diamond and engage in a follow up discussion about current issues involving child soldiers in Africa. Sponsored by Uganda
On Thursday the Brown Environmental Action Network will be hosting a reading and talk by Bob Whitcomb, Projo editorial editor, and author of Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound. It’s free, and open to everybody. Macmillan Hall, Room 117, 7pm. (On Thayer St., just north
The first in a new series of multimedia performances by poets affiliated with Brown University’s electronic writing community takes place tonight at Firehouse 13. The program will feature, obviously, poetry along with film and experimental sounds, small press books and “poetry that will make your already-glowing WILL actually flicker 2-dimensionally”. Hey, that’s what last night’s
Matt has a post on the hodgepodge of happenings at Brown this week, which include: the director of City of God; former presidents of Brazil and Chile; Dr. Ruth; the future of biotechnology, and more.