Welcome Brown University Class of 2020! Hope you like this blue bear because it’s going to haunt your dreams every single day until you head back out those Van Wickles, even if that takes you five years. “Untitled (Lamp/Bear)” is the title of this painted and lacquered cast bronze piece by Urs Fischer. I suppose …
How cool is this? Still in production, sculptor Nick Bibby’s “Indomitable” — the latest incarnation of Brown’s mascot, the Kodiak bear — is scheduled for installation this fall on the Ittleson Quad at the entrance of the Nelson Fitness Center on Hope Street. The towering bear, created by renowned wildlife sculptor Nick Bibby, is true …
Boy, the Brown students sure picked the wrong week to go home for Christmas. First the Brown victory over PC and now this. Come back everybody, these snowballs* aren’t going to throw themselves. Fun fact: the first Brown University bear mascot — a live bear, in 1905 — was named Helen. *Primo stuff out there.
(9.22) There’s something about a night game. The Brown Bears will be hosting Harvard this Saturday evening. (They won their season opener with Holy Cross, 24-21.) The Brown football stadium on Elmgrove Avenue was not even designed for night games — special lighting has to be installed for these events. This game will even be …
Or, what not to name your band. Enough with the bears already! So far we’ve got Grizzly Bear, Panda Bear, White Bear Balloon, Bloody Pandas, and I don’t know quite how to feel about Minus the Bear. There . . . I just had to get that off my chest . . . and no …
Can I report a statue to the SPCA? It’s bad enough that this poor guy is wearing a collar like those wretched Russian circus bears, but he is clearly quite ill. The statue was donated to Brown University by Theodore Francis Green and is tucked away on Magee Street for fairly obvious reasons.
Tonight is the premiere of A Colbert Christmas:The Greatest Gift of All! — obviously a spoof of the genre. The gold standard in this category is, of course, Pee Wee’s Christmas Special. Judging from the mixed review in The New York Times, this new entry will not knock Pee Wee out of first place. Alessandra …
No Bears! A young black bear (Ursa figawi) has been spotted roaming the western part of the state apparently headed south to the beaches and maybe some clam cakes at George’s. Last seen in Narragansett. Authorities last night said that a clutch of bear gawkers made it too difficult to shoot the bear with a …