(4.27) The students at RISD and Brown have taken over Benefit Street (from Waterman to College) for a spring lawn party complete with live music, a 21+ beer garden up on Frazier Terrace, with good, clean fun like badminton and throw the bean bag into the thingy on the lush, green Benefit Street turf. The […]
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.
NOV 29 | Lecture: Maureen Cummins, Artist as Archivist. Free and open to the Public. John Carter Brown Library on the Brown University Main Green, MacMillan Reading Room, 6:00 p.m. Refreshments served. Maureen Cummins will give a slide presentation of her work over the past two decades, which has involved the production of over thirty limited
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(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
(4.4) Brown junior Jared Moffat sends along this notice. Brown University’s Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) chapter and the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights will be moderating a panel discussion on medical marijuana. The event is open to the public. The speakers will comment on the three “compassion centers” — medical marijuana
Except maybe . . . art. ART // SHOW at the Granoff Center is organized by the students of The Art of Curating with support from the Granoff Center and Brown’s Department of Modern Culture and Media. This enormous shopping cart fabricated by RISD MFA candidate Anna Huemmer stands nine feet tall. Called “Baby Phat”
An ambitious new production coming up at Brown University: Starting on Thursday, March 1st, the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (TAPS), Sock & Buskin, and Brownbrokers will be presenting We Can Rebuild Him, a new musical written by Deepali Gupta (’12) and directed by Brown/Trinity MFA candidate Talya Klein. The original score written
There’s been a lot of talk in the news lately about gay suicide, and while I have kind of mixed feelings about the media’s panicky sensationalism (and posting that poor Rutgers guy’s terribly awkward photo on the cover of every magazine in America), I think we can all agree that teen suicide is never a
Everyone else should avoid driving around the East Side today. The Brown Commencement activities will involve Thayer and Waterman Streets, heading down the hill to the First Baptist Church on North Main Street. What they won’t involve is Nelson Mandela who will be accepting his honorary degree in absentia. The role of Nelson Mandela will
The Black Lavender Experience kicks off with a Brown Pride Month convocation performance by Mangos with Chili. Founded in 2006 by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ms. Cherry Galette, Mangos with Chili is a touring cabaret of queer and trans people-of-color performance artists, offering unforgettable performance in celebration of their lives, stories, survival, and the legacies
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“For every eight public dollars spent on transportation, only one goes to public transit; the other seven dollars go to car-related needs.” I finished her book this weekend. It was great. Close your eyes and learn at the same time on Wednesday afternoon: Catherine Lutz, professor and chair of anthropology at Brown, will discuss her
If you can get behind the artfulness of food, Nina Simone, or the dispersion of collectivity and the redensification of that collectivity through technology, or, alternatively, were going to eat food at some point this evening, this one’s for you. You’ve been graciously invited to step up your game tonight, circa 6 pm. Brown senior
Sister Spit, a legendary-in-certain-circles group of writers and performance artists, is in town today and tomorrow. Led by the eternally awesome Michelle Tea, the raggle-taggle group of wordy gypsies will be hosting workshops at Brown starting, like, an hour from now, and continuing through tomorrow night. Sister Spit was founded in 1997 as a means
Online-only, literary mag Wag’s Revue just launched their third issue since March, when the four editors were seniors at Brown, and errant friends and housemates of mine. The issue includes an interview with George Saunders; a short story by Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish; a nonfiction rainbow of words, marshmallow Peeps, comics, video and
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.