It was Fairfield before Richmond, and traveling northwest to Notre Dame and finally landing in Kingston that defined Jenna Slowey’s journey. The University of Rhode Island’s brand new women’s lacrosse team brought in Slowey to head the Rams team that will begin play in 2025. The team hired Slowey in July of 2022, three years…
URI Women’s Club Hockey finished their three-game weekend with a Sunday morning victory against the University of Delaware at Boss Ice Arena. The Rams played a strong game on both sides of the ice, scoring in every period while also recording a shutout. Midway through the first period, Bella Bonfiglio started the scoring after a…
You can’t talk about the University of Rhode Island women’s rowing team without talking about head coach Shelagh Donohoe. Donohoe is a decorated former rower, winning the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. During her 18-year coaching career, she has led the URI program to six National Collegiate Athletic Association championship appearances. Under her…
The University of Rhode Island club swim team held the inaugural Rhody College Club Swim and U.S. Masters Swim Meet on Nov. 12, an event the club described as monumental in showcasing what their program is all about. This meet, held at the Tootell Aquatic Center, brought together members from both college club swimming and…
For a select group of students that began their collegiate career in the midst of Covid-19, many high school memories replay occasionally to the soundtrack of numerous Brockhampton songs. A 13-year-old Kevin Abstract posted onto a Kanye West fan forum in 2009 asking for artists that would be interested in starting a band, according to…
Founded in Tallahassee, Florida in 2005, the band Mayday Parade has gone on to become a staple in the pop-punk genre. In 2005, the band released their first EP, “Tales Told By Dead Friends.” The EP features six songs, including “Three Cheers for Five Years.” Following the release of this EP, the band released two…
We are very fortunate to live during the ‘golden age’ of television. Think about it: countless television shows, spanning all different decades and genres, all at our fingertips, with the help of a couple convenient streaming services. We could have lived through the Bubonic Plague or the Potato Famine, but nope, we get TV instead….
At the end of November, Netflix released the long awaited “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” an eight-episode anime-inspired series set in Scott Pilgrim’s Toronto. It’s actually quite surprising how long it took for an anime-inspired series to come from Scott Pilgrim. Bryan Lee O’Malley first wrote Scott Pilgrim as a series of graphic novels, beginning in…
Casey Chan-Smutko: Halloween News Editor Just because “The Nightmare Before Christmas” has the word Christmas in it does not make it a Christmas movie. I’ve watched this movie a thousand times exclusively on Halloween because it is a Halloween movie. You could argue that Jack Skellington goes to Christmas Land to become Santa Claus, but…
Actor Giancarlo Esposito filled nearly every seat in Edwards Auditorium and attracted several different generations of people on Monday. Esposito had an unorthodox upbringing that shaped him into the man he is today. During the event, the actor brought up how he was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian stagehand and carpenter father and…