If you don’t know who André 3000 is, he’s best known as a member of Outkast where he raps and sings in hit songs like “Hey Ya!” and “Ms. Jackson.” 20 years later, he released his first solo album “New Blue Sun.” “New Blue Sun” is made up of eight songs ranging from three minutes…
In a vibrant world of live music, where a concert can create special memories, recent tragedies have shone light on the importance of concert safety. Incidents like the 2021 Astroworld Festival, headlined by Travis Scott, serves as a remainder for risks associated with large-scale events. On Nov. 17, 2023, a Taylor Swift fan died shortly…
64 years before the 74th annual Hunger Games, Coriolanus Snow, future president of Panem, was made to be a mentor for the runt tribute, Lucy Gray Baird. Ever since then, the Hunger Games has been a bloodbath aimed at squashing any hope of rebellion against the Capitol from the districts. “The Ballad of Songbirds and…
Anthony Tinaro, a studio art major at Providence College, and Owen Tienry, a film media and communications major from the University of Rhode Island, are collaborating on a fantasy comic. The comic, titled “The Pirate Knight,” was written and illustrated by Tinaro, while Tierney focuses on the marketing and production aspects of the project. The…
Juliana Lepore – Editor-in-Chief My Spotify auto-curated playlists have still been dominating my music taste this month, and one song that it’s been pushing on me is “Love Lost” by Mac Miller. Whenever it comes on in my car, I’m immediately put into a more funky mood. Mac Miller is a good artist to get…
I don’t really play many ‘games.’ At least in the sense of video games, my Xbox’s primary use as of late is to stream the seventh and final season of “The West Wing.” However, through the introduction from friends I’ve recently started playing a game called Connections, which is part of the games section of…
On Nov. 17, the University of Rhode Island Musician’s Guild held their fourth annual Rock & Swap concert in the Ram’s Den. This unique battle of the bands has individual musicians sign up, rather than bands. Two weeks before the show, bands are assigned randomly, giving them a limited amount of time to learn and…
Down by 18 points against the defending Ivy League Champions, a second-half comeback saw the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team remain unbeaten at the Ryan Center in a 76-72 win over the Yale Bulldogs on Sunday. The result saw the Rams come out of November with a 5-2 record to start the year,…
The bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip were not too much for the University of Rhode Island women’s basketball team to handle, as the Rams swept a pair of games against Youngstown State and University of Portland at the Las Vegas Holiday Classic last weekend. The first contest against Youngstown State on Friday was…
On Nov. 18, the University of Rhode Island’s club men’s ice hockey team beat Northern Illinois University in Chicago, 2-0. This win was number 708 for head coach Joe Augustine, and marked the breaking of the previous all-time win record set by Frank Keaney, a man whose name is synonymous with URI athletics. Keaney’s record…