The University of Rhode Island women’s volleyball team traveled to Fairfax, Virginia to take on the George Mason University Patriots in a two-match series on Friday and Saturday, with both matches going the Patriots’ way. The first match in the series was a three-set sweep in favor of the Patriots, and in the second match…
Darren Criss has been charming audiences through song, screen and stage for over a decade and has amassed over 371,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Criss’ music has all the catchiness of hit Broadway tunes and the lyricality of today’s best songwriters. Additionally, his ability to charm audiences through song is what has brought him to…
On Oct. 21, 1957, Elvis Presley’s song “Jailhouse Rock” hit number one in the United States on the Billboard Charts, according to Music History Events. It stayed there for seven weeks and was used for the film “Elvis,” released on June 24, 2022. In 1964, the film version of the musical “My Fair Lady” premiered…
Indie-folk band Bon Iver released his first music in five years last Friday in a sentimental, poetic 12-minute, four-song extended play titled “SABLE,.” Bon Iver is the alias of Justin Vernon and was initially formed as a solo-project following the breakup with both his band “DeYarmond Edison” and his girlfriend, according to NY Times ….
On Thursday Oct. 17, The Student Entertainment Committee hosted a movie night where they screened the film “Twisters . ” “Twisters” came out earlier this year on July 19 and was directed by American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung. I went into this movie with little expectation but it turns out it was better than I…
With major plays in all three facets of the game, the University of Rhode Island football team defeated the University of New Hampshire 26-9 on Saturday, claiming its first win in Durham since 1995. The Rams and Wildcats both went into this game undefeated in conference play and at the top of the Coastal Athletic…
Although The University of Rhode Island men’s soccer team ended its two-game scoring drought with a first-half goal, the Rams still fell at home to the University of Massachusetts Minutemen, 2-1 on Saturday night. The loss dropped the Rams to 11th in the Atlantic 10 standings and hurt their chances of making the playoffs with…
The University of Rhode Island women’s soccer team split a pair of home games last week, falling 2-1 to Saint Bonaventure University on Thursday night before tying its senior day matchup vs. Saint Joseph’s University Hawks, 1-1, on Sunday. In the second minute of the loss vs. St. Bonaventure, fourth-year forward Tierra Garniss intercepted the…
Over the weekend, the University of Rhode Island women’s tennis team competed in the Bruno Classic at Brown University, competing in individually-scored matches against the University of Connecticut, Yale University, Boston College and Dartmouth College. On the first day of action on Friday, URI wasn’t able to get in the win column, dropping all three…
On Friday night, the University of Rhode Island’s improv club, Rhody Ridiculousness, had their first performance of the semester. “It was the biggest troupes and biggest crowd we had, people had to pull up chairs tonight which is the first time that ever happened,” the club’s vice president Ella McNally said. During the show the…