Two local highschoolers took the stage to celebrate their debut album, aimatmyorgans , joining the Musician’s Guild at the University of Rhode Island last Friday. Paige Promrat, a high school senior from the Wheeler School in Providence, and Memphis Faris, a homeschooled junior, performed with the URI Musician’s Guild in Atrium 1 in the Memorial…
The University of Rhode Island music department hosted its second annual Holiday Extravaganza, featuring holiday music performances celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah. The performance was held at the concert hall in the Fine Arts Center on Saturday with showtimes at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The extravaganza featured a wide array of musical ensembles from…
The University of Rhode Island’s theatre department wrapped up their final show of the semester, “Peter and the Starcatcher,” by Rick Elice last weekend. The performance was held in the J-Studio at the URI Fine Arts Center. It featured eight showings spread out across two weeks with the first few performances starting before Thanksgiving break….
No matter how far I move after graduation, no matter how many people I meet and no matter how many stories I publish for no matter how many different publications in my lifetime, I will never forget my first Monday night pitch meeting for The Good Five Cent Cigar. Starting off college, I was hesitant…
There are not many places or people I trust like I do The Good Five Cent Cigar office and its staff. Memorial Union Room 125 shaped me as a leader, reporter and most importantly a person. In what can be described as the two most stressful and tiring four-month periods of my life, I wouldn’t…
My sophomore year my mom told me that I needed to get involved in a club, so I randomly decided to attend a meeting on a Monday night for the school newspaper. If you had told me two years ago that I would be writing a goodbye letter, I would not have believed you. I…
Late in November of 2023, I saw on Instagram a post advertising the newscast editor position at The Good Five Cent Cigar. I thought to myself, “video editing for a student organization, I do that already! Might as well give it a try!” And I have to admit: it led to a great learning experience….
I’ll start from the very beginning. I finished my first semester at the University of Rhode Island with a 0.440 GPA as an undecided health sciences student, and I had previously half-joked that I expected to get a 0.800 (as you can see, it was much worse!). I moved back home and spent the next…
I never wanted to be a writer. At least, that’s what I told myself constantly when heading into my first year at the University of Rhode Island. I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster. I wanted to be on air. I wanted people to hear my voice. That was my dream. Funnily enough, although…
Around 50 percent of first and second-year students at the University of Rhode Island change their majors, according to Angela Quagliaroli, a career education specialist at URI. Students typically switch their area of study between the fall and spring semesters, according to Quagliaroli. She based this conclusion on her past personal experiences as an academic…