It’s finally starting to warm up in Southern Rhode Island. As such, there’s truly nothing like the first warm day of the year you spend outside. For most of the student population, that day is spent relaxing on the Quad with hundreds of others. There’s so much more to spring than that though, especially in…
Students gather in the Memorial Union’s 193 Coffeehouse to watch student bands perform. PHOTO CREDITS: Aidan Cahill | Contributing Photographer & Christina Lancellotta | Staff Photographer
After a summer-long feud with Canadian rap and pop artist Drake, Kendrick Lamar hasn’t stopped his momentum, releasing his sixth studio album, “GNX,” without warning on Nov. 25. Though there was no official winner in the feud, many listeners felt Lamar had won in a landslide, and from this album, it sounds like he agrees….
Ryan Pelillo Arts & Entertainment Editor Christopher Nolan is a better director than Quentin Tarantino. Nolan has had a much broader reach in terms of the general public, more clever narratives and isn’t as “film bro-ish.” Some of Nolan’s most notable works include “Interstellar” and “Inception.” These are both films that are artistically sound and…
This summer, hit bands Oasis and Linkin Park both ended their extended hiatuses, yet neither return was without controversy. Founded in 1991 in Manchester, England, Oasis rose to fame after releasing their debut album, “Definitely Maybe” in 1994 to critical acclaim. It received five stars from New Musical Express, went platinum once in the United…
MGMT released their fifth studio album, “Loss of Life,” in late February, taking their sound in a few distinct, new directions. A Middledown, Connecticut based indie duo, MGMT has been making indie and psychedelic rock with electronic elements since the early 2000s. They earned radio airplay almost immediately from their first singles, “Time to Pretend,”…
The University of Rhode Island Innovation Labs began its “Launch Lab Workshops” series Wednesday, Feb. 7, with a student-led panel discussion about photography, where students detail their own experiences and work. The three student photographers running the panel, Christian Dior, Ebenezer Falaye and Nate Huncho, began by discussing their distinct paths to becoming photographers. Dior…
Love and music are in the air this month! People have been writing songs about love for as long as people have written music. As such, there’s basically a love song about everything and for every possible vibe. Even though narrowing down every love song into an objective list of the 10 greatest is impossible,…
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…