Issac Marshall | A hotdog with sauerkraut is one of the few meals you can get from Uncle Larry’s Snack Shack. I don’t know a lot about food, but don’t go to Uncle Larry’s Snack Shack in the Emporium looking for high end, fine dining. That’s not what Uncle Larry is all about. Instead, if…
Hundreds of protesters on both sides of the abortion rights issue clogged the entrance of the Rhode Island State House in Providence, as they waited silently to get inside and out of the cold. They waited to testify in front of the State House Judiciary Committee to discuss passing a set of bills on to…
On Dec. 4, “The Mavericks” played at The Strand Ballroom, a music venue in Providence, Rhode Island, to promote their newest album, “Hey! Merry Christmas.” “It was a business move sure,” Lead Guitarist Eddie Perez said. “But it’s also really fun.” He also said that the idea for this album has been in the works…
“Firstly, on the default of New York City, let me be clear, as president I will change my mind wherever I want,” said Chevy Chase, doing a self-proclaimed, bad impression of Gerald Ford in the first ever season of “Saturday Night Live,” in 1975. This was the first of countless blows toward the establishment that…
On Nov. 14 in the library, the New MakerSpace hosted a workshop focusing on the necessary skills required to make a podcast. Lena Bohman, a Makerspace Facilitator who graduated from Brown last May, hosted the workshop. Bohman decided not to focus on the skill of interviewing. “URI students don’t need to learn how to interview,”…
University of Rhode Island student filmmakers now have a place to pool their resources together and network once again due to the revival of Film Collab. Film Collab was revived by Sunny Davis, senior film media and writing and rhetoric double major. The club has existed on campus for many years but dissipated in spring…
Photo by Anna Meassick | Nancy Folbre opens the night saying she knows she is in the right place due to our “think big” attitude. On Oct. 23, Nancy Folbre spoke at the annual Honors Colloquium in Edwards Hall with a presentation entitled, “The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems.” Folbre is a retired professor…
Podcasts: These days it seems like everyone either has one or listens to them. They range in topics from talking about good movies, bad movies, politics all the way to good old fashioned absurd humor. But why? Why, all of a sudden, are podcasts such a huge part of our entertainment culture? Why do people…
Damien Chazelle’s film, “First Man” is first and foremost, a claustrophobic film. The epicness of the story told, the United States race to land on the moon, is contrasted sharply by reliance on closeup shots and small confined shooting locations. For example, take the opening scene in which Neil Armstrong, portrayed by Ryan Gosling, who…
Photo by Anna Meassick | Senior Nate Meneffee (left) cracks a joke, while Freshman Finlee Burge records the set-up and delivery to be used at open mic night. After attending First Night in September, University of Rhode Island freshman Ron Melamed noticed there was still one missing from over the 100 that were offered. “I…