What’s your guilty pleasure? Cigar Editor-in-Chief Kate Leblanc’s is “Gilmore Girls”. Photo from amazon.com. Guilty pleasures. We all have them. Maybe you watch “The Bachelor” every week and tell no one. Perhaps you secretly adored the 17 seasons-and-counting of “Grey’s Anatomy,” or by chance you actually liked “Emily in Paris.” No judgement here. We all…
Have you heard of garage swamp music? Of course you haven’t, it’s brand new! Read on to see if this just might be your new favorite music genre. Photo from Elizabeth Broocks Owens. In his self-titled debut album that came out in February, songwriter and musical artist Bones Owens has created a genre all of…
Bryan Dewsbury, a URI biology professor, recently gave a talk through the Office of the URI Foundation and Alumni Engagement. Photo from web.uri.edu. Bryan Dewsbury, a biology professor at the University of Rhode Island, goes out of his way to get to know each one of his students every semester; the only problem is that…
The URI Communicative Disorders department examines the breakdowns in communication that take place in situations most people take for granted. Graphic by Elizabeth Wong. Chatting with a friend; calling your mom on your way to work; smiling at the barista as you pick up your morning coffee. Communicating with others is an essential part of…
A research team in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy has developed a cheaper COVID-19 test that has the potential to be implemented throughout the community at large. Angela Slitt, a biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences professor at URI, led the development of the new quantiCOVID-19 test, alongside students working in the lab. Their…
Margie O’Brien: journalist, entrepreneur, storyteller Local journalist Margie O’Brien recently participated in an event with URI’s Women in Business organization. Photo from golocalprov.com Being the youngest of six siblings, Margie O’Brien has always been a storyteller. As a child, the now-journalist and business owner would fight for her parent’s attention around the “elbows-to-elbows” kitchen table…
How does the 1998 “Parent Trap” stack up against it’s 1961 predecessor? Photo from imbd.com. Let me preface this by saying “The Parent Trap” (1998) featuring Lindsay Lohan is my favorite movie of all time. In my opinion, it is perfect: Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson are the epitome of their characters, and Lohan somehow…
Rebellion, growth, teamwork: how we made it here (from left to right) John Levesque, Carol Cioe Klyman, Ann Doyle, Catherine Winters, and Anne Foster, some of the first editors of the Good Five Cent Cigar, on a field trip to Atlanta. Photo courtesy of Susan Roy. Time to Celebrate! In 1971, a team of passionate,…
The 13th annual faculty Academic Summit, hosted by the Office of the Provost, was centered around anti-racism this year in an effort to address concerns raised on campus over the past year. Each year, the University of Rhode Island offers an academic summit allowing for faculty to focus on a critical issue affecting academia. In…
Well, this is going to be fun! Welcome to the first edition of the Good Five Cent Cigar of 2021 and, coincidentally, the first edition with me as editor-in-chief. This feels really special. I always imagined my Cigar firsts as editor-in-chief would look different. I’d be sitting at the head of our editorial table, surrounded…