The Student Led Theater Collective is a new student organization on campus that just put on their performance of “Stellar Woman’s Boyfriend,” a student-written play, in Quinn Hall’s Auditorium on Monday evening. Third-year David Weber, is a theater and physics major at URI and wrote “Stellar Woman’s Boyfriend” two summers ago before bringing it to…
Weekly pride nights are now held on Mondays at 8 p.m. at the Pump house. PHOTO CREDIT: Mandy Koskela | Contributing Reporter Pump House Music Works in South Kingstown has started hosting weekly Pride Nights. Pride Nights will take place every Monday starting at 8 p.m. and serve as a full bar and dancing venue…
URI theatre’s spin on a 1930’s classic URI’s theater performed a refreshing take on Vera Stark. PHOTO CREDIT: Mandy Kokela | Contributing Reporter The University of Rhode Island Theatre program brought a refreshing, witty, satirical play to the audience on Saturday with “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.” The play, originally written by two-time Pulitzer…
New to the Marvel universe, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is ‘perfectly average.’ PHOTO CREDIT: Entertainment Weekly The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s newest blockbuster, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was the introduction of one of the franchise’s most interesting villains: Kang the Conqueror. Before getting into this review, let it be understood that in my opinion,…
Pictured: Ranger Hall PHOTO CREDIT: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor Currently standing as the home for the Harrington School of Communication and Media, Ranger Hall holds a deep history as one of the University of Rhode Island’s oldest buildings. The historic stone exterior of the building can be seen by students and faculty walking across…
“Pokémon Scarlet and Violet” offers brand new gameplay experiences for players to explore new worlds. PHOTO CREDIT: Pokemon.com Throughout the run of Nintendo’s “Pokémon” video game series, there had never been a completely open world game until “Generation 9”. “Legends Arceus” came close, with five large areas highly populated with Pokémon, but it still followed…
Local music venue, Pump House Music Works, holds a fundraiser for renovations to their facility. PHOTO CREDIT: The Independent This past weekend, South Kingstown’s historic Pump House Music Works & Shady Lea Guitar Company, also simply called Pump House, held a fundraiser for renovations to the kitchen and “Green Room” after being damaged by a…
A look into end-of-year professor performance rating system At the end of every semester at the University of Rhode Island, students are asked to take IDEA Surveys, but many do not know just how their survey responses change their classroom. The Individual Development and Educational Assessment (IDEA) is a survey system that URI implemented to…
Pasada dancing, traditional foods and learning new languages can all be found at the Cape Verdean Student Association (CVSA). Cape Verde, or Cabo Verde in the native language of Portuguese, is a country made up of a group of small islands off the coast of West Africa. According to Cape Verde USA’s website, Rhode Island…
New URI graduate program celebrated at “Frontiers in Quantum Computing” conference. Graphic Credit: Elizabeth Wong Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed spoke at the Frontiers in Quantum Computing Conference as the up and coming field of quantum computing has been added to the roster of master’s programs at the University of Rhode Island. This three-day conference,…