Monica Tynan, a senior biology major and art minor, is incorporating a series of six paintings of insects for her honors project in May. Tynan said her series was originally comprised of 13 paintings of insects, but now she is only using the first six for her project because they are invasive species. Invasive species…
Freddie Gibbs recently released his third studio album, “You Only Live 2wice,” on March 31, after putting his career on hold after being charged with alleged sexual assault. Gibbs is one of those underground artists who is not respected for staying real to his music and is mostly known for his collaboration with Madlib on…
“Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory,” the documentary shown by the Geriatric Education Center last Sunday, focuses on the music therapy Dan Cohen conducts with alzheimer’s patients He puts headphones on the nursing home residents and plays music that they were familiar with in their youth, and the result is nothing short of…
“The Great Gatsby,” one of the most popular American novels of all time, has been made into various films, and now it’s time for the University of Rhode Island Theatre Department to bring it to the live stage. The 1925 novel, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, revolves around multiple intricate characters living in “West Egg,”…
”The Discovery,” the second feature film by Charlie McDowell opens with a suicide, which, in the world of the film, is not uncommon. Since the scientifically proven discovery of an afterlife, hundreds of thousands of people have killed themselves to effectively “start over.” Robert Redford plays Thomas Harbor, the scientist who discovered this afterlife, but…
“Ghost in the Shell,” adapted from the anime film of the same title, which was adapted from a manga of the same title, was the recipient of a fair amount of backlash before it was released. Early criticism mainly centered around the casting of Scarlett Johansen, a white woman, for the Japanese character Motoko Kusanagi….
The Ryan Center and University of Rhode Island Student Entertainment Committee are bringing Grammy-winning, hip-hop artist Lil Wayne to Rhode Island as part of his 2017 college tour this Sunday, April 9. Having sold millions of albums worldwide, Lil Wayne has earned himself a total of four Grammy awards. He released his first album when…
The University of Rhode Island’s music department will be hosting the “Piano Extravaganza! 2017” On April 1 and April 4. The event will feature piano performances by student and faculty pianists at URI and young honors students. “The idea of a festival was formed when our second Steinway concert grand piano arrived on campus,” said…
At the intersection of film, music, technology and mass media, there is South by Southwest (SXSW)–a week-long festival of arts and culture in Austin, Texas. Austin is a great hub for it, being a city known for its cultural aspects. As someone who dedicates his life to ingesting every piece of media imaginable, there was…
You may have heard the phrase “a golden age of television” used when talking about the abundance of programs on air, but I prefer to use the term “silver age.” In the past decade we’ve seen a vast number of superheroes leap from their pulp-fiction pages to the big and small screens. Most of these…