Last month Peru was struck with heavy rains, leading to disastrous flooding, as a result of an abnormal El Niño, the warming of surface sea temperatures in the Pacific. An El Niño is associated with warm and wet weather from mid spring through the summer along the coasts of northern Peru and Ecuador. The wet…
The University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center will be showcasing The Annual Student Juried Exhibition at the main art gallery now through May 1. Every year the URI Art Department hosts the Juried Student Exhibition in the main gallery during the spring semester to showcase the best of student’s work. The department brings in…
Fast & Furious “Furious 7” took the world by storm in 2015. Being certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and becoming the sixth highest grossing movie of all time is no small feat. The film is great to boot; a high point in a franchise that is currently enjoying a renaissance after a weak four-picture start….
The Harrington School of Communications and Media held a screening and discussion with 2014 alumnus Bob Klein when he returned to the Kingston campus last Wednesday. Since graduating from the University of Rhode Island, Klein has been working for a production company near his home in New Jersey. While this job keeps him busy he…
Is there a better way to celebrate Earth Day than staying inside to enjoy some movies about the beauty (and sometimes horror) of nature without having to actually go outside? Here are my top five films to help you celebrate nature this Saturday; “Antichrist” (2009) Lars von Trier’s fairly horrific descent into the evils…
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…