In a vibrant world of live music, where a concert can create special memories, recent tragedies have shone light on the importance of concert safety. Incidents like the 2021 Astroworld Festival, headlined by Travis Scott, serves as a remainder for risks associated with large-scale events. On Nov. 17, 2023, a Taylor Swift fan died shortly…
64 years before the 74th annual Hunger Games, Coriolanus Snow, future president of Panem, was made to be a mentor for the runt tribute, Lucy Gray Baird. Ever since then, the Hunger Games has been a bloodbath aimed at squashing any hope of rebellion against the Capitol from the districts. “The Ballad of Songbirds and…
Anthony Tinaro, a studio art major at Providence College, and Owen Tienry, a film media and communications major from the University of Rhode Island, are collaborating on a fantasy comic. The comic, titled “The Pirate Knight,” was written and illustrated by Tinaro, while Tierney focuses on the marketing and production aspects of the project. The…
Juliana Lepore – Editor-in-Chief My Spotify auto-curated playlists have still been dominating my music taste this month, and one song that it’s been pushing on me is “Love Lost” by Mac Miller. Whenever it comes on in my car, I’m immediately put into a more funky mood. Mac Miller is a good artist to get…
I don’t really play many ‘games.’ At least in the sense of video games, my Xbox’s primary use as of late is to stream the seventh and final season of “The West Wing.” However, through the introduction from friends I’ve recently started playing a game called Connections, which is part of the games section of…
On Nov. 17, the University of Rhode Island Musician’s Guild held their fourth annual Rock & Swap concert in the Ram’s Den. This unique battle of the bands has individual musicians sign up, rather than bands. Two weeks before the show, bands are assigned randomly, giving them a limited amount of time to learn and…
“Five Nights at Freddy’s’” has been a widely loved horror game video franchise for many years since its release in 2014 . The new “Five Nights at Freddy’s’” movie that came out this past month on Oct. 27 brought a whole new community to the “FNAF” franchise, including myself. To summarize, the movie follows the…
If you haven’t heard the names Taylor Swift or Travis Kelce over the last month, you have been living under a rock. I am not a Travis and Taylor stan, however I do consider myself to be a bit of an expert on the topic, because every time the two of them interact with each…
Please Don’t Destroy, a comedy trio well known for their pre-recorded videos shown on “Saturday Night Live,” will be bringing their comedic talent to the University of Rhode Island on Sunday. The Student Entertainment Committee chose Please Don’t Destroy because they are extremely popular on “SNL” with their webseries, according to Jaimee Deslauriers, the president…
Madison Cahoon, a fifth-year music student at the University of Rhode Island, transferred from the Community College of Rhode Island and decided to come to URI to study music more in depth. Cahoon had an interest in music from a young age. According to her, she started to play the clarinet at age 10. Cahoon’s…