In an age of advancing technology, there has been an increase in social media networking among Generation Z and millennials, bringing about an untraditional route of connecting with professionals. Many students around the country and at the University of Rhode Island have made professional Twitter and Instagram accounts, whether it be dedicated solely to something…
Kyra Shindler shares her headless horseman tattoo. Photos by Grace DeSanti. University of Rhode Island junior Kyra Shindler has big plans for her future, even if it includes adding to her existing collection of tattoos. Her favorite is her most recent tattoo, a large portrait of the headless horseman on the back of her right…
Photo from Entertainment Tonight. “Last Christmas” is the latest holiday-themed romantic comedy directed by Paul Feig that stars Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding. The movie centers around an aspiring singer Kate, played by Clarke, who has a bad relationship with her immigrant family and works in a year-round Christmas shop run by a Chinese woman…
Being a theater major takes many hours of hard work. Photo by Greg Clark. Junior Emma Becker is taking 19 credits this semester and earning an additional five, adding up to a total of 24 credits earned in just one semester. But according to her, this is typical for herself and all of her peers…
Professor Emmett Goods spoke about and sampled music from the unique jazz genre known as hard bop as part of his thesis research presentation on Thursday, Nov. 7 in the Fine Arts Center. Hard bop is a style of music that became prominent in the 50s and takes heavy influence from jazz. Goods explained through…
The subtexts of the film “Zootopia” from 2016 still hold true in today’s society. Photo from CCdiscovery. At Disney’s D23 Expo in August of 2013, it was announced that a new animated feature would be coming out in 2016 called “Zootopia,” initially described as a buddy-cop film in a world of anthropomorphic animals. In some…
Film students Hayley Haines and Sarah Angeloni, along with musician Flow, made a music video this week. Photo by Grace DeSanti. While it’s many students’ dream to make it big in the music industry one day, few put in the amount of work that Flowesny Henry has to make his dream a reality. University of…
“Terminator: Dark Fate” is the latest in a long line of Terminator sequels and is supposed to be a direct sequel to “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” This film had some promise due to the return of Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Sarah Conner and the T-800 along with “Deadpool” director Tim Miller as the…
Film professor Keith Brown helps student Robbie Clark with a 16mm film camera. Photo by Grace DeSanti. Keith Brown, a professor in the film media department, has a reputation on campus for going above and beyond the limits of the average professor. According to Matt Digennaro, a graduate student in the department, Brown is unlike…
Baylee Tierney and Emmely Trejo share their meaningful and personal tattoos. Photos by Grace DeSanti. While getting a tattoo is a huge commitment, many University of Rhode Island students get them at a young age and either learn to live with them or regret them. Baylee Tierney, a freshman at URI, dives deep into why…