The Ryan Center hosted Young Thug and Machine Gun Kelly (above) for students and fans. Photo by Greg Clark. American Rappers Young Thug and Machine Gun Kelly, took the stage last Saturday night at the University of Rhode Island’s Ryan Center. This was the fourth performance of their combined tour named “Justin Bieber Big.” Many…
Matt Campbell shows off his “family is everything” tattoo. Photos by Grace DeSanti. Students tell the stories behind their tattoos According to the Historyoftattoos.net, about 30 percent of college students have at least one tattoo, creating a subculture of art and expression with their canvas being the human body. Matt Campbell, a senior communications major,…
Professor Nicholas Corsano joins the Harrington school this semester to teach film students about cinematography. Photo by Grace DeSanti. “I started as a child actor and I realized that I was mostly drawn to the act of being on set and not so much the camera.” Nicholas Corsano, a new University of Rhode Island film…
Zach Galifianakis stars in new movie “Between Two Ferns” based on his popular internet series. Photo from IMDB. “Between Two Ferns: The Movie,” directed by Scott Aukerman, and starring Zach Galifinakis, Lauren Lapkus, Ryan Gaul and Rekha Shankar, follows a fictionalized version of the real Zach Galifinakis as he is being filmed for a documentary…
“The Hello Girls” by Elizabeth Cobbs tells the story of the women who worked for the U.S. Army Signal Corps during and after World War One. Photo from NPR. Book Review: Elizabeth Cobbs’ ‘The Hello Girls’ The year 2020 may seem a distant date on our already worn agenda, but for most it marks a…
Scrunchies, stickers, hydroflasks, and crocs are fun characteristics of the VSCO girl trend. Photo by Grace DeSanti. Hydroflasks, puka shell chokers and Crocs are just a few of the style elements of the VSCO girl trend, a new subculture that has evolved from Generation Z’s social media use, and has taken over from the days…
Chloe Bennet plays Yi in “Abominable” that came out this year. Photo from IMDB. “Abominable,” which is the latest animated film from DreamWorks Animation follows a girl named Ye who discovers a Yeti living on her roof before vowing to bring him back home to Mount Everest. The film follows the basic structure of a…
Garance Marillier plays Justine in 2016 film “Raw” directed by Julia Ducournau. Contributed by PeoplesMovies.com. Julia Ducournau’s “Raw” can only be described by its title, the film is full of raw emotion from the first minutes. The film is a new take on the coming of age story and a show of what modern horror…
Juniors Anthony Neves and Brendan Tierney took their fondness for percussion and turned it vocal with the a capella group Rhody Rhapsodies. Neves and Tierney both grew up singing in choruses prior to college, and even met each other through high school chorus. While they do still sing as members of Rhody Rhapsodies, both as…
Professor Dave Rabinow shares how he created “A Brief History of the Earth and Everything In It…..,” which the theater department will be performing for their first play of the season. Contributed by Tony Pacitti. A year after Dave Rabinow began teaching at the University of Rhode Island, his play will be performed as the…