Jazz Big Band wows at Oktoberfest

The University of Rhode Island’s Jazz Big Band entertained hundreds of URI Alumni and local residents during the Wakefield Oktoberfest and River Fire this past Saturday, as part of the University’s 125th anniversary celebration. Seventeen undergraduate students, and one graduate student, fill the ranks of the band, directed by Grammy nominated composer Professor Joe Parillo….

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Wake up feeling otherwise

gather twenty pocket lighters into twig bundles – ignite every menthol in the room. i dont smoke i resent dying young. in the sparse heat of June the moon explodes – remove our shirts dried above our heads, hoisted flags at high mast, no mourning no morning for surrender no morning when the great-grandfathers tilled…

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Blacklist: Red returns to TV

The month of October is filled with the return of many of our favorite shows, including “The Blacklist,” starring James Spader on NBC. “The Blacklist,” produced by Anthony Sparks, tells the story of the FBI’s most wanted fugitive, Raymond “Red” Reddington, also known as the Concierge of Crime, who turns himself into the FBI on…

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