With frightful scenes and spooky songs, “The Nightmare Before Christmas” is a classic movie that embodies the spirit of Halloween. Before you argue with me that “The Nightmare Before Christmas” is a Christmas movie, it’s set in Halloween Town. Christmas Land is only an added place Jack Skellington travels to during the movie. The characters…
The University of Rhode Island Sojourn Collegiate Ministry kicked off the “spooky-season” by hosting a pumpkin painting night in the Memorial Union Atrium on Oct. 16 with a goal of bringing students together. Each table offered paint brushes, pallets of paint, water and a pumpkin for each student to individually design. The group started with…
On Friday night, the University of Rhode Island’s improv club, Rhody Ridiculousness, had their first performance of the semester. “It was the biggest troupes and biggest crowd we had, people had to pull up chairs tonight which is the first time that ever happened,” the club’s vice president Ella McNally said. During the show the…
Darren Criss has been charming audiences through song, screen and stage for over a decade and has amassed over 371,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Criss’ music has all the catchiness of hit Broadway tunes and the lyricality of today’s best songwriters. Additionally, his ability to charm audiences through song is what has brought him to…
On Oct. 21, 1957, Elvis Presley’s song “Jailhouse Rock” hit number one in the United States on the Billboard Charts, according to Music History Events. It stayed there for seven weeks and was used for the film “Elvis,” released on June 24, 2022. In 1964, the film version of the musical “My Fair Lady” premiered…
Indie-folk band Bon Iver released his first music in five years last Friday in a sentimental, poetic 12-minute, four-song extended play titled “SABLE,.” Bon Iver is the alias of Justin Vernon and was initially formed as a solo-project following the breakup with both his band “DeYarmond Edison” and his girlfriend, according to NY Times ….
On Thursday Oct. 17, The Student Entertainment Committee hosted a movie night where they screened the film “Twisters . ” “Twisters” came out earlier this year on July 19 and was directed by American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung. I went into this movie with little expectation but it turns out it was better than I…
For the first time ever, the University of Rhode Island will celebrate Italian Heritage and Culture month with a series of events sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences. An event that got students directly involved took place last Friday, and was called “L’italiano e il libro: portiamo in scena il mondo fra le…
Students piled into The Ryan Center on Thursday, Oct. 10, to watch Bryson Tiller perform hits from his four studio albums. Vendors lined the streets with t-shirts and sweatshirts, selling the merch to fans as they waited to enter. The first opener was Breez Kennedy, an 18-year-old from New Brunswick, New Jersey. He rose to…
The University of Rhode Island’s billiards club crowned a shocking buy-in tournament champion on Tuesday, Oct. 8 in the Memorial Union. Seven competitors gathered at 7 p.m. and paid $5 each to compete for their chance to claim the tournament title. “It’s a single elimination tournament where you lose – you’re out,” billiards club president…