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…
The album cover for Lightning Bolt’s ‘Sonic Citadel.’ Photo from pitchfork.com. Providence-based noise-rock band Lightning Bolt released their seventh studio album, “Sonic Citadel,” last month via Thrill Jockey Records. Consisting of bassist Brian Gibson and drummer Brian Chippendale, Lightning Bolt is known for creating walls of head-splitting noise using only the two aforementioned instruments. This…
These are some of the recent hashtags that were trending on Twitter. Graphic by Elizabeth Wong. Whether you have a professional or personal twitter, scrolling through the trending hashtags and trending tweets of the day is a fun, comical and interesting way to get a glimpse into the viewpoints and days of other people. However,…
“The Current War” is the long delayed biopic directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rej, and follows the invention of electricity and the war that ignites between the theories of electrical system currents. In the film, Thomas Edison believes in direct current while George Westinghouse believes in alternating current to power cities. This film has had a lengthy…
“It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. It’s really about the test of time,” University of Rhode Island Alumnus Erick Betancourt said about a career in the performing arts. Betancourt graduated from URI with a bachelor of fine arts in 2012 and has recently found success with roles onstage in “The Prince of Providence,” which…