Category: Arts & Entertainment

Mac Odom Brings the Funk to McPhail’s

  by Ryan Cox `18 A&E Staff   The Mac Odom Band brought down the house last Saturday night in McPhail’s for four hours, performing a medley of funk, R&B, and soul for the Providence College student body. The locally-based band featured two members of the PC community: Jeff DiIorio ’17 on guitar, and Pat […]

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Alumni in the Spotlight: Mike Leonard `70

  by Elizabeth Jancsy `18 A&E Staff   It is safe to say once the Civ classes are over and the diploma is handed out, you will still and forever be a Friar. We often hear about the great success of people who have paved the way in different work fields but often forget they […]

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DeGeneres Wins Big at the People’s Choice Awards

  by Kerry Torpey `20 A&E Staff   Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars gathered at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Jan. 18 to attend the People’s Choice Awards. Big names in attendance included Tom Hanks, Robert Downey Jr., Sarah Jessica Parker, Justin Timberlake, and more. The People’s Choice Awards is one of the […]

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Split and the Shyamalan Redemption

  by Michael Welch `17 A&E Staff   In perhaps the greatest M. Night Shyamalan twist yet, the director has turned his career around. Shyamalan burst onto the movie scene with thriller hits, The Sixth Sense, where he trademarked the Shyamalan twist that would be parodied and revered by his cult fan-base. However, his name […]

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2017 Oscars Show Promise, Raise Questions

  by Blaine Payer `18 A&E Staff   This past year was many things, not all of them particularly positive. We lost a number of Hollywood’s most beloved names—Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, Carrie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds, just to name a few. We experienced cinematic disasters like the Ben-Hur remake; Independence Day: Resurgence, a sequel […]

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Jimmy Fallon: The Star that Keeps Rising

  by Luis Alves `19 A&E Staff   The name Jimmy Fallon may be familiar to many people. He is known for a variety of roles: being a stand-up comedian, a cast member on Saturday Night Live early in his career, and now the host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which he began […]

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Sherlock Leaves Fans Ready for More

  by Brigid Walshe `19 A&E Staff   Season four of the critically acclaimed series Sherlock premiered earlier this month after almost a three-year hiatus, and it did not disappoint. Like I said, it’s been almost three years since the last full season of Sherlock aired, back in January 2014. There was a special last […]

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Always the Activist: Al Gore Fights Climate Change in An Inconvenient Sequel

  by Joe Clancy `18 A&E Staff   Al Gore has one of the most decorated and extensive resumes not only in the American political scene, but in the environmental and artistic fields as well. The former vice president narrowly lost the race for President of the United States in 2000, but still managed to […]

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The Children’s Hour at The Gamm

  by Elizabeth Jancsy `18 A&E Staff Upon entering Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, I saw the black box that has held countless breathtaking performances produced by the Game before. The atmosphere is comforting and familiar, yet what I was about to see was unlike any production I have previously seen. The Children’s […]

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Golden Globes Exemplify a Changing Industry

  by Brigid Walsh `19 A&E Staff The 74th annual Golden Globe Awards took place on Jan. 8, honoring the best of the film and television industry this past year. Of course, everyone was talking about La La Land and their record-breaking seven wins, which is the most Golden Globes ever won by a single […]

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