by Kerry Torpey `20 A&E Staff On Jan. 24, Butch Trucks, the drummer and co-founder of The Allman Brothers Band, died following a self-inflicted gunshot at the age of 69. Trucks leaves behind a long legacy as a member of one of the most successful rock bands in history. Born in Jacksonville, Florida […]
Brigid Walshe `19 A&E Staff John Mayer is back in a big way. On Jan. 20, Mayer released four of his new songs from his current album, The Search for Everything, and fans are already craving more. Mayer is planning on releasing his latest album in waves, meaning that every month, he will […]
by Michael Welch `17 A&E Staff From Disney Channel star, to movie actor, to his current vocation as a controversial artist, Shia LaBeouf’s journey in the entertainment industry has been all but conventional. Recently, LaBeouf has taken on the persona of friendly but strange drifter, both entertaining and surprising all who still […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]