Category: Arts & Entertainment

Death of a Salesman Resurrects at Trinity Repertory Theatre

by Elizabeth Janscy ’18 A&E Staff It can be hard to determine what makes a play a classic. Some may say it is in the characters and their development throughout the play, whereas others may say it is the writing and realism of the words spoken between characters. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is […]

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“Your Chair, Your School”: Providence College Juniors Beanbag Business Hits the Ryan Center

by Ryan Cox ’18 A&E Staff Providence College students may have noticed a new addition to the Arthur F. and Patricia Ryan Center for Business Studies recently. Four black, Friars-themed beanbag chairs are placed throughout the main atrium of the building, offering students a way to be comfortable while studying. The PC bookstore is not […]

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Cthulhu On Campus: Providence College Alumni Screen Short Film

by Patrick Fuller ’21 A&E Staff Two Providence College alumni walk into a bar. No, this scenario is not a setup for a joke. However, this situation is the birthplace of the short film The Call of Charlie, a kind of largescale joke in its own right. Director Nick Spooner, used to working with commercials, […]

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Wonderful Wonderful: The Killers’ New Album Slays the Charts

by Julia Vaccarella ’20 A&E Staff Despite widespread rumors that the group had agreed to part ways altogether, The Killers are back again. With the recent debut of their fifth studio album Wonderful Wonderful on Sept. 22, the Las Vegas natives are once again topping the charts. The Killers are notably recognized for their explosion […]

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Tomb Raider Returns with a New Face

by Blaine Payer ’18 A&E Staff   It has been 13 years since the video game heroine Lara Croft of Tomb Raider graced movie screens, and fans of the beloved franchise are ready to see one of pop culture’s most iconic characters come to life once again. Although a spandex-clad Angelina Jolie comes to mind […]

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Album Review: A Crow Looked at Me

by Alexis Jais ’18 A&E Staff If our loved ones cannot live forever, at least their memory can exist in the form of our favorite songs or poems. This attitude has ensured that death remains a favorite and popular muse for artists. Artists can imply a lack of understanding of the severity and finality of […]

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Discover Rhode Island: Newport

by Catherine Goldberg ’20 A&E Staff Recently, Raymond Dining Hall served some classic “Ocean State eats.” The lines of hungry students packed the dining hall, as they awaited Rhode Island’s most iconic dishes: breaded calamari, coffee milk, and spinach-feta pie. While Sodexo attempted to make students feel at home in Rhode Island, there is no […]

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Rock Legend Tom Petty Dies at 66

  by Joe Clancy ’18 A&E Staff “I wanna free fall out into nothing/ gonna leave this world for a while,/ and I’m free falling.” The world of rock and roll lost another rock legend, Tom Petty, on Monday, October 2 after he suffered a heart attack. He was 66 years young. Petty started playing […]

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Falling in Love With Insomnia Cookies

by Joe’s Clancy ’18 A&E Staff It is that time of year again, the days are slightly less warm, the nights much cooler and un-air-conditioned rooms both on and off campus are farther from Dante’s Inferno in temperature. It is finally fall, which means long weeknights, exciting football and baseball games, the stress of nailing […]

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Point Street Reading Series Fosters Creativity

by Elizabeth Jancsy ’18 Upon entering Bayberry Beer Hall on the West Side of Providence on a Tuesday night, you may be surprised to find people flooding the bar with drinks in hands and food flowing from the kitchen to the hungry and chatty guests, especially if you thought you were attending a book club. […]

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