Category: Arts & Entertainment

Looking Forward with Oliver Penn

  by Elizabeth Jancsy `18 A&E Staff   If you are Oliver Penn ’17, your weekend might look a little different than the average college student’s. Instead of just relaxing with friends,  your weekend plans would also include picking up your guitar, standing in front of an audience, and playing your heart out. As Penn […]

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Emma Watson Gives Belle a Makeover

  by Blaine Payer `18 A&E Staff   Emma Watson is one of the most well-recognized champions of feminism and gender equality in the world. Since it was announced early last year that she would be playing Belle in the upcoming live-action remake of the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast, Watson has been no […]

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The Legacy of Butch Trucks

  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 […]

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New Year, New Album, Same Mayer

  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 […]

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Shia LaBeouf the Artist, Enigma

  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 […]

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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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