Plans to Celebrate National Recovery Month by Julia Vaccarella ’20 A&E Staff WaterFire is a recurring event that attracts crowds from across the Providence College community and the city of Providence each and every year. The lightings begin in late spring and run well into the fall season. Taking place in the Downtown area along […]
Board of Programmers Salvages Fun Times Despite Bad Weather by Joshua Carone ’22 A&E Staff Despite her best efforts, not even Mother Nature could ruin Clam Jam and the fun of the second-to-last Saturday of the school year. The Board of Programmers (BOP) brought life to an otherwise dreary day with their annual Clam Jam, […]
Influencers and Musicians Dominate Festival Scene by Grace Whitman ’22 A&E Staff The 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California was an event to remember. The festival highlighted so many aspects of the music industry through inspiring debut performances, surprise appearances, and unforgettable headlining acts. The best pop, country, hip-hop, and indie […]
Board of Programmers Continues EDM Theme to Satisfy the Masses by Anne DeLello ’20 A&E Staff Cheat Codes is a name that has recently become more and more well-known, particularly on college campuses. The EDM group is made up of three members, KEVI, Trevor Dahl, and Matthew Russel, and is taking the pop world by […]
by Peter Keough ’20 A&E Staff Some works created for the theater are meant to evoke deep and personal feelings, ranging from sadness, to longing, to passion. Others may be meant to foster some sort of awe or spectacle in the viewer’s mind. And others, well, are meant to evoke gut-busting laughter. The Providence College […]
The Cowl Interviews Musician Oliver Penn ’17 by Brigid Walshe ’19 A&E Staff Oliver Penn ’17 is making his way back to Providence College to perform at McPhail’s on April 12 at 9 p.m., and he has had quite the journey since leaving in 2017. After graduating with a marketing degree, he worked for a […]
Development of Western Civilization Welcomes Mary-Kim Arnold by Grace Whitman ’22 A&E Staff On March 27, the American Studies and Development of Western Civilization departments welcomed the successful poet, prose writer, and visual artist, Mary-Kim Arnold. Arnold’s work has been featured in several literary and art journals, including Tin House, The Georgia Review, Hyperallergic, and […]
Students Celebrate Hispanic Heritage in Moore Hall by Anne DeLello ’20 A&E Staff Providence College students gathered in Moore Hall on March 27 to discuss and learn about the Hispaniola Effect. The event was put on by both the Board of Programmers (BOP) and the Afro-Caribbean Association, and it allowed students to share and learn […]
Virtue’s Pour: Taverns In and Around the Shakespearean Theater by Catherine Goldberg ’20 A&E Staff Brother Jordan Zajac ’04, O.P., Providence College alumnus and now Friar, gave a talk at the Humanities Forum on the role of virtue in taverns in Shakespearean plays on Friday, March 29 in the Ruane Center for the Humanities. Brother […]
by Daniel O’Neill ’21 A&E Staff The high-tech fitness company Peloton has stumbled into a large problem: a $150 million lawsuit for using unlicensed songs. Peloton creates home fitness machines with tablets that have the ability to create strictly music-driven workouts for customers. This is a revolutionary company in the marketplace today, but many people […]