The last Major League Baseball game of the season was played on November 1, 2025, when the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays in Game Seven of the World Series. The term “fall classic” directly applied to this final game: the score was tied 4–4 when the game rolled into extra innings, both […]
May the angels light our way tonighton such a desolate island. Where sealsswim up the harbor mouth, birds take flight,and sheep roam in octaves on green fields.Boats offshore watch not us, but wavesthat slap their sterns in a prolonged rock.We’re left to the hills and stones, and cavesthat fall darker and deeper than the loch.No […]
The 1960s and early 1970s were very generous to the singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Simon was a part of the internationally known folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Their most popular years, which saw greater creative control and worldwide recognition, with the release of five albums that spanned from 1963 to 1970. The duo had hit their […]
The concept of a printed newspaper has been popular since the 15th century, when the invention of the printing press in Europe made information on weather, economics, politics, and social issues a routine morning necessity. A newspaper must follow four major criteria: public accessibility; periodicity, where the newspaper must be published in either daily or […]
Enter the chorus of children; octaves fillthe empty halls of pews. There are no illfeelings towards their parents who missthe show: they work hard and slip a kisshere or two. While we wait for the handsof guardians to praise the tones and bandthat line the walls, the roads are silent.Snowfall dots the lane, but we […]
A music craze originated nearly 90 years ago when Benny Goodman and His Orchestra performed at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles on Aug. 21, 1935. This was the first injection of a style known as big band swing jazz into American radio waves. However, what seemed so polished, so delicately defined, and that which […]
When the Leaves Change, So Do the Playlists What defines a summer of sounds? Flashy, jumpy pop songs that swoon over summer romances and beach getaways to anthemic rock pieces that pierce the current artist’s tours. But what hits the charts when the leaves begin to color, the air becomes crisp, and several layers have […]
To many, there was always a certain glow to movies from the previous century. Maybe it was the way the film met the light while capturing the action, allowing a fabulous fuzz to appear on our screens nearly 50 years later. Audiences could go to theaters to see dreams captured on celluloid and movies where […]
The world was introduced to the Gallagher brothers in April 1994. Their band, Oasis, had just released “Supersonic,” a single that would define British music for the next decade. A string of hit singles, EPs, and albums would propel the Manchester band into the stratosphere. Helmed by creative lyricist and deadpan older brother, Noel, and […]
The novel The Wedding People exemplifies the hard-hitting questions and nature of the relationships we gravitate towards. It focuses, for better or worse, on the people populating a hotel wedding in Newport, RI. Coming from Providence College’s very own associate professor of English Alison Espach, the events of the novel seem closer than ever in […]