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Word! artists to go to slam poetry nationals
By Anita Badejo | March 21Brown's first-ever team destined for the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational — an annual nationwide competition for slam poets — performed for a packed and enthusiastic Macmillan 117 last Friday.
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Mapping the past at the JCB library
By Kristina Klara | March 18Inscribed on the John Carter Brown Library are the words "Speak to the past and it will answer," the message that inspired the exhibition "Map Talk: A Conversation with Maps." The exhibit, a collection of maps ranging from the year 1492 to the end of the American colonial period, is on display at the ...
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Brownbrokers' mini-musicals supersize fun
By Kristina Fazzalaro | March 18What do fat camps, elevators and Snuggies all have in common? They are all featured in Brownbrokers' third annual Mini-Musical Festival, running Friday through Monday night in the downstairs space of T.F. Green Hall.
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Raffel '79 brings book to campus
By Fei Cai | March 14Vanity Fair has called her book "as sharp and bright as stars." O, The Oprah Magazine says her stories "strikingly explore how small moments can influence personal and familial identity." And on April 14, she will be coming to Brown to read from her new book.
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Festival reveals new side of Haiti
By Anita Badejo | March 14Last weekend's Ayiti Cheri Haitian Film Festival revealed the depth and complexity of Haiti's culture beyond the recent earthquake-related publicity it has received.
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After fourth 'fifth symphony,' Beethoven up next
By Jonathan Chou | March 14Music filled Sayles Hall as the Brown University Orchestra amazed audiences with a wonderful performance of "Music from the Year 1915." Led by Senior Lecturer in Music Paul Phillips, the orchestra held its third concert of the academic year Friday and Sunday.
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On stage, words of female prisoners come to life
By Sarah Mancone | March 14Five women dressed in black stand in a line while the audience waits patiently. As the first words are spoken, the entire audience becomes very quiet. No one shuffles in his or her seat. No one speaks. They just listen.
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Three's the charm in P.W.'s show
By Kristina Fazzalaro | March 11Correction appended.
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Smooth fusion at dance show
By Alexys Esparza | March 11The Fusion Dance Company weaves together various forms of dance and musical styles in its 27th annual show, which opened Thursday night in Alumnae Hall and runs through Sunday.
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Famous poet comes to Moses Brown School
By Sarah Mancone | March 7Award-winning writer and educator Naomi Shihab Nye will present her poetry in the free and public event, "Everything Comes Next — Daily Rebirth Through Reading and Writing," hosted by Moses Brown School, in the school's Alumni Hall, March 11 at 7 p.m.
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Sheep graze at Sarah Doyle Women's Center - in artwork
By Sara Chimene-Weiss | March 7Terry Gips' work hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Now, some of it resides in a location more convenient for most Brown students: the Sarah Doyle Women's Center Gallery.
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At festival, telling stories through song and dance
By Kristina Fazzalaro | March 7The scene in Salomon 101 Sunday afternoon was a far cry from this morning's lecture in ECON 0110: "Principles of Economics." Instead of supply-and-demand curves, the Education through Cultural and Historical Organization Performing Arts Festival presented stories of childhood, love and family.
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Fatal attraction: danger and desire in "Lulu"
By Amy Chen | March 4"Lulu," Sock and Buskin's latest production, is irresistibly dark and sensual, an exploration of the interplay between danger and sexual desire.
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Alum nominated for best original score Oscar
By Fei Cai | March 4"I, Robot." "Scream." "The Omen."
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Performers flock to College Hill festival
By Lindor Qunaj | March 4Musicians, dancers and other performers from around the world will gather at Brown for the Rhythm of Change Festival March 5–7. Presented by the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, with additional help from the Creative Arts Council and the Brown International Organization, the ...
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Deadly Syndrome features '04 alum
By Sara Chimene-Weiss | February 28As an undergraduate at Brown, Michael Hughes '04 concentrated in history and took classes on topics as varied as visual art and colonial Latin America. These days, he's in a band called The Deadly Syndrome, which will release its second album, "Nolens Volens," on March 23.
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Student playwright examines Jamaica's history
By Kristina Fazzalaro | February 28Jamaica is an island paradise both idyllic and charming — for foreigners, maybe. For Jamaicans, paradise is a concept lost to years of oppression and fighting. In "Our Hands Are Sore From Praying," playwright Janine Heath '10 explores Jamaica's exploited past, turbulent present and unsure future. ...
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Alums honored for arts achievements
By Sarah Mancone | February 28The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts recognized Visiting Lecturer in English Michael Stewart MFA'07 for fiction and poetry and Jamie Jewett PhD'08 for choreography and film this year.
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Charity showcase raises funds for Haiti relief
By Fei Cai | February 28The screen went dark, the small crowd in Salomon 101 hushed and the video began. "The recent earthquakes in Haiti have killed over 230,000 victims," it read.
