Posts by Anne Speyer

Family Weekend is always kind of a weird time on campus. If your parents are here, you’re probably trying to simultaneously prove you’re fine on your own, get them to buy you things, impress them with all the cool things you do on campus and hide half a semester’s worth of beer bottles. If they’re not here, you’re probably either feeling sorry for yourself or laughing at all the kids dragging their parents around the Green. Whether you need a way to entertain your parents or yourself without them, take advantage of the fact that practically every student group on campus is putting on a show of some sort this weekend.

Shakespeare on the Green’s “King Lear”
5:00 P.M.
The Quiet Green
Shakespeare on the Green is promising both sword fighting and hot chocolate for this performance, which happen to be two of my favorite things.
Should you take your parents? Are they Shakespeare fans? Are they willing to sit outside on the grass for two hours without complaining? If so, by all means take them. Otherwise, get your culture fix at 3C2C.

Talk the Tock… Walk the Wock
Salomon 101
8:00 P.M.
$5 for you, $8 for your parents
I just spent five minutes trying to decide if I pronounce “talk” and “tock” the same way, which is about four minutes and fifty-five seconds longer than it should be (although I’m willing to bet you just tried it yourself). The Jabberwocks and the Chattertocks both always deliver quality performances, and I still have the ‘Wocks’ version of “F*** You” stuck in my head, so by all means, hurry over!
Should you take your parents? Yes. A cappella concerts are (usually) fun, wholesome and culture-y: three things that your parents want to picture when they think of you at college. The illusion doesn’t hurt anyone, so why spoil it for them?

3C2C
T.F. Green Hall
8:00 P.M.
Free
“Three Chairs Two Cubes” is a festival of short plays and skits written / directed / acted in by students. Some are always better than others, but the balance usually evens out the positive side. This year’s 3C2C features Klondike Bars, gladiators and parent-teacher conferences.
Should you take your parents? If you don’t feel like braving the chilly New England weather for Shakespeare on the Green, 3C2C is a good way to stay inside and still show off the best of Brown’s creativity.

Welcome to October! Not only is today Friday AND the first day of October AND the official day of scarf season (not that scarves are ever not in season), but there is also an abundance of great things to do tonight! Life is good.

Pain et Fromage
5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.
Machado House (87 Prospect Street)
Start your evening off the French way, with some bread and cheese (and maybe some other typically French refreshments).

Starla and Sons — First Show of the Year!
9:00 P.M.
Salomon 001
$1
Laugh off all your midterm stress at Starla and Sons first comedy show of the year!

Fire & Ice
10:00 P.M.
Zeta Delta Xi
$3 entry, $1 drinks
Fire & Ice, taking over the whole world, or just Wriston tonight. Don’t be shy!

Mao’s Last Dancer

Avon Cinemas, 6:30 and 8:50

Last week, the Avon was playing “Get Low.” To me, “Get Low” sounded like the name of an end-of-summer schmaltzy dance flick, maybe about a hip-hop dancer and a ballerina who fall in love against the odds. Oh, how wrong I was. “Get Low” was about a hermit living alone in the woods. “Mao’s Last Dancer,” on the other hand, seems to actually be about a dancer!

Smoked Salomon

Salomon 101, 8:00 p.m.

What’s that you say? Somehow you managed to miss all of the singing, a cappella delight around campus last night? I know you’re probably feeling really bad about  that right now, but don’t worry: the Derbies and the Chattertocks are getting together to sing those regrets away!

Neon Night II: The Afterglow

Delta Tau, 10:00 p.m.

$3 door, $1 drinks

If you like your $1 drinks glowing, if you like black lights and glowsticks, if you just wanna dance with a beautiful stranger who’ll leave their neon body paint all over your clothes by the end of the night, if this is what you want from your night, get thee to Delta Tau!

One of these days, we’re going to make it to a full week of classes. Until then, I’m going to keep complaining about how exhausting these three-and-four-day weeks are. Just cause we didn’t have class on Monday, doesn’t mean it isn’t time for a weekend on Friday, amiright?

The Fall Arias Concert
Grant Recital Hall
8:00 pm
The classiest event of the fall is back and better than ever! Featuring the talented singers and pianists of Brown Opera Productions, the Arias concert is your best (and cheapest — the Aria concerts are free!) bet for a perfect, culturally-enriching start to an evening.

Triple Threat A Cappella Concert
Salomon 101
8:00 pm
If you spent your summer watching Glee re-runs and memorizing snarky Sue Sylvester quotes, then this concert should help ease your withdrawal pains. We know, it’s hard. But the Higher Keys, Jabberwocks, and Ursa Minors all taking the stage together make it just a little easier to hold on to that feeling.

What Can You Do?
Zeta Delta Xi
8:00 pm
Between the Arias, the a cappella, and Zeta Delta Xi’s Open Mic night, it doesn’t seem possible to escape hearing people sing tonight around eight. If this is your kind of night, grab a drink and enjoy it. If it’s not, grab several and heckle!

Blow Your Mind
Phi Kappa Psi
10:00 pm
$4 door, $1 drinks
After you get kicked out of open mic night for that awful rendition of “Livin’ on a Prayer,” hide from your shame at “Blow Your Mind.”

First and foremost, go see “Babies” again. It’s so worth it.

“Glee” feat. Ursa Minors and Jabberwocks
8:00 P.M., Sayles Hall

Bear Necessities Arch Sing
11:P.M., Wayland Arch

There is SO MUCH a cappella happening this weekend coming week, it’s fairly ridiculous. I am personally intrigued by the Glee-themed concert in Sayles Hall tonight, but Sue Sylvester had better be there or I’m gonna be a little disappointed.

Samagam
6:35 – 8:30 P.M.
List 120
Free Kabob and Curry if you get there at the start!! And then, after the face-stuffing portion of the evening, a dancer from New Delhi — Nehha Bhatnagar— will be there to perform a classical dance and talk about cultural diplomacy.

SPACE Gala

BABIES

Trust me on this one, the kids in the wind symphony know how to put on a good show. There probably won’t be any Lady Gaga medleys, but surely you can survive without them for one night.

What’s that you say? You’re sick of studying for your finals? You missed both Star Wars Day (May the fourth be with you!) AND Cinco de Mayo because you were working?* You finally finished that sixteen thousand page paper and you’re looking for a way to reward yourself? Well, look no further, we got you covered.

High and ‘Stoned

8:00-9:00 P.M., Macmillan 117, $2

The Higher Keys and Brown’s Tones (‘stone for the purpose of the event title) are getting together for one of their final concerts of the semester and they promise that it will be “a smoking good time!” There are also rumors of baked goods available after the show AND a brand-spanking-new Lady Gaga medley from the Tones. They better be careful, though. The US Army has set the bar pretty high on that one.

STUDY BREAK

10:00 P.M., Sci Li Plaza

Pizza! Music! Glow sticks! If you haven’t left the Sci Li in three days or if you just come for the study break, you should be there for this.

Rafiki Party

10:00 P.M. – 1:00 A.M., Bravo (123 Empire St), $5

The proceeds from this party, hosted by Rafiki Ya Maisha, go to to building a vocational training school in Chepkanga, a small village in Kenya. So basically, not going to this party means you’re a terrible, selfish human being.

*This is not actually a justifiable excuse for missing Cinco de Mayo.

HEY GUYS, IT’S SPRING WEEKEND!!!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. But seriously, the weekend we’ve all been waiting for for months is finally here. We survived the thunderstorms and now the sun is shining (both literally and metaphorically, do you see what I’m doing here?) and the world is bright and I, for one, am ready to enjoy this. A quick note about the following activities: what I liked most about Spring Weekend last year wasn’t the concerts, or the slip n slide, or the alcohol. It was the sheer volume of unstructured time I had with my friends. It was the first time in a while when we were all in the same place at the same time, and no one was complaining about the ten page paper they should be writing and all seemed right with the world. So, by all means, go take part in these fabulous events. But make sure you spend a little quality time lying in the grass somewhere with all your biddies.

Spagfest 2010
Zeta Delta XI, 5:00-9:00 p.m., $8 tickets, $1 for beer and wine
Spagfest promises all-you-can-eat pasta and garlic bread. These are two of my favorite things ever. PASTA! GARLIC BREAD! Studies show that if you have something in your stomach before you go out partying, the chances of you making really terrible decisions decrease. Further studies have indicated that if it’s pasta and garlic bread, you will make only fantastic decisions and have a terrific night. Just sayin’. [Read more →]

(((OPEN)))
8:00-11:00 p.m, Hillel Gallery Space
The word “open” is neither an explanation nor an afterthought because it explains nothing — and there was no before-thought, so the parentheses seem a little unnecessary to me. However, this event is going to feature “experiments in your zen garden” and “human q-tips” so I don’t exactly feel comfortable telling them that they’re misusing punctuation.

The Cook
8:00 p.m., Leeds Theater (77 Waterman)
$7, $5 with the coupon that was in your mailbox
Director Kym Moore also directed “The Other Shore” last year, and it was a seriously cool piece of theater, so I’m excited to see what she does with “The Cook.” The show, written by Eduardo Machado (any relation to Antonio?) is set in Cuba in 1958.

Greenberg
6:30 and 8:45, Avon Cinema
If you want to see Ben Stiller rocking his serious face, you better get a move on: this is Greenberg’s last night at the Avon.