Posts by Ben Schreckinger

Liquid Lounge, that other venerable Angell Street institution, is closing its doors for good this month. It will be replaced by the English Cellar Alehouse, a traditional English pub.

The University has yet to announce an official period of mourning, but Brown students will surely lament the loss of the 13-year-old watering hole for many a weekend (as well as Thursday, Wednesday and even Tuesday?!) to come.

Nor have the anger, shame and disappointment been confined to our College Hill. “This is really upsetting,” Joanna, a Providence College sophomore, told BlogDailyHerald. “We’re all really mad here.”

Joanna, who called the concept of an English pub “very boring,” said she and her friends will always remember Liquid as their venue of choice for meeting Brown students.

The pub, which plans to offer an extensive selection of English and European liquors, will serve classic English “cuisine” for both lunch and dinner.

Perhaps this offers aggrieved Brown and PC students the possibility of a compromise. The English pub thing is all well and good after dark, but the bar’s management should at least let our thirsty student bodies have their Liquid lunch.

Read more at browndailyherald.com.

Starting to get those first-round-of-midterms blues? Foucault and Saussure got you down?

BlogDailyHerald’s got the medicine to pick you right back up again. Enter “The Bedroom Bandit,” the latest literary exploit of Richard Jeanty (“Author of Sexual Exploits of A Nympho I & II,” according to the novel’s cover).

“But what,” you ask “separates this from all the other erotic literature I have read?”

Well, you may or may not be surprised to learn that the eponymous character, the feisty Bandit himself, attends Brown on scholarship by day. His first-year dorm: Bronson (so it’s true what they say: Keeney is for lovers).

While you may be halfway up and out of your seat already on the way to the bookstore, the cover disclaims, “WARNING: Highly Addictive Reading Material,” so handle with care.

How long can the Bandit keep up his philandering with the housewives of Bingham Lane? And what do chapters such as “There is a God,” hold in store? Keep your eyes peeled for the full review in Post-’s literary section in coming weeks to find out…