by Anne Simons
Well, wedding fever has caught the nation, as people stalked and speculated on the wedding of one of American royalty.
So now you’ve gotten a little taste of wedding, you just can’t quit, right? Well lucky for you, there’s a website, WeddingCredential.com, where you can search wedding announcements for keywords. They could be schools, names, jobs, locations, hobbies – anything that might appear in an announcement. The site also suggests various terms, including “Goldman Sachs” and “keeping her name.”
A search for Brown came up with a bunch of alum marriages, but also a slew of people just named Brown.
Dip into the lives of others for a little vicarious romantic thrill.
by Anne Simons
Newport Folk Festival
all day and evening, today and tomorrow
If you’re in the Rhode Island area, get in your car right now and drive down to the Newport Folk Festival, our local annual music festival. Artists are playing all day today and tomorrow. You can check you more info on the schedule here! And here’s how to get there.
Check out NPR’s ‘All Songs Considered’ preview of the festival to get acquainted with some of the bands! You might have even heard of a couple of them.
And be sure to enjoy a lobster roll while you’re at the coast.
by Thea Aguiar
If you’re a reader of ‘The New Yorker,’ especially of the fiction section, then you probably caught the story “Extreme Solitude” in a July issue by Jeffrey Eugenides. Eugenides, who wrote “The Virgin Suicides” and “Middlesex” (which, if you haven’t read it, I highly recommend), and an alumni of Brown, uses Brown as the backdrop for this story about two Brown students studying semiotics who fall in love–or something like it. The story is good, and that it’s set at Brown makes it even more interesting and fun for a Brown student to read. Though this story is set during the 80s, maybe it will inspire some of those who are looking for love to sign up for semiotics this fall.
Click here to read Eugenides’s story.
by Anne Simons
David T. Howard ’09.5 has pled no contest to the charge that he assaulted a customer while working as a bouncer at FishCo, the Projo has reported. Howard, who has since been drafted to play for the Tennessee Titans, had originally appealed his conviction, but changed his plea to no contest after plea bargaining.
Howard allegedly punched and kicked a Southborough, Mass. man who complained about having to pay for drinks, though he had paid a fee to get all-you-can-eat-or-drink, as other attendees told police. FishCo, popular Wednesday night spot for Brown students, had to close down for three days as punishment.
So let this be a reminder to you, kids… FishCo may seem like it’s all class with its Ke$ha soundtrack and pole dancing and house-drink Fish Piss (we still don’t know exactly what it contains), but it can be sketchy too.
Just don’t complain about the prices.
by Anne Simons
As a counterpart to our semester series Time-waster of the Day, we’re offering summer Productivity Boosters. Take a few minutes out from watching Jersey Shore or wasting time on the internet at your boring desk job to do something mildly productive. It’ll give your parents one less thing to complain about!
Today’s tip: Create a profile on LinkedIn. Grown-up’s staid version of Facebook, LinkedIn allows you to recreate your resumé online and make connections (a.k.a. friend) other people with profiles.
This suggestion may seem overly simple, but it’ll take you a while to find a picture that’s just right.
And why you should do it now? Better to start adding connections now, while you know undergrads, than to be that graduate living in his parents’ basement who adds people the minute he hears they got great jobs.
by Anne Simons
Hello, (possibly) devoted readers! Hope everyone’s having a lovely summer. We know our posting record’s been a little spotty so far, but we’re coming back strong in the run-up to the beginning of the school year.
We hope continuing with our usual brand of blogging will not seem insensitive in the wake of this terrible loss. But (blog-)life must go on.
So let’s kick this off with some neat/funny/odd stuff you might have seen about Brown on the internet, if you’d bothered to look. Follow the jump!
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by Anne Simons
The Brown community was informed last night by a Herald breaking news update, this morning by an e-mail from the President, of the death of Paige Hicks ’11, who was struck by a tractor-trailer in South Dakota while participating in Bike and Build, a cross-country bicycle and community service trip.
The Blog is accepting submissions from friends, family and other loved ones for a memorial for Hicks. We will publish all submissions here at BlogDailyHerald.com. Please send messages, photographs or artwork to blog@browndailyherald.com.
by David Winer
After a long hiatus, your friends at BlogDailyHerald (summer edition) are back to report some breaking gastronomic news that has sent the cyber rumor mill spinning: Chipotle Mexican Grill is setting up camp across the street from the Brown book store. For those of you who have not been satisfied by the offerings at Gordito Burrito, your prayers have been answered.
Can you say “¿Carnitas, por favor?”
by Blog Daily Herald
Simmons, pictured while not speaking at RISD. (Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald)
Ruth Simmons had several commencements on her plate this season, following up Brown’s festivities of last week with a keynote address at RISD’s commencement Saturday.
She told the Herald in May that she couldn’t reveal her remarks because she hadn’t written them yet — but BlogDailyHerald has learned the real reason for Simmons’ reticence: she didn’t want us to know she was going to badmouth us behind our backs.
Lucky for us, the ProJo was there to report on the speech. Remarking on students’ fun costuming — and, we guess, unaware she was speaking into a microphone — Simmons told the crowd, “I hope no one will repeat this, but the Brown commencement was last weekend, and it was a sleeper compared to this.” She also spilled the beans about all our innermost desires, revealing to the crowd that “people up the Hill are very envious” of RISD students’ style.
“Did you know there is someone here with antlers on their head?” she asked. (We weren’t, but that does sound pretty stylish.)
Et tu, Ruth? But maybe the Prez had a point. As the ProJo notes, RISD grads get to wear “festive and zany” costumes — and as one senior told us of Brown’s ceremony, “it was a sleeper.” Just one more thing to be envious of.
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Campus Dance 2010, held on the Main Green, Quiet Green, and Lincoln Field on May 28-29, attracted students, alums, and people of all ages. Here are some images of the festivities.
Photos by Nick Sinnott-Armstrong/Herald.
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