There is a difference between fitting in and belonging. The Providence Planning Board for 249 Thayer Street approved the design, materials, and usage of the building because it fits in. The grand opening of its signature first floor restaurant, Shake Shack, came and went on March 22nd, 2019. The business has now been open long…

It randomly occurred to me in the shower one night that my grandma sometimes used to fondly recall her visit to Princeton in the 90s when things were much easier for her and also for the rest of us, when she could sleep through a 13-hour flight like a baby and grab a big fat…

Everything is blinding. Cars shoot spotlightsinto my eyes; the concrete become marbleshines; zebra stripes. Horizontal pearls. This is a retouched, opalescent world.Perhaps artificial. The greens are too greenand the sky is too blue; it hurts; I wish I werebetter equipped than eyes; more open. The lines are sharp and in focus; thesecrisp tree branches were…

https://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/108634 Sponsored and hosted by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the talk I attended today was given by the multimedia artist Kelly Milukas. Milukas’ project “Keys for the Cure” is a collection of paint, photography and 3-D artwork characterized by the literal use of “keys” as visual metaphors of the physiological process of healing….