[5.3.08] Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture: Davis Guggenheim '86
Award-winning director and producer Davis Guggenheim '86 (An Inconvenient Truth) will deliver the eighth annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture at Brown University on Monday, May 5, 2008. His talk, titled "Can Movies Be an Agent for Social Change?," will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. It is free and open to the public.

[12.3.07] Winter Break Programming
Starting Saturday, December 21st, BSR presents a "Best of 2007" week running until January 1st. Over this time, all of your favorite episodes from the past season will be aired at normal times.

January 2nd until January 27th is BSR's interim winter programming schedule. This schedule is on its way and will feature extended program times along with new shows.

January 28th, BSR's spring 2008 programming season kicks off.

[10.26.07] T-Shirt Printing
October 31st from 12-4 PM on the Main Green of Brown University, pick up a newly designed, freshly printed BSR t-shirt for you and your loved ones. Shirts will also be screened and sold at the Halloween Cover Bands Show that night (8 PM, The Hourglass Cafe).

[10.16.07] BSR Presents: Parts & Labor
October 23rd, BSR will be sponsoring a show at the Hourglass Cafe in Faunce House. Faunce House is located on the Brown University campus at 75 Waterman St. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. Donations welcome, open to the public.

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Sean takes you into the depths of your own head with a hypnotic mix of tracks from bands that you've probably never heard of before. A brand new show for BSR, Life In Reverse will spin you around and show you how music could be, not merely what it is.

Features Show of the Week

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Crossroads races America's musical lifeblood back to blues, folk, Tin Pan Alley. Alison explains find out where songs are coming from, where they're going, and how they change and change us through the universal language of music. On this episode, Alison examines the lyric "sitting here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes" as a recurring phrase in dozens of blues tunes, as well as rock and soul music.

Archive of the Week

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Off The Beat is back! Our award-winning news magazine show kicks off a great new season filled with all the best from our adventurous reporters. From local art, to the history of Valentine's Day in Providence, to newest legislative bill on immigrants' rights in Rhode Island, Off The Beat digs up the real stories from across the Ocean State.