Last week the Megley Theatre welcomed the opening of Arthur Miller’s “Playing for Time,” a haunting account of women who form an orchestra to survive their internment in Auschwitz. Performances end this weekend, Nov. 14-15 at 8 p.m.

Mosaic Correspondent Elisabeth Steinhardt talked with Jacqueline “Jackie” Boyle, a senior at Salve who is double-majoring in Theater Arts and English Communications about her role in Miller’s play.

Before the 1980s and the study of the HIV, many people pierced themselves, or were pierced by inexperienced friends or siblings: at home, using a sewing needle sterilized by heating with matches or boiling, and numbing the earlobe or other body part with an ice cube. Today, to support the demand for a clean and safe piercing environment, piercing salons, methods, and piercers themselves are much more cautious.

While they’ve been called icons, rock stars, and idols, notorious, famous and crazy, these self-proclaimed “fashion Nazis” are anything but unpleasant. Despite the fact that they look like they’ve stepped off the red carpet, there is nothing “Hollywood” about them.

Known around town as the “Newport Twins,” Joy and Judy Catuogno have provided the city of Newport with designer fashions at a fraction of the cost of similar retail items for over three years. However, their road to high fashion began with much humbler ambitions.

Dr. Philip Melanson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, will be sharing his expertise with the Salve Regina University community on November 18 and 19 about John F. Kennedy and the mystery surrounding his death.

Is one of your biggest dreams to travel? Imagine studying abroad in Italy, Australia, England, and Ireland, the most popular places students will be studying abroad next semester. Salve Regina’s University Study Abroad Department is currently offering a spring break trip to Cuba for three credits and summer programs in Rome, Mexico, France, and a new addition, Greece for six credits.