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Survival guide one of us now

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you know you’re a rhode islander when . . .

where to enjoy the real taste of the ocean state

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Plus vital books, secret lives of teachers, and more!

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The ’Gansett/Autocrat Coffee Stout returns, and more big beer news.

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The Wilbury Group’s ThiS BEauTiful ciTY; OUT LOUD’s METaMoRPhoSES.

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Delia Kovac and Marissa Paternoster’s “SafE SPacE” at AS220 Project Space; and, “ThE quEER coMMuniTiES in PRinT PoRTfgolio” at 186 Carpenter.

October 23, 2014 Performance @ 7:30pm

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“Short Takes” on ThE SkElETon TwinS, ThE EqualizER, and more.

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Bud-I busters: panic in Providence | (Mis)-casting central | Gary Hart’s revisionist history | Big weekend in Newport

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6 ThiS JuST in 10 A Q&A with Tig Notaro: “I try to

approach my comedy and writing from a place of wanting to do what’s authentic to me as a person and a comic”

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hey, students —we’re doing our part to welcome you (or welcome you back) with open arms and help you settle in. we fill you in on the ocean State’s quirks, tell you where to enjoy the real taste of rhode island, what your profs do when they’re not teaching, and much more. (and there won’t be a quiz . . . .)

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Mecca Normal share their “songs about grand gestures and chance meetings that dramatically alter and derail lives” | Plus, A Great Big Pile of Leaves and Imelda May

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Phillipe + Jorge’s Cool, Cool World

bud-i busters panic in providence; let it bleed; hart's revisionist history It is a grim and sad fact that

the campaign for Providence f mayor has come down not to who

is best qualified to lead the Capital City with new ideas and an inspired and optimistic outlook, but whether or not efforts to keep the state’s most amazing felon, Buddy “Vincent A.” Cianci, from being elected will succeed.

The recent revelation that former mayoral candidate Lorne Adrain (who withdrew from the race early, ostensibly to give other Buddy opponents a better shot at beating him) sent an email to various high-end liberal/progressives to enlist them in an effort to create a nonprofit with the goal of beating the Bud-I seems a desperate move by panicked people. What may be the saddest part is the notion that the Bud-I, the acknowledged master of the three-way race, can be considered such an enormous threat given his infamous past.

It is either a credit to the BudI’s charisma, or the stupidity and amnesia of voters that he can still be sure of at least one-third of the vote simply by rolling out of bed in the morning (a ProJo/WPRI poll released September 23 pegged his support at 38 percent). During one of the first mayoral forums, GOP candidate Dan Harrop even made a joke about rumors he was being pressed to drop his current challenge in order to ensure a victory by Democrat Jorge Elorza.

But Jorge — that’s Casa Diablo’s Jorge, not Jorge Elorza — may have put it best after news of the Panic PAC broke, when he observed the city would indeed suffer in the long run from a Cianci win, because, “If the Bud-I wins, it’ll be about six months before anything gets done in Providence because he’ll be busy getting even with everybody on this email list.” P. nodded in silent agreement, after laughing out loud at the sagacious analysis.

Sleep tight, Angel Taveras.

(Mis-)Casting Central

P&J are delighted to see progress on Bleed For This, the movie about the life of a Biggest Little legend, boxer Vinny Paz. Filming in the Ocean State is reportedly set to begin November 10.

P&J go waaaay back with Vinny, to the days early in his career when the Pazmanian Devil would have press releases delivered to our office by his then-girlfriend.

We would write about his bouts at a time when the Urinal essentially ignored him, as the grand poobahs at Vo Dilun’s organ of record saw boxing as a brutal and crass endeavor pursued only by the unspeakable lower classes.

We were virtually his only media outlet at the time.

For Bleed For This, it had already been announced that the role of Vinny will be played by Miles Teller (who he? Was Mark Wahlberg busy?) and Aaron Eckhart will portray trainer Kevin Rooney, a wack job in his own right. But last week, it was revealed who will fill the roles of Vinny’s father, Angelo, and his mother, Louise.

Angelo, who was one of Little Rhody’s most zany but beloved characters during his son’s career, will be played by Ciarán Hinds, whose imperious turn as Caesar in the HBO series, Rome (you may know him as Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones), must have the late Angelo dancing an Italian jig of joy in heaven. When we tell you Vinny was the voice of reason in relation to Angelo, you can get some idea of what a wild and crazy guy Poppa Angelo was.

But the shocker was the selection of Katey Sagal to play Louise Pazienza. Sagal, already notorious

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for her sexual innuendo-riddled, freewheeling role in Married with Children, has pushed new outlaw boundaries in her current role as hot-as-sunburn, twice-widowed Gemma, Queen Mother of a biker gang in the Hell’s Angels-inspired series, Sons of Anarchy.

This casting choice is the rough equivalent of choosing badass rocker Joan Jett to star as Mother Teresa. Mama Louise was the wonderful, shy, and soft-spoken matriarch of the family who wouldn’t attend Vinny’s fights because she couldn’t stand seeing him get hit. She would instead stay home with her rosary beads and pray for him. We hope that Sagal realizes that to properly portray Louise, they’ll have to shoot her up with Percocet and send her to a finishing school for a crash course in social niceties.

When it’s all said and done, it should certainly make Bleed For This a can’t-miss flick for any Rhode Islanders who still hold Vinny Paz and his traveling circus

near and dear to their hearts, as do your superior correspondents.

required reading

The September 21 New York Times Magazine featured a story that should be required reading for those too young to remember seeing former Colorado senator Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign derailed by an alleged dalliance with a woman who was not his wife. The author, Matt Bai, conducted a number of recent interviews with Hart that are wistful and, for many of us who supported Hart at the time, ineffably sad.

At the time that the “scandal” — his affair with Donna Rice — was revealed, Hart had a substantial lead over Walter Mondale in the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.

He also enjoyed a double-digit lead over the GOP nominee and eventual winner, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush. But Hart dropped out of the race and the rest, as they say, is history.

Near the end of the article, Bai asks Hart to reflect on his lost opportunity to be elected president and Hart notes that, if the story of his alleged affair had not surfaced, it’s likely that he would have been elected. He further speculates that, if Bush had not been elected, chances are that his son, George W. Bush, would never have run for or been elected president 12 years later, there would have been no invasion of Iraq, and the entire quagmire we find ourselves in today would be quite different.

While it’s impossible to reimagine history, this is still a fascinating read that your superior correspondents highly recommend.

Big weekend in newport

There are a lot of goings-on in the City-by-the-Sea this first autumn weekend. Two of the most interesting are an appearance by the New Orleans Suspects and the Steamahs at the Newport Blues Cafe on Friday (the 26th), and screenings of the pilot episode of Newport: The Series.

The Suspects are a band of veteran musicians from the Crescent City featuring former members of James Brown’s band, the Neville Brothers, the Radiators, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. P&J believe they’re one of the best bands in the country. The Steamahs, an all-Rhode Island outfit, are playing their first gig since the passing of guitarist Paul “Newport Slim” Toracinta in August. Jake Eckert of the New Orleans Suspects will play guitar and the entire evening will be in memory of Paul.

The pilot episode of Newport: The Series will be screened, free of charge, on Saturday (the 27th) at 7 pm on Sunday (the 28th) at 9 pm at the Casino Theater. The series was produced by Tom Erb and Justin Martell and the pilot features two of the main characters in the series, artist William Heydt and journalist Jim Gillis (though they’re portrayed by actors, these are real Newport people), who “team up to paint and tell the stories of the people of Newport.”

Erb told us that the series is “similar to the old network television mystery series Night Gallery [created and hosted by Rod Serling]. We start with a portrait of a real Newport person and then tell a story that is part true and part fiction centered around that person.”

Erb says he has recently contacted people at Netflix, Amazon, TBS, and the Hallmark Channel.

While there has been no sale so far, this is a fascinating project and the screenings are a great opportunity to view the beginning of the series with an audience full of Newporters. ^

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This Just in Laugh Track

a comedy superstar — and cancer survivor — hits town When comedian Tig Notaro was diag-

nosed with cancer in 2012, she cancelled f her upcoming gigs — her mind was too pre-

occupied to tell jokes with any real conviction. A week later, she turned that predicament on its head by getting on stage at Largo nightclub in Los Angeles and delivering what would become one of the most celebrated standup sets in recent history.

“Good evening, hello. I have cancer. Hi, how are you? Is everybody having a good time? I have cancer. How are you?”

So begins the set, in which Notaro details — devastatingly, hilariously — a series of awful events, of which a stage-two cancer diagnosis was only the most recent. She’d also been hospitalized for a severe intestinal infection, lost her mother in a tragic accident, and suffered through a breakup, within a span of four months. The set was lauded by fellow comedian Louis C.K. as one of the most “truly great, masterful standup sets” he’s ever witnessed.

The complete recording of the half-hour set, titled Live, was nominated for a Grammy earlier this year.

In anticipation of her upcoming show at the Columbus Theatre, Notaro spoke with us this week about life and work after cancer. The interview has been edited and condensed.

ing to Twitter, and blogging, and press outlets reaching out the following day. That was not my intent, nor was it where my head was at.

I actually thought that could’ve been my last time performing stand-up. If anything, I felt relieved that it went over so well.

SINCE THEN, YOU’VE PERFORMED AT A WIDE VARIETY OF VENUES — FROM YOUR UPCOMING SHOWTIME SPECIAL, KNOCK KNOCK, IT’S TIG NOTARO, TO CONAN, TO GUEST SPOTS ON VARIOUS TV SHOWS AND RADIO PODCASTS. IS THERE A VENUE OR CONTEXT IN WHICH YOU FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE, CONFIDENT, OR EXCITED TO PERFORM? I like them all. Conan was super

supportive of me very early on and has been a huge help — and they really champion comedic ideas I pitch to do on the show, so those appearances have always been so much fun. I love really intimate venues, but being

YOU’D BEEN DOING COMEDY FOR YEARS BEFORE THAT SET AT LARGO. HAVE YOUR ROUTINES OR WRITING PROCESSES CHANGED MARKEDLY SINCE THEN? DOES CANCER JUST MAKE EVERYTHING ELSE SEEM TRIVIAL? It hasn’t changed

my approach to stand-up or my writing process all that AUTHENTIC Notaro. much. I try to approach my comedy and writing from a able to perform in 1000-seat venues has also place of wanting to do what’s authentic to been exhilarating. My Showtime project was me as a person and a comic. I try to do matesuper fun, because many of those venues are rial that excites me. And that set at Largo off the beaten path –— like barns, and a fan’s happened to be my reality at that time, living room. It’s as intimate as it gets, and which is what prompted me to stray from my really breaks down and explores the barrier jokes about getting passed on the highway between artists and their fans. in traffic by a bee, and discuss all that I had been going through.

YOU PERFORMED A PRETTY HILARIOUS BIT But since then, while I’ve still had to deal ON CONAN EARLIER THIS YEAR IN WHICH YOU with the fallout from those difficult four THEORIZE THAT, AFTER YEARS OF MAKING JOKES months, my life is in great shape, and I have ABOUT YOUR FLAT CHEST, YOUR BREASTS DEso much to be thankful for. So much of my CIDED TO GIVE YOU CANCER AS AN ACT OF VENnew material is me approaching comedy the GEANCE. ARE YOU EVER SURPRISED AT PEOPLES’ same exact way I did before my life fell apart.

CAPACITY FOR FINDING HUMOR IN PAIN AND It’s new but it’s consistent with who I was TRAGEDY? Not surprised. as a standup before those four months. I inI think audiences who show up to laugh clude some more personal topics now, which and are comedy fans will do so as long as I hadn’t done before. something is smart and funny. I think their THE CROWD’S REACTION DURING THAT SET IS focus is less on the topic and more on if they PRETTY REMARKABLE. AT ONE POINT AN AUDIthink you’re funny.

ENCE MEMBER YELLS, VERY SINCERELY, “THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING.” DID YOU KNOW RIGHT THEN THAT THAT PERFORMANCE WAS KIND OF A BIG DEAL? DID YOU GO INTO IT WITH THAT MINDSET?

I was trying to work out another story for This American Life before this performance. So I was looking to really get all of this stuff off my chest, and maybe have some audio that [would be] usable to send to Ira Glass. I knew the audience was right there with me and insanely supportive. But I did not anticipate people tak-

ARE THERE ANY INTERVIEW QUESTIONS THAT REPORTERS NEVER ASK YOU AND YOU WISH THEY WOULD? They never ask if I’ve been

treated unfairly as a female comic. That topic never comes up.

Tig Notaro will perform at the Columbus Theatre (270 Broadway, Providence) on September 28 at 8 pm.

Tickets are $22 in advance, $25 at the door. For more info, go to columbustheatre.com/event/tig-notaro.

_Liz Lee

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extracurriculars what teachers do when they’re not teaching you _By P h il iP e il

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rown University turned 250 years old this year. Its College Hill neighbor, The Rhode Island School of Design, was founded in 1877. The University of Rhode Island was founded 15 years later, in 1892.

Providence College will arrive at its 100th birthday just three years from now, in 2017.

In short, Rhode Island has old schools.

And as long as students have been coming here to learn about Plato and plate tectonics, they’ve been wondering what their instructors do in their off-hours. Today, the Phoenix is happy to report that we have answers — wave-riding, bug-eating, goth/postpunk-guitar-playing, NRA-aggravating answers. As it turns out, all we had to do was ask.

Read on to learn what a handful of Rhody-based professors do when they’re not standing in front of a classroom, talking to you. (Note: in some cases, these answers have been edited for length or clarity.)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND Most students think of their professors as nerds. This is mostly true, but we are nerds in interesting ways. Outside of my job, I am really busy with traveling, exploring the great beers of this country, hiking, rooting for the Oregon Ducks, and watching movies — especially old westerns, Hong Kong gangster films, film noir. Silent movies are especially amazing and I love showing them in my classes.

My main outside activity is writing about politics and history at the blog Lawyers, Guns, and Money [lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/author/erik.loomis].

Mostly I write on the issues I feel passionate about —the labor and environmental movements — but I write about whatever I feel like, ranging from historical images of dead horses to my disdain for ketchup.

Mostly it’s been great. I have a lot of readers. I have the ability to play a small role in defining the debates on the issues I care about. I can take local labor union stories and broadcast them to a much wider audience, including on Twitter [@ ErikLoomis]. On the other hand, after the Sandy Hook massacre, there was a rightwing campaign to get URI to fire me after I harshly criticized the NRA on Twitter. So that was fun.

I did learn one thing though — death threats are overrated. Don’t recommend getting them.

But at least my life stays exciting!

PETER NULTON

SENIOR LECTURER IN THE HISTORY OF ART AND VISUAL CULTURE, RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN; ADJUNCT IN ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND When I’m not teaching, I play guitar and bass in two different goth/postpunk bands. I play guitar in the Dirge Carolers, with my wife Heather (keyboards) and Chris Harnois (bass/vocal). The act is a sometimes-tongue-in-cheek goth band with an eclectic sound, ranging from ’80s-style proto-goth (e.g. Joy Division), to blues, cabaret, electronica, and hard rock.

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RIDING THE WAVE Fruzzett.

Party with Dorian James (vocal/guitar/ keyboard) and Mike Rebeiro (guitar). This band creates original music with reference to the genre of ’80s alternative and synthpop. Influences include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Psychedelic Furs, Echo and the Bunnymen, and the Smiths.

From a music-culture perspective, I always liked that goth music focuses on art, literature, and culture. There aren’t a ton of songs about getting drunk (e.g., George Thorogood), or getting even with your ex through property damage (e.g., Carrie Underwood) as you might find in other genres. For me, goth, which grew out of punk, was a sublimation of the rebellious, rough-and-ready political activism of the original punk scene, into an aesthetic rebelliousness, which, ironically, rebelled against punk by writing music more infused with traditional musical theory.

You don’t need to know much about music theory to write loud, pulsing songs, but to achieve the kind of rarefied atmosphere required to get something more spooky or ethereal across, you need to know how not to jar a listener out of the mood by breaking too many of the rules of music.

ADRIA UPDIKE

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY I’m an astrophysicist, and I study exploding stars and how we can use them as probes of the early universe.

What do I do when I’m not teaching?

Some of my time is spent looking at stars that exploded billions of years ago. These explosions (gamma ray bursts, or GRBs)

occurred so long ago and far away that the light from them is just reaching us now.

GRBs are detected by their brief burst of gamma radiation, but fortunately gamma radiation is blocked by our atmosphere. So we rely on space-based satellites, such as Swift [collaboratively launched in 2004 by NASA and several European countries], to locate these bursts for us.

When Swift detects a burst, I get a text message on my phone including the approximate location in the sky. Then I need to find a telescope. I’m a member of several telescope collaborations in the northern and southern hemispheres, so chances are good I can find a telescope to borrow for an hour or two in order to take a look at the GRB before it quickly fades away. These telescopes can be run on-site, remotely (over a computer), and some telescopes even respond robotically to triggers from the Swift satellite. By looking at the GRB in different color filters, I can attempt to figure out the composition of the galaxy in which it exploded. This can tell us quite a bit about galaxy evolution in the early universe, currently a difficult topic to probe.

I’m [also] the faculty advisor for RWU’s Astronomy Club, so I’m out with various small telescopes at least once a week, when weather permits.

ANTHONY FRUZZETTI

PROFESSOR OF MARKETING, JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY I am the original and continuing faculty advisor for, [as] they’ve named themselves, the Johnson & Wales University Wave Riders Surf Club.

I had never surfed until about eight years ago, [when] a student of mine — we were having a discussion in class encouraging the students to spread their wings, try new things, not be afraid to take chances — asked me, “Well, what’s something you’ve never done that you’ve wanted to do?” Fair enough. Turn the tables; that’s OK. And I said, “I’ve always wanted to go surfing and maybe sometime I [will] try.” [Later,] a young lady in the class, who had been wanting to start a surf club at the university needed a faculty advisor to make it an official club, approached me and said she would teach me how to surf if I would be their faculty advisor so they could be a real club. And I said, “Yes.” So, having lived 35 years without ever having surfed, I went out, the kids taught me, and I’ve been the advisor for the surf club ever since. Typically, when we do lessons — and the place where I was taught — is [Middletown’s] Second Beach. Another place we go to is Narragansett Town Beach.

[Surfing is] difficult to describe, even for someone who makes his living with words, like myself. It feels as though the entire ocean is picking you up and you and the wave are enjoying this moment together and you’re going for a ride toward the shore. It’s an incredible sensation. It’s peaceful and exciting at the same time.

It’s really something.

I’ll go on record as saying the Surf Club would be the coolest club on campus. It’s hard not to look cool with a surfboard on your car, even on top of my station wagon.

DAVE GRACER

WRITING INSTRUCTOR, COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND In 1999 I became interested in entomophagy, the consumption of insects as a viable food-source. I find the subject intellectually satisfying because it represents a combination of science and humanities. Many people find the idea of eating insects disgusting, yet few people stop to wonder why they have such a reaction. My teaching work centers on asking questions and using logic: this is exactly what’s needed to comprehend entomophagy.

I’ve published a few articles and collaborated to advance the subject, which is a meeting-ground of humanity’s past and future, and a lens through which to reconsider our relationships to our landscapes and the planet. I have participated in a number of conferences, including an international FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations] Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in February 2008; have delivered a TEDx talk on the subject; and been featured in a lot of media [including appearing as a guest on The Colbert Report]. I’ve collected an archive of articles on insect consumption and related parallel subject-matter, and am currently curating a museum-style collection of physical objects related to entomophagy.

Having earlier studied the specific details of entomology and anthropology, my focus has turned towards the best

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possible answers to why insect consumption is so difficult for a great many people.

We know that large-scale insect-foodproduction will be essential to humanity’s future, and that the depth of the revulsion to entomophagy is extreme, and potentially disheartening. The time is coming to address and challenge that perspective.

KATHLEEN CORNELY

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY, PROVIDENCE COLLEGE In my experience, music and science (I teach chemistry and biochemistry) seem to go together. I performed with the Sage Chapel Choir at Cornell University when I was a graduate student there, and many of the performers were scientists. Many of my Providence College students are also musicians — they play in the orchestra or sing in one of the choirs. One of my students is even double majoring in music and biochemistry.

I currently sing with the Central Congregational Church Choir [in Providence]. I also sing with the Voices of Christmas . ..[which] gets together to rehearse in November and then we hit the ground running, performing about 20 gigs during the Christmas season, starting with performing in the lobby of Trinity Rep on press night of A Christmas Carol and continuing up through Christmas. [It’s] sometimes difficult to work around the end of semester and final exams, but it’s important to me, so I manage.

One of the really great things about being an amateur singer in Providence is the opportunity to perform alongside so many accomplished musicians. When I sang with Ocean State Light Opera many years ago, I performed in the chorus, but the musicians who were cast as the leads were comparable to musicians you’d find in New York City. Central Congregational Church hires six to eight professional

musicians to sing in the choir. I get to sit next to Fred Scheff, who wowed the critics last fall as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.

Singing alongside these fabulous singers has really helped me grow as a musician.

MICHAEL FINK

PROFESSOR OF LITERARY ARTS + STUDIES, RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Since I teach an elective course called “Birds In Books” I watch the hummingbirds at my Rose of Sharon bushes or my hanging pots of fuchsia or weedy beebalm. I can call that “research.” All summer long, I strolled the shoreline from the Narragansett Towers to the dunes at Narrow River and admired the gulls, the sanderlings, the piping plovers, the swan, and even the sparrows. I also have a Bible seminar, so I quote quietly to myself when I see those little brown birds, “His Eye Is On the Sparrow.” I [also] offer a class called “Journalism: Writing With Your Feet” to encourage my students to get away from their laptops into the pathways of Providence. I can label my column contributions to small local newsletters [like East Side Monthly and The Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes] in which I publish my reports on my hikes along the beach my “professional output.”

What do I do on my time away from campus?

I sip coffee [along] with conversation at the cafes.

I watch TCM old movies, but after all, I also conduct an evening course on Hollywood History known as “With a Pen of Light.” Finally, I celebrate downtown Providence by an occasional visit to any new bar that opens its doors, with a bartender willing to listen to my rants, or my reviews of the documentaries at Providence Place IMAX, or the Cable Car, or the Avon, or the Warwick Showcase, or the East Providence Complex.

Now you know me, my routine, my rut, and you can find me, or avoid me, as you like. ^

i offer a class called ‘journalism: writing with your feet’ to encourage my students to get away from their laptops into the pathways of providence.

“MUSIC AND SCIENCE SEEM TO GO TOGETHER,” cornely says.

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here is life beyond Taco Night at the dorm dining hall.

In fact, there are so many tasty, iconic, and otherwise noteworthy culinary destinations in this teensy state, that the challenge in preparing this Rhody Food 101 crash course wasn’t coming up with ideas, it was whittling the list down to a manageable size.

We’ll get to that list in a second. But, before we begin, let’s make one thing clear: Federal Hill, in Providence, is still indisputably the place to start any culinary tour of the Ocean State. Sure, recent news of beatings, brawls, and shootings on Atwells Ave. — the Hill’s main drag — haven’t been the best marketing scheme.

But all it takes is a few minutes of listening to how aggressively Providence mayoral candidates talk about protecting the Hill to know how sacred this place is.

Our advice? If it’s your first time, try the “Apostrophe Strategy”: dropping into establishments with names that end in “–’s” like Andino’s, Bob & Timmy’s, Angelo’s, and Joe Marzilli’s Old Canteen. Once you’ve plowed through enough pasta, sausage, marinara sauce (called “gravy” on Atwells), garlic, veal, parmesan, and other Mediterranean delights, and you’ve made it to the Western downslope of the hill — a stretch with two more notable apostrophe eateries, Don José Tequila’s and the dimly-lit burger saloon, Lili Marlene’s — then you’re ready to conquer the rest of the state.

Here are a few humble suggestions.

WHAT: Matunuck Oyster Bar WHERE: South Kingstown WHY: It doesn’t matter what your GPA is —

if you leave a college in Rhode Island without trying local oysters, you have failed.

Solution: hop in the car and head to the Matunuck Oyster Bar, the absurdly successful “farm-to-table, pond-to-plate” eatery perched on a lush, sun-dappled cove a shell’s throw from the Atlantic Ocean.

Oysters served at MOB are the Platonic ideal of the shellfish experience.

They’re served on a bracingly cold metal plate, along with lemons, and little

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bowls of vinegar-based mignonette sauce and cocktail sauce. If it’s your first time staring down a mollusk, you might be squeamish. But pop one of these squiggly, salty, tender, sweet, luscious gifts from the sea into your pie-hole and prepare to have your life changed.

Pretty amazing, huh? Slurping down a Potter’s Pond oyster that has been harvested a few hundred yards from your table is the perfect way to tell your taste buds, “Welcome to Rhode Island.”

Now, it’s time to start looking for that extra job to support your oyster habit.

WHAT: Allie’s Donuts WHERE: North Kingstown WHY: Dunkin’ Donuts dominates the local

D-nut game (see: Providence’s sports/concert arena, the Dunkin’ Donuts Center), but that doesn’t mean Mom and Pop have been totally out-frosted and out-sprinkled. Fam-

Matunuck oyster Bar

Slathered with mustard, topped with meat sauce, sprinkled with celery salt and onions, and served in a steamed bun, the hot wiener is signature as are the salt and vinegar French fries. The preferred drink is coffee milk, made in Rhode Island by flavoring milk with a sweetened wright’s farm coffee concentrate called coffee syrup.”

Sounds about right, to us.

As for those rumors that former RISD student and Talking Heads front man David Byrne’s arm-chopping dance from the “Once In a Lifetime” music video was inspired by his experience slinging wieners in RI? Well, they’re just rumors.

“I did work in a wiener joint,” he told the Phoenix in 2008, “but if you look at the video, the source of the movement . . . it’s from Yoyogi Park in Tokyo. They had all these street dancers — they still have street dancers — in the park, and I videotaped some of them.”

Pro-tip: bring Tums for your first New York System experience.

ramps and dining rooms to your table — you’ll have two choices: chicken or steak.

Don’t freeze up when faced with this decision. Go for the chicken, and then sit back, as bowls of salad, pasta, french fries, and rolls are heaped upon your table.

Oh, yeah, and chicken, which, in its salty, greasy, fall-off-the-bone, crispyskinned glory, is the only explanation necessary for why a restaurant would need seating for 1023.

This place is an experience.

WHAT: Iggy’s Doughboys & Chowder House WHERE: Warwick WHY: If the merchandise at this legendary

joint (boxes of “Iggy’s Doughboy Mix,” featuring a recipe on the back; cans of Iggy’s chopped clams; holiday ornaments and temporary tattoos featuring the establishment’s eponymous, anthropomorphic doughboy, Iggy) isn’t enough of an allure,

WHAT: Modern Diner WHERE: Pawtucket WHY: Folks who know this jewel of the ily owned since 1968, Allie’s is a no-frills sugar shack worthy of a field trip. Munching on a sugar-covered Allie’s raspberry jelly doughnut, one of more than thirty varieties sold there, is as rapturous an experience as you’ll find on this food tour.

But the real draw to Allie’s are the cakes. Doughnut cakes, specifically.

No Rhode Island bachelor party, graduation, or, heck, even funeral, is official until there has been a representational Allie’s cake commissioned for the occasion. A table at Allie’s is stacked with time-worn binders of photos of these masterpieces crafted from doughnut batter, sprinkles, and frosting. Anchors. Rollerblades. Rubber duckies. Wedding rings.

Genie lamps. Eiffel towers. Shih Tzus.

Order one and watch the people at your party freak out.

WHAT: Olneyville New York System WHERE: Providence WHY: You can take our word for this recommendation, or you could listen to the folks at the James Beard Foundation, who, in giving ONYS the food equivalent of an Oscar — a 2014 “America’s Classic” award — wrote, “Olneyville New York System, despite its name, serves food that is distinctive to Rhode Island.

Bucket may chuckle at the name Modern Diner, since a large part of its allure is how frozen in time it is. From the 1940s Sterling Streamliner dining room, to the framed 1945 menu that greets guests in the waiting area (“Oyster Stew $0.40,” “Tenderloin Steak $1.25”), to the thick Rhode Islandese with which you’ll be greeted by your waiter (“Youguysknowwhatchahavin’?”), to the wonderfully greasy, steaming plate of bacon, potatoes, and eggs that arrive after you place your order — this place ain’t particularly modern.

No, for that — and a worthwhile dose of cultural whiplash — you’ll want to head a mile down East Ave. to Wildflour Vegan Bakery, home of gluten-free lemon lavender cupcakes, kale salads, and $8 “Toxin Flush” apple/cucumber/spinach/ lemon/ginger juices.

Wildflour is Modern Diner’s antithesis.

But don’t ask us to pick a favorite; we love ’em both. And both offer equally effective, if diametrically opposed, options for treating a hangover.

WHAT: Wright’s Farm Restaurant WHERE: Burrillville WHY: The first thing to know about

Wright’s Farm, the airport terminal-sized restaurant tucked into Rhode Island’s Northlands, is that the restaurant seats 1023 people at a time. The second thing you ought to know is that, once you’ve completed the DMV-esque process of making your way to a table — checking in at the front desk, receiving a numbered chit, waiting to hear your number call over a loudspeaker, being led through a maze of

iggy’s doughboys the food here is as authentically local as you can get without chewing on the state flag.

Clam cakes. Stuffed quahogs. Lobstah rolls. Chowdah. Fried clams. Fried scallops. Fried shrimp. Fried calamari.

Doughboys.

We suggest ordering at the takeout window and shuffling over to nearby Oakland Beach to enjoy the view, which, on a clear day, extends down to the Pell Bridge, connecting Jamestown and Newport. As is the case with many of Rhode Island’s best eateries, watch out for the greedy, hungry gulls overhead.

NOTE: This is a subjective list that in no

way encapsulate all of the good food and drink in the state. We didn’t even get to talk about the stuffed peppers at the Sandwich Hut in Providence, or the stone-pot beef BiBimBap at Sun and Moo in East Providence, or Gray’s Ice Cream in Tiverton, or the White Horse Tavern in Newport . . . .

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17 books you should read in college (WhEThER youR PRofESSoRS TEll you To oR noT) _By emily young

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he following is a list of books you should read in college, whether you like reading books or not. But before we get to that, I’ll recommend some books that aren’t on the list, like books assigned by your professors, and books recommended by friends. Challenge yourself to read something you wouldn’t. Read obvious books like Hamlet, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Sense and Sensibility, and Man’s Search for Meaning. And if you find yourself hating any one of them, throw the book across the room and pick up something else. Read all the books.

Let’s start with philosophy — I think we can agree that, to a certain extent, college is mostly about thinking and talking about thinking and problem solving and discovery of how life is. What I really want to recommend to you is A. A. Milne’s The World of Pooh, which, toilet humor aside, is one of the best. But since not everyone wants to be seen reading a children’s book, let’s read Benjamin Hoff’s THE TAO OF POOH, which takes Milne’s stories and prescribes them as a way of learning about true happiness and eastern philosophy.

This is one of the most fun philosophy books that exist and Pooh (through Hoff) really will pique your interest in Taoism.

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND by Shunryu Suzuki, a collection of talks recorded by one of the Zen Buddhist monk’s students. Still in the realm of eastern philosophy but moving from speaking generally about Taoism, we’re now speaking specifically about Buddhist meditation—from thinking to doing. As it’s taken from talks rather than intended for print, so many of the lines are simple and resonate deeply, and may be just the thing for the mind of a college student thrown into transition and disorganization. “It’s

THE TAO OF POOH Some lessons aren’t worth unlearning.

impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order.”

ARTFUL by Ali Smith is one of those books

that is said to defy categorization, and that’s actually true. Taken from a series of lectures Smith delivered in 2012 and then strained through a mind deeply devoted to fiction, this book reads like a novel (yet isn’t) as it meanders seamlessly between plot and essay (it isn’t really this either), Smith ruminates on time, form, edge, offer and reflection, while keeping the book tied to loss, literature, and the ghosts of the past. And as confusing as all that may sound, it’s so readable.

If you’re the sort of angsty wanderer for whom On the Road and Catcher in the Rye appeals, let me recommend to you YOU CAN’T WIN by Jack Black. A memoir written in the 1920s, Black’s conversational style details his various adventures living as a hobo and a yegg around the US and Canada.

This is my answer to Twain, the Beats, westerns, and history all rolled into one.

If that isn’t recommendation enough, it’s William S. Burroughs’s favorite book.

Let’s pause a moment for novels. If the idea behind this list is survival, then escapism is key. If I were writing a desert island book list, I would fill it with novels. A good place to start, especially here in Maine, is with Stephen King. I find that people generally fall on two sides when it comes to King—either “I love his horror novels” or “I don’t read him because I don’t like horror.”

For both of these reasons, I recommend King’s HEARTS IN ATLANTIS. It isn’t horror.

It is a novel composed of five connected novellas, largely about college and comingof-age, about the Vietnam War, and search for meaning, and love. There are touches of sci-fi and mystery in here, enough for those who crave it, yet contained enough for those wary of genre fiction.

ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND Duality can mess you up, dude.

ARTFUL like your diary, but without the winces.

There’s also THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole

Krauss, a beautifully written, read-straightthrough type of novel.

It traces the history of a book called The History of Love through three alternating perspectives — an old man, a young girl, and more explicative sections tracing the book’s unlikely journey towards publication. It is also what it says it is — a history of love. I’ll emphasize that the book is moving, but it’s formed of equal parts humor and heartbreak.

If you think novels are old hat, try novel’s spunkier little sister the short story.

Choose a collection from the Best American series or find an author you like.

Read Salinger’s Nine Stories or O’Conner’s Everything That Rises Must Converge. For something new, I recomTHE COLOR MASTER mend THE COLOR MASTER you gotta know the

by Aimee Bender. Bender’s dark to see the light. work has always drifted in an out of the mystical, and this collection is no different. aimed at Maine college students, the While only a few of the stories actually majority of you reading this are white contain elements of magic realism, they Americans. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s all dabble in an ethereal darkness while AMERICANAH is a beautifully written novel remaining grounded in a reality that one about the experiences of a non-American can understand. black woman (specifically a Nigerian immigrant) in an American college and Aside from escapism, narrative fiction beyond. I found it to be at the same time can also be an easy window to underforeign and completely relatable. Adichie standing experiences that may be very explores race, love, loss-of-innocence, different from our own. I’m writing on other people’s assumptions, and what it the assumption that, this article being means to be a modern American woman

YOU CAN’T WIN no, not that Jack Black.

HEARTS IN ATLANTIS Don’t kid yourself: SK is no one-trick pony.

THE HISTORY OF LOVE it’s a matter of perspective, really.

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and a modern Nigerian woman in a completely accessible, I-was-obsessed-while-Iwas-reading-it sort of way.

If you’re a traditionally-aged college student (read: twentyish), you’re probably going through this time in your life where you are beginning to realize your own potential: to defy what used to seem inevitable, to create your own destiny, and to exact change in the world. Now all you have to do is decide what sort of change to exact. If you’re like I was in college, it was almost more important to be a part of some sort of cause than to make sure it was the best cause. If you are currently a rebel in the market for a cause, please let me suggest a good one. A good one is humanity’s future on this earth. An excellent guide in support of this cause is CHOICES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING by the Northwest Earth Institute, which can be purchased on the Northwest Earth Institute website.

The guide is more than just a book — it, of course, provides answers to the “why” and “how” questions of sustainability (also the “what is it” question if you’re not quite

there yet), but if you’ve got a band of folks ready to go, Choices for Sustainable Living is also set up as a seven week course for discussion and implementation.

Speaking of good reasons to get fired up, I also recommend getting fired up about the injustices of war. This is an old standby as far as causes go, but it’s worth your time.

A good place to start is Howard Zinn’s YOU

CAN’T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF OUR TIMES, where

the famous historian and civil rights activist details his time as a bombardier in WWII and how that led to becoming a leader in the fight for social change.

If Zinn’s direct approach is a turn-off to you, and you’d rather take the sci-fi, time-traveling, memoirish-novel route towards feeling indignant about war, please turn to SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE OR THE

CHILDREN’S CRUSADE: A DUTY-DANCE WITH DEATH by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Actually, read

this one even if you don’t care about war.

Read it because Vonnegut’s prose reads like the father we should all have: frank,

CALVIN AND HOBBES...

Tortured philosophical friendship is life itself. comforting, and whimsical while imparting all the truths about life. Read anything

by Vonnegut for this reason.

AMERICANAH get acquainted with the intersections.

SLAUGHTERHOUSEFIVE Still America’s literary dad.

TENDER HOOKS Bring me the poet’s heart!

CHOICES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING A handy, useful guide.

YOU CAN’T BE NEUTRAL... Politics is very interested in you.

HIS DARK MATERIALS like HP, but weirder.

STAY Know how to talk about it.

A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST learn directionlessness.

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS The truth will find its way out.

TENDER HOOKS by Beth Ann Fennelly. Fen-

nelly’s poetry is visceral, sexy, and weird.

It’s easy to get into, but there is plenty of depth to her words. Tender Hooks spends a For those nights (or mornings or afternoons) lot of time on motherhood, and is perhaps when you really want to get lost in a favortoo adult for college students. This is why ite old book, but you’re so lazy you don’t I recommend it. It bites at something that even really want to read a whole book with isn’t even there yet. all those words and lengthy narratives, please turn to comics. I specifically recomLastly, let’s find ourselves. A good place mend THE CALVIN AND HOBBES 10TH ANNIVER- to start is Rebecca Solnit’s A FIELD GUIDE SARY BOOK by Bill Watterson. Not only is it TO GETTING LOST. Solnit, perhaps most faan excellent collection of strips chosen by mous for having coined the term “mansthe author, but it provides an illuminating plain,” here writes a meditation on the introduction, also by Watterson, on craft, wonders of literally getting lost, and if ethics, and what makes him tick. you let her takes you down this twisty path, you will get lost in this book. This is On the flip side, if you’re craving that oldwhere you can find yourself. favorite feeling, but narratives restricted to half a page and a scant four panels aren’t TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS: ADVICE ON LOVE nearly enough, and if you refuse to waste AND LIFE from Dear Sugar by Cheryl your time on anything as short as a single Strayed is my answer to all the self-help or book, dust off HIS DARK MATERIALS by Philip how-to books that people have suggested Pullman. If it isn’t already an old favorite, it I add to this list. Here, the author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail colwill be soon. It’s as easy to sink into as any lects sixty-or-so letters from the anonyYA trilogy, but it sneaks history, religion, mous agony column she penned from 2010 philosophy, myth, and heart in between to 2012. Strayed’s variety of advice by way fantasy, wonder, and first love. If you read of personal essay is irresistible, and she this in middle school, you probably missed something. If you didn’t read this in middle considers each query with an open heart and true reflection — a level of compasschool, well, you missed reading it in midsion which really comes through on the dle school and it’s time to get cracking. questions where it is clear how few fucks The value in Jennifer Michael Hecht’s STAY: Strayed gives about sparing the asker’s A HISTORY OF SUICIDE AND THE PHILOSOPHIES feelings over offering them the truth of a situation. Anyone would be hard-pressed AGAINST IT is twofold — or I should say at not to learn a thing or two about themleast twofold, as there are surely countless selves while leafing through this book. good things about this historian/poet’s work. Being a historian, Hecht’s prose is largely informational and unassuming, al- Are you starting to feel like you don’t have time to read all this stuff in between lowing facts and events to speak for themschool and work, and worried that you selves, but when it matters, Hecht can therefore MAY NOT SURVIVE? Think really pull in close for an emotional punch about this: my brother used to scan huge in the gut, which is often just what one maps for a living, and each map would needs. Stay is essential reading for anyone interested in history or philosophy, or any- take a few minutes to scan. He managed to read whole books at work, three one who has experienced loss. minutes at a time. I, on the other hand, am partial to reading and walking, leavLet’s pause again for poetry, something I ing no second wasted on frivolous things haven’t talked about yet, but should have. like looking around the neighborhood. If Definitely read poetry. Even if you don’t you’re not feeling as dedicated as we are, think you’ll like it. Read any poetry — read forget the whole list and just find someWhitman, Dickinson, or Cummings. Even thing you’re passionate about. I asked one delve into poets who need their full name friend, who I never thought of as a reader, to be recognized, like Wendy Xu or Jason what his favorite book was. He named a Bredle. Go old — read Sappho — or go new, cookbook, and immediately renewed my go to the nearest poetry reading and buy the chapbook that was stapled together this faith in books as objects perfect for anyone in any situation. You just have to find the morning. Start wherever you like, but if right one. ^ you don’t know where to start, start with

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aggravation ahoy! get ready to be irked by these only-in-vo dilun quirks _by fal l o n m a s t e rson

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elcome to Rhode Island.

Fall foliage, an election race featuring a beloved ex-con — it’s a magical time of year to join us. You moved here, so you already know the highlights of Rhody living, like world-class beaches and a culinary scene that routinely lands us on national “Best of” lists (see “Eat this!” on page 10 for more). But at the Phoenix, we believe it’s actually our shared grievances that bond us, and we want to make sure you feel like part of the community.

You’ll know you’re well on the way to becoming a Rhode Islander, when you’re frustrated by any of the items on our list below. Because if you stick around here, you will . . .

. . . BE JUDGED BY THE SPEED OF YOUR DUNKIN’ ORDER

There are 177 or so Dunkin’ Donuts in Rhode Island. It’s one of the most denselypopulated Dunk states in the country, and we take it seriously. Hardcore drinkers know which Dunkin’s are open on Christmas Day and which ones aren’t. They have opinions on which is the best of the

five franchises that exist on North Providence’s Mineral Spring Avenue, alone.

And they don’t mince words when ordering: “Medium regular.”

There will come a time when you pause a second too long before placing your order. Maybe it’s windy and you don’t hear the woman at the drive thru, or you’re distracted by a seasonally whimsical doughnut. Your faux pas will be evident by the beeping car horns or palpable wrath of the construction worker in line behind you. Save yourself the trouble and patronize a local coffee shop, like New Harvest or Seven Stars.

. . . DREAD TAKING YOUR FAMILY TO NEWPORT

Newport is the picturesque gem we use to lure tourists into our clutches. Passengers arriving at T.F. Green are bombarded with stands selling saltwater taffy, photographs of sailboats, and books detailing the 1953 JFK/Jacqueline Bouvier wedding and other famous inhabitants of the “City by the Sea.” Your mother will have read these books and want to visit Newport.

Don’t try to stop her. It won’t matter to her that it’s off-season and you’ll be battered with side-sweeping rain off the harbor. That’s what raincoats are for. Enjoy Parents’ Weekend at the Breakers.

. . . GET LOST BY A MISLEADING DETOUR SIGN

Here’s a scene. You’re running late when you come across a closed road.

An orange detour sign points to the left. Beyond the roadblock, the street looks pristine, save for a pothole with a lone yellow traffic cone placed in the center. You consider plowing through the roadblock, but no, you’ll follow WaterFire the rules and turn left.

Don’t expect there to be a followyour bartender to the woman in the cold up detour sign. What that first sign really cut line at the supermarket has an opinion. meant was, “Try going this way. Good Here’s our suggestion for how to luck.” If you’re lucky, you’ll only drive a deal: if someone asks what you think mile out of your way. Considering Rhode about Buddy and you aren’t sure, deIsland a) is in a state of perpetual conflect the question. Ask if they’ve ever struction, and b) has had ample time to met Cianci. If you’re speaking to a true develop a signage strategy (the state was Rhode Islander, breathe a sigh of relief founded in 1790), all this can only lead to as they wistfully recall the time they one question: is the RIDOT underfunded, sat next to Buddy at Providence Oyster incompetent, or merely mischievous?

Bar. Then take the time to get educated.

Google “Buddy+Best+Mayor+Ever” or . . . BECOME ENSNARED IN AN ENDLESS VARIATION OF “6 DEGREES “Buddy+Fireplace+Log” to get the flavor of both viewpoints.

OF KEVIN BACON” WITH YOUR EX You already know about that whole “smallest state” thing. Even if you turn your . . . HAVE A PANIC ATTACK schedule and social life upside down to AT WATERFIRE avoid your ex, there’s no such thing as a People everywhere. Black-cloaked figures clean break in Rhode Island. As long as in plague masks. Floating bonfires. Druyou both stay within state lines, your lives idic music. Small steps. A gridlock of huwill be forever intertwined. Just try to acman bodies on a narrow cobblestone path. cept that your roommate is cousins with The pervasive fear you’ll be pushed into your ex’s girlfriend, make liberal use of the the river. Humans painted as gargoyles.

Facebook “hide” function, and move on.

This is WaterFire — Providence’s signature outdoor evening attraction. You think it’ll be fun, until you realize 30,000 . . . WONDER WHO EVERYONE’S other people had the same idea.

“BUDDY” IS By now, you’ve been in town long enough to notice the campaign billboards for Prov. . . FORGET LIFE EXISTS OUTSIDE idence mayoral candidate, Buddy Cianci.

A 20-MILE RADIUS They’re sized to blot out the sun — or at We’re 37 miles wide, 48 miles least the signs of his opponent, Demolong, and a fraction the size of cratic candidate Jorge Elorza. your home state. We’re a scant Once upon a time, speculation about hour from Boston and, on pawhether former mayor Cianci would ever per, it seems like one of the run for office again after his 2007 release best things about Rhode Island from federal prison seemed like idle, culshould be how mobile its inhabtural banter, like Chicagoans wondering itants are. if the Cubs will ever win the series. But This couldn’t be further from now that Cianci is officially in the 2014 the truth. Just over 30 miles race for Providence mayor, everyone from separate Rhode Island College from University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus, the breakers but if you’re a URI student, prepare to not see your RIC buddies until Thanksgiving.

Driving to South County constitutes a vacation for many Rhode Islanders. We don’t like to do it unless we’re going to the beach.

. . . LOSE HOURS OF YOUR LIFE WAITING FOR BRUNCH

Nothing humbles a Rhode Islander quite like the brunch line at Julian’s.

If you’ve done any sort of Yelp research prior to moving here, you’ll

be tempted to face the wait at least once, and we don’t blame you.

It’s delicious.

But waiting in line at Julian’s — or perhaps Nick’s, a few blocks further down Broadway — it’s hard not to look around and wonder what the hell you’re doing with your life. Some people are fighting wars and helping babies be born. You’re standing around with 30 other suckers, waiting for French toast.

But what are you going to do? Quit? No, you’re on a mission.

You have to see this through. You have to brunch, then pretend that the Bloody Mary was totally worth the hour wait so you can do it all again next weekend.

. . . RUN OUT OF EXCUSES TO NOT SEE YOUR FRIEND’S BAND/ IMPROV ACT/ART INSTALLATION/ PUPPET SHOW

Even if you didn’t move to Rhode Island to attend RISD, you may have still been intrigued by our reputation as an artistic hotspot with a strong DIY ethic. Our small size means it’s easy to meet likeminded artists, join a band, and drive everyone you know crazy with invitations to your shows and gallery openings.

Some of these shows will inspire you.

Other times you’ll walk into a warehouse and find your friend lying on the floor, covered in diapers.

. . . FEEL ENRAGED WHEN YOUR OUTOF-STATE FRIENDS’ ONLY POINT OF REFERENCE IS FAMILY GUY Maybe this is what you thought too, before you arrived. Maybe people couldn’t even remember where you were moving. But you fielded the questions from misguided

relatives — “Isn’t it expensive to live in New York?” — and made it here anyway.

Maybe now you’re venturing outside the bubble of Thayer Street or your campus. You’re starting to know that anyone who thinks the best thing about Rhode Island is a Seth MacFarlane cartoon is a person to be pitied. You, maybe, even ate an actual quahog. ^

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IT’s noT you — IT’s me!

A guide to how you will feel before, during, And After your breAkup with the humAnitieS, in epiStolAry form _by d av id ca ro n

Dear LiberaL arts Degree,

I’m writing to you in clunky analog because I want to be sure I express with depth and precision exactly what it is I’m feeling right now. I expect your mind is racing already — typical of you really, “Why this? What could you possibly want to say that merits the slow collection of thoughts a letter implies?” (Let’s face it, Humanities: you think too much, which is part of why I care so deeply for you)—but I won’t keep you suspended by our usual kind of discursive patter. This might be hard for you to conceive of: beginning in medias res during a formal address. But you’ll understand, by the end, why I’ve chosen this device.

I love you and I’ll always love you, but we’ve grown apart. Or, at least, I have.

It’s been a gradual deterioration: at first things seemed so cut and clear, black and white. We had our share of binary moments, but we pushed through by realizing how these differences emphasized important features of our respective lives.

And I think we grew to appreciate those differences. Toward the end though . . . what can I say? It’s become so schizophrenic. You don’t seem able to make up your mind about anything anymore: it’s all jouissance or irony or pastiche—and oh, the jargon of it all! I just wish you would say what you mean every so often instead of making it so difficult! I get it: art is hard. But even that notion is passé these days.

I’ve been feeling this way for some time, and though I’m not one to subscribe to the idea that History has an arc or design or, further yet, end to it (these are things I’ve learned from you), I feel in this case that our history — the little one — has reached its intended denouement.

I know it sounds irrational, but you’ll have to trust me when I tell you that feelings often triumph over reason in cases like these.

That’s not to say I didn’t savor the time we had together. When I recollect my initial attraction to you I can’t help but admit that, at first, it felt like a fling—I had no desire to invest in a relationship and let’s be honest: there were others, of course there were others, you had to know that. Sarah Lawrence, St. John, Marlboro . . . you weren’t the only one, Farmington. I was simply biding my time: experimenting with new places, new people, new experiences.

You were older than me, much older in fact, and that had its own kind of appeal.

Though I’m not one to subscribe to the idea that History has an arc or design or, further yet, end to it (these are things I’ve learned from you), I feel in this case that our history — the little one — has reached its intended denouement.

Plus you didn’t live far away, which helped. However, despite the difference in age and my original intention to remain unavailable, I began to discover that I was, beneath the thin veneer of disinterest, investing myself in you. You were the only one among the lot of potential interests that seemed to want me, that pursued me. My parents were timid about endorsing the relationship, but I assured them it was what I wanted at this particular junction in my life. They did their best to support me, and I was able to come home on occasion to do laundry and chitchat about how things were going.

As we spent more and more time together, I began to feel a great expanse open up in my heart and my mind: there are so many indispensable things I’ve learned from you. Before we met my interests were scattered and indeterminate — it felt as though you brought them into focus. You revealed parts of me to myself that I had not known previously existed. Do you remember our first time interrogating the notion of nothing? I can’t imagine anything more compelling. Our mutual interests in literature, philosophy, religion; the way we would stay up late and read together — what can I say? I was smitten. I was young and eager to learn from the experiences you’d already lived. Everything felt new and fresh, everything was deeply revelatory, every discovery a Joycean epiphany.

I was at the height of my confidence.

I balked at the romantic interests of those around me — friends who were more interested in settling down, or in what their partners would provide for them in the future. But us! We were trailblazers. We were forging new paths, burning with a fervor so hot that surely our names would become cornerstones of the Western canon.

So what happened?

Nothing.

You made me feel so clever and comfortable, you were so accommodating and accepting that I stopped pushing myself. I knew exactly how to please you, or, worse yet, how to get by without even trying: what words to use, what cultural references you would “get,” the kind of language that would impress you when we were with your friends — it all became so routine.

And don’t get me wrong: I adore your friends, but their conversations eventually felt so . . . stagnant. Whenever the lot of you would get together it was as though the only thing you could do was rehearse the past. It was the same conversations over and over again and I know — I know — how important it was for all of you to situate yourselves, to give meaning and context to your respective milieus. But couldn’t we have, once in a while at least, moved forward?

Couldn’t we have thought about the present, or even the future, instead of the past? Couldn’t I have chimed in with something important on occasion? Was there room for me to say something original? I desperately wanted there to be, Continued on p 18

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but never found the niche into which I might fit.

I’m as much at fault as you are in this respect. I was bewildered by your friends and referenced them as frequently as possible—they had such reputations!

Geoffrey, Mark, Chinua, Toni, Derek W, Jean-Paul, Friedrich, Slavoj, Ingmar, Julia K, Simone, Hélène, Roland, Sigmund, Jacques, Ferdinand, Rudolf O, Martin B…oh, the whole lot of them! They were tremendous and intimidating and, inasmuch as I sought to impress you, I wanted to impress them as well. But as I’ve said: it took fairly little time to fall into the same habitual conversations, and I learned the formulas quickly. Try as I might to express myself in the throes of their polemics, to say something new or equally incendiary, I wound up feeling small and neglected. Where did my voice, where did my inexperience, fit in with their gravitas and force? I found myself speaking a kind of ventriloquism, casting my voice across the room, using the same words but with a modulated pitch so it would be understood but unrecognizable.

I needed to learn to be my own person and, inasmuch as you always encouraged me to do exactly that, I never felt fully in possession of myself. I was too eager to please and, if I’m honest, you were too eager to reward me for that behavior: I quickly learned the art of procrastination and worse yet, began to identify a disciple of one of the lesser known deities: Bullshitting. Eventually, the creeping sense of unease grew into disaffection and resentment. I felt remote from you and remote from myself too. On those occasions I would turn to drink. God only knows how often that was the case. And when I wasn’t doing it with your friends, I was doing it more frequently and in greater volume with mine.

It was fun to frame the world in different ways with you for a time. To put on one pair of glasses and see the world this way, to put on another and see it differently. But what did it accomplish? What did it do? It makes me recall something your friend Paul V said once—do you remember? About there being no guarantee that the only viable endeavor might someday be the practice of bread making. That in fact there’s no reason to believe that someday, those who don’t participate in the kind of essential vocations that sustain life might be precluded from partaking in the products of those that do.

You all dismissed him, but it stuck with me. Despite my love for you, it never felt as though we were doing anything— always sitting around, always talking about doing things, about how things could be done or ought to be done, but never doing them. It was exhausting.

It’s time for me to go and do things in the world. With that sentiment in mind I suppose I can explain why I began this letter with an ending: I want to be a writer, Humanities. A fiction writer.

I’ll never forget the lessons I learned from you, and I’ll cherish the experiences we shared, but it’s time I found my voice, which is something I never felt I had with you. I hope you understand and someday, if I’m lucky, I’ll get to be the subject of all your obsessive explications.

Yours truly, David

afterwarD:

Journal Entry, Early September I’ve been thinking about the Humanities again. I always get this way when the

summer’s ending—looking over the few scraps of paper that remind me of them.

One in particular, the card they made on our fourth anniversary, was so thoughtful, made with such craft. But it all seems like a dream now.

I remember how easy it was, how comfortable, to date an older partner.

Someone who’s already well established, who can provide for you in almost every imaginable way. It causes you to lose touch with reality. Makes it easy to become dependent, lazy even. You forget the life you’re responsible for: your own. Once the relationship is over there’s not much to show, aside from a greater tolerance for alcohol and the phrase “liquid modernity,” which, in any normal conversation, will get you slapped.

In the years that followed the breakup I spent some time traveling abroad: first France, then England. I bumped into the Humanities again during my visit to the UK. We shared a brief affair. York challenged me in ways that Farmington couldn’t have prepared me for, despite my thinking I’d learned all I could from the latter. Let’s face it: Europe is smarter.

Nonetheless, the relationship failed in the same way, for the same reasons, notwithstanding a renewed energy and optimism on my part.

I guess what I’ve learned is that I

once the relationship is over there’s not much to show, aside from a greater tolerance for alcohol and the phrase “liquid modernity,” which, in any normal conversation, will get you slapped. couldn’t have gotten where I am without those relationships. I want so badly to dismiss them as unimportant, as things I could have foregone in the interest of more concrete endeavors, but they’ve shaped who I am and how I see the world.

I’m more receptive, critical, and discerning and I do my best to practice those skills often.

Meanwhile I work as a bartender, waiter, and bar-back at a local haunt in town. I’m writing this from the only studio I can afford given my income. I can’t say that I’m entirely happy, but I’m not unhappy: I’m in a new relationship that I’m excited about; I live in a fantastic apartment; I make my own schedule and that’s one of the few things I value most at this point in my life.

Four days on, three days off. With those three days I’m able I reexamine my past, excavate the texts that were important to me, find new ones and expand my understanding. I write, I read, I create — I’m building a library in my home. I can’t say I have any true regrets, but there is a constant longing to go back to the Humanities. To have the comfort of those places and people, to have my schedule and choices regulated. But it’s reassuring these days to know the choices I make are mine.

Things will be ok. And that’s enough for me. ^

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Ron Lindenbusch of Lagunitas and Dave Engbers, a co-founder of Founders. Head to beervanafest.com for updates.

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stores in mid-December. Soon after ’Gansett prez Mark Hellendrung told us, “The Coffee Milk Stout was really unbelievable.

Everyone loved the beer and we basically sold out in a week. Unfortunately, we all seriously underestimated how well it would be received, and RI’s love for Autocrat. It will be back in November and we’ll obviously make a heck of a lot more.” Well, they moved the release date up a month and indeed made a lot more — about six times more (the brew should be available till the New Year). The launch party will be on Saturday, October 4 at Fête (103 Dike St, Providence) from 4-8 pm, with music by Jay Berndt and the Orphans and Gavage, games, raffles, free Olneyville N.Y. System Wieners, and $3 pints of the liquid goodness . . . grey sAil is about to debut its third year-round beer: the cAPtAin’s dAughter, a double IPA (8.5% ABV) packed with Mosaic hops, an uber-tropical variation which has been described as “Citra on steroids.” It should hit tapes and shelves in mid-October. And Grey Sail is launching its little swell series with dArk stAr, a Belgian Imperial Stout (8.5%) aged for more than nine months in bourbon barrels; and FlotsAm And BrettsAm, an IPA aged in wine barrels with the wild yeast Brettanomyces.

Check greysailbrewing.com for updates on the release of the limited edition 16.9-ounce bottles . . . Matt and Kara Richardson have been selling hops — aka the spice of the beer — from their Ocean State Hops outpost since 2011; Newport Storm, the Bucket, and Proclamation have used their flowers to grace their beers. But the long-time home brewers will be keeping their hop harvests since they’ve finally realized their dream of opening tilted BArn Brewery, the state’s first farm beer maker. With the license framed and hanging on the wall, they hope to be pouring their first brews before Halloween, with an IPA, pumpkin ale, and coffee stout on tap.

When the gates open, visitors will be able to tour the barn, hop yard, and the farm.

Check facebook.com/tiltedbarnbrewery for updates . . . And we’ll have a thorough preview of BeervAnA (which is on October 17 at Rhodes-On-the-Pawtuxet) in two weeks, but here are a few tidbits to get you salivating (and to purchase your tix): the fest will feature all 12 Sierra Nevada Beer Camp collaboration beers; Dave from Proclamation and Josh from Grey Sail cooked up a berliner weisse for your sampling pleasure; and the seminars will be led by

modification which repealed Prohibition — and hey, Rhode Island was the third state to ratify said amendment, huzzah!), which was founded in San Francisco in 2000. Their year-round beers are Brew Free! or die iPA; BAck in BlAck, a (yep) Black IPA; and Bitter AmericAn, a very tasty 4.4% ABV session ale. They also have three seasonals (the

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British Columbia’s centrAl city Brewing produces the acclaimed Red Racer IPA, which has been rechristened as red Betty in the States (Bear Republic sued them over trademark infringement for its Racer 5 IPA and Red Rocket Ale). And in the Go Figure/ Perception-Reality Dept., Red Racer gets a 95 (world-class) rating at Beer Advocate, while Red Betty — the very same beer — has an 86 score. Other Central City offerings: imPeriAl iPA (9% ABV) and isA (India Session Ale), a very satisfying take on that ever-growing style . . . And BAxter Brewing of Lewiston, ME, which debuted in January 2011 and was the first New England craft company to put all of its beer in cans, will be here in October.

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mecca Normal were once called an “anarchist folk-punk duo.” Singer Jean Smith and guitarist David Lester formed three decades ago and have been trying to change the world with their words (lyrics and novels), music (engaged and minimalist), and visual art. Smith told Pop Matters, “Since we started in the mid-’80s, we’ve been doing a type of activism that deals with injustice.

Whether it’s sexism, capitalism, poverty, historical reference points, or interpersonal relations — to me, it has always been about using an electric guitar and a voice to reject, articulate, embrace, and lament.

Somehow the music is still based in the two elements, but now there’s also a sort of amalgamation process, a redefining of artifacts that takes place over time.”

Their first album in eight years, Empathy For the Evil, is out on the 30th. The liner notes describes them as “songs about grand gestures and chance meetings that dramatically alter and derail lives.” In the Pop Matters interview, Smith explained that “most of the songs are directly out of two psychologicallydriven novels with somewhat warped characters.

Empathy is a strong theme in both novels. In Obliterating History — a guitar-making mystery, domination and submission in a small town garage, characters need to be able

to trust each other in order to get what they want . . .

In the other novel [The Black Dot Museum of Political Art], a museum curator uses abstract expressionism to cure narcissism, which is an incurable personality disorder.” Kramer, their producer/collaborator, encourages you to “please listen to the entire LP as ONE WORK OF ART before you dissect individual tunes for ‘mix issues’ . . .

Of course each song is a separate THOUGHT, but they are all of the same MIND, and that is what I wanted to convey in the final results. More like a great gig, than like someone sitting down in front of their record player with a stack of singles.

ONE WORK.” Empathy will be at the heart of Mecca Normal’s set at AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. The potent bill also features the Thalia Zedek Band, Mother Tongue, and 75 Dollar Bill.

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Milkbread was birthed in 2010 when the seven members met while studying jazz at University of Rhode Island, and eventually dropped the lively self-titled debut album in 2012 (available at milkbread.bandcamp.com). We first heard fellow URI grad (and La Salle alum) Zumo Kollie in ’09 with his official debut The Idiot Savant followed by the excellent 2011 mixtape, The Last Showing. Kollie has referred to his buttery wordplay as “elegant ADD”; he’s a smooth assassin similar to subtly surgical Rhody rhyme heroes Swann Notty and Jon Hope. Zumo Kollie’s flow shined across a bevy of beats, including one from Brooklyn-viaProvidence electro duo Javelin on “Zero Hour.”

Shaw and Kollie first kicked the collaboration idea around in 2012, and earlier this year the first single, “I See,” was released. In classic rap fashion, the EP was delayed “after almost a year of refining and waiting,” according to Shaw, as their post-collegiate focus shifted toward navigating adulthood, “starting new careers, and sort of becoming ‘real people.’

“We’ve been writing music that more matches our style nowadays — a more mature and focused sound than what you heard on our first album, which reflects who we are as musicians and as humans,” he said.

The EP was placed in the highly capable hands of producers Andrew Brown and Nick Sollecito (Bored With Four, the Dear Hunter), who tracked the instrumentals composed

by Shaw and bassist Dylan LaGamma. The horn section of Shaw, Chris Gagnon (alto sax), and Seth Bailey (trumpet) provide plenty of spirited chops on the EP, dialing up live original measures without any sampling, “but rather an attempt at invoking the spirit of the music that influenced us.” Tom White (keys), Matt Reagan (guitar), and Paul DiMartino (drums) round out the Milkbread septet.

Zumo coolly escorts the rhythm section with a spoken word intro on the opening track, “Questions,” before firing off a 90-second barrage of conscientious bars highlighting his background: “Product of refugees from Liberian colonies/Obviously the blood of the slaves runs through my arteries/Use my art to do my part to start a modern prophecy.” Kollie longs for his vintage Beamer on “89” (that hook has been stuck in my head all week),

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And the full-blown jazz breakdown midway through “Hello” goes off the rails and lands somewhere between Charles Mingus and MF Doom. Fans of J. Dilla, the Roots, and Guru’s Jazzmatazz series should jump all over this EP, particularly Golden Era rap fossils like myself.

“I think this match-up has been superb for both entities because of how much love we have for the same sonic offerings,” Shaw noted. “We dig similar sounds and emcees and really wanted to aim for that raw, real hip-hop sound that you’d get back in the day when rap music was entering its creative prime.”

While there currently are no plans for another Zumo/ Milkbread collabo (“Though we’d certainly welcome the opportunity — the man is professional, talented, and driven,” Shaw said), Milkbread is open for business and ready to link up with more homegrown emcees, producers, and beat makers; hit up Shaw at milkbreadmusic@gmail.com.

“We’re at a phase in our evolution where we feel strongly about our ability to write, compose, and collaborate to make the best local sounds around.” ^

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Theater myths and dreams OUT LOUD’s imaginaTive metamorphoses _By BiLL R OD R igU ez The myth is

the public f dream as the dream

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is the public myth, it is pointed out in Metamorphoses, by Mary Zimmerman, which OUT LOUD Theatre is presenting through October 4 (at the Artists’ Exchange), directed

by Kira Hawkridge.

Both dreams and myths rise up from fathomless depths, often urgencies that have broken free to warn or inform us.

This play, which seems to be stringEMPHATIC ENSEMBLE The OUT LOUD crew. ing together both bedtime stories and fevered hallucinations, is based on Roman in a monotony of happiness,” until he had to poet Ovid’s voluminous narrative, which voyage off for two months, despite her fear unspooled more than 250 myths. that the sea will swallow up his ship. Sure In this black box presentation, 13 enough, a raging storm batters it down. He actors take on numerous roles, by that returns, but as a ghost, and she is angry at demonstrating the amorphous nature him for having left her. Love, then anger, of human beings. Zimmerman’s text then regret; sigh, repeat. We never learn. specifies props — a rosebud in a vase, a But “the gods are not altogether unkind — chandelier — but this spare production some prayers are answered,” we are remindleaves all to our imaginations. The ened, as the couple end up as seabirds, mating semble serves as a narrating chorus at and rearing their young forever. times and occasionally morphs into an They are sympathetic, but in contrast object, such as a wall that approaches a comes Erysichthon (Tiberiis II), mean as man as he walks in place, one of director an ax. For firewood he has a centuries-old Hawkridge’s deft touches. tree cut down. Despite it being sacred to Our fascination with change is introthe goddess Ceres (Lauren Ustaszewski), duced in the first words, as a woman he laughs off objections. Bad decision.

(Sarah Leach) looks at her own reflection The embodiment of Hunger (Blanche Case) in a pool of water and asks the gods to emerges, “pulling from between the rocks, help her understand “the world’s birthwith her teeth and filthy fingernails, ing” out of chaos. some tiny bits of moss,” to never leave The first myth to help us decide whethhim. He gorges but is never satisfied, seller Zeus created “of his divine substance ing all he has for food, eventually selling the race of humans” or “that we come even his mother for a few coins. “The godfrom the natural order of things” is that less are always hungry,” we are informed. of Midas (Alan Hawkridge). In one of the As valuable life lessons go, one of most energized scenes of this production, the most useful Greek myths is that Hawkridge all but inflates in size as the of Orpheus (Joshua Andrews) and Eurydice businessman brags loudly about his self(Leach), the great musician and his made success and wealth — “Net worth: bride. When she dies, he’s so inconsolable one hundred billion!” It’s as though, that he dares to cross the River Styx to he says, everything he’s touched has the Underworld. The god Hades turned to gold. “Not literally, of course — (Hawkridge) is touched by his willingness wouldn’t that be something?” to remain there if he can’t return with As we know, he eventually succumbs her. So he is given permission, with to the temptation for that to be literally the simple proviso that he not doubt and so, despite being warned by Bacchus turn to see if she is following. This is a par(Marc Tiberiis II). But reality is even more ticularly poignant scene: when she turns overwhelming than greed, he learns and away from him in last farewell, we are laments, when his little daughter flings told, “That was his last sight of her. But he herself into his arms — “No!” saw it again and again,” as we do too, with And so it goes. Lives are lived, blithely or her turning toward him and away again stupidly, and lessons are learned. and again as the narration continues.

As above, the smugly happy are the Other myths are related to us here, with broadest targets for change. Such as the one common theme: no matter how foolish young king and queen Alcyone (Leach) and a person can be, there’s always somebody Ceyx (Joshua Andrews). They “lived else waiting to outdo him. ^

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Ivanov

by Anton Chekov

theater reasons to believe (or not) The wilbury group’S this beautiful city

translated by Curt Columbus

directed by Brian McEleney

_by bill r o drig ue z To non-believers, the evangeli-

cal movement can look like a loud, f friendly party whose invitation we’ve po-

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litely declined, but whose windows sooner or later we can’t help peeking into.

The Wilbury Group is staging a welltempered production of This Beautiful City, which gets into a fascinating, and scandalous, example of the phenomenon. It’s directed by Josh Short, with music direction by Brien Lang and Milly Romanzi.

This is not so much a musical as a play with music, written by Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis, with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson). The 2008 production was based on interviews conducted by the Civilians, a Brooklyn-based “investigative theater” which serves “as an engine of artistic and social innovation.” Since 2001, subjects have ranged from a selfmocking failure to expose anything dastardly done to geese during filming of Fly Away Home by Walt Disney Studios, through a retelling of the Paris uprising of 1871, to a musical about pornography that is currently in development.

Ensemble songs, along the momentum-halting lines of “It’s a Long Road to Colorado,” are short and unmemorable.

But the music is ably provided by the briefly tenured Colorado Wranglers Band, consisting of Romanzi on keyboard, Tom Grace on drums, and Lang on string instruments.

This Beautiful City doesn’t have a plot, just a continuity. With projections illustrating or complementing the discourse, we are presented with observations and experiences of numerous people in Colorado Springs, mostly unnamed, centering around the New Life Church and its founding pastor, Ted Haggard, whose secret life of indulging in crystal meth and at least one male prostitute led to his downfall.

At the opening we’re oriented by an

animated woman, portrayed with wideeyed innocence by Melissa Penick. She recently came to town for a new job and feels that the move was God-inspired when she learns that there are 15 Christian nonprofit organizations there. Similarly sensing divine travel instructions, another young woman (Clara Weishahn) says that in an empty room she felt a hand on her shoulder and a voice instructing her to stay.

We are next addressed by a townie (Weishahn), and the contrast may be a little heavy-handed: an atheist raised by gay parents, she is concerned about the influence of so many adamant Christians on her child. The New Life Church — the huge building is “a monstrosity,” she sputters — has been increasing its congregation for 21 years by this point and now has 14,000 members.

Not all the issues that come up are purely local. Two statewide referendums appear on the ballot, one extending benefits to domestic partnerships and the other defining marriage as heterosexual; the first is defeated and the second is passed.

We get the perspective of one affected person (Jo-án Peralta), who went through aversion therapy to “cure” him of homosexuality but is now comfortably himself.

Similarly, we get the point of view of an elegant transsexual (Weishahn) who remains Christian (after a nine-month hiatus) by choosing to pay attention to Jesus rather than to those condemning her. She decides that evangelicals “are renegades — they have hijacked Christianity and are heading toward the rocks.”

Don’t get the idea that tolerant Christians are being swept up with the haters here. Peralta also gets to portray, with ironic passion, a minister at a revival retreat stirring up his listeners, but in kindly fashion. At the Air Force Academy — which had to come up in a Colorado Springs setting — three young men playing basketball discuss their frustration at not being able to gently evangelize. All of a sudden, in perhaps the most convincingly powerful moment in the play, a Jewish cadet (Mycah Hogan) storms up and delivers a fiery tirade against Christians proselytizing to unwilling nonbelievers.

Other roles are ably accomplished

by Andrew Iacovelli, Julia Bartoletti, and Siobhan Reddy-Best.

Sometimes intensity is amusing here. In nearby Manatee Springs, a leader of the Revolution House of Prayer (Patrick Mark Saunders) and a RHOP member (Penick) are quite enthusiastic about their particular style of intolerance. One says that when “we see with our spiritual eyes, we see demons everywhere” (not excluding Starbucks).

By the time we get to the hypocritical Haggart and his ignominious downfall, our journey on the road through hubristic religiosity is complete. ^

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A ‘sAfe spAce’ At As220; ‘the queer communities in print portfolio’ _By Gr eG cooK “Be careful in the dang tent!”

warns a small framed sign on f the floor of AS220’s Project Space (93

Mathewson St, Providence, through Sept. 27) for the exhibition “Safe Space,” a collection of drawings that Delia Kovac “made with my best friend Marissa Paternoster.”

The tent is a blanket fort that they’re calling Inside Joke. They’ve draped fabric, screenprinted with drawings of faces, over chairs. Inside are pillows, a radio, a couple of glasses, and a half-empty bottle of whiskey with a handmade label featuring a picture of a horse and the words “You are welcome.”

Turn the bottle around and you find a set of “Instructions” telling you to sit in the tent with a friend, drink whiskey shots, “enjoy rock music,” “maybe talk about some feelings you feel,” “repeat as needed.” Then “Enjoy!” A A PLACE TO HANG Kovac and paternoster’s Inside Joke. notebook covered with pictures of horses is helpfully provided for you to jot your “Feelings.”

Cozzens, who brought the show here, says that it reKovac and Paternoster, best known for her band flects discussions that often happen here about what it Screaming Females, have hung black-and-white paint means to be queer and how to foster a queer community, and ink drawings that they collaborated on across the but expands the dialogue via artworks from across the surrounding gallery walls. They’re busy, swirling, country. “I hope it will spark other conversations,” Cozdoodley, maze-like compositions of lots of hairy marks, zens notes. dashed lines that sometimes make you think of bricks, April Katz and JoAnn Boehmer’s Sisterhood Is Powerful and wiggly shapes that sometimes look like melting lithograph turns the female gender symbol of the ring cartoon hands. Titles include The Beautiful Girls Who Are and the cross into a protesting fist. But for the most part, Shyly Brave, All I Wanted Was More Than I Knew, and Temper My this mixed bag of prints doesn’t feature the loud graphic Hatred With Peace. The drawings are evidence of their work design that’s often used to get messages heard on the together — a fun time, by the looks of it — but perhaps streets. Nor does it highlight the postery or psychedelic art made more for the artists themselves, for the fun of or cartoony styles of much Providence printmaking. Inmaking, than for the audience. stead, like the blanket fort, these are often quiet pieces, It’s that blanket fort that sticks in my head. “Safe built for slow contemplation. They’re sometimes poetic, Space,” Kovac writes, “displays the pleasure of mark sometimes funny, at times obscure. making, rock ’n’ roll and unconditional love in times of Kovac’s screenprint Chaos A.D. shows drawings of faces in darkness.” Some of the things on Kovac’s mind: “the a swirl of feather-like lines. Jill Fitterer’s screenprint Vegas importance of platonic queer relationships” and “why Afternoon is a series of drawings of two women cuddling in cultural spaces of resistance are sometimes blanket forts bed. Teed’s lithograph The Lodge shows three couples of nawhere you hang out with your bestie.” ked women embracing in a cutaway view of a beaver lodge.

The tent is an invitation to retreat into the safe havens Gavin Rouille’s screenprint Lateral Thinking appears to be an — real and pretend — of our youths. In the face of hard abstract pattern of vertical lines. But put your eyes close to times, it offers the magical, companionable, ritual healthe bottom and it becomes clear that they’re stretched leting power of play. ters saying “I love and accept myself exactly as I am.”

Kovac is one of several artists with Providence ties — Cozzens’s contribution is a screenprint showing including Emmy Bright, Li Pallas, Corinne Teed, Meg people exploring a falling apart house. Word balloons Turner, and Ian Cozzens float above the build— whose art is part of the ing reading, “We could “The Queer Communisearch forever/and ties in Print Portfolio” on never find it/if we want view at 186 Carpenter (186 it/we’ve got to start/ Carpenter St, Providence, building.” through October 3).

For Cozzens, it’s Originally organized an image of a house

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eymooners | 7 pm | 7-Day Weekend CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | Batteries Not Included CLUB EGO | Providence | Suger Ego Saturday with DJ Rich Ladue THE CONTINENTAL | Smithfield | 8:30 pm | Mitchell Kaltsunas DAN’S PLACE | West Greenwich | Not For Nuthin’ DUSK | Providence | FuzzFest II with black oil incinerator + Linear North + the Flashing Astonishers + the invisible hours + Balam + Woozy + Good Lord + Hector 3 + Sweet Love + Cardboard Cannons THE 88 LOUNGE | Providence | 7 pm | Danny Arico | 10 pm | Guest acts FÊTE | Providence | #InTheCityPVD with where’s nasty? + DJ Knockout + DJ Els | The Silks + Smith & Weeden + Township FINN’S HARBORSIDE | East Greenwich | 4:30 pm | Born Ready | 8 pm | Covergirl FIREHOUSE 13 | Providence | No Raza + Adrenochrome + Headrot + more GAME 7 SPORTS BAR & GRILL | Plainville, MA | Gay Barboza GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 8:30 pm | Open mic HANK’S DOWN SOUTH | Narragansett | 8 pm | Al Keith Collective IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | Pat Lowell JAVA MADNESS | Wakefield | 11 am | Josh Schurmann | 2 pm | Open mic JIMMY’S SALOON | Newport | Octobrists + IONEYE + Chronovore KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Sugar Ray & the Bluetones THE LAST RESORT | Smithfield | The Rock L’ATTITUDE MODERN EATERY | Cranston | 8:30 pm | Summer School

DJ Pauly Dangerous | Downstairs | DJ Oscar Champagne & Friends SPICOLI’S BAR & GRILL | Albion | 8:30 pm | Second Avenue THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | Providence | Snarky Puppy THE TAVERN ON BROADWAY | Newport | Bobby Louden & Friends TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Wild Nites UNCLE RONNIE’S RED TAVERN | Burrillville | Illusions VANILLA BEAN CAFE | Pomfret, CT | 8 pm | Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt THE WHISKEY REPUBLIC | Providence | MLC + DJ JD

CHELO’S WATERFRONT BAR & GRILLE | Warwick | 12-4 pm | The Hon-

LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER

| Lincoln | The Great Escape [Journey tribute] LOCAL 121 | Providence | Blademon LUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | Providence | 7 pm | Imelda May + Jittery Jack

LUXURY BOX SPORTS BAR & GRILL | Seekonk, MA | What Matters?

MANCHESTER 65 | West Warwick |

Santa Mamba + Hombres del mar + Highway’s End MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 7:30 pm | Bill Gannon THE MET | Pawtucket | 8:30 pm | Forever Young: A Tribute To the Music of Neil Young MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | DJ Franco NARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown | Brass Attack NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Groovin’ You NEWPORT GRAND | Hard Candy

NEWPORT GRAND EVENT CENTER

| Pardon Me, Doug [Phish tribute] NEWS CAFE | Pawtucket | Laika NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | Wade Devers OAK HILL TAVERN | North Kingstown | Devlin & Dio OCEAN MIST | Matunuck | Aldous Collins Band OLIVES | Providence | Blurred Vision ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Never In Vegas 133 CLUB | East Providence | 5 Flavor Discount O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | 8:30 pm | Jason Colonies THE PARLOUR | Providence | Jay

RHODE ISLAND BILLIARD BAR & BISTRO | North Providence | Remnantz RI RA | Providence | Hot Mess THE SALON | Providence | Upstairs |

SUNDAY 28

See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.

BOUNDARY BREWHOUSE | Pawtucket | 7 pm | Open blues jam with Wolfie & the Jam Daddies CADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | 3 pm | Open mic blues jam with the Rick Harrington Band

CHELO’S WATERFRONT BAR & GRILLE | Warwick | 4 pm | Driftwoods CLUB EGO | Providence | X Room

Sunday [all-male revue with guest gay porn stars] DAN’S PLACE | West Greenwich | Zink Alloy THE 88 LOUNGE | Providence | 5:30 pm | Danny Arico | 9 pm | Susan & Odie FÊTE | Providence | Ginjah + Blaxx FINN’S HARBORSIDE | East Greenwich | 3 pm | The Senders GEORGE’S OF GALILEE | Narragansett | 2 pm | Second Avenue GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Steve Chrisitan HANK’S DOWN SOUTH | Narragansett | 4 pm | Joanne Lurgio JAVA MADNESS | Wakefield | 11 am | Tom Burgess JIMMY’S SALOON | Newport | Fix Up Sunday with Mardon THE LAST RESORT | Smithfield | 2 pm | Sybil Disobedience

LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER

| Lincoln | 2 pm | Kelley Lennon MANCHESTER 65 | West Warwick | 7 pm | Fishbone + Brunt of It + the Copacetics MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 9 pm | Sunday Night Blues Jam NARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown | 4 pm | Sugar Ray & the Bluetones ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Ryan McHugh from Brick Park 133 CLUB | East Providence | 7:30 pm | Brother to Brother O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | 4:30 pm | Tom Lanigan PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | 8 pm | The Intractables PICASSO’S PIZZA & PUB | Warwick | Karaoke with DJ Bobby Devine TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 3 pm | James Gagne

MONDAY 29

See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.

BOVI’S | East Providence | John Allmark’s Jazz Orchestra THE 88 LOUNGE | Providence | 8 pm | Piano jam open mic with host Travis Colby GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 7 pm | Hotel Jam Night NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The House Combo

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THE PARLOUR | Providence | Reggae Night with Upsetta International + the Natural Element Band PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | Songwriters’ open mic THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | Providence | Madcap Open Mic Monday hosted by Nate Cozzolino

TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 6 pm | Johnny Botelho

TUESDAY 30

AS220 | Providence | Krill + Brunch + Ex-Pet

GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich

| 8:30 pm | Open mic MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 7 pm | Groove E Tuesday with Joe Potenza, Ben Ricci, and Gene Rosati ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Stu Sinclair from Never In Vegas THE PARLOUR | Providence | 7:30 pm | Open mic night POWERS PUB | Cranston | Acoustic karaoke THE SALON | Providence | 9 pm | Kimi’s Movie Night TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Billy Solo

WEDNESDAY 1

CLUB EGO | Providence | Alter Ego [fetish/fantasy night]

GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Karaoke with DJ Deelish

KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 7:30 pm | Mystic Horns

THE MET | Pawtucket | 8 pm | A Great

Big Pile of Leaves + Diamond Youth + Prawn + Field Mouse NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The Bluegrass Throedown with the Brummy Brothers 133 CLUB | East Providence | Karaoke with Big Bill THE PARLOUR | Providence | The Funky Autocrats PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | 8 pm | Austin Miller & Chantilly POWERS PUB | Cranston | Open mic RI RA | Providence | Acoustic Music Nite THE SALON | Providence | Free Up Wednesday with DJ Moy THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | Providence | Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB |

Fall River, MA | 6 pm | Susan Souza

THURSDAY 2

CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | Them Apples CLUB EGO | Providence | Star Search

Thursday [talent contest/drag show/dance party] FÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | 8 pm | Vacationer + Brick & Mortar + Jetty GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Open mic hosted by Bob Lavalley IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | Betsy Listenfelt KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Open Mike with host band Ms. Marci & the Lovesick Hounds MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 7 pm | Alger Mitchell MEDIATOR STAGE | Providence | 7 pm | Open mic hosted by Don Tassone THE MET | Pawtucket | 8 pm | Bayside + I Am the Avalanche + Seaway NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Felix Brown ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Jason Cardinal PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | Men With Guitars

PERRY MILL TAVERN & MUSIC HALL | Newport | Throwback

Thursday with DJ Double G PICASSO’S PIZZA & PUB | Warwick | 9:30 pm | Karaoke with DJ Bobby Devine RI RA | Providence | Wicked Cool Karaoke hosted by Ronnie THE SALON | Providence | DJ Handsome J TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | C.J. Martin THE WHISKEY REPUBLIC | Providence | Vinny Vibe

COMEDY THURSDAY 25

ROB SCHNEIDER | 8 pm | Comedy

Connection, 39 Warren Ave, East Providence | $32 | 401.438.8383 | ricomedyconnection.com COMEDY NIGHT with Mark Shea, Jay Burns, Ellen Moschetto, Kelly

Morse, and host John Kelley | 7 pm | The 88 Lounge, 55 Union St, Providence | 401.437.8830 | 88piano lounge.com JOHN MOSES | Thurs-Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 + 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $15-$40 advance | 860.312.6649 | foxwoods.com

chase St, New Bedford, MA | $45$89* [*includes post-performance meet and greet] | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org JOHN MOSES | See listing for Thurs PAUL VIRZI | See listing for Fri THE BIT PLAYERS | See listing for Fri

FRIDAY 26

TIG NOTARO | 8 pm | Columbus

PAUL VIRZI | Fri-Sat 8 pm | Comedy

Connection, East Providence | $15 HARDCORE COMEDY SHOW hosted

by Brian Beaudoin | 10:30 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $15 THE COMEDY FACTORY with Frank O’Donnell, John Perrotta, Larry Lee Lewis, and Steve DeNuccio | Twelve Acres, 445 Douglas Pike, Smithfield | $40 [includes dinner + show + tax + tip; doors 6:30, dinner 7:30, show to follow] | 401.461.7896 | comedy factoryri.com THE BIT PLAYERS | Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 + 10 pm | Firehouse Theater, 4 Equality Park Pl, Newport | $15, $10 Sat @ 10 pm [BYOB] | 401.849.3473 | bitplayers.net BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | 7 [family-friendly show] + 9 pm | Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd | $5 | 401.737.0010 | bringyourown improv.com FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE with improvised song, dance, and skits | 7 pm | Everett, 9 Duncan Ave, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9479 | everettri.org MICETO IMPROV | 9:30 pm | Contemporary Theater, 327 Main St, Wakefield | $7 | 401.218.0282 | contemporarytheatercompany.com DUELING COMIX PIANOS | 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15 + $25 advance JOHN MOSES | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 27

POPPY CHAMPLIN + CHRISTINA THOMAS | 6 pm | Indigo Pizza, 599

Tiogue Ave, Coventry | $15 [includes hot/cold buffet] | 401.615.9600 | indigopizza.com WANDA SYKES | 8 pm | Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, 684 Pur-

SUNDAY 28

Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $22 advance, $25 day of show | columbustheatre.com BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT | 7 pm | Orpheum Theatre, 1 School St, Foxboro, MA | $25 | 508.543.2787 | baycolonyproductions.com COMEDY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $10

NORTH OF THE BORDER COMIX

with John Moses, Daniel Tirado, Keven Soldo, and Rob Mailloux | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance

TUESDAY 30

COMEDY OPEN MIC hosted by James Creelman | 8:30 pm | The Salon, 57 Eddy St, Providence | $TBA | 401.865.6330 | thesalonpvd.com

WEDNESDAY 1

LULZ! COMEDY NIGHT with Will Smalley, Andrew Mayer, Walker Mettlling, and a video by Cyrus Leddy, hosted by Randy Bush | 8:30 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $6 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org THE COMEDY FACTORY with Ralphie Joyal, John Perrotta, Marie Forester, Evan Rocha, and more | 8 pm | Lou’s Cafe, 47 Summer St, Manville | Free | 401.461.7896 | comedyfactory ri.com

THURSDAY 2

THE WPRO ROAST OF MATT ALLEN | 8 pm | Comedy Connection,

East Providence | $20 [proceeds benefit We Share Hope] ROBERT KELLY | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15$40 advance

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THE FATT SQUIRREL | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | 401.808.6898 FÊTE | 401.383.1112 | 103 Dike St, Providence | fetemusic.com FINN’S HARBORSIDE | 401.884.6363 | 38 Water St, East Greenwich | finnsharborside.com GAME 7 SPORTS BAR & GRILL | 508.643.2700 | 60 Man Mar Dr, Plainville, MA | game7sportsbar andgrill.com GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | 401.315.5556 | 105 White Rock Rd, Westerly GREENWICH HOTEL | 401.884.4200 | 162 Main St, East Greenwich | facebook.com/greenwichhotel HANK’S DOWN SOUTH | 401.792.9200 | 33 State St, Narragansett | facebook.com/HanksDownSouthRI INDIGO PIZZA | 401.615.9600 | 599 Tiogue Ave, Coventry | indigopizza.com IRON WORKS TAVERN | 401.739.5111 | 697 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | theironworkstavern.com JAVA MADNESS | 401.788.0088 | 134 Salt Pond Rd, Wakefield | javamadness.com THE KNICKERBOCKER | 401.315.5070 | 35 Railroad Ave, Westerly | theknickerbockercafe.com THE LAST RESORT | 401.349.3500 | 325 Farnum Pike, Smithfield | thelastresortri.com L’ATTITUDE | 401.780.8700 | 2190 Broad St, Cranston | lattituderi. com LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER | 877.82.RIVER | 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | twinriver.com LOCAL 121 | 401.274.2121 | 121 Washington St, Providence | local121.com LUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | 401.331.5876 | 79 Washington St, Providence | lupos.com MACHINES WITH MAGNETS | 401.261.4938 | 400 Main St, Pawtucket | machineswithmagnets.com

THE MALTED BARLEY | 401.315.2184 | 42 High St, Westerly | themalted barleyri.com MANCHESTER 65 | 65 Manchester St, West Warwick | manchester 65.com MARINER GRILL | 401.284.3282 | 142 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett | marinergrille.com THE MEDIATOR | 401.461.3683 | 50 Rounds Ave, Providence THE MET | 401.729.1005 | 1005 Main St, Pawtucket | themetri.com MURPHY’S LAW | 401.724.5522 | 2 George St, Pawtucket | murphys lawri.com NARRAGANSETT CAFE | 401.423.2150 | 25 Narragansett Ave, Jamestown | narragansettcafe.com/ NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | 401.841.5510 | 286 Thames St | newportblues.com NEWPORT GRAND | 401.849.5000 | 150 Admiral Kalbfus Rd, Newport | newportgrand.com NEWS CAFE | 401.728.6475 | 43 Broad St, Pawtucket NICK-A-NEE’S | 401.861.7290 | 75 South St, Providence NOREY’S | 401.847.4971 | 156 Broadway, Newport | noreys.com OAK HILL TAVERN | 401.294.3282 | 565 Tower Hill Rd, North Kingstown | oakhilltavern.com OCEAN MIST | 401.782.3740 | 895 Matunuck Beach Rd, Matunuck | oceanmist.net OLIVES | 401.751.1200 | 108 North Main St, Providence | olivesrocks.com 133 CLUB | 401.438.1330 | 29 Warren Ave, East Providence ONE PELHAM EAST | 401.847.9460 | 270 Thames St, Newport | thepelham.com O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | 401.228.7444 | 23 Peck Ln, Warwick | orourkesbarandgrill.com THE PARLOUR | 401.383.5858 | 1119 North Main St, Providence | facebook.com/ParlourRI

Coming This Fall!

“Passport to Wine: First Stop Italy”

CLUB DIRECTORY THE ARENA BAR & GRILL | 401.369.7100 | 641 Atwood ve, Cranston | thearenari.com AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence ATLANTIC SPORTS BAR | 401.816.5996 | 70 Shove St, Tiverton | facebook. com/atlanticsportsbarandrestaurant AURORA | 401.272.5722 | 276 Westminster St, Providence | aurora providence.com BLU ON THE WATER | 401.885.3700 | 20 Water St, East Greenwich | blueonthewater.com BOONDOCKS BAR & GRILL | 508.673.2200 | 46 Water St, Fall River, MA | myboondocks.com BOUNDARY BREWHOUSE | 401.725.4260 | 67 Garrity St, Pawtucket | facebook. com/Boundarybrewhouse BOVI’S | 401.434.9670 | 278 Taunton Ave, East Providence CADY’S TAVERN | 401.568.4102 | 2168 Putnam Pike, Chepachet | cadystavern.com CAFE ZOG | 401.421.2213 | 239 Wickenden St, Providence | cafezog.com CHAN’S | 401.765.1900 | 267 Main St, Woonsocket | chanseggrollsand jazz.com CHIEFTAIN PUB | 508.643.9031 | 23 Washington St, Plainville, MA | chieftainpub.com CITY SIDE | 401.235.9026 | 74 South Main St, Woonsocket | citysideri.com CLUB EGO | 73 Richmond St, Providence | EGOPVD.com THE CONTINENTAL | 401.233.1800 | 332 Farnum Pike, Smithfield | smithfieldcontinental.com DAN’S PLACE | 401.392.3092 | 880 Victory Hwy, West Greenwich | danspizzaplace.com DIVE BAR | 401.272.2000 | 201 Westminster St, Providence DUSK | 401.714.0444 | 301 Harris Ave, Providence | duskprovidence.com 88 LOUNGE | 401.437.8830 | 55 Union St, Providence | 88pianolounge.com

Every Monday thru Friday 4-6 PM

PERKS & CORKS | 401.596.1260 | 48 High St, Westerly | perksand corks.com PERRY MILL TAVERN & MUSIC HALL | 401.846.0907 | 337 Thames St, Newport | perrymilltavern. com PICASSO’S PIZZA AND PUB | 401.739.5030 | 2323 Warwick Ave, Warwick | picassosrocks.com POWERS PUB | 401.714.0655 | 27 Aborn St, Cranston | powerspub. com RALPH’S DINER | 508.753.9543 | 148 Grove St, Worcester, MA | myspace.com/ralphsdiner RHODE ISLAND BILLIARD BAR & BISTRO | 401.232.1331 | 2026 Smith St, North Providence | RIBBB.com RI RA | 401.272.1953 | 50 Exchange Terrace, Providence | rira.com THE SALON | 401.865.6330 | 57 Eddy St, Providence | thesalonpvd.com SIMON’S 677 | 401.270.6144 | 677 Valley St, Providence | facebook. com/simons677 THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | 401.383.7133 | 101 Richmond St, Providence | thespotprovidence. com STEVIE D’S BAR & GRILL | 401.658.2591 | 80 Manville Hill Rd, Cumberland | stevie-ds.com TAVERN ON BROADWAY | 401.619.5675 | 16 Broadway, Newport | tavern onbroadway.com 39 WEST | 401.944.7770 | 39 Phenix Ave, Cranston | 39westri.com UNCLE RONNIE’S RED TAVERN | 401.568.6243 | 2692 Victory Hwy, Burrillville | uncleronniesred tavern.com VANILLA BEAN CAFE | 860.928.1562 | Rts 44, 169 and 97, Pomfret, CT | thevanillabeancafe.com WHISKEY REPUBLIC | 401.588.5158 | 515 South Water St, Providence | TheWhiskeyRepublic.com

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CONCERTS POPULAR THURSDAY 25

NIKKI HILL | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $20 advance, $23 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter. org THE PAWTUCKET FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL | Part of the Pawtucket

Get off stinky tobacco!

Arts Festival | See website for complete details | Thurs-Sun | Pawtucket Visitor Center, 175 Main St | thepff. com THE WIGGLES | 6:30 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $29.50-$49.50 | 401.421.ARTS or ppacri.org

FRIDAY 26

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The Wax Queen Located in Historic Pawtuxet Village 2162 Broad St. Cranston, RI 02905

Young tribute] [6 pm] + Eddy’s Shoe [Grateful Dead tribute] [7:30 pm] + Custard Pie [Led Zeppelin tribute, 9 pm] + One Wild Night [Bon Jovi tribute] [10:40 pm] | Sept 27, Boot Hill Band [noon] + Hard Candy [1:20 pm] + the Boston Monkey [J. Geils Band tribute] [2:50 pm] + Bigtalkahh [4:25 pm] +the Sharp Dressed Band [6 pm] + the Heavy Rescue Band [7:45 pm] + Gilmour’s Breakfast [Pink Floyd tribute] [9:20 pm] + the Esmond River Band [11 pm] | Proceeds benefit Polycystic Kidney Disease of RI; attendees are encouraged to bring two canned goods for the 1 of 52 Hunger Network | Providence Firefighters Hall, 92 Printery St | $15 per day, $20 both days | 401.751.3407 | pkdofri.org ARK LIFE | 9 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 | columbustheatre.com STEPHEN BENNETT | 8 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $12 advance, $15 door [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com WISHBONE ASH | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $27 advance, $30 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org

THE PAWTUCKET FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 27

Keep Your Kitty Pretty Waxing & Skincare

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C&L Stables Goddard Memorial State Park, Warwick, RI Guided Public Trail Rides (17 Miles of Trails) TRAIL RIDES RATES: $30 PER HOUR Summer BEACH & BAYSIDE RIDES: $45-$65 Camps (CALL FOR RESERVATION ACCORDING TO TIDE)

Barn Phone: 401-886-5246 RIDING LESSONS: PONY RIDES: $5

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ARIANA GILLIS | 8 pm | Common

Fence Point Community Hall, 933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth | $20 advance, $23 door | 401.683.5085 | commonfencemusic.org THE BOHEMIAN QUARTET | 8 pm | Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $15 | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org

DAN ZANES’S SONG GUSTO HOUR | 6 pm | The Greenwich Odeum, 59 Main St, East Greenwich | $20 | 401.885.4000 | theodeum.org IGGY AZALEA | 8 pm | Ryan Center, 1 Lincoln Almond Plaza, Kingston | $35 | 401.788.3200 | theryancenter. com

LAURA CORTESE & THE DANCE CARDS + Rosie Newton & Richie

Stearns | 7:30 pm | Lily Pads, 27 North Rd, Peace Dale | $15 | musicat lilypads.org POUSETTE DART BAND + Susan Cattaneo | 8 pm | Narrows Center For

the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $27 advance, $30 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org SPUYTEN DUYVIL | 7:30 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $15 [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic. com

THE PAWTUCKET FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs 8TH ANNUAL PKD MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 28

TOWER OF POWER | 7:30 pm | Park

Theatre, 848 Park Ave, Cranston | $35-$55 | 401.467.7275 | parktheatreri. com VANCE GILBERT | 7 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, Tiverton | $18 advance, $20 door [BYOB + food]

THE PAWTUCKET FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

WEDNESDAY 1

ERIN RUBICO AND MATT BAN | 7:30 pm | Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA | $20 | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org

THURSDAY 2

AYLA BROWN | 7:30 pm | Stadium

Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $21 | 401.762.4545 | stadium theatre.com SEAN ROWE | 9 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 advance, $12 day of show | columbus theatre.com

DANCE PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 26

REHOBOTH CONTRA DANCE with

caller Lisa Greenleaf and music

by Heyday | 8 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | $9, $8 students, $5 under 16 | 508.252.6375 | contradancelinks. com/rehoboth.html

WEDNESDAY 1

EAST BAY CONTRA DANCE with

caller Dan Pearl and music by Elixir [guitarist Owen Morrison and fiddler Katie McNally] | 7:30 pm | Mary C. Quirk School, 790 Main St, Warren | $10 | facebook.com/eastbay contradance.net

walk 10 am | State House, 82 Smith St, Providence | 401.519.2289 | aids projectri.org NEW ENGLAND’S GOT TALENT | 7 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $16 + $21 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

NEW ENGLAND WHISKEY FESTIVAL | 2 pm | Twin River Event

Center, 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | $30 | 877.82RIVER | twinriver.com WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE | A full lighting begins at 6:36 pm | waterfireprovidence.org

NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL POLO SERIES | This week: the

season’s Finals | 4 pm | Glen Farm, Route 138, Portsmouth | $20 + $12 | 401.846.0200 | nptpolo.com

SUNDAY 28

BEYOND WRESTLING PRESENTS MAKIN’ MOVES | 4 pm | Fete, 103

Dike St, Providence | $20 advance, $25 day of show | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com

THE PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS the winners of the 16th

Annual Pawtucket Photo Contest | 4 pm | Pawtucket Visitor Center, 175 Main St | Free | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival.org

ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL with

international food + music + dancing + games + more | 11 am-5 pm | St. Michael’s Church Hall, 239 Oxford St, Providence | 401.781.7120

2014 WORKING WATERFRONT FESTIVAL | See listing for Sat 5TH ANNUAL BIG DRUM POWWOW | See listing for Sat

TUESDAY 30

3RD ANNUAL TASTE OF PAWTUXET VILLAGE with food from

area restaurants and music by the Terri Giviens Trio | 5:30 pm | RhodesOn-the-Pawtuxet, 60 Rhodes Pl, Cranston | $25 | 401.785.4333 | friendsofpawtuxetvillage.org/ TasteofPawtuxet.html

FILM THURSDAY 25SUNDAY 28

THE PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE 15TH ANNUAL PAWTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL |

Check website for details | Pawtucket Visitor Center, 175 Main St, Pawtucket | 401.724.5200 | thepff.com

THURSDAY 25

EVENTS THURSDAY 25

2ND ANNUAL BEER FEST with beers from Ravenous, Berkshire, Samuel Adams, Narragansett, Grey Sail, and Foolproof, and food from River Falls, Kay’s, Ciro’s, and Savini’s + more | 6-9 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $30 [proceeds benefit the Stadium] | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com “LUNDBERG/TORRES-SANCHEZ,” A THREE-PART PERFORMANCE

BY BENJAMIN LUNDBERG | 7 pm | Psychic Readings, 95 Empire St, Providence | Free | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

SATURDAY 27

2014 WORKING WATERFRONT FESTIVAL | A celebration of New

England’s commercial fishing industry with maritime and ethnic music + fishermen’s contests + seafood + vessel tours + films + author readings + cooking demonstrations + exhibits + kids’ activities + more | 11 am-6 pm | Fisherman’s Pier and Merrill’s Wharf, Rt 18, New Bedford, MA | Free | 508.993.8894 | workingwaterfrontfestival.org

5TH ANNUAL BIG DRUM POWWOW with drumming + dancing +

arts and crafts + storytelling+ children’s events + more | 10 am-6 pm | Roger Williams National Memorial Park, 282 North Main St, Providence | Free | 401.413.2167 | facebook.com/ pages/The-Affiliated-Tribes-of-NewEngland-Indians/189093451136175 AIDS WALK RHODE ISLAND 2014 | A 2.5-mile walk | Registration 9 am,

MOVIES ON THE BLOCK concludes

with The Neverending Story | Movies On the Block, Westminster + Union sts, Providence | Free | indowncity.com

FRIDAY 26 + SATURDAY 27

17TH ANNUAL MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL | 7 pm |

Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley St | $10 | 401.560.0979 | jamestownart center.org

SATURDAY 27

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW | 7:30 pm | Courthouse Center for the Arts, 3481 Kingstown Rd, West Kingston | $15 | 401.782.1018 | courthousearts.org

LIT EVENTS THURSDAY 25

JESSE BALL will read from his

fiction | 2:30 pm | Brown University McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw

FRIDAY 26

PHOTOGRAPHER DEBORAH FEINGOLD will discuss and sign her new book, Music | 7:30 pm | Symposium Books, 240 Westminster St, Providence | 401.273.7900 | symposium books.com

MONDAY 29

PAM CAREY will discuss and sign her new book, Elderly Parents With All Their Marbles: A Survival Guide For the Kids | 6:30 pm | Providence Pub-

lic Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org

TUESDAY 30

RACHAEL L. McINTOSH will read from, discuss, and sign Little Yellow Stickies, book one of the Security Through Absurdity series | 4:30 pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence | 401.863.3168 | brown.edu/campus-life/support/ bookstore/events

WEDNESDAY 1

THE INTERNATIONAL WRITERS PROJECT presents bilingual

readings by poets Xue Di and Tran Khai Thanh Thuy | 7:30 pm | Brown University McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw

THURSDAY 2

CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN will read

from, discuss, and sign his new book, Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures At the Greek Table | 5:30 pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence | 401.863.3168 | brown.edu/campuslife/support/bookstore/events PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

TALKS TUESDAY 30

“LIFE BEFORE JEANS: THE ETIQUETTE OF DRESS, 1920-1970” | A

talk by Linda Welter, a professor in the Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design Department at URI | 7 pm | Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum, 396 County St, New Bedford, MA | $10 | 508.997.1401 | rjdmuseum.org

“SURVEILLANCE OR SELF DETERMINATION: CAN DEMOCRACY AND DIVERSITY CO-EXIST IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE, COMCAST, AND THE NSA?” | A talk by Heidi Boghosian,

executive director of the National Lawyers Guild and author of Spying On Democracy | Part of URI’s Fall 2014 Honors Colloquium, “Cybersecurity & Privacy” | 7:30 pm | Edwards Auditorium, University of Rhode Island, Upper College Road, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2381 | uri.edu/hc

ART GALLERIES ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE GALLERY OF WESTERLY | 401.596.2221 | 7

Canal St | westerlyarts.com | Tues-Sat

10 am-5 pm | Through Sept 28: “A Change of Seasons,” works by John Fast and Nina Briggs ARTPROV GALLERY | 401.641.5182 | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | art providence.com | Through Oct 10: “Earthen Elements,” abstract paintings by Vibha Nanda AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Sept 28: “Weirdo Stuff” by Steve Mardo | “Night Photography”

by Kevin Reardon | “Stasis: New Work,” by David Fischer | “Fences: New Work,” by Lindsey Whelan AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220. org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Sept 28: “Safe Space,” a collaborative drawing project by Delia Kovac and Marissa Paternoster | “Welcome Home: A Sweet and Sour Quilt,” an installation by Brooke Erin Goldstein

BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm

| Through Sept 26: “Graphic Design from Konkuk University,” “where traditional Korean culture melds with Western communication media, featuring posters, package designs, book designs, advertisements, and website designs” BERT GALLERY | 401.751.2628 | 24 Bridge St, Providence | bertgallery.com | Mon-Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat 12-4 pm |

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Through Sept 26: “Summer Tides,” paintings celebrating the end of the summer season

BROWN UNIVERSITY’S WATSON INSTITUTE | 111 Thayer St, Providence

| Through Oct 31: photographs of Rio de Janeiro by Cesar Barreto

CHAZAN GALLERY AT WHEELER

| 401.421.9230 | 228 Angell St, Providence | chazangallery.org | Tues-Sat 11

am-4 pm; Sun 2-4 pm | Through Oct 8: “perspectives | translations | refractions,” works by Jeffrey Bertwell, Saberah Malik, and Laurie Sverdlove COASTAL LIVING GALLERY | 83 Brown St, Wickford | coastalliving gallery.com | Through Sept 29: “Sunsets & History,” photography

by Andre Louis | Oct 2-31: “Pour & Scratch,” paitnings by Elizabeth Kirby Sullivan and Carolina Arensten

COURTHOUSE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | 401.782.1018 | 3481 Kingstown

Rd, West Kingston | courthousearts. org | Through Oct 9: “The 2014 Fall Art Exhibit,” with new work by Eileen Lee Singer, Donna Caster, and A.J. Greenwood

DAVID WINTON BELL GALLERY |

401 863.2932 | List Art Center, Brown University, 64 College St, Providence | brown.edu/Facilities/ David_Winton_Bell_Gallery | Mon-Fri 11

am- 4 pm; Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | Through Oct 12: “Audible Spaces,” sound installations by Zarouhie Abdalian and [The User] and at the Cohen Gallery at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts [154 Angell St] by Tristan Perich DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 134 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown | debloisgallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Sept 28: “Uncommon Women,” works by Izabella Casselman, Judi Israel, and Karen Nash DEDEE SHATTUCK GALLERY | 508.636.4177 | 1 Partners Ln, Westport, MA | dedeeshattuckgallery. com | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through Sept 28: paintings by Richard Whitten and painted wood works by Emi Ozawa GRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | grinprovidence.com | Sat 12-5 pm | Through Oct 11: “Making/Unmaking,” new work by Charlie Smith HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery. org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through Oct 11: “New Visions,” works by Iris Donnelly, Connie Greene, Elizabeth Lind, Jill McLaughlin, Mara Trachtenberg, and M.J. Yeager

HOXIE GALLERY AT THE WESTERLY LIBRARY | 401.596.2877 | 44

Broad St, Westerly | westerlylibrary. org | Through Sept 26: “Recent and

Retro Works,” by Suzanne Dickson Albert and Susanne Riette

+ Wed 10 am-6 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am5:30 pm | Through Oct 30: “Protecting Providence: Three Centuries of Policing In Rhode Island’s Capital”

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 | Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | rhodeisland watercolorsociety.wildapricot.org |

Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through Oct 2: “The Artist Travels,” an open juried show

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | WedSun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Through Oct 11: “The Great Art Heist,” a member-donated artwork fundraiser

STUDIO Z/GALLERY Z BUTCHER BLOCK MILL | 401.454.8844 | 25 Eagle

St, Providence | galleryzprov.com |

Through Oct 11: “Photographic Odyssesys & Escapades,” by Larry Sykes

URI PROVIDENCE CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington

St | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | Oct 1-31: “Solamente Tamara: Colorful Soul,” | a mixed media exhibit by Tamara Diaz | Through Sept 30: “Bringing Guantánamo Home: Guantánamo Public Memory Project,” a traveling exhibit of stories, images, and documents from before 9/11 and after, co-curated by Brown and 11 other US universities. In Providence, the exhibit will feature newsletters written by detainees at Guantánamo, plus works by Mary Beth Meehan, Chris Simms, and students at the International Charter School in Pawtucket, to connect the themes of migration, security, refuge, and human rights with our communities

WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach

St, North Kingstown | wickfordart. org | Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm; Sun 12-3

pm | Through Sept 30: “Fundraising Event” WOODS-GERRY HOUSE | 401.454.6141 | 62 Prospect St, Providence | risd.edu/About/Galleries_ Exhibitions/Woods_Gerry | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Sept 26Oct 5: “RISD In Rome: European Honors Program” YELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Providence | yellowperilmedia.com/ gallery | Wed-Fri 3-8 pm; other days by appointment | Through Oct 5: “ShrineBeast,” a mixed media exhibition about alternate realities and the transformative nature of love by Andrew Paul Woolbright

MUSEUMS

IMAGO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St,

BRISTOL ART MUSEUM |

| Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through Oct 12: works by Lisa Legato, the Globalheart Project, and Christiane Corbat, plus a wood-fired kiln event featuring Rose EssonDawson, Seth Rainville, Hollis Engley, Kimberly Sheerin Medeiros, Ron Mello, Elizabeth Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Anne Marie Rossi, Lenny Rumpler, Michael Scriven, and Howard Windham, plus student artists Melissa Cruz, Jennifer Norton, Sarah Springer, and Jessica Tranvo JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestown artcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Oct 17: “Second Home,” works by Alice O’Neill, Colgate Searle, and Dan O’Neill

Through Oct 19: “Objects For Work, Objects For Play, and Objects To Cherish,” with fine art jewelry by Kelly Jean Conroy, interdisciplinary works by Candis Dixon, pencils by Dalton Ghetti, paintings by Dan Golden, miniature sugar carvings

by Judith G. Klausner, photography

by Dan McManus, and drawings by David Shapleigh

Warren | imagofoundation4art.org

NARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERY | 508.324.1926 |

16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | narrowscenter.org | Wed-Sat 12-5 pm

| Through Oct 25: “Third Annual Poster Exhibition,” with works by Ghost-Town, Doe Eyed, Land Land, LeDouxville, and Little Friends of Printmaking PROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providence artclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Sept 26: “New Work: Memories In Glass,” by Alice Benvie Gebhart | “Still Lifes and Panoramas: 2 Realists,” works by Michaell Manni and Peter Michael Miller PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | 401.455.8000 | 150 Empire St | provlib. org | Mon + Thurs 12-8 pm; Tues

401.253.4400 | 10 Wardwell St | bristol artmuseum.org | Wed-Sun 1-4 pm |

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION | 401.851.8949 |

492 Bellevue Ave, Newport | american illustration.org | Sat + Sun 11 am-5 pm

[guided tours Fri 3 pm] | Through Oct 30: “Paul Szep: Famous Fames” an exhibit of caricatures NEWPORT ART MUSEUM | 401.848.8200 | 76 Bellevue Ave | newportartmuseum.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students and military personnel with ID; free for children 5 and under | Through Jan 4: “Palate to Plate: Prints & Recipes From Members of the Boston Printmakers” | Through Jan 11: “Solemnities,” works by Claudia Flynn RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Benefit St, Providence | risdmuseum. org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm [Thurs until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am-1 pm | Through Nov 16: “UuDam Tran Nguyen: Waltz of the Machine Equestrians,” a video installation | Through Jan 4: “What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960

to the Present,” which “proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image-making from 1960 to the present that has been largely overlooked and undervalued. At the heart of ‘What Nerve!’ are four mini-exhibitions based on crucial shows, spaces, and groups in Chicago (the Hairy Who), San Francisco (Funk), Ann Arbor (Destroy All Monsters), and Providence (Forcefield) — places outside the artistic focal point of New York.

These moments are linked together by six influential or intersecting artists: H. C. Westermann, Jack Kirby, William Copley, Christina Ramberg, Gary Panter, and Elizabeth Murray” | Through Feb 22: “Circus,” with 40 circus-themed paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and posters from 1850-1960 WARWICK MUSEUM OF ART | 401.737.0010 | 3259 Post Rd | warwick museum.org | Tues + Wed + Fri 12-4 pm, Thurs 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Oct 25: “28th Annual RI Open,” a juried exhibit

THEATER BROWN UNIVERSITY THEATRE |

401.863.3283 | brown.edu/academics/ theatre-arts-performance-studies | Leeds Theatre, Lyman Hall, 83 Waterman St, Providence | Through Oct 5:

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, directed by Curt Columbus, artistic director of Trinity Rep | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 3 pm | $15, $12 seniors, $7 students GAMM THEATRE | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre.org | 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | Through Oct 3: Grounded,

by George Brant | This week: Sept 25 + Oct 1 + 2 7 pm + Sept 26 + 27 8 pm + Sept 28 2 + 7 pm | $41 + $49 GRANITE THEATRE | 401.596.2341 | granitetheatre.com | 1 Granite St, Westerly | Through Sept 28: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 2 pm | $20, $17 seniors, $12 under 13 MIXED MAGIC THEATRE | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival. org | At Slater Mill, 67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket | Sept 25 7 pm: The Pawtucket Arts Festival presents Mixed Magic Theater performing The Blackstone River Song, the first installment of a four-part series that will use music, poetry, storytelling, and dance to chronicle the lives of the people and the events of the Blackstone River and Blackstone Valley | Free OCEAN STATE THEATRE | 401.921.6800 | oceanstatetheatre.org | 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | Through Oct 19: My Fair Lady by Lerner & Loewe, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion | This week: Sept 25 + Oct 2 2 + 7:30 pm + Sept 26 + 27 7:30 pm + Sept 28 2 pm | $39-$54 OUT LOUD THEATRE | 401.490.9475

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Through Oct 4: Metamorphoses, by Ovid, translated by Mary Zimmerman | Sept 25 + 26 + Oct 2-4 7:30 pm | $15, $12 students + seniors

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RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE THEATRE | 401.456.8144 | ric.edu/mtd/calendar_ theatreEvents.php | At Sapinsley Hall,

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| Through Sept 28: Tartuffe by Molière | Sept 25 + 26 7:30 pm + Sept 27 2 + 7:30 pm + Sept 28 2 pm | $15 ROMP OF OTTERS [ROO] | 95 Em-

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TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com | 201 Washington St, Providence | Through

Oct 5: Ivanov, a world premiere translation of Anton Chekhov’s play

by Curt Columbus | This week: Sept 25 + 26 + Oct 2 7:30 pm + Sept 27 2 + 7 pm + Sept 28 2 pm | $28-$68 THE WILBURY THEATRE GROUP | 401.400.7100 | thewilburygroup.org | 393 Broad St, Providence | Through Oct 12: This Beautiful City, by Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis, with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman | “A new documentary-style play that details the explosion of America’s evangelical Christian movement” | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm + Sun 2 pm

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THE BOXTROLLS 3D | Starts Fri: 4:35, 9:10 THE BOXTROLLS | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:35, 7 THE EQUALIZER | Starts Fri: 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 THE MAZE RUNNER | 12:40, 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 6:30, 7:10, 8:50, 9:30 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU | 1, 3:30, 7, 9:25 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES | 1:15, 3:50, 7:15, 9:35 THE DROP | 1:05, 3:45, 7:20, 9:35 DOLPHIN TALE 2 | 1:10, 4, 6:45, 9:10 NO GOOD DEED | 1:25, 4, 7:25, 9:40 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25

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MAS NEGRO QUE LA NOCHE [DARKER THAN NIGHT] 3D | Starts Fri: 7:25, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 MAS NEGRO QUE LA NOCHE [DARKER THAN NIGHT] | Starts Fri: 11:45, 2:20, 4:55 THE BOXTROLLS 3D | Thurs: 7:10, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 12:25, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 THE BOXTROLLS | Starts Fri: 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 THE EQUALIZER | Thurs: 7:30, 9 | FriThurs: 12:40, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:30, 12 THE EQUALIZER: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 7, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 TUSK | 6:55, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:50 THE MAZE RUNNER | Thurs: 1:45, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 1:50, 4:25, 5, 7:05, 7:35, 9:40, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU | Thurs: 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 | FriThurs: 1:45, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES | 11:30, 1:35, 2:05, 4:35, 5:05, 7:15, 7:45, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:35 THE DROP | Thurs: 11:40, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:25, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45 NO GOOD DEED | Thurs: 1, 1:30, 3:05, 3:35, 5:15, 5:45, 7:20, 7:50, 9:30, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:30, 2:35, 4:45, 6:50, 9 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:05 DOLPHIN TALE 2 | Thurs: 1:20, 4:05, 6:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:15, 3:45, 6:20, 8:50 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 10:20 pm | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 LET’S BE COPS | Thurs: 11:55, 2:35, 5:05, 10:25 | Fri-Thurs: 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:35

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | Thurs: 12, 2:30, 5, 7:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:55, 4:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: 12:35, 1:05, 3:40, 4:10, 7, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05 LUCY | 11:40, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:15

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THE MAZE RUNNER + X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | Fri-Sun: dusk AS ABOVE, SO BELOW + THE PURGE ANARCHY | Fri-Sun: dusk DOLPHIN TALE 2 + GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Fri-Sat: dusk JURASSIC PARK + JAWS | Sun: dusk

Fri-Thurs: 12:15, 12:45, 3:15, 3:45, 6:45, 7:15, 9:45, 10:15 THE MAZE RUNNER | 1:15, 1:45, 4:25, 4:55, 7, 7:30, 9:55, 10:25 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU | 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES | 1:35, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 NO GOOD DEED | Thurs: 1:10, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 12:55, 3, 5:05, 7:25, 9:30 DOLPHIN TALE 2 | Thurs: 1:30, 4:30, 7, 9:35 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9:15 IF I STAY | Thurs: 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:05, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 THE GIVER | Thurs: 12:10, 2:30, 4:55 | Fri-Thurs: 7:40, 10 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 12, 2:30, 5:15 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: 12:45, 3:45 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35

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THE BOXTROLLS 3D | Starts Fri: 12:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:50 THE BOXTROLLS | Starts Fri: 2:40, 5, 7:20 THE EQUALIZER | Starts Fri: 12:35, 1:05, 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:55, 10:25 THE MAZE RUNNER | 1, 4:25, 7:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:10 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU | 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:15 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES | 12:45, 4:15, 7:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:45 THE DROP | 12:55, 4:20, 7:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:05 DOLPHIN TALE 2 | 12:50, 4:10, 7:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:35 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 12:40, 3:50, 6:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:30

THE BOXTROLLS 3D | Thurs: 7:10 | FriThurs: 12:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:50 THE BOXTROLLS | Starts Fri: 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 THE EQUALIZER | Thurs: 7 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 4, 7 | Fri-Sat late show: 10 THE MAZE RUNNER | 1:15, 4:25, 7:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:45 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU | 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:15 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES | 1:35, 4:35, 7:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:05 NO GOOD DEED | 12:55, 3:10, 5:20, 7:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:55 DOLPHIN TALE 2 | 1:20, 4:20, 6:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:20 IF I STAY | 1:25, 4:15, 6:45* [*no show 9.25] | Fri-Sat late show: 9:35 THE GIVER | Thurs: 1:40, 7:35 | FriThurs: 12:25, 2:45, 7:25 LET’S BE COPS | 1:55, 5:05, 7:40 | FriSat late show: 10:10 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 1:45, 4:20, 6:55* [*no show 9.25] | Fri-Sat late show: 9:15 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 12:50, 3:50, 6:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:25 LUCY | Thurs: 1, 3:10, 5:25, 7:30 | FriThurs: 5 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:45

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THE NOVEMBER MAN | Thurs: 7:05, 9:45 THE SKELETON TWINS | Starts Fri: 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 THE BOXTROLLS 3D | Thurs: 7:10, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 12, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40 THE BOXTROLLS | Starts Fri: 2:20, 4:40, 7 THE EQUALIZER | Thurs: 7, 7:30, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 6:30, 7, 9:30, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 MY OLD LADY | 11:50, 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 TUSK | Thurs: 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10 | FriThurs: 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:55 THE MAZE RUNNER | Thurs: 11:45, 1:25, 2:20, 4:25, 4:55, 7, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU | 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES | 1:25, 4:35, 7:15, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45 DOLPHIN TALE 2 | 1:20, 3:55, 6:55, 9:20 THE DROP | 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 NO GOOD DEED | 1:10, 3:15, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 IF I STAY | Thurs: 1:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:15, 6:40 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:35 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 12:50, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15

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THE BOXTROLLS 3D | Thurs: 7, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 4:45, 10 THE BOXTROLLS | Thurs: 7, 9:30 | FriThurs: 2:05, 7:15 THE EQUALIZER | Thurs: 7, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 1:50, 4:35, 4:55, 7:40, 8, 10:45 THE MAZE RUNNER | Thurs: 1:30, 2, 4:10, 4:40, 7:10, 7:30, 9:50, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:35, 2:05, 4:20, 4:50, 7:05, 7:35, 10:05, 10:35 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU | Thurs: 1:45, 4:15, 7, 9:45 | Fri-Thurs: 2:15, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES | Thurs: 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 | FriThurs: 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 THE DROP | 2:10, 4:50, 7:30*, 10:40* [*no shows 10.2] NO GOOD DEED | 2:20, 5, 7:55, 10:20 DOLPHIN TALE 2 | Thurs: 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:40 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 2:05, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 IF I STAY | Thurs: 1:50, 4:20 | FriThurs: 4:25, 10* [*no show 10.2] WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | Thurs: 4 THE GIVER | Thurs: 2:10, 4:35 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | Thurs: 1:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1:55, 7* [*no show 10.2] GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 1:45, 4:30, 7:15*, 10:10* [*no shows 10.2] ANNABELLE | Thurs [10.2]: 7, 9:30 GONE GIRL | Thurs [10.2]: 10 LEFT BEHIND | Thurs [10.2]: 7:05, 9:50

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Like most comic actors doing straight drama, Wiig and Hader acquit themselves admirably, though their most persuasive scenes are those that show the siblings goofing around together like overgrown kids; neither actor can summon up the nihilistic despair that drives someone to take his own life. Most of the story transpires between those two extremes, showing how the character’ shared emotional damage has deformed their respective love relationships. Writing and directing his second feature, Craig Johnson demonstrates a knowing sense of how consciously, and helplessly, some people destroy themselves. With Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell, and Joanna Gleason. _J.R. Jones

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Shawn Levy (Night At the Museum) directed. | 103m | XX tHE tRIP tO ItALY | 2014 | Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, and director Michael Winterbottom reunite for this sequel to their indie favorite The Trip (2011), with the stars embarking once again on a restaurant-reviewing tour that guarantees plenty of food porn and literate table talk. The most remarked-up scene in the original was a hilarious sequence in which the two master mimics debate how best to impersonate Michael Caine; it’s reprised endlessly here, with quick takes on Hugh Grant, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, and Gore Vidal.

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spectacular seaside vistas, and numerous quotations from Byron, the movie soon grows tedious; Coogan’s irritation with his traveling partner has diminished significantly, and the laughs along with it. | 106m | X tUSK | 2014 | Middle-aged fanboy Kevin Smith has decided that what the world needs now is a comedy remake of The Human Centipede (2010), the grotesque midnight-movie favorite about a mad surgeon stitching people together into the title beast. In Smith’s version a meanspirited LA podcaster (Justin Long), traveling to Manitoba in search of material, gets held captive by a grandiose lunatic (Michael Parks) who turns him into a walrus, while the victim’s girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) and sidekick (Haley Joel Osment) try to track him down. This is gruesome but never scary, snarky but never funny; it’s probably the worst thing to come out of Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) that he didn’t have the decency to flush down a toilet. Its only redeeming facet is a slumming cameo by Johnny Depp, barely recognizable under a wig and fake nose, as a French-Canadian homicide detective. | 102m |

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this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality.

When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite 14 15 16 yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best.

30 | When the31moon is32in aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, Leo/aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. but it’s great for brainstorming. | for Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com.

Symboline Dai can be reached at 15 16 sally@moonsigns.net.

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