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38 studios:

so many questions, not many answers Is there a criminal investigation underway? What’s going on with the lawsuit? What about the Secretary of State’s inquiry into lobby violations? Will 38 Studios be a factor in the 2014 elections? How much cash has come out of taxpayers’ pockets at this point?

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8 38 STUdioS: So mAny qUeSTionS, noT mAny AnSwerS _B y ph il ip eil The game’s not over. We try to make sense of the ongoing debacle: the criminal case, the civil suit, the lobbying violations, the payment schedule . . . .

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Phillipe + Jorge’s Cool, Cool World

the rewards of voting BuT wAiT, THERE'S MORE; “nEwS” FROM THE VinEyARD; PAniC iS COnTAgiOuS As we head down the home

stretch in the state’s guf bernatorial primaries, votes are

becoming an ever-more precious commodity. It’s getting to the point where candidates are coming up with genius ideas to gain Vo Dilunduhs’ affection at the ballot box. We refer of course to General Treasurer and State House aspirant Gina Raimondo’s recent email appeal to supporters to donate to her (already teeming) campaign coffers via an offer to reward $25 donations with a Gina “car magnet.” Evidently, someone of intellect greater than P&J’s — or at least greater than the guy who pushes kitchen knife sets on cable TV channels — has decided this prize is just what's needed to steer the election Gina’s way. Since P&J have played political advisors on TV, may we offer a suggestion to one of Raimondo’s opponents? Clay Pell could reward his big-time financial supporters with a car locator, a GPS device that homes in on your vehicle when you have absentmindedly forgotten where you parked it, while you’re no doubt dwelling instead on big decisions like whether to wear gloves or mittens. Primary Day is September 9, folks.

Vladimir who? Gaza where?

Somehow P&J found themselves on the media pool email list for President Obama’s vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. We normally deal with The Big O directly, but we found the “hard news” emanating from this particular vacation amusing. Who says the Obama administration has been the most controlling and media-unfriendly in recent history (besides The New York Times, Washington Post, and virtually every other major news outlet that’s dealt with his office’s stonewalling and non-answers)? In this case, local ink-stained wretches from The Vineyard Gazette and Martha’s Vineyard Times have been serving as pool reporters for the rest of the media on hand, delivering the hard-hitting, breaking-story news to fill front pages from Boston to Beijing the next day. As an example, here is the breathless firsthand account from the Gazette’s Sara Brown on the evening of August 11:

President Obama is now at a DSCC fundraiser at the home of Roger Brown and Linda Mason. [Who the hell are they? — P&J] The Victorianstyle home is on Lagoon Pond in Tisbury. There is a white tent on

the lawn with round paper lanterns hanging from the ceiling and yellow and white flowers on the tables. A hammock is also on the lawn. President Obama entered the tent to the song “Signed Sealed Delivered.” [We thought that was the official song of Congress? — P&J] Massachusetts senator Edward Markey and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennett are in attendance. There were about 50 people under the tent. The president spoke for about 13 minutes, noting that it is wonderful to be on Martha’s Vineyard and that the First Family hung out with some seals this afternoon. He said that being from Hawaii, he finds the water a bit cold. Brrrrr, eh, Barry? P&J smell Pulitzer!

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P&J can attest to one thing: trying to type while wearing a HazMat

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suit is an absolute bitch. Naturally, with news of the recent Ebola outbreak, we’re taking all possible precautions to avoid this horror/sci-fi disease — from donning astronaut-style protective outerwear to taking bushmeat off the summer menu at Casa Diablo. No more monkey on the barbecue grill for these boys, at least until the threat blows over. P&J did get lucky in receiving our HazMat suits in attractive colors from the Centers for Disease Control — fuchsia for P., teal for J. — rather than that incredibly borrr-rring white favored by the CDC, even if those would have helped us show off our tans and recent teeth-whitening jobs. But back to Ebola. Your superior correspondents have restricted ourselves to TV coverage of the disease, as print media simply can’t compare to wild-eyed talking hairdos trying desperately to create a panic in America where

none exists. We're surprised that Fox News hasn’t yet accused President Obama of being an infected carrier, given his Kenyan connections and the fact that nobody at Fox would realize Kenya is in East, rather than West, Africa. Hey, what’s a few miles between friends, even though Ebola is not an airborne-transmitted plague? We’re selling a pandemic here, not a summer cold, people. “Over-selling” is more like it, as occurs whenever TV gets involved. Fortunately for newscasters on the tube, the Gaza fighting reached yet another three-minute cease fire, and no one abducted a young blonde girl, so the TV Caesars could concentrate solely on a disease that offers the necessary blood and gore to guarantee a leading spot at 6 and 11. (Hey, when you can edge out a racecar driver getting killed by a famous NASCAR racer right on the track, you know the Ebola “tragedy

porn” numbers are peaking.) So it’s off to Redbox to rent copies of Contagion, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of Living Dead, and whatever other horror dreck we can find to ratchet up the panic level at home. Although there’s little fun to be found in the fate of this hideous scourge and its victims, let’s please treat it sanely and seriously, news chimps.

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One of the more impressive and popular local bands, Ravi Shavi, will hold forth at the Columbus Theatre on Broadway in Providence this Saturday (the 16th) for a “dual EP Release Show” where they’ll unveil their most recent recordings, Courage and Independent. There will be performances throughout the evening in the upstairs lobby and theater from 9 pm until 1 am. It might be your last opportunity to catch Ravi Shavi before they head out on an extended tour of the southern US at the end of this month. This is a great band to dance to — and lead singer Rafay Rashid is a pretty smooth dancer himself. Come prepared to move.

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Like most entertainment fans around the world, your superior correspondents were shocked and saddened to hear on Monday that Robin Williams, the dazzling, mercurial comedian/actor, had died at his home in California. P&J know you have already read other obituaries and thought about the many TV programs and films you’ve enjoyed him in. The only thing that we would add is that Robin Williams was a good friend of some fellow Vo Dilunduhs and, since his passing, we’ve heard nothing but nice things about what a warmhearted and good man he was. Richard (“Paco”) and Judi Zimmer were friends with Robin. Paco has had an extensive career on the “business” end of show business and, not too long ago, he accompanied Williams to Australia for a benefit show (Paco took care of the books, paperwork, etc.). You may know Paco as the guy who managed one of the best nightclubs ever in the Biggest Little: Center Stage, in East Providence. He knows just about everyone in the entertainment world, from doing tour management for the Who, the Allman Brothers Band, Bon Jovi, KISS, and on and on. So, while Robin Williams was admired and loved by many, know that he had a special Rhode Island connection. ^

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in providence, a gallery brings the ‘outside’ in “Heaven knows that Rod Stewart’s bikini is very gross,” Amy Ethier says to an enthusiastic audience during a performance at 186 Carpenter Street. It’s Friday evening, August 8, and she stands reading from torn and wrinkled sheets of paper, shifting her weight from one foot to another, turning once to ask a friend if it’s OK to skip over the word “was.” Her spoken-word piece is part of the opening for “Up Close and Outside,” the current exhibit in the Carpenter Street gallery, featuring “stories, conversations, and weird messages” from the folks at Resources for Human Development (RHD). RHD is an art-based nonprofit that serves adults with a range of disabilities through studio classes, community engagement, and artist management services. Ethier is somewhat of a rock star among her RHD peers on account of her poetry, the subjects of which range from the nonsensical and silly — “Oh, pocket pickles!” — to dark and strange alternate realities where people vomit on one another’s knees and eat each other’s wrists for dinner. It’s not always comfortable, but discomfort can come with the territory often referred to as “outsider art.” That term originated in the 1970s as a variant of “art brut,” a label used to describe work created outside of the official art scene. While it’s often applied to artists who have physical or mental disabilities or who have suffered from mental illness, it’s also an umbrella term for work created by anyone who is culturally marginalized, untrained, or simply unaware they’re even making art. RHD art director John Hoder says that while that label isn’t perfect, it’s the most efficient way to describe and promote what RHD clients do. “They have no formal art education and their work exists outside of the establishment,” he says. “But really the bottom line is that good art is good art.” The work included in “Up Close and Out-

side” is a quilt of text-based art: handwritten stories, colorfully printed alternate versions of the alphabet, Sharpie renderings of electric guitars paired with hand-written lists of bands like Scorpions and Mötley Crüe. The installation will evolve as artists and staff members collaborate on new work during the show’s gallery hours (Tuesdays from 11 am to 1:30 pm through September 16). In addition to its temporary residency at Carpenter Street, RHD holds weekly workshops at other local arts organizations like the Avenue Concept and AS220, as part of an ongoing effort to bring participants’ art — and the artists who create it — out of the fringe and into public spaces. “Everyone [at RHD] is very passionate about creating opportunities for our artists to interact with the community whenever they can,” says Hoder. “I feel like that’s the most important thing.” In keeping with that mission, the public is welcome to stop in and collaborate during Carpenter Street gallery hours, or to simply check out the show and enjoy RHD’s artistrun pop-up coffee shop. At Friday’s opening, Ethier’s performance is followed by a set from the band Psycle, comprised of RHD artists Taikwan Francis and Shawn Bourgault on guitars, with staff member Hannah Devine on drums. Bourgault thrashes joyfully through sludgy, fuzz-driven rock songs, while Devine and Francis cheerfully trade off on dark vocals about having bad days. “We just wrote that one today,” says Francis after the last song, sounding not like an outsider, but like an artist, just doing what artists do. “Up Close and Outside” will be open for viewing and collaboration at 186 Carpenter St every Tuesday from 11 am to 1:30 pm. until September 16. Admission is free; coffee and RHD-made art and merchandise are available for purchase. To learn more, visit rhdri.org. _Liz Lee

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38 studios: so many questions, not so many answers the game’s not over — trying to make sense of the ongoing debacle _by Ph il iP e il Someday, someone will write a book about 38 Studios that delivers, in comprehensive and unsparing detail, the story House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello recently called “one of the biggest debacles in the country’s history.” Today is not that day. Although Rhode Island’s most infamous company filed for bankruptcy more than two years ago, its story is far from over, and many — arguably, most — of those critical details remain locked away. The state’s epic 38 Studios lawsuit marches on behind closed doors, with 50 depositions already conducted during pre-trial “discovery” proceedings, and at least 18 more scheduled before the August 31 discovery deadline. Meanwhile, no criminal charges have been filed. (More on this in a moment.) And, while there have been resignations, lives ruined, and at least one case of public verbal self-flagellation (“I’d be inhuman if I wasn’t worrying about this stuff and beating the hell out of myself over it,” former Speaker Gordon Fox told The Providence Journal in 2012), none of the folks who made this deal happen appear to have faced any formal, completed process of accountability. Heck, the guy who sponsored the bill paving the way for 38 Studios, former State Representative and House Finance Chair Steven Costantino, now collects a $140,000 taxpayer-funded salary as RI’s Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. With all of that said, a lot has happened on the 38 Studios front in the last few months. And, this week, we tried to make some sense of it all.

THE CRIMINAL CASE

Will anyone go to jail for 38 Studios? It certainly hasn’t happened yet, more than four years after the swift sequence that brought the General Assembly’s passage of a $125 million loan program, the signing of that bill by then-Governor Donald Carcieri, and a vote by the Economic Development Corporation’s nine-member board to funnel $75 million into the waiting hands of a ballplayerturned-video game-entrepreneur. The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island (the folks who sent Buddy Cianci and former Central Falls mayor Charles Moreau to prison, among many others) has basically said they’re not pursuing the case. “The office did take a very narrow review of matters that could have been of federal interest, such as potential for bank fraud, or any related federal violations,” spokesman Jim Martin tells us. “That was done early on, and that review has concluded, and as a result of that review . . . there is no further federal action planned in this matter.” Meanwhile, Amy Kempe, spokeswoman for Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin’s office, confirms there is “an ongoing investigation into 38 Studios by the Rhode Island State Police and the Office of Attorney General,” though she is prohibited from getting into specifics. It’s worth noting that in June, the RI State Police publicly — and slightly awkwardly — echoed this acknowledgement

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STRUCK OUT schilling leaving the ri economic development headquarters on may 21, 2012. of an investigation, after news broke that Speaker Mattiello had sent an email to legislators notifying them State Police intended to “ask questions of every member, past and present, who participated in the voting” on the infamous 2010 Job Guaranty Creation Program bill. Later in the day the email leaked, State Police Superintendent Colonel Steven O’Donnell issued a statement titled “38 Studios Clarification.” “This request was intended to ensure that any legislator, who has relevant information regarding the 2010 vote on the ‘Job Creation Guarantee Program,’ provides that information to investigators,” it read. “The investigation of this loan, being conducted by the State Police and the Attorney General, remains active and ongoing. It is important to recognize that the goal of this request is to ensure that anyone with information, who has not been previously contacted, has the opportunity to present it. “No member of the legislature is suspected of wrongdoing simply because of their vote,” the Colonel added. No timeline has been given for the AG/ State Police investigation.

THE CIVIL SUIT

The second question, then, is: will we, the people of Rhode Island, ever get our money back? To this, the answer is: “People are working on it.” In November of 2012, the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, via attorney Max Wistow (one of the lawyers who helped secure a $176 million settlement for victims of the Station Fire), filed a 95-page lawsuit in Rhode Island Superior Court that essentially demands back the money that Rhode Island taxpayers money lost, plus additional fees for damages, from various people connected with the 38 Studios deal.

The suit names 14 total defendants, including Curt Schilling (who was technically 38 Studios majority stockholder and board chair), 38 Studios executives and board members (CEO Jennifer MacLean, CFO Richard Wester, board member Thomas Zaccagnino), various EDC staffers and lawyers (executive director Keith Stokes, deputy director J. Michael Saul, secretary and general counsel Rob Stolzman), and two banks that helped to sell 38 Studios-related bonds (Wells Fargo Securities, Barclays Capital). In the most basic sense, the complaint argues that these various defendants knowingly duped the EDC board into voting in favor of the $75 million 38 Studios loan even when they knew that the deal was doomed. “38 Studios failed because of risks that had not been disclosed to the EDC Board, but were or should have been known by . . . Advisors [to the EDC’s board], and by 38 Studios, and Defendants Schilling, Zaccagnino, Wester, and MacLean,” the suit reads at one point. Formal allegations listed at the end of the complaint include “Breach of Fiduciary Duty,” “Legal Malpractice,” “Negligence,” “Fraud,” “Breach of Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing,” and “Unjust Enrichment.” (There is much, much more to the complaint than we have space to discuss here. It can be accessed via commerceri.com/government/38studios.php.) At this point, there is no trial date set for the case — and there may never be a trial if all of the defendants decide to settle. So far, however, all but two of the defendants are vigorously denying the allegations and fighting back. The exceptions are attorney Antonio Afonso Jr., and his firm Moses Afonso Ryan, former bond advisors to the EDC, who reached a $4.4 million settlement agreement with the EDC approved last month. If you’re interested in the developing

details of the case, you’re free to access the docket (essentially a timeline of all legal actions that have taken place) at the Superior Court public information terminal inside the Benefit Street judicial complex in Providence. While you’re there, you can also inquire about periodic, opento-the-public status conferences on the progress of the case. For those of you who aren’t that motivated, perhaps you’ll appreciate a brief assessment of the scale of what’s taking place. According to RI Courts spokesman Craig Berke, there are a total of 37 lawyers working on the case, from 15 firms. Max Wistow estimates that there have been more than 450 hours of interviews clocked during 74 days of depositions. (In a recent letter to The Providence Journal, Donald Carcieri said he had been deposed for 10 hours over two days, with a third day scheduled.) Considering that a day of depositions usually equals about 250 pages of typed transcripts, Wistow estimates that these proceeding have yielded some 18,000 pages of material and, by the end of discovery, he believes that total will easily top 20,000. This, of course, triggers a major question about public information: will this mountain of dirt on the 38 Studios deal ever be released? “Maybe,” says Berke, who says that Judge Michael Silverstein will ultimately make a ruling on this. Wistow, meanwhile, is very confident those transcripts — and the exhibits that accompany them — will be released.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE’S LOBBYING VIOLATIONS INQUIRY

In May, Channel 12 WPRI reporters Tim White and Ted Nesi broke a series of stories based on a leaked 38 Studios “Consulting Services Agreement.” Dated January 1, 2011, the document was sent from the desk of COO Bill Thomas (who, by the way, is Curt Schilling’s wife’s uncle), and apparently signed by Providence attorney Michael Corso. It proposes $300,000 payment for one year of work described as:

general business consulting services, including but not limited to, public and government relations services, media interactions, reviewing press releases and other media statements, community integration with the local business community, interactions with government agencies and various public officials, as when reasonably requested by client. In other words, it sounds a heck of a lot like 38 Studios is hiring a lobbyist. There is just one problem. “No one, absolutely no one, registered as a lobbyist in this deal,” says John Marion, executive director of the nonprofit good government advocacy group, Common Cause RI. “Curt Schilling literally went before the EDC and begged for money . . . [If that’s] money for his business, which he stood to profit from . . . to me that’s sort of the common sense definition of what lobbying is.” Marion expressed similar worries when Continued on p 10

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Timeline: key dates in a slow-motion ‘reckoning’ 2004

October 19: the “bloody sock” game. red sox pitcher curt schilling — with an injured right ankle that’s been hastily sutured and injected with painkillers and anti-inflammatories — delivers a stellar performance in game 6 of the american league championship series (alcs) against the rival new york yankees. the game is a key component to a miraculous series comeback (the sox were down three games, at one point), on the way to the first red sox World series victory after 86 “cursed” years.

2006 September: With a $5 million investment of his own money, schilling announces the founding of a video game production company called green monster games. that name is eventually changed to 38 studios, in homage to schilling’s baseball jersey number. schilling’s wife’s uncle, bill thomas, a retired business executive, is one of the company’s first full-time employees.

2007 Fall: schilling tosses three postseason wins, en route to the red sox’ second World series victory in four years, further cementing his status as a new england sports legend.

2009 March 23: schilling announces his retirement from major league baseball.

October 8: documents made public in 2014 — handed over by a “38 studios insider” to house oversight committee chairwoman, karen macbeth (d-cumberland) — indicate that 38 studios non-disclosure agreements were signed on this day by then-rhode island house speaker William murphy, representative gordon fox, and Providence attorney and tax-credit broker, michael corso. the story behind these “nda”’s remains one of the big 38 studios mysteries.

don fox is elected house speaker.

March 6: governor don carcieri speaks with curt schilling at a fundraiser at the retired pitcher’s home in medfield, massachusetts. this was long believed to be the moment when the idea to bring 38 studios to rhode island was born.

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from 38 studios’ new hQ at as220. “the last geek dinner of 2011 is going to be a doozy,” reads the announcement on providencegeeks. com. “Providence-based 38 studios will be giving an early look at their first game — the highly anticipated rPg Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning . . . two months prior to its february release date.”

2012 February 7: 38 studios releases its debut (and only completed) game, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. according to a later tweet by curt schilling, the game “outperformed . . . projections by selling 1.2m copies in its first 90 days.”

May 19: house bill 8158 is introduced, which would allow the edc to sell up to $125 million in bonds for the purpose of lending money to spur ri business growth. “Priority shall be given to guarantees that align with the state’s economic development strategy to expand highwage jobs in knowledge industry growth clusters,” one section reads.

May 15: the edc calls an emergency meeting to discuss 38 studios.

June 11: governor carcieri signs

April 20: The New York Times runs

May 17: the edc returns a $1.125m loan payment check from 38 studios, after the company informs the agency it does not have sufficient funds for the check to clear. May 25: 38 studios lays off its entire staff of more than 400 employees, including more than 300 workers in rhode island.

June 7: 38 studios files for bankNovember 2: lincoln chafee is elected the 74th governor of rhode island.

2011 April 8: 38 studios begins to move approximately 160 workers into its new headquarters at 1 empire Plaza in Providence. studios employees are special guests at the monthly Providence geek dinner, held across the street

November 1: the riedc files suit against 14 defendants, including curt schilling, former edc executive director keith stokes, and various banks, attorneys, and executives involved in the 38 studios deal. in a youtube video address to rhode islanders accompanying the complaint, governor lincoln chafee says, “my message to rhode islanders is this: i know you work hard for your paychecks. and for your tax dollars to be squandered is unacceptable. the board’s legal action was taken to rectify a grave injustice put upon the people of rhode island. you have my commitment that i will continue fighting to protect the interest of all rhode islanders every day that i am governor.”

February 23: schilling’s famous bloody sock sells for $92,613 at an auction in new york city.

July 26: the riedc board votes 8-1 in favor of approving a $75 million loan guarantee for 38 studios. edc board member and lifespan President/ceo dr. timothy babineau is absent from the meeting, but asks that a note be read on his behalf: “i believe that the time is now for rhode island and the edc to take bold and decisive action to demonstrate its commitment to our knowledge economy. We must change our way of thinking and our way of doing business in rhode island if we intend to not merely ‘keep pace’ with the rest of the country as we emerge from this recession — but rather leap-frog the pack and take a leadership role. 38 studios presents such an opportunity. hopefully it will be the first of many to come.”

all the things that went to making the business go and move and grow. all of it.”

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the Job creation guaranty Program into law.

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in his remarks, he says, “it is my top priority to make sure that rhode island can attract highquality jobs and train its workers so they have the skills to succeed.’’

ruptcy, citing around $22 million in assets and more than $150 million in liabilities.

June 22: in an appearance on the boston sports-talk radio station, Weei, curt schilling answers the question, “Where did the money go?” he says 38 studios essentially received no money from Reckoning sales, due to an agreement with the game’s publisher, electronic arts. as for the rest, “i put in about 50, the state put in another 49, and i had probably between $5 to $10 million from high net worth investors,” he said. “that’s $110 million. every penny of that went into the payroll and development of the products, the game, building up the building, [and]

a 5000-word feature story on 38 studios on the cover of its sunday “business” section. “[i]t was the entire political establishment of rhode island, not curt schilling, who decided that it would be a good idea for the taxpayers to capitalize a gaming company that had never actually produced a game, because the guy running it had a World series ring, and because it might just seed a magic garden of technological innovation,” matt bai writes. “at bottom, 38 studios may be that rare political scandal that grew not from any lies that anyone told the public, but from the stories that desperate politicians told themselves.”

October 12: items available at an estate sale at schilling’s medfield, ma mansion include a hummer-themed golf cart and a custom bathrobe with “schilling 38” emblazoned on the back, baseball jersey-style.

2014 March 21: house speaker gordon fox’s state house office and Providence home are raided by agents and officers from the fbi, irs, and rhode island state

An image from Chippendale’s presentation

Police. the purpose of the raid, during which numerous boxes of evidence are removed from both locations, remains unexplained.

May 1: the house oversight committee announces they’ve sent letters to various key 38 studios players, inviting them to publicly testify. the list includes curt schilling, former edc executive director keith stokes, michael corso, and current ri commerce corporation director of financial programs sean esten who, while doing background analysis on 38 studios for the edc in may of 2010, reportedly wrote an email stating, “to be honest, i have more information on the typical $10k micro loan than i have on a $75 million request. this is a problem.” June 19: governor chafee signs the $8.7 billion fiscal year 2015 budget into law. the budget includes a $12.3 million payment to 38 studios bond investors.

June 27: edc attorneys announce they have reached the first settlement in the 38 studios lawsuit: a $4.4 million agreement with attorney antonio afonso Jr., and his firm moses afonso ryan, which aided the edc in 38 studios-related bond transactions. after the settlement is approved, governor chafee tells The Providence Journal, “this is a good first step . . . there’s a lot of work still to be done.”

August 7: house oversight committee secretary, representative michael chippendale (r-foster, coventry, glocester) delivers a 100-minute presentation billed as “an evening on 38 studios” at rigoP headquarters in Warwick. the presentation offers an annotated timeline based on thousands of pages of documents obtained by, or anonymously leaked to, the oversight committee “i’m not an investigator,” chippendale says at one point. “i’m a guy on an oversight committee who’s trying to figure out how we can avoid a catastrophe like this from ever happening again.”

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Continued from page 8 he spoke with Nesi in 2012 for an article titled “38 Studios Never Registered to Lobby Officials in Rhode Island.” At the time, Nesi received one of the single most brain-exploding quotes from this saga, when he asked Secretary of State Ralph Mollis’s office, which is charged with keeping tabs on lobbying, about this curious absence of a 38 Studios lobbyist. Chris Barnett, then a spokesman for the Secretary of State, told him: “State law defines lobbying as influencing action on legislation by the General Assembly or the governor or on policy-making by the executive branch . . . We have received no evidence or allegations of any such activities by 38 Studios that would trigger the requirement to register.” The recent release of the Corso/Thomas agreement apparently changed the equation for the Secretary of State, though. After White and Nesi’s story, Mollis opened an inquiry into possible 38 Studiosrelated lobbying violations by Corso, Schilling, and Zaccagnino. Given that there’s little precedent for the situation — there has only been one similar inquiry in recent decades, involving the Providence Place Mall, but that was settled before any punishment was levied — the inquiry hasn’t proceeded swiftly or smoothly. There have been hearings, which have yielded more hearings, which have yielded criticism from the Secretary of State’s office that Corso hasn’t shown up to the hearings, followed by rejoinders from Corso’s attorneys about the legitimacy of the proceedings and the validity of the Thomas/Corso document. What are the possible outcomes? If successful in arguing that lobbying violations did take place, the Secretary of State’s office could levy fines. And if they found sufficient evidence to indicate laws were broken, the Secretary can pass that information on to the Attorney General. But the Secretary of State’s office, itself, was the one to request a delay at the last Corso hearing, so that they could request authorization from Superior Court to conduct depositions of Schilling and others.

THE “38 STUDIOS FACTOR” IN 2014 ELECTIONS

It doesn’t appear that 38 Studios will play a major role in Rhode Island’s marquee 2014 elections: the races for governor and mayor of Providence. The scandal is figuring prominently in at least two lower-tier races, however. Since early May, when WPRI broke the abovementioned story about 38 Studios’ apparent non-registered lobbying, Dan McKee, the mayor of Cumberland and candidate for lieutenant governor, has been hammering away at Mollis, who is term-limited from running for Secretary of State again and who is also eyeing the lieutenant governor’s seat. On May 6, McKee released a statement arguing, “Ralph Mollis’ ‘too little, too late’ decision doesn’t change the fact that he spent years asleep at the wheel as Secretary of State, and publicly defended 38 Studio’s failure to register to lobby state government.” Two days later, he released more remarks, including, “Why did Sec. Mollis elect to side with 38 Studios in 2012 as opposed to protecting the Rhode Island taxpayers?” Then, in early July, he hand-delivered a letter to Mollis’s office at the

and $12.3 million, in the FY 2015 budget. The future payment schedule, according to a table called “Outstanding Debt Service — EDC Job Creation Guarantee Program” from an appendix to the FY2015 state budget, reads as follows:

2016: $12,499,113 2017: $12,449,288 2018: $12,378,881 2019: $12,352,638 2020: $12,322,300 2021: $12,288,413

POINTING FINGERS dueling pols kilmartin and hodgson, mollis and mckee (clockwise from top left). State House requesting that he step down from his oversight role in the 38 Studios inquiry. “My reasoning for this request is very clear,” the letter read. “Your office declined to look into the lobbying of Rhode Island officials years ago when it was obvious to most that 38 Studios had engaged in a strong lobbying effort . . . This State deserves a fully independent investigation that includes a review of the failings of the Secretary of State’s office.” Mollis’s camp fired back that the letter was “nothing more than another politically motivated act by a desperate candidate whose campaign has done nothing but sling mud and talk about everything except why he wishes to be the next Lt. Governor.” Meanwhile, we’re seeing similar themes in the race for attorney general. In May, AG candidate and State Senator Dawson Hodgson (R-East Greenwich, North and South Kingstown, Narragansett) released a radio attack ad calling 38 Studios a “disaster” and stating that, during current AG Kilmartin’s time as a state rep, “[He] voted for the $75 million handout that made it all possible.” “You’d think that Attorney General Peter Kilmartin would tell us which insiders got us into this mess and how much money they made,” a raspyvoiced narrator says. “But Kilmartin can’t do that. He’s been part of the problem from the beginning.” The Providence Journal’s PolitiFact team gave the ad a “Mostly False” rating, arguing that “Hodgson’s ad seems deliberately crafted to give the erroneous impression that Kilmartin worked with Fox to secure votes for the 38 Studios deal” and “Hodgson is taking facts that he knows are unrelated and linking them to give the impression that Kilmartin played a larger role in passing the

Once upon a time, Chafee was adamant about ordering a 38 Studios forensic audit. Now his office is whistling a different tune.

38 Studios bill than he actually did.” This didn’t stop Hodgson from publicly requesting Kilmartin “stand aside” from any 38 Studios investigation because “the appearance of a conflict of interest . . . is just too strong.” In response, Amy Kempe from the AG’s office tells us, “As Mr. Hodgson should know, court rules limit the Attorney General’s ability to substantively comment upon an ongoing investigation, and this office will continue to refrain from doing so.” She did add, however: “I would be remiss if I didn’t point out how DH has changed his tune over time on this issue. First, he issued a call for the Attorney General to investigate 38 Studios (DH is NOT in a position to be privy to ongoing investigations), and then, only once it became public there WAS an investigation, he called for the Attorney General to step aside from the investigation. His calls to step aside are clearly intended to undermine the public’s confidence in the work of the career white collar prosecutors assigned to the case and the Rhode Island State Police.”

THE PAYMENT SCHEDULE

The Economic Development Corporation didn’t actually give 38 Studios 75 million taxpayer dollars, in cash. It sold moral obligation bonds that the General Assembly had voted to back up, in the event that 38 Studios couldn’t pay. The propriety of these kinds of bonds — which, unlike a general obligation bond, never make it onto a ballot for taxpayers to approve — as an instrument of public policy is a subject worthy of an entire article (or book) itself. But, for now, we’ll just look at how much money has been flying out of our pockets. In this case, public money enters the equation most clearly when it’s time to pay back the folks who bought 38 Studios bonds issued by the EDC. In the last two years — after much heated, public “To pay or not to pay?” debating — lawmakers ultimately voted to proceed with scheduled payments of $2.4 million in the FY 2014 budget,

If all of this sounds confusing and/ or maddening, it’s both. But the issue of the bonds presents a rare, albeit belated, opportunity to make 38 Studios an interactive citizen-lawmaker process. You can, and should, contact your representative and talk to them how the 38 Studios moral obligations bonds work and where they personally stand on the issue of whether the state should honor them with annual payments. House Minority Leader Brian Newberry (R-North Smithfield, Burrillville), for instance, has written a lengthy letter to his constituents, published on his Facebook page, explaining his opposition to paying back the 38 Studios bonds. It’s well worth reading, regardless of your stance. If your state representative doesn’t understand how RI’s 38 Studios bonds work or can’t explain this to you in fairly comprehensible terms, that’s a problem. And if you don’t know who your state representative is, that’s also a problem — but one that’s easily fixed. Go to RI’s online Voter Information Center at sos.ri.gov/vic.

THE FORENSIC AUDIT

We have one final update. Once upon a time, Governor Lincoln Chafee was adamant about pursuing a forensic audit on 38 Studios — in layman’s terms: a detailed report from financial pros telling us what, exactly, in God’s name, happened inside 1 Empire Plaza, from a dollars-and-cents perspective. Days after 38 Studios laid off all of its employees in May of 2012, he told reporters at a State House press conference, “The taxpayers have tens of millions of dollars invested in this company. It has been difficult to get answers from them. We want to know everything possible about what happened to every penny of [those] taxpayer dollars . . . That’s why this audit is so important.” Two years later, however, Chafee’s office is whistling a different tune. No longer is the audit “so important”; it doesn’t even exist. This is the statement Chafee’s office sent us when we inquired:

as for the forensic audit that governor chafee ordered during the failing company’s final days, there was no audit. once 38 studios filed for bankruptcy and a trustee took control, the focus turned to liquidation of a closed company and recovery through potential legal avenues. Can’t the state pursue asset recovery and a forensic audit at the same time? And when they refer to “the focus,” whose focus, exactly, are they referring to? And did Rhode Island begin the process of ordering the audit? In other words, was any money spent on this abandoned project? These are all questions that will have to wait to until the Governor returns from vacation later this month, a Chafee spokeswoman told us. As is the case with this entire shitstorm, we eagerly await more answers. ^

Philip Eil can be reached at peil@phx.com. Follow him on Twitter @phileil.

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CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | eNVy THE 88 LOUNGE | Providence | Brooks Milgate

GEORGE’S OF GALILEE | Narragansett | Brian Scott

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TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB

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DAN’S PLACE | West Greenwich | DUSK | Providence | Lesch Nyhan +

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THE SKYLINE LOUNGE AT LANG’S BOWLARAMA | Cranston | Rock-aBlues

Burrillville | Illusions

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Providence | Gold Rush

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THE CONTINENTAL | Smithfield | 7 pm | Deb Hopkins

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TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Blu Lobsta

UNCLE RONNIE’S RED TAVERN | Burrillville | Northeast Groove

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CHELO’S WATERFRONT BAR & GRILLE | Warwick | 12-4 pm | Good Ol’

SUNDAY 17

CAPTAIN NICK’S ROCK ’N’ ROLL BAR | Block Island | 6 pm | The Young Guns

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DUSK | Providence | Ketzer + Sangus + Sarcomancy + Venomizer

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CAPTAIN NICK’S ROCK ’N’ ROLL BAR | Block Island | Disco Nite with DJ Lock Mess

DUSK | Providence | Jetty + Steady

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WEDNESDAY 20

HEMENWAY’S SUMMER MUSIC SERIES | Providence | 6 pm | Lydia Harrell

JIMMY’S SALOON | Newport | All

THURSDAY 21

CAPTAIN NICK’S ROCK ’N’ ROLL BAR | Block Island | DJ Superdope

CHELO’S WATERFRONT BAR & GRILLE | Warwick | 6 pm | Batteries Not Included

DUSK | Providence | Redemption:

HEMENWAY’S SUMMER MUSIC SERIES | Providence | 6 pm | Lance Houston Jazz Quintet

KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly |

MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett |

COMEDY THURSDAY 14

SUMMER SHOWDOWN SEASON IV: ROUND 2 | Thurs 8 pm; Sat

10:15 pm | Comedy Connection, 39 Warren Ave, East Providence | $5 | 401.438.8383 | ricomedyconnection. com

PROVIDENCE IMPROV GUILD

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LAST COMIX STANDING COMEDY CONTEST | 10:30 pm | Comix at

Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10$20 advance

FRIDAY 15

| 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance BROOKS WHEELAN | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 16

“TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH BOB PERLOW” | 8 pm | The

SUMMER SHOWDOWN SEASON IV: ROUND 2 | See listing for Thurs BROOKS WHEELAN | See listing

for Thurs

THE BIT PLAYERS | See listing for

Fri

SUNDAY 17

BILL COSBY | 4 + 7:30 pm | Newport

Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf | $39 + $65 | newportcomedy. com BOBBY COLLINS + Frank O’Donnell | 7:30 pm | Ocean State Theatre Company, 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | $40 [includes post-show meet-and-greet] + $25 | 401.921.6800 | oceanstatetheatre.org COMEDY NIGHT OPEN MIC | 7 pm | Stevie D’s Bar & Grill, 80 Manville Hill Rd, Cumberland | 401.658.2591 | stevie-ds.com

LAST COMIX STANDING COMEDY CONTEST | Sun + Wed 8 pm | Comix

at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance

MONDAY 18

THE BIT PLAYERS present “Laugh-

ter For Locals” | 8 pm | Firehouse Theater, Newport | $10 [BYOB]

NIKKI GLASER | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15$30 advance PROVIDENCE IMPROV GUILD | See listing for Thurs

CONCERTS POPULAR THURSDAY 14

JOSH TURNER | 7 pm | Newport

Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf | $39.50-$69.50 | 401.846.1600 | newportwaterfrontevents. com

BURNSIDE MUSIC SERIES AND BEER GARDEN presents the What

FRIDAY 15

AIR SUPPLY | 8 pm | Twin River

Event Center, 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | $25-$65 | 877.82RIVER | ticketmaster.com

GENT TREADLY WITH CHARLES NEVILLE | 8 pm | Narrows Center

For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $18 advance, $20 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter. org

SATURDAY 16

THE BEACH BOYS | 7 pm | Newport Yachting Center | $39.50-$69.50

BROCK MCGUIRE BAND | 8 pm |

Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $15 advance, $18 day of show | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk. org FLOODFEST ’14 with art + jewelry + photography + massage + other vendors + music by the Kennelly Family Band [1 pm] + All About Buttons [1:50] + Brad Murphy Band [2:40] + Dr. Zeke & the Trees [3:30] + Tequila Mockingbird [4:20] + the MillRats [5:10] + Neal Vitullo & the Vipers [6] + Sasquatch & the Sickabillys [7:40] + Rat Ruckus [8:40] + ClamBake [9:30] + Steve Malec & the Electric Flood [10:20] + comedian Ryan Donahue] + [11:10] + Back Rhodes [11:45] | Vasa Park, 10 Boswell Tr, Foster | $15 | 401.265.6492 | facebook.com/ events/282442625258207 RAVI SHAVI | 10 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 | columbustheatre.com

HUMMING BIRD LOCAL MUSIC FEST with Esmerée Skye + Gump-

THE BIT PLAYERS present “Family Friendly Funnies” | 7 pm | Firehouse Theater, Newport | $10 [BYOB]

tion & Glory + Rachel & Connor + Dancing with Discord + Clifford Bowe + Sidecar + Liv Baxter | 11:30 am-7:30 pm | Shannock Village, Charlestown | Suggested donation $10 [BYO food + drink, no alcohol] | facebook.com/hummingbird musicfest/timeline

THURSDAY 21

Center, 885 South Main St, Mansfield, MA | ticketmaster.com

WEDNESDAY 20

LAST COMIX STANDING COMEDY CONTEST | See listing for Sun SUMMER SHOWDOWN SEASON IV: ROUND 3 | 8 pm | Comedy Con-

nection, East Providence | $5

SOUTHERN RI COMEDY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | The Narragansett

Theater at the Pier | $12 advance, $15 door

LINKIN PARK + THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS + AFI | 6:30 pm | Xfinity

SUNDAY 17

THE BEACH BOYS | 2 pm | Indian

Ranch, 200 Gore Rd, Webster, MA | $37-$54.50 | 508.943.3871 | indian ranch.com

MONDAY 18

TUNES ON THE DUNES presents

Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds | 6 pm | Westerly Town Beach, 365 Atlantic Ave | Free | tunesonthedunes ri.com

TUESDAY 19

erly Town Beach, 365 Atlantic Ave | Free | tunesonthedunesri.com

JACKSON BROWNE: SOLO ACOUSTIC | 7:30 pm | Providence

THURSDAY 21

ALANIS MORISSETTE | 7 pm | Newport Yachting Center| $49.50-$79.50 “A SALUTE TO THE SILVER SCREEN,” with vocalists Alyssa

Gorgone, Paul Soper, Tommy Labanaris,and Patrice Tiedemann, and pianist Matthew Larson | 7 pm | Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum, 396 County St, New Bedford, MA | $25 | 508.997.1401 | rjd museum.org

BURNSIDE MUSIC SERIES AND BEER GARDEN presents HomeBody |

EVENTS THURSDAY 14SUNDAY 17

48TH ANNUAL WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR | An agricultural fair

featuring tractor pulls, stage shows, crafts, and livestock, plus games and children’s contests; adult events include arm-wrestling contests, dung throwing, lawnmower racing, and seed spitting; musical guests include Parmalee, the Jesse Liam Band, Cole Swindell, David Nail, Doug Stone, and Weston Burt | Washington County Fairgrounds, Route 112, West Kingston | $10, free under 11, free parking | 401.782.8139 or 401.539.7042 | washingtoncounty fair-ri.com

THURSDAY 14

NEWPORT GALLERY NIGHT | 5-8

pm | Newport Gallery Night, 76 Bellevue Ave | Free | 401.848.0550 | newportgalleries.org

FRIDAY 15

THE STEEL YARD’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, with

installations, local food and brews, and music by Atlantic Thrills + 1-800-Band + Thirsty Music + Just Jam + more | 7 pm-midnight | The Steel Yard, 27 Sims Ave, Providence | $10, $20 with a 10th Anniversary commemorative gift | thesteelyard. org

87TH ANNUAL GREEK FESTIVAL

| All things Greek — food, music, dancing, an indoor Agora, costumes, and more | Aug 15 5-10 pm + Aug 16 12-10 pm + Aug 17 12-9 pm | Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 97 Walcott St, Pawtucket | 401.725.3167 | greekfestivalri.com

OAKSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESENTS TODD MCCORMICK’S “GROW MEDICINE” | Aug 15 10

am-6 pm, “From Seed to Sale: An Overview of Cannabis and the Growing Opportunity” | Aug 16 10 am-6 pm, “Dutch Method: Secrets of Cannabis Cultivation from Amsterdam to California” | Aug 17 10 am-4 pm, “Hashish: From Dry Sieve to Modern Gas Extraction & Terpene” | Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin St, Providence | $295 per session, $795 for three-day package | Oaksterdamuniversity. com

ARCADE FIRE | 7:30 pm | Xfinity Center, 885 South Main St, Mansfield, MA | ticketmaster.com

48TH ANNUAL WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR | See listing for Thurs

WEDNESDAY 20

SATURDAY 16

BLUES ON THE BEACH presents

the Shiny Lapel Trio | 6 pm | West-

16TH ANNUAL NEWPORT STORM LUAU with music + Polynesian

dancers + island-themed food + more | Fort Adams State Park, Harrison Avenue, Newport | $10 advance, $20 gate | 401.849.5232 | newport storm.com GRATITUDE FESTIVAL 2014 with Finnegan’s Circus Sideshow + live hooping + poi performances + art installations + yoga + rock climbing + bouncy houses + face painting + more family-friendly activities + music by the Nth Power + Primate Fiasco + the Little Compton Band, Seasick Mama + Otis Grove + Dynasty Electric + Luddy Mussy + Grace Morrison + the Anchors + Brew D’Etat + BassWave + more | Noon-midnight | The Beach and Bass Studios, 220 West Main Rd, Little Compton | $40, $65 VIP, $125 all access [free under 13]; 50% of profits will be donated to Farm Fresh Rhode Island | gratitudefestival.org

SOUTH COAST ARTISTS’ 11TH ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO TOUR |

Self-guided tours featuring more than 70 artists in Tiverton, Little Compton, Westport [MA], and Dartmouth [MA] | South Coast Artists, Westport, MA | southcoastartists. org

URI EAST FARM OPEN HOUSE

with cooking demonstrations by local chefs; tours and talks on garden growing techniques, irrigation, and preventing plant diseases and pest damage; soil testing; experts to answer your gardening questions; children’s activities; and a cookbook sale with samples from cookbook recipes | 10 am-2 pm | URI East Farm, 1 East Farm Rd, Kingston | Free | urimastergardeners.org/ event/east-farm-open-house

NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL POLO SERIES | This week: USA vs. Jamaica

| 5 pm | Glen Farm, Route 138, Portsmouth | $20 + $12 | 401.846.0200 | nptpolo.com SUMMER BREWFEST | 2-6 pm | Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Rd, Webster, MA | $30 advance, $35 door, $5 designated driver | 508.943.3871 | indianranch.com

We offer a contemporary twist on traditional Japanese cuisine SuShi Kitchen entreeS cocKtail lounge

48TH ANNUAL WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR | See listing for Thurs 87TH ANNUAL GREEK FESTIVAL |

See listing for Fri

OAKSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESENTS TODD MCCORMICK’S “GROW MEDICINE” | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 17

48TH ANNUAL WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR | See listing for Thurs 87TH ANNUAL GREEK FESTIVAL |

See listing for Fri

OAKSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESENTS TODD MCCORMICK’S “GROW MEDICINE” | See listing for Fri

SOUTH COAST ARTISTS’ 11TH ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO TOUR | See listing for Sat

MONDAY 18

TASTE OF GARDEN CITY CENTER |

Enjoy samples from GCC restaurants for a $10 donation [free under 12] benefiting the Cranston Chamber of Commerce | 5:30 pm | Garden City Center, 100 Midway Rd, Cranston | gardencitycenter.com

THURSDAY 21

GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE | 1

Regency Plaza | Free | 401.490.2042 | gallerynight.info.

FILM THURSDAY 14+ 21

MOVIES ON THE BLOCK presents

Annie Hall [8.14] and The Professional [8.21] | Movies On the Block, Westminster and Union sts, Providence | Free | indowncity.com

THURSDAY 14

A SCREENING OF THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL |

Director Chapman Way will introduce the film | Parking lot opens @ 6 pm, film @ approx. 7:50 pm | Easton’s Beach, 175 Memorial Blvd, Newport | Suggested donation $5 | newport FILM.com

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MONDAY 18

TUESDAY 19

BIG SCREEN MOVIES ON THE BEACH | This week: Elf | Atlantic

Beach Park, 321 Atlantic Ave, Westerly | Free | 401.596.7761 | public. westerlychamber.org/events/ details/big-screen-movies-on-thebeach-2014-07-15-2014-5565

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NEWPORTFILM PRESENTS A SCREENING OF DIOR AND I, at

7:45 pm, preceded by music and exhibit of “No Rules: The Personal Style of Doris Duke” [5-7:30 pm] | Rough Point, 680 Bellevue Ave, Newport | $5 to view exhibit, $5 suggested donation for film | newportfilm.com

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Humphrey’s Night

MIKE BIRBIGLIA

from, discuss, and sign her novel, All We Had | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

THE ORIGAMI POEMS PROJECT PRESENTS AN EVENING OF POETRY & MUSIC with Martin

SATURDAY 16

ELLEN STIMSOM will read from,

discuss, and sign her memoir, Mud Season: How One Woman’s Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another | 7 pm | Books On the Square, Providence KELLY SULLIVAN PEZZA will read from, discuss, and sign her book, Murder at Rocky Point Park | 4 pm | Books On the Square, Providence

MONDAY 18

A BOOK TALK AND SIGNING FOR PROVIDENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT, with authors Paul Campbell, John Glancy, and George Pearson | 6:30 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org

August 17

Presented by People’s Credit Union, Clements and Lee’s Market

BILL COSBY

ART GALLERIES

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Beach Paint Night

JIM JEFFERIES August 30

AMY SCHUMER NewportComedy.com • 800.745.3000 Newport Yachting Center

Great seats available for all shows!

ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE GALLERY OF WESTERLY | 401.596.2221 | 7

Canal St | westerlyarts.com | Tues-

Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Aug 28: “Character Development,” works by Diane Brown and Mark Perry ARTISTS’ EXCHANGE | 401.490.9475 | 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston | artistsexchange.org | Through Sept 13: “Convergence,” an exhibit by artist and curator Reed McLaren, the third installment in her Integrated Exhibitions series, which will highlight work from Resources for Human Development RI, Flying Shuttles Studio, and (gallerie ellipsis) ARTPROV GALLERY | 401.641.5182 | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | art providence.com | Through Sept 6: “Patterns & Perspectives,” works by Marjorie Hellman, Nick Paciorek, Jeff Schneider, and Nina Weiss AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-

Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Aug 30: “Dog Days,” the AS220 staff and residence show | In the Youth Gallery: new work by KAnema Miller and Natasha Vega AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Aug 30: “Scapegoat,” new work by Jennifer Hrabota Lesser | “RIPE: 3d Anthology,” Xeroxed pressings from the RI Independent Publishing Expo BANKRI GALLERY | 401.456.5015 x 1330 | 137 Pitman St, Providence | bankri.com | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through Sept 3: “Sounds of Wind and Water,” paintings by Rebecca Flores — 1140 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through Oct 1: “Choose a Path,” paintings by Carolina Arentsen CHARLESTOWN GALLERY | 401.364.0120 | 5000 South County Tr, Charlestown | charlestowngalleryri. com | Daily 10 am-5:30 pm | Through Aug 14: “Surf & Turf,” paintings by Antonia Tyz Peeples and Larry Horowitz | Aug 16-Sept 16: “Diamonds & Rust,” paintings by Amy Goodwin and Mark Freedman COASTAL LIVING GALLERY | 83 Brown St, Wickford | coastalliving gallery.com | Through Aug 29: paintings by Antoinette CampbellHunter DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 134 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown | debloisgallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Aug 31: “30th Anniversary Gala,” with new works by Kathleen Morton, Valorie Sheehan, Lisa May, Valerie Debrule, Kathleen Armor, Michael Guertin, Rodie Siegler, Ron Caplain, Felicia Touhey, Helen Poniatowski, Izabella Casselman, Rosemary Day, Marion Wilner, Dan McManus, 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 Aug 24: oil paintings by Jamie Young and Bryan McFarlane DRYDEN GALLERY | 401.421.6196 | 27 Dryden Ln, Providence | providence pictureframe.com | Mon-Sat 8:30 am6:30 pm | Through Sept 5: “The Newport Folk Festival 20092014,” photographs by Richard McCaffrey GALLERY 4 | 401.816.0999 | 3848 Main Rd, Tiverton | gallery4tiverton. com | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through Sept 7: “Trio: Texture, Structure, Passion,” paintings by Ruth Hamill, Harry Nadler, and Susan Strauss GRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | grinprovidence.com | Sat 12-5 pm | Through Aug 16: “This Land Is,” paintings by Samuel Denoncour | Aug 21-Sept 13: “tttrip.,” a group exhibit of installation and sculpture by Claudia O’Steen, Garret Gould, and Sophia Sobers HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery. org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through Aug 30: “current,” an exhibit which “will explore the current bodies of work from artist members,” including Amanda Swain Bingham, Uli Brahmst, Alexandra Broches, Connie Greene, Susan Hayward, Jeanette Jacobs, John Kotula, Viera Levitt, Jack Massey, Barbara Owen, Barbara Pagh, Roberta Richman, Myron Rubenstein, Jason Smith, Mara Trachtenberg, M.J. Yeager, and Mike Yefko

IMAGO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imagofoundation4art.org |

Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through Aug 30: “Water,” a group exhibit with works by artist members Linda Megathlin, Eileen Siobhan Collins, Rose EssonDawson, Mary Dondero, Carl Keitner, Pascale Lord, Lisa Legato, Eileen Mayhew, Howard RotblatWalker, Lenny Rumpler, Michael Scriven, and Howard Windham, and guest artists Jan Douglas

Armor, David Gonville, Chris Sancomb, and Pat Warwick JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestown artcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Sept 1: “Paper-Made,” an exhibit which “explores paper’s transformation from an everyday object into an exquisite threedimensional sculptural artwork,” featuring Jo Lynn Alcorn, Molly Bosley, Heather Cherry, Heather Cox, Jiyoung Chung, B.L. Green, Joan M. Hall, Xander Marro, Courtney Watson McCarthy, Barbara Owen, Jessica Palmer, Lisa Perez, Kim Salerno, Michelle Samour, Matthew Shlian, Rebecca Siemering, Randal Thurston, and Wendy Wahl JUST ART GALLERY | 401.272.0820 | 60 Valley St, Providence | justartgallery.com | Wed 1-5 pm; Thurs + Fri 1-7 pm; Sat 12-5 pm | Through Sept 6: “Wander the Paths,” paintings by Lee Chabot MYSTIC ARTS CENTER | 860.536.7601 | 9 Water st, Mystic, CT | mysticarts.org | Daily 11 am-5 pm | Through Sept 20: “The 58th Regional Show,” an all-media juried show with work from local and regional artists | “Figures, Faces, and Food,” oil paintings by Doug Aaberg

NARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERY | 508.324.1926 | 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | narrowscenter.org | Wed-Sat 12-5

pm | Through Aug 30: “A Collaborative Journey,” with works by 27 participating individuals from People Incorporated with various abilities and artist Vania Noverca Viveiros ONE WAY GALLERY | 140 Boon St, Narragansett | onewaygallery.com | Through Aug 25: “Here & There: 7 Years of Travel Photography,” by Christian Harder PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | 401.455.8000 | 150 Empire St | provlib. org | Mon + Thurs 12-8 pm; Tues + Wed 10 am-6 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5:30 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 Sept 4: “Celebrating The Rhode Island Watercolor Society with 1000 Works On Paper”

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown

Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am8 pm | Through Aug 23: “Members and Staff Invitational,” with paintings by Christina Ashley, Dan Lake, and Kathy Weber, oil pastels by Vincent Castaldi, photography by Gail PAO Carpenter, Lori Ellen Goodman, sculpture by Sean James Harrington and Troy West, ceramics by Christine Herron, and encaustic works by Taleen Batalian

WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach

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Woody Allen on autopilot, retreating into the Jazz Age again for a blunt, listless thesis film about the limits of rationality. An arrogant stage illusionist (Colin Firth) is hired to discredit a fake mystic (Emma Stone) but soon falls under her spell; the story takes place in the late 1920s and most of the action transpires at an estate on the French Riviera, so there are good tunes and lovely scenery to distract one from the tossedoff script. As usual the writer-director has attracted a strong cast (including Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Simon McBurney, and Eileen Atkins), though I’m sure most actors understand by now that making a movie with him is like playing the lotto. Better luck next time.

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WHAT IF 102 minUTeS | pG-13 | cinemA world + providence plAce 16 + ShowcASe + SwAnSeA STAdiUm 12 Nerd wish-fulfillment of the first order, this Canadian rom-com places an artificial barrier between its cute-as-a-button leads and asks us to stick around for an hour and a half until it’s artificially removed. Shy, bespectacled Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) falls for pixieish animator Chantry (Zoe Kazan); she has a boyfriend, so she and Wallace maintain a warm friendship (the Canadian title was The F Word) while said boyfriend moves to Dublin and ultimately loses interest in her. When Wallace finally admits to Chantry that he’s been in love with her all along, she considers this a betrayal, because that’s what women like her do in movies like this before they realize that being adored is more fun than getting dicked around. Michael Dowse (Goon) directed. _J.R. Jones

A winner of the Newbery Medal, Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver (1993) prefigured such publishing juggernauts as The Hunger Games and Divergent with its story of a bland futuristic society in which conformity is valued above all else and a teenage hero learns to question the social order. Incredibly, this screen adaptation is rated PG-13, which means that parents, who will probably find it excruciatingly simpleminded, are cautioned to keep it away from their middle school children, the only viewers who might possibly enjoy it. Jeff Bridges, who spent years trying to bring the book to the screen, plays the title character, a mystical mentor who schools the hero in humanity’s forgotten legacy of physical and emotional violence; Meryl Streep is the chief elder, an ice queen who wants to stop this pair from lousing up their antiseptic Eden. _J.R. Jones

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capsule reviews XXXW BOYHOOD | 2014 | Filming periodically over 12 years, writerdirector Richard Linklater follows a Texas boy from first grade to high school graduation, noting along the way how his mother’s unhappy relationships with men color the boy’s own interaction with the opposite sex. The movie is being hailed for its novel production, though in fact British director Michael Winterbottom beat Linklater out of the box with his superb, little-noticed Everyday (2012), chronicling a working-class family over five years. That movie progresses more naturally than this one, which can’t afford to introduce a single character unless there’s a significant payoff later. But Linklater’s writing is typically warm and insightful, and the cast is uniformly excellent, including Ellar Coltrane as the quiet, down-to-earth hero. With Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. | 165m | XX GuARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

| 2014 | Five interstellar oddballs — among them a humanoid tree and a talking raccoon with a bad attitude — band together to keep a mythic whatsit out of the hands of an evil whosis. Most of the juice in this Marvel Studios behemoth comes from wisecracking Chris Pratt, completing his decade-long metamorphosis from comic chubster to chiseled action hero, and an ironic soundtrack of ’70s and ’80s dance hits, which Pratt’s character accesses from a treasured mixtape cassette that his dying mother gave him back on planet Earth. These meager pleasures are

swallowed up in all the frantic action and overblown CG sequences. With Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, and Benicio Del Toro. | 121m |

XX HERCuLES | 2014 | No movie

can be all bad when it gives John Hurt the opportunity to bellow “Unleash the wolves!” But this sword-andsandals epic is hobbled by Brett Ratner’s terminally clunky direction. Based on a 2008 comic book series, it deliberately obscures the hero’s divine parentage and emphasizes his more human qualities, such as his fighting skill and his rapport with common people. This has the potential for a reflective, revisionist comic book movie a la The Dark Knight, but Rattner clearly doesn’t see it, giving the viewer little to think about between the computer-enhanced battle sequences. As the titular character, Dwayne Johnson is likable during the occasional stretches of dialogue, though his self-effacing charm has been better better utilized in other movies (Southland Tales, Faster, Pain & Gain). | 87m |

XXTHE HuNDRED-FOOT JOuRNEY | 2014 | A Muslim family, flee-

ing religious persecution in India, land in a French alpine village and dare to open a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred place that’s commanded by a haughty old widow (Helen Mirren). Produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey and directed by the reliably complacent Lasse Halström (Chocolat,

Dear John), this middlebrow drama delivers just what you’d expect from such a trio: two hours of yummy dishes and nonthreatening ethnics. It should be obvious by now that, despite their discerning tastes, the movies catering to foodies are the artistic equivalent of dinner at the Olive Garden. Screenwriter Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) adapted a best-selling first novel by former Forbes correspondent Richard C. Morais; among the cast are Om Puri, Manish Dayal, and Charlotte Le Bon. | 122m | XX INTO THE STORM | 2014 | The intended audience for this disaster movie-cum-CGI showcase would seem to be people who found Twister too intellectually demanding. The characters are all automatons and the story is streamlined past the point of any emotional resonance, the better for viewers to enjoy the large-scale destruction. The film reminded me of a bargain-basement monster movie from the 1950s, in that the monster — or in this case, the level-five tornado — is the only interesting element. Veteran comic actor Matt Walsh (Veep) plays a storm chaser, and it speaks to the filmmakers’ paucity of imagination that they don’t even allow him to be funny. | 89m |

XXW LuCY | 2014 | A young American in Taipei (Scarlett Johansson), coerced into serving as a drug mule for gangsters, accidentally absorbs a powerful new product that unlocks 100 percent of her brain capacity, turning her into a superhuman be-

ing and an ass-kicker extraordinaire. No one has ever accused French action director Luc Besson of thinking too hard, and this frantic exercise in pseudoscience and goofball metaphysics is best enjoyed by following his lead. The title refers not only to the main character but also to the famous fossilized skeleton, an ancestor of Homo sapiens; Besson implies that both represent the birth of a new species, turning this enjoyable shoot-’em-up into a dumbbell 2001: A Space Odyssey. With Morgan Freeman and Choi Min-sik. | 88m |

XXXW A MOST WANTED MAN

| 2014 | This adaptation of a John le Carré novel works smashingly as a suspense film, a mood piece, and a vehicle for the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, playing a world-weary German spy who gets more than he bargained for when he investigates a suspicious Chechen immigrant. Director Anton Corbijn (Control, The American) seems to have modeled the film’s somber look and muted drama on such paranoid ’70s thrillers as The Conversation and All the President’s Men; the most suspenseful passages tend to be the quieter, more cerebral ones. Corbijn employs wide-screen framing to striking dramatic effect, using it to emphasize the characters’ confinement in tight spaces and their vulnerability in open ones. It’s very entertaining, though as an assessment of post-9/11 surveillance culture it’s cynical, not sophisticated. With Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, and Homayoun Ershadi. | 121m |

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Waning moon in Taurus. This moon brings an affinity for vocal music and a taste for luxury. Taurus moons are fancy, and it might be easy to have more dessert than you planned! Some may need reassurance (particularly Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, Sagittarius, and Libra). Aries, Gemini, pisces, Taurus, cancer, capricorn, and virgo: your taste is on-target—so is your endurance. 24 5

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Waning moon in Gemini. personally, i love it when the week begins with an air or fire sign moon. it’s much easier to get people excited about projects, or to reach those you need to (why—with facebook, email, texting, phone calls, is anyone out of reach ever?!) however, some could be fussier than they think they are (“i’m not mad – i’m just explaining…”) such as Sagittarius, virgo, pisces, cancer, and Taurus. 29

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Waning moon in cancer. from now until August 25, the waning moon cycle is in play, so avoid starting projects, or “overcomplicating” items you’re working on. cancer moons are excellent for the domestic arts, and Taurus, Gemini, cancer, Leo, virgo, Scorpio, and pisces will be sensitive and insightful. Libra, Aries, and capricorn could be forthright, yet not graceful, and damned if people don’t notice that slip in your stride. 28

Moon KeyS 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 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. | When the moon is in 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 sally@moonsigns.net.

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