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Sutton, as he enjoys a martini while getting bent over the arm of a sofa by the boys from A.H. Belo, other than that it’s a “costcutting” exercise. Well you can add “qualitycutting” exercise to that as well. Oh, but that new website you’ve been working on for about 75 years sure will take up the slack, eh, Howie? Maybe by next year it’ll be up to high school web design standards, but perhaps without the equivalent content.
• NBC’s new show The Blacklist, starring James Spader, is about the best coming-out party we’ve ever seen. Spader — who has the balls to take on any crazed, scary, or off-the-wall role — has in his screen character whiffs of Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Reese of Person of Interest (another great show), and even Hannibal Lecter (sans cannibalism and mass murder). A bit violent for the squeamish, The Blacklist is still far better than the gratuitous blood and guts offered by shows like CSI: Your Mother, or whatever they call that dreck now.
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to steal a trick that The Urinal’s Pinky Patinkin and Bill Reynolds use on a regular basis: filling up space with bulleted items in their columns. This is the journalist’s equivalent of throwing it over the transom, since it requires the insight of a mayfly and about the length of one’s lifespan to write. But we love you, boys, you know that. Here goes:
• The celebration of former Rhode Island Secretary of State Susan “Muffy” Farmer’s life at Grace Church in Providence on Tuesday, September 24 was the least she deserved. The house was filled with anyone who is anyone in Little Rhody, and the service had enough upbeat moments to honor her fantastic ability to deal with anything and everything with a smile and a laugh. Short vignette: P&J once showed up at Muffy’s doorstep for dinner one night. She opened the door, gave us the usual smiling greetings, and then informed us her mother had died that day. We offered our sympathies and said we should leave, but then she laughed loudly, said, “No way. Send in the clowns!” and ushered us into her home for a delightful and upbeat — if at times emotional — evening. We’ll miss you dearly, Muffy. • Considering the fact that the Biggest Little — Newport, in particular — has been called the “Sailing Capital of the World,” haven’t you all been riveted by the coverage of the America’s Cup — that ego-feeding competition between two rich, selfabsorbed assholes with wet bottoms who bought boats out in San Francisco that look like nothing the ones you’ll see on Narragansett Bay? We are simply riveted by the competition. (Honk!) Luff the jib! Trim the spinnaker! What ho, lads! It’s like the antiNASCAR. Where’s “Captain Courageous” Ted Turner winning the Cup in Newport and crawling under the table with a bottle of Jack Daniels firmly in-hand and at-lips at the final press conference? • Last week news broke that another 30 people will be laid off at the BeloJo, many of them from the editorial side of the paper. It’s yet another great idea by absentee owners, A.H. Belo Corp., whose executives care more about what hooker they’ll pick up in a Dallas bar than they do any of the Rhode Islanders who lose their salaries in mass layoffs like these. Naturally you’ll hear nothing about this from Urinal publisher Howard
HuzzaH to Casa Diablo regulars On Thursday, October 3, the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council will hold it’s 28th Annual Dinner at 5:30 pm at the Twin River Event Center in Lincoln. A number of organizations and individuals will be honored at the event, including a couple of Casa Diablo regulars, much to your superior correspondents’ pleasure. Receiving the ARISTA Prize for Rhode
Island is the Blackstone River Theatre, whose head ramrod is musician and Casa D. regular, Russell Gusetti. The Blackstone Valley Excellence in Arts and Business award will be given to Herb Weiss. While most people know Herb as the City of Pawtucket’s Economic and Cultural Affairs Officer, where he’s worked for almost 15 years as the prime mover in revitalizing the city through the arts, Herb is also a writer of note (check out his blog, herbweiss.wordpress.com). Most recently, Herb co-edited (along with Rhode Island College President Nancy Carriuolo) an ebook anthology of the late peace activist Richard Walton’s best emails. For reservations, go to Tourblackstone .com or call 401.724.2200. Both of our buddies richly deserve these honors and we congratulate them.
a few otHer tHings . . .
There’s a rare appearance in the capital city this weekend by the comic and Saturday Night Live alumnus Colin Quinn. Quinn will be performing his one-man show, Unconstitutional, on Saturday at 8 pm at Trinity Rep. That same night, stroll around the corner from Trinity to AS220, where you’ll find The Frank Difficult Presents Festival 2013, featuring “found footage” from Frank’s legendary Obsidian Video store and a live soundtrack composed and performed by Alec K. Redfearn. P&J were old customers at Obsidian Video and we can guarantee you that Frank has some pretty amazing stuff. And back in the Bucket on Sunday, September 29 at 7:30, there will be a screening of Ave Maria, the critically acclaimed indie horror short by filmmaker Skip Shea at the Pawtucket Visitors Center (across from Slater Mill), as part of the Pawtucket Arts Festival.
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P&J demand that commie pinko professional agitator Bob Plain, editor and publisher of the RIFuture.org political website, be taken out and shot, hanged, and drawn and quartered — but only if we can afford the cost of the state employees who carry out this sort of work. Plain, a friend whom we admittedly write about with total bias, got pulled over in East Greenwich recently for what was essentially the crime of not having his seatbelt fastened. Then he had the misfortune of having left his wallet in what Springsteen would call his “working pants.” To top it all off, there were a few grams of pot in the car, which Plain says is his girlfriend’s legal, medical marijuana card-approved stash. Naturally Plain got publicly bashed by his EG neighbor John DePetro; State Rep Doreen Costa; and OceanStateCurrent.com blogger Justin Katz, whoever the hell he is. But Bob appears ready to face Hizzoner and take what comes his way, even if there is disagreement. Bob, we wish you well, but if the judge looks like Fred Gwynne, run for the hills. ^
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On tap at AS220: America’s glimmering city of sin When Action Speaks! — the AS220-hosted panel discussions series on “underappreciated 20th Century dates that changed America” that’s been recorded and broadcast on radio stations nationwide — returns next month for their four-part 2013 season, they’ll be coming back in style. This year’s “Utopian/Dystopian”themed season kicks off with “Betting on Hedonism,” a conversation about October 3, 1941, the day the El Rancho Vegas hotel and casino opened and the neon-lit “Strip” was born. On hand for the discussion will be longtime Action Speaks! host Marc Levitt, flanked by an expert on the Las Vegas PR machine (Dr. Larry Gragg, author of Bright Light Big City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture), an authority on ancient Greek concepts of beauty and materialism (NYU Professor of Classics David Konstan), and associate professor in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society. The MIT professor, Natasha Dow Schüll, is no stranger to America’s most famous utopia/dystopia. She lived there for years as a cultural anthropologist and she’s directed two documentary films on the city — BUFFET: All You Can Eat Las Vegas and Only In Vegas, about the local wedding chapel industry — and written the award-winning book, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas. Schüll recently chatted with us over the phone about that exotic hub of blinking lights and whirring, cash-gobbling machines. Our conversation has been edited and condensed.
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DOES VEGAS FALL CLOSER TO UTOPIA OR DYSTOPIA, IN YOUR ESTIMATION? It’s absolutely both. They go together.
Las Vegas is a place of so many polar opposites. It’s a place where you can have hope for great wealth, but there is also great poverty there and the risk of great loss, of course, is always sort of hovering in the background. Even the way it’s staged, presenting itself as a utopia: there’s water everywhere and fountains, but actually there’s great drought and it’s in the middle of the desert. It encapsulates these extremes.
WHETHER WE’RE VISITING OR WATCHING FILMS ABOUT IT, MOST OF US ENCOUNTER LAS VEGAS AS TOURISTS. WHAT CAN WE LEARN BY LOOKING AT VEGAS THROUGH THE EYES OF THE LOCALS (MANY OF WHOM ARE FREQUENT GAMBLERS), AS YOU HAVE? Those of us who visit Las Vegas, we sort of reduce the whole of Las Vegas just to the Strip, just to this sort of shimmering corridor of palaces that offer us seemingly infinite abundance, whether it’s food, as I explored in the buffet film, or just of chance and possibility [and] entertainment. And for those who live there, people really try to avoid the Strip as much as possible and have their own sets of casinos and places to go that are quite differently configured inside. The interior design is different, the kinds of gambling games that are offered are quite different. [For them] it’s more about sort of checking out, zoning out, I’d say; it’s more about being comfortably numb or getting some kind of escape than it is about this excitement [about] winning that the tourists arrive with. The whole gambling industry sees the tourists as a kind of naïve group of gamblers, whereas locals are more sophisticated gamblers. They’re jaded. They’re not so easy to please with lights and sounds and twisting carpets.
ARE YOU ABLE TO REMAIN DISPASSIONATE DURING YOUR RESEARCH? OR HAVE YOU DEVELOPED POLITICAL FEELINGS ABOUT GAMBLING ALONG THE WAY? Not gambling. My husband is
an avid live poker player. I have nothing against gambling, drinking — any of these kind of consumer pleasures. I’m often asked to speak by more right-wing conservative groups and it’s always very odd for me because I don’t really support any of their other agendas. Where I become quite political is in feeling that there needs to be more regulation of the gambling industry . . . [similar to] many larger industries, whether it’s Big Pharma, Big Tobacco. Basically, this is a symptom of the lack of corporate regulation more generally. Specifically [in terms of] consumer protection, I think there is very little of it. In the book I show very concretely how so many deceptions and manipulations are designed into these devices and these consumer environments, of which the consumers are quite unaware.
BIRTH OF THE STRIP A postcard for the Hotel El Rancho Vegas. There are these machines that allow you to bet on many, many lines [at once]. So you’re betting like 100 pennies and . . . you’ll likely not lose everything on a spin. You’ll likely put in 40 coins, win 30 back; put in 100 coins, win 20 back [or] 90 back. Even when you’re winning just 20 back, which is a net loss of 80 coins, it’s giving you all of the sounds and the signals of winning. So you sit there and you get the exact same feedback as your money is being slowly eaten away until it’s gone. Brain research has shown that people who play that game have the exact same physiological reaction as they do to really winning. It’s things like that really intimately affect the consumer experience and I would say their ability make choices. So it’s really hypocritical when all of this emphasis is put on “responsible gambling” and how it’s consumers’ job to behave themselves better and there’s no regulation whatsoever of features like that. A lot of these machines [allow you to play] 1200 hands an hour. I don’t know how anyone can be expected to be rationally making decisions when you’re playing 1200 hands an hour.
MOST AMERICANS HAVE EATEN AT A BUFFET AT LEAST ONCE IN THEIR LIFETIME, IF NOT MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY. WHAT KIND OF CULTURAL ACTIVITY ARE WE TAKING PART IN WHEN WE DO THIS? I think you’re right that, as Americans, the buffet is something that we’ve all tasted. And it’s not just food buffets, it’s also the pharmacy buffet and staggering array of choices that we’re presented with at every step. And all of us know that kind of decision-making zone that we go into when we’re confronted with this seemingly infinite abundance of product, whether it’s soap or food. But particularly food triggers this sense of longing, desire — that certain nervousness and agitation. And if you go to a buffet you can really watch people experiencing this and then predictably watch them . . . maybe not really fully enjoying [themselves] because of this anxiety about “How do I . . . ? There’s all this stuff at my fingertips. How do I get it all?” One person in my film spoke about being “full, but not satisfied” and I think you could say that that is a universal experience that comes from gluttony, but I think it’s a cultural experience with which Americans have a unique fluency.
WHAT’S THE NEXT FRONTIER FOR VIDEO GAMBLING MACHINES? One interesting phenomenon that’s unfolding right now is the conversion of table games to machines. So you see this in places like Macau, where there’s not really a culture of machine gambling and the industry is there and they really want to create that culture. So what they’re doing is they’re taking these traditional table games like baccarat, like poker, like roulette and they’re creating these electronic or mechanized versions so that everyone is still sitting around a table, but they’re looking down at a screen. And I’ve heard these machines described as “training wheels.” And, again, it’s trying to move people off of the less profitable — for the casino — social, traditional, card gambling to the electronic form of gambling, which is more profitable, easier to control. Another answer to your question would be that business intelligence techniques and data tracking [are] going to become more and more of a crucial aspect of this. So I think about 80 percent of people nowadays play using player cards and all information about their play is being recorded and that’s increasingly driving machine design and even customized marketing to specific individuals. And you’re going to see more and more of that. And you’re also going to see more and more places adopting server-based gambling, so that all of the gaming content lives in the cloud, no longer in the cabinet. And that means that marketers, with their business intelligence and data at hand, can instantly respond to what’s happening in real time on the floor by changing the kinds of games, denominations, etcetera. This is formerly a domain where [casino employees] could watch from the “eye in the sky” someone just . . . sitting at a machine, staring, and not really moving; there’s not really much going on there. But if you have access to . . . this behavioral data of what choices a person is making, what they’re doing on that screen, you’ve got a window that tells you maybe much more than the “eye in the sky.” You’ve got a window into their preferences, their behaviors, their desires.
_Philip Eil
The Action Speaks! “Betting On Hedonism” panel is at AS220 (115 Empire St, Providence) on October 3 at 6 pm. Go to actionspeaksradio.org for details.
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Panic strikes and ‘F*ckin’ Foam’ Flies in Providence The foam starts flying just after 9:45 pm. It falls from two special-rigged showers — each about the shape and size of a voting booth — that hover above the crowd of dancing teens and twentysomethings on the floor of the Dunkin Donuts Center. White, soapy suds are also shot out of trash-can-sized cannons on either side of the stage — the same stage from which fog sprays, multi-colored lasers swirl, chest-thumping electronic music booms, and a DJ screams, “Are you ready for fucking foam? . . . Who’s ready for fucking foam?” As a protective measure, the enormous electronic scoreboard that hangs from the Dunk’s ceiling has been covered in protective plastic sheathing. So, too, have the first few rows of seats that ring the arena’s floor. The attendees aren’t wearing much: spandex shorts and tank tops and the occasional tutu for the ladies; T-shirts (or no shirts) and mesh shorts or jeans for the guys. When the foam begins to fly, the crowd screams in raucous gratitude. The Barstool Blackout Tour Presents “F*ckin’ Foam” party has officially begun. But it isn’t just the folks on the dance floor who have been waiting for this moment. Seemingly everyone else in the state has been waiting, too. Two days ago, Providence Police issued a public service announcement warning that “Blackout” attendees’ bags would be searched before entering the building, that they would be turned away if they “appear to be impaired” upon arrival, and that there is “no safe dose of” the powder or crystal form of the drug MDMA, known as “Molly,” that has become “increasingly popular at events such as the ‘Barstool Blackout Tour.’ ” The next day, The Providence Journal offered an ominously headlined article, “Concerned about potentially lethal substances at ‘Foam Party,’ Dunkin’ Donuts Center, police take proactive stance.” A day after that, in the hours leading up to the Friday night show, Boston’s barstool sports.com — the sports-and-chicks blog that owns and organizes the Blackout tour — posted a letter that a Salve Regina University dean reportedly sent to students. “This event is held at other venues around the country, and has resulted in a number of injuries and alcohol/other drug overdoses which required hospitalization,” it said. “If you are planning on attending this event, I urge you to use extreme caution, and would ask you to even consider not attending, given the aforementioned number of injuries and other problems associated with these events.” On barstoolsports.com, the email was posted next to a bullet-point response from the site’s founder, David Portnoy (“El Presidente,” to Barstool regulars), that included, “#4 — Do you think college kids are
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safer in a controlled environment on a Friday night or partying in their dorms?” and “#6 — Have you ever had a real job? Being a school administrator certainly doesn’t count.” So why all the fuss over foam? The anxiety likely traces back to late August, when a 20-year-old Rhode Island woman died from an apparent MDMA overdose at the Electric Zoo festival in New York City — a death that, along with a similar OD at the same festival, led to the event’s premature cancellation. Two weeks later, the I’m Schmacked tour — a slightly-tamer-than-Girls Gone Wild operation that rolls around the country, making video montages of college students drinking, hollering, and grinding on each other that are later posted online — threw a party at Roxy in downtown Providence that left some attendees bloodied and others stumbling or passed out on the street. And so, tonight, Dunkin Donuts Center GM Larry Lepore is prepared. He’s staffed more than 10 police officers, 15 EMTs, and one physician to tend to injuries and illnesses in a makeshift triage center downstairs, he says. “It’s far from Disney On Ice, ” he explains while standing in the building’s lobby around 9:00 pm as screaming, booty-shortwearing ladies file past. One wears a yellow baseball hat that says “SLUT.” “Twenty-five years ago, it was a Grateful Dead concert, a lot of people doing LSD,” he continues. Now, “it’s a new generation, it’s a new drug, and you deal with it.” The comparison to the past seems apt. Remove the foam and the smartphones, and it’s hard to differentiate tonight’s activities from those of the 2000s, the ’90s, the ’80s, the ’70s, and so on. College kids in 2013 didn’t invent loud music and dry humping. That said, the evening does offer a remarkably dense, perhaps unprecedented, flurry of the word “fuck.” There are “LET’S GET FUCKING WEIRD,” and “PLYMOUTH FUCKING STATE” T-shirts. The DJ screams, at various times, “Motherfucking Providence!” “Providence fucking Rhode Island!” “You motherfuckers ready?!” “Ladies where the fuck you at?” and “Is there anybody here tonight that wants to black the fuck out?!” One group of guys, when asked about their reason for attending, unanimously agree that it’s the ladies’ “sexy as fuck” attire. (“We’re all trying to get laid,” one of them adds, to dispel any confusion.) Another interview with one of the night’s DJs, Vinny Vibe, was interrupted when a female fan walked up to demand they he “follow” her Instagram. “I’ll fucking follow you!” he shouted back. The interview ended when an unconscious young man was wheeled past on a stretcher; Vinny took this as his cue to walk away. Speaking of stretchers, the “Blackout” party actually ended up falling short of expectations, says Providence Police Chief Hugh T. Clements, who stands outside the Dunk’s main entrance with a handful of officers around midnight, when the show lets out. Clements had predicted “at least 25 rescue runs tonight,” before the show, but the final tally was closer to 15, he says. Add this to the fact that there were no fights and only “a couple of minor arrests,” and it’s a pretty “tame” night, he says. “It’s still unfortunate that 15 young men and women were transported to the hospital and hopefully they’re all OK,” he says. “But they were all forewarned.” _Philip Eil Barstool Blackout Tour will return to Rhode Island for a foam party at URI’s Ryan Center on October 25. Tickets are available ($39) at theryancenter.com.
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(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active. (v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. Finally — and this has less to do with writing and more to do with basic survival, and it’s directed specifically at the guy with the “Brown University” backpack seen crossing Meeting Street in front of Ben and Jerry’s in Providence without even the quickest glance at oncoming traffic two weeks ago — please, for your parents’ sake, look both ways when you cross the street. Now, let’s hear from those experts, shall we?
MARY-KIM ARNOLD. GRANT PROGRAMS OFFICER, RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION. On the first day of orientation, I walked across the quad wearing boxer shorts and tights,
the advice my husband tells me that his own father gave to him as he left for college. I endorse this, too: “Keep your pants on, son.”
VANPHOUTHON SOUVANNASANE. DIRECTOR, YELLOW PERIL GALLERY IN PROVIDENCE.
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ere’s a word of advice, college students: don’t play darts with drunk people. Here’s a follow-up word of advice: if you do play darts with drunk people — say, on the morning of a friend’s wedding in Chicago in April of 2012, and the drunken dartsman accidentally tosses a dirt-and-grime-encrusted dart that gets lodged half an inch deep in your knee — you’re going to want to stay up to date on your tetanus shots. But I, your humble Phoenix news editor, am not the man you want to hear dispensing worldly wisdom, which is why for this year’s “Student Survival Guide,” we’ve enlisted five local professionals to offer raw, real-life, hard-earned words to stimulate your mind, body, and soul. And to help you safely calculate an appropriate alcohol-to-weed ratio for the upcoming weekend. But, come to think of it, I’m actually not going to let you off the hook without a couple notes from the world of reporting, writing, and editing. First, if you have any aspirations whatsoever to be a freelance reporter, never show up to a meeting with, or send an email to, the editor of a publication you’d like to write for (a blog, a magazine, a newspaper) without plenty of story ideas that you’d like to write for that publication. In order to do this properly, you must frequently read that publication. This sounds basic, but plenty of inquiring freelancers don’t do it. Secondly, when you actually sit down to write — whether it’s a term paper, a cover letter, or a please-take-me-back email to an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend — remember the ageless wisdom of George Orwell, from his 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language”:
“GET LOST IN THE LIBRARY,” arnold says. as was the fashion at that time. (It was. I am not making this up.) Someone leaned out his dorm room window and yelled: “Nice boxers.” Here is some advice: Don’t wear boxers with tights on the first day of orientation. At some point before arriving at college, I decided that sitting by myself, in a corner, looking very intense and serious (possibly scowling?) would make me appear mysterious and that people would want to get to know me. To my considerable surprise and dismay, this turned out not to be an effective strategy during any of the freshman orientation activities. Nor did it work in the dining halls or in study groups. Not in the library. Or at parties. Advice: Be approachable. Approach people. Maybe smile? Related to above: there will likely be occasions at which you will be given a name tag and you will not want to wear the name tag. Advice: Wear the name tag. But seriously: protect your time to work, to study, to grow into who you are. Yes, your friends are important. Yes, going to parties and concerts and staying out too late with your new crush from your art history class is important. But try to remember that this time that you have
to work, to expand your intellectual and creative capacities — you will likely never have it in exactly this same way again. Giving yourself this time is an investment in your future self and if you nurture it, it will sustain you. Allow yourself to obsess about what interests you. Read about the traditions of shadow puppetry in Southeast Asia. Make your own pinhole camera. Recreate the lab experiment on simple harmonic motion in your dorm room at night while your roommate sleeps. Get lost in the library. Pore through the archives of National Geographic and memorize the scientific names of all the deadliest snakes. Read all the love letters Robert Browning wrote to Elizabeth Barrett and copy them down in your own hand. Close the place down. Walk home in the dark, dizzy with new ideas. Expose yourself to as many ways of thinking as you can. What did the Situationists have to say about alienation? Learn the origins of the modern American legal system. What is cultural relativism and do you embrace it? Argue respectfully with other people. Engage. Be interested and interesting. Silence (like scowling) is not intriguing. It limits who you allow yourself to be. And speaking of exposure, here is
Now I know most of you artsy hipster types are too busy experimenting with colors and each other to leave College Hill and its multi-tiered Ivory Towers, but the ones who get the most respect from an active player in the art scene are those who make the effort to engage with the local art community and visit a gallery or two. Gallery Night Providence [gallerynight.org] makes it easiest. Hop on a yellow bus and kill several birds with one stone every Thursday of the month and see the amazing (and not so amazing) art being shown in the city where you’re honing your life skills. Most importantly, get the hell out of the East Side and make it out to a far away place like Olneyville, where many serious artists live and work. There are about half a dozen art galleries and collectives that call this gritty place home, and you might end up here too if you’re enamored by the neighborhood’s artistic heritage and potential to be the next big arts destination (unless Pawtucket is more your speed). Discover how a two-way conversation about art can give you a “real world” insight into what it means to be an artist after you graduate from College Hill and the playing field is more leveled. Mentor up with a midcareer or established artist who is living and working in the area to find out firsthand what their challenges are and explore how you can overcome these obstacles when you both inevitably cross paths. Sure, you can continue to create art for art’s sake after you graduate, but only those of you with trust funds can keep up this charade. Everyone else will have to apply for endless grants, fellowships, and residencies to feel relevant and continue a nomadic lifestyle . . . or ...God forbid, become an active participant by exhibiting your work at galleries that match your career ambitions and know what they’re doing. Maybe you’ll be lucky and get to work with an art gallery that doesn’t fear being commercial and actually wants to promote your career outside the Ocean State. Stranger things have happened here in Providence .... At the end of the day, no matter what you end up doing after you graduate (serving coffee, selling T-shirts, commodities trading, stealing), you have to pay your rent — that’s the bottom line. Your parents can’t bail you out anymore, especially when you’ve got a piece of paper worth six figures meant to present you with multiple doors to your desired future. Which knob will you decide to turn? That’s the $200,000 question that you have to answer for yourself.
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1. You’re in the physical prime of your life. Progress in fitness will never come as easily as it does now. Putting some gym time in now will pay huge dividends for the rest of your life. Getting wasted every night ...not so much. 2. You have tons of free time! There’s plenty of time for a few parties, a job, lots of studying, and some playing/competing/working out with friends. (Exercise is an underappreciated social activity. Go to the gym with the same girl/guy for eight semesters and tell me you don’t remember them forever. Shoutout to Eric and Greg, my gym partners throughout college.) You will probably never again have this much time to invest in physical fitness, so make the most of it. 3. You really want to get laid. Looking healthier, having a cool hobby (working out, of course), and being better in bed will all help. Need I say more? 4. Rhode Island is an excellent place to get in great shape! Yeah, we’ve got good restaurants, some cool cities, and a bunch of awesome colleges, but we’ve also got: • Some awesome woods, like Lincoln Woods State Park, Arcadia Management Area, and Big River Management area. Think: hiking, swimming, mountain biking, horseback riding, and tons of fields and campsites. • Some of the best beaches on the East Coast, with opportunities for great swimming, surfing, sailing, SCUBA diving, paddleboarding, and sunbathing. • Tons of gyms, health clubs and sports leagues. Of course, you’ll probably have all this stuff on campus, but if you want to explore a bit, Rhode Island gives you tons of options that are only minutes away. Whether its Crossfit, Zumba, ten-
nis, powerlifting, or a cool new class you’ve never even heard of, the state probably has five different options in each category to keep you happy. 5. Did I mention getting laid?
TRAVIS LAWTON. EXECUTIVE CHEF, THE ROI IN PROVIDENCE. Welcome to Providence,
the greatest city in the world. We will teach you as much about food and the industry outside of the classroom as your professors do inside. My advice? Get out there and eat. Hit the restaurants downtown. Hit the West Side. Get tacos from a place where your waitress speaks Spanish. Learn Spanish. Hit the South Side. Taste the things you haven’t. Get around some nime chow, pad thai, chimis, chorizo, zeppoles. You are not the only stranger in a strange land here. Pay attention. Hit the food trucks. Hang with the locals. Smash down a Del’s on an August day. Take the long drive out for clam cakes and chowdah at a shack in Narragansett. Have a ’Gansett. Spin by New York System at 2 am. Go to shows. Everyone in the music scene either works in a kitchen or has. Find where the cooks hang out. (Hint: it’s not where you hang out.) Make connections. You may not know us yet but we recognize you immediately so don’t be a jerk. Tip well. Work hard. Keep your knives sharp.
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ooking at my own long-ago experience in college and at my recent experience as a college teacher, and looking at my four sons’ and their friends’ experiences as they took the plunge into post-high-school life, I’ve often felt that — in addition to Introduction to Calculus and American History 101 — every young woman and man needs some short, practical courses in how to survive the first experience of independence. The 15 short courses here are idiosyncratic (that’s a word you’ll have to know in college, so look it up). For the most part, this is not a list of academic stuff. It’s more important. Your literal survival may depend on the mastery of a point or two on this list.
Fundamentals oF First aid
You don’t need to take a Red Cross course, but they’re useful and easy to find. In the dorm and on the sports field, there are people who may take care of you if you break your leg. But you and your newfound friends may want to (and should) go hiking, try rock climbing, or strap on snowshoes. And if you or your buddies don’t know how to patch up a bad leg gash or treat frostbite (briskly rubbing the affected area is the wrong thing to do), perhaps the survival of a part of your body will be in question. At minimum, read a first-aid book, find a qualified person to teach you CPR, and put together a basic kit that you can throw into a pack. If you keep the kit in your book bag, think how impressive you’ll be when you whip it out to treat a nice-looking classmate’s paper cut with a Band-Aid.
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The “freshman 15” pounds have turned out to be a myth, but
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I knew some students who thought it was fun to drive around town one night shooting out windows with a BB-gun. They were arrested, expelled, and the last I heard faced jail and fines. As in that case, alcohol (see Remedial Alcohol and Drugs below) is at the root of many youthful run-ins with the law. So much is written and spoken about excessive teenage-and-beyond alcohol use that I’ll restrict myself to this: be aware that the police seem to have an enormous interest in breaking up drunken parties involving underage students. If you are hauled to the police station, your life will become immensely more complicated. The cops are imaginative in going after young people. I knew a student who was arrested for drunken driving on his bicycle. He spent the night in the drunk tank at a city jail. It was educational — and expensive, to pay a lawyer to get the charge dismissed. In Rhode Island, if you’ve been arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and you decline to take a chemical test, you will automatically lose your license — again, generally speaking — for six months for a first-time refusal. For folks under 21 with BAC [blood alcohol content] greater than .02% but less than .1% can be convicted of “driving while impaired” and have their license suspended for 1-3 months (first offense), 3-6 months (second offense), plus fines and community service. Persons under 18 have mandatory license suspension until age 21. Here are two final street-law rules, and they are not contradictory: 1) Obey the police without talking back; they have guns. 2) Generally, you don’t have to tell the police anything when they ask you questions, except your name; but be polite. I must again give a ritual disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. But here’s a lawyer, Zach Heiden, a legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union, elaborating on dealing
with the cops: “I think that it is very hard in the moment for anyone to answer any request from a police officer with anything other than ‘Uh, sure.’ How about: ‘I have a personal rule against consenting to police questioning without an attorney present,’ and ‘I have a personal rule against consenting to searches,’ and ‘I am not trying to make your job harder, but if you would like to search my belongings you are going to need to show me a warrant.’ ”
remedial alCohol and drugs
The obvious-yet-often-futilely repeated Eternal Truths about alcohol for young people are: 1) flee drunken parties (see previous item); 2) don’t operate a vehicle when intoxicated; 3) don’t get in a vehicle with an intoxicated driver; and 4) beware of sex when intoxicated. These lessons could be preached (more or less) about the use of other drugs, although the use of some drugs requires additional and heavier warnings. But here’s the problem: parents, teachers, Officer Friendly, and other old fogies have been preaching these sermons for generations. Yet they don’t seem to be learned very well. Why? One scientific theory is that until you’re 25 years old or so the decision-making part of your brain may not be fully developed. Sorry about that! (I could soften the blow by telling you how stupid I was in my youth, but the statute of limitations may not have expired.) The trouble with the theory about undeveloped brains, of course, is that there’s plenty of evidence that excessive alcohol use and a tendency toward bad decisions can last whole lifetimes. Some people believe that warnings from elders are wasted, that people only learn from their mistakes. But if that were the case, there would be no such thing as human wisdom.
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pens, but much of team sports involves standing around and sitting on the bench. The “individual” sports like running and cross-country skiing are best in giving you aerobic benefits, which means strengthening the most-important cardiovascular system. These benefits, of course, can be obtained without being on a team. You can run or walk by yourself or with friends on cross-country trails, hike the hills, and use exercise machines in the fitness center. Forty-five truly vigorous minutes four or five times a week will normally keep you in good shape, although not eating too much is even more important than exercise in keeping weight off. For many young men, building showy muscles is important for the sexual sweepstakes, but the women (or men) those weightlifters are trying to impress should keep in mind that without aerobic activity those guys are probably building muscles larded with fat. Bonus point: A still-little-known benefit of energetic exercise — only recently scientifically proven — is that it grows brain cells and increases brain chemicals for better mental performance, including reducing anxiety about exams.
advanCed transportation
You probably don’t need a car. Colleges and the communities they’re in have public and private transportation options, including many for commuters: buses, vans, bike shares, and — for visits home — trains and planes. Getting in a car is probably the most dangerous activ-
ity you’ll ever participate in, and cars are helping destroy the world with their pollution. Young people appear to be recognizing these truths, since they are not driving at an accelerating rate. They may also have been forced to recognize that automobiles are cash cavities. At the three colleges where I taught, I was appalled at the time subtracted from studies (not least, the courses I was teaching) by the many hours a lot of students worked at fast-food and other poorly paying jobs to support their cars. If you do have a car, make sure you know where the oil dipstick is, how to change a tire, what bald tires look like, and what that blue smoke coming out the exhaust of your clunker means.
aBCs oF writing
Before we get to the sex part, let’s have some relief from paternal advice and go to a piece of professorial advice. There’s no specific skill more important in college — and, in the Communications Age, aftercollege than writing ability. The statute of limitations has expired on this misdeed, so let me confess that in my frivolous youth I wrote a paper for a stressed-out friend (not for money) with, on my part, no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. The paper received a B (as in b.s.?) The professor who read it was generous, probably, because he liked reading comprehensible (if vapid) sentences — simple and clear sentences. As a teacher, I found that few students wrote them. So how do you learn to write simply and clearly? Research shows that even more important than practice at writing
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Foreign study My most important educational experience was the college term I spent in France. It was lifechanging, broadening my narrow view of the world, giving me the alternate reality of another culture and language, and addicting me to café au lait. It’s not the particular place you go, it’s the différence (as they say in France) that counts. It’s not the courses you take abroad, it’s the different people, language, and natural world you are surrounded with. The more foreign, the better. Choose a program that puts you in a non-English-speaking family instead of a dorm with other Americans. No matter how bad you think you are at learning a foreign language, you’ll see how wrong you were once you’re immersed in it. Your brain automatically learns it. If your college doesn’t offer what you want, find another college that does and transfer the credits.
lower-level FinanCe Do a “cash-flow projection” at the beginning of each month. That sounds imposing, but it’s just adding up expected income and outflow. To establish a baseline, keep track for a month of each expenditure and infusion of income — easy to do with debit cards. Your cash-flow projection will show you where you’ll have to cut back on expenses or when you’ll have to do some begging. On that point, always plead for more loan or scholarship money in neat and clean but not expensive or fancy clothes.
musiC appreCiation You’ll probably spend much of your life listening to music. Electronic devices make that increasingly true. Why not know something about it? Knowledge increases appreciation — that is, pleasure. Your college may have courses in American Popular Music, World Music, or Music Appreciation. Sign up for one. There is more than Rihanna and Justin Timberlake — such wonderful things as jazz, folk, blues, country, world music, and the eternally popular classical.
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First PrinCiPles Ethnic foods, which are usually awfully Americanized, are cheapest but can be simply awful. Standard American restaurant food comes in such piggish proportions than you can buy one meal and split it for two (it will be allowed). Always be polite to your server; tip at least 20 percent. Café baked goods and coffee are the most overpriced items in America, but cafés are fundamentally selling atmosphere, so find a café with a good one — and there’s no need to leave in a hurry. If possible, support the local businesses.
Clothing 101 No need for expensive dry cleaning except for your one suit, blazer, or good dress. Does anyone do ironing anymore? Wash simple stuff in the sink and tub. Goodwill, Salvation Army, and other thrift boutiques are where the “heritage”-chic shop.
FaCulty oFFiCe hours “Talk to faculty,” says a professor friend. “Don’t go in asking for a higher grade, but learn about their research and interests, about their careers. Too few students come in asking for help or advice.” Hard as it is for many students to believe, teachers can become good friends. _LT
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Our Body Dysmorphic Disorder Research Program Offers: • Evaluation of your body image concerns • Treatment with therapy • Compensation for adults who qualify is practice at reading. And even if you’ve squandered your pre-college years glued to video and audio rather than to the printed word, it’s not too late to rewire the writing part of your brain by reading good writing. Ask your English prof for a list of authors to be stylistic models. Bonus Points Your feelings count only if they are the subject of your paper. Have lots of people read and criticize your work. Editing is 90 percent elimination. If your subject is abstract, use concrete examples. Grace in style has much to do with parallelism. Keep sentences short. Use active verbs.
sex praCtiCum
As your body well knows, sex is fun. The problem: it’s often too much fun. As opposed to such advanced topics as Meaningful Relationships, the most important first-semester-kind-of-thing about sex is something you already know, too, from the many warnings you’ve been exposed to: Practice Totally Safe Sex. The problem is, as with alcohol and drugs, how to ensure that you’ll do what you know you should. I’m going to try to finesse (but, I swear, not evade) this crude and delicate topic by referring you to the next item.
skeptiCism and Creativity 101
As you may learn in Sociology or Psychology, humans are very, very social creatures. That means you. At this very moment, tens of thousands of psychologists and professional advertising types are working overtime for colossal corporations and other well-financed entities to
take advantage of your propensity to follow the crowd. They are trying to convince you to buy something, vote for somebody, or go to an event that they want you to believe is what people like you do and should do. And these evil geniuses have discovered that the key to persuasion is making people feel insecure about their status — especially, about their sexual status, either directly (behold clothing ads) or slightly less directly (say, auto ads). If in the Communications Age you can save your brain from the thousands of messages a day it’s drowning in, you will have developed the skill known as skepticism. It’s actually a world view — one that that will give you a shot at developing another extremely important human quality: creativity. Creativity — the ability to see and act on things in ways most others don’t — is good for mundane success like the writing of great term papers or a promotion at work, but also for the more important success of making a contribution to the welfare of others during your lifetime. How to develop your creative skepticism, your independence? College is supposed to do that, although college increasingly is vocationally oriented. Here’s just one practical step: practice doubting things out loud, including what your professors say. If they’re any good, they’ll love it, though they may become irritated at times! And as for handling sexual pressure from others and yourself, the more you develop your independence in other matters — that is, the more regularly detached you are from the pressures weighing on you — the more likely you’ll be sensible about sex. ^
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f you’re a college student trying to figure out what to do with your life, chances are you’ve had more than one conversation with an elder who told you not worry, you have plenty of time to figure it out. Well, I’m here to tell you that you’re being lied to. To be sure, that Liberal Arts degree really is going to enrich your life, and so is the class you’re taking on the history of rock ’n’ roll. But before you know it, you’ll be 30 and working in a coffee shop for 10 bucks an hour, still trying to “figure it out.” It’s fun and all, but it’s not going to put a dent in those student loans. Lucky for you, Providence offers lots of ways to figure it out while having fun and meeting folks who can steer you in the right direction. And this handy guide will help you mix the business of professional networking with the pleasure of feeling like you just went to a party — the kind where you go home feeling inspired, and maybe even with a lead on your next summer internship, your first real job, or greater insight into what it is you want to do with your life. Even if you think you know exactly which direction you’re headed, you’ll at least leave these events with a bit more wisdom. And if you’re not careful, you might end up with a hangover too.
PROVIDENCE GREEN DRINKS
Your roommates are probably tired of hearing you bitch about the dangers of fracking, so why not take it to the streets — or at least the bar? For more than a decade, Providence Green Drinks has been bringing together like-minded folks interested in discussing all things environmental. Started in 1999 by two professional environmentalists who relocated to Providence from Washington, DC, the group is an affiliate of Green Drinks International, a network of green meet-ups that take place all over the world. Events feature casual networking at a different venue each month, like Roots Cultural Center or Wild Colonial Tavern, which gives you an excuse to get to know the city you live in just a little bit better, too.
WHEN: Third Thursday of every month WHERE: Varies each month COST: Admission is free, drinks aren’t INFO: facebook.com/groups/ProvgreenDrinks/
PROVIDENCE CLAMBAKE
Up and running for just over a year now, Providence Clambake is on a mission to bring together artists, designers, freelanc-
ers, and free thinkers who want to learn about all of the awesome design-related things happening in Rhode Island and share their own projects. Past presenters include locals like artist Peter Glantz, who’s directed videos for Wilco and Andrew W.K., and Josie Morway, an artist and designer whose stunning wildlife paintings have been exhibited everywhere from the DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts to the streets of Juarez, Mexico. The events are informative, inspirational, and all-around great opportunities for aspiring designers to learn about the reallife successes and failures of industry professionals — like the CEO of an eco-friendly packaging company, for instance, or the co-founders of a charitable tech startup. Whether you’re new to Rhode Island or not, you may be surprised at some of the big talent living in our little state.
WHEN: Next meeting TBA WHERE: Usually at Anchor, 42 Rice St, Providence COST: Free INFO: facebook.com/ClambakePVD, clambakepvd.com
PROVIDENCE GEEK DINNERS
You know that girl that lives down the hall from you? The one with the faux-nerd glasses who seems unapproachably cool but who’s always mentioning what a geek she is? She probably won’t be at this month’s Geek Dinner, a monthly meet-up that attracts authentic geeks, including “technologists, entrepreneurs, angel investors, designers, and students,” according to organizer Jack Templin. Now in its seventh year, Geek Dinners feature a different presenter each month — usually a Rhode Island-based tech startup — followed by a short Q&A. Recent presenters include Alan Tortolani, founder of the educational gaming site ABCya.com, and Jeff Robbins, CEO of Providence-based design and development consultancy Lullabot. All are welcome, and attendees can buy their own food and drinks at AS220’s excellent bar and resContinued on p 20
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Named “Best Niche Networking Event” by Rhode Island Monthly in 2012, the events hosted by this ladiesonly nonprofit are meant to connect and inspire “awesome women doing amazing things in Providence.” Founded in 2011 by two PVD ladies who wanted to create an “old boys club” for women, the project offers an opportunity for students to meet and learn from kick-ass local ladies. Events feature a framework dubbed the “PVD 3x3”: three presenters from different backgrounds and career levels who share their stories in three minutes each. Past presenters include Karen Beebe, owner of the Downcity boutiques Queen of Hearts and Modern Love, and Martha Sheridan, CEO of the Providence Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau. Events usually aren’t free, but all ticket sales benefit a local charity or organization run by, or directly benefitting, women in the community. (Think Girl Scouts of RI or Sojourner House, a resource center for survivors of domestic violence.) Mark your calendar for College Night on October 3 at the Johnson & Wales Providence E-Center.
WHEN: Monthly meetings and workshops WHERE: Various locations in Providence COST: Usually between $5-$15 INFO: pvdladyproject.com, facebook.com/ pvdladyproject
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PechaKucha is a format for sharing ideas in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each, giving presenters about 6 minutes and 40 seconds to share their story, whatever that story may be. Since their inception nearly 10 years ago in Tokyo, PechaKucha nights have been popping up all over the world and now occur in over 600 cities, including Providence. Local chapter organizer John Taraborelli describes the monthly event as “a fun, low pressure, always surprising environment in which to meet interesting people, hear great stories, and exchange fascinating ideas.” For college students specifically he says, “It’s a crash course in the young professional scene around Providence and a great place to network.” Anyone is welcome to present, and the range and scope of speakers and topics is remarkable. From Governor Lincoln Chafee, to a Brown student who spent a year living in a tent, each month offers something unexpected.
WHEN: Usually the last Wednesday of every month WHERE: Various locations throughout the state COST: Free INFO: pechakucha.org/cities/providence, facebook.com/PechakuchaProvidence
STARTUP DRINKS/OPEN COFFEE It’s not always easy to justify heading out to the bar on a Monday night, but it
just got a little easier thanks to Founders League, a Providence-based networking group for startups, entrepreneurs, and students. For those of you who want to blaze your own trail in the professional world but aren’t sure how to implement your ideas, these weekly meetings are a great way to start. According to Founders League Project Manager Benjamin Goldstein, a typical meeting includes a healthy mix of entrepreneurs, professionals, and students sharing ideas in a casual setting. “Coming to Startup Drinks is a great chance for a student — or anyone for that matter — to meet, greet, and learn from all of the talent we’re lucky to share a city with,” says Goldstein. And if you’re under 21, not to worry — the group also holds Open Coffee meet-ups every other Wednesday from 8 to 9:30 am at Tazza, 250 Westminster St, Providence.
WHERE: The Wild Colonial, 250 South Water St, Providence
WHEN: Every Monday, 8 pm COST: Admission is free, drinks are not INFO: foundersleague.co
PROVIDENCE DRINKING LIBERALLY Remember how excited you were when Elizabeth Warren told the Senate committee that the minimum wage would be $22 an hour if it had it up with worker productivity? Remember how none of your friends seemed interested? This monthly meet-up is a way for you to share your enthusiasm with other left-leaning locals in a fun, informal environment. You don’t need to be a political expert to attend, and it’s a great opportunity to learn about the legendary — and often bizarre — history of Rhode Island politics. (If you don’t already know who Buddy Cianci is, you will by the end of the semester). Part of a national network of Drinking Liberally organizations that began in NYC in 2003, this group offers a way for those who think they may be politically inclined to test the democratic waters while sampling bipartisan beer.
WHEN: Fourth Wednesday of each month WHERE: Wild Colonial, 250 South Water St, Providence COST: Admission is free, drinks are not INFO: facebook.com/ProvidenceDrinkingliberally
RHODY YOUNG REPUBLICANS
If your political interests fall on the other side of the aisle, check out one of the events held by Rhody Young Republicans, a group of self-described “entrepreneurs, union workers, parents, studly men, gorgeous women, and everyone you pretty much didn’t expect in between.” According to RYR chairwoman Barbara Ann Fenton, each monthly meet-up features a different political speaker, allowing students to get to know local politicians like Cranston Mayor Allan Fung or RI House Representative Patricia Morgan on a first name basis. RYR’s next event is scheduled for Wednesday, October 2, at Providence’s Vanity Lounge (566 South Main St), where RI Commissioner of Education Deborah Gist will discuss the future of public education.
WHEN: Monthly WHERE: Various locations COST: Usually free INFO: rhodyyr.com, facebook.com/ RhodyyoungRepublicans
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You’re free of parental rules. But still — go to sleep! _BY D eir Dr e fu lton memory. Inability to concentrate. Weight gain. P 0or High blood pressure. Dark circles and pallid skin. Mood
swings. Relationship troubles. Learning disabilities. Want to know one way to avoid, or at least diminish, these undesirable outcomes? You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again: Get. More. Sleep. Or at least try to get the National Sleep Foundation’s recommended seven to nine hours per night. We know, we know, it’s nigh impossible to get that much shut-eye, what with all the studying and partying and working and Netflixing that needs to get done in a 24-hour period. But the risks of sleep deprivation are serious and real, especially for hard-working (and hardliving) students. According to Martine Eon, a polysomnographic technologist at Maine Medical Center’s Sleep Institute, the link between lack of sleep and high-cost medical and cognitive issues is becoming increasingly apparent. The eight beds at the Sleep Institute, where technicians monitor patients’ sleep using a variety of instruments (including 32 wire attachments that gauge everything from heart rate to eye movements), are almost always full, Eon says. “Deep sleep restores the body,” she says, noting that the five stages of sleep help us heal both physically and mentally from the demands of the day. During Stages 3 and 4 (known as “slow-wave” or “delta” sleep), for example, tissues grow and repair themselves, blood pressure drops, and energy is restored. During Stage 5 (Rapid Eye Movement, or REM sleep), our memories solidify and our brains recharge. Sleep disorders that disrupt this cycle, such as sleep apnea or even just build-up of a “sleep debt,” can impair metabolism, lead to daytime sleepiness (and therefore decreased motivation to exercise), and alter hormone levels — all of which lead to weight gain and in some cases obesity or diabetes.
Researchers have also found that sleep deprivation leads to slower thinking and sluggish reaction times — which bodes poorly for a pop-quiz-taker. For better sleep, we need better sleep hygiene, Eon says. Our bedrooms should be cool, dark, and clean, with no blinking and buzzing electronics (put your cell phone on silent before you turn off the light). No more falling asleep to the TV — even with our eyes closed, “the flickers of light are enough to stimulate your brain,” she says. Exercising less than three hours before bedtime isn’t ideal, due to the resulting spike in body temperature. And we’re sorry to report that alcohol, which may make you sleepy at first, “becomes a stimulant when you go to sleep.” What about napping, the secret of busy people everywhere? “If you’re getting quality sleep and sleeping as much as you should, you shouldn’t need to nap,” Eon says, though she admits that a 20- to 30-minute catnap shouldn’t hurt anyone. “Longer than that and you risk going into deep sleep,” which in turn will make you more disoriented upon waking. And people should try to maintain the same sleep and wake times every day — no more snoozing until noon on Saturdays. Along those lines, smart students should rethink the all-nighter. Studies out of the University of California Los Angeles and the Harris Health Sleep Disorders Center in Houston show that quality rest is actually more important than late-night studying. “Any prolonged sleep deprivation will affect your mood, energy level, and ability to focus, concentrate and learn, which directly affects your academic performance,” Philip Alapat, medical director of the Harris Center, explained in a release. “Memory recall and ability to maintain concentration are much improved when an individual is rested.” ^
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that ever-updating online listicle warehouse became our predominant news source. But between The Washington Post’s BuzzFeed-inspired “9 Questions About Syria You Were Too Embarrassed to Ask” blog post, VICE UK’s “The 13 Shittiest BuzzFeed Lists” (“The Fiercest Moments from Beyoncé’s Halftime Show,” “12 Reasons Why Sam the Cat With Eyebrows Should Be Your New Favorite Cat”), and the news that BuzzFeed attracted 85 million unique visitors in August, it seemed to happen at some point this year Rather than fight the trend, we at The Phoenix thought we’d indulge our own urge to rank and list every subject known to humankind. After all, Rhode Island isn’t immune; we’ve already been BuzzFeedified with the July 2013 article, “11 Awesome Facts You Never Knew About Rhode Island,” which, in turn, triggered “11 Actually Awesome Thingss About Rhode Island” from the political blog rifuture. org, and a Providence Journal takedown piece titled “BuzzFeed ‘Awesome Fact’ About Toothbrush and Toothpaste Sales in R.I. Turns Out to Be Awesomely Wrong.” These days, when the air has turned crisp and everyone’s tweeting about #applepicking and #pumpkinspicelattes, we thought we’d drop a special Back-toSchool themed, BuzzFeed-inspired batch of knowledge. Mind you, like the site that inspired us, this article is less concerned with methodology and absolute accuracy, and more interested with the fact that someone, somewhere actually once placed Rhode Island on a list of American states ranked by penis size. So read on, fellow list lovers.
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he good news is that Providence is the #1 Food City in the United States1. The bad news is we have the third worst drivers in the nation2. The good news is that Providence is “New England’s Coolest City.”3 The bad news is that we’re America’s eighth snobbiest city4, the 10th most miserable5, and the 11th worst town in which to have a baby6. Depending on how you feel about Jesus Christ, it’s either good or bad news that we’re the fourth most post-Christian city in America7. But if you consider the fact that Rhode Island is dead last — #50 — when it comes to average duration of visits to Pornhub.com8, then maybe we’re not so post-Christian, after all. (And what do these 1. Travel + Leisure, “America’s Favorite Cities” Poll, 2012. 2. Allstate Insurance Best Drivers report, 2013. 3. Telegraph (UK), “Providence, Rhode Island: New England’s Coolest City,” 2011. 4. Travel + Leisure, “America’s Snobbiest Cities,” 2013. 5. Forbes, “America’s Most Miserable Cities,” 2008. 6. The Daily Beast, “The 15 Worst Cities to Have a Baby, from New York to Miami,” 2013. 7. Barna Group, “The Most Post-Christian Cities in America,” 2013. 8. Pornhub.com, “Pornhub’s Average Visit Duration by State,” 2013.
INTO THE FRAY “no time for small talk,” yorke says.
WE’RE #1! but we’re the third-worst drivers in the us, so we obviously get distracted by billboards. stats about Jesus and porn have to do with our #25 ranking — exactly in the middle of the pack — when it comes to penis size9? You’re the college student; make that your next paper topic and report back to us.) Speaking of statewide statistics, the prospects are pretty bleak when it comes employment once you graduate, since we’re the 49th most business-friendly state in the country10. This is perhaps due to our 46th-best State Business Tax Climate Index11. But then again, we’re 15th in per-capita personal income12, so you may end driving an Audi or a Range Rover over the 48th13 and 47th14-best, respectively, roads and bridges in the nation. Our potholes, alone, are enough to make you turn to illicit drugs, which, apparently, a higher percentage of Rhode Islanders do than in any other state.15 But do you really care about this stuff? You probably want to know about which school parties the hardest and 9. Condomania.com, “50 States Ordered by Penis Size,” 2010. 10. CNBC, “America’s Top States for Business,” 2013. 11. The Tax Foundation, “State Business Tax Climate Index 2013,” via Moving the Needle: Rhode Island’s Economic Competitiveness Rankings, 2013. 12. 2011 statistic, via Moving the Needle, 2013. 13. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, “2009 Rough Roads” report, via Moving the Needle, 2013. 14. Transportation for America report from 2011, via Moving the Needle, 2013.
which one gives you the most bang for your tuition buck. In both cases, the nod goes to our friends downstate at the University of Rhode Island16 + 17. (Although, our hats are also off to Salve Regina, which came in at #322 on that same bangfor-your-buck list.) But let’s not turn our backs on our local Ivy Leaguer, which seems to get top ranking for . . . having the most rankings. Brown University, depending on whom you ask, is either the 12th18 or 14th19 best school in America. They’re also the fourth “most hipster”20 school in the nation. (“Everything we do is ironic,” a student recently told hercampus.com. “We get drunk ironically. We party ironically. Bro tanks are a huge phenomenon over Spring Weekend, but I think it’s only because we like to be ironic about it.”) And Brown — according to our friends at BuzzFeed, who apparently have a special algorithm for cross-referencing academics and sexiness — also happens to be 15. New York Times “Economix” blog, “State-byState Drug Use (Or, Rhode Island Needs More Rehab),” 2009. 16. Fiestafrog.com, “Top 100 Party Schools List, Fall 2013 [#38: URI],” 2013. 17. Washington Monthly, “2013 Best Bang for the Buck Rankings [#87: URI],” 2013. 18. Forbes, “America’s Top Colleges,” 2013. 19. U.S. News & World Report, “Brown University,” 2013. 20. Hercampus.com, “The Most Hipster Schools,” 2013.
smartest, sexiest school in the nation21. Johnson & Wales? It’s true that you guys may be the “world’s leading food service educator.”22 But you’re also the #2 most crime-rattled college in America23. Perhaps you should seek shelter at RISD’s Fleet Library, one of the 50 Most Amazing University Libraries In the World24. But don’t puff your chests out just yet, RISD students. Yes, you’re the Best Design School in the World25, but your mascot is also weirder than the California State University — Long Beach’s Dirtbags, The University of Arkansas at Monticello’s Boll Weevil, Scottsdale Community College’s Fighting Artichoke, and the University of California Santa Cruz’s Banana Slug. Yes, Scrotie — RISD’s muchlarger-than-life-sized walking penis, which can be seen hopping through the stands during RISD Nads (that’s their hockey team) games — is officially the weirdest mascot around26. We’ll let you decide whether that’s good or bad news. ^ 21. BuzzFeed, “The Sexiest, Smartest Colleges in the Country,” 2013. 22. Johnson & Wales University, brochure, 2013. 23. The Daily Beast, “America’s 25 Most CrimeRattled Colleges, from Yale to Duke,” 2012. 24. Bestmastersprograms.org, “The 50 Most Amazing University Libraries in the World,” 2013. 25. Business Insider, “The World’s 25 Best Design Schools,” 2012. 26. Campusexplorer.com, “Top 10 Weirdest Mascots.”
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you’re a college freshC ongratulations, man. You probably have a roommate,
$400 worth of textbooks, and a brandnew, very small fridge. Life is good. Matriculation was only the first hurdle, though, and at the risk of seeming gloomy at such a hopeful time, the truth is that a great many of the fall semester’s shiny, new students will never wear the cap and gown. Do you remember the immortal words of Ted Knight’s Judge Elihu Smails, in Caddyshack, who correctly informed Danny Noonan that “the world needs ditch-diggers, too”? Well, that happens to be true. So ask yourself, do you want to dig ditches, or perform whatever the equivalent nowhere job might be back in the bunghole hometown you just crawled out of? Do you want to wash out of school? Most students don’t, so to help you achieve the laudable ambition of eventually graduating (which is the way I graduated, eventually), please accept this unsolicited, free advice from a former college freshman who has, at this point, been a college professor for eight years. Woody Allen said, “Showing up is 80 percent of life.” I wouldn’t suggest taking parenting advice from Woody, but this particular point is salient. The most important guidance I can offer collegiate neophytes is also the most basic: attend your classes. Show up. Get your ass into that (prepaid) seat. Students who attend class tend to stay caught up on work, and are far more likely to get the benefit of the doubt from a professor should they need one. Maybe something happens that pulls you away from your studies. Maybe you break your foot, or just get a wicked case
of pinkeye. Maybe someone important dies. One way or another, you won’t be in your (very expensive, prepaid) seat for a little while. That happens all the time, but when you’re a student whose diligence is already self-evident, it’s just one more hurdle during the semester’s challenges. If that unavoidable absence happens to the student whose face the professor can’t quite place, five weeks in, they usually don’t make it. Another important part of adjusting to college is making sure you get the sleep you need. Your parents aren’t there to drag you out of bed every morning, or to prevent you from staying up late, playing PS3, or drilling butts, or bullshitting in the student lounge until 4 am. You’re on your own, and you can’t go to class if you snore through it. The answer? Good old self-discipline. In all my time “professing” I have noticed that the people who tend to do well in college are the most organized. They follow the syllabus. They keep up with the reading. They plan out their assignments, instead of procrastinating, and that organization extends to getting rest. Get on, and then stay on, a schedule. Speaking of staying up until 4 am, if you’re an average freshman, you’re about to do a lot of partying, perhaps more than you would have thought yourself capable
of while still a mere high school senior. That’s fine, too. Stay safe (be careful whom you accept drinks from, and always have cab fare home) and enjoy yourself. Just don’t let this new freedom to party come between you and passing grades. Another way to say it is, make sure that, on occasion, you put the bong down and do your homeworK. Remember, if you wanted to hide out in your room and rip j-bones all day, every day, then there was no need to pay tuition. You want to follow Phish around? Great. Sounds awesome (except for all the Phish music), but if you want to live a rock and roll road trip party, once again, why pay tuition? Strike a balance, instead. Catch a leg of the tour over the semester break, and then get your ass back to the library. While we’re on the subject of Phish, don’t come
if you wanted to hide out in your room and rip jbones all day, every day, then there was no need to pay tuition.
to class baKed and reeKing of weed. It’s rude. It’s
disruptive, and despite what stoned stoners think, anybody with a nose can tell. William Shakespeare has a character named Falstaff, a hardpartying, somewhat disreputable knight that you might read about when taking English Literature, who once said “the better part of valour is discretion.” Falstaff was right, too. Rolling into a learning environment all fried, dyed, and laid aside
means that you are broadcasting unhelpful signals about yourself to the world. It’s indiscreet, as well as disrespectful of your peers. It’s dumb, which might be one of the reasons why marijuana is called dope, and not Einstein. What if you need to ask the professor of a class you stinkbombed for help getting an internship? That professor is going to answer, “Maybe you could get Cheech and Chong to reach out for you, instead?” Then they’re going to go back to their offices and laugh about the look on your face with your other professors. For real. Speaking of classroom etiquette, nothing bothers professors more than students openly texting, or otherwise on their cellphones during class, except perhaps the occasional student who looks things up on their phone in order to contribute whatever ideas Google has for them to the class discussion. So, please, put your phones away. Don’t film or tape anything without permission, either. Keep a lid on the social media, too. One friend of mine, a professor in Tennessee, saw a drawing on Facebook that a student had done, photographed, and then posted, all during class, because they didn’t feel like working on the assignment. If a student of mine had done that, and then asked for an extension, or a recommendation, I’d probably laugh in their face. Believe me, your professors want you to succeed. But they’ll never care about that goal more than you. That’s the bottom line. I wish you luck, kids. Without even knowing you, I feel like you were put on this planet for more than digging ditches, so get to work. and class. ^
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(which was renamed Colin Quinn — An Irish Wake when it hit Broadway), and in 2010 he told the “history of the world in 75 minutes” in Long Story Short (directed by Jerry Seinfeld). He applies that approach in Unconstitutional, where he “tackles 226 years of American Constitutional calamities in 70 minutes.” He’s been doing the show in NYC, but is bringing it to the 13 original colonies, which includes a stop at Trinity Rep, 201 Washington St, Providence, at 8 pm | $35 | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com
jam band. No, no, no. They are an extreme metal band which is celebrating its 20th anniversary on its current tour. Halloween arrives a month early at Fête, 103 Dike St, Providence. One Eyed Doll, XFactor1, Ionia, Patient 0, and Scriptures share the bill at 7 pm | $15 | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com
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If you fell for the love story and music at the heart of the 2007 film once, then you’ll likely fall for the theatrical production at Providence Performing Arts Center. It’s been on Broadway since February 2012 and won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical. There are eight performances through the 6th | $43-$80 | 401.421.ARTS | ppacri.org
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leah Poller’s “#BED” is an exhibit of small-scale mixed media sculptures. It was inspired while the artist was bedridden following a mishap that occurred while she was moving a large work in her studio. “The bed is the most intimate stage on which our true selves appear — in birth, death, sex, loving, and dreaming,” the artist notes. Curator Robert P. Stack says, “Poller focuses on the object or place, masterfully executed in a playful array of rich materials, textures, and colors. But what brings them alive is what’s absent but implied: people, actions, feelings, sickness, lust, rest intimacy — all the human forces of emotion that fuel meaning in life.” You spend a third of
Humor is the draw tonight at AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence, when the lulz comeDY night presents Sharkee Katz, Matt Donaher, Stuart Wilson, and Gary Dink (hey, funny name!). Host Randy Bush will hit the stage at 9 pm | $6 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org
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festival ballet ProviDence is kicking off its 36th season in grand style with “Together We Dance 3.” The program features guest artists from international companies (including Rhody native Greta Hodgkinson), plus FBP company dancers. The show is at the Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence, at 7:30 pm | $23-$85 | 401.353.1129 | the vetsri.com
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so we decided to round up a trio of can’t-miss shows. Girl Haggard’s bosslady in charge is back in town and back in action, as Mandy Allan returns for a one-night stand this Saturday at the Parlour (owned by GH bassist Aaron Jaehnig). The last Girl Haggard show was in June 2012 before Allan (and husband Curt) relocated to Portland, Oregon. The 2011 debut Country and Eastern (available at 75orlessrecords.com and iTunes) captured the band’s unquenchable thirst for bourbon, beer, and catchy country-punk love songs calibrated for your local trailer park. Mandy took the Best Female Vocalist award in our 2011 music poll before handBACK IN THE SADDLE Girl Haggard. ing over the ’12 title to close friend Scarlett Delgado of Lolita Black. Allan, originally from Tennessee, belted out booze-soaked Curses, Spells, and Charms. Morrone, with bassist Michelle love songs like “Providence and Bourbon,” “Hungover/ Salgueiro, drummer Jay Jefferson and guitarist Stephen Pissed Off” and “Early & Often,” a salute to the band’s Moniz, will celebrate the CD release with a headlining former watering hole of choice, the E & O Tap. Guitarist set at the Spot next Friday. And I guarantee the chorus Adam Theroux (aka Hank Sinatra Jr) memorably paired on Curses standout cut “Dig Deeper” will remain stuck in with Allan on the duet “Drunk, Broke, and In Love.” your head for weeks. Theroux and Allan will make an appearance on The Rhode Show to plug the upcoming reunion gig. FOR THE LOVE OF SLOANE + VULGARRITY + SATELLITES Allan is currently singing backup in an alt-country FALL + NYMPHIDELS | Friday, October 4 @ 9 pm | The Spot band in Portland along with “an all-girl pop-punk band Underground, 101 Richmond St, Providence | 401.383.7133 | in the works.” She has kept in touch with her former fortheloveofsloane.com bandmates and since this is her first visit to Rhode Island in more than a year, “There was no doubt this show was F Admittedly I’ve been sleeping on the skills of local happening,” she said when we caught up earlier this singer-songwriter Lisa Couto, who released her third alweek. And as far as knocking the rust off, Allan confibum, Not Going Under, in June. In the past 12 months alone dently declared: we’ve been treated to some pretty darn good albums from “We’ve had one-and-a-half practices. It’s rock ’n’ roll. a handful of female vocalists, including Sara Azriel, KayWe’re ready.” la Ringelheim, Kristi Martel, Sarah Lupo and, of course, the queen bee of psychedelic lullabies, Allysen Callery. Couto’s Not Going Under follows A Lot of Things and Live to GIRL HAGGARD + HIPPIE JOHNNY + THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS Breathe, and her soulful singing helped garner the Best DEBATE | Saturday, September 28 @ 9 pm | The Parlour, Female Vocalist title in the 2013 Motif music poll. Couto’s 1119 North Main St, Providence | 21+, $5 | 401.383.5858 | latest leans more on acoustic backdrops, and her voice 75orlessrecords.com shines on the title track, as well as “Sweeter” and “Little Dreamer.” But I really enjoy hearing Couto team up with F My first encounter with alt-pop quartet For the Love Ray Cooke on “Elsie” and “Dark Angel.” Cooke will join of Sloane was way back in 2009 during the WBRU Rock Couto at her upcoming show supporting Americana (and Hunt semi-finals. Although the band looked and sounded pop) legend Susan Cowsill. ^ nervous onstage, lead singer Elese Morrone had the pipes to carry the big hooks of quality cuts like “Bitter” (the title track to a 2008 EP) and “So What If” all the LISA COUTO & RAY COOKE + SUSAN COWSILL | Saturday, way to the Rock Hunt final four. Those tunes were October 12 @ 8 pm | Manchester 65, 65 Manchester St, West carried over to the long-awaited 2013 debut album Warwick | 401.649.0164 | $15 | lisacouto.com c urT allaN
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Theater Life on the edge the Wilbury Group’s Detroit _b y bill rod r iG u ez Have you and your partner
ever wanted to trade places f with another couple that you
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liked and admired? Exchange jobs, stations in life, maybe even personal problems? In Detroit, by Lisa D’Amour, which the Wilbury Group is staging through October 5, two pairs of next-door neighbors never get to that point explicitly, but their dissatisfactions are always bubbling under the surface of their lives, threatening to emerge into confusion. The title can be thought of as metaphorical, since the big city near the suburb they live in is unnamed. Actually, a disruption probably could have made a better play. Feel free to dismiss my opinion, since there has been overwhelmingly positive critical DIRE STRAITS tessier and Weishahn. reception: Detroit was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and won the Obie for Best New American Play couple who are more troubled. Mary and the next year. Ben’s occasional marital conflicts seem Yet, without dismissing its many enslight but they accumulate. For example, joyable moments, I couldn’t help but wish he is working on building a website that for two slightly different couples, each a will broadcast his availability as a credit less prosaic, more self-aware example of consultant, but when Mary asks how that the social, economic, and psychological by itself will bring in business, he has no contrasts they represent as archetypes in immediate answer. She sometimes detoday’s America. Let me explain. spairs, at one point saying, “I want to live Mary (Melissa Pennick) is a paralegal in a hut in the woods, with one pot.” and her husband Ben (David Rabinow) is a Sharon thinks that’s a good idea, and laid-off bank loan officer. Freshly moved they giggle like schoolgirls over their plan in next door are Kenny (David Tessier) and to go camping together. The event doesn’t Sharon (Clara Weishahn), who require pan out when they think about car trouble lengthier descriptions than that he works leaving them stranded in the woods with in a warehouse and she works the phone all its bears. For balance, D’Amour has in a customer service center. Formerly written Ben and Kenny a wonderful, jocudedicated substance abusers, they met in lar, and lengthy male-bonding scene. I a rehab facility, and while they obviously found it great fun, though it came across dote on each other, their financial situaas a woman’s idea of the typical guys’ attion is dire. After several weeks of living titude when they’re not around. Thinking in their new home, they don’t have a stick that their wives are away camping, Ben of furniture, save for the coffee table that gets the notion to go to a strip club. He Mary impulsively insisted on providing. eventually talks a reluctant Kenny (he’s Smartly directed by Josh Short, the excelbroke, remember?) into hopping up and lent performances by the four main actors down in excitement with him. Then the are what make this production compelling, girls show up, and real life resumes. despite any storytelling flabbiness. Things don’t remain all sunshine The characters, while sometimes comand lollipops, even though their slightly ing across a social stereotypes, eventually younger neighbors have loosened up Ben are precisely individualized. Sharon makes and Mary and their role model stable Mary’s nervousness look like beatific calm, neighbors have reinforced Sharon and performed by Weishahn with a hyperactivKenny’s desire to become upright citizens. ity that comes across as charming vitality. But. Someone falls off the wagon. SomeShe is so impressed at being served steak at one realizes that he or she doesn’t really their first dinner next door that she starts find financial security a worthwhile life crying, comparing their welcome to relagoal. A fiery disaster occurs. tionships with former junkie friends “with A structural weakness of the play is blood caked in their hair,” Sharon notes. evident by need for a coda. Uncle Frank (She says the first thing she did coming out (Richard Noble) shows up at the house of rehab was buy a flower print dress. Great that his nephew and young wife have characterization; a house in the suburbs is been occupying, tying up loose ends, the natural follow-up.) motivations, and an Americana theme. Ironically, considering the drug-infused Detroit certainly is worth seeing, but it past of Sharon and Kenny, it is the other could have been even better. ^
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Earn up to $150 for completing the study. WHO IS ELIGIBLE: * Adults ages 18-65 *Alcohol drinkers WHAT IS INVOLVED * Complete three sessions in 3 weeks * Each Session lasts about 1 hour If interested contact Rebecca (401) 863-6614 E-mail: ProjectAce@brown.edu
EVAPORATING MEMORIES a detail from bruton’s Chandelier
Art A visionAry streAk
RIC’s ‘annual faCulty exhIbItIon’; bRuton at Cade tompkIns _by GR eG Cook A dreamy surrealism frequently runs
through Rhode Island sculpture. Think of f Dean Snyder’s tall, glassy, seductive flowers
of evil; Xander Marro’s clock-headed ladies; Meredith Younger’s two-headed girls; or Liz Collins’s sock monkey outfits and veiny, spiderwebby gowns. Or consider Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo’s Cervus, Purificato (Latin for “Deer, Purified”), a gray, life-sized, mystical/realist, cast aluminum deer licking the belly of a bald naked man standing atop the peak of a granite tombstone. It’s a strange, still, sensual image, like one of those Greek myths involving amorous relations between people and gods in animal form. Barboza-Gubo is included in the “Annual Faculty Exhibition” at Rhode Island College’s Bannister Gallery (600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence, through October 2) and exemplifies the visionary streak apparent in an intriguing show that runs counter to the abject, purposely unmonumental assemblages of old chairs, wood scraps, mannequin heads, and randomly spraypainted styrofoam that dominate contemporary sculpture in the New York and LAfocused fine art world. Here at Rhode Island College’s showcase STRANGE AND SENSUAL barboza-Gubo’s Cervus, Purificato. of 3D art teachers, William Martin’s Kitzelnzug resembles a black steel steam engine boiler and smokestack mounted on the wall. Its piston connects to fiberglass-coated fabric stretched taut over dowels set a series of arms, running 16 feet long, ending in a curved into wood planks leaning against the wall. It resembles a wooden pole wrapped at its terminus in a leather sleeve field of circus tents or shark teeth. His Chandelier #041713 is dangling seven black feathers. It’s a curious mix of naa cobweb-like bunch of dangling cords coated white and ture, machine, and totem with a suggestion of potential, yellow with plaster and pollen suspended from the ceilwild, maybe self-destructive motion. ing by collection of metal hangers. Bosch focuses on abFrank Poor covers dollhouse-sized wood building forms stract form, but in this context the honey rich colors and with photos of an abandoned warehouse and empty, runcrusty or sleek surfaces take on an alien, otherworldly down houses and then mounts them low on the gallery cast. These pieces represent some of his finest work — wall, just above the baseboard. The photos capture desculptures that in effect turn the mathematics of arcs tails of dilapidated wood, fading paint, missing windowinto poetry. Bosch’s sculptures are particularly flattered panes, and stark shadows of porch roofs or trees. Poor’s by the show’s handsome stagecraft — dramatic spotlights combination of such realism laid atop elementary buildagainst deep gray walls. ing models produces a curious, hallucinatory effect, like On the whole, the artists’ focus on polished craftsmana memory that is full of detail but doesn’t quite fit. ship rides a fine line that can teeter between fussy acaDoug Bosch’s Tilted Field features amber yellow demicism and, when they work, transporting illusions. At Cade Tompkins Projects (198 Hope St, Providence,
through October 26), RISD professor Donnamaria Bruf ton is all about laidback, improvisational-seeming hand-
A SUBTLE BALANCE bruton’s Untitled Landscape IV.
craft that aims to be as delicate and sensitive as a diary. This solo show surveys two decades of work. Bruton’s Chandelier (1996-’98) has a sort of patchwork surface as she builds up layers of collage and a thickly stenciled curling, floral wallpaper pattern. The main motif is a sketchily painted chandelier on the right side. It combines for a feeling of passing time and evaporating memories. At times, Bruton’s composted imagery becomes muddled. But recent landscape paintings find a subtle balance of incident and openness, of thick and thin, of improvisational and planned. In Untitled Landscape III (2010-’11), rings of smoke or clouds hover in the air above little islands of stenciled sweet, white flowers. In another watery scene, Untitled Landscape IV (2008’10), white islands are topped by daubs of paint suspended in thick puddles of clear gel stuck onto the wood she’s painting on. And she lets the attractive grain of the plywood veneer show through thin golden and rosy washes of paint. It evokes the feeling of glowing, golden sunrises over flat high tide seas. ^
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| 8:30 pm | Karaoke with DJ Ron B. of Rock On Entertainment 1150 OAK BAR & GRILL | Cranston | House of Lords + Metal 101 FÊTE | Providence | The Church Of Providence with B. Dolan + Cannibal Ramblers + Born Casual + Guillermo Sexo + Moe Pope + Gene Shinozaki + Cory Pesaturo, hosted by B.Dolan + Madge of Honor FETE LOUNGE | Providence | 8 pm | Emily King GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Open mic hosted by Bob Lavalley GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | Mark Greenwood & Friends GREENWOOD INN | Warwick | 8 pm | Second Avenue IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | 8 pm | Betsy Listenfelt JOE’S CAFE & LOUNGE | Westport, MA | 8 pm | Karaoke with DJ Pete Botelho KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Open mike with host band TBA LOCAL 121 | Providence | DJ EleKtro High THE MALTED BARLEY | Westerly | Justin Adamson MEDIATOR STAGE | Providence | 7:30 pm | Open mic hosted by Don Tassone THE MET | Pawtucket | Spocka Summa NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Felix Brown THE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | Chepachet | Country-oke with Timay OLIVES | Providence | Kool Cat Karaoke 133 CLUB | East Providence | 8:30 pm | Mac Odom Band THE PARLOUR | Providence | Megan Jean & the Klay Family Band + Tyler James + Josh Cournoyer + Mark Lambert PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | Boatcake POWERS PUB | Cranston | Raised On Radio RI RA | Providence | Karaoke hosted by Ron THE ROI | Providence | Reggae dancehall/R&B with DJ Moy THE SALON | Providence | DJ La Rochelle THE SPOT | Providence | Jimkata + Hungry Freaks STEVIE D’S BAR & GRILL | Cumberland | 8:30 pm | Karaoke with Stu TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Joe Caron
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See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses. AS220 | Providence | Rich Ferri & the Wealth on the Water + the Oarsman + Valencourt BLU ON THE WATER | East Greenwich | 8:30 pm | What Matters? BOONDOCKS BAR & GRILL | Fall River, MA | Batteries Not Included BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Bristol | Rendition CADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | Radio Guru CHAN’S | Woonsocket | 8 pm | Brian Maes Band
CHELO’S WATERFRONT BAR & GRILLE | Warwick | 7 pm | Fun House CHIEFTAIN PUB | Plainville | Jon Bowser CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | World Premiere Band
CORINNE’S | Pawtucket | No Limit CUBAN REVOLUTION | Providence | Paul Lowe Jr.
DAN’S PLACE | West Greenwich | Steve M. Duo
DUSK | Providence | Churchburn +
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Whale + Born Cages + Gentlemen Hall | 11 pm | Goldmine GAME 7 SPORTS BAR & GRILL | Plainville, MA | Just Us 3 GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | Mr. Whodo INDIGO PIZZA | Coventry | 4 pm | Dan Scudieri IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | Lori Martin JOE’S CAFE & LOUNGE | Westport, MA | The Buzzard Blues Band KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Duke Robillard Band + Greg Piccolo & Heavy Juice THE LAST RESORT | Smithfield | Blame It On Bob
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Randall Trio | 10:30 pm | Benefit for the Providence Animal Rescue League with Northern Lands + ther Denver Boot + T.J. Kong & the Atomic Bomb THE ROOTS | Providence | Luna’s Ladies’ Night THE SALON | Providence | Upstairs | DJ Mr Morris & Friends | Downstairs | DJ Handsome J THE SPOT | Providence | Fungus Amungus + Conehead Buddha + Galactic Alliance | Fungus Amungus + Conehead Buddhas + Galactic Alliance 39 WEST | Cranston | Brand New Flava TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Transmission THE WHISKEY REPUBLIC | Providence | 5 pm | Brian Twohey | 9 pm | DJ Dirty DEK
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See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses. AS220 | Providence | hosted by Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi
Scobi, and friends| Traditional Irish Music Session | 9 pm | The Deads + Gertrude Atherton + Wet Brain + more THE BEACH HOUSE | Portsmouth | Liquid Fix BLU ON THE WATER | East Greenwich | 8:30 pm | Those Guys BOONDOCKS BAR & GRILL | Fall River, MA | 7-Day Weekend BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Bristol | Colby James CADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | Down to Earth CHAN’S | Woonsocket | 8 pm | Commander Cody Band
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Balla Kouyaté, Jesús Andujar, Soul Teknology, and more| Festival Afrika Nyaga | IonaFest Gala THE SALON | Providence | Upstairs | Tangled featuring the Union Street Collective | Downstairs | All Out featuring DJ Nick Bishop THE SPOT | Providence | Daddie Long Legs + the Cosmic Factory + Secret Weapon STEVIE D’S BAR & GRILL | Cumberland | 8:30 pm | Tom Burgess 39 WEST | Cranston | Guilty Pleasure TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Wild Nites VANILLA BEAN CAFE | Pomfret, CT | 8 pm | Cotton Hollow Rising THE WHISKEY REPUBLIC | Providence | 11 pm | DJ Soulo
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DAN’S PLACE | West Greenwich | Uncle Chubby
DUSK | Providence | Ask the Dead + No Ocean + Tenants + Sun Bears
EAST BAY TAVERN | East Providence
| DJ Blaze
ELEVEN FORTY-NINE | Warwick | 8:30 pm | Milt Javery
FÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | 11 pm | Casual Saturday with Born Casual
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See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses. AS220 | Providence | Rev. Bastien & the Traveling Empire + Highway’s End + Timothy Dunn + more BLU ON THE WATER | East Greenwich | 5:30 pm | Alger Mitchell BOONDOCKS BAR & GRILL | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Open mic with Louie Leeman’s All-Star Jam CADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | Open mic blues jam hosted by the Rick Harrington Band
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KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Adam Ezra Group
THE LAST RESORT | Smithfield | Inside Groove
LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER | Lincoln | 8:30 pm | Dezyne LOCAL 121 | Providence | Blade Mon
LUXURY BOX SPORTS BAR & GRILL | Seekonk, MA | What Matters? THE MALTED BARLEY | Westerly | Dead Blues Society
MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett |
7:30 pm | Pat Cottrell THE MET | Pawtucket | Forever Young [Neil Young tribute] + Trinity [CSN tribute] MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 9 pm | DJ Franco NARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown | Neal Vitullo & the Vipers with Dave Howard NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Newport | Heart and Soul NEWPORT GRAND | Mondo Soul
NEWPORT GRAND EVENT CENTER
| The Jandee Lee Porter Band NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | Dylan Lucas THE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | Chepachet | Karaoke with Sergio OAK HILL TAVERN | North Kingstown | Lisa Martin Trio OCEAN MIST | Matunuck | Jimkata | 3:30 pm | The Ocean Mistics OLIVES | Providence | The Kulprits ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Take 3 133 CLUB | East Providence | Outta the Blue O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | Tim Smith THE PARLOUR | Providence | Girl Haggard + Hippie Johnny PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | James Harris PERRY’S BAR AND GRILLE | Narragansett | Big Cat Blues RALPH’S DINER | Worcester, MA | Dumpster Fire + Scaphism + No Salvation + Hold a Grude + Mulch RHINO BAR & GRILLE | Newport | The Hype RI RA | Providence | Little Blue Pill THE ROI | Providence | 7-10 pm | Rick Costa Trio THE ROOTS | Providence | with Mama Draba, Afrimanding,
Tooth & the Sugababies
Open blues jam with Wolfie & the Jam Daddies DUSK | Providence | Lowlife + Get a Grip + Empty Vessels + Honest John ELEVEN FORTY-NINE | Warwick | 10 am | Milt Javery FÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | 6:30 pm | Dougas + Nymphidels + No Recall + Nate Cozollino & the Lost Arts GEORGE’S OF GALILEE | Narragansett | 2 pm | Second Avenue GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Steve Chrisitan JAVA MADNESS | Wakefield | 11 am | Glenn Miller
LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER
| Lincoln | 2 pm | Niki Luparelli & the Gold Diggers LOCAL 121 | Providence | Music Please THE MET | Pawtucket | 4 pm | Rhode Island Legends Jam with Melissa & the Robcats featuring Tom McDermott, Greg Lioce, and Rob Nelson MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 9 pm | Sunday Night Blues Jam NARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown | 4 pm | Professor Harp NEWS CAFE | Pawtucket | Dan Potthast + John DeCarlo + Chuck Staton + the Copacetics + Seven-Year Plan + Gabby Rizzle NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | 3:30 pm | Acoustic jam with Vic Foley OCEAN MIST | Matunuck | 3:30 pm | New York Minute ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | 7 pm | Honky-Tonk Knights | 10 pm | Keith Manville 133 CLUB | East Providence | 7:30 pm | Rory & the Hounds O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | 5:30 pm | Tom Lanigan PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | 8 pm | Larry Martinelli THE ROOTS | Providence | 7 pm | Who Dat? Blues/Jazz Jam
THE SKYLINE LOUNGE AT LANG’S BOWLARAMA | Cranston | 8:30 pm |
Karaoke with Jack Rino of Van Pelt Entertainment THE SPOT | Providence | 8 pm | Crash & the Boys + Charons Obol + Bochek TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 3 pm | Rendition
MONDAY 30
See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses. BOVI’S | East Providence | John Allmark’s Jazz Orchestra
Continued on p 40
Southern New England’s premier roots music venue for concerts, dining, and dancing! Tickets Available On Line! Fri. Sept. 27 • 8pm • $20
The Duke Robillard Band & Greg Piccolo & Heavy Fri. Oct. 18 • 8pm • $15a/$20d Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood Blues/Swing/R&B Juice ................................................................ and Charlie Neville of the Sat. Sept. 28 • 8pm • $10 Adam Ezra Group Roots/Rock Legendary Neville Bros 2012 Band of the Year NE Music Awards
R&B, Rock, Soul, Funk
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Oct. 25 • 9p • $10
Sugar Disco/Funk/Hip Hop/R&B
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Fri. Oct. 4 • 8pm • $25
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LET’S DANCE WEDNESDAYS $10
Doors 6:30 p $10, Music 7:30-10 p
Josi Davis Early bird dinner FREE DANCE LESSONS at 7pm! and premium seating specials Weds. 10/2 • Mystic Horns 6:30-7p, complimentary cheese Weds. 10/9 • High Times plate, meet & greet 7-8p. Come Weds. 10/16 • Johnny & experience this unique cabaret- The East Coast Rockers style performance with John Weds. 10/23 • Dan Lord & Van Ness, Dan Solomons, and The Big Shots ................................................................ Chris Leigh. ................................................................ Sat. Oct, 5 • 8p • No Cover
Shacklehands American
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OPEN MIKE NIGHT EVERY THURS.
Doors, 7 p • 8pm • NO COVER 9/26: TBA, 10/3: TBA, 10/10: TBA 10/17: Blue Nite
3 song sign up list & Free CD recording of performance. Want to be a host? Atlantic Ave. Rock/Funk/Dance Shawnallen1115@gmail.com Fri. Oct. 11 • 8pm • $5
35 Railroad Ave I Westerly, RI 401.315.5070 theknickerbockercafe.com
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tUeSDAYS!
Listings
*haircuts only Continued from p 39 FÊTE | Providence | 7 pm | Mush-
Barber Shop
107½ Hope Street, pVD 401-331-2901
KooleDgeri.com
roomhead + One Eyed Doll + XFactor1 + Ionia + Patient 0 + Scriptures GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 7 pm | Hotel Jam Night THE MET | Pawtucket | 8 pm | Needtobreathe + Ivan & Alyosha NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The House Combo THE PARLOUR | Providence | Reggae night with Upsetta International + the Natural Element Band PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | 8:30 pm | Songwriters’ open mic THE ROI | Providence | Open mic for actors hosted by Ellen Salter Wallstrom THE SALON | Providence | 10 pm | Variety Talent Showcase hosted by James Creelman THE SPOT | Providence | Elixis Trinity + the Adventures of + Cory Waldron & the New New Band + Tapestries TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Chris Richards
TUESDAY 1
See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses. DUSK | Providence | Lecherous Gaze + Brainoil + Lady Osiris FÊTE| Providence | Logic + Lingo + Esh the Monolith GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 7 pm | Open mic
THE MET | Pawtucket | Biffy Clyro +
133 CLUB | East Providence | Karaoke
NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | Dennis
ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Stu
THE PARLOUR | Providence | The
THE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | Chepachet
Morning Parade
Sinclair of Never In Vegas
THE PARLOUR | Providence | Vin-
tage Vinyl Breakdown with Colonel Johnny Maguire PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | John Speziale & Friends POWERS PUB | Cranston | Acoustic karaoke THE ROOTS | Providence | 8 pm | Strictly Jazz Jam THE SALON | Providence | 8:30 pm | Kimi’s Movie Night THE SPOT | Providence | Creation Tuesday [open mic, featured acts, open jam] TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Choppy
WEDNESDAY 2
See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses. DUSK | Providence | Black Oil Incinerator + Sweet Love + Clean Lines GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Karaoke with DJ Deelish INDIGO PIZZA | Coventry | 7 pm | Acoustic karaoke with Mark Beauchemin JOE’S CAFE & LOUNGE | Westport, MA | Scarlett KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 7:30 pm | The Superchief Trio MANCHESTER 65 | West Warwick | 8 pm | Dope + Soil + Leaving Eden THE MET | Pawtucket | Wham Bam Bowie Band! NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | 8 pm | The Bluegrass Throedown with Flatt Rabbit THE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | Chepachet | Karaoke with Sergio ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Jack Babineau
with Big Bill
Funky Autocrats featuring Eric Bloom PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | John Fuzek + Ed McGuirl POWERS PUB | Cranston | Copolla Turner Overdrive THE SALON | Providence | Reggae Dancehall with DJ Red Beard & Friends THE SPOT | Providence | Swift Technique + Palo!
THURSDAY 3
See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses. EAST BAY TAVERN | East Providence | 8:30 pm | Karaoke with DJ Ron B. of Rock On Entertainment FÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | The Last Bison + Vio/Mire GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Open mic hosted by Bob Lavalley GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | George DiLorenzo IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | 8 pm | Betsy Listenfelt JOE’S CAFE & LOUNGE | Westport, MA | 8 pm | Karaoke with DJ Pete Botelho KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Open mic with host band TBA MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 7 pm | Ronnee Ringquist MEDIATOR STAGE | Providence | 7:30 pm | Open mic hosted by Don Tassone THE MET | Pawtucket | 8 pm | The Met 3rd Anniversary with the March Fourth Marching Band + the Mallett Brothers + Smith & Weeden NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Felix Brown
McCarthy Band
| Country-oke with Timay ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Kool Keith THE PARLOUR | Providence | Vaporubs PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | James Harris POWERS PUB | Cranston | Raised On Radio THE ROI | Providence | Reggae dancehall/R&B with DJ Moy THE SALON | Providence | Upstairs | Okli Boys featuring DJs Ponyboy Kurtiz & Sir Bub | Downstairs | Music Please THE SPOT | Providence | The Manhattan Project + Matt Carey Music + Sex On Decks
COMEDY THURSDAY 26
STEVE BYRNE | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, 39 Warren Ave, East Providence | $22.50 | 401.438.8383 | ricomedyconnection.com LOL THURSDAY hosted by Frank O’Donnell | 7:30 pm | Catch A Rising Star at Twin River, 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | $10 | 877.82RIVER | twinriver.com IMPROV JONES | Thurs + Sat 10 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $5 | improvjones.com PROVIDENCE IMPROV PIG presents Kickasaurus Rex and the Most Important Question | 8 pm | Providence Improv Guild, 393 Broad St, Providence | $2 | improvpig.com ANDREW SCHULZ | Thurs-Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 + 10:30 pm | Comix at
CLUB DIRECTORY AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence THE BEACH HOUSE | 401.682.2974 | 506 Park Ave, Portsmouth | beachhouseri.com BLU ON THE WATER | 401.885.3700 | 20 Water St, East Greenwich | bluonthewater.com BOONDOCKS BAR & GRILL | 508.673.2200 | 46 Water St, Fall River, MA | myboondocks.com BOVI’S | 401.434.9670 | 278 Taunton Ave, East Providence BRITISH BEER COMPANY | 401.253.6700 | 29 State St, Bristol | britishbeer. com/local/bristol BROOKLYN COFFEE & TEA HOUSE | 401.575.2284 | 209 Douglas Ave, Providence | brooklyncoffeetea house.com CADY’S TAVERN | 401.568.4102 | 2168 Putnam Pike, Chepachet | cadystavern.com CAROUSEL GRILLE | 401.921.3430 | 859 Oakland Beach Ave, Warwick | thecarouselgrille.com CHAN’S | 401.765.1900 | 267 Main St, Woonsocket | chanseggrollsand jazz.com CHELO’S HOMETOWN BAR & GRILL | 401.884.3000 | 1 Masthead Dr, Warwick | chelos.com/waterfront CHIEFTAIN PUB | 508.643.9031 | 23 Washington St [Rt 1], Plainville, MA | chieftainpub.com CITY SIDE | 401.235.9026 | 74 South Main St, Woonsocket | citysideri.com CORINNE’S | 401.542.0038 | 1593 Newport Ave, Pawtucket | corinnesbanquets.com CUBAN REVOLUTION | 401.932.0649 | 60 Valley St, Olneyville | thecubanrevolution.com DAN’S PLACE | 401.392.3092 | 880 Victory Hwy, West Greenwich | danspizzaplace.com DIVE BAR | 201 Westminster St, Providence | facebook.com/ divebar.providence DUSK | 401.714.0444 | 301 Harris Ave, Providence | dusksprovidence.com EAST BAY TAVERN | 401.228.7343 | 305 Lyon Ave, East Providence EAST PROVIDENCE YACHT CLUB | 401.434.0161 | 9 Pier Rd EIGHTY EIGHT LOUNGE | 401.437.8830 | 55 Union St, Providence | facebook. com/EightyEightPianoLounge
1150 OAK BAR & GRILL | 401.654.4466 1150 Oaklawn Ave, Cranston | facebook.com/1150Oak ELEVEN FORTY NINE | 401.884.1149 | 1149 Division St, Warwick | elevenfortyninerestaurant.com FÊTE | 401.383.1112 | 103 Dike St, Providence | fetemusic.com GAME 7 SPORTS BAR & GRILL | 508.643.2700 | 60 Man Mar Dr, Plainville, MA | game7sportsbar andgrill.com GAS LAMP GRILLE | 401.845.9300 | 206 Thames St, Newport | gaslampgrille.com GEORGE’S OF GALILEE | 401.783.2306 | 250 Sand Hill Cove Rd, Narragansett | georgesofgalilee.com GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | 401.315.5556 | 105 White Rock Rd, Westerly GREENWICH HOTEL | 401.884.4200 | 162 Main St, East Greenwich | myspace.com/greenwichhotel INDIGO PIZZA | 401.615.9600 | 599 Tiogue Ave, Coventry IRON WORKS TAVERN | 401.739.5111 | 697 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | theironworkstavern.com JAVA MADNESS | 401.788.0088 | 134 Salt Pond Rd, Wakefield | javamadness.com JOE’S CAFE & LOUNGE | 774.264.9463 | 549 American Legion Hwy, Westport, MA | joescafelounge.com THE KNICKERBOCKER | 401.315.5070 | 35 Railroad Ave, Westerly | theknickerbockercafe.com LADDER 133 | 401.272.RIBS | 133 Douglas Ave, Providence | ladder133.com THE LAST RESORT | 401.349.3500 | 325 Farnum Pike, Smithfield | thelastresortri.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 | manchester65.com MARINER GRILL | 401.284.3282 | 142 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett | marinergrille.com McNEIL’S TAVERN | 401.725.4444 | 888 Charles St, North Providence THE MEDIATOR | 401.461.3683 | 50 Rounds Ave, Providence MERRILL LOUNGE | 401.434.9742 | 535 North Broadway, East Providence THE MET | 401.729.1005 | 1005 Main St, Pawtucket | themetri.com MULHEARN’S | 401.48.9292 | 507 North Broadway, East Providence MURPHY’S LAW | 401.724.5522 | 2 George St, Pawtucket | murphys lawri.com NARRAGANSETT CAFE | 401.423.2150 | 25 Narragansett Ave, Jamestown | narragansettcafe.com/ NAUTIKA | 401.398.7774 | 28 Water St, East Greenwich | nautikari.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 THE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | 401.710.7778 | 812 Putnam Pike, Glocester | facebook.com/TheNuttyScotsman 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 PADDY’S BEACH | 401.596.2610 | 159 Atlantic Ave, Westerly | paddysbeach.com THE PARLOUR | 401.383.5858 |
1119 North Main St, Providence | facebook.com/ParlourRI PERKS & CORKS | 401.596.1260 | 48 High St, Westerly | perksand corks.com PERRY’S BAR & GRILLE | 401.284.1544 | 104 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett | perrysbarandgrille.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 THE RHINO BAR | 401.846.0907 | 337 Thames St, Newport | therhinobar.com 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 ROI | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | 401.272.2161 | theroiprov. com THE ROOTS | 276 Westminster St, Providence | 401.272.7422 | rootscafeprovidence.com THE SALON | 401.865.6330 | 57 Eddy St, Providence | thesalonpvd.com SIDEBAR BISTRO | 401.421.7200 | 127 Dorrance St, Providence | sidebar-bistro.com THE SKYLINE LOUNGE AT LANG’S BOWLARAMA | 401.944.0500 | 225 Niantic Ave, Cranston | langs bowlarama.com THE SPOT | 401.383.7133 | 101 Richmond St, Providence | thespotprovidence.com STELLA BLUES | 401.289.0349 | 50 Miller St, Warren | stellabluesri.com STEVIE D’S BAR & GRILL | 401.658.2591 | 80 Manville Hill Rd, Cumberland | stevie-ds.com 39 WEST | 401.944.7770 | 39 Phenix Ave, Cranston | 39westri.com 2 PAULS’ CITY GRILLE | 401.228.7285 | 315 Waterman Ave, East Providence | 2paulsgoodfood.com VANILLA BEAN CAFE | 860.928.1562 | Rts 44, 169 and 97, Pomfret, CT | thevanillabeancafe.com VINTAGE RESTAURANT | 401.765.1234 | 2 South Main St, Woonsocket | vintageri.com WHISKEY REPUBLIC | 401.588.5158 | 515 South Water St, Providence | TheWhiskeyRepublic.com
Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $20-$40 advance | 860.312.6649 | foxwoods.com
FRIDAY 27
NICK DIPAOLO | Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 +
10:15 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $20 HARDCORE COMEDY SHOW hosted by Brian Beaudoin | 10:30 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $15 BEN HAGUE | 8 pm | Catch A Rising Star at Twin River, Lincoln | Call for ticket info
COMIC HYPNOTIST FRANK SANTOS JR. | 10:15 pm | Catch A Rising
Star at Twin River, 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | $22 | 877.82RIVER | twinriver.com
TOM DADDARIO + HERBIE GILL
| Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 pm + 10:15 PM | Comedy Zone at Showcase Warwick, 1200 Quaker Ln | $10 | 401.885.1621 | showcasecinemas.com/programs/ comedy-zone
ACE ACETO’S ROYAL FLUSH COMEDY SHOW | 9 pm | Newport Grand
Event Center, 150 Admiral Kalbfus Rd | 401.849.5000 | newportgrand. com THE COMEDY FACTORY with Dave Andrews, John Perrotta, Nick Albanese, Rob Pierce, and Steve DeNuccio | Doors 6:30 pm, dinner 7:30, show to follow | Twelve Acres, 445 Douglas Pike, Smithfield | $40 includes dinner + show + tax + tip | comedyfactoryri.com THE BIT PLAYERS | Fri-Sat 8 pm | Firehouse Theater, 4 Equality Park Pl, Newport | $15 | 401.849.3473 | firehousetheater.org BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | Sept 27 10 pm at Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe St, Cranston + Sept 29 at 6 pm at the Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd | $5 | bringyourownimprov.com FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE featuring improvised song, dance, and skits | 7 pm | Everett, 9 Duncan Ave, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9479 | everettri. org/what/stage/fnl
PROVIDENCE IMPROV GUILD
pre-sents an “Improvised Musical Intensive Show,” with Improv Jones and stand-up comic Rob Greene | 8 pm | Providence Improv Guild, 393 Broad St, Providence | $5 | improvpig.com RUSSELL PETERS | 9 pm | MGM Grand at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $45-$65 | 866.646.0050 | mgmatfoxwoods. com DUELING COMIX PIANOS | 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15-$25 advance ANDREW SCHULZ | See listing for Thurs
SATURDAY 28
COLIN QUINN: UNCONSTITUTIONAL | “A one-man show that tackles
226 years of American Constitutional calamities in 70 minutes” | 8 pm | Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington St, Providence | $35 | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com KEVIN MEANEY | 10 pm | Catch A Rising Star at Twin River, Lincoln | Call for ticket info IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs ANDREW SCHULZ | See listing for Thurs NICK DIPAOLO | See listing for Fri TOM DADDARIO + HERBIE GILL | See listing for Fri THE BIT PLAYERS | See listing for Fri
SUNDAY 29
COMEDY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $10
PRE-GAME COMIX & FOOTBALL
with Josh Spear and Wild Bill Simas [and the New England Patriots vs.
the Atlanta Falcons] | 7:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | See listing for Fri
MONDAY 30
THE COMEDY FACTORY with Dan Martin + John Perrotta + Derek Moore + Mike Babalato + more | 8 pm | Legion Pub, 661 Park Ave, Cranston | Free | 401.461.7896 | comedy factoryri.com
WEDNESDAY 2
LULZ COMEDY NIGHT hosted by
Randy Bush with Sharkee Katz + Matt Donaher + Stuart Wilson + Gary Dink plus a video by Moira Brady Averill & Gareth Averill | 9 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $6 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org THE COMEDY FACTORY | 8:30 pm | The Last Resort, 325 Farnum Pike, Smithfield | $5 | 401.349.3500 | thelastresortri.com THE COMEDY FACTORY | 8 pm | Lou’s Cafe, 47 Summer St, Manville | Free | 401.461.7896 | comedyfactory ri.com
LAST COMIX STANDING COMEDY CONTEST | 8 pm | Comix at Fox-
woods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance
THURSDAY 3
RALPHIE MAY | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $29 GARY GULMAN | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $25$50 advance LOL THURSDAY | See listing for Thurs
CONCERTS POPULAR THURSDAY 26
SEAN HAYES + the Blank Tapes | 8 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $18 in advance, $20 at the door | columbustheatre. com MOONALICE | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $20 | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org
FRIDAY 27
ARCHIE FISHER | 8 pm | Blackstone
River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $16 advance, $18 day of show | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org
GRANDMOTHERS OF INVENTION
performing the One Size Fits All album and a second set of Zappa classics | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $25 advance, $28 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org JOLIE HOLLAND + ARCH CAPE | 9 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $15 | columbus theatre.com
MICHAEL TROY + CHUCK WILLIAMS | 7:30 pm | Sandywoods
Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $10 advance, $12 at the door [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com
SATURDAY 28
STONE SOUP SAMPLER with
Alastair Moock + Danielle Miraglia + Shun Ng + the Rolling Roots Revue | 8 pm | Stone Soup Coffeehouse, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 50 Park Pl, Pawtucket | Call for ticket info | 401.921.5115 | stonesoupcoffeehouse. com THE SWEETBACK SISTERS | 7:30 pm | Lily Pads, 27 North Rd, Peace Dale | $18 | musicatlilypads.org
AN EVENING WITH MATTHEW MORRISON & THE NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 8 pm |
Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA | $54.50-$95 [proceeds benefit the performance and education programs at the Zeiterion] | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org
BOO CITY + THE SMOKING FLOWERS | 9 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 | columbustheatre.com
A CONCERT TO HONOR RON STABILE, a percussionist who taught
in Rhode Island schools, including
the URI Department of Music | 8 pm | Fine Arts Center Concert Hall at University of Rhode Island, 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston | Free | 401.874.5955 | uri.edu/music LORI McKENNA | 8 pm | Common Fence Point Community Hall, 933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth | $20 advance, $23 door | 401.683.5085 | commonfencemusic.org LUCY KAPLANSKY | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $22 advance, $25 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org
AN EVENING OF IRISH MUSIC AND STEP DANCING with Mike Carroll and the Miller Family | 7:30 pm | Stone Church Coffeehouse at the First Congregational Church, 300 High St, Bristol | $15, $7.50 students, free under 6 | 401.253.4813 STEELY DAN | 8 pm | MGM Grand at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $55-$80 | 866.646.0050 | mgmatfoxwoods. com
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SUNDAY 29
APRIL VERCH BAND | 7 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $18 advance, $20 at the door [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic. com GARY BURTON QUARTET | 3 pm | Fine Arts Center Concert Hall at University of Rhode Island, 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston | $25$45, proceeeds benefit the Ron Stabile Memorial Percussion Scholarship Fund | 401.874.5955 | uri.edu/music WINDHARP + MYSTIC VOYAGERS
| 2 pm | Linden Place, 500 Hope St, Bristol | $15 | 401.253.0390 | linden place.org KID CUDI + BIG SEAN | 7:30 pm | MGM Grand at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $55-$80 | 866.646.0050 | mgmat foxwoods.com
MONDAY 30
HOLLY NEAR + emma’s revolution | 7 pm | First Unitarian Church, 1 Benevolent St, Providence | $20 | facebook.com/communisong
CLASSICAL
EvEry TuEsday NIghT aT
SUNDAY 29
THE JANUSZ PRUSINOWSKI TRIO | 3 pm | Lily Pads, 27 North Rd, Peace Dale | $18 | musicatlilypads.org
DANCE PERFORMANCE SATURDAY 28
AERPLAYE, a new modern dance company founded by Heather Ahern, presents “Return,” featuring six dances performed by Jamie Arnold, Shura Baryshnikov, Sarah Hopkins, Kathy Gordon Smith, Brittany Lombardi, Ahern, and a cameo by Michael Bolger | 8 pm | RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Walkway, Providence | $15, $10 students | brown papertickets.com/event/438614
7-10 PM followed by vintage vinyl breakdown with the colonel Johnny Maguire
THURSDAY 3
FESTIVAL BALLET PROVIDENCE presents “Together We Dance 3,” featuring internationally renowned ballet stars, FBP company dancers, and students from the FBP School | 7:30 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | Call for ticket info | 401.421.ARTS | festivalballet.com
PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 27
REHOBOTH CONTRA DANCE with caller Lisa Greenleaf and music by Perpetual e-Motion, with Ed Howe and John Cote | 8 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | $8 | 508.252.5718 | contradance links.com/rehoboth.html
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dance leader Mary Jones and music by Jean Munroe, Mark Vilain, and Ishmael Stefanov | 7:30 pm | South Kingstown Land Trust Barn, 17 Matunuck Beach Rd, Kingston | $10 | 401.539.3009 | kingstonenglish countrydance.org
THURSDAY 3
EAST BAY CONTRA DANCE with
Elwood Donnelly and Don Heinold and music by South Coast | 7:30 pm | Mary C. Quirk School, 790 Main St, Warren | $5 | facebook.com/eastbay contradance.net
EVENTS THURSDAY 26
NOT ABOUT THE BUILDINGS ANNUAL SPELLING BEE | 8 pm | AS220,
115 Empire St, Providence | Free to watch, $7 to spell | 401.831.9327 | as220.org
FRIDAY 27
5TH ANNUAL FALL TASTE OF BLOCK ISLAND WEEKEND with gal-
Fun, Food, & Football!!!
lery events + wine and beer tastings + kayak tours + specials at hotels + shops + restaurants + more | Today through Sun 9 am-6 pm | Block Island, 16 Old Town Rd, Block Island | $5 | 800.383.2474 | tasteofbi.com
SATURDAY 28
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tion of the life and legacy of Iona Dobbins, arts advocate and former executive director of the Rhode Island State Council On the Arts | A second line procession, featuring the Extraordinary Rendition Band, Luyi Shao, the Chinese Lion dance group, Charles Williams, Project 401, Mark Taber, Dan Butterworth, and youth peformers from Festival Ballet, will gather at the Providence Performing Arts Center at 3:30 pm, proceed through downtown, and culminate at Grant’s Park with entertainment at 5 pm | A fundraiser will take place at Roots Cultural Center, 276 Westminster St, from 6:30-10 pm [$125] | ionafest.org
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THE 28TH ANNUAL AIDS WALK FOR LIFE | Registration 9 am, walk 10 am | State House, 82 Smith St, Providence | firstgiving.com/aids walkri/2013
NEW ENGLAND’S GOT TALENT 2013 hosted by Meaghan Mooney |
7 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $16 + $21 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com
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WORKING WATERFRONT FESTIVAL | The event celebrates
commercial fishing, with workshops + music + food + cooking demonstrations + a farmers’ market + films + authors + contests + a flume tank + boats + vessel tours + whaleboat races + waterboat rides + the Blessing of the Fleet + kids’ activities + more | Sept 28 11 am-6 pm + Sept 29 11 am-5 pm | See the website for complete details | Fisherman’s Pier and Merrill’s Wharf, Rt 18, New Bedford, MA | Free | 508.993.8894 | workingwaterfrontfestival.org
5TH ANNUAL FALL TASTE OF BLOCK ISLAND WEEKEND | See listing for Fri
SUNDAY 29
ROCK ’N’ ROLL MARATHON featur-
ing a half-marathon, a 3-mile timed fun run, a Health & Fitness Expo at the Rhode Island Convention Center [9 am-5 pm, free], a Finish Line Festival featuring music by Velveteen Playboys [8 am] + Atlas Genius [10:15 pm] + more | See website for complete details | Downtown Providence, Memorial Blvd, Providence | runrocknroll.competitor.com/ providence
PROVIDENCE LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs
RESIDENCE@95: FRANK DIFFICULT | See listing for Thurs
SATURDAY 28
PROVIDENCE LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs
RESIDENCE@95: FRANK DIFFICULT
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TUESDAY 1
HISTORIC/ARCHITECTURAL TOUR | 10:30 am | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org
THURSDAY 3
JACK-O-LANTERN SPECTACULAR |
The theme is “Pumpkinville, USA,” with more than 5000 illuminated pumpkins representing regions of the US | 6-11 pm through Nov 3 | Roger Williams Park, 1000 Elmwood Ave, Providence | Mon-Thurs, $12, $10 seniors, $9 ages 3-12, free under 3; Fri-Sun, $15, $13 seniors, $12 ages 3-12, free under | 401.785.3510 | rogerwilliamsparkzoo.org
16TH ANNUAL MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL | See listing
SUNDAY 29
PROVIDENCE LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs
WEDNESDAY 2
FALL FILM SERIES presents Ai Weiwei, Never Sorry, a documentary by Alison Klayman about China’s most famous international artist and most outspoken domestic critic | 7:30 pm | The Meeting House, 3852 Main Rd, Tiverton | Free | 401.624.2600 | four cornersarts.org
READINGS FRIDAY 27
FILM THURSDAY 26
GLOBAL LENS 2013 FALL FILM SERIES | This week: The Fantastic
World of Juan Orol, directed by Sebastian del Amo | The synopsis: “The story of Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master” | 6 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org MOVIES ON THE BLOCK series concludes with Paranormal Activity | 8 pm | Westminster and Union sts, Providence | Free | indowncity.com
PROVIDENCE LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL | Screenings at
the URI Providence Downtown Campus, 80 Washington St; Bryant University, 1150 Douglas Ave, Smithfield; Ryan Concert Hall at Providence College, 177 Eaton St; and the Warwick Public Library, 600 Sandy Ln | Check website for schedule + detaiuls | 401.277.5206 | plaff.org
HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, a literary critic,
poet, novelist, and playwright, will discuss “Castaways of the Fool Espoir” with Eric Prenowitz, a lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds | Salomon Center for Teaching, Main Green at Brown University, Providence | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw
TUESDAY 1
GOT POETRY LIVE! | 7:30 pm | Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer St, Providence | $3 | 401.383.8393 | gotpoetry. com/News/topic=23.html WRITER AND VISUAL ARTIST KAREN GREEN will read from her
work | 2:30 pm | Brown University McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw
THURSDAY 3
PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org
RESIDENCE@95: FRANK DIFFICULT | Sept 26, “found footage cut-up madness” from Craig Baldwin, Negativland, TV Sheriff, and Animal Charm from the Other Cinema archives [8 pm] + experimental sex films and found footage from the Other Cinema archives [10 pm] | Sept 27, short films by Joe Quinn and Damon Packard [8 pm], and the Providence premiere of Damon Packard’s Foxfur, plus selected shorts [10 pm] | Sept 28, found footage madness from the archives of the legendary Obsidian video store, with contributions from Dave Public, featuring a live soundtrack from Alec K. Redfearn [8 pm]; plus, local films and performance, new “DifficultTales” screen tests shot on Sept 23 + 24, videos by Chrissy Jones [featuring Human Beast, Unicorn Hard-on and Father Finger], new films and [possible] live performance by Alec K. Redfearn and Orion Rigel Dommisse [10 pm] | Thurs-Sat 8 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $6, $10 for both screenings | 401.831.9327 | as220.org
FRIDAY 27
16TH ANNUAL MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL | The fest
recieved a record-breaking 628 short film entries from 48 countries, with films from Finland, UK, Australia, France, Ireland and the USA, making up the 10 finlalists. Audiences at each screening will vote for the film they think should win. Votes will be sent through to Manhattan Short HQ; the winner will be announced at ManhattanShort.com on Oct 6 at 10 pm | Fri-Sat 8 pm | Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley St | $10 | 401.560.0979 | jamestownart center.org
TALKS
dowski, liquor liability and dram shop expert, and Michael McCabe, a toxicology expert | Part of URI’s Forensic Science Seminar Series | 3:30 pm | Pastore Hall at the University of Rhode Island, 51 Lower College Rd, Kingston | Free
SATURDAY 28
“THE GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE: RECONSTRUCTING NATIONAL DISASTER AND COLONIAL ATROCITY 90 YEARS LATER,” a symposium with lectures and screenings of two never-before-seenin-the-US films, Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi In Tokyo, 1923 and The Disposed-of-Koreans: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Camp Narashino | 9 am | Brown University’s Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting St, Providence | Free | Complete details @ events.brown. edu/events/cal/CAL-001493994110fb4f-0141-1401ec41-
“LASAGNA GARDENING AND HERB SPIRALS” | A workshop pre-
sented by URI’s Outreach Center | 10 am | Roger Williams Park Botanical Center, 1 Floral Ave, Providence | $25 | 401.874.2900 | cels.uri.edu/ outreach
TUESDAY 1
THE URI FALL 2013 HONORS COLLOQUIUM | The topic: “Great
Public Schools, Everyone’s Right? Everyone’s Responsibility?” | This week: “Creating the Opportunity To Learn,” a talk by Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University | 7:30 pm | Edwards Auditorium, University of Rhode Island, Upper College Road, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2381 | uri.edu/hc
“PAIRING PLANTS FOR PRODUCTIVITY” | A workshop presented by URI’s Outreach Center | 5 pm | Roger Williams Park Botanical Center, 1 Floral Ave, Providence | $25 | 401.874.2900 | cels.uri.edu/ outreach
WEDNESDAY 2
“COLLEGE AND COAL: SHOULD BROWN DIVEST?” | A panel discus-
sion with Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org; Christian Parenti, journalist and author of The Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence; and James Rogers, former chief executive officer of Duke Energy | 11:30 am | Brown University’s Sayles Hall, on the College Green, Providence | Free | brown.edu/ Departments/Political_Theory_ Project/janus/events/lectures/ colleges_and_coal_should_brown_ divest
THURSDAY 26
THURSDAY 3
poet, novelist, and playwright, will present a lecture, “The Shout,” a reflection on the origins of literature that engages a reconsideration of Sophocles’s “Ajax” | 7 pm | Metcalf Auditorium in the Metcalf Research Building, 190 Thayer St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw
cusses “Underappreciated Dates That Changed America” | The theme is “Utopia/Dystopia” | This week: “1941” Betting On Hedonism — Birth of the Las Vegas Strip” | 6 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | Free | 401.831.9327 | actionspeaks radio.org
HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, a literary critic,
“LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND THE DESIGN, PROPAGATION AND ONGOING CARE OF THE PUBLIC LANDSCAPE: PUBLIC GARDENS AND HEALTH CARE FACILITIES,” a talk by Nick Dines, a professor emeritus at UMass |Part of the Landscape Architecture Lecture Series | 7 pm | Weaver Auditorium in the Coastal Institute Building at the University of Rhode Island, Greenhouse Rd, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2983
FRIDAY 27
A SALON with composer Kareem
Roustom, Community MusicWorks artistic director Sebastian Ruth, and FirstWorks executive artistic director Kathleen Pletcher on “A Voice Exclaiming,” Roustom’s composition for an intergenerational cast of musicians, commissioned by CMW and FirstWorks for world premiere by the Kronos Quartet, the Community MusicWorks Players, and CMW students on Nov 8 at the RISD Auditorium | 5 pm | Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providence athenaeum.org
“THE DRAM SHOP CASE (ALCOHOL)” | A talk by Elizabeth Tren-
ACTION SPEAKS! | The series dis-
“THE INVENTION OF AFRICAN ART” | A talk by Christopher
Steiner, professor of art history and anthropology at Connecticut College | 5:30 pm | Brown University’s Salomon Center for Teaching and Learning, Room 001, on the College Green, Providence | Free | brown. edu/Facilities/Haffenreffer
ART GALLERIES ARTWORKS! DOWNSTAIRS GALLERY | 508.984.1588 | 384 Acushnet
Ave, New Bedford, MA | artworksfor you.org | Mon-Sat 9 am-5 pm |
Through Oct 26: “Printmakers of Cape Cod,” with works by Evan Charney, Patricia Daughton, Barbara Doyle, Alice Galick, Marcia Goodwin, Ann Guliani, Mary Ince, Leslie Kramer, Jane Lincoln, Andrea Moore, Melora North, Carol O’Dell, Liz Perry, Sara Ringler, Cecilia Rossey, and Joyce Zavorskas AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 16 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment
| Through Sept 28: new work by Rebecca Adams and the Forand Family Show | New work by Ysanel Torres 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: “New Barbarians: Prints from the New Border,” by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Joan Wyand | New work by Heidi Born
THE AVENUE CONCEPT GALLERY | 401.490.0929 | 304 Lockwood St, Providence | theavenueconcept. com | Through Oct 19: “Third Eye
Aquatic,” new works by Andrew Jacob 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 Oct 2: “Little Woven Pictures,” by Karen GIlbert | Oct 3-Nov 6: “Ice Abstractions,” photographs by Aaron Usher — 1 Turks Head Pl, Providence | Mon-Wed 8:30 am-3 pm; ThursFri 8:30 am-5 pm | Through Oct 2: paintings by Buck Hastings | Oct 3-Nov 6: “Little Woven Pictures,” by Karen Gilbert — 1140 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown | Mon-Thurs 9 am-5 pm; Fri 9 am7 pm; Sat 9 am-1 pm | Through Oct 2: paintings by Buck Hastings | Oct 3-Jan 1: prints by Jessica Nalbandian
BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |
600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm |
Through Oct 2: “Annual Faculty Art Exhibition” BILL KRUL GALLERY | 401.782.1715 | 142 Boon St, Narragansett | billkrul gallery.com | Through Sept 30: “Land, Sea, and Macro Scapes,” photographs by Steve Nadler, Mike Egan, and Randy Anway | Oct 1-31: “Paintings by the Circle of Six,” featuring works by Portia Thompson, Tom Martino, Kate Marion, John Laliberty, Peggy Henderson, and Connie Alexander CADE TOMPKINS PROJECTS | 401.751.4888 | 198 Hope St, Providence | cadetompkins.com | Sat 10 am-6 pm + by appointment | Through Oct 26: paintings by Donnamaria Bruton CHABOT FINE ART GALLERY | 401.432.7783 | 379 Atwells Ave, Providence | chabotgallery.com | Wed + Thurs 12-6 pm; Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through Oct 19: “A Visual Narrative,” paintings by Lee Chabot CHARLESTOWN GALLERY | 401.364.0120 | 5000 South County Tr, Charlestown | charlestowngalleryri.com | Thurs-Sun 10 am-5:30 pm | Through Nov 30: “Fall Group Exhibition.” with 100 paintings by 25 artists
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 9: “Monster Flowers,” large-scale oil paintings by Leslie Bostrom COASTAL LIVING GALLERY | | 83 Brown St, Wickford | coastalliving gallery.com | Through Septy 30: “Florals,” paintings by Janet Alling | Oct 1-Nov 1: ceramic sculptures by Tiffany Adams and landscape paintings by Susan Strauss CRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St, Providence | craftlandshop.com | Mon-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through Oct 19: “Locally Sourced,” an exhibit presented by Yellow Peril Gallery featuring “artists living in Rhode Island who intimately connect with their surroundings [by] using materials that are native to the Ocean State,” with works by Johnny Adimando, Brooke Goldstein, Flynn Grinnan, Emma Hogarth, Jon Laustsen, Philippe Lejeune, Lisa Maloney, Mara Metcalf, Maria Napolitano, Babs Owen, Masha Ryskin, Mel St. Laurent, and Tom West DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 138 Bellevue Ave, Newport | deblois gallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Sept 29: “21st Century Expressionism,” featuring oils by Michael Carr, sculptures by Ed McAloon, and zen watercolors by Edward Williams
GALLERY 4 | 401.816.0999 | 3848 Main Rd, Tiverton | gallery4tiverton. com | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 11
am-5 pm | Through Oct 11: “Summer of ’13,” mixed media group exhibition GALLERY X | 508.992.2675 | 169 Wil-
liam St, New Bedford, MA | galleryx. org | Wed-Sun 11 am–3 pm; second
Thurs 5-9 pm | Through Oct 13: “Utopia/Dystopia,” an exhibition of visual art and writing GALLERY Z | 401.454.8844 | 259 Atwells Ave, Providence | galleryzprov. com | Wed-Sat 12-8 pm + by appointment | Through Oct 12: “Two Painters and an Assemblage Artist,” works by Bob Dilworth, Ian Mohon, and Julian Penrose
GELMAN STUDENT EXHIBITION GALLERY | 401.709.8660 | 20 North
Main St, Providence | risd.edu/About/ Galleries_Exhibitions/Gelman | Tues-
Sun 10 am-5 pm | Through Oct 27: “Complexity” GRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | facebook.com/grinprovidence | Through Oct 11: “Prolegomenon,” an exhibition of sculpture and an installation by Steven Pestana HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through Oct 5: “Haiku,” an exhibit of quilts by Jeanette Jacobs
IMAGO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imagofoundation4art.org
| Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through Oct 12: works by Rose Esson-Dawson and Ryan Collins JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestown artcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Oct 11: “100 Women Over 50,” with portraits and abstract work by Julie Shelton Smith KRAUSE GALLERY | 401.831.7350 x 174 | In the Jenks Center at Moses
Brown School, 250 Lloyd Ave, Providence | mosesbrown.org | Mon-Fri
8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through Sept 27: “Land/scape: Three Views,” works by Karen Rand Anderson, James Mullen, and Karen Klinedinst | Oct 1-11: “If Walls Could Talk: Photographs From the Rhode Island Training School” MAD DOG GALLERY | 401.722.7800 | 65 Blackstone Ave, Pawtucket | maddogartiststudios.com | Mon-Wed + Fri-Sat 12-4 pm; Thurs 12-8:30 pm | Through Sept 27: “Members Exhibit”
PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE GALLERY | 175 Main St |
pawtucketartscollaborative.org | Thurs-Fri 3-7 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through Oct 30: “Open Juried Exhibition Annual”
PORTSMOUTH ARTS GUILD GALLERY | 401.293.5ART | 2679 East Main
Rd | portsmouth artsguild.org | FriSun 1-5 pm | Through Sept 29: “It’s Your Masterpiece,” a non-juried show featuring works that “reinterpret an iconic masterpiece of art in their own way — not simple copies” PROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providence artclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm; SatSun 2-4 pm | Through Sept 27: “Art League of Rhode Island : 2013 Annual Members’ Exhibition”
REILLY GALLERY AT PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | 401.865.2400 | 549 River
Ave, Providence | providence.edu/art/ reilly | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm | Through Dec 13: “Distorting (a messiah project 11-C),” works by R. Justin Stewart
RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876
| Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | riwsgallery.wix. com | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5
pm | Through Sept 26: paintings by Stephen Ellery Manning and Susan Manning O’Briant ROSSONI GALLERY | 401.453.6650 | 558 Mineral Spring Ave, Studio BF 112, Pawtucket | rossonigallerydotcom. wordpress.com | Mon-Fri 11 am-6 pm; Sat-Sun by appointment | Through Oct 20: “Sole Evolution,” paintings by Vincent Castaldi
SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY’S DORRANCE H. HAMILTON GALLERY | 401.341.2981 | Leroy and
Lawrence aves, Newport | salve.edu
| Tues + Thurs 11 am-6 pm; Wed + Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat + Sun 12-4 pm | Through Sept 29: “2013 BOSS Show: The Best of Salve Students”
SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown
Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Through Oct 19: “Members’ Invitational”
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND MAIN GALLERY | 401.874.5821 | 105
Upper College Rd, Kingston | MonSat 12-4 pm | Oct 3-31: a marine and coastal art exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Visual Arts Sea Grant program URI PROVIDENCE CAMPUS | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Oct 1-31: “David T.Howard: Gilding the Shoestrings II: A Sabbatical Costume Exhibit” | Oct 1-31: “Keeping the Peace: One Person At a Time,” with works by Sister Corita Kent, Christian Corbat, Dido [Rev. Bill Comeau], Saberah Malik, Cynthia Packard, Monique Rolle-Johnson, Anthony Tomaselli, Deanna Camputaro and Central Falls high school students, the Peace Flag Project, and the Mathewson Street Church Peace Crane Project VAN VESSEM GALLERY | 401.835.6639 | 63 Muse Way, Tiverton | sandywoodsfarm.org/vanvessem gallery.html | Through Oct 19: “Powerlines,” works by Mark Cutler, Anna Shapiro, David Allyn, and Ben Leadbetter
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 Oct 6: “Juried Artist Members” 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 | Through Sept 26: “Thomas Sgouros: Drawn To Paint” YELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Providence | yellowperilgallery.com | WedFri 3-8 pm; other days by appointment | Through Oct 13: “#BED,” small scale mixed media sculptures and sitespecific interactive installations by Leah Poller
MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF WORK AND CULTURE | 401.769.9675 | 42 South Main St, Woonsocket | rihs.org | Tues-Fri 9:30
am-4 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Through Nov 9: an exhibit celebrating the 85th anniversary of the Italian Workingmen’s Club
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 Dec 31: “The American Muse,” an homage to women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with works by Charles Dana Gibson, Harrison Fisher, Philip Boileau, MacClelland Barclay, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, Henry Hutt, Walter Granville Smith, Paul Stahr, and Albert Beck Wenzell 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 + military with ID; free under 6 | Through Dec 29: “19 On Paper,” works by Rhode Island artist members, including painters, collage artists, printmakers, photographers, bookmakers, and sculptors | Through Jan 12: “A Shoe Affair,” paintings by Carol Miller 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 3: “Locally Made,” the Museum’s first large survey of work from the greater Providence region in more than 20 years | Through Dec 31: “Made For Eternity,” an exhibit of ancient art | Through Jan 5: “Historias: Latin American Works on Paper” | Ongoing: “Subject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century” + Ancient and Medieval Galleries + Impressionist Galleries + Pendleton House + “A Grand Gallery: European Paintings from the
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THEATER BROWN UNIVERSITY THEATRE |
401.863.2838 | brown.edu/go/tickets | Leeds Theatre, 77 Waterman St, Providence | Through Oct 6: Water By
the Spoonful, by Quiara Alegría Hudes | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 2 pm | $15, $12 seniors, $7 students EPIC THEATRE GROUP | 401.490.9475 | artists-exchange.org |
At the Artists’ Exchange, 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston | Through Sept 28:
A Behanding in Spokane, by Martin McDonagh | Fri-Sat 8 pm | $15, $12 students GAMM THEATRE | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre.org | 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | Through Oct 5: A Number and Far Away, two one-act plays by Caryl Churchill | This week: Sept 26 + Oct 1 + 2 7 pm + Sept 27 + 28 8 pm + Sept 29 2 + 7 pm | $48 + $38 GRANITE THEATRE | 401.596.2341 | granitetheatre.com | 1 Granite St, Westerly | Through Sept 29: The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 2 pm | $20, $17 seniors, $12 under 13 MIXED MAGIC THEATRE | 401.305.7333 | mmtri.com | At Hope
thecoffeeexchange.com wickenden street est. 1984
Artiste Village, 999 Main Street, Pawtucket | Through Oct 13: Jesus
Hopped the ‘A’ Train, by Stephen Adly Guirgis | Fri-Sun 7:30 pm | $25
NEWPORT PLAYHOUSE & CABARET RESTAURANT | 401.848.PLAY |
newportplayhouse.com | 102-104 Connell Hwy | Through Sept 29:
The Love List, by Norm Foster | Oct 3-Nov 17: A Perfect Wedding, by Robin Hawdon | $49.95 dinner + theater + cabaret, $34.95 theater + cabaret | Fri-Sun,doors 6 pm, buffet 6:15 pm, show 8 pm | Matinees Wed + Thurs + Sun [and selected Tues + Sat], doors 11 am, buffet 11:30 am, show 1 pm
OCEAN STATE THEATRE COMPANY | 401.921.6800 | oceanstatetheatre. org | 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | Oct 2-27:
Les Misérables | This week: Oct 2 7:30 pm + Oct 3 2 + 7:30 pm | $39-$54 [previews Oct 2 + 3 $39]
PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | 401.421.ARTS | ppacri.org |
220 Weybosset St | Oct 1-6: Once | Oct 1 + 2 7 pm + Oct 3 + 4 7:30 pm + Oct 5 2 + 8 pm + Oct 6 1 + 6:30 pm | $43-$80 2ND STORY THEATRE | 401.247.4200 | 2ndstorytheatre.com | 28 Market St, Warren | Through Oct 13: Lobby Hero, by Kenneth Lonergan | Thurs-Sat 8 pm; Sun 3 pm | $25
STAGE DOOR THEATER COMPANY
| At the Immaculate Conception
Church Auditorium, 111 High St, Westerly | Through Sept 29: Discarded, by Eugene J. Celico | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm + Sun 2:30 pm | $14
TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY
| 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com | 201 Washington St, Providence | Through Oct 12: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati | This week: Sept 26 + 27 + Oct 1 + 3 7:30 pm + Sept 28 + 29 + Oct 2 2 + 7:30 pm | $28-$68 THE WILBURY GROUP | 401.400.7100 | thewilburygroup.org | 393 Broad St, Providence | Through Oct 5: Detroit, by Lisa D’Amour | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm | $20, $15 students + seniors
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Film AVON CINEMA
260 Thayer St, Providence | 401.421.3315
MUSEUM HOURS | Thurs: 2, 6:30 IN A WORLD . . . | Thurs: 4:20, 8:40 ENOUGH SAID | Starts Fri-Wed: 2, 4, 6:30, 8:30 | Thurs: 1:45, 3:45, 9:05
CABLE CAR CINEMA
204 South Main St, Providence | 401.272.3970
OCTOBER th
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8PM TICKETS $15 ADV | $18 DOOR
-andDR. MENACE’S FAMILY VARIETY HOUR OF ZOMBIES
october 6th - 27th 1PM | 3PM Tickets $10 adv | $14 door ARTISTS-EXCHANGE.ORG 401.490.9475
THEATRE 82 82 ROLFE SQ CRANSTON RI
www.narrowscenter.org Twenty minutes from Providence 16 Anawan St, Fall River MA (near Battleship Cove) (508) 324-1926 • Doors open @ 7pm, show starts 8pm unless otherwise noted.
Thurs. 9/26:
MOONAlIcE
“It’s 4:20 Somewhere” Fri. 9/27:
GRANDMOTHERS Of INVENTION “ONE SIzE fITS All TOuR” This show will feature Zappa alumni doing the entire “One Size fits All” album it its entirety plus another set of Zappa classics. Sat. 9/28:
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Sat. 10/5:
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10/8; Dave Mason, 10/10: Leo Moran & Anthony Thistlewaite (from The Sawdoctors), 10/14: UFO
BLUE JASMINE | Starts Fri: 7 | SatSun: 12, 6 | Mon: 6:30 | Tues-Wed: 5 | Thurs: 7 GOOD OL’ FREDA | Thurs: 5 | Fri: 5 | Sat-Sun: 2, 8 | Mon: 4:30 | Tues-Wed: 3 | Thurs: 5 THE SPECTACULAR NOW | Thurs: 9:30 | Fri: 9 | Sat-Sun: 4, 10 | Mon: 8:30 | Tues: 9:15 | Wed-Thurs: 9 THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN | Tues: 7 LETTERS TO JACKIE | Wed: 7
CINEMA WORLD
622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln | 401.333.8676
This listing is for Thurs Sept 26-Sun Sept 29. Call for updates or go to cinemaworldinline.com. BAGGAGE CLAIM | Starts Fri: 11:35, 1:45, 4:10, 7:40, 9:55 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D | Starts Fri: 5, 10 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 | Starts Fri: 11, 11:45, 12:30, 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 4, 5:30, 7, 7:45, 9:15 DON JON | Starts Fri: 11:15, 1:30, 4, 7:30, 9:45 RUSH | Starts Fri: 11:05, 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 10 BATTLE OF THE YEAR | Thurs: 7:45 | Fri-Sun: 11:25, 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 PRISONERS | 11:50, 1:20, 4:35, 7:50, 9:45* [*no show Sept 26] THE FAMILY | Thurs: 1, 2, 4:45, 6:15, 7:15 | Fri-Sun: 11:30, 2, 4:45, 7:45, 9:20 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 | Thurs: 11:30, 1:55, 5:05, 6:15, 7:30 | Fri-Sun: 11:40, 2:10, 5:05, 7:30, 9:50 INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED | Thurs: 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 | Fri-Sun: 11:20, 1:35, 4:25, 6:45, 9:40 RIDDICK | 1:50, 4:40, 7:35 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US EXTENDED FAN CUT | Thurs: 2:15, 7:25 | Fri-Sun: 4:50, 7:20 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER | 11:10, 1:10, 4:05, 7, 9* [*no show Sept 26] PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS | Thurs: 2:05, 4:35 | Fri-Sun: 1:30, 4:20 WE’RE THE MILLERS | 11:05, 1:25, 4:55, 7:20, 9:35* [*no show Sept 26] THE WOLVERINE | Thurs: 4:20, 7:50 | Fri-Sun: 11, 7:05
EAST PROVIDENCE 10 60 Newport Ave | 401.438.1100
THE HEAT | Starts Fri: 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 KICK-ASS 2 | Starts Fri: 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:50 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES | Starts Fri: 12:30, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 THE SMURFS 2 | Starts Fri: 1, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 2 GUNS | Starts Fri: 12:55, 3:10, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 THE CONJURING | 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 GROWN UPS 2 | Thurs: 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:35, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 12:45, 2:50, 5, 7:10, 9:15 NOW YOU SEE ME | Thurs: 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10 | Fri-Thurs:6:40, 9 TURBO | Thurs: 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:35 | Fri-Thurs:1:20, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY | Thurs: 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7, 9:10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10 WHITE HOUSE DOWN | Thurs: 1, 3:35, 6:30, 9:05 | Fri-Thurs: 12:35, 3:50
ENTERTAINMENT CINEMAS
30 Village Square Dr, South Kingstown | 401.792.8008
Unless otherwise noted, these listings are for Thurs Sept 26 through Thurs Oct 3. Times can and do change without notice, so please call the theater before heading out.
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D | Starts Fri: 4:50, 9 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 | Starts Fri: 12:40, 2:45, 6:55 DON JON | Starts Fri: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:35 RUSH | Starts Fri: 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 PRISONERS | Thurs: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 12:50, 4:15, 7:40 THE FAMILY | 1:20, 4, 7:10, 9:30 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 | Thurs: 7:20, 9:45 | Fri-Thurs: 1:50, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER | 1, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 WE’RE THE MILLERS | 1:45, 4:10, 7:05, 9:20
ISLAND CINEMAS 10 105 Chase Ln, Middletown | 401.847.3456
RIDDICK | Thurs: 1:10, 4, 7, 9:40 THIS IS THE END | Thurs: 1:40, 4:25, 7:30, 9:45 BAGGAGE CLAIM | Starts Fri: 1:10, 4, 7:20, 9:30 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D | Starts Fri: 4:40, 9 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:35, 6:50 DON JON | Starts Fri: 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 9:40 RUSH | Starts Fri: 12:45, 3:50, 7, 9:45 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D | 4, 9:45 BATTLE OF THE YEAR | 1:30, 7:25 PRISONERS | 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 THE FAMILY | 12:50, 3:30, 7, 9:20 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 | 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 9:40 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER | 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:25 PLANES | 1, 6:45 WE’RE THE MILLERS | 4:10, 9:35
JANE PICKENS THEATER 49 Touro St, Newport | 401.846.5252
IN A WORLD . . . | Thurs: 5:15, 7:30 ENOUGH SAID | Starts Fri: 4:45, 7, 9:15 | Sat: 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15 | Sun: 2:30, 4:45, 7 | Mon-Thurs: 4:45, 7 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE PRESENTS OTHELLO | Thurs [9.26]: 2
PROVIDENCE PLACE CINEMAS 16
Providence Place | 401.270.4646
BAGGAGE CLAIM | Starts Fri: 12:10, 12:40, 2:30, 3, 4:50, 5:20, 7:10, 7:40, 9:40, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12, 12:30 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D | Starts Fri: 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 DON JON | Starts Fri: 12:20, 12:50, 2:40, 3:10, 5, 5:30, 7:15, 7:50, 9:45, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05, 12:35 METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER: THE IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 10 | Fri-Thurs: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 RUSH | Starts Fri: 1:10, 1:40, 4:05, 4:35, 7:05, 7:45, 955, 10:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D | Thurs: 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 10 pm | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 BATTLE OF THE YEAR | 1:45, 4:45, 7:25 PRISONERS | 12:05, 12:35, 3:15, 3:45, 6:25, 6:55, 9:35, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:50 THE FAMILY | Thurs: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7:05, 7:35, 9:40, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 | 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 RIDDICK | 3:55, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:55 INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED | 12:15, 3:20, 6:20, 9:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45 ELYSIUM | Thurs: 12:45, 3:25, 6:25, 9:15 | Fri-Thurs:1:20, 6:45 WE’RE THE MILLERS | 1:25, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25
RUSTIC TRI VUE DRIVE-IN
Rt 146, North Smithfield | 401.769.7601
This is the last weekend of the season. INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 + THE CONJURING | Fri-Sat: Dusk SHAUN OF THE DEAD + THE WORLD’S END| Fri-Sat: Dusk PLANES + MONSTERS UNIVERSITY | Fri-Sat: Dusk
SHOWCASE CINEMAS SEEKONK ROUTE 6 Seekonk Square, Seekonk, MA | 508.336.6789
LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER | Thurs: 12:40, 3:40, 6:50 PLANES | Thurs: 12:25, 2:40, 4:55 RIDDICK | Thurs: 1, 4, 6:55 THE WORLD’S END | Thurs: 7:05 BAGGAGE CLAIM | Starts Fri: 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:05 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D | Starts Fri: 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:20 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:50 DON JON | Starts Fri: 12:20, 2:45, 5, 7:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:35 RUSH | Starts Fri: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 | FriSat late show: 9:55 BATTLE OF THE YEAR | 1, 4, 7:25 | FriSat late show: 10 PRISONERS | 12:25, 3:40, 6:55 | FriSat late show: 10:10 THE FAMILY | 12:55, 3:50, 7:105 | FriSat late show: 9:40 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 | Thurs: 1:10, 4:10, 7:15 | Fri-Thurs: 12:45, 3:45, 6:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:45 BLUE JASMINE | Thurs: 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35 | Fri-Thurs: 3:10, 5:25, 7:40 WE’RE THE MILLERS | Thurs: 1:05, 4:15, 7:25 | Fri-Thurs: 12:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:15
SHOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK 1200 Quaker Ln | 401.885.1621
BAGGAGE CLAIM | Starts Fri: 12:35,2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D | Starts Fri: 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 DON JON | Starts Fri: 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 RUSH | Starts Fri: 1, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D | Thurs: 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 10:20 pm BATTLE OF THE YEAR | 1:30, 4:25, 7:15 PRISONERS | 12:05, 3:30, 6:55, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:55 THANKS FOR SHARING | Thurs: 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05 THE FAMILY | Thurs: 1:20, 1:50, 4:20, 4:50, 7:10, 7:40, 9:40, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 4, 6:45, 9:55 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 | 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED | 1:05, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 BLUE JASMINE | 12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER | 12:45, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 WE’RE THE MILLERS | 1:10, 4:05, 6:35, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15
SHOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK MALL 400 Bald Hill Rd | 401.736.5454
2 GUNS | Thurs: 7:35, 10:05 BAGGAGE CLAIM | Starts Fri: 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:35, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D | Starts Fri: 11:10, 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:15 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEAT-
BALLS 2 | Starts Fri: 11:40, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45 DON JON | Starts Fri: 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:35 RUSH | Starts Fri: 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D | 9:40 | FriSat late show: 12:20 BATTLE OF THE YEAR | 1:15, 4:15, 7:05 PRISONERS | 12:20, 3:35, 6:50, 10 THE FAMILY | 1:05, 4:20, 7:20, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 | 12:45, 3:30, 7:20, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 RIDDICK | Thurs: 12:55, 4, 7:10, 9:50 | Fri-Thurs: 7:30, 10:20 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER | 12:10, 3:15, 6:40, 9:35 WE’RE THE MILLERS | Thurs: 1:30, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 DESPICABLE ME 2 | 12:15, 2:40, 5
SHOWCASE CINEMAS NORTH ATTLEBORO
640 South Washington St, North Attleboro, MA | 508.643.3900
BAGGAGE CLAIM | Starts Fri: 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:05 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D | Fri-Sat late show: 9:50 DON JON | Starts Fri: 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:20 RUSH | Starts Fri: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 | FriSat late show: 9:55 BATTLE OF THE YEAR | 1:25, 4:35, 7:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:45 PRISONERS | 12:20, 3:35, 6:50 | FriSat late show: 10 THE FAMILY | 1:50, 4:50, 7:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:10 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 | 1:40, 4:15, 7 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:30 RIDDICK | 6:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:40 BLUE JASMINE | Thurs: 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4, 7 | FriSat late show: 9:20 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER | 12:45, 3:45, 6:4 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:35 PLANES | Thurs: 1:40, 4:15, 6:40 | FriThurs: 1:55, 4:40 WE’RE THE MILLERS | Thurs: 1:30, 4:55, 7:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:25
SWANSEA STADIUM 12
207 Swansea Mall Dr, Swansea, MA | 508.674.6700
BAGGAGE CLAIM | Starts Fri: 2:10, 5, 7:55, 10:25 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D | Starts Fri: 2 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 | Starts Fri-Sun: 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 9:50 | Mon-Thurs: 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 DON JON | Starts Fri: 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 RUSH | Thurs: 8, 10:45 | Fri-Sun: 1:35, 2:05, 4:55, 7:10, 7:45, 10:35 | MonThurs: 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D | Thurs: 1:45, 4:25, 7:30, 10:15 | Fri-Sun: 1:45, 4:50, 7:25, 10:10 PRISONERS | 1:55, 5:20, 8:40 THE FAMILY | Thurs: 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 | 2:15, 5:05, 7:40, 10:40 RIDDICK | Thurs: 1:35, 4:20, 7:50, 10:35 | Fri-Sun: 4:25, 10:05 | MonThurs: 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 10:05* [*no show Oct 3] ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D: NEW EXTENDED FAN CUT | Thurs: 1:55, 7:15, 10:05 | Fri-Sun: 9:20 | Mon-Thurs: 1:30, 4, 7*, 9:30* [*no shows Oct 3] LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER | 1:25, 4:20, 7:15*, 10:20* [*no shows Oct 3] WE’RE THE MILLERS | 1:50, 4:45, 7:45*, 10:30* [*no shows Oct 3] GRAVITY 3D | Thurs [Oct 3]: 10 GRAVITY | Thurs [Oct 3]: 10 RUNNER RUNNER | Thurs [Oct 3]: 10
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as the hero’s sadder but wiser bohemian foil. _Andrea Gronvall
DON JON 90 minUteS | r | cinema world + entertainment + iSland + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12 Versatile actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt turns to writing and directing with this smart, sexy, sweet, and hilarious comedy about the difficulties of forging and sustaining relationships. He stars as a Jersey boy anchored by workouts, churchgoing, carousing with buddies, and family dinners with his sister (Brie Larson) and parents (Tony Danza and Glenne Headly). But his pornography obsession is spiraling out of control, and his flesh-and-blood conquests can’t compete with the graphic images he obsessively consumes — until he locks eyes and lips with a gum-chewing hottie (Scarlett Johansson). Underlying the laughs are serious messages about addiction, pain, isolation, and the reasons some choose reality over fantasy. Julianne Moore shines
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RUSH 123 minUteS | r | cinema world + entertainment + iSland + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12 Ron Howard’s penchant for the formulaic and sentimental is on full display in this action drama about James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl), rival Formula 1 racers who went toe-to-toe during the 1976 Grand Prix. Bathed in warm cinematography — almost identical to that used in Howard’s underrated genre bender The Dilemma (2011) — and making unexpected use of avant-garde framing techniques, it’s easily his most visually ambitious work to date, though the computer-generated race scenes pale in comparison to Justin Lin’s pulsating Fast & Furious films. This is entertaining enough, but ultimately it’s spuriously triumphant Oscar-baiting fluff. —Drew Hunt
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capsule reviews XXW THE FAMILY | 2013 | Looking
and acting like he just rolled out of bed, Robert De Niro plays a former New York mafioso who under the witness protection program gets relocated to Normandy, France, along with his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) and teenage kids. The setup of Luc Besson’s comedy suggests a predictable fish-out-of-water sitcom, though it’s somewhat better than that. Much of the humor revolves around popular French perceptions of American culture, with De Niro, Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones agreeably spoofing their screen personas and American stereotypes in general. Besson, who’s made a fortune writing and producing such Hollywood-style thrillers as Taken and the Transporter series, clearly loves these types for their earthiness and determination, even when he’s mocking them for being pushy, violent, and narrowminded. The movie gets a surprising level of mileage from this core ambivalence, and the visual humor can be inventive and lively. | 110m | XXX GOOD OL’ FREDA | 2013 | Though this music documentary has some historic value, it aims to
entertain — and succeeds, largely because its subject is a natural on camera. Freda Kelly was a workingclass Liverpool teenager in 1961 when she first heard a band with a growing local following. She soon became the Beatles’ most ardent fan, working for them 24/7, by day as secretary to manager Brian Epstein, and by night as head of their fan club, answering massive piles of correspondence and churning out newsletters from her home. She remained a constant throughout their turbulent career. Director Ryan White combines great music and rarely seen archival material, designing the film like a fan’s scrapbook, with modest, bubbly,
steadfast Freda as the glue. | 86m | XXX PRISONERS | 2013 | Denis
Villeneuve returns to the themes of religion and torture he explored in his 2010 drama Incendies, but with this exquisitely calibrated thriller enters the Hollywood mainstream. Hugh Jackman and Maria Bello play Christian survivalists whose young daughter is abducted along with her friend, the child of a neighbor couple played by Terrence Howard and Viola Davis. Soon Jackman, impa-
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tient with the lack of progress in the investigation headed by a hotshot local detective (Jake Gyllenhaal), kidnaps the prime suspect, a damaged soul played by Paul Dano, and tries to break him to learn the girls’ whereabouts. Clues abound in Aaron Guzikowski’s superlative screenplay — but not loose ends. | 153m |
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| 2013 | Tim Tharp’s lauded youngadult novel forms the basis for this nuanced and unsentimental coming-of-age film directed by James Ponsoldt (Smashed), from a screenplay by partners Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (500 Days of Summer). Miles Teller stands out as a charming high school senior with little ambition but a large capacity for alcohol; he bobs along like driftwood on a whiskey sea until he befriends the class wallflower, who helps him with math. In return he tutors her in distilled spirits, and a romance gradually develops. Shailene Woodley is heartbreaking as the naive new girlfriend, and Kyle Chandler is indelible as the boy’s long-lost, wasted dad, the proverbial tree from which the apple falls. | 95m |
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This is an excellent week to see how the phases of the moon transition. Thursday is the last quarter, so you will see the shadow of the earth increase in size, starting from the right side of the moon. It’s still warm enough to stargaze out-of-doors. The useful part of this week’s lunar phase is that the waning moon takes the pressure off. However, emotional scenes and meltdowns are indicated during this phase. It’s an “everything hangs out” kind of interlude. Useful for those in the fields of X-rays, therapy, and interrogation. The rest of us may want to keep a weather eye out for those who need to “unpack” their current miserable experience.
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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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