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PHILIP EIL
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The not-so-liberal case for guns
At the Range
"I'm an absolutist," Robert Farago says. "I believe that American citizens should be able to walk into a gun store, show their driving license, purchase a firearm — no background check — purchase some bullets, put the bullets into the firearm, and walk out of the store."
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PHILIP EIL
| April 01, 2013
Vaseline and blood: the writings and writhings of Eli V. Manuscript
Letters
Eli V. Manuscript says he kept his performance tame at the debut of his "The Empty Room" reading series earlier this month in Providence.
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PHILIP EIL
| March 21, 2013
H.P. Lovecraft gets his due
Letters
"I'm generally up to my armpits in the creepiest, slimiest, nastiest kind of critters that the ocean produces," Niels Hobbs says.
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PHILIP EIL
| March 13, 2013
David Shields on How Literature Saved My Life
Q&A
In the fourth chapter of his new book How Literature Saved My Life , Brown alumnus David Shields contemplates nothing less than the meaning of life: "Isn't everyone's project, on some level, to offer tentative theses regarding what — if anything — we're doing here?"
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PHILIP EIL
| March 06, 2013
On the Providence River: oysters, slaves, and the ‘Moses Plan’
The Waterfront
Robert Geake remembers the smell.
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PHILIP EIL
| February 27, 2013
In the woods with the Rhode Island Men’s Gathering
Beat the Drum
In the 1950s, President Dwight Eisenhower occasionally traveled to the backwoods of Rhode Island to hunt and fish on the sprawling property of oil tycoon W. Alton Jones.
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PHILIP EIL
| February 20, 2013
At Rhode Island College: ‘Bee School’
Buzz
Honeybees have sex in mid-air, Betty Mencucci tells her audience in a Rhode Island College lecture hall.
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PHILIP EIL
| February 06, 2013
Gordon Fox’s Motown moment
Music Dept.
If there are partisan grumblings at the Rhode Island School of Designs's Fleet Library amid Speaker of the House Gordon Fox's "History of Motown" lecture, they're drowned out by the music.
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PHILIP EIL
| February 06, 2013
Smokestacks and stereopticons: 19th-century Providence in 3D
History Dept.
Forty strangers walk into a bar, turn off the lights, and put on 3D glasses. It's not the build-up to a bawdy punch line; it's the Tuesday evening scene inside the Roots Cultural Center on Westminster Street.
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PHILIP EIL
| January 30, 2013
Paul Geremia joins the Rhode island Music Hall of Fame
Blue Notes
"I've played in almost every state in this country," says Paul Geremia.
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PHILIP EIL
| January 23, 2013
Digital Rhode Island: Vital links and apps for your tablet and phone
Vital links and apps for your tablet and phone
The streets overflow with slush. The sun goes down shortly after lunch.
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PHILIP EIL
| January 23, 2013
Rhode Island's poet laureate on the work verse can do
Q&A
When Governor Lincoln Chafee appointed Rick Benjamin to a five-year term as Rhode Island State Poet last week, he said Benjamin was already an "unofficial" state poet. He had a point.
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PHILIP EIL
| January 16, 2013
A Providence designer steps onto the Runway
Fashionisto
"I worked as a sugar cookie decorator," Joseph Aaron Segal says.
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PHILIP EIL
| January 16, 2013
Last tango in Pawtucket
Dance Dept.
"This is an end of an era for Providence Tango," Robin Pfahning says.
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PHILIP EIL
| January 07, 2013
At the Arcade, micro-living
Real Estate
Once upon a time, Providence's Westminster Arcade represented a novel idea: an indoor shopping mall where customers could find a variety of merchants under one roof.
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PHILIP EIL
| December 26, 2012
Donuts from the sky
Baked Goods
Just after 6:30 on Tuesday evening, a metal bucket tied to a white rope descends from a third floor window at AS220's 115 Empire Street artist residences.
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PHILIP EIL
| December 19, 2012
This winter, discover sex and revolution at Rhode Island's libraries
Hit the stacks
There is plenty to do outdoors during a New England winter: skiing, skating, snowboarding, ice-yachting. I just don't do any of it.
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PHILIP EIL
| December 05, 2012
Everything you need is on Westminster Street
Heart of the city
I guarantee you nothing in here is in the mall," Amy Vitale says.
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PHILIP EIL
| December 05, 2012
GZA explores the universe
Sounds of Science
In the mid-1970s, Gary Grice and his cousin Robert — ages 11 and 8, respectively — traveled for hours by ferry, train, and bus from Staten Island to the Bronx.
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PHILIP EIL
| December 05, 2012
Sketching anarchy
Graphic Design
"THEY SURVEIL. WE HACK." "THEY BOMB. WE FEED." "THEY EVICT. WE SHELTER." "THEY FUCK SHIT UP. WE FIX SHIT UP."
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PHILIP EIL
| November 14, 2012
Providence becomes a new crossroads for the thriller
Thrilltown
There is a scene in Jon Land's forthcoming thriller novel Strong Rain Falling — set for release next summer — where Caitlin Strong finally arrives in her author's hometown: Providence, Rhode Island.
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PHILIP EIL
| November 07, 2012
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