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This Brown University event sounds like a winner: As part of the opening celebrations for the student-curated exhibition Jews and American Comics: The New Generations, famed comic artist and director of the Center for Cartoon Studies, James Sturm, will...
The Providence Phoenix, born as the NewPaper, has been on the Rhode Island scene for 30 years, and we celebrate the anniversary this week. The highlight in this week's Phoenix is a series of Q+As -- kind of like Vanity Fair's famous Proust questionnaire...
In this week's Phoenix, Mike Miliard ponders the first post- Hunter S. Thompson presidential election: In Gonzo , Thompson’s first wife, Sandy, rues his suicide. It was not a “courageous act,” as some called it, she says. It was cowardly. And it robbed...
Kudos and congrats to former ProJo scribe Ged Carbone , whose new book will be feted with a publication party next Tuesday, June 24, at tazza in downtown Providence. A critically-acclaimed book about Rhode Island’s Revolutionary War hero, Nathanael Greene...
Matt has the details: Attention political junkies! There will be a screening of THE WAR ROOM , the 1992 Clinton campaign documentary on Wednesday, May 7th at 700pm at Local 121's speakeasy (downstairs). Marti Rosenberg Yours truly will be moderating the...
-- to Brown grad and former Prov Phoenix intern Jessica Grose , now with Gawker's Jezebel , who got some section-front love in the NYT Styles section yesterday. -- to my Newsmakers colleague, Arlene Violet, whose forthcoming musical was channeled yesterday...
The movie: Forgetting Sarah Marshall . First up: Michael Janusonis in the ProJo: Billed as “the world’s first romantic disaster comedy,” Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortably icky movie about a schlub who thinks his life...
I'm more partial to his son, Christopher , but it's hard to deny Buckley's influence. From the NYT : William Buckley, with his winningly capricious personality, his use of ten-dollar words and a darting tongue writers loved to compare to an anteater’s...
Novelist and West Warwick native Ann Hood , who made a splash with her recent New York Times' essay , about being married to a Republican, made an appearance yesterday morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough . There was much good-natured amusement...
Writing in the Phoenix, Sharon Steel describes how, in a time of global upheaval, many Americans are turning to Hello Kitty, Lolcats , and Juno, among other elements of what she dubs the cuteness surge . “We’ve had manifestations of this cute business...
Like David Carr , I'm among those who find the most egregious newsroom characters in the current season of The Wire thinly drawn . Yes, I still love the show. Yet it's more than sad when the Los Angeles Times, once a beacon of a great newspaper empire...
The Wire's ongoing focus this season on the media remains a hot topic in, er, media circles. Columbia Journalism Review devotes a story to the topic in its current issue, and John McQuaid , writing for the Huffington Post today has the latest in a series...
From Merriam-Webster : crustiness One entry found. .... 1 : having or being a crust 2 : giving an effect of surly incivility in address or disposition synonyms see bluff — crust·i·ly \-t?-le\ adverb — crust·i·ness \-te-n?s\ noun Douglas S. Crocket was...
Among his other accomplishments, the writer helped to co-found the Village Voice , and he made a big contribution to narrative journalism with The Executioner's Song .
Yesterday's ProJo story about an artist who, with his friends, created a secret apartment in the Providence Place Mall was one of the best flat-out fascinating human-interest pieces that we've seen in Rhode Island in a long time. Further kudos to the...
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