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Speaking of the public appetite for torture , Philip Gourevitch, the author (with Errol Morris) of Standard Operating Procedure , will be at Brown's Watson Institute at 4 on Thursday . Here's a bit about the book. “Standard Operating Procedure...
Here in Rhode Island, we ink-stained wretches like to refer to the state and its picaresque characters as the gifts that keep on giving. Clearly, though, the national stage also has much to offer for future generations. Take a look at these details from...
Ted Widmer , director of the John Carter Brown Library and a member in good standing of the Phoenix' friends and family program, is a polymath and one of the great Rhode Islanders. Who else could offer such superlative quote in discussing the cultural...
Early on during the war in Iraq, there was talk of how Americans officers were checking out The Battle of Algiers , a movie about the Algerian insurgency against the French in the 1950s, for clues about the politics of insurgency and counter-insurgency...
Tonight, at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, there's an opening for an art show related to the Iraq war. Here's Jim Macnie's writeup from this week's Phoenix: WALLS OF PROTEST The fugazi that is the war in Iraq shows no sign of ending, even though...
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...
As coincidence had it, I stumbled upon the HBO-produced documentary White Light, Black Rain: the Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki yesterday afternoon. Since it was Victory Day, the 62th anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II, the timing...
Writing in this week's Phoenix, James Parker offers a lively piece on how limericks and surrealism offer considerable insight into the torture policies backed by the Bush administration: History will have trouble digesting the irony of it — that George...
Although not everyone agrees, N4N finds Comedy Central's Lil' Bush , a send-up of our president, rather hilarious. And there are times when it's better to laugh than to cry. Here's a sample: Reporter: What do you think the founding fathers would say if...
Three years ago, the Phoenix's Steve Stycos reported on how police tactics threatened to put free speech and assembly rights on the line during the Democratic and Republican national conventions in Boston and New York. (Anyone who made it to Boston had...
