Nick Cave | October 10 | RISD Auditorium, Canal Way, North Main and College streets, Providence | 6:15 p.m | Free | 401.454.6500
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- Flashbacks: February 17, 2006
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Jessica McConnell.
- Getting to ‘no’
Nick Cave wrote the script for The Proposition in three weeks.
- A living history
Since Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is set in a specific place and time, some theatergoers will want to relegate its incidents and attitudes — which surround the Rodney King riots — to history.
- Carnal knowledge
When I interviewed Nick Cave for the Phoenix three years ago and he told me — drolly, languidly, literarily — that his next writing project was about “a sexually incontinent hand-cream salesman” on the south coast of England, I assumed he was taking the piss.
- Dancing queen
Every recording Kylie Minogue has made since her fabulous 2000 album Light Years has made me wonder why anybody still pays attention to Madonna.
- Outdoor living
The Outback might be rough and wild, but it’s the architecture that takes a real beating in The Proposition .
- Ladyhawke | Ladyhawke
Multi-instrumentalist Ladyhawke presents us with a treasure trove of found blips, as if the 1980s had been nothing but a mirror ball to smash and paste back together
- Interview: Amanda Palmer
So it’s the eve of the release of local sensation and Dresden Dolls vocalist/pianist Amanda Palmer’s solo debut album, and I’m sitting in her bric-a-brac-filled South End apartment drinking herbal tea.
- The National
The National’s new vessel turns out to be a pirate ship.
- Rowing across the River Styx
Explosions in the Sky write what they’ve referred to as “cathartic mini-symphonies,” epic, tribal, and enormous.
- Apocalypse now and then
With Snakes on a Plane and World Trade Center opening on the same day, this summer won’t be offering the usual escapist fare.
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