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RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Siena Cucina Enoteca:
Small plates, Italian style
How does a restaurant re-invent its image while spinning off a sister venture?
By:
JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ
LIFESTYLE FEATURES
Steam dream:
Steampunk bursts through its subculture roots to challenge our musical, fashion, design, and even political sensibilities
The All-in-One Victorian PC is the perfect little black dress of computer modifications.
By:
SHARON STEEL
THIS JUST IN
Should 'Plantations' be removed from the state name?:
Race
Eight years after an effort began to remove the word “plantations” from Rhode Island’s official state name, a related bill has not made it out of committee.
By:
MATT JERZYK
PHILLIPE AND JORGE
The devil and Mr. Young:
Multi-office seeker drops the knowledge on House Judiciary
Holy water, Batman!
By:
PHILLIPE + JORGE
THIS JUST IN
New push: add at-large seats to Providence City Council:
Talking Politics
In the ward-based politics of the Providence City Council, it’s the rare councilor who publicly criticizes anything beyond the confines of his or her own turf.
By:
IAN DONNIS
NEW ENGLAND MUSIC NEWS
Pop-powered:
Neo Nouveau’s crafty Courtyard
Big chord changes and bigger melodies mark Neo Nouveau’s second stellar album, Courtyard, released a few weeks back.
By:
BOB GULLA
MUSEUM AND GALLERY
Town and country:
Looking at birds and buildings
In “Construction Details” at AS220’s Project Space, artists Stephen Brownell and Jean Cozzens meditate on a subject that has haunted Providence over the past decade.
By:
GREG COOK
THIS JUST IN
Activist leads criminal-justice reform festival:
Justice or just us?
When Bruce Reilly was released from the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) in 2005 he had serious plans for how he intended to make up for lost time.
By:
ARIEL WERNER
THIS JUST IN
Progressive union coalition gathers in Providence:
Annals of labor
If there was an “intelligent designer” who could design a coalition to unify the disparate, passionate elements of the American left, the result would resemble Jobs with Justice (JwJ).
By:
MATT JERZYK
THIS JUST IN
Why care for me, but not poor RI kids?:
Priorities
On weekdays this spring, I’ve been driving from my home in Newport to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, where I lie under a fabulous machine that’s saving my life.
By:
BRIAN C. JONES
NEWS FEATURES
The failure of ‘tough-on-crime’ tactics:
Left untreated, drug addicts pose greater costs for everyone else
It was after midnight, and Dawn Jacques lay sleepless in her cell at the Adult Correctional Institutions, shuddering. Bathed in sweat, she stared at the ceiling for hours until it blurred.
By:
TE-PING CHEN
RESTAURANT REVIEWS
3 Steeple Street:
More than a gravitational attraction
Given its location, 3 Steeple Street has an edge in being successful.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
PHILLIPE AND JORGE
Twenty years pass, RI stays the same:
Acclaim for dubious deeds is an Ocean State mainstay
Phillipe + Jorge were graciously asked to recall Rhode Island’s Monthly’s first dubious achievement-style Rhode Island Red Awards, as chosen in 1988 by your superior correspondents, during the mag’s 20th anniversary gala last week.
By:
PHILLIPE AND JORGE
NEW ENGLAND MUSIC NEWS
Telling the Truth:
Prolyphic and Reanimator bring it
Providence hip-hop ain’t what you think it is.
By:
BOB GULLA
MUSEUM AND GALLERY
Flashback:
The high voltage work of Corita Kent
Sister Corita Kent was something of a celebrity.
By:
GREG COOK
THEATER
Make believe:
The songs are the draw in Drowsy Chaperone
Of the five Tony Awards that The Drowsy Chaperone swept up in 2006, Lisa Lambert’s co-win with Greg Morrison for Best Original Score was the real prize.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
Courting disaster:
Why McCain’s right-wing judicial pledge would further compromise America’s future
With the price of food and gasoline running at punishing levels, it is no surprise that the economy has replaced the disastrous war in Iraq as the issue with which voters are most concerned.
MUSIC FEATURES
Best Music Poll 2008:
Local and national winners from our annual readers' poll
By:
PHOENIX STAFF
DANCE
Big pond, little pond:
Swan Lake in Boston and Providence
The Nutcracker may be the one that rakes in the money, but it’s Swan Lake that says “ballet” worldwide.
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
THIS JUST IN
Avedisian, Trillo challenge Manning for GOP post:
Talking politics
Since the RNC is “basically a seniority-based organization,” he says, a change in the post would mean “we’re going to [have to] start all over again.”
By:
IAN DONNIS
THIS JUST IN
How private are your medical records?:
Technology watch
Let’s face it: the worldwide Web is making privacy obsolete.
By:
MARY ANN SORRENTINO
THIS JUST IN
Pie-tossers renew free speech debate at Brown:
Uncivil liberties
“A lot of people are talking about whether this was outrageous, or justified, or laudable, or totalitarian.”
By:
ARIEL WERNER
RESTAURANT REVIEWS
El Chapincito:
Hospitality from south of the border
A recent experience at one of the city’s Latin-American restaurants left me with the distinct impression that if I don’t hurry up and learn Spanish, I’m going to be out of the loop.
By:
JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ
PHILLIPE AND JORGE
I didn’t give at the office:
Halitosis Hall gets an ‘F’ for long-range thinking
Hats off to the brave lawmakers at Halitosis Hall!
By:
PHILLIPE AND JORGE
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BLOGS
NOT FOR NOTHING
Airport director to share economic vision
posted at 8:57 AM / 5.18.2008
N4N talks and the ProJo listens?
posted at 8:57 AM / 5.18.2008
Schick candidate said to win Guild election
posted at 8:57 AM / 5.18.2008
The fundamentals of Obama and Clinton
posted at 8:57 AM / 5.18.2008
Tonight: The War Room at Local 121
posted at 8:57 AM / 5.18.2008
Lifestyle mag touches a nerve in Barrington
posted at 8:57 AM / 5.18.2008
LRI offers women's leadership series
posted at 8:57 AM / 5.18.2008
Reed still neutral in the presidential race
posted at 8:57 AM / 5.18.2008
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