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RISD’s hockey team turns the dick joke into high art — OK, low art

Go Nads!
The third period has just begun and the Nads, the Rhode Island School of Design's club hockey team, is losing 2-0 to a squad from Emerson College.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | February 15, 2012

Andre returns to College Hill

Propaganda Dept.
If you found yourself on Benefit Street this past Monday, you could have been forgiven for wondering if Providence's own rascal king had made a stunning return to politics: there, behind the First Baptist Church, was a large "Re-Elect Cianci" billboard.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | February 15, 2012

Making the ‘Buffett Rule’ law

Tax Dept.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has received plenty of ink for his "Buffett Rule" legislation, named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | February 16, 2012

Interview: Alice Bag of Stay at Home Bomb

Once a punk rocker, always a punk rocker
Alice Bag (nee Armendariz), who shone bright in the Los Angeles punk scene of the late-1970s, will be in town Saturday to read from her book Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage and to play a few tunes at 7 pm at Rochambeau Library.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | February 10, 2012

What physics can teach us about Wall Street

Speakers
Lisa Randall is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | January 25, 2012

The battle over internet piracy

Rhode Island's congresional delegation splits over the issue burning up the netroots
The Internet is angry. Perhaps you've heard.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | January 18, 2012

Medical marijuana 2.0

In a tough political environment, the movement weighs a tricky reinvention
The medical marijuana movement has always had to be nimble.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | January 11, 2012

Local heroes at the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame

Honor Roll
Rick Bellaire, one of the chief organizers of the new Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame, had an early feel for the state's gifts to the national culture.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | January 11, 2012

Roger Williams gets his due

Founders
Roger Williams — the iconoclast who founded Rhode Island nearly 400 years ago with a radical call for religious tolerance — is held in high regard in these parts. But he is a little-known figure nationwide.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | January 04, 2012

What's next for Occupy Providence?

After the park, a search for phase II
It was only a week ago that members of Occupy Providence huddled in a pedestrian tunnel on a rainy afternoon and voted 36 to 11 to leave Burnside Park, if and when the city opens a daytime shelter for the homeless.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | December 28, 2011

In 2012, election year intrigue awaits

Punditry Dept.
The new year is, of course, an election year. And while the presidential race will probably be less-than-dramatic in Rhode Island, there will be plenty of other intriguing fare for the political junkie.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | December 28, 2011

Rhode Island goes red

Progressives look back on a string of bitter defeats
For Rhode Island progressives, the new year arrived with an air of anticipation.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | December 21, 2011

A Roger Williams professor tackles William F. Buckley Jr.

Thinkers
Conservative thinker William F. Buckley Jr. was, perhaps, America's most important 20th-century public intellectual.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | December 21, 2011

Cicilline and Langevin go to war over the redistricting plan

Armageddon
There are rivalries within any state's Congressional delegation. The competition for influence and the back-and-forth over who gets credit for what can get snippy.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | February 02, 2012

Uncertainty at WPRO

On the Air
Could Rhode Island's talk radio firmament be poised for a shakeup?

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | December 07, 2011

Joey gets to work

Labor Relations
Yes, Joey quit. But he's plenty busy now.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | December 07, 2011

Loughlin, returning from Iraq, faces a tough challenge

Political Science Dept.
John J. Loughlin II — Army Reservist, former state representative, and all-but-official Republican candidate for Congress — is due back in Rhode Island late this month after a seven-month deployment in Iraq. And he'll encounter a political scene quite different from the one he left behind in May.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | December 01, 2011