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Ann Hood works through her grief in The Knitting Circle

By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | January 24, 2007

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Music Seen: Anticon's 10th anniversary
Sure, Ray LaMontagne is huge and the Rustic Overtones saw their national time, but there is something to be said for a record label co-founded by Mainers that is more than a decade old and can still sell out the Knitting Factory in New York City.
Finding a rhythm
In 1987, Providence writer and URI alum Ann Hood hit the best seller lists with her first novel, Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine .
Vo Dilun is Cartoon Country
The front of the January 13 BeloJo, what with the big above-the-fold photo spread of Woonsocket’s battling mommies, was immediately dubbed the Parents’ Day Special at Casa Diablo.
Photos: Peter Simon's new book
Images from Peter Simon's new collection Reggae Scrapbook
Web-Slinger
Liz Collins's Doll Cave at AS220's Project Space (93 Mathewson Street, Providence, through May 23) drapes the gallery with loosely-knit walls that look like spider webs or giant white granny shawls.
She's crafty
What would Grandma say?
Life is but a dream
Children from theatrical families are often said to have been born in a trunk.
God is dead
One of the biggest mysteries of the video-game marketplace is why the PC seems to lag so far behind consoles as a gaming platform. After all, Windows computers have the kind of market penetration that Sony and Nintendo can only dream of.
Review: The Godfather II
If adapting the Godfather series means stripping it of subtext and amplifying the thuggery, that may be the greatest imaginable indictment of video games as a medium.
Deep space
In The Chronicles of Riddick , Swedish designer Starbreeze has it both ways: hardcore gameplay and brisk storytelling not only co-exist but achieve symbiosis.
Steam-powered playground
Damnation is one of the first major shooters created in the steampunk genre. This means the story is set about a century and a half ago in an alternate timeline in which steam power becomes the reigning technology instead of electricity.
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The spelling of this six-month-old restaurant's name indicates one of its primary draws: an emphasis on wine.

LYN FORD WILL TELL HER STORIES AT FUNDA FEST 14 | January 11, 2012
I have always considered the art of storytelling one of the purest forms of theater: it runs the gamut of emotions, presents a wealth of diverse characters, and can almost literally hold you spellbound.

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