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The just-past holiday has a big food component, so if you missed the Q+A with David Byrne in last week's Phoenix, check out the musician's answer to this all-important local query: I'VE SAVED THIS QUESTION FOR LAST, BUT I AM COMPELLED TO ASK...
This Brown University event sounds like a winner: As part of the opening celebrations for the student-curated exhibition Jews and American Comics: The New Generations, famed comic artist and director of the Center for Cartoon Studies, James Sturm, will...
You've heard about this underground . Now it's time for the real thing . In this week's Phoenix, Greg Cook writes about the unexpected world that Peter Goldberg found in Providence's combined overflow sewer project. The steely, gritty...
House Speaker William J. Murphy gets a cameo in the current (third) season of Showtime's Brotherhood . He calls it "a very small cameo appearance," and he would not disclose further details. However . . . WARNING -- SPOILER ALERT. If you...
Shaula Clark has the skinny on the Steel Yard's annual Iron Pour : Fiery infernos, white-hot metal, spooky devil music, and a "pumpkin-flinging trebuchet" -- surely, this is what Halloween was created for. Furnaces and spectators are officially...
Earlier this year, I reported on the demise of Luke's Record Exchange, a long-running music emporium in Pawtucket. As it turns out, the story has taken an unexpected turn . When Luke T. Renchan announced in March that his landmark record shop, Luke...
The Providence Phoenix, born as the NewPaper, has been on the Rhode Island scene for 30 years, and we celebrate the anniversary this week. The highlight in this week's Phoenix is a series of Q+As -- kind of like Vanity Fair's famous Proust questionnaire...
Marc Levitt, AS220, and the Action Speaks! crew do a great job every year in staging a provocative and thought-provoking discussion series. The focus this year is race in America, and tomorrow evening's forum will view this through the prism of Norman...
Mark Tribe , a professor in Modern Culture & Media at Brown, and best known for creating the new media art news and archive Rhizome , has a project in which he recreates some of the anti-war speeches and demonstrations from the Vietnam era. Does this...
And that's good news for local music fans, says Chris Conti , who also has the scoop on local faves Lightning Bolt and their appearance tonight at the Living Room . The new and improved Jake’s Bar & Grille on Richmond Street reopens tonight (the...
With retirement savings having lost a collective $2 trillion in the recent fiscal meltdown, there's plenty of reason to be glum. So if you need some spring in your step, check out Brass Bands Conquer the New World , a music festival (part of Honk...
A local bright spot amid all the bleak economic news is the growth of RISD and its potential as a creative and economic incubator. Tomorrow marks the grand opening of the art school's new $34 million Chace Center , which Greg Cook describes in this...
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...
The reviews I've thus far seen for Trueblood , the new HBO vampire show (adapted by Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball , from the Southern Vampire mysteries) have been somewhat tepid. I thought the first show was a hoot, with its lively mixture of Southern...
Kerouac fans will remember that Denver, the site of the Democratic National Convention, played a significant role in On the Road , in part as the home of Dean Moriarty. Yesterday, Michael Powell had a tasty essay in the Times' Week in Review, musing...
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