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Flanagan’s empire
Native son Bill Flanagan — novelist and MTV executive — discusses big books, musical longevity, Irish Catholicism, and Behind the Music . - BY MICHAEL ATCHISON

Salinger’s eternal cone of silence

The death of a genius; rocking for Nicole; the General Assembly goes transparent
With the death of J.D. Salinger, nearly every obituary featured some quote or reference to his American masterpiece, The Catcher In the Rye , and rightly so. If you don't know the name Holden Caulfield, you don't know ding about literature.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  February 03, 2010

Teach for America and the power of ideas

Pedagogy
Teach for America, which arrived in Rhode Island this week, will be offering a relatively small crop of fresh-out-of-college instructors for the state's public school system: 90 teachers over the next three years.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  February 03, 2010

Dan’s Place

Comfort food in the wilds of West Greenwich
We didn't notice any grizzlies or cougars as road kill on our trek to Dan's Place, though we kept our eyes peeled there in the wilds of West Greenwich.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  February 03, 2010
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How birds got their songs

Film
Wakinyan RedShirt has made three films in his life: Lego Star Wars , Bionicle Heroes , and The Wolf Show . But perhaps his greatest flick, he says, is his latest.
By ELIZABETH RAU  |  February 03, 2010
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After Fort Thunder, the zine lives

Media
Last week, friends of the zine Taffy Hips gathered at Ada Books on Westminster Street to celebrate the sixth issue: robot comics, prints of giant tsunami waves, and an interview with Chicago-based cartoonist Anya Davidson.
By ABIGAIL CROCKER  |  February 03, 2010
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Excerpt: Evening’s Empire by Bill Flanagan


In this chapter, "The Drugs Don't Work," aging rock star Emerson Cutler and his manager, Jack Flynn, are seeking inspiration — and desperately trying to jumpstart his career.
By BILL FLANAGAN  |  February 05, 2010
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J.D. Salinger: 1919 - 2010

In Memoriam
J.D. Salinger was 91 when he died in his New Hampshire home on January 27, 45 years after he published his last known story, "Hapworth 16, 1924," in the New Yorker .
By STEVE VINEBERG  |  February 05, 2010
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Earnestly funny

2nd Story fulfills its Comic Potential
Considering that Alan Ayckbourn may be the most staged living English playwright besides Shakespeare, as some accounts declare, why isn't he produced more often in American theaters?
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  February 03, 2010
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Living history

Bert Gallery turns 25
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Bert Gallery, which Catherine Little Bert and her father-in-law Hugo Bert (who'd run Cottage Gallery in North Providence) opened in the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Providence in 1985.
By GREG COOK  |  February 03, 2010

The legendary Mr. Microphone

Dr. Lovemonkey answers your questions
I have a co-worker who is making weird growls ...
By DR. LOVEMONKEY  |  February 03, 2010
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Review: Patti Smith's Just Kids

The small prophecies of Patti Smith
How do you get to be the Godmother of Punk? Pure dumb luck, for starters.
By CARRIE BATTAN  |  February 08, 2010
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Smoothed out on the R&B tip

Mary Bee and David Gonzalez’s Fiesole
"Seeing Mary Bee interact and talk on a daily basis is totally different from hearing Mary Bee sing — it's like night and day," writes producer David Gonzalez.
By CHRIS CONTI  |  February 05, 2010

Candles + caring

Bob Marley’s b-day + downcity benefits
Former Best Music Poll nominee Mike Gendron and uncle Pete Gendron team up and unplug at the Greenwich Hotel on THURSDAY (the 4th), rocking the lounge free of charge til 12:30 am.
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  February 03, 2010
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Myra Melford’s Be Bread | The Whole Tree Gone

Firehouse 12 (2010)
Few jazz players and composers can bring as broad a vocabulary to a single piece as pianist Myra Melford.
By JON GARELICK  |  February 02, 2010
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Review: Frozen

Hell is other ski lifts
A storm is coming, the girl has to pee, and then things get much worse.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 03, 2010
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Review: When In Rome

... make a hasty retreat
Exhibits neither an eye nor an ear for comedy.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 02, 2010
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Review: 44 Inch Chest

Suffocated by chewy, self-congratulatory dialogue
What to do with a kidnapped cuckolder?
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 02, 2010
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Review: Dear John

Gonads and strife
"We're sitting here . . . and we're talking, but nobody's actually saying anything."
By SHAULA CLARK  |  February 05, 2010
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Review: Edge Of Darkness

Roslindale gets a taste of the old Gibson mania
A new genre is emerging in which aging A-list actors play fathers off on a rampage to rescue their daughters or avenge their deaths.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 05, 2010
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