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Features
22 The Art of the Swamp Yankee
26 Holiday Celebrations in the East Bay
A Portsmouth artist has been making posters for your favorite musicians since the ‘90s
Where to go and what to do, plus a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to make the holidays pop
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16 BAY VIEWS: Providence Media
32 HOME/STYLE: An artist’s beautiful
40 NEWS BITES: Meet your maker
11 A Middletown artist makes edgy,
celebrates a big anniversary and a
home studio in Portsmouth
in Warren
empowering jewelry
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34 WHOLE BODY: Pound it at La
43 CONNOISSEUR: Specialty cocktail
12 A Rhody filmmaker gets a surprise
19 CALENDAR: Jingle all the way to
Vida! Dance & Fitness in Bristol
syrups from Bootblack Brand
call from Santa
these fun December events
12 A seven-toed snapping turtle has taken up residence in Newport
Live Well 31 SHOP AROUND: Balance on
14 VOICES OF THE BAY: David Cioe
Thames celebrates women’s
on giving back just in time for the
active lifestyles
holidays
Taste 37 TREND: Giving back with the East Bay Food Pantry
44 RESTAURANT GUIDE: Where to eat
Taste Test 50 Sweet and salty chocolate pretzel
38 EAT: Classic American fare at Ave-
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nue N in Rumford
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A Rhode Island Christmas Story How Saving Christmas turned the Ocean State into a winter movie wonderland If you were to look at his filmography, you might assume from the work of local filmmaker Tom DeNucci that he’s more of a Halloween guy. But when Hollywood came knocking with the opportunity to direct actor Ed Asner, the director of several locally produced horror films was ready to trade spooky for Santa on his latest feature, Saving Christmas. “[They needed] to put together a Christmas movie very quickly,” Tom explains, “so they called me asking if I have any Christmas material.” He quickly turned around a script with his writing partner, Kevin DeCristofano, got notes back from the studio and in just seven days had a greenlit production ready to be shot on location in Rhode Island. The movie, about two kids trying to prove that Santa is real, had Ed Asner already attached, meaning that they were able to write with him in mind as St. Nick. It also meant that Tom had to direct a living screen legend. “At first I was a little apprehensive about
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The Friendly Snapper Meet Bowser, the seven-toed mascot of Save the Bay’s Exploration Center If there’s one animal you don’t want in a petting zoo, it’s a snapping turtle. The name alone should tell you that. And when your last encounter with a snapping turtle in the wild was seeing one with a shell the size of a large pizza in a golf course pond chowing down on a duck it had dragged underwater, you are totally convinced. Enter Bowser the Snapping Turtle. He’s Save the Bay’s new unofficial greeter at the organization’s Exploration Center and Aquarium (SaveBay.org/Aquarium) in Newport. And he’s cute as a snapper can be – if you like that Jurassic goth look of spiked head, neck, claws and long tail – and sports seven toes on his left front foot (a mutation known as “polydactism,” in case it comes up soon on Jeopardy!). But despite the fact that snapping turtles are notoriously short-tempered, Bowser has been a peach.
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“He loves people,” says Celina Segala, a staff member at the aquarium. “He’s always up at the front of his tank, looking at people.” Known formally as a Common Snapping Turtle, which resides in fresh water, Bowser was found on the beach five years ago, about the size of a quarter, covered in sand and saltwater. How he got there is anyone’s guess, but he could have been washed down a culvert from the reservoir pond across the street, or dropped by a slippery beaked bird intending to make him a meal. Since then, Bowser has been well looked after. His previous 250-gallon tank allowed him to grow to his current size of one foot in length; today he has a brand-new 590-gallon tank thanks to a donation from the New England Aquarium. He will now be able to double in size. You’ve been warned. –Chip Young
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‘Tis the season when local charities donate food baskets to the hungry. But long after the holiday decorations have been put away, Barrington resident David Cioe is still working, with his fellow Elks from The Bristol County Lodge #1860, to ensure that there is food year-round for those in need. In 2008 a $10,000 grant from the Elks National Foundation seeded David’s vision of East Bay Cares, a 501(c)8 and a 501(c)3 which purchases and delivers food to soup kitchens, food pantries and individuals from Riverside to Portsmouth. David is the owner of Warren business DC Industrial Sales, which sells mechanical electrical supplies to industrial accounts across New England, and Columbus Fan & Machine, which he bought and relocated from Ohio in the late ‘80s and which has some of the biggest motor clients in the US, including GE and Teco-Westinghouse. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Electronics (RISE), David continued his studies with training programs in the field and attended Roger Williams University for business. He and his wife Paula have two grown daughters. David can be reached at 401-245-3330 or DCIndust@AOL.com I would deliver the Elks Baskets at Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was tough to see how much people needed and appreciated the
food. I kept thinking, These people need to eat all year long. What do they do the rest of the year? I applied for a grant from Elks National. East Bay Cares is now considered a model for other Elks lodges across the country as well as for other agencies. A lot of people in the East Bay live in a bubble. They think no one needs help. We get requests almost daily from soup kitchens, churches, food pantries. We also work with police and fire departments who know of people who are too proud to ask for help. We run a raffle every Saturday at Broadway Merrill Lounge in East Providence. It helps support our work. We make sure donations are stretched to buy as much as possible. Pasta, sauce, tuna, peanut butter, jelly and canned fruit are all things families can use for more than one meal. Bristol’s Seabra is very kind to us. Rice is not as popular in the East Bay as pasta, so we will trade rice for pasta to an agency in Providence where rice is popular. Nothing goes to waste. A few years back I was doing an indoctrination at the Bristol Elks. A woman told me she had once been down and out. She had received a food basket. It touched her. Today her family is doing okay and she supports our work. –Nina Murphy
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December 1–31: See New Views Re Views at Gallery 4 (Gallery4Tiverton. com) in Tiverton Four Corners. The exhibit showcases three new artists – Dora Atwater Milliken, Deb Ehrens and Eric Dennard – and recently uncovered works from the archives of Harry Nadler.
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The Swamp Yankee Artist You've seen Pete MacPhee’s work on band posters and beer cans, Now now meet the man behind the art. art By Sophie Hagen • Photography by Wolf Matthewson
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first encountered the Swamp Yankee (SwampYankee.Weebly.com) by chance, when the poster for Wakefield’s Oktoberfest caught my eye. It was a complex art deco design in blues, greens and yellows, centered on a large crane surrounded by fleurde-lis, corn stalks, Olympic flames and fish. It looked regal, grounded in nature but elevated, stylized but not cartoonish. Pete MacPhee is the Swamp Yankee, a graphic design artist in Portsmouth. On his website, intricate art deco pieces like the Oktoberfest poster keep company with ghoulish skulls, Edoera samurai woodcuts and pop art pointillism. The designs he pumps out for musicians, block parties, motorcycle sales and beer cans veer in every stylistic direction, almost always deploying one central design (a bird, a forklift, a yellow jacket, Joe Strummer) whose detailed vividness gives it the impression of an icon, almost religious in aspect. He explains the influences behind the Wakefield Oktoberfest poster: art nouveau, German folk art and vintage wallpaper. It’s “kind of hippy dippy” in Wakefield, he says, and “for some reason art nouveau gives me that hippie, natural feel. I think the people kind of dig it down there.” Pete spent most of his childhood in Narragansett. In the early ‘90s, he collected a degree in fine arts and illustration out in Rochester and moved to Providence to start his career as a working artist the way so many do: freelancing. This meant some graphic design as well as working as a dispatcher for the ProJo, bringing newspapers to customers who hadn’t received them. On slow dispatching days he would sit in his car and draw. And fatefully, he began to silk-screen T-shirts and posters for local bands. Those local bands started opening up for bigger acts. He started
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doing design work for the Dropkick Murphys, a collaboration that continues to this day. Pete estimates that he’s designed “80 percent of their artwork, album covers, stage sets.” He’s also done years of work for Social Distortion and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones – including the stage set when the latter performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with Kimmel on sax. But before converting completely to the art side of the music biz, Pete served his time onstage, including playing the cowbell in a band called Randy Pinto and the Galactic Boots, playing the keyboard in an eighties-style euro-dance band called Music By Otis, and then handling the props for a “dirty heavy metal band” called the Amish Alcoholics. “I would do the explosions. It was kind of like Spinal Tap but worse. At the time I was heavy into printing shirts and doing a lot of stuff for local wrestling organizations. I knew these two guys, Half Nelson and Tiny the Terrible.” He contracted them for “50 bucks and a pint of brandy” to perform with the Amish Alcoholics. Unfortunately, he says, he had not yet learned to give performers their liquid payment after the show; “they got completely drunk” and refused to change into their Roman guard outfits. “Then it all went to hell.” The strategy was simple for Pete and his fellow freelancers: “We’d go see who’s coming through, we would draw up a poster, show up to the show, say, ‘Do you like this poster? Can we sell it?” And when the merch guys liked their work, “they would page you when they’d come around next time.” (Pete pauses here to make sure I know what a beeper is.) “When I got Social Distortion, I got it through the merch guy. Then he changed to Jimmy Buffett, so I did a little work for Jimmy Buffett.” The exchange works out for everyone: “A lot of those guys make percentages of sales when they’re on the
road.” And he had a skill that everyone seemed to need back then: “I had a knack for drawing shamrocks with skulls.” Now Pete estimates that 70 percent of his business is musician work. “The pay’s not that great,” he admits. But “some of it I do pretty well.” In particular he’s carved out a niche among “Irish pub bands. I’m kinda known for the Dropkick Murphys.” He also designs for American Celtic punk band Flatfoot 56 and “I have a friend who’s trying to talk me into something for Flogging Molly.” Even as his posters gain in popularity, Pete has a strict no-reissue policy: buy the posters when they’re made or don’t buy them at all. This, it turns out, is partly on the musicians’ behalf and partly a self-care practice: “There’s one Social Distortion poster I’d love to reissue, but I don’t do it. I don’t have time and it’s just kind of gentleman’s agreement with the band.” Then: “I print a lot but I hate printing, it drives me insane. I become a huge worrywart when I’m printing.” The posters must be printed one color at a time; the Wakefield poster used five. Sometimes he’s commissioned just to create an image in various formats (for Facebook, for posters, etc.); then the customer will make their own copies at a print shop. Pete’s work has brought him into contact again and again with some of the most well-known names in music. He designed a T-shirt for Black Sabbath when the band had its first reunion—that summer, when he was living in Newport, “I did a lot of heavy metal: Mötley Crüe, System of a Down. Then the next summer I did Bob Seger, Lindsey Buckingham, ‘70s rock bands.” He did a poster for Blondie and, thanks to a connection with the merch woman (of course), took his then four-year-old daughter to watch the band warm up. He’s designed for the Cult, Linkin Park, Kid Rock (“when he played the Met. He kind of looked like Vanilla Ice”). He used his last $200 to design Iggy Pop posters, showed up at the show and asked about selling them. He wound up making $800
and spending the night talking to “this kid, kind of a big guy,” who he later found out was Iggy’s son. But that spontaneity and ease with which Pete managed to connect with some of the biggest bands in the ‘90s and aughts has become harder to rely on, he says. “Nowadays merch is a big thing. Bands don’t make money off of record sales, just merch.” Anxious to protect one of their
only sources of income, they’re much less likely to let a stranger sell his homemade posters at a show. But Pete keeps busy at his studio, juggling commissions from musician customers, his freelance clients, and a little corporate work. A fan of Social Distortion happened to work at Toyota (“he’s like the top Toyota forklift salesman on the West Coast”) and now Pete’s doing calendars and technical drawings for them. He’s designed a Lovecraft-themed beer can – complete with a ship, waves, a lighthouse and a central, all-seeing eye – for Narragansett Brewing Company. He sells his posters at street fairs four or five times a year – “it gets me out of the house, gets me freelance work” – which has led to gigs with various and sundry clients, including a plumbing company and a dog food brand. “I have no scruples,” he says. But that scrappiness, the sprawl of different styles and clients and the odd way his career has unspooled seem to fit the name he chose for his work. Swamp Yankee is a New England redneck, he explains. “My dad was kind of a Swamp Yankee; he collects [stuff] and leaves it in his yard.” Even with the internationally known bands and the stage sets seen all over the world, he’s still designing posters for fall festivals and garage sales in Providence. Swamp Yankee has “a bit of a local twist.” And ultimately, “I just like the name.”
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Kick off the month in style at Mistletoe Madness at Glen Manor House (GlenManorHouse.com) in Portsmouth on December 1. The festive cocktail party has food, dancing and cheer for days.
events like Michael DiMucci’s Fireside Christmas Concerts on December 8 and 10, and the Robbie O’Connell Celtic Christmas Concert on December 15.
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Hop on the Neverland Express (NeverlandChildrensTheatre.Weebly.com) on December 1-2 to see kids perform holiday songs at Kickemuit Middle School in Bristol.
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When is a Christmas tree more than just a Christmas tree? When it’s part of the Christmas Tree Sale at Bristol’s Audubon Society (ASRI.org) on December 2, which also includes photos with Santa, seasonal crafts and activities.
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Linden Place (LindenPlace.org), a grand home in Bristol, has nine designers creating gorgeous tablescapes for different rooms for Christmas at Linden Place (LindenPlace.org) all month long, plus holiday
Have Breakfast with Santa in a totally different way – on a train! The Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad Co. (TrainsRI.com) offers morning weekend rides leaving from the Portsmouth Junction Station.
Blithewold Mansion (Blithewold.org) is known to put on one of the most glittering holiday spectacles in the East Bay and work begins way before the holiday season even starts. This year’s theme is the roaring ‘20s, so there will be lots of sparkle, gold, white and jewel tones, party decor, Coco Chanel influences, jazz instruments, and flapper and pearl accents scattered throughout the rooms. And it doesn’t stop there: Blithewold’s holiday offerings also include sumptuous afternoon teas, a live music series and family “Sparkle sessions” with marshmallow roasting, free hot chocolate and carol singing. “Decorators start thinking about the following year as soon as they finish this year’s decor,” says Sue Gimblet, co-chair of Christmas at Blithewold. The process starts with decorators formulating their ideas and getting approval, then shopping for new ornaments and decor during after-Christmas sales. Starting mid-October, the installation process begins with help from 75 to 85 volunteers who work diligently over five weeks to decorate 14 rooms, all with different themes and drawing on the archives of the Van Wickle family. There are 49 trees of all sizes, 60 candles in the windows and 22,000 twinkle lights, which are strung on trees and fireplace mantels. A 22-foot tree stands in the house’s front hall. Created by Joanne Murrman, who begins planning a year in advance, the tree is decked with 3,600 lights and hundreds of shiny ornaments. “I think, for most of the decorators, this holiday tradition is an extension of their creative lives, a chance to relive a time of wealth and elegance,” says co-chair Evelyn Monea. -JI
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Discover St. Nick’s Sinister Secret at the Newport Art Museum’s holiday version of Mystery at the Museum (NewportArtMuseum.org), running December 2-30, where murder – with a stake of holly through someone’s heart? – is afoot, and it’s up to the guests to solve the mystery.
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Swansea celebrates Christmas in the Village (SwanseaMass.org) on December 2 with a tree lighting, carolers and streets lit up with hundreds of luminaria.
Photo by John Corbett courtesy of The Preservation Society of Newport
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Jingle all the way to Mount Hope High School for Bristol’s annual Breakfast With Santa (ExploreBristolRI. com) on December 3.
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For a stylish holiday season full of lavish trees, garlands, gingerbread houses and poinsettias, there’s no better place than the Newport Mansions (NewportMansions.org). Through January 1, The Breakers, The Elms and Marble House – three national historic landmarks – are covered in holiday cheer and sparkles and open their doors to visitors. Led by Jim Donahue, curator of historic landscapes, and hundreds of volunteers, the whole design process takes about a month, which includes decorating 30 trees with hundreds of ornaments, 24 fireplace mantels each with its own theme, and lots of garlands, wreaths and candles illuminating the windows. “In January, we start planning and shopping for the year ahead when it’s all fresh in our minds,” says Donahue. “After the holiday season, we go from room to room to see what works and what doesn’t, and try to do something completely new in each house every year.” One house gets worked on at a time and every room has its own color scheme that goes with the historic decor. At the Breakers, a 15-foot-tall poinsettia tree made up of 150 individual plants sits in the Great Hall; 2,000 more poinsettia plants are scattered throughout the three mansions. “We are around the decor all the time,” says Donahue, so some of the novelty can wear off. But “when visitors see it for the first time and are impressed, it is so rewarding.” -JI
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Experience an 18th century holiday by candlelight on December 3 at Christmas at Whitehall Museum House (WhitehallMuseumHouse.org) in Middletown, with wassail and Christmas treats.
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The Newport Holiday Stroll (NewportHolidayStroll.com) runs December 3-4 and 10-11, and includes festivities, food and the Bowen’s Wharf tree lighting.
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The Seekonk Kiwanis Tree Lighting and Santa Visit (Facebook: The Kiwanis Club of Greater Seekonk) on December 7 will feature holiday songs, treats and a visit from the man in red himself.
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On December 10, there will be a performance of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales at St. Michael’s (StMichaelsEpiscopal.org) in Bristol. The short story recalls the famed poet’s own holiday celebrations.
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Tiverton’s annual Holiday Bright Night (TivertonFourCorners.com) on December 8 is an evening of festivities when the shops stay open late and offer refreshments, with entertainment at Four Corners Meeting House.
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One-of-a-kind gifts and small-town holiday charm are in abundance at Tiverton’s annual indoor Arts and Artisans Festival (ArtsAndArtisanFestival.com) on December 16 and 17. Fourteen local artists set up shop inside the Meeting House at Tiverton’s historic Four Corners, selling homemade items such as glass sculptures, pottery, bags, candles, jewelry, accessories, woodwork and paintings. “It’s never too early to begin thinking about the holidays,” says Alyssa Wood, co-chair of The Arts and Artisans festival. Wood and her sister, Brittany, begin planning the two-day festival towards the end of the summer, lining up artists to sell their wares, advertising and working with local merchants to make the event more seamless. “It takes a lot of work putting the festival together,” Wood says, “but being able to offer an event like this in the heart of Tiverton Four Corners is very rewarding.” On the second day of the festival, Santa will read to children and take pictures, with proceeds going to Tiverton Food Bank. The festive environment at The Meeting House includes lights, lanterns, holiday greens and wreaths as well as hot cider and live music. -JI
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You can’t have the most wonderful time of year without a town tree lighting. Barrington kicks off the holiday season with a one-day festival and lighting at Town Hall on December 2, from 11:30am to 5pm. “We start planning for this event up to three months ahead of time,” says Michele Geremia, recreation director for the Town of Barrington (Barrington.RI.Gov/departments/recreation.php). With the help of hundreds of volunteers and performers and a dedicated staff, the one-day event includes an afternoon of live performances by Arts Alive, the Barrington Middle School A Capella Chorus and the Barrington High School Chorus, Santa arriving by fire truck, a magician, horse and wagon rides, hot chocolate, food trucks, letters to Santa, face painting and arts and crafts for the kids. It takes approximately three weeks to decorate for the season, which includes the lighting of several trees at Town Hall, including one 18-footer, and the adornment of snowflakes and holiday ornaments on the lampposts that line County Road (Route 114) and Maple Avenue. A total of 25,000 lights set the town aglow. “This event is all about seeing children’s faces light up with joy,” says Geremia. -JI
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Holiday shopping at local boutiques, hot chocolate, caroling and loads of twinkling lights are just a few of the things you can expect from Bristol’s annual holiday festivities (ExploreBristolRI. com). The year-round planning process features multiple volunteers and merchants working together to put on the joyous events. It takes volunteers two to three weeks to install 35,000 lights on a 30-foot evergreen tree in front of the Burnside Building and 200,000 lights on Hope Street, including a 12-foot-by-12-foot illuminated snowflake for the Grand Illumination on December 2. Various local entertainers and choruses from the high school and elementary schools in town perform and Santa lights the big Christmas tree and all the lights downtown. “I love the feeling of being able to put on something that kids and spectators find so magical even if they’ve seen it before,” says Michael Reilly, chair of Bristol’s Grand Illumination. “It’s still a big deal.” If you love to shop, stop by the Bristol Merchant Association’s annual Snowflake Raffle on December 16, where thousands of people will show up for the chance to win up to $5,000 with tickets purchased at local participating stores. -JI
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Glide into the season when the Newport Skating Center (NewportSkatingCenter.com) reopens on December 8, with a tree lighting, caroling and an appearance by Santa and his elves.
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Living Literature performs A Christmas Story at the Tiverton Public Library (TivertonLibrary.org) on December 4. The two-person show is based on Jean Shepher’s short story that inspired the beloved 1983 movie.
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See A Christmas Carol performed like you’ve never seen it before, on the Dickens Christmas Dinner Train (TrainsRI. com), running from December 8-23 from Portsmouth Junction Station. The four-course dinner also includes a performance with music, laughter and Dickens’ classic characters.
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Find great gifts and help support animals in need at the Potter League Artisan Craft Fair (PotterLeague.org) in
Middletown on December 9, offering locally made art, crafts and treats.
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There are traditions, and then there’s the Medieval Christmas Pageant at St. George’s School (StGeorges.edu) in Middletown, happening for the 106th year on December 13, which tells the Christmas story.
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Run, run as fast as you can to Gingerbread Storytime at the Seekonk Public Library (SeekonkPL.org), which is a festive preschool and toddler storytelling hour complete with a snack and a craft on December 15.
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Head to Common Fence Point (CommonFenceMusic.org) for The Sweetback Sisters’ Country Christmas SwingAlong Spectacular on December 16, where hootin’ and hollerin’ – and BYO picnic baskets – are encouraged.
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An Old Home’s Second Life The Liuzza family lovingly remodeled their Portsmouth home into a creative retreat
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allowed the Liuzzas to completely remake their Portsmouth home
renovation inside and out. It was like building an entirely new house. The old bones remained but the look was a complete turnaround.” The Liuzzas turned to Newport architect Edward Williams of Williams Design Associates to reinvent the home with a functional design and a contemporary but
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When Lani and Nick Liuzza began house hunting on Aquidneck Island 12 years ago, they came across a home in Portsmouth perched on two bucolic acres. It was clear that the home, built by the original owner and his father, was solid and crafted lovingly. Any renovations the Liuzzas made over the course of their first few years there had to suit their family’s needs and lifestyle, but also mesh well with the existing structure. “After getting to know the house a little better, we fully understood what additional changes we wanted to make,” recalls Lani. “What we thought was going to be a hardy makeover turned out to be a complete
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warm feel. “Making the home appear cohesive was tricky, but it came out beautifully,” says Lani. “I’d say my design aesthetic is traditional with modern earthly flare. I love natural materials and clean lines but need the home to feel inviting and approachable.” As with any major project, there were challenges along the way. First, the Liuzzas knew to move out of the house completely so that the project could proceed quickly and effectively. “Also, we needed to be conscious of our property line, so the expansion needed to be done in a certain way,” Lani says. The couple worked with JPS Construction and Design based in neighboring Middletown throughout the building process. “They were awesome!”
she says. “We’ve used them for many projects after the house renovation.” An artist, Lani commissioned the company to build a combination barn and studio where “I can daydream away and paint to my heart’s content,” she says. Lani made sure that enough windows were installed so that natural light could fill the home. Drawn to interesting ceilings, she and Nick asked for coffered ones in the kitchen and white oak in the great room and breezeway. To elevate the design further, they had “big, chunky moldings and recessed paneling” installed throughout the house. As an artist, Lani knew that well-placed lighting fixtures in addition to natural light would be essential to the overall look and
ambience of the home. “Lighting sets the tone for how we feel,” she says. She worked with locally based Griff Electric and used fixtures predominately by Circa Lighting and Restoration Hardware. Ultimately, more than 2,500 square feet were added to the home to accommodate the five bedrooms and five bathrooms. Together with the barn/art studio, there are seven bathrooms in all. An incredible amount of love, time and energy has been infused into their home, the Liuzzas say, and the family loves where they live. “I love Aquidneck Island,” Lani says. “Love the seasons, beaches, fields, farmland and vineyards. It’s a feel-good special place. It’s my most favorite place in the world.”
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They Got the Beat Drumming and cardio collide for a rocking workout at La Vida! Dance & Fitness in Bristol
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both sides of our torso to “We Got the Beat,” possibly the best song to jam out to at a Pound class. Following that, Deana brought out some slightly more challenging Ripstick motions with “HandClap” by Fitz and the Tantrums. My hand/eye skills were way off, but when holding neon drumsticks, it was hard to care. After all, who gets frustrated at a neon dance party? Lastly, we cooled down and stretched out to the slow but steady rhythm of Michael Jackson’s “Will You Be There,” aka the Free Willy theme song, which still brings a happy tear to my eye when I hear it. After a thorough cooldown, the workout was over and those 30 minutes seemed to have flown by. Once the lights were back on, I could see that there were multiple age groups participating: a few middle-school-aged children,
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There’s something to be said for just letting out some energy. My Tuesday night became immensely cooler once I was holding a pair of neon drumsticks. They were also glow-in-the-dark, which made them extra rad. The room went dark for just a moment at the beginning of class, which was followed by a cheer as we all stood glowing in the black lighting. Our instructor Deana took her place at the center of the studio wearing a pair of fun, fluorescent light-up sneakers which created their own laser light show. This is Pound, which incorporates drumsticks into a full-body cardio workout, bypounding them on the floor or together in various fast-paced rhythms. La Vida! Dance and Fitness in Bristol adds an extra element to their Pound class by illuminating the studio with black lights. Because of that, owner and instructor Deana Lepage recommended I wear brightly colored workout gear to her class that evening, meaning I could finally put the jazzy silver sneakers my mom had given me last Christmas to good use. One of the songs we warmed up to was “Sweet Emotion” by Aerosmith, a personal favorite. From our standing position we moved into slight side-to-side lunges while clapping our “Ripsticks” together, keeping the rhythm, then combined our arm toning movements with some squat-like motions. Even though our shoulders, biceps, triceps, forearms and legs were constantly moving, the drumsticks and upbeat music made it feel like we were rocking out rather than working out. As Deana explained, we were being “strategically distracted by shifting our focus to maintaining the rhythm of the music” and coordinating our hands and feet with each motion. We then repositioned ourselves to sit on our mats, gearing up for the Pilates/core portion of class. While lifting our legs straight out, we began tap, tap, tapping away on
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appreciated, the food pantry can get a lot more out of your dollar than you could at the grocery store. In addition to their pantry and thrift shop, where people can donate and purchase clothing and furniture, the East Bay Food Pantry rolls out special holiday initiatives, like buying gifts for children in struggling families and sending clients home with a bag of holiday-specific food items. Though this time of year tends to bring out the charitable spirit in people, Nicki stresses the importance of giving beyond the holiday months. As she puts it, “Hunger isn’t just around the holidays, it’s year round.”
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When we gleefully realized that Avenue N’s Sunday dinner starts at 2pm, I had one of those “I guess this is us now” moments. As new parents, we’re just happy for an early meal before our little amuse bouche clamors for his bath and bedtime. Our arrival at Avenue N in Rumford around 3pm showed us we weren’t alone; the alfresco area this afternoon was full of wriggling little humans and their tired adults, looking like they deserved a good meal. We got to enjoy both inside and out after our little one’s desire to show off his new tricks (impression of a tea kettle, endless clapping) led us to give our fellow diners a break and head outside. The outside area adjoins the parking lot, but the inside makes great use of the repurposed industrial space, with exposed brickwork, joists and boards in the ceiling, and large front windows. We received great service at all times: we weren’t rushed, and our waitress was very happy to help us move and give us time to consider the menu. True to its “American Kitchen”
billing, your options include melting pot fusion like kung pao brussels sprouts and Korean tacos – but seasonal New England produce is really at the heart of it all. In addition to the normal appetizers and entrees section, they also offer pizza, which I didn’t get a chance to try. Turning to drinks, of note was their nicely selected all-American wine list, mostly from California and Washington State. I went for Whalers “The Rise” American Pale Ale ($5.50), which was a crisp accompaniment to one of the last warm days of the year. My wife ordered the iceberg salad ($9), which was gorgeous on the plate. With iceberg offering crunch and little by way of flavor, the salad fell to its accompaniments. Here they delivered a plated, haute cuisine version of a salad bar classic. There was lovely crumbled blue cheese, a copious amount of creamy, ranch-esque dressing, crisp thin discs of radish, baby tomatoes and of course, candied bacon. I on the other hand decided to go all pumpkin
with my order. My sugar pumpkin bisque ($8) was lovely, defined above all by its milder prime ingredient, and not cream or stock. The texture was perfectly velvety, the color alluring. It was elevated by a series of really thoughtful accompaniments: a halo of drizzled miso crema was fun to play with on the spoon, a sprinkling of black sesames was that perfect black and orange Halloween contrast, and shards of fried ginger added sharpness and a unique texture in the mouth. It’s one of the very best pumpkin soups I’ve ever had. For our mains, my wife again went for the conventional with a sirloin ($25), although this time you couldn’t judge a book by its cover. The steak sat high on a green and purple raft of bok choy and cabbage, topped with some micro greens and floating on a sunchoke hash surrounded by what they called a sesame “A1” sauce, but was thankfully miles removed from anything bottled - glassy, flavorsome, and interesting to the last bite. Turning from the dark tones of brown and
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green, my Massachusetts cod filet ($23) was bright, with light greens from just cooked brussels sprouts, the yellows of a pumpkin sauce and golden beets. The cod was fresh and thick. If brussels sprouts were always cooked as carefully as this, they wouldn’t have their reputation in some corners. Here it all came together with the rich mild sauce. I didn’t think that this would go with fish; now I will. For dessert I was denied the pumpkin trifecta as my choice of pumpkin cheesecake was vetoed. I couldn’t complain much as I tucked into a chocolate mousse cake ($7.50) instead. Everything was light and fluffy, but the dark chocolate ganache really took the cake, so to speak. Fantastic technique, amazing sauces, and a really consistent approach to all the dishes gave the restaurant a clear personality, one that honored both technique and seasonal ingredients in equal measure. Go enjoy a nice late dinner there for both of us; it’s past our bedtime.
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It’s the season of sparkling red and white. Wine, that is. This December 3 from 1 to 4pm, the chic Spiced Pear Restaurant at The Chanler at Cliff Walk in Newport present the Sparkling Wines of Moët Hennessy (TheChanler.com). Guests will taste through a series of six sparkling wines from Moët Hennessy’s champagne houses. Each sparkling wine will be paired with a dish from The Spiced Pear’s chef Thomas Duffy. The event will be hosted by Megan Libby, Moët Hennessy’s Director of Brand Education. Libby received her Master’s in International Wine Business from the Université de Paris X, which took her into 250 wine regions – so expect to walk away with a new appreciation for the most festive sipper.
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Genius in a Bottle With his artisanal cocktail syrups, Paul Kubiski wants to up your home mixology game Tired of drinking subpar cocktails, Paul Kubiski started tinkering with recipes for easy-to-mix additions to spirits. He and his wife Jackie Duhamel started Bootblack Brand small batch cocktail and soda syrups at Hope & Main last spring, and is now supply over 70 locations in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In the East Bay, find them at Grapes and Grains and Black Pear in Barrington and Portsmouth Liquors, among others.
When did your relationship with cocktails start? I was a bartender way back in the ‘70s. My mom had a catering business in Barrington so I started tending bar. I was trained in the classics, and as I got older, I came back to cocktails. In the early 2000s when I started creating cocktails at home, I looked to the classics again. Having a great cocktail is like having a great meal. It’s not about drinking, it’s about the flavor profile.
So you started developing ways to mix foolproof drinks? I look at developing my syrups the same way you’d look at making a cocktail: drawing on things that are easy to use, and will up everyone’s game. I try to take a classic and update what everyone’s been doing for a long time. I’m trying to help people not be intimidated to mix good cocktails at home. What are some easy ways to use your syrups? The Cranberry Jalapeño Lime mixes well with spirits like tequila, mezcal and rum. I like to use it with tequila, a little mezcal and some lime juice. I call it Smoky Summer. I created the Ginger Cardamom Lime syrup for rye. I do a riff on an Old Fashioned called the Three Compadres. It’s ginger syrup, rye and Fernet, which is an amaro used in place of angostura bitters. For the Classic Citrus Tonic, I make what I call a Broken Word, which is a play on a Last Word cocktail, but with mezcal. We hear you’re working on a new winter flavor. I’m right in the middle of working on an old fashioned syrup for the winter months. I hope to have it ready by the end of the year, but if not, it will be released in January.
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EAST BAY / NEWPORT Black Bass Grille Classic seafood, historic waterfront setting. 3 Water St, South Dartmouth, 508-999-6975. LD $$ Bluewater Bar and Grill Casual restaurant with modern seafood dishes, patio seating and live music. 32 Barton Ave, Barrington, 247-0017. LD $$-$$$
Ichigo Ichie Traditional Japanese cuisine, creative sushi and hibachi. 5 Catamore Blvd, East Providence, 435-5511. LD $-$$$ The Old Grist Mill Tavern Fine dining located over the Runnins River. 390 Fall River Ave, Seekonk, 508-336-8460. LD $-$$$ The Wharf Tavern Serves fresh seafood and steak with bay views from almost every table. 215 Water St, Warren, 289-2524. BrLD $-$$$
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Mill’s Tavern Historic setting for New American gourmet. 101 N Main St, Providence, 272-3331. D $$$ Ocean State Sandwich Company Craft sandwiches and hearty sides. 1345 Hartford Ave, Johnston; 155 Westminster St, Providence, 282-6772. BL $-$$ Parkside Rotisserie & Bar American bistro specializing in rotisserie meats. 76 South Main St, Providence, 331-0003. LD $-$$
Pat’s Italian Fine Italian favorites, natural steaks and handcrafted cocktails. 1200 Hartford Ave, Johnston, 273-1444. LD $-$$$ Pizza J A fun, upbeat atmosphere with thin-crust pizza, pub fare and gluten-free options. 967 Westminster St, Providence, 632-0555. LD $-$$ Public Kitchen & Bar American food with changing daily specials. 120 Francis St, Providence, 919-5050. BrLD $-$$ Red Stripe Casual French-American bistro. 465 Angell St, Providence, 4376950; 455 Main St, East Greenwich, 3982900. BrLD $$ Rick’s Roadhouse Honest, authentic BBQ with a large selection of whiskey. 370 Richmond St, Providence, 272-7675. LD $-$$ Siena Impeccable Italian cuisine. Locations in Providence, East Greenwich and Smithfield, 521-3311. D $$-$$$
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Frankie’s Italian Bistro Fine dining with imported wines from around the world. 1051 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown, 2952500. D $-$$$ Fresco Italian American comfort food with international inspirations. 301 Main St, East Greenwich, 398-0027; 140 Comstock Pkwy, Cranston, 228-3901. D $-$$ George’s of Galilee Fresh caught seafood in an upscale pub atmosphere. 250 Sand Hill Cove Rd, Narragansett, 783-2306. LD $-$$ Jigger’s Diner Classic ‘50s diner serving breakfast all day. 145 Main St, East Greenwich, 884-6060. BL $-$$ Maharaja Indian Restaurant Indian cuisine and traditional curries in a warm setting. 1
Beach St, Narragansett, 363-9988. LD $-$$ Mariner Grille Seafood, steaks and pasta in a fun setting, with live entertainment. 140 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett, 284-3282. LD $$ Pasquale’s Pizzeria Napoletana Authentic Neapolitan wood-fired pizza with exclusive ingredients imported from Naples. 60 S County Commons Way, South Kingstown, 783-2900. LD $-$$
Siena Impeccable Italian cuisine. Locations in Providence, East Greenwich and Smithfield, 521-3311. D $$-$$$ T’s Restaurant Plentiful breakfast and lunch. Locations in Cranston, East Greenwich, Narragansett, TsRestaurantRI.com. BL $ Tavern by the Sea Waterfront European/ American bistro. 16 W Main St, Wickford, 294-5771. LD $$
Phil’s Main Street Grille Classic comfort food with a great rooftop patio. 323 Main St, Wakefield, 783-4073. BBrLD $
Twin Willows Fresh seafood and water views in a family-friendly atmosphere. 865 Boston Neck Rd, Narragansett, 789-8153. LD $-$$
Red Stripe Casual French-American bistro. 465 Angell St, Providence, 437-6950; 455 Main St, East Greenwich, 398-2900. BrLD $$
Tong-D Fine Thai cuisine in a casual setting. 156 County Rd, Barrington, 289-2998; 50 South County Common Way, South Kingstown, 783-4445. LD $-$$
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Taste Test Cho c o late-Dip p ed Cheer Christmas is almost here, and we’re getting into the spirit with the “naughty and nice” of the snack world: sweet and salty chocolate-dipped pretzels. With twists and sticks decked in white, milk and dark chocolates, there’s a whole lot of joy in these treats.
1 . Minty F res h Kilwins (Kilwins.com) in Newport has a variety of pretzel toppings for the holidays, but we opted for their dark-, milk- and white-chocolate-covered pretzels festively adorned with crushed peppermint. Though you’ll be tempted to use these beauties in your holiday decorating, we suggest you go ahead and eat them.
3 . Be gg i n ’ fo r B e l g i an The Newport Sweet Shoppe (NewportSweetShoppe.com) embodies holiday spirit with a variety of coated pretzel options, all made with high-quality Belgian chocolate. In addition to their shop on Williams Street, Milk and Honey (MilkAndHoneyRI. com) in Tiverton will also carry these delights through New Year’s Eve.
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2. Spa rkly S urpris e Aura’s Chocolate Bar (Facebook: Aura’s Chocolate) is making some delicious white-chocolate-dipped pretzel twists and sticks at Hope and Main in Warren. But dipping pretzels in thick, white chocolaty goodness isn’t enough for Aura’s – they’re also adding a sprinkle of sugar on top, making for a salty and sweet masterpiece.
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