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Summertime on the East Side Summer is usually a relatively quiet time here on the East Side. So this year we decided to see if we could liven things up with two or three punchy cover stories. Last month we talked to some of Thayer Street’s departing retail operations, who suggested that while the street is always going to evolve, perhaps it’s losing its “cool” in the process. We seemed to have hit a nerve: The story has produced the greatest number of hits on our website ever, with many responders lamenting the good old days doing battle with those arguing it’s actually cleaner and safer than ever and poised for more growth. This month, after a visit

from the creators of the hit podcast Crimetown, we asked WPRITV’s blogger/reporter extraordinaire Dan McGowan to offer his take on whether 33 years after the passing of Raymond Patriarca and some 15 years since Buddy Cianci was mayor, we’ve changed enough to pass the Crimetown mantle on to some other, more deserving urban enclave. Next month we’ll dive into another critically important issue for the East Side when we take a hard look at the current technology options offered in our local elementary and secondary schools. Our question: What are they doing to help prepare our children for the rapidly changing

jobs environment? Providence may be relatively small, but we always punch above our weight in terms of creative dining options, historic preservation, a commitment to the arts and providing a nurturing home to some of the country’s best and brightest collegians while still providing an entertaining ringside seat to a bare-knuckle political system that can hold its own against anyone… well, except for maybe Trump’s DC. After 40 plus years and counting, we at East Side Monthly never run out of things to bitch about, celebrate or simply discover and share with our readers. May it always be so.

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Corrections Our July cover story, “A Changing Thayer Street,” inaccurately referred to “Brown’s $25 million student apartment building, 257 Thayer Street.” Brown University did not develop and does not own or operate 257 Thayer Street; the building is privately owned and rents to Brown and RISD students.

Letters to the Editor In response to an entry in Lauri Lee’s “Smart News” column – “Brown Receives $24 Million Gift for Renovation, Renames Hall” – in our June issue: I was disappointed to read in the June East Side Monthly that Brown University received $24 million to remodel Wilson Hall. This gift is just one example of yet another elite institution – with a multi-billion dollar endowment – receiving a huge cash donation. When universities with massive endowments receive large gifts it only serves to make that school more exclusive. Check out the “My Little Hundred Million” episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast Revisionist History. $24 million for Brown does very little to change the status quo. Take a short walk down Hope Street to see the state of disrepair at Hope High School and then take a guess when that building will receive its renovation gift. Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust is a new book by Richard V. Reeves. He argues that those at the top of the income ladder

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are becoming more effective at passing on their status to their children, reducing overall social mobility. The result is a fracturing of American society along class lines. -Walter Zekanoski Facebook responses to Amanda M. Grosvenor’s cover story, “A Changing Thayer Street,” in our July issue: Great read. I started going to Thayer Street to hang out in high school and patronized it well into college and the immediate years after. Nowadays, the only reason I will pop by on occasion is to go to Spectrum India (which continues to hold my heart). I find no other draw anymore, there’s no variety and an upsurge in chains. The gradual descent and final closure of The English Cellar was really the nail in the coffin for my overall nostalgia there. -Ryan McAssey There will always be change, it’s inevitable. The question is do we want to have a discussion about change and have a hand in it or just allow it to happen randomly and complain about it afterwards... -David Bettridge I fondly remember Thayer Street’s original “quirkier days,” back in the 1960s, when one could catch the likes of blues great Big Joe Williams performing at the Tete-a-Tete Coffeehouse. Have to agree with the closing of this article. -Dave Wrenn I owned a clothing store on Thayer

from 2002–2006. Thankfully before Internet shopping was what it is today. But it was hard to survive on Thayer. Parking - or lack of it - was and still is the biggest problem. Unless a business can survive on solely the foot traffic there, it’s not going to happen. My customers were students from the local universities and high schools. And a handful of moms who were either within walking distance or lucky enough to find a parking spot. But if they didn’t find parking, they just kept driving right to Providence Place. The population within walking distance just wasn’t enough. Obviously change is inevitable, but it seems like the same problems have haunted this street for a couple decades now. Unreasonably high rent and nowhere for customers to park. -Hillary Monahan Ramos So many fond memories of taking the bus to Thayer Street as a teenager. Totally an analog social network. -Elissia Mack Great article, and it is sad. The parking meters seem to be the last straw, but it has been slipping for awhile. -Melissa Brusso What about the parking meters? Same thing is happening on Wayland Square. I know it’s not the same kind of street but small businesses are hurting because of them! Was a grad student at Brown in the 70’s. Great places to go on Thayer, then. -Michele XPlus

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East Side News A Taste of Victorian Hospitality A new exhibit at the Lippitt House Museum takes a look at table manners before takeout By Erin Belknap It’s no secret that America’s favorite pastime is eating, drinking and, well, having a good time. But dinner in the digital age can often look something like two-day-old leftovers and frozen veggies at 8pm, probably more than anyone cares to admit. Of course, the bar is raised a bit when entertaining company. But even at the snazziest of dinner parties, a well-composed three-course meal and a bar stocked with mid-shelf wine and cold beer is about all anyone can ask for (which, let’s be honest, sounds amazing). While modern-day dining trends naturally find their roots in history, mealtime today looks very different than it did 100 years ago. For those who are curious to see how our dining customs have evolved over the last century and a half, the Lippitt House Museum (PreserveRI.org) invites you to come experience their newest exhibit, which spotlights Victorian dining and social practices. The exhibit, titled “The Art of Dining: A Taste of Providence’s Golden Age,” runs through October

and tells a story of Victorian dining through the real-life accounts of the Lippitt family. Each of the six rooms depicts a specific scene that would have been customary in the Victorian era, with some rooms even recreating specific events hosted by the Lippitt family. Guests can explore the dining room, where Mary Ann Lippitt hosted a gossip-filled, eight-course ladies luncheon on September 28, 1877, or check out the music room, where men withdrew after dinner to drink brandy, smoke cigars and discuss politics. Visit the butler’s pantry to discover how the household staff produced such elaborate meals, and get a glimpse of the impressive glass and silver collection from which the Lippitts sipped their libations. The exhibit’s decor and elaborate displays outshine even the most Pinterest-worthy meals and tablescapes. For all social beings who put eating and drinking at the center of our culture, this exhibit is not to be missed.

Finding Gold in the City Sunflowers and a love of landscape make an urban oasis

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It’s not always sunny in Providence. But thanks to Adam Anderson’s project 10,000 Suns (Facebook: 10,000 Suns), there will always be a source of brightness here. Armed with 10,000 sunflower seeds, gardening tools

and a team of devoted volunteers, Adam visited the unused land on the 195 corridor to make his sunflower vision come alive, his second time using the land there and his third time planting (the project started with only a thousand seeds). Throughout May and June the team, ranging from 10 to 20 volunteers at a time, spent hours clearing the land, laying mulch and planting the flowers. Nature lovers and plant enthusiasts along with curious passers-by stopped to observe the circles of flowers and escape the fast pace of the city. Locating the project in Providence was a no-brainer for Adam, who lives in the city and runs a landscape architecture business here called Design Under Sky. The business works on a variety of spaces, from residential gardens and campus plazas to urban gardens and public art projects. Adam also teaches in RISD’s Graduate Landscape Architecture Department. His interest in sunflowers stems not only from their ability to grow to eight to ten feet in just two months, but also from

their role as a bio-accumulator that helps clean toxic soil damaged by industry and highways. The team will be doing maintenance on the land all summer long, and Adam welcomes those interested in participating to visit the project’s Facebook page, where he will post when volunteers are needed. The project, he says, is “only for everyone” and volunteers should “always feel welcome to come by and participate for as long or as little as they want.” This summer, the group hopes to see more visitors and volunteers and work on improving the soil quality, making the sunflowers healthier and more visually impactive. Adam knows that some people see the project as superficial – simply “pretty and nice” rather than substantive. But he believes that it has the potential to set the tone for the city over the long term. “Sunflowers are a symbol for the possibility of landscape in Providence,” he says. “All great cities have great gardens and public spaces. Providence can do better.” August 2017 East Side Monthly

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A Woman’s Place Is on a Mountain The little-known story of a plucky East Sider with a taste for climbing By Sophie Hagen

Smith Peck, mountain climber, archaeology enthusiast, descendent of Roger Williams and master of self-branding, saved all of her correspondence. Convinced that her story deserved to be told, Peck demanded that her friends and family return the letters she sent them. Despite such voluminous records, however, Peck’s legacy was long obscured by bizarre and sometimes violent events. Peck’s first aspiring biographer committed suicide. Her

second died in a car accident. Jonathan Valentino, whose family owned the house where Peck’s records ended up, began selling the collection on eBay, piece by piece. Then Hannah Kimberley, academic and author of the newly released A Woman’s Place Is at the Top (AnnieSmithPeck.org), the first published biography of Peck, stepped in. Upon discovering Peck in graduate school, Kimberley had been drawn to the mountain climber’s “stick-to-it-iveness and pluck.” Peck, she points out, “was a real late bloomer. She started college late, she started teaching late, she started lecturing late, she started mountain-climbing late. She was 58 when she climbed her highest peak, and 82 when she climbed her last one.” Peck’s drive to leave a mark on the world, even as her first aspiring biographer could not sell the book he’d written about her, affected Kimberley “on a weird personal level”: “Because Annie really wanted it written,” she says, “I really felt like someone should do one for her.” “I promised this woman that I would write her story,” she told Valentino, begging him to remove Peck’s records from eBay. The two struck up a correspondence and a few years later, Valentino had given her the

archives to keep. Author Hannah Peck, related to Roger WilKimberley liams on her mother’s side, grew up on North Main Street in the 1850s and 60s and attended Providence High School. Her father, uncle and brothers matriculated at Brown and Peck could often be found on campus, although she was forbidden to attend: Higher education was considered bad for women’s health because it siphoned energy from their reproductive organs. After earning several graduate degrees outside of Rhode Island, Peck began to offer private lessons and lectures, one of the few lucrative undertakings for a female academic at the time, on classics and archaeology. She also began to climb mountains, which gave her fodder for these lectures and kept her with other climbers to scale the highaudiences riveted. Soon, she was gainest mountains. ing a reputation as one of the few fe“It’s a real relief,” Kimberley says, to male mountain climbers (who climbed have concluded her decade-long exin pants, no less), and often did not ploration of Peck’s life. “There you go, bother to correct false accounts of her Annie,” she says. “There’s your story.” valor and record breaking. In the days The book is available from St. Marbefore social media, this was a woman tin’s Press and Kimberley will be who knew how to work the press in orspeaking at the Brown bookstore der to brand herself as she competed in September.

Bring on the Weird The city’s biennial Lovecraft convention celebrates the master of horror By Rebecca Keister There’s going to be a whole lot of weird going on at this year’s NecronomiCon Providence (NecronomiCon-Providence.com), the biennial celebration of the work and life of H. P. Lovecraft that returns August 17–20. This year’s iteration even goes beyond the father of weird fiction, adding lectures on the entire genre to expand on the event’s unique charm – though conference goers can still look forward to spirited games of Cthulhu Wars. “This is not at all the classic kind of 8

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convention,” explains Niels Hobbs, director of NecronomiCon Providence. “We’re looking for Providence to be the capital for weird in the world.” In addition to panels on all things Lovecraft, there will be discussions around classic authors of weird fiction (think Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe), contemporary writers such as Stephen King, and weird fiction pop culture. A panel for guests of honor, ranging from scholars to artists, will highlight the genre’s diverse audience. The convention has

even appointed a poet laureate: Donald Sideny-Fryer, a nationally renowned performer of medieval romantic poetry. Those looking forward to NecronomiCon’s signature Armitage Symposium won’t be disappointed. This year’s conference welcomes 32 historians, scientists and other experts to discuss the lasting influence of Lovecraft’s mythology. Also on the agenda are film screenings, gaming gatherings, a vendor hall and Ars Necronomica, an exhibition

featuring works of both established and up-and-coming artists who “put form to the unnameable and indescribable.” And parties and concerts across the city will bring together those who have traveled from around the globe to attend – 2015’s NecronomiCon welcomed fans from 18 countries and 5 continents. The (masquerade) Eldritch Ball is best enjoyed in Lovecraft-era garb. As Hobbs points out, the conference is as much “about Providence as it is about Lovecraft or any weird fiction author.”

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Second Phase Coming in Summit Park Now that the community gardens are in place at the Summit Avenue Park, the city is prepared to move ahead with Phase Two of the renovations. That’s the message that Parks Department Superintendent Wendy Nilsson and landscape architect Megan Gardner brought to a public meeting sponsored by SNA on June 12 in the park. Speaking with about 20 people gathered in the playground area, the two described the specific changes included in the city’s plan, focusing on safety and accessibility for all ages, as well as the procedures needed to implement them (visit SNA’s website for a complete list of the renovations and a diagram of the layout). The cost of the new renovations was put at about $30,000 and will be met by about $12,000 in grant money from Miriam Hospital that SNA is holding, plus city funds augmented by local fundraising. Some of the

improvements in the original renovation plan proved to be too expensive, Nilsson said. A new sign will be installed with the name of the park and Parks Department contact information, plus a new bulletin board may be constructed. The project is designed to be completed by the end of summer, but the park will not be closed during the work, with just certain areas temporarily cordoned off. Nilsson encouraged residents to contact the Parks Department with suggestions or questions. Dangers of Lippitt Fountain Emphasized City Parks Department Superintendent Wendy Nilsson says she strongly reminded residents that the fountain in Lippitt Park is strictly off limits because of the danger of playing in it. “Parents were putting their kids into the water” and ignoring warnings by workers that they had just “shocked” the fountain with a toxic chemical – chlorine – to clean it, she said. In addition, the structure is made of granite, which is extremely slippery when wet, she added. Nilsson spoke to about a dozen residents June 13 at a public forum at Summit Commons sponsored by SNA. The meeting was called because of a storm of discussion on social media sparked by Nilsson’s request that SNA disseminate her warning about people being banned from getting into the fountain. Comments ranged from preserving the integrity of the

historic Henry Bowen Anthony fountain at all costs to tearing it out and replacing it with a splash feature. The parks superintendent and her crew chief, Joseph Wojtanowski, explained that fountains in parks citywide accumulated all kinds of natural and human waste – including soiled diapers – and had to be cleaned every few days. He said the Lippitt fountain was monitored by park personnel but asked for park users to alert his department if they noticed anything wrong. The chemicals used dissipate in a few hours, Wojtanowski said, but the fountain is not designed for people and is still not safe to climb into. Nilsson said the cost of installing a splash feature in the park would be about $250,000 and there is no budget for that, especially since there are water facilities in the Billy Taylor park just a few minutes away. She said residents near other parks had been innovative in using inflatable kiddie pools to “get kids wet” during hot days. She said her department is developing an online tool that describes the features of all the city’s parks and is working on redesigning them using more natural materials while maintaining safety. The resource is available at https://pvdgis.maps.arcgis. com/apps/Shortlist/index.html… and a parks locator is available at http:// demo4.geotg.net/providenceparks/ ParkLocator/. Residents Invited to Directors’ Meetings

The SNA board of directors meets at 7pm on the third Monday of every month in the cafeteria of Summit Commons, 99 Hillside Avenue. The sessions are open and neighborhood residents are encouraged to attend. Summit Neighborhood Association, PO Box 41092, Providence RI 02940. 489-7078, SNA.Providence.RI.us, SNA@SNA.Providence.RI.us –Kerry Kohring

Fox Point Neighborhood Association Day of Music On the evening of the summer solstice in June, neighbors came together to celebrate the Day of Music, a free event that took place in 750 cities and 120 countries worldwide. “Musicians of all skill levels and genres took to the streets to fill cities and neighborhoods with free, live music,” said neighborhood organizer Bruce Millard. This year, Rhode Island joined as the 39th U.S. state to participate, and the lineup included a full evening of music in Fox Point. Neighbors brought their beach chairs to George M. Cohan Square, where they heard Sam Gavish play accordion world music, local band The Mighty Good Boys play acoustic bluegrass, the duo Junior Beat on bass and drums, Guyde Lombari on Italian accordion, and covers by B.E Kittell. “It was great!” said one neighbor. New Bike Path at Gano Street In early summer, the Blackstone River Bike Path opened a new section of pathway that reroutes bicyclists and pedestrians off of Gano Street, toward the Seekonk River. “We walked the new bike path last weekend, and it is really lovely!” said one neighbor. “The design, with wood fencing and new landscaping makes this extension of the bike trail into a great neighborhood amenity.” The FPNA looks forward to the completion of the connection from Gano Street to the East Bay Bike Path.

City landscape architect Megan Gardner describes the renovations planned for the Summit Avenue Park, with Parks Department Superintendent Wendy Nilsson, far right

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had a banner debut season last year. GoLocal Prov pointed out, however, that the low fares, $10 one-way from Providence to Newport for regular adult riders, are only possible because of a heavy federal subsidy. “For a couple to go back and forth to Newport, taxpayers are giving them an almost $80 benefit,” said House Minority Leader Patricia Morgan to GoLocal. “They’re paying $40, but the true cost is close to $120. I certainly hope they’re buying a lot [in Newport]. It’s a fun ride, but I’m not sure that it’s an economic benefit.” The 3-year subsidy, set to expire after next year, will be evaluated following the 2017 season. “The ferry may not be around forever,” said one Fox Point neighbor, “but for Fox Pointers it is a walk away and there are expanded hours. It’s a good summer excursion and a chance to go to Newport for the day.” Events This Month Board Meeting, August 14. Please join us at our monthly FPNA Board Meeting, 7pm, in the Community Room of the Vartan Gregorian Elementary School, 455 Wickenden Street. Agenda to follow via our twice-monthly newsletter, FPNA News (sign up at FPNA.net.) The public is welcome. Meet Up With Us! Please join us for drinks and casual conversation at the next FPNA Meet-Up. Neighbors will gather to share thoughts and brainstorm ideas for the neighborhood. Date TBD, usually the third Monday or Tuesday of the month at 7pm, at The Point Tavern. Check our FPNA News for more. All are welcome. The Fox Point Neighborhood Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in Fox Point and protecting its historic integrity and resources. The FPNA speaks out on neighborhood issues and builds community through local events. Please sign up for our twice-monthly newsletter, follow us on Facebook, and join us at a monthly board meeting. Fox Point Neighborhood Association, PO Box 2315, Providence, RI 02906, FPNA.net, FoxPointNeighborhood@gmail.com –Amy Mendillo

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Resident gardener Emily Coble and the CHW Green Team are in full swing, with their first full growing season all ready for harvesting. There are eleven beds at Billy Taylor Park and four beds at Vincent Brown Recreation Center, along with a new fruit garden planted with the help of Catherine Mardosa of the Providence Parks Department, including two cherry trees, nineteen blueberry bushes, three raspberry bushes and (a partridge in) four pear trees. The Grow and Share Program is open to all, so come on out and share in the battle against the thorns, thistle and weeds – even some poison ivy – and reap the rewards! Garden Hours are Tuesdays 4–7pm, Wednesdays 11– 2pm, and Saturdays 12–3pm. The Green Team welcomes Youth in Action summer volunteers sponsored by RI Ground Works, which will get underway July 13 and continue for six weeks. Thanks for the help. Andrew Cook from Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT), along with MHNA/CHW worker Toni-Marie Walmsley, will be hosting the Bin Garden workshops as part of the CHW Food Security Initiative – so come to the garden and get the information and the seeds/compost you need to get started. The MHNA’s next board meeting is August 17; meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at 6pm, at 199 Camp Street. Helen Dukes, an MHNA board member, also

hosts an open community forum on the first Monday of each month. The next meeting will be August 3 at 199 Camp Street. The MHNA will be hosting a local farmers market at the old bus turnaround corner of Camp/Evergreen. The first ones were held on July 14 and 28, and the markets will continue on August 11 and 25 and September 8 and 22. Also the annual Billy Taylor Day is scheduled for Saturday, August 26, 11–5pm. There will be food, fun, music, dance and games for everyone, so plan to attend. Also, MHNA community: Don’t, don’t, don’t forget to VOTE on August 26 for a new city councilmember. Be sure to check your mail for information as to where and when. Eugenia Marks, on behalf of the CHW, will be hosting The Under Tree book reading every Wednesday from 11:15 to 12 noon until August 9 (it started on July 5). Stop by the drop box at the garden and pick up a copy of Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table, a book about urban agriculture and the professional basketball player, while supplies last. Eugenia also has created a lesson plan on garden literacy, which you can also obtain at the drop box. If you’re going to do it, you might as well learn to do it right, so come on out and bring your gardening tips too. The Mount Hope Learning Center is still looking for pictures for the Arts/Tourism Collaborative Mural, a

project of the Empowerment Dialogue for Community Action, which will highlight the stories and recollections of some of the historical and cultural aspects of the Mount Hope neighborhood so as to inform the present and the future. For more info, or to add to the project, call Hannah at MHLC, 401-473-4372. And finally! Kudos and extra kudos to Mrs. Elizabeth Hector and the late Rev. David Hector for more than 40 years as Salvation 220, the Yellow House on the Corner, where countless people from the neighborhood as well as greater Providence came by for Bible Study, encouragement, a bite to eat or a cold soda and the Wednesday Night Community Forum which left everyone in good spirits! Unable after seven years of trying to reach a new financial agreement for the house at 220 Camp Street, BOA foreclosed on June 13 and everyone will have to go. On behalf of everyone from the Salvation 220 Family, thank you for letting us serve all of you for the past 47 years! Stop by and give Ms. Betty a hearty goodbye. We’ll miss her cooking, but most of all, we’ll miss Ms. Betty. Mount Hope Neighborhood Association, 199 Camp Street, Providence, RI 02906, 521-8830, Facebook: Mount Hope Neighborhood Association, Facebook: CHIRIHealth, mhnainc@gmail.com –Roger Lanctot

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Community Neighborhood News

On the Boulevard If you are one of the thousands who walk or run on the Boulevard Park, you may have seen a gentleman resembling a greatly slimmed down Santa Claus digging holes in the path this summer. This was Colgate Searle, the distinguished landscape architect who lends his expertise to the Blackstone Parks Conservancy (BPC). Constructed by the city in the early 1990s where a trolley once ran, the path urgently needs repair. As chair of the BPC’s Boulevard Committee, Colgate is trying to identify the composition of the path—which varies from section to section—in order to figure out how best to repair it. You will be hearing more about Colgate’s ideas for the Boulevard’s preservation and maintenance this fall. His leadership augurs well for the future of this popular destination for city residents. And while you wait for the next concerts (see dates below), keep enjoying the park. Each year new trees are added by the Conservancy, which works in partnership with the Providence Parks Department. The latter does the mowing of the park while Groundwork Rhode Island mulches and waters the young trees with funds donated by Conservancy members and managed by BPC volunteers.

In the Conservation District After years of planning and preparation – weed demolition by a troupe of goats and fence building by volunteers as well as the provision of stumps to sit on – the circle designed just for children and known as RiverWood officially opened in June. The brainchild of Elena Riverstone and the Education Committee, the circle sits just inside the woods opposite the Narragansett Boat Club on River Road. A throng of children enlivened the field choosing from an array of offerings. Some played field games while others worked on the Wetu or did face painting. Luis Arias from the RI Philharmonic Music School played the drums and local actor Chris Byrnes (who may often be found at Books on the Square) was invited inside the magic circle to read aloud to a group of enthralled listeners. ParkKeeping ParkKeeping this year is organized for the convenience of volunteers wanting some activity for an hour or so at the end of the weekday. So far they have been enormously helpful in maintaining the center section of Blackstone Park. See our website for the next date. And bring your children. Thank you for sending your East Side Marketplace receipts to the address below. Events Evening concerts on the Boulevard featuring a variety of music: July 12,

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July 26, August 9 and August 23, from 6 to 7:30pm. Some chairs are provided but you are encouraged to bring your own along with picnics and blankets. Blackstone Parks Conservancy, PO Box 603141, Providence, RI 02906. 270-3014, BlackstoneParksConservancy.org, JaneAnnPeterson@ gmail.com –Jane Peterson

Waterman Street Dog Park Association Art installations are coming to the Waterman Street Dog Park! Working with City Arts and two professional artists, young artists at the Fox Point Boys and Girls Club will be coming to the park this summer to create installations. As the park continues to be packed with neighbors and their furry friends, the Dog Park Association is more committed than ever to make it as pleasant a place to be as possible. If you’re an enthusiastic user or supporter of the park, get involved with the Dog Park Association! There are so many things we’re ready to work on to make the park even better. We’re going to be announcing a membership drive in the coming months, and we’d love to have you on board! Waterman Street Dog Park Association. 19 Luzon Ave., Providence, RI 02906. WatermanStDogPark@gmail.org, WatermanStDogPark.org –Sam Bell

College Hill Neighborhood Association Though things generally slow down on the East Side during the summer, there are always neighborhood issues that need attention and to which we try to respond. Such was the case with a surprise zoning issue involving the sale of the large house at 13 Cushing Street owned by Steve and Sharon Linder to the Avance LLC. They were under the impression their side yard would not be large enough to permit a second dwelling. However, a 2014 change in the zoning regulations, that apparently went through unnoticed,

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now allows such divisions above a minimum of 5,000 sq. ft. (down from 6,000). The lot in question has been reconfigured by the new purchasers and now measures 5,002 feet. At the June City Plan Commission meeting which has jurisdiction over the proposed subdivision, a group of abutting neighbors were joined by several members of the College Hill Neighborhood Association who objected to both the lack of warning to the neighborhood about the proposal and, in the case of the abutters, the impact the new housing would have on drainage and other issues. Brent Runyon of the Providence Preservation Society also was present to articulate PPS’s position that the proposal required more time for consideration. As a result, the Board postponed any decision until the neighborhood had the opportunity to digest the specifics of the proposal. The issue was also discussed at the next CHNA board meeting on July 17 which was open to the public. Donna Personeus, head of the Thayer Street District Management Authority (TSDMA), reports that things continue to evolve on Thayer Street as several more new tenants have opened their doors and in some cases replaced ones that are moving on. The newest to open include: Base Station Virtual Reality Experience, which has begun operations above Kartabar to rave reviews. It expects to serve both regular users and as a site for birthday parties. A new restaurant and catering company called b.good has opened and has generated a positive buzz with its locally sourced farmto-table food. Two other new projects are scheduled for fall openings. Sneaker Junkies has been thriving on Thayer Street, so much so that they will be expanding into the space vacated by Second Time Around. In addition, Heng Thai and Rotisserie has announced they will be opening at 165 Angell Street in former English Cellar Alehouse location. Become a CHNA Member! We’d love to have you join us Come help us in our efforts to protect the neighborhood we all love. Here are the best ways to reach us: College Hill Neighborhood Association, PO Box 2442, Providence, RI 02906. 6335230, CollegeHillNA.com, CHNA@CollegeHillNA.com –Barry Fain

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The Jackson Chronicles: Round Two In May, the first electoral step to recall Kevin Jackson was held and the results couldn’t have been more conclusive, as over 80 percent of those voting said it was time for the councilman to move on. Step two took place during the party primaries on July 12, which produced a spirited, three-person Democratic showdown in which newcomer Nirva LaFortune won 67 percent of the vote, besting Mark Santow (20 percent) and Dan Chaika (13 percent). Though the turnout for the primary was slightly less than that for the recall vote, given the afternoon thunderstorms, the participation numbers were respectable. The three Democrats were all in support of the recently passed Providence Community-Police Relations Act and pledged to address the crumbling infrastructure of Ward 3’s schools as one of their top legislative priorities, as well as to provide responsive and transparent representation. The winning LaFortune raised the most money, was endorsed by the National Organization for Women and ran what one long-term observer described as a “very sophisticated” campaign. Born in Haiti, LaFortune grew up in Providence and now works at Brown. Santow is a professor of political science at UMass Dartmouth and currently serves on the Providence School Board. Chaika is an attorney and until recently was the vice chairman of the State Ethics Commission. LaFortune will be a decided favorite going forward when she faces Republican David Lallier and independent Christopher Reynolds. A Republican has not represented the Ward since 1986. The winner will find themselves in the middle of an often contentious City Council that is often itself at odds with the mayor as each council person does battle to protect their own wards in these tight financial times for Providence.

being inundated with visitors they’re calling “fake monks.” Dressed in Buddhist-like robes, the beggars offer unaware passersby some worthless beads and then demand a donation. Anything considered substandard, usually two dollars and below, produces at the very least a scowl and more likely a scream of outrage to publicly embarrass the potential patron to do better. It is believed the Boston group is part of an international cadre of phonies who somehow managed to evade the TSA. And while local officials say there are no indications of a southern migration of monks toward Providence, we think it never hurts to be prepared to protect one’s home. Or, more precisely in this case, om.

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More Encroachments on the Home Front… We were surprised to come home the other day and find what looked to be a UPS sticker pasted onto the front door notifying us that a “final attempt” had been made to deliver a package to my home. Except that it wasn’t. The tiny sticker was actually a clever, if patently disingenuous, marketing ploy to trick one into calling a toll-free number from a company trying to sell solar panels. In the early days of the Internet, it was relatively easy to sidestep the Nigerian businessman offering a cut for helping him get money out of his frozen U.S. bank account. But between semi-scams like this one and the growing number of national robocalls that now can mask themselves with local phone numbers, the sales pitches are becoming more difficult to elude. And now there are new things called “chatbots,” artificially intelligent pieces of software, capable of maintaining a conversation with a human. And more are coming. One’s home is no longer a castle. Rather it’s becoming a fortress under attack by increasingly wily marketers. Man the barricades.

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Summer produces all sorts of seasonal irritants that threaten the joys of what are perhaps the best months to enjoy our beloved Ocean State... ticks, mosquitos, poison ivy, excessive sun, gypsy moths, even the occasional locust, one guesses. Now Boston warns against another potential invader: phony monks. According to the Globe, Boston, as well as other urban centers from New York to Los Angeles, are

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August 2017 East Side Monthly

Is Providence Still Crimetown? A look at exactly how far we’ve come from our corrupt past

By Dan McGowan Illustrations by Phil Oliveira

y the time agents filed their closing report on Operation Plunder Dome on September 12, 2002, the FBI was ready to take its victory lap. They declared that their years-long investigation had “completely dismantled” the “systemically corrupt racketeering enterprise that has been led by (former) Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr.” The memo, part of a trove of Cianci-related documents the FBI has released over the last several months, also sought to strike a hopeful tone. Maybe Rhode Island was finally ready to move beyond

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its sordid past and too-frequent embrace of corrupt politicians. Maybe we won’t have to come back. “The resulting public outcry against corruption has been swift and significant,” the memo stated. “Mayor Cianci has gone from being one of the most popular mayors in the United States to one who is despised and distrusted. The Rhode Island general public is now recognizing the costs of corruption and is questioning its own past tolerance of corrupt public officials.” Boy were they wrong. In the 15 years since Cianci was convicted and sent to prison, no

fewer than 15 Rhode Island elected officials, ranging from three bumbling town councilors in North Providence to the former speaker of the House of Representatives, have been charged with a wide array of crimes. The offenses include perjury, filing false documents, filing false tax returns, misuse of campaign funds, aggravated identity theft, mail fraud, influence peddling and, of course, accepting bribes. That averages to one a year. Not all of them have been convicted, in part because some cases are so fresh that they’re still making their way through the courts. But no one in

recent history can say they’ve been acquitted. More than a year after his death at the age of 74, Cianci’s criminal escapades still loom large. Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier based the first season of their hit podcast Crimetown on Providence’s criminal history, including the mafia and Cianci. The show quickly became the talk of the town locally, but it also generated millions of downloads around the world as it rose to the top of the iTunes podcast charts. Eight of its 18 episodes focused on Buddy. In Crimetown, Smerling and

Buddy Cianci

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Indicted ex-city council president Luis Aponte

Stuart-Pontier framed the Cianci episodes around the question “Would Buddy change Providence or would Providence change Buddy?” But in the decade and a half since Cianci last controlled City Hall, how much has Providence changed? The answer depends on how you frame it. On the one hand, the days of a city for sale to the highest bidder appear to be over. None of the three mayors who succeeded Cianci have appeared on the 6 o’clock news in handcuffs. City government is as transparent as it has ever been, with tools on ProvidenceRI.gov that allow you to track how taxpayer funds are spent down to the penny. You can listen to recordings of most public meetings. And the City Council requires every lobbyist in

the building to wear a badge identifying who they’re shilling for. Yet all that sunlight only seems to go so far as a disinfectant. There was former Speaker Gordon Fox, who remains in federal prison for admitting he took a bribe in exchange for a Thayer Street liquor license when he was on the city’s Board of Licenses. Ray Gallison, the former chairman of the powerful House Finance Committee, is in federal prison for looting a dead guy’s estate. John Carnevale, the former vice-chair of the same committee, was thrown off the voter rolls and then charged with perjury after a Channel 12 investigation revealed he didn’t actually live in the Silver Lake neighborhood he represented. And the Providence City Council’s

two highest-ranking members – President Luis Aponte and Majority Leader Kevin Jackson – resigned from their leadership posts after being charged in separate investigations into their campaign finances. Jackson was also accused of embezzling funds from a youth sports team he founded; in May, he became the first Providence politician ever to be recalled from office. “You always think if you prosecute public corruption, it will get better,” Arlene Violet, who famously tangled with the mob while serving as attorney general in the mid1980s, told East Side Monthly. “But I can’t make that claim.” Violet, whose efforts to root out corruption were also featured in an episode of Crimetown, has an especially cynical view of how locals deal with political malfeasance. She jokes that while Rhode Island is one of most Catholic states in the country, the politicians “must be dozing off during the sermons.” And she thinks the public is too quick to forgive, forget and re-elect unethical politicians. “Rhode Islanders send the same people back to office even if they’re rascals,” Violet said. “The reason is they’re on a first-name basis. Instead of throwing the rascal out, I think the mentality is, ‘I know the rascal.’ The person gets in office and sees the opportunity and the public doesn’t body-check them, and they just continue to skate.”

It does appear that city and state leaders are making a concerted effort to send more politicians to the penalty box. At the R.I. Board of Elections, a change in leadership on the staff as well as new laws passed after the Fox scandal seem to have lit a fire under the staff. It was the board that referred the cases of Aponte, Palumbo and Jackson to the attorney general’s office. In June the board forwarded another case to Attorney General Peter Kilmartin involving veteran Rep. Anastasia Williams’ possible misuse of campaign funds. (Williams had not been charged as of this issue’s publication.) “It’s important to have someone at the Board of Elections doing a really good job of identifying potential problems and coordinating with law enforcement,” former U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha says. He calls the Fox investigation a “classic campaign finance case” that turned into much more. Similarly, the R.I. Ethics Commisison has been bolstered by a change to the state constitution approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2016 that restored the commission’s oversight over the General Assembly. And the commission has continued its long tradition of holding local elected officials accountable, including finding probable cause in January that Aponte violated the state code of ethics by voting in favor of a zoning variance for his

then-landlord. And while the U.S. attorney’s office has always struck fear into elected officials, Kilmartin has also stepped up his game. In the last year, he’s brought charges against Carnevale and Peter Palumbo, both of whom Kilmartin served with when he was a state representative. (Palumbo has been charged with embezzling from his campaign fund, too.) He also dismantled the leadership of the City Council by bringing charges against Aponte and Jackson. No one disagrees that the state could take additional steps to protect against corruption. Governor Gina Raimondo introduced legislation that would require random auditing of campaign accounts and disqualify candidates if they owe fines for failing to file campaign finance reports, but the proposal died in the General Assembly. Neronha also said voters have a responsibility when it comes to troubled politicians. “We can do better,” Neronha said. “We shouldn’t have to go back to people who have violated that oath before.” In City Hall, the indictments of Aponte and Jackson have given new life to the Crimetown moniker. Although their charges came a year apart and are completely unrelated from one another, the fact that they rose to power together as president and majority leader of the council suggests trouble can still reach the highest levels of government in Providence. For Mayor Jorge Elorza, the fallout has been unnerving. Elected in 2014, Elorza had no choice but to make ethics a centerpiece of his campaign, considering he was up against Cianci. But while Elorza says he sees evidence “the culture is changing,” he acknowledges that an indictment here or there sets everything back. He has been critical of Crimetown, not because he didn’t enjoy the show, but because it hits a little too close to home. He said the reputation actually affects the way he conducts business. “So much of politics is about relationships,” Elorza says. “But there is this hesitance to form those close relationships with those who have this cloud over their head.” In the mayor’s defense, he has followed through on a pledge to finally impanel the Providence Ethics Commission, which oversees city employees. While the commission has heard just one complaint, the mayor argues it serves as an educational tool for city workers. The new city budget that took effect July 1

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will allow the commission to hire an additional staffer. Elorza says he’s open to strengthening the commission and willing to consider ideas for holding elected officials in the city more accountable. At least one proposal is already on the table: Ward 2 Councilman Sam Zurier has been pushing for an amendment to the city’s code of ethics that would force members of the City Council to step away from any leadership positions and committee assignments if they’re charged with a felony. He wants councilors who have failed to file campaign finance reports to be suspended from leadership posts and committees until they file the reports. Zurier also wants all councilors to have their campaign finance reports and annual financial disclosures posted on the city’s website, but his colleagues haven’t shown much of an appetite for the proposals. To be sure, Providence is hardly unique when it comes to political corruption. Before current House Speaker Robert DeLeo rose to power in 2009, Massachusetts had a streak of three consecutive scandalous speakers. In New York, the speaker of the State Assembly and majority leader of the Senate were both convicted on federal corruption charges in 2015. A study conducted by the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity actually ranked Rhode Island fifth-best in the country when it comes to government accountability and transparency, even though it only received a D+. But while a favorable comparison to other states sounds nice, it does little to change the temperament of the general public. If your kid’s bike gets stolen on Pratt Street, do you really care if the bike was twice as likely to get stolen 25 years ago? And for every politician that gets sent to jail, there’s a powerful sentiment that too many people still slip through the cracks. See 38 Studios. If one thing about corruption has changed since he began his prosecutorial career in the 1990s, Neronha says, it’s that there is a “greater sense of outrage” from the public. But even as he openly considers a campaign for attorney general next year, Neronha acknowledges the public’s change in attitude hasn’t necessarily stopped the politicians from abusing their offices. “I don’t think it’s a lot better,” Neronha said. “It would be hard to draw that conclusion. The cases still come.” And if the last 15 years has taught us anything, it’s that they’ll probably never stop.

The Last 40 Years… in Indictments

• 1980: Deputy House Majority leader Edward Manning charged with extortion, conspiracy, mail fraud and aiding and abetting interstate racketeering. • 1983: Buddy Cianci charged with kidnapping, assault and attempted extortion. • 1994: Former governor Edward D. DiPrete indicted for steering state contracts to political donors. • 2001: Buddy Cianci indicted for racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, witness tampering and mail fraud. • 2005: Former state senator John A. Celona charged with federal mail fraud for his relationships with CVS, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Roger Williams Medical Center. • 2007: House Majority Leader Gerard M. Martineau indicted for blocking legislation in exchange for a lucrative plastic and paper bag contract with CVS and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island. • 2010: Former state senator Christopher Maselli indicted for eight counts of bank fraud to obtain $1.7 million in loans. • 2012: Former state representative Leo Medina charged with misappropriation of funds. • 2012: Former state representative John J. McCauley Jr. indicted for failing to file $500,000 in taxes.

• 2015: Former House Speaker Gordon Fox indicted for misuse of campaign funds and accepting bribes. • 2016: Former state representative and Providence councilman Leon Tejada convicted of tax fraud. • 2016: City councilman Kevin Jackson indicted for misuse of campaign funds and embezzling from a youth track and field organization that he founded. • 2017: Former House Finance Chairman Raymond Gallison indicted for stealing from a dead client’s estate, a disabled woman’s trust fund and a taxpayer-funded youth education nonprofit, taking money that was earmarked to help disadvantaged youth attend CCRI. • 2017: Former state representative John Carnevale indicted for lying to the Board of Canvassers that he lived in the district he represented (District 13, in Providence). Carnevale was also indicted in 2011 for sexual assault, but the charge was dropped after his accuser suddenly died of blood clots in her lungs. • 2017: Then-president of the Providence city council Luis Aponte indicted for misuse of campaign funds. • 2017: Former state representative Peter Palumbo charged with misuse of campaign funds.

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Bold Point Rocks

The East Providence waterfront is getting the outdoor concert venue the state’s been missing By Tony Pacitti

A new, 3,500-person outdoor music venue

is opening this summer just across the Seekonk River in East Providence. On August 9, The Beach Boys will kick oﬀ the inaugural summer concert season at Bold Point Park (RIWaterfrontEvents.com), an unassuming little piece of waterfront property that you can literally walk – or ride your bike – to from India Point Park by way of the Washington Bridge Linear Park and East Bay Bike Path. It might seem like an unlikely place for a concert venue, but Michele Maker Palmieri and her team at RI Waterfront Events have nothing if not vision. The company, which formed after the closing of the much loved Newport Yachting Center, has proved to be capable and scrappy, operating like a band of concert-throwing nomads as they waited for the right location to put down stakes.

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Newport Yachting Center was the home of beloved annual festivals and concerts. The Reggae Festival, Oktoberfest and the Chowder Cook-Off were staples, and the center’s stage hosted big names in music and comedy, including BB King, Alanis Morissette, Amy Schumer and Louis CK. But in 2014, the Yachting Center was sold, leaving these annual events without a stage and the team that pulled them together out of work. Michele was the Yachting Center’s general manager at the time and suddenly found herself with a roster of summer events, a good working relationship with the booking company Live Nation and nothing to do with either of them. “I knew that we needed to find a new home,” Michele says. “So I went to my event team and they said, ‘We’re on board if you want to do it,’ so crazy me created a company and we took the show on the road.”

For two years, Rhode Island Waterfront Events set up stages wherever they could find them. The Chowder Cook-Off took root at Fort Adams in Newport, while the Reggae Festival moved to Providence’s India

Point Park in 2015 and 2016. The company also launched a Latin music festival and hosted classic rockers the J. Geils Band in India Point Park. The whole time, though, they were looking for a place they could

Blues and BBQ Festival featuring Kenny Wayne Shepherd, August 26

Reggae Festival featuring Junior Kelly, August 12

call their own. “We were at the Reggae Festival [in 2015], and when we looked across the river we saw all of this undeveloped waterfront,” says Michele. “We came to East Providence and talked with the city manager and city planner, and got the discussions going to see if we could set up a seasonal concert venue.” As soon as Michele and her team saw Bold Point Park, they knew it had the makings of the seasonal, outdoor music venue that they’d been looking for – and that Rhode Island had been missing since the sale of the Newport Yachting Center. Live Nation had imagined the Newport Yachting Center as a version of Boston’s Blue Hills Pavilion; Bold Point Park will follow the same template, and will kick off its first season with The Beach Boys, followed by the 8th Annual Waterfront Reggae Festival on August 12, moe. with Railroad Earth on August 24 and the new Waterfront Blues and

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BBQ Festival with headliner Kenny Wayne Shepherd on August 26. Oktoberfest is scheduled to make its return on October 7. Though Live Nation gives them access to national headlining acts, Bold Point’s organizers haven’t lost that stubborn sense of Rhode Island pride. “We’re still a local company, [but] being able to partner with something with all that power behind them has been really cool,” Michele explains. With that power comes a responsibility to homegrown artists, which they’re fulfilling by including local performers in their events – Rhode Island bands The Silks and Cannibal Ramblers appear on the Blues and BBQ lineup – and as openers. Of course none of this happened overnight. RI Waterfront Events needed the East Providence Waterfront Commission’s approval before moving on to the city council for the necessary entertainment and liquor licenses. Thanks to the public boat ramp (which will remain

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open, with limited exceptions), the Department of Environmental Management needed to sign off, as did the National Parks Service. Ultimately it all came down to a City Council vote last November, where the project was unanimously approved. Support from city officials has been overwhelming; according to East Providence Mayor James Briden, the city is “confident that this new entertainment location will serve as the catalyst for creating the vibrant and exciting destination that our residents have long envisioned for our emerging Waterfront District.” Vice Chairman of the East Providence Waterfront District Commission William Fazioli echoes the sentiment. “This is a pivotal project for the City of East Providence,” he says, “as it complements the current commercial, manufacturing and residential expansion taking root in the City’s Waterfront District. More importantly, the entertainment venue will add a vital

component to the City’s future redevelopment efforts while enhancing the region’s tourism and hospitality industries.” RI Waterfront Events has a threeyear lease on the property, and will treat this ﬁrst season as a pilot program to work out any logistical kinks. This year’s audiences can expect about 1,800 seats in what is currently the park’s parking lot, with a stage facing the water. General admission ticket holders will have the run of the park’s grassy areas, with food trucks, pop-up bars and a lounge. The venue will rely on the mobile setup the company has used in previous summers at India Point Park and the seated sections will remain uncovered; going forward, the setup will, ideally, remain in place throughout the summer concert season, which will run from June to October and could include more than 20 events. Whether the few old favorites, like the Comedy Series and the Celtic Rock Festival, that have fallen by the wayside since the Yachting Center days are set to return is still up in the air, but Michele and her crew are open to anything. Comedy would be nice, she says, but it would have to be diﬀerent enough from the lineup at nearby Comedy Connection to avoid stepping on anyone’s toes. Seeing the location before the stage goes up, it’s hard to imagine all of this happening in the quiet little park, but – believe it or not – it’s actually got more space than the old Yachting Center. Rhode Island hasn’t had a seasonal venue quite like the center since it closed, and while RI Waterfront Events spent the last two years putting on successful shows in temporary locations, nothing ultimately allowed for the semipermanent setup they needed to put on those big shows again. They think they’ve found a home here.

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RADIO

SILENCE With WBRU’s signal for sale, Rhode Island’s alternative station could go off the air at any time • by Julie Tremaine

It was hard to believe

the rumors that WBRU was

going up for sale. How could a thing that’s so deeply ingrained in the Providence culture be at risk of ending? But it is. As you read this, the signal that broadcasts WBRU is being shopped around nationally to potential buyers, and what replaces it won’t be anything resembling what WBRU is today. While the rest of us were busy lamenting the cold and rainy spring, Brown students and the BRU board of directors were deciding the fate of the station over a series of tense meetings. The decision that they came to, faced with the reality of diminishing profits and assets that were steadily losing value, was to sell the 95.5 signal and use that money for different media projects that won’t involve terrestrial radio. It’s nearly impossible that whoever buys the 95.5 will preserve BRU’s alternative sensibility, the one that is a major force in national music and has brought in accolades from the likes of Rolling Stone as “one of the 10 radio stations in the country that doesn’t suck.” While no one on either side of this issue knows the real timing, the consensus is that as soon as the station is sold, which could be any day now, 95.5 WBRU FM as we know it, as this city has known it for more than 50 years, will be gone.

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I don’t think there’s anybody who’s been involved in WBRU To understand how

this is happening, it’s important to understand what WBRU actually is – a non-profit educational student workshop run by Brown Broadcasting Services. Brown University handed over the broadcasting rights to the station in the 1960s, and has had no ownership or oversight since then. Though WBRU has a board of directors, it’s primarily run by students. There’s a student manager in charge of every department, except sales, though the station does have a few full-time professional employees. The process of how they came to the decision to sell the station is long and complicated, but essentially boils down to this: the board advised the students to sell, and to use the profits to build a different workshop, one that focuses more on programming and less on the day-to-day of running a business. Their plan is to create two 24/7 digital radio streams – one for alternative music, and one for the popular 360 programming that airs on Sundays – and to no longer have an FM signal. “There’s been a perception that it’s a quick decision, but I’ve been on the board for five years. How to make the workshop successful has been part of the conversation this entire time,” says Ted McEnroe, spokesman for the board of directors and a BRU alum. “There’s a business problem, which is a fundamental one of economics. It’s a

challenge for independent radio stations of any kind to succeed in a medium-sized market in this day and age,” he continues. “But there’s a second problem, too, which is a workshop problem.” Potential WBRU students feel as though their time commitments at the station would be too big to balance with their coursework. The current ones feel constrained by the radio landscape and listener habits, and by budget cuts in the past few years. Most are frustrated with the lack of freedom with programming and the amount of airtime they have. “Our concern is that, if we’re looking to the future, we want to make sure that we’re making decisions right now that help ensure we can keep [providing music] moving forward,” says Brown student and BRU General Manager Kishanee Haththotuwegama. “We’ve been shrinking for so long that we have to get out before it’s too late. We want to exist. We want to keep providing that new music discovery for our listeners. The only thing we’re trying to do is change platforms that they’re reaching us on.”

BEHIND THE MICROPHONE “It’s a death by 1,000 cuts,” says Program Director Wendell Clough, a Brown and BRU student alum who is

a longtime full-time employee. “People decided that things added up and they couldn’t make it work. There were too many negatives and not enough positives: running short on income, the dropping value of the FM radio signal, lack of college student interest in broadcasting, the economy in the city of Providence.” “There was no [serious attempt] to figure a way to take 95.5 FM and create something that people who love it will still recognize,” Clough says, noting that the streaming radio listener is very different than the broadcast listener, and whatever the new form of BRU will be is unlikely to retain much of the current listenership. “They really did turn away and say ‘we’re going to take the money out of that and we’re going to do something else with it.’ And that’s a shame. They weren’t thinking about the audience.”

THE TURNAROUND PLAN A major voice of dissent for that plan has been Patti Galluzzi, who worked at BRU as a Brown student and who went on to become an important player in the music industry, at one time vice president of music programming at MTV. “I felt like I had to raise my hand and get involved because I was one of the people involved in 1992,” when BRU was in dire financial straits, she says. Patti and other alumni, “helped them hire a new salesperson and a sales consultancy and get their finances back on track. They went from hemorrhaging money to making a tremendous amount of money” through advertising sales. This time, she, with other alumni and radio professionals, put together a seven-year turnaround plan. “I was very confident that we could save the station like we did in the past,” she says. “We were surprised and disappointed when it felt as though some members of the board who don’t work in radio weren’t open minded to this. They worked very hard to discredit the turnaround plan that we had presented and to convince the students that the plan was not viable and the station was no longer

viable.” She also believes that the push to sell out of fear of declining value in the station’s signal is misguided. “If WBRU was a for-profit company, that might be a legitimate way to think about it,” Galluzzi explains. “WBRU is a nonprofit, and it’s got some responsibility to the public, who in a way has been helping to subsidize WBRU because it has tax exempt status.” A recent graduate who still works at the station, Tucker Hamilton, also believes that those who were in favor of selling overcame the resistance of those who weren’t. “We voted and it was a draw. The majority of the station member board wanted to sell, but they needed a two-thirds majority and they didn’t get it,” he says. So they spent time persuading students, and called an unplanned second vote. “I didn’t think it was fair. I didn’t understand how a re-vote could happen. I was one of the few stay-no votes. A lot of people had the original instinct of ‘no, we can’t sell, this is a big deal to us and a big deal to Providence.’ But as committees were formed, they were swayed.”

WHAT THE CITY WILL LOSE The fundamental issue here is that WBRU means something different to the students who run it than it does to the listeners. (To check my bias here, I have a long relationship with this station: My earliest memories of loving music include listening to WBRU. It’s impossible for me to write a story about its demise without my own perspective as a lifetime listener, and I do make a short guest appearance on Monday mornings to discuss the week’s upcoming events.) For listeners, it’s a critical piece of Rhode Island entertainment. It’s windows down, radio up, here’s a great new song worth listening to. It’s the Summer Concert Series, when thousands of people gather in Waterplace Park to hear a basically unknown band, simply because we trust BRU to give us good music. For the students who run the station, BRU is an educational opportunity. It’s a resume builder. But they don’t

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who doesn’t understand the importance that station has had. -Brown alumnus and BRU Board Member Ted McEnroe

fully grasp what an integral part of Providence’s culture the station is, how it feeds into our spirit of being cool and independent. Almost none of the students who work there grew up in Rhode Island, so they don’t have memories of being kids and having BRU as their local connection to the national musical culture. They’re creating something important to Providence with no real institutional knowledge of what the station means to the city, and no obligation to listen to industry professionals who do have it. It’s also important to note that of the members of the Board who advised the students to sell, only one of them lives in Providence, and only one is inside the station’s target demographic. “I was out with three of the students, and they met the guy who had owned [former rock club] Jerky’s. He went on and on about how important the station was. I could just watch them crippling a little,” Wendell Clough says. “None of them had voted to support the board’s resolution to sell. One of them said to me, ‘If only the BRU students had met that person.’ The students have not been part of the conversation,” he believes, about what losing BRU means to the larger community outside of Brown. “There was a discussion of what it would mean for WBRU to be fully run by radio professionals, because in our mind there isn’t much of a doubt that that’s something that would increase our revenue,” station GM Kishanee Haththotuwegama says. “In looking into what comes next in the media world, it doesn’t necessarily overlap with running the day to day of a radio station. It also doesn’t make sense for us to keep a business if the students aren’t involved in any way. It makes sense to keep the students in the forefront of what’s happening in our organization. That’s the main issue with the turnaround plan. We’d be relegated to internships. It loses the spirit of what WBRU is.” Galluzzi notes that the turnaround plan called for the hiring of industry consultants who could provide students with data to inform their programming decisions, and that students

I wish there was some other way that we could continue what we’re doing on 95.5, but this seems to be the best solution for what we have in front of us. -Brown student and BRU General Manager Kishanee Haththotuwegama

felt as though that would be too much outside interference in a working environment where they are already uncomfortably restrained. Though Brown can’t make any decisions about the station, the school has been in favor of saving the station, and has offered its support in various ways, all of which the BRU student government declined. “Brown recognizes WBRU as a tremendous benefit to our community,” says President Christina Paxson. “The station has been a very valuable resource for decades and launched many careers in the media... I would be sad if students could not enjoy these opportunities in the future. But WBRU is entirely independent, and the future of the station is ultimately

their decision.”

THE NATIONAL STAGE “BRU still matters in a big way to the music industry,” says Jonathan Lev, whose company Jlev is hired by record labels to get artists’ music played on the radio. He believes that the students in power at the station are undervaluing the impact WBRU has on the national music industry, as one of the few remaining stations that breaks alternative music, and that has a responsive audience with an appetite for hearing new bands and attending new shows. “Providence still matters to the music industry. When BRU plays music, it impacts the national market,” helping new bands get their footing and build an audience. “Without it, there’s

going to be a huge gaping hole. The airplay that WBRU gives artists is very important on a national level, without a doubt.” “Without WBRU being a terrestrial signal, the opportunities for new music coming in the market are going to be hugely diminished,” Lev continues. “I feel strongly that Providence is going to lose an institution.” Patti Galluzzi agrees. “They’re going to lose an enormous audience and not be able to move them over to online,” she says. They both believe that’s going to impact how prominently record companies figure Providence into bands’ tours; without BRU’s support playing the music and helping drive ticket sales, fewer and fewer alternative/ indie bands will book concerts here. “There are so many people streaming music right now, for them to stand out in that environment it’s going to be very difficult. The people are able to do it well are doing it on the backs of their terrestrial radio stations,” Galluzzi explains, noting that the royalties are much higher for online-only streaming, because record companies want to incentivize terrestrial stations to play their music. “I respectfully disagree with the opinion that they will still matter to the degree that they matter now,” as an online-only stream, Jonathan Lev says. “They should not anticipate that being the case, at least not nationally how the industry perceives WBRU as a stream versus how they perceive it as a terrestrial property. In the streaming world, there’s thousands of online radio stations, and the big streaming services. Record companies just don’t have the time, the money, the manpower to service these entities. They focus on the big ones, that have critical mass.” “Both the board and the students think they can replace BRU with a stream,” Wendell Clough says. “They think they can do a Summer Concert Series as big as we’re going to have this year, next year, even if BRU is just a stream. People didn’t want to hear from me or others in the industry that that’s not going to happen. They said, ‘But we’ll figure a way to make it happen.’

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Finding Home Again

A Brown descendant returns to her Providence roots By Megan Schmit

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One might wonder how a couple living in London for the past 16 years would wind up on College Hill, but for author and global philanthropist Sylvia Brown, she was simply returning to her roots. Sylvia, a descendent of Nicholas Brown and the author of Grappling with Legacy: Rhode Island’s Brown Family and the American Philanthropic Impulse, and her husband, Fabrice Gaussen, purchased their home on Benefit Street and transformed it into a showpiece. Their apartment is on the ground floor of the Nathaniel Bush House and blends historic charm with

modern details. The apartment had been extensively renovated by the previous owner, American glass artist Howard BenTré, but Sylvia and her husband further refined the design by stripping away the late Victorian additions but preserving the original moldings and inlaid wood flooring. “It’s a very interesting conversion and adaption of fantastic old space to modern life,” Sylvia says, describing the home’s unique flair. Their living room is a shining example of this transitional style. The modern furniture and framed artwork

complements rather than contrasting with the historic elements of the home. There’s a contemporary bulb light fixture hanging from the ceiling, Tang Dynasty terra cottas on the sideboard, and an original mirror grounded by a granite shelf. Sylvia especially credits artist Gage Prentiss for his artistic contribution to the room, which includes the bronze furniture. His resin art piece in the fireplace is particularly special, since the tree carved into its surface is actually the tree from Sylvia and Fabrice’s garden in England.

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Time Management August is a great time to start developing some routines that utilize music. For example, Firestone suggests creating a playlist to accompany a wake-up routine. Using the same playlist every day to accompany a specific set of activities, such as brushing teeth, getting dressed and

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having breakfast, allows your child to gauge whether he or she is on time or running late. This strategy helps your children learn to stay punctual while taking on responsibility for themselves. You can create similar playlists for homework time; start now with summer reading and packets (use instrumental songs only, as words can be distracting). This helps your child learn how long 30 minutes is, for example, as well as how long tasks take to complete. This may help encourage persistence: “I only have one more song to go – I’m almost finished!” For younger children, Firestone recommends the Octopus Watch (Octopus.Watch), an icon-based watch that helps teach kids the concept of time. For older kids, “having an analog clock with a minute hand and a second hand is very useful for teaching about the passage of time.” Helping children estimate how long assignments (such as completing five math problems) take is helpful as they enter the school year.

Planning Using a big family calendar, particularly a wall calendar, is a good visual reminder for your kids that helps them plan ahead for the week; you can use pictures or words, depending on the age of your children. You can even color-code with highlighters, if you have multiple kids in the family. Talk to your child about the type of academic planner that might work best for school; try to match the tool with your child’s organizational style. For some kids, a small notebook to jot things down quickly may be better than an agenda book or planner – be realistic about what your child is capable of doing. For young kids who may be having trouble getting ready in the morning, having clip-art pictures posted around the house can be helpful. For example, next to the alarm clock, tape a picture of a toothbrush. Near the toothbrush is a photo of clothes. On the closet or the bureau is a picture of a hairbrush, which leads to a picture of shoes, which leads to a

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Future Picture Thinking “Future picture thinking is very important to being able to plan,” says Firestone. “If we can imagine our future self, then we are more likely to do the work now to become that future person.” If your child can’t picture what being ready for school looks like, then it will be hard for him or her to get there. Taking a photo of your child totally ready for school – clothes on, shoes on, hair brushed, backpack on, etc. – and posting it near the door can help the child take responsibility for him- or herself. Finally, start modeling these behaviors for your child now. If your purse or desk is messy, let your child see you organizing it as you narrate the process. Exclaim, “Wow, what a mess! I think I’m going to take everything out and organize it, so I can find things more easily.” Put your own activities on the family calendar, so your child can see that you, too, write things down to remember them. Fireborn Institute provides several free resources for busy parents: short informative videos (Fireborn Flickers), podcasts, parenting lectures and informal Fireside Chats. For more information or to sign up, visit FirebornInstitute.org.

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If you need a tour guide at the Hope Street Farmers Market, the best people to call are Jill Moles and Suzanne McLouth. They’ll meet you at the duck eggs and take you from booth to booth, introducing you to farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, herbalists, baristas, gardeners, antique dealers, painters, printers and even people who make preppy dog collars and gluten-free dog treats. Jill and Suzanne, former East Siders who now live in Oak Hill, have been meeting at the market on a regular basis for a few years. It’s a highlight of their week. “It’s a godsend,” says Suzanne. “It’s local,” says Jill. “That’s important.” If you don’t stop by the market at least once this season, you are missing out on an opportunity to experience life as it should be: unhurried and fun. The market is open from 9am to 1pm, every Saturday and from 3 to 6pm on Wednesdays in Lippitt Park on Hope at the end of Blackstone. Just look for the cars – sensible and fuel-efficient – and the shoppers carrying unfashionable canvas tote bags. No plastic here, my friends. Even cut flowers are wrapped in paper. I try to go as often as possible. What makes it amazing, besides the food, is that you run into amazing people, like Jill and Suzanne, who, on this particular morning, are graciously showing me around the grounds and sharing how good it feels to eat vegetables, fruit, bread and other food that is free of pesticides and other nasty chemicals. “I’m very careful about my food,” says Suzanne. “If I don’t know where it comes from, I don’t want it.” My first stop is Poorboy Sharpening. No, I am not craving a sloppy roast beef sandwich on a submarine bun. I’m dropping off a Sheffield carving knife inherited from my mother-in-law to get it sharpened after decades of neglect. I hand it over, handle first, to the craftsmen, with a promise to return after my tour. Jill is on the hunt for a cucumber plant. Sadly, the lettuce in her vegetable garden is “all done.” It started to bolt, which means, she says, that it has turned bitter. She is also buying Hakurei turnips, a bulbous veggie unknown to me. “They taste like a mix between turnips and radishes,” she says. “You can put them in salads, or

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snack on them like carrots.” Suzanne grew up in the country in western New York. Her father was a doctor. A lot of his patients were farmers. She says she has great appreciation for people who work the soil. She remembers women who planted Victory Gardens during World War II to feed their families. “We’re going back to that,” she says. “Vegetable gardens are popping up everywhere.” She takes me to the Harvest Kitchen table, where a man is selling pickled cucumbers. The organization helps young people straighten out their lives. They learn how to cook, and some go on to become chefs. “Holy moly,” says Suzanne, as she strolls onward. She is thrilled to see a box of squash from Skydog Farm, where produce is hydroponically grown. “Oh boy, this is a treat,” she says, and plops down $5. “I was not expecting this today.” Jill is enticed by a bunch of Swiss chard, so delicate it looks like a wedding bouquet. “I sauté them in olive oil,” she says. “You don’t have to add salt or anything. They’re good by themselves.” Duck eggs and apples delight, and

then we wander to another booth to consult with a master gardener, who is giving away seeds: coreopsis, poppy, daisy, larkspur, phlox and more. Suzanne talks about her milkweed; Jill inquires about why a zucchini plant fails to produce fruit. (Lack of pollinators.) I pocket two packages of nasturtium. Along the way, we accept the offerings: feta from Narragansett Creamery, chipotle-flavored sauerkraut from Lost Art Cultured Foods, sweet applesauce from Harvest Farm and Pina Colada granola from Beautiful Day, a Providence nonprofit that helps refugees by teaching them how to make granola. Jill works with one of the sellers, Maitham, who is from Iraq. The conversation turns to how advanced Scandinavian countries are when it comes to the environment. “See what happens at the market – we talk,” says Suzanne. Two hours whiz by. Jill buys a Yacht Club soda for her son, Nathan. Root beer, his favorite. We all promise to exchange plants from our gardens another day. I pick up the knife, like new. Now I can slice my apple.

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Beans and Bubbles Nitro Cart taps Rhode Island’s thirst for new, better coffee by Alastair Cairns

A year ago it was just a sketch on a napkin. Today, Nitro Cart’s cold brew is frothing from taps across Rhode Island. From a pop-up in Providence, owners Audrey Finocchiaro and Sam Lancaster now have a brewing space in Pawtucket and, at the time of this interview, taps in 20 local restaurants and cafes. Given their explosive growth, from half a keg to 90 to 100 kegs a week, they’ll have added to that number by the time this issue goes to print. Jeans, hats and tats: It’s a disarming look from two young entrepreneurs straight out of college, but their business sense and enthusiasm for opportunity is as sharp as anyone’s. I chatted with Audrey about beans, bubbles and getting busted by the boys in blue.

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You started a year ago, and now all of a sudden your taps seem to be following me around the state. What do you attribute this explosive growth to? Really, it’s been customer-driven. People have told their favorite restaurants, “You know, a Nitro Cart tap would look awesome here.” Mostly we’ve had restaurant owners reach out to us to say, “We’ve heard a lot about you guys, we’ve had a lot of customers asking to put a nitro tap in, we want to talk.” It’s been awesome; it’s growing super fast and we’re super excited about it. There’s something really grabby about just-poured nitro brew; is this a product that sells itself? There’s a total allure to taps. The drink you’re going to be getting is super cold when it comes out, which I like. It pours with a cascade, like a Guinness, so I think the visual appeal of it has something to do with it. [But] I think our signature taste is even more important. All the time people come up to the cart and say they’ve had nitro in New York and LA, all over, and they’re like, “Yours is the best.”

Audrey Finocchiaro and Sam Lancaster, founders of Nitro Cart

We have this Italian guy that comes to the cart every day. He says, “American coffee is crap, but not yours.” Did you have any growing pains when you were just starting out? When we first started out, we popped up right outside the Superman Building downtown. We had driven around a few days before, trying to find the spots with the most walking traffic. We thought, “This is amazing, I don’t know why there’s no other carts or food trucks over here, great.” We popped up there, [and] on the first day we did amazing, sold out, far past what we expected. The next day we showed up, and then shortly after the cops came and said, “You guys can’t be here.” What’s next for you two? Have you thought about your own retail space?

For the next year or two we’re focused on getting to as many restaurants as we can, so as many people as possible can get to our product. We’ve talked about in the future doing something more like a brewery, maybe some alcoholic drinks, with coffees, teas and lemonade on tap. That’s something we’ve played with. We’ve definitely talked about expanding so that our wholesale clients can choose varieties, kind of like a craft brewery. They could pick our signature blend, or a blend that brings out more sweetness, or a lighter blend, to give them more of a variety. What beans make for good nitro brew? It was a lot of trial and error, with the help of our roaster. Ultimately, we decided on pulling in seven different blends from all over. We created this custom oneof-a-kind blend that brings out tones of

cocoa and smooth natural flavors. We always recommend that if you are doing your own cold brew at home, to use a dark roast and a coarse grind; that tends to bring out the best, smooth flavor. Our roaster is Ken Rathers – he runs Rhody Roasters. He’s amazing, and has become a really good friend of ours. It’s been awesome to support a local person, because that’s what we really care about. We started getting one small bag of coffee every four weeks; now we get 60 bags of coffee every four days. He’s really excited too.

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Chez Pascal’s Ode to Tomatoes The French restaurant celebrates its 15th annual Tomato Dinner By Grace Lentini

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There’s always a ton of excitement around Chez Pascal’s (Chez-Pascal.com) annual Tomato Dinner. Once a year, the restaurant goes all out to celebrate the humble tomato with five creative courses. This is the 15th anniversary of the Tomato Dinner, and chef/owner Matt Gennuso is celebrating in part by growing a tomato garden with 23 different types of tomatoes on the roof of the restaurant. Why create an entire dinner series around the tomato? The answer lies in that once-a-season flavor that only a ripe tomato offers. Matt uses fresh and local produce; you’d be hard-pressed to find anything out of season on the Chez Pascal menu. Now’s the time to feature tomatoes and they’ve got so many fun names, too – like Candy Striped, San Marzano, Indian Moon, Sunrise Bumble Bee and Purple Tiger. The Tomato Dinner is an homage to the flavors that come through and really shine at harvest time. Previous Tomato Dinners have showcased tomatoes in a number of ways, including by incorporating them into dessert: Matt has baked a Tomato Clafoutis – a shortbread cookie with tomato jam in the middle – and a Green Tomato Mincemeat Tart with ginger ice cream and ginger poached cherry tomatoes. On the savory side, he’s made a Tomato and Pork Sausage served with cheese curds and potatoes, braised in tomato and topped with eggplant and tomato relish. As we go to press, the date and price for the Tomato Dinner are still TBA. So much depends on the produce he can get from area farmers. Stay tuned for announcements on Chez Pascal’s website, or sign up for their newsletter to be the first to know the details.

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food trucks are gaining accessibility to the hungry masses. Here are two new venues to try out a truck for the first time or revisit a favorite. Lounging poolside at Aqua in the Providence Marriott Downtown (MarriottProvidence.com) is a welcome respite from the blazing city heat. Aqua has drink specials, spa services, fire pits and – the newest addition – food trucks. Pool guests can grab a bite every Wednesday from 5 to 8pm during Poolside Street Eats, then return to the shade of their umbrellas to chow down. The parking is free, the water is cool and the food is delicious. As if you needed a reason to stop by Hot Club (HotClubProv.com) in the summer, they’ve recently added Food Truck Sunday Funday to their weekly schedule. From 4 to 7pm, foodies can choose from an array of curbside cuisines to snack on against the backdrop of the Providence River and skyline. Unlike the food truck selection, the jovial atmosphere never changes.

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The Rosendale Bar and grill with welcoming atmosphere and creative menu. 55 Union St, Providence, 4213253. LD $-$$

DeWolf Tavern Gourmet American/ Indian fusion. 259 Thames St, Bristol, 254-2005. BLD $$-$$$

The Salted Slate An agri-driven American restaurant with global influences. 186 Wayland Ave, Providence, 270-3737. BrLD $$-$$$

Ichigo Ichie Traditional Japanese cuisine, creative sushi and hibachi. 5 Catamore Blvd, East Providence, 4355511. LD $-$$$

The Villa Restaurant & Banquet Facility Family Italian restaurant with live music and entertainment. 272 Cowesett Ave, West Warwick, 821-0060. D $-$$

Jacky’s Galaxie Local Pan-Asian chain offering sushi and classic entrees in a modern atmosphere. Locations in Providence, North Providence, Bristol and Cumberland, JackysGalaxie.com. LD $-$$$

The Village Lively bar and grill with comfort fare, bar bites and beer. 373 Richmond St, Providence, 228-7222. BrLD $-$$ Tortilla Flats Fresh Mexican, Cajun and Southwestern fare, cocktails and over 70 tequilas. 355 Hope St, Providence, 751-6777. LD $-$$ Trinity Brewhouse American pub fare and craft beer in a downtown setting, with lunch, dinner and late-night menus. 186 Fountain Street, Providence, 4532337. LD $-$$ Tony’s Colonial Specialty store offering the finest imported and domestic Italian foods. 311 Atwells Ave, Providence, 6218675. $-$$$ Twin Oaks Family restaurant serving an extensive selection of Italian and American staples. 100 Sabra St, Cranston, 781-9693. LD $-$$$ The Vig Contemporary sports bar with craft tavern fare. 21 Atwells Ave, Providence, 709-0347. LD $-$$ Vinya Test Kitchen Vegan cuisine accompanied by creative mocktails (BYOB). 225A Westminster St, Providence, 500-5189. D $-$$ XO Cafe Acclaimed farm-to-table cuisine with a fantastic Sunday #PajamaBrunch.

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August music | performance | social happenings | galleries | sports

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The third annual Providence Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival (FoodTruckFestivalsOfAmerica.com) is happening in India Point Park, bringing together local favorite food trucks with as-of-yet-untasted-in-these-parts trucks from Boston and beyond, plus dozens of craft breweries. August 5

When The Nightlife Orchestra (KimberlyMcHale.com) performs on Wednesday nights in DePasquale Square, it’s everything great about summer in Providence: live music, dinner and dancing by the fountain under a sky full of twinkling lights. August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

The Sankofa World Market (Facebook: Sankofa Initiative) is a celebration of global food, culture and community, every Wednesday night this month in front of the Knight Memorial Library in Elmwood. August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

The Greg Abate Jazz Quartet makes an appearance at the final Concert Under the Elms (RIHS.org) of the season. Settle in for some jazz in the shade, while enjoying some food truck eats on the historic John Brown House lawn. August 3

Movies on the Block (MoviesOnTheBlock.com) goes super highbrow and super lowbrow this month, starting with Moonlight and going all the way down to Dumb and Dumber, followed by Do the Right Thing, Stir Crazy and Raging Bull. August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

WaterFire’s (WaterFire.org) only August lighting is on Saturday, August 5. Hep C Hope: A WaterFire Lighting for Rhode Island Defeats Hep C is going to be way more fun than it sounds, with street performers, food vendors and a full river lighting. August 5

Have fun, fun, fun when you take your T-Bird – or any classic car worth showing off – to the Ed Lang Memorial Car Show at Lang’s Bowlarama (LangsBowlarama.com) in Cranston. The fundraiser for the RI Community Food Bank will be giving away trophies for the grooviest cars. August 6 During the day, AS220 Foo Fest (AS220.org) is a kid-friendly block party full of entertainment, DIY crafts and a parade. By night, it’s a bumping dance party, with a killer lineup of local and regional bands, plus delicious cocktails right on the street. August 12 H.P. Lovecraft is Providence’s weirdest native son, and NecronomiCon (NecronomiCon-Providence.com) celebrates all things weird and wonderful about the famed horror writer. The celebration includes events like the Eldritch Ball for the, shall we say, Cthulhu enthusiasts. August 17–20

Once the sun goes down at Roger Williams Park Zoo (RWPZoo.org), the beers start flowing for Brew At the Zoo. The 21+ event offers samplings of over 100 different beers from 70 brewers, plus live music and animal encounters. August 26

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LIPPITT HOUSE MUSEUM August 5: Little Compton Antiques Festival and Classic Auto Show. Third Saturday of the month: Tours from 10AM–2PM. 199 Hope Street, Providence. Through October 27: The Art of Dining: A Taste of Providence’s Golden Age. 453-0688, LippittHouse.org MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM Saturdays and Sundays: Public Planetarium Shows. 1000 Elmwood Avenue, Providence. 785-9457, ProvidenceRI.gov/Museum PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY LIBRARY August 2: Fiddle N’ Fun. August 7: Zombie Survival Course with Matthew Gabriel. August 9: Cradle to Crayons. August 10: Rochambeau Readers Book Discussion. August 15: Spiritual Book Discussion. August 25: La Leche League RI. Wednesdays: Preschool Storytime and Poetry Group. Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope Street, Providence. 272-3780, ProvComLib.org

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GALLERIES RISD MUSEUM August 17: Think and Drink: Roman Visages and Vintages. Through December 3: Altered States: Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris. July 14– February 4: Stranger than Paradise. 20 North Main Street, Providence. 454-6530, RISDMuseum.org ARTPROV GALLERY Through August 19: Figure and Form. 150 Chestnut Street, Providence. 641-5182, ArtProvidence.com PROVIDENCE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS Through August 11: Member Showcase. 118 North Main Street, Providence. ProvidencePhoto.org GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE August 17: Monthly Open Gallery. Various locations. GalleryNight.org GALLERY Z Through August 6: Local Artists. August 10–September 3: Cityscapes – Streetscapes. Reception August 17. 259 Atwells Avenue, Providence. 454-8844, GalleryZProv.com

SPORTS PAWSOX August 1–3: vs. Syracuse. August 7–9: vs. Charlotte. August 10–13: vs. Columbus. August 21–24: vs. Buffalo. August 25–27: vs. Lehigh Valley. 1 Columbus Avenue, Pawtucket. 7247300, PawSox.com

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Round Again Records needs your used CDs and records. Cash paid. Call 351-6292.

DOROTHYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CLEANING

HOUSE CLEANING

We clean your home as our own! References & free estimates. Call 401-524-7453 or 401-228-6273.

Experienced. Local references. Free estimates. Call Lilly, 401-419-2933.

BUSINESS SERVICES PROPERTY MANAGER

DINNER/COCKTAIL PARTY?

Available. On call 24/7. Rent collection. Rentals, evictions, maintenance. Call 421-0092.

Professional Chef services available. Excellent references. Call 401-219-6375.

AUDIO/VIDEO HELP

LEATHERWORKS, LLC

If you need some help with your TV, home theater or stereo, call me at 401-383-4102. Jon Bell, Simply Sight & Sound. Reasonable rates. 30 years of experience.

A leather and vinyl restoration company. We specialize in furniture, automobiles, boats and aircraft. Visit us at LeatherWorksRI.com, or call Robert at 401 837-0548.

Brier & Brier Insurance and Employee Benefits

Are You Nearing Retirement?

Jeffrey G. Brier CLU, ChFC, CASL 81 S. Angell Street, Providence, RI 02906 jbrier@brier-brier.com 401-751-2990 Serving the East Side for over 20 years!

JOBS BY JIM Cellars & Attics Cleaned Unwanteds Removed

Estate Cleaning Cell 401-742-7258 Reg. #4614

LAWN CARE

Vinnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Landscaping & BOBCAT SERVICE

New Lawns Installed Seed or Sod â&#x2014;? Mulch Power Raking Augering Hammering

Rototilling â&#x2014;? Screened Loam â&#x2014;? Etc.

Free Estimates

497-1461 â&#x2014;? 231-1851

PARKING SENIOR CARE OVERNIGHT ELDER CARE Very kind, patient, mature woman seeks position with elderly person. Intelligent, cheerful, reliable, with 25 years experience, including several long-term positions. Impeccable references. 781-3392 or 497-3392.

KIND CARE ~ SENIORS Appointments, errands, shopping, cleaning & maint. Refs. Safety bars installed. Reg #3052. 559-0848.

REAL ESTATE

PARKING/STORAGE Benefit St. (north end), $95/mo. Call Roger, 339-4068. rogernc@mac.com

Advertise in the

Marketplace for as low as

$15! Go to

www.EastSideMonthly.com/ Marketplace.html to reserve your space.

OR Please Email Sue at: sueh@rhodybeat.com

Deadline for

East Side Marketplace

is the first of the month prior

THE EAST SIDER Pat Zacks of Hope Street’s Camera Werks

Pat Zacks Preserves the East Side’s Memories With more than 30 years

at its Hope Street location, The Camera Werks (TheCameraWerks.com) is a veritable East Side institution, surviving all but a small handful of businesses in the district. Pat Zacks is its founder and sole proprietor, and although she technically lives in Pawtucket, she’s spent most of the last 30 years at the storefront. The business grew out of a casual hobby: Zacks enjoyed photographing her then-small children using a simple 35mm handheld camera. “I had time on my hands,” says Zacks, and she simply enjoyed “being creative.” But in 1981, she made the hobby official and started The Camera Werks out of her home. In 1987, she moved the business to Hope Street.

East Side Monthly August 2017

In its early years, the shop was completely dedicated to photography, with cases full of equipment, multiple employees and camera repair services. But as digital rose to prominence at the turn of the century and shopping moved online and to large chains, Zacks had to adapt. Some older equipment, film and accessories are still available for purchase in a case towards the back of the store – the section’s “now called vintage,” Zacks says. The street itself has changed significantly as well; more than 150 businesses have come and gone during Zacks’ time on Hope. The overarching goal of Zacks’ business is “preserving memories,” whether through framing, storage or

digital or analog photographs. The shop’s upper walls are lined with professional photographic portraits of celebrities, as well as natural vistas and landscapes by local photographers, including Jesse Nemerofsky and Brian Hall. The Camera Werks has hosted photography contests and awards ceremonies; the first one took place in 1999 in collaboration with East Side Monthly. “We’ve always done networking here with local people who can share their knowledge and experience with the average customer,” Zacks says. “We’ve got a lot of talented people in this city.” In addition to running the store, Zacks is a founding member and serves as president emeritus of the

Pawtucket Arts Collaborative. She is chairperson of the Pawtucket Hall of Fame Committee and has helped to organize the Pawtucket Arts Festival, Slater Park Festival and the City of Pawtucket Annual Photo Contest. She continues to work with students in Pawtucket Public Schools, teaching them photography using 35mm disposable cameras. If you had one wish to enhance life on the East Side, what would it be? That everyone would continue to take photos and document their memories and cherish them. Photographic images are powerful tools; they take us to a different place or time and reveal individual stories. Young or old, everyone has a story to tell.

Photography by Ian Travis Barnard

By Amanda M. Grosvenor

N E W P ORT

NARRAGANSETT

PROVIDENCE

B LO C K I S L A N D

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WATC H H I L L

EAST SIDE

EAST SIDE - SPANISH REVIVAL

J A M E S TO W N

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WATERPLACE CONDO | WEB ID: 1163146 $375,000 | 401.274.1644

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SOLD

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PROVIDENCE

SOLD

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PAWTUCKET - OAK HILL

WARREN - TOUISSET

3 BED COLONIAL

WATERFRONT ESTATE SOLD AT $1,600,000 | 401.274.1644

SOLD AT $370,000 | 401.274.1644

369 SOUTH MAIN ST

401.274.1644

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