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Contents
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August 2011
29 This Month 29 Putting the Fun in Funding Creative local projects get Kickstarted
33 Dine Differently Break out of your comfort (food) zone
Every Month 8 Editor’s Note 11 Feedback
33 41 City Style Word art with a local twist 42 The Look 44 Beauty 47 Shop Talk
49 Feast Hip Korean and Japanese fare in Downcity 43 In the Kitchen 44 On the Menu 46 Behind the Bar 49 In the Drink 50 Review 52 Dining Guide
65 Get Out Our favorite downtown block party returns 66 Calendar 69 Art 62 Art 70 Music 73 Theater 74 Movies
68 The Last Detail Fifteen years of film appreciation
19 Providence Pulse The fashionistas take over PPAC
On the Cover: Photography by Melissa Stimpson.
20 City 22 Malcontent 24 Scene in PVD
Shot on location at Russel Morin Fine Catering.
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Editor’s Note
Providence MONTHLY
Publishers Barry Fain Richard Fleischer John Howell Publishing Director Jeanette St. Pierre Executive Editor Julie Tremaine Special Projects Manager John Taraborelli Art Director Alli Coate
Good Taste in Providence Dining out is kind of
our favorite subject around here. Whether we’re chasing down the newest food truck before it’s actually on the road or revisiting classic white-tablecloth restaurants, it seems like we’re always talking about what’s good in the city’s culinary landscape. That’s why we’re so excited about this month’s cover story, The Guide to Dining Well. Our take on dining out is all about reconsidering how you eat – from giving your Sunday over to a leisurely brunch (instead of a rushed breakfast before errands) to tossing out the idea
Assistant Art Director Karli Hendrickson Advertising Design Director Layheang Meas
of ordering an entrée in favor of sharing lots of smaller plates with your dinner companions. You’ll still have your favorites, but we think it’s time to mix up your traditional routine. Because really, there’s no better place to have a truly epicurean meal than in Providence. Bon appétit.
Graphic Designer Meghan H. Follett Account Managers Louann DiMuccio-Darwich Ann Gallagher Nicole Greenspun Nellie Lima Dan Schwartz Sharon Sylvester Elizabeth Riel Jessica Webb Illustrators Karli Hendrickson Ashley MacLure Photographers Kate Kelley Jonathan Beller Laurel Mulherin Mike Braca Tim Siekiera Irina Deygyrtova Melissa Stimpson Stacey Doyle
Contributor Benjamin Goulet Writer
Benjamin Goulet is a new contributor, who makes his PM debut this month
Contributing Writers Andrea E. McHugh Linda Beaulieu Stephanie Obodda Emily Dietsch Cristy Raposo Scott Duhamel Jen Senecal Dawn Keable Alyssa Smith Molly Lederer Vikki Warner Michael Madden Daniel McGowan Interns Emily Nissensohn Thomas Anderson Chelsea Sherman Erin DeVito Christopher Sionni Nathaniel Fuller Kim Tingle Devin Karambelas Rebekah Lindquist
with a feature on creative local projects that have been funded by Kickstarter,
Members of:
an online micro-funding platform. In his free time, Benjamin enjoys writing, traveling, playing guitar and brewing beer. A Rhode Island native, he lives with his wife Melissa in Providence. Of his article, he says, “The subjects in my piece were inspiring and left me feeling hopeful for the future of Providence, and for Rhode Island as a whole. The amazing projects I highlight capture why Kickstarter has grown so quickly and has developed such a passionate fan base. Even in these troubled times when money is tight, people still support beautiful things – be it art, film or local agriculture.”
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Feedback Where Is the Pride? I was surprised and disappointed that in your inaugural Superlative Issue (July 2011) you didn’t report a major happening in Providence on June 18. On the 35th Annual Gay Pride Day, the Rhode Island Pride Committee once again surpassed previous years’ observances. The Pride Festival on South Water Street was a grand celebration. Crowds toured the booths of agencies, organizations, churches, corporations and vendors – all showing their pride in supporting equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Headline entertainers performed. In the evening, the Pride Parade marched musically through Downcity, undaunted by road construction. This mammoth event is mounted every year by committed volunteers who show their professionalism every step of the way. The Greater Providence chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) had an outreach booth at PrideFest, as we do each year. We show our pride in our children in this way, and we seek out families who need support on the journey to acceptance of their gay children. We tell them about our monthly support meetings and assure them they will be welcome.
I hope next year we can see a report and photos of June’s PrideFest in your July edition. Myra Shays President PFLAG/Greater Providence www.pfagprovidence.org
A Superlative Achievement I just wanted to drop a quick thank you for the Providence Monthly cover (“The Superlative Issue,” July 2011) and all the good ink inside. It’s been a wonderful year, and I’ve been very fortunate to have all of these theatrical opportunities. It’s also nice to be recognized for these accomplishments, and while it still makes me blush, I do really appreciate it.
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Important Safety Information What is the most important information you should know about Dysport? Spread of Toxin Effects: In some cases, the effects of Dysport and all botulinum toxin products may affect areas of the body away from the injection site. These effects can cause symptoms of a serious condition called botulism. Symptoms of botulism can happen hours to weeks after injection and may include swallowing and breathing problems, loss of strength and muscle weakness all over the body, double vision, blurred vision and drooping eyelids, hoarseness or change or loss of voice, trouble saying words clearly, or loss of bladder control. Swallowing and breathing problems can be life threatening and there have been reports of death. The risk of symptoms is probably greatest in children and adults treated for muscle spasms, particularly in those patients who have underlying medical conditions that could make these symptoms more likely. The toxic effects have been reported at doses similar to those used to treat muscle spasms in the neck. Lower doses, in both approved and unapproved uses, have also caused toxic effects. This includes treatment of children and adults for muscle spasms. These effects could make it unsafe for you to drive a car, operate machinery, or do other dangerous activities. Do not have Dysport treatment if you: are allergic to Dysport or any of its
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MEDICATION GUIDE Dysport ® (DIS-port) (abobotulinumtoxinA) Injection Read the Medication Guide that comes with Dysport before you start using it and each time Dysport is given to you. There may be new information. This information does not take the place of talking with your doctor about your medical condition or your treatment. You should share this information with your family members and caregivers. What is the most important information I should know about Dysport ? Dysport may cause serious side effects that can be life threatening. Call your doctor or get medical help right away if you have any of these problems after treatment with Dysport : • Problems swallowing, speaking, or breathing. These problems can happen hours to weeks after an injection of Dysport usually because the muscles that you use to breathe and swallow can become weak after the injection. Death can happen as a complication if you have severe problems with swallowing or breathing after treatment with Dysport. • People with certain breathing problems may need to use muscles in their neck to help them breathe. These patients may be at greater risk for serious breathing problems with Dysport. • Swallowing problems may last for several weeks. People who can not swallow well may need a feeding tube to receive food and water. If swallowing problems are severe, food or liquids may go into your lungs. People who already have swallowing or breathing problems before receiving Dysport have the highest risk of getting these problems. • Spread of toxin effects. In some cases, the effect of botulinum toxin may affect areas of the body away from the injection site and cause symptoms of a serious condition called botulism. The symptoms of botulism include: • loss of strength and muscle weakness all over the body • double vision • blurred vision and drooping eyelids • hoarseness or change or loss of voice (dysphonia) • trouble saying words clearly (dysarthria) • loss of bladder control • trouble breathing • trouble swallowing These symptoms can happen hours to weeks after you receive an injection of Dysport. These problems could make it unsafe for you to drive a car or do other dangerous activities. See “What should I avoid while receiving Dysport ?”. What is Dysport ? Dysport is a prescription medicine that is injected into muscles and used:
• to treat the abnormal head position and neck pain that happens with cervical dystonia (CD) in adults • to improve the look of moderate to severe frown lines between the eyebrows (glabellar lines) in adults younger than 65 years of age for a short period of time (temporary) CD is caused by muscle spasms in the neck. These spasms cause abnormal position of the head and often neck pain. After Dysport is injected into muscles, those muscles are weakened for up to 12 to 16 weeks or longer. This may help lessen your symptoms. Frown lines (wrinkles) happen because the muscles that control facial expression are used often (muscle tightening over and over). After Dysport is injected into the muscles that control facial expression, the medicine stops the tightening of these muscles for up to 4 months. It is not known whether Dysport is safe or effective in children under 18 years of age. It is not known whether Dysport is safe or effective for the treatment of other types of muscle spasms. It is not known whether Dysport is safe or effective for the treatment of other wrinkles. Who should not take Dysport ? Do not take Dysport if you: • are allergic to Dysport or any of the ingredients in Dysport. See the end of this Medication Guide for a list of ingredients in Dysport • are allergic to cow’s milk protein • had an allergic reaction to any other botulinum toxin product such as Myobloc®* or Botox®* • have a skin infection at the planned injection site What should I tell my doctor before taking Dysport ? Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions, including if you have: • a disease that affects your muscles and nerves (such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease], myasthenia gravis or Lambert-Eaton syndrome). See “What is the most important information I should know about Dysport ?” • allergies to any botulinum toxin product • had any side effect from any botulinum toxin product in the past • a breathing problem, such as asthma or emphysema • swallowing problems • bleeding problems • diabetes • a slow heart beat or other problem with your heart rate or rhythm • plans to have surgery • had surgery on your face • weakness of your forehead muscles (such as trouble raising your eyebrows) • drooping eyelids
• any other change in the way your face normally looks Tell your doctor if you: • are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if Dysport can harm your unborn baby • are breast-feeding or planning to breast-feed. It is not known if Dysport passes into breast milk Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins and herbal and other natural products. Using Dysport with certain other medicines may cause serious side effects. Do not start any new medicines while taking Dysport without talking to your doctor first. Especially tell your doctor if you: • have received any other botulinum toxin product in the last four months • have received injections of botulinum toxin, such as Myobloc® (Botulinum Toxin Type B)* or Botox® (Botulinum Toxin Type A)* in the past; be sure your doctor knows exactly which product you received • have recently received an antibiotic by injection • take muscle relaxants • take an allergy or cold medicine • take a sleep medicine Ask your doctor if you are not sure if your medicine is one that is listed above. Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of your medicines with you to show your doctor and pharmacist each time you get a new medicine. How should I take Dysport ? • Dysport is an injection that your doctor will give you • Dysport is injected into the affected muscles • Your doctor may give you another dose of Dysport after 12 weeks or longer, if it is needed • If you are being treated for CD, your doctor may change your dose of Dysport, until you and your doctor find the best dose for you • The dose of Dysport is not the same as the dose of any other botulinum toxin product What should I avoid while taking Dysport ? Dysport may cause loss of strength or general muscle weakness, blurred vision, or drooping eyelids within hours to weeks of taking Dysport. If this happens, do not drive a car, operate machinery, or do other dangerous activities. See “What is the most important information I should know about Dysport ?” What are the possible side effects of Dysport ? Dysport can cause serious side effects. See “What is the most important information I should know about Dysport ?”
Other side effects of Dysport include: • dry mouth • injection site discomfort or pain • tiredness • headache • neck pain • muscle pain • eye problems: double vision, blurred vision, decreased eyesight, problems with focusing the eyes (accommodation), drooping eyelids, swelling of the eyelids • allergic reactions. Symptoms of an allergic reaction to Dysport may include: itching, rash, red itchy welts, wheezing, asthma symptoms, or dizziness or feeling faint. Tell your doctor or get medical help right away if you get wheezing or asthma symptoms, or if you get dizzy or faint Tell your doctor if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of Dysport. For more information, ask your doctor or pharmacist. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. General information about Dysport : Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Medication Guide. This Medication Guide summarizes the most important information about Dysport. If you would like more information, talk with your doctor. You can ask your doctor or pharmacist for information about Dysport that is written for healthcare professionals. For more information about Dysport call 877-397-7671 or go to www.Dysport.com or www.DysportUSA.com. What are the ingredients in Dysport ? Active ingredient: (botulinum toxin Type A) Inactive ingredients: human albumin, and lactose. Dysport may contain cow’s milk protein. Issued May 2009 This Medication Guide has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Distributed by: Tercica, Inc. a subsidiary of the Ipsen Group Brisbane, CA 94005 and Medicis Aesthetics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation Scottsdale, AZ 85256 * All trademarks are the property of their respective owners
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Roger Williams Park Zoo bus stop, an adorable burnt orange shelter that features a large black cutout of a bear and a giraffe on either side. The TransART program is funded mostly (approximately 80%) by RIPTA, but is dependent on the partnering agency/community for the remaining 20%. Future projects are also planned for bus shelters on Hope Street and in Pascoag. Public transportation has never been so stylish. For more information, call 784-9500 ext.148. –Devin Karambelas
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The Block Is Hot August is hot. In what is typically the hottest month of the year, you’re probably focused on taking every possible opportunity to hit Route 4 and head for the cool respite of South County beaches. The sweltering concrete jungle is not your ideal place to spend your leisure time. While that might work on the weekends, what about during the week when you’re still in need of some fun and relaxation, but don’t have time to pack a cooler and a beach bag? That’s the time to take advantage of all fantastic, and free, programming around downtown this month – most of which happens as the sun goes down and temperatures cool just a little. First up is Kennedy Plaza, the hub of downtown activity. This month, the Thursday night Burnside Park Beer Garden Music Series welcomes the “frantic electronics” that “give
way to easygoing riffs” of New Jersey’s Delicate Steve (August 4), and then goes local with our own soul and Americana sensation Boo City (August 18) and the polyrhythmic world beats of AS220’s Criss Cross Orchestra (August 25). From 4:307pm, you can enjoy Trinity Brewhouse beer and free music. Other weekly events at Kennedy Plaza and the adjoining skating rink include KidoInfo Providence Storytime for children and families, every Thursday from 10:3011:30am (plus After Storytime Fun from 11:30am-12:30pm); Fountain of Youth Skateboarding night, with ramps and skateboarding in the rink every Thursday from 5-9pm; and the Downtown Farmer’s Market every Friday from 11am-2pm. See kennedyplaza.org for more info on any or all of these events.
Elsewhere downtown, Grant’s Block (corner of Union and Westminster Streets, across from Tazza) hosts a Movies On the Block lineup that is decidedly for adults only: the Farrelly Brothers’ classic There’s Something About Mary (August 4), Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-winning bank heist drama Dog Day Afternoon (August 11), the second most successful R-rated comedy of all time (bested by its own sequel), The Hangover (August 18), and the post-apocalyptic Australian action flick Mad Max (August 25). The free movies begin every Thursday at dusk. Also on Grant’s Block, the comically-named teams of the Providence Downcity Bocce League face off Tuesdaysdays, with the end of
the regular season on August 14, and makeup games and playoffs commencing thereafter. Cheer on your favorite team, whether it’s Biocce, That’s Bocce Said or last-place underdogs (as of press time) This American Bocce. Go to providence bocce.com for the full schedule. Finally, the free monthly forum for sharing ideas PechaKucha (think of it like show-and-tell for grownups) hosts its first-ever PechaKucha On the Block at Grant’s Block on Wednesday, August 24. Presentations begin at 8:20, and things could get interesting if the presenters don’t stay properly hydrated. Check the “Pecha Kucha Providence” Facebook group for details.
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August 7, check out the action along the race route all around downtown. Cheer on the racers and listen to some great live music along the way, with local bands headlining at over 16 different locations. Finally, make your way to the finish line in front of the State House where Sugar Ray will be performing a free live concert. There’s no better way to spend a summer morning than cheering on your local athletes and musicians alike – and don’t be afraid to do a little dancing in the streets. Race commences at 7am and finishes at 9am. runrocknroll.competitor.com/providence –Emily Nissensohn
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for Italian food often, nor do I spend much time on Federal Hill – two facts people find a bit surprising when they try to square them with the number of vowels in my last name. The vast majority of my heritage is Italian (with a dash of French-Canadian for good measure). I identify as ItalianAmerican. However, I don’t identify with a large number of – or at least the most conspicuous among them – my so-called paisans. There are Italian-American antidefamation groups that get up in arms every time some movie or pop culture phenomenon like The Sopranos or Jersey Shore depicts our people in what they consider a negative light. This ignores the real problem, however, that these depictions are depressingly true to life. A lot of our own kind, through their behavior, attitudes and modes of dress, depict Italian-Americans in a more negative light than any TV show ever has, simply by existing. Say what you will about Tony Soprano as an archetypical signifier for our culture, but that spiky-haired cafone strutting around Federal Hill in his whiteand-gold sunglasses and pink shirt unbuttoned halfway down his chest, shouting obscenities into his phone while he waits for the valet to bring around his Cadillac Escalade with the Italian flag bumper sticker – well, he’s a real person and he made a life choice to be that guy. The problem is that we have an entire generation – perhaps more – of Italian-Americans who not only think they’re Italian Italian, but learned everything they know about being Italian from mob movies and TV. I love Martin Scorsese’s pictures as much as anyone, but if you think his characters and stories are a blueprint for how to conduct your life, you’ve missed the point entirely.
You’re part of the problem. We’re stuck in a cultural feedback loop, in which the worst stereotypes associated with our culture are broadcast to an eager public, which in turn validates and encourages those real life Italian-Americans who are all too quick to adopt these caricatures as a viable lifestyle choice. Real life guidos on the real life Jersey Shore beget TV guidos on the TV version of Jersey Shore, which in turn begets a newer, more potent strain of real life guido-ism that spills out into real life places like the Jersey Shore and Federal Hill, where guys who want to look and act like Pauly D “creep on” girls who want to look and act like strippers, and everyone wants to act like a camera crew is following them around. It’s a grotesquerie of un-self-conscious poseurs, Mickey Mouse spacones who think that putting on a gaudy track suit, talking with their hands and adopting a cocky attitude makes them Joe F—kin’ Pesci, and girls who think that squeezing into a skin-tight animal print dress, cursing like truckers and behaving like attention-craving “Italian Princesses” will earn them a spot on the next season of VH1’s Mob Wives. It all makes me think back to the 1990 mob comedy My Blue Heaven, starring Steve Martin as a wiseguy. It’s a grossly oversimplified, onenote, condescending portrayal of an Italian-American, as is the movie as a whole. I love it though. I might be inclined to take offense if I didn’t see real Italian-Americans who are the living, breathing embodiments of such grossly oversimplified, one-note, condescending portrayals every day. The only thing I didn’t understand is why they didn’t get an actor of Italian descent to play the lead role. But then, he probably would have been too cartoonish to be believable.
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dream up an arts and literature magazine for gay men. A Providence-based filmmaker documents the untold story of her uncle. A self-described “architectural artist” begins work on a West Side garden collective and cooperative grocery store in one of the toughest business climates in Rhode Island history. This patchwork of disparate projects shares a common thread: each was partially funded through a website called Kickstarter. Launched in April of 2009, Kickstarter.com is a “funding platform” where artists and other cultural creatives can receive donations to help “kickstart” a project. Each project has a monetary goal and a deadline to reach it. If the goal
Last year, at a private book reading in New York City, writer Matthew Lawrence met one of the founders of Kickstarter and was intrigued by its visionary concept. Lawrence returned to Providence and shared what he learned with his friends, Jason Tranchida and Matthew Underwood, both talented graphic designers based on Federal Hill. The three men had been bouncing around the idea of a new magazine for gay men; a glossy biannual of art, writing and photography. As with most ambitious projects, startup money was tight. Motivated by the stories Lawrence had heard about Kickstarter, they decided to give it a shot. With little to no expectations, they named their magazine Headmaster and their Kickstarter page began taking donations in the late spring of 2010. Their page plays on the school theme: backer reward levels had titles such as “honor roll” and “valedictorian,” and rewards included pencils and notebooks with the Headmaster name on them. Their video shows a man in academic tweed frantically typing a letter to a lost love. Droll, yet oddly compelling, the video explains nothing
about the magazine at all. When asked about the cryptic message, the three men laugh. “We didn’t know what the magazine was going to look like until we saw how much money we made,” Lawrence said. “It was a hell of a lot more fun than sitting around a table explaining why we wanted to do a magazine,” adds Tranchida. The combination of smart writing, quirky outreach, and fun rewards paid off. On June 15, 2010, Headmaster Magazine became the first funded Kickstarter project based in Providence. Funds came in from all over the globe, from Providence and New York to Ireland and Australia, primarily from backers the Headmaster crew didn’t even know. When the deadline was reached, the men were both heartened and astonished. They exceeded their initial goal by 64%, with funds totaling nearly $5000. The donations helped pay for printing and distribution costs; the inaugural issue is currently distributed to cities across the United States and Europe. The group is nearing completion of their second issue, which is available for pre-order.
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Promises within families can have unsettling consequences, but Ali Boyd made a promise to her adopted sister to unravel the secret history of Peter Kelley, her sister’s father. Kelley had abandoned his daughter when she was a child; she was subsequently raised by Boyd’s parents. It was a promise of unlikely fulfillment. Boyd had grown up to see her “uncle” as “a shadow in her life” and only fragments of a story existed, like a tale whispered through tin can telephones across family tree houses. Was he really
a hash smuggling kingpin wanted by the FBI for selling acid at the University of Rhode Island? Is it true that he got a major label record deal as a gritty 1960s folksinger? Choosing documentary film as the medium to tell Kelley’s story, Boyd recruited two notable locals, Alec K. Redfearn and Ben Leadbetter, to assist her. The group convened a budget meeting and as the cost of the project became clear, Boyd turned to Kickstarter as a way to raise money for her
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sense that we got the financial support we did. It’s become a labor of love for a lot of people.” With each new interview, each new reel of 8mm footage and studio outtake discovered, and each old friend or acquaintance relating their memories, the messy disentangling of man and myth has become a story in which Boyd, her film team, and her Kickstarter backers have gotten heavily invested. In many ways, Boyd’s film is Kickstarter’s mission incarnate: a place where art, commerce and community intersect to help create some-
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Imagine a collectively owned garden with an adjoining grocery store that sells fresh food and other healthy products, all conveniently located on the West Side. The dream is one step closer to reality, thanks to Michael Giroux and his backers on Kickstarter. Fertile Underground is a burgeoning cooperative business that is collectively owned, built and maintained by a team of 30 gardeners, artists and trades people. Giroux is becoming a local pioneer of “co-ops,” focusing on how alternative commerce can survive, even thrive, in a global capitalist economy. He has studied alongside well-established cooperative groups located in the Bay Area and western Massachusetts. Now, he aims to bring that spirit of collaboration and community to Providence. Startup money for any business, especially in these dismal times, is hard to come by, but on a whim, a supporter from the West
Broadway Neighborhood Association suggested Kickstarter to Giroux, who retells the story in a bemused way: “She said her brother-in-law, a soldier who had adopted a cat, raised $40,000 or something to bring his cat back from Afghanistan. So she figured we could raise money.” With nothing to lose, Giroux decided to try. One challenge for his collective, as with any Kickstarter project, was agreeing on a donation goal. If the goal is too high and you fail to meet your number, you receive no funds. Yet, the group needed a certain amount to really get their project off the ground, especially for building materials for the grounds and the grocery store. “Our original goal was $15,000 and then we [decided] to try for less so we could reach our goal,” Giroux recalls. “Really, $15,000 would have been what we needed to do it comfortably, but we understand this is
not going to be comfortable. This is a process.” The group aimed for a goal of $8,800 and was successful in raising over $13,000. One unanticipated benefit of Fertile Underground’s success on Kickstarter has been the leverage they need to overcome the inertia of city licensing and traditional lending sources. By demonstrating their ability to raise money on their own, banks have been more willing to give their business plan a second look. “It’s been great to have this amazing show of support. That is really helping us out in trying to convince lenders that the community is behind us,” Giroux enthuses. “They don’t necessarily want to invest in a place like this. To say we have 177 people who chipped in with real cash – that’s what the conversation is about with lenders. That’s been invaluable in showing the legitimacy of the project.”
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Photography by Melissa Stimpson You eat out a lot – or maybe just a little – but chances are you return to the same restaurants, even the same dishes, time and time again. It’s time to rethink your dining experience and expand your palate. Here’s how.
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What’s your advice for pairing beer with food? I choose based on the flavor profile of the beer and how it will compliment my meal. You can do this by putting likes and likes together or by pairing contrasting flavors that will work with one another in a symbiotic way. However, you have to still remember that simplicity is bliss. The three best things in life are good food, good beer and good company. The way to make them even better is to think about them as complimentary pieces. –Brian Oakley, Julian’s
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What are some good signs when you look at a menu? There are no pictures. Pictures generally mean it’s a chain restaurant and you are getting “overmarketed” with pictures of the food and the drinks splashed all over. Also, there are no hearts next to the menu item for their “heart-healthiness.” Menus shouldn’t insult the intelligence of the customer. Another example of that is recommended food and wine pairings printed on the menu. You don’t need “training wheels” in order to dine out. If none of those things are on the menu, then I’ve done all right. –Bob Burke, Pot Au Feu 34
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sharing is caring We Americans are not so big on sharing. What we are big on is big itself. Give me a mega-entree and let me eat in peace. While big portions might make us feel like we’re getting the most bang for our buck, we’re actually getting less: less variety, less opportunity to try new things without the commitment of a whole plate, less fun. Asian food cultures are big on sharing. A typical Chinese meal – meaning one eaten by Chinese people, not dinner from the takeout joint around the corner – consists not of individual entrees, but a wide assortment of family-style plates from which you can pick and pluck and nibble. Try it at Mumu Cuisine, possibly the most authentic Chinese in the city, where you and some friends can nosh on an array of dumplings, noodles, prawns, lettuce wraps and more. You’ll get
variety, a truly epicurean experience, instead of just gorging on a $7 mountain of General Tso’s Chicken with pork fried rice. 220 Atwells Ave. 3697040, mumucuisine.com Korean food is similarly made for sharing. Though there is suddenly an abundance of it in Providence, the original Sura in Johnston offers traditional Korean barbecue cooked on grills built into the tables, so you can just reach across and grab a bite with your chopsticks, along with the assortment of pickled vegetables that comes standard with every dish. 300 George Waterman Rd., Johnston. 233-7888, sura-ri.com At Italian restaurants, though you might reach across the table to try a bite of your date’s pasta, sharing usually ends at the antipasti course. But at Bacaro, you can forgo the usual three-
course progression entirely and order a selection of meats, cheeses, olives and cicchetti (Italian tapas). With options like Gorgonzola Picante-Stuffed Dates wrapped in Smoked Pancetta, Creamy Baccala with Crispy Polenta Crostini, and Fried Sage and Anchovy Sandwiches, it will not only force you to share, but teach you that there’s so much more to Italian food than chicken marsala and lobster ravioli in pink vodka sauce. 262 South Water St. 7513700, bacarorestaurant.net You can start weaning yourself off big entrees at a restaurant where small share plates are all they do. Tini’s appropriately sized portions are made for you to sample and share a variety of things like Confit Pork Tacos, Chicken Schnitzel, and, of course, their signature hot garlic fries. 200 Washington St. 383-2400, thetini.com
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How have customers’ eating habits evolved over the years?
champagne tastes in a beer atmosphere One of the most exciting food trends, not just here, but all over the world in the last ten years has been the convergence of laid back atmosphere and gourmet ambitions in a way that has blurred, or in some cases completely erased, the line between fine and casual dining. Food trucks have sprung up in every major city slinging everything from Latin-Asian fusion to artisanal sausage. David Chang set New York City abuzz serving Michelincaliber food over a counter at his famed Momofuku. Acclaimed chef and Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio opened a sandwich shop. Here in humble Providence, this trend hasn’t been quite so revolutionary, but the result has been no less outstanding. Harry’s Bar and Burger serves unpretentious burgers and fries that are carefully sourced and handmade daily from
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Hereford beef, then pairs them with an excellent selection of craft brews, European ales and cocktails that range from properly made classics (Aviation) to strokes of oddball brilliance (Bacon Bloody Mary). Oh, and there’s a big cow out front. 121 North Main St. 228-7437, harrysbarburger.com AS220 FOO(d) is a lunch counter with extravagantly low prices that is almost obsessively seasonal, constantly changing its menu to reflect what is fresh and local, throwing together strange combinations like collard greens, lentils, carrots and ginger in ways that just work beautifully. If it were in Portland, Oregon it would have already gotten a write-up in Food and Wine. The same goes for McCurdy’s Junction House, your humble neighborhood takeout joint that just happens to serve Cornish game hens. AS220: 115 Empire St. 831-3663, as220.
org; McCurdy’s: 79 Ives St. 228-3883 The Bolivian/Peruvian Los Andes is another place for neighbors and families to gather in a casual setting for simple food, like a well-cooked steak topped with fried egg. However, more adventurous eaters can try Anticuchos de Corazon (marinated, thinly sliced beef heart served with black mint sauce), or Duck Breast with Fresh Strawberries and a Melon-Midori Reduction (trust me, it works). 903 Chalkstone Ave. 6494911, losandesri.com And, of course, the food truck trend didn’t bypass the birthplace of the diner. Chez Pascal’s Hewtin’s Dogs Mobile will serve you house made rabbit sausage and bacon-wrapped pork meatloaf. On a paper plate. From the back of a truck. High-brow and low-brow don’t mix any more beautifully than that. twitter.com/ chezpascal for locations
I think there is a bar “eating culture” that has emerged over the last few years. Guests come in before or after an event for something simple, like a pizza, pasta, generous salad or app. It gives a real taste of the restaurant without breaking the bank. Lots of people prefer to eat in a less fussy way or in a less formal atmosphere now. We see it at Tini, too. In this economy quality is still important, quantity less so. –Johanne Killeen, Al Forno
How do you get good advice from your server? I always ask the server’s name first and like to build a friendly rapport with them; that is the best way to get their honest opinion about the food. I don’t say, What do you serve that is good here? That is not the way to start the conversation. I will say, I like chicken – what dish with chicken would you recommend? –Sanjiv Dhar, Rasoi August 2011 | Providence Monthly
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fine dining for less
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How do you get the best the restaurant has to offer on a given night? If ordering seafood such as fish, I ask when it was caught, when it was delivered and if it was local. I ask the same questions for different types of food as well, such as vegetables, and I don’t order those if they are out of season. –Deb Norman, Rue De L’Espoir
How many fine dining restaurants have you been meaning to try, but have been saving for a special occasion because you think they’re too expensive? On those nights, do it up; but fine dining doesn’t always have to mean pricey, and shouldn’t keep you from treating yourself on a casual Thursday night. There are ways to enjoy high-end restaurants for less: It’s about identifying what the restaurant does best and focusing on that. Take Al Forno, for example. If you can only try one thing on the menu, you’re going to want to try what put the restaurant on the map: the grilled pizza. Sit down at the bar, order yourself a glass of wine and the Grilled Pizza Margarita, made with pomodoro, fresh herbs and two cheeses. For $30, you’ve just experienced the essence of one of Providence’s best restaurants. 577 South Main St. 2739760, alforno.com The same thing goes for Ten Prime Steak and Sushi. Order a sushi roll (like the Prime Roll, made with lobster and tempura asparagus, and topped with Prime beef carpaccio) and a steak. It’s enough food for two people, it’s significantly less expensive than a full dinner, and you’ve just experienced what they’re known for. And don’t be shy about sharing – it’s more common than you think, especially these days. 55 Pine St. 4532333, tenprimesteakandsushi.com Siena’s standout appetizer is the $10 Polpette Grande - literally a giant
Al Forno meatball, made with the blend of pork, sirloin and veal that characterizes their more expensive Bolognese entree, then topped with San Marzano marinara and ricotta. That and a side of Melanze alla Parmigiana (eggplant parmesan, $5) is enough to feel like you’ve really dined at the restaurant, but for much less. 238 Atwells Ave. 521-3311, sienari.com Camille’s is known for its carefully prepared Italian cuisine, but
the entrees top out over $40. Their Crudo (raw) menu, however, has that same philosophy, but offers plates like Smoked Scallop Caprese (a seared sea scallop with micro Italian basil, tomato, smoked sea salt and lemon olive oil) and Sicilian Blood (Ahi tuna with Sicilian blood orange, saffron infused caviar and a pomegranate balsamic drizzle) for only $6 each. 71 Bradford St. 7514812, camillesonthehill.com
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The small restaurant is a beautiful thing. It’s built to scale, manageable, effective. Charming even. Thirty seats, limited hours, a handful of thoughtful items on the menu, a small staff: it’s the perfect vessel for a creative vision that requires control, attention to detail, loyalty, dare I say it, love. Small doesn’t always simply mean the actual size. At The Sunnyside in Warren, Chef Joe Simone keeps things small in scope: he only serves breakfast and lunch. This gives him time to pay attention to the details that distinguish a simply good dining experience from a truly memorable one. The jam that comes with your plate of fresh baked bread is house made. The specials incorporate not just what’s good, but what’s good today. And Joe himself will probably stop you on the way out to ask you what you thought. 267 Water St., Warren. 247-1200, thesunnysideri.com Small can also refer to the menu. Cook & Brown Public House offers but a handful of appetizers and entrees – and they change almost nightly. This allows for seasonality and freshness; the ingredients
are constantly turning over. It also allows for constant experimentation and restless creativity. Dishes can be tweaked, re-imagined, or altered to incorporate a seasonal ingredient. You’ll never have “the usual.” 959 Hope St. 273-7275, cookandbrown.com Of course, small can mean actual size, too. A smaller restaurant seats fewer customers; fewer customers means each table gets more attention, each dish has more time invested in it. At El Rancho Grande, Chef Maria Meza still makes everything the right way, the slow way. Legend has it that her Mole Poblano, the signature dish of her native Puebla state, takes three days to make. She might stop by your table to tell you about it herself. The postage stamp-sized New Rivers extends that kind of care not just to the food coming out of the kitchen, but the drinks coming out of the proudly tiny bar. If you order a Sazerac, the bartender can take the time to rinse a rocks glass with absinthe – again, the right way. El Rancho Grande: 311 Plainfield St. 275-0808, elranchogranderestaurant.com; New Rivers: 7 Steeple St. 751-0350, newriversrestaurant.com
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raise your glass Wine is a fundamental part of the dining experience, and matching food pairings to wine is more of a science than the casual wine drinker realizes. So why order a bottle for the table when your meal includes both seafood and steak, and one diner prefers a sweet Pinot Noir, while the other prefers a buttery, oaky Chardonnay? Reconsidering how you approach wine with dinner can change your entire experience. First things first. If you want to know more about wine, you’re going to need to trust the restaurant. Asking for recommendations is always good; relying on their expertise (when they truly have it) is better. The Capital Grille’s Generous Pour Wine Event is a really interesting experience: for $25, you can try any (or all) of nine different wines that have been selected specifically to pair with different foods on the restaurant’s menu. They deliberately oppose old world and new world wines – like an Italian Merlot and a California Cabernet – to highlight the differences between the two, and allow you to taste wines simultaneously so you can choose what you like better with your meal. These aren’t your average wines, either. The Chalk Hill Cabernet Sauvignon they’re pouring is something like $80 in the liquor store; the Spanish Monastrell is available for the first time in America through this program. It’s a really great way to actively learn what you prefer, instead of making a good guess off a wine list. 1 Union Station. 521-5600, thecapitalgrill.com And really, you probably do guess when it comes to ordering bottles of wine – especially if you’re interested in trying new ones. Which is why you should consider ordering wines by the glass to complement individual foods. More and more restaurants offer nicer wines by the glass now: Fleming’s offers 100 at any given time, with the option to create your own flight of any three in tasting portions; but even at independent restaurants with smaller lists, like Warren’s new Trafford, you can find higher-end selections offered by the glass like Sonoma Cutrer Russian Rivers Chardonnay ($12) and Charton White Bordeaux ($9). Flemings: 1 West Exchange St. 533-9000, flemingssteakhouse.com; Trafford: 285 Water St., Warren. 289-2265, traffordrestaurant.com
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How do cocktails and other libations fit into the dining experience? Pairings are an important feature in today’s dining. Consumers need to be guided in flavor profiles and regional ingredients; however, wines and beers are easier to pair with foods than cocktails, which are meant to be used as aperitifs (before dinner), or digestifs (after dinner). –Walter Potenza, Potenza Ristorante
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knowing is half the battle As with all other facets of culture, America has adopted many popular food traditions from other countries and made them part of the mainstream. Your local dive bar now makes its own salsa. The family restaurant down the street serves teriyaki-glazed salmon. The Irish pub serves calimari. This intermingling of food cultures isn’t necessarily a bad thing (sometimes it’s a very good thing), but it does cause many a restaurant to lose its way. Put simply: a lot of restaurants do too many things to do them all well. When I open the menu at an Irish pub and see quesadillas and grilled pizzas, I’m profoundly disappointed. What’s wrong with bangers and mash? Some restaurants, however, are proudly and resolutely what they are. They know what they do, they do it well, and they won’t change it to incorporate the flavor of the moment. This is not a limitation, but an opportunity for you as a diner. Order what
they’re good at, and savor the well executed simplicity. The steakhouse is an easy example. The menu at Ruth’s Chris Steak House offers seafood selections and lamb chops. I’m sure they’re fabulous, but you’re getting the steak. It’s called Ruth’s Chris Steak House. They’re telling you right off the bat what they do well. It’s what they made their name on – literally. You can have the Ahi tuna another night. 10 Memorial Blvd. 2722271, ruthschris.com Pot Au Feu is another restaurant that is what it is, and ever shall be. It’s simply French – like French French. It’s food your grandparents ate. Walk in on any given night, and the specials board will tell you what the day’s potage and crepe are. In French. What it will never tell you is that day’s grilled pizza – pizza’s not French. 44 Custom House St. 273-8953, potaufeuri.com Restaurants with such clear-cut identity have earned the right to be
Angelo’s Civita Farnese stubborn. Angelo’s Civita Farnese has been making the same food since 1924 – that’s the reason it survived through the Great Depression to the Great Recession, and everything in between. It’s the reason why your
great-grandparents ate there and your great-grandchildren will probably eat there. It’s a proud little old school red sauce joint, and it will never try to be anything else. 141 Atwells Ave. 621-8171, angelosonthehill.com
the threemimosa brunch
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Your weekends are probably hectic and overfull as it is. Between errands you didn’t get done during the week, family obligations and things you actually want to do, there just isn’t enough time in the two short days bookending the work week. But there are few things more luxurious than the three-Mimosa brunch. For a truly indulgent and restful weekend activity, consider giving over your whole Sunday morning to a really good brunch. To do this properly, location is key. Waterman Grille’s patio overlooking the Seekonk River is a great place to start. Order a Blood Orange Mimosa or a really excellent, black pepper-rimmed Bloody Mary. Take a sip and take in the view. Then, and only then, look at the menu (you’re probably going to want the Newport Benedict, served with crab cakes, or the Challah Toast with toasted pecan butter). They key to this is taking your time and enjoying the luxury of being able to do that. 4 Richmond Sq. 521-9229, watermangrille.com The same goes with The Duck and Bunny. Inside there are cozy white leather banquettes; outside, a garden patio where the restaurant’s herbs grow, like the fresh mint included in their Mojitoph (fresh mint, raw
sugar, lime juice and fruit puree topped with Champagne). Or, order a Caleigh, which is Prosecco with lavender and vanilla, for a less fruity take on the Mimosa. When you’re properly settled, order something like the Tiny Evans, a baked egg cup with shallots, mushrooms, gruyere and tarragon. 312 Wickenden St. 270-3300, theduckandbunny.com Paragon’s popular Champagne Brunch is great for bigger groups: every Sunday, the restaurant offers a buffet with a carving station, omelet station and pasta station, and a Bloody Mary or Mimosa is included. 1149, with locations in Seekonk and Warwick, also does a Sunday brunch buffet, but with the addition of a Belgian waffle station and live music. Paragon: 234 Thayer St. 331-6200, paragonandviva.com; 1149: 1149 Division St., Warwick. 884-1149 or 965 Fall River Ave., Seekonk. 508336-1149, elevenfortyninerestaurant.com And if you’re worried about wasting the whole morning, combine brunch and shopping at CAV, where their selection of worldly antiques is almost as interesting as their brunch menu, which includes selections like the lump meat Crab Cake and Poached Egg plate. 14 Imperial Pl. 7519164, cavrestaurant.com
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the not-so-sweet tooth I don’t often order dessert when I dine out. I’d rather focus on the savory courses, and let’s face it, after those there’s often not much room left. But it’s also because, like many people, I don’t quite have the sweet tooth I did when I was younger. While passing on dessert certainly isn’t doing me any harm when it comes to either the literal or metaphorical tightening of the belt, there are some ways to reconsider ending your meal. One is to focus on less sweet desserts. Many fine restaurants, particularly those that embrace seasonality, offer selections that are savory, herbaceous, or at the very least, not in the Death By Chocolate vein. Tazza, for instance, has an Orange Olive Oil Cake with ricotta whip and champagne sauce. The Pignoli Cake at Mills Tavern is strawberries, sweet basil,
almond cream and orange blossomhoney ice cream. Both are proof that dessert needn’t focus on chocolate, frosting or whipped cream. Tazza: 250 Westminster St. 421-3300, tazzacaffe. com; Mills Tavern: 101 North Main St. 272-3331, millstavernrestaurant.com Another option is to go international. While many of us love experiencing the cuisine of other countries, we don’t often think to try their takes on the sweet stuff. You can try Kulfi, the popular frozen milk-based dessert of India, in two flavors at Taste of India: mango or pistachio. This summer at Ebisu, the Japanese restaurant will be serving the Filipino dessert Halo-Halo, consisting of shaved ice with tapioca, mango and boiled sweet beans, topped with coconut jelly, purple yam ice cream, bananas and berries. It sounds insane, but it’s a delicious and,
most importantly, different take on dessert. Taste of India: 230 WickenRoyal Crustacean den St. 421-4355, tasteofindiari.com; Charters Ebisu: 38 Pontiac Ave. 270-7500, ebi401.742.3978 suri.com Speaking of international, you could always do as the French do. (Gastronomically speaking, that’s never really a bad idea.) Consider ending your meal with a cheese plate, perhaps paired with a nice dessert wine. Chez Pascal offers a constantly changing selection of cheese, appealingly displayed on a sideboard that you pass on the way to your table. Loie Fuller’s also has a carefully curated cheese plate with the appropriate accompaniments, a perfect way to savor the not-too-sweet. Chez Pascal: 960 Hope St. 421-4422, chez-pascal.com; Loie Fuller’s: 1455 Westminster St. 273-4375, loiefullers.com
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A Few Choice Words The saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” But who would want to choose between the picture and the words? Jessica Harrington of re-studio doesn’t make you. She uses words and phrases to arrange them into pictures of local landmarks like the Providence skyline. Words like “Wickenden Street,” “Lupo’s” and “WaterFire” are aligned to form the Bank of America Building, One Financial Plaza and Kennedy Plaza. Inspired, or rather, uninspired by her corporate life as an interior design professional, Harrington took to the mountains. There, she sharpened her photography skills and found motivation in ski trail names. Using a picture she had taken of the mountain as a stencil, Jessica then used the trail
names for the outline. From there, this idea of using words for art was formed. Her work betrays her Rhode Island roots. She uses words to depict the outlines of the Newport Bridge, boat anchors, starfish, and Rhode Island itself. These prints become interactive as you hunt for words that speak to the strong connections we have to certain places. What better way to express local love? Customizing is also available to commemorate a particular event, such as a wedding, or to add another level of personalization to a locallythemed print. etsy.com/shop/ReStudios or by emailing restudiodesigns@ gmail.com. –Rebekah Lindquist
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Joe Fletcher Musician/songwriter/ front man of Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons Tell me a little about your band. I started the band in 2005, and it has been my primary passion ever since. We are going to be touring the country extensively this fall in support of our second record, White Lighter, which has been exceptionally well received in the national Americana scene. We write all our owns songs while favoring old country, folk and blues. I try very hard to tell stories about things in a way that other people don’t. Describe your personal style. This is something I truly just don’t think about. I know what I like and l enjoy searching through vintage clothing stores looking for it. I don’t think of shopping for clothes as an afternoon at the mall. It’s a joyous, lifelong process. I often find myself wearing shirts with snaps, but buttons are pretty awesome, too.
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Does it differ from your stage style? Not really. When I had a day job, I went from work straight to a gig in the same clothes all the time. This is what I am comfortable wearing. Tell me about this look: day, night, gig? This would be all of the above. All the clothes I have are a little like this. My closet isn’t a bad place to hang out. Can guys wear jewelry and still look cool? Of course. My advice would be to choose wisely and sparsely.
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Do you have any style influences or icons? I just asked our fiddler who he thinks my style icons are. He says it’s him. So, yes, I would have to say the legendary Chris Owens. You should probably be interviewing him. How can guys incorporate a little rock n’ roll into their style? I would say that would have to be by listening to a little rock n’ roll, and then hopefully feeling a little bit rock n’ roll. If these things are truly intact, I believe the rest will just fall into place. Is there ever a wrong reason to wear cowboy boots? I’m sure there must be, but there is definitely a wrong time. Never wear them with shorts. Oddly enough, it looks like heaven on a woman. Perhaps, we can trace all of this back to the very first episode of The Dukes of Hazzard that I ever saw.
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Every year, I start the summer with the best intentions about sun protection. I buy my SPF 30 sunblock and apply it liberally. I trot out my comically large sun hat. (I prefer to call it glamorous, thank you very much.) I reapply. But at one hint of a bit of color and one glance at a few new freckles, I lose all my willpower. I can be careful about sun protection in September, I think to myself. This summer, as in summers past, all that matters is my ownership of a bronzed, beautiful tan. You can see how this might cause some problems. Last summer I never used anything higher than an SPF 15, and as a consequence I ended up keeping several dark freckles that in the past had faded when my tan did. While this year I’ve ramped up my sun care a bit, I’ve been feeling like it’s time to consider other sources in trying to achieve the perfect tan. The options are plentiful. Self-tanner now comes in lotions, gels, sprays – even pre-moistened towelettes. And while they’re good options, it takes a lot of practice (and a lot of streaky legs and orange palms while you’re learning) to really master them. But a professional spray tan? That had been out of the question. I got one several years ago, and it was bad. Really bad. I looked like an Oompa Loompa from Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory for three days, until the horrifying burnt sienna faded into an only slightly less horrifying burnt orange. The tanner just did not match my skin; it was sticky, unpleasant and not at all worth the cost or difficulty. So, when Sandra Lynn Barber called
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jewelry, which I rework with other things I have. I like clay, horn and bone beads; I make casual, organic jewelry with a splash of sparkle, like semi-precious stone or Swarovski crystals. Do you carry any local clothing designers? I have clothing by Moontide Dyers from New Bedford; they make beautiful, handcut, hand-dyed clothing out of bamboo fabric. I consider it the “grown-up” version of tye-dye. I also carry clothing by Bryn Walker, Cut Loose, XCVI, Dunia, CK Daniels, Cape Madras and others. Can you tell us about some of the jewelry designers? We have jewelry by Lucky Bird; Ayala Bar, an Israeli designer who makes jewelry from mineral stones, glass beads, fabric and Swarovski crystals; bracelets made of hand-dyed silk and sterling silver beads by Roberta Shapiro; gold jewelry by Nitza; metal beaded jewelry by Hill Tribe and Kim Vrendenburg’s pieces made with blown-glass beads and chunky metals, to name a few. What’s your favorite summer look? Natural fabrics like cotton, linen and bamboo, with pops of color. I like funky clothing in the summertime. And unique jewelry, of course. 782 Hope Street. 521-5854
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Soul Power Robert Richardson cooks straight from the heart How did your restaurant come to be? I’ve owned and run Food for the Soul for four years. It’s my first restaurant, though I did have a hot dog cart for about 10 years in Providence. Food is my passion – cooking for people, seeing people eat and be happy.
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Where did you learn to cook? I learned from my mom growing up. When she was getting older and weaker, I helped her prep and cook. We were supposed to run this place together. Sadly, she passed away a couple of years ago, but she did get to see the restaurant open.
What’s on your menu? We serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. Nothing is fast, and everything is authentic. There may be fast food chains with fried chicken and mac and cheese, but ours is made the slow way, and it’s better. We do have some soul food, but we cover a lot of other ethnicities too. We have yellow rice and chicken legs, meatball subs, spicy meat pies and more. The traditional African American dishes on our menu, the ones I grew up with, include chopped BBQ (pulled pork), collard greens, baked mac and cheese, cornbread and yam pie – all made from scratch. Recently, I’ve started making chitlins – pig intestines – due to customer requests. They’re not on the menu but we always have them. I can’t say I like preparing them; it takes four hours and cleaning them is not my favorite thing. Foods like these, and collard greens, were slave food because at one point nobody wanted to eat them. But now, they’re a delicacy.
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I grew up here, in Chad Brown. I wasn’t a perfect kid; I went to jail when I was 17, but it was actually the best thing that could have happened to me. If I didn’t go through that, I wouldn’t be who I am now; I went through a transformation. My mission is to help the community through food. I hire a lot of kids from the neighborhood to give them skills. I like to get the worst behaved kids and really see them transform and grow. Before I opened the restaurant, I had many jobs helping people: being a coach and a counselor, working at the hospital, supervising kids at group homes. I feel that I can be a good role model because I was one of the kids around here. A lot of kids have celebrities as role models, but I think realistic ones are better. What’s your life philosophy? I’m a believer. I went to church for 25 years but lately, I am becoming less interested in organized religion and more about the faith within me. My church is inside. I am a positive person and I always give love to those around me. If you’re nice to people, it comes back. I have given food to kids when they’re broke, to homeless people, and they’ve come back and done wonderful things for me. I don’t want money;
I want favor. One day, I dream of becoming an ordained speaker and preaching around the world. I’ve already started by having a cable access show on channel 13. Ask anyone I know, they will tell you I like to talk. Do you have any future plans for the restaurant? My dream is to open five locations. With everything, you have to start small, start with a thought, and put that thought into practice. I would like my next location to be on Broad Street in South Providence, because a lot of my customers come from around there. We are one of the only African American restaurants around here. It sounds crazy but I actually wish we had more competition. It would be good if people had a few restaurants to compare.
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Festival organizers David Dadekian and Natalie Sowa at Tini land cheeses and craft brews, hosted by Farmstead’s Matt Jennings at the Biltmore. It all leads up to the Grand Tasting of over 40 exhibitors and four chef demonstrations from 2-6pm in the hotel’s Garden Room, followed by the “Cava and Canapes” closing party at Tazza from 9pm-midnight. “Friends still say, ‘I haven’t been to Providence in years, but I hear…’” laments Sowa, adding, “Well, get here! Providence has it all. Come taste it.” For more information and a full schedule, visit providencefoodandwinefestival.com. AFTER THE FIRE Parkside (76 South Main Street) is typically a summer hotspot, but at least for the moment, diners will have to look elsewhere for a great table during WaterFire. On June 30, a fire tore through the building that houses the restaurant, forcing it to close for renovations. Making the most of a bad situation, however, owners Donna and Steven Davenport are using this as an opportunity to remodel and revamp. They’re planning an updated look, new menu items and perhaps, best of all, a new rotisserie. Keep a watch on their website, parksideprovi-
dence.com, for updates on reopening. NOW OPEN AND COMING SOON Soban Korean Eatery (272 Thayer Street; 751-1234) continues the sudden influx of Korean food in Providence started by Mama Kim’s and Sura. It’s apparently soon to be followed by another Korean (and/or pan-Asian) restaurant at 217 Westminster Street downtown, the space formerly occupied by Bowl and Board. Also in the works on Thayer Street is Wild Bar and Exotic Grill, which we hear will be serving wild game and exotic meats. More to come on that. Wayland Square has a new casual dining and drinking option in McBride’s Pub (161 Wayland Avenue; 751-3000). They’re serving up all the standard pub food, with the addition of some real Irish cuisine, like a lamb Shepherd’s Pie and a full Irish breakfast, including pudding. Nick Iannuccilli, formerly of Rodizio, is back with the Italo American Grill at 1195 Douglas Avenue in North Providence. Jacky’s Galaxie, with locations in Bristol and North Providence, will soon be opening a new restaurant in the Waterplace Luxury Residences. It will have a sushi bar.
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Providence has always had a reputation as a great food city, but that reputation has not necessarily kept pace with the evolution of the dining scene. Ask most people – whether locals or visitors – about it and the first two words you’re likely to hear are either “Federal Hill” or “Italian food.” While our famed Little Italy first put Providence on the culinary map, and remains a vital (if less strictly Italian) part of its foodways, the city has a lot more to offer these days than a bunch of great red sauce joints. “Providence has done a lot of growing up,” notes Natalie Sowa, producer of the first-ever Providence Food and Wine Festival. “We are a multicultural city with amazing restaurants and hospitality professionals.” Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be as widely recognized. The three-day festival, which runs August 25-27, has the potential to help change this perception, to bolster and enrich the city’s status as a dining destination. It will spotlight both the sophistication and the diversity our restaurants and bars have to offer. “It’s past time for Providence, and Rhode Island in general, to be recognized as a culinary destination,” says one of the festival’s organizers, David Dadekian, a food writer and photographer who runs the site EatDrinkRI.com. “I’ve eaten in just about every major U.S. city, and I never get tired of eating in Providence.” The festival will span locations around the city, offering attendees a glimpse at the depth and breadth of Providence’s food scene. There will be wine tastings, charity dinners, educational panels, and plenty of late night eats. Opening night kicks off with “Red, White and Bleu: An American Wine Experience” at the Hotel Providence from 7-10pm, followed by late night food and drink at select locations throughout the city (TBA) until 1am. (There will be late programming each night.) Following some late afternoon educational panels on Friday, there will be charity dinners at Capital Grille, New Rivers, Gracie’s, Gallery Z and Centro, each benefiting a different nonprofit organization. Saturday offers a morning of educational panels, then a lunchtime walking tour of over 30 restaurants, as well as a VIP reception featuring cured meats, New Eng-
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Welcome Feast | Behind the Bar to Paradise Try a new cocktail to spice up your summer
by Cristy Raposo
The Bartending Barista Tazza’s Lindsay Selby will wake you up with a brunch cocktail
Tell me about Tazza’s transformation. It’s completely different. It changed from really bright and orange to steel, wood and leather. The menu change has brought a different clientele in. Ben Lloyd (formerly of XO) has created a delicious full-blown menu that caters to a more sophisticated palette. It was essentially salads and sandwiches before; now we offer more entrees. The new layout includes a long bar, a café bar and high top tables.
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What’s brewing at Tazza’s café bar? We have some of the best coffee in the city. We use single origin coffees and local roasters like New Harvest (Pawtucket) and Coastal Roasters (Tiverton). Our espresso is custom blended just for us; it’s called Tazza Gold. Our cold brew iced coffee is brewed for over 14 hours overnight, taking out the acidity to create a smooth coffee. We offer house-made syrups in chocolate, vanilla and caramel. Tazza has a full espresso bar. Double espressos, cappuccinos, lattes – we make them the traditional Italian way. The milk is steamed and foamed together so it’s nice and silky. You can brew your coffee by a few different methods here. Order a pour-over coffee: freshly ground coffee is placed in a filter in a cone shaped cup, and hot water is then slowly poured over it in a continuous stream. Customers can literally watch their coffee percolate. The idea behind pour-over is that the water level should never rise above the coffee grounds. You can taste the difference. Or order a French press coffee. The focal point of the café bar is our halogen siphon roast coffee maker, a sensory experience all in its own. Watch as the heated water forces itself up the siphon tube as part of the brewing process. The expansion and contraction of gases makes it look like the water is defying gravity. It’s delicious and a great conversation starter. Were you always this into coffee? I’ve been a barista for 10 years, three of those at Tazza. Coffee and cocktails are big passions of mine. Tazza is the perfect place to blend those things. What is your signature cocktail? Tomato-infused gin, Thai pepper, fresh
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pressed ruby red grapefruit juice, and tarragon simple syrup, topped with cava served in a champagne flute as a brunch drink. I’m all about the bubbles right now. It’s a refreshing, citrus, sweet and spicy cocktail with a kick. I don’t have a name for it yet; come by, try it and try to name it. Your drink is on me if I pick the name you come up with. For a coffee cocktail, try the Tazza Tini: espresso-infused vodka, fresh brewed espresso and coffee liqueur served up. After three years of working the brunch bar, I feel like I’ve finally perfected my house made Bloody Mary mix. Try one of our cucumber, bacon or chipotle-infused vodkas in your Bloody Mary. You’ll be amazed. Which cocktail should the brunch-goer try instead of the same old Mimosa, Sangria or Bloody Mary? My very own Sugar Honey Iced Tea, named after a fellow barista’s band. It’s iced tea muddled with plums, honey syrup and bourbon with a dab of our ginger smack (ginger and lemon puree), complete with a sugared rim. Or try an iced coffee drink with espresso-infused vodka and house made syrup.
How did you end up as a bartending barista? I was hired as a barista and server at Tazza, mostly supervising brunch shifts where I learned how to make brunch cocktails. When I took on server shifts at night, a fellow staff member taught me a lot of drinks of the trade. I’m always going out and trying cocktails on my own. I was a kindergarten teacher for six years. Some of my favorite activities were exploring the science and texture tables with my students. Part of me loves science and watching things change. All the tools we have at Tazza are similar to science projects. That’s why I love bartending: I love creating things. With coffee and cocktails, you’re essentially making something that didn’t exist before. I think I have a pretty good palate for it.
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Or, learning to love the beer cocktail Common wisdom holds that beer isn’t to be trifled with. Other spirits seem designed for play, but beer remains a staunch holdout of purity, even in our cocktail-mad times. A tough guy truism in one of Errol Morris’s ingenious Miller High Life spots epitomizes this rationale: “A British sailor circa 1740 knew that citrus prevented scurvy,” a barfly muses, punching his syllables like an aged boxer. “Now that’s gotta be the only conceivable reason a man would put a lime in his beer.” No stranger to such thinking, I recently encountered a so-called “beer sangria” that made me first scratch my head and then cross my arms. Beer sangria? How unnecessary! What foolishness! (Cue face of contempt.) Just the thought of something besides beer in my beer prejudiced me immediately. This mentality resembles that of a dogged oenophile, who views classic sangria as a terrible shame: not so much a gilding of the lily as a cut-rate bedazzling. Same for the whiskey worshiper, who insists that nothing – nothing, not even a drop of water or a splash of soda – should stand between man and dram. Beyond mere reverence, though, a hesitation to pair beer with other ingredients also owes to a lack of obvious modern precedence. Liquor and wine have at least that going for them, though that wasn’t always the case: liquor-based cocktails began to flourish primarily out of necessity, once Prohibition made other ingredients almost necessary to stomach bathtub booze. Wine-based cocktails, now a staple on forward-thinking bar menus, have grown in popularity as people think more expansively about mixing spirits. Riding that wave, classic sangria – Spain’s “punch” made with wine, fruit and a kick of hard liquor – has rather incredibly become as commonplace as pilsner at backyard barbecues. Beer, however, remains mostly beyond the reach of mixology’s curious hands. This isn’t to say, of course, that
there aren’t exceptions, though many of them err on the side of egregiously bad taste. In the 1980s, for instance, the Beastie Boys famously popularized a pre-packaged combo of orange juice and cheap beer called Brass Monkey.
(Enterprising DIYers mixed knockoffs in forties of malt liquor, sipping down to the label before topping off with OJ.) More recently, the michelada, a betterthan-it-sounds mixture of Mexican beer, tomato and lime juices, and Tabasco showed up in trendy bars; America’s beer titans soon colonized it, and now hawk barely drinkable versions by the can. Outside corporate hands, Texans and pseudo-Texans slurp an unholy union between beer and frozen margaritas known as the “beerita.” And in more urban markets, the boilermaker, a brawny, blue-collar meeting of beer and whiskey, has gained hipster status. Almost opposite these chest-thumping concoctions, beer cocktails can also be strikingly, even unappealingly, feminine. Take the classic shandy, a tooelegant British summertime staple that leavens draught lager with a sweet, citrusy drink like lemonade or even 7Up. Charming, in a way, but also rather like an unconvincing drag performance, unladylike, and stretching seams to pretend otherwise.
Let us be optimists just the same. Indeed, real possibility exists for a beer cocktail that refuses both girly and scruffy-ironic extremes. Back to the beer sangria, billed as “shandy sangria,” that once caused my crossed arms: after some protest, I took a sip. And then another sip. And, eventually, a fat pitcher. Following my surprising conversion, I asked local brewer and part-time expat Pete Campion to create something similar. My request was strategic, since Campion, who seesaws between Providence’s East Side and London’s West End, respects beer tradition but can’t resist tinkering with it. He’s known to lace rich porter with port syrup or cassis, salt his pale ales, and float lager with honeyed lemonade for an elevated shandy. Mr. Campion did not disappoint. Perfectly proportioned and idiot-proof, his invention handily combats both latesummer heat and boring-beer fatigue. Still feel the sting of beer drinker’s guilt? There’s always the scurvy defense.
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by Linda Beaulieu
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Downcity dining with Asian flair changed. In past years, we’ve seen you evolve from seedy to splendid. Now lined with boutique shops and restaurants, you have become Providence’s version of trendy Newbury Street in Boston. One of your newest spots is Sura, an extraordinary Korean and Japanese restaurant (and second location of the popular Sura in Johnston). The interior is as chic and cosmopolitan as anything in Seoul or Tokyo or Manhattan. The natural elements of wood and brick dominate the space. The modern tables and chairs are brownish-black, and horizontal wood panels on the walls and high ceiling are a warmer brown. One wall of exposed brick is offset with touches of sage green, faux ivory columns and a graceful floral mural. In the rear is a muchin-demand group table lined with large pillows of orange, green and red bathed in the glow from three huge drum lights. Sura may be a hip temple to cool aesthetics, but the staff is warm and welcoming. With our drinks from the bar came a complimentary oblong tray of various kimchi, a traditional Korean assortment of fermented cabbage, black beans, green beans and carrots in soy sauce. The thick menu offers page after page of Korean and Japanese fare. You
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might want to forego the usual entrée and instead order several appetizers. If that’s your plan, start with the Assorted Tempura ($8.95), a substantial platter of shrimp and vegetables that have been dipped into a tempura batter and then deep-fried to a light golden color. Each shrimp, a good six inches long, had a delicate crunch with every bite. Among the array of veggies, the tender slices of sweet potato were my favorite – especially when dipped into the accompanying house-made sauce, a dressed-up soy mixture. A small order of Vegetable Dumplings ($4.95) will give you five traditional dumplings, either deep-fried or steamed, and more of that house-made sauce. Our crescent-shaped fried dumplings were golden brown and crisp on the outside, with finely chopped veggies steaming hot on the inside. The Kim-Bab ($5.95 for a dozen pieces) looks like sushi, but Koreans insist this popular snack food is most certainly not Korean sushi. The dried seaweed rice roll is cut into bite-size slices and gives you a true taste of Korean comfort food. We ordered it strictly out of curiosity, and it was the only dish on our crowded table that failed to excite us. What did excite us was the Seafood Pancake ($9.95), which looked more like
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a pizza than a pancake. The large, perfectly round pancake covered its entire plate and was cut into eight slices. The taste was decidedly delicate with hints of scallions and seasoned seafood. Even more remarkable was the Sura Roll ($15), one of the special sushi rolls on the menu. This is the dish I will remember, the one I will rave about to friends, the one I will crave again and again. The inside-out roll (that is, the rice is on the outside) surrounds lobster tempura, avocado, masago and a creamy lobster miso sauce. Masago is the prized roe of the capelin fish, part of the smelt family. The tiny fish eggs have a bright reddish-orange color and mild flavor. The masago coats the entire Sura Roll, giving it an almost neon glow. Smeared with as much wasabi as I could tolerate, every bite of this roll had a subtle and surprising crunch – so good, it didn’t even need the usual splash of soy sauce. Many of these appetizers came to our table on beautiful, delicately handpainted dishes. If grazing is not your thing and you prefer an entrée, there are Korean barbecue and stews as well as Japanese and vegetarian dishes for your consideration. The finest of these is the Beef Kalbi ($21.95, the most expensive dish on the menu), an authentic Korean barbecue serving of short ribs – the kind of dish that, if you made it at home, there would be no leftovers. The ribs are
marinated for hours with sugar and soy sauce, sesame seeds and sesame oil, green onion and garlic. The result is a dish that you continue to eat (“just one more bite”) even after you are beyond full. Less intimidating is the Beef Bulgogi ($18.95), another main course option. This thinly sliced, almost shredded, tenderloin is cooked with slivers of onions in Korean barbecue sauce. A bowl of simple white rice completes the scene. Oddly, all the desserts at Sura are provided by Bindi, an international dessert company rooted in Italy. As much as we love gelato, it didn’t seem proper to end our Asian excursion on a European note. We then spotted the Mandarin Ripieno ($6.99). Yes, it’s a sorbetto (an Italian sorbet or sherbet), but the exotic mandarin flavor eased our purist consciences. The frozen dessert was packed into the natural shell of a tender mandarin orange, the traditional symbol of abundance and good fortune. It seemed a fitting end to our abundant dinner at Sura, and it was our good fortune to have dined there. Linda Beaulieu is the author of The Providence and Rhode Island Cookbook, available at stores throughout the state.
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Andreas 268 Thayer St.; 331-7879. For a taste of Greece, head to Andreas. Their menu includes souvlaki, moussaka and a variety of kabobs, along with specialties like Lemon Oregano Lamb Chops and Spanakopita, an appetizer of spinach and feta in flaky phyllo dough. BrLD $-$$
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ASIAN BISTRO 123 Dorrance St.; 3833551. Chinese, Japanese and Thai, hibachi and sushi – they’re all under one roof at Asian Bistro. For the freshest flavors in a convenient downtown location, this is the place. LD $-$$$
BOMBAY CLUB 145 Dean St.; 2736363. Taste authentic North Indian cuisine in the cozy atmosphere of Bombay Club. The extensive menu includes Indian specialties such as lamb, seafood, vegetables and more. Weekends offer a lunch buffet. LD $-$$
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CASERTA’S PIZZERIA 121 Spruce St.; 621-9190. This Rhode Island tradition serves big pizzas with generous toppings and thick, rich tomato sauce. The Wimpy Skippy, a spinach pie with cheese and pepperoni, is not to be missed. LD $-$$ CAV 14 Imperial Pl.; 751-9164. The New York Times’ choice as one of Providence’s five best restaurants, CAV’s contemporary upscale cuisine is available al fresco for lunch and dinner daily. They also feature weekend brunch. BrLD $$-$$$
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WALTER’S RISTORANTE D’ITALIA 286 Atwells Ave.; 273-2652. Experience the authentic flavors of Chef Walter Potenza, a name long synonymous with Italian food in Rhode Island. This is a must-stop for foodies, and caters to gluten-free diners. D $$-$$$
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TASTE OF INDIA 230 Wickenden St.; 421-4355. Providence’s first Indian restaurant delivers on its promise of serving real (and really delicious) Indian cuisine, with seafood delicacies and Tandoori specialties, made with authentic Indian spices. LD $-$$ TRATTORIA ZOOMA 245 Atwells Ave.; 383-2002. Located on historic Federal Hill, Zooma offers award winning Neapolitan cuisine in a beautiful, upscale setting, specializing in house made pasta, local fish, meats, vegetables and authentic wood fired pizza. LD $$-$$$ United BBQ 146 Ives Street; 751-
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the best waterfront view of the city. It’s a convenient trip from downtown, just off the East Bay bike path. LD $-$$$ HORTON’S SEAFOOD 809 Broadway, East Providence; 434-3116. Enjoy the finest of fresh seafood at this familyowned-and-operated restaurant. Horton’s is famous for their fried clams and fish and chips, and offers takeout. LD $-$$ Ichigo Ichie 5 Catamore Blvd., East Providence; 435-5511. The name roughly translates as “one encounter in a lifetime,” but you’ll want to visit again and again for the enchanting Japanese décor, and of course, the sushi and hibachi menus. LD $$ JACKYS GALAXIE 338 Metacom Ave., Bristol; 253-8818. Jacky’s offers an eclectic taste of Asia, including Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Cambodian and Vietnamese. Enjoy traditional recipes combined with modern technique and flair for a unique dining experience. LD $-$$$ LE CENTRAL 483 Hope St.; 396-9965. Enjoy a variety of classic French staples from Coq au Vin and Croque Monsieur, to North African tajines in an intimate setting. They also offer a gourmet wine list. BrLD $-$$$ VINEYARD EAST 315 Waterman Ave., East Providence; 432-7000. Wine-influenced dinning meets casual down home atmosphere, and an eclectic menu of regional fare like local seafood favorites and Italian and Portuguese classics. LD $$
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North LA CUCINA 266 Putnam Pike, Smithfield; 349-4130. Experience the authentic flavors of Italy at this charming Italian restaurant specializing in pastas, succulent seafood, steaks or chicken entrees. Leave room for dessert. BLD $-$$$ THE LOCALS 11 Waterman Ave., North Providence; 231-2231. Have a taste of locally grown food from an extensive menu at reasonable prices. The Locals offers live music and a great sense of being a part of the neighborhood. BLD $-$$ RASOI 727 East Ave., Pawtucket; 7285500. Rasoi, Hindi for “kitchen,” is the fruition of a dream by Chef Sanjiv Dhar to balance healthy food, personalized service and Indian culture. Featuring a full bar and famous weekend buffet. LD $-$$
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One-of-a-Kind Finds Through September 24: Everybody loves a compliment – unless it’s coming from those dreaded Where did you get that? people. You know, the ones who have no shame in voicing how much they like your shoes, jewelry, outfit or home décor, and then hatch a plan to try to get the exact same thing for themselves. A form of flattery? Not so much, especially when your original style is being hijacked without a thanks, nevermind a finder’s fee. Your options: play dumb – oh, this? – and hope they get distracted enough not to inquire again. Or you can opt for the It’s last season lie, but know that one trip to the strip mall will reveal your dishonesty. Perhaps you just need to start shopping exclusively at the Providence Open Market, where indie crafts reign supreme. There’s no mass production going on here, making your individuality blissfully safe from hackers. Saturdays: 10am-2pm. Free. Lippitt Park, Hope Street and Blackstone Boulevard, Providence. providenceopenmarket.com
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sive Melissa Bowler, call to tell you where to meet. Upon arrival, she appears anxious and distracted. She tells you a bit about the late George Gammell Angell before departing abruptly, leaving you and your fellow “executors” with a few vague directions. It seems that Angell has hidden scraps of sinister evidence throughout the city. Your charge is to collect, protect and ultimately dispose of these cryptic messages. As you walk, spooky strangers pop up and direct you onward. But can you trust them? And at what point will you, like Angell, know too much? An actor in Executor, who shall remain nameless so he can surprise you in character, speaks to the challenge of performing such an unusual play in public spaces. There’s a script to memorize, but also a great deal of improvisation. There’s an eerie atmosphere to maintain, but also a responsibility “to make sure that people don’t fall down or get wet or mad or lost.” He explains, “It’s quite unlike anything I’ve ever seen or been involved with. You don’t know who’s coming or what their actual mood is. You know you have to accomplish a part of the story, but you also have to be aware that there’s a whole environment.” Creator Kelly hopes that Executor will appeal to locals and out-oftowners alike, becoming a continual summer event and tourist draw. Recent audience member Vanes-
sa Gilbert, the artistic director of nearby Perishable Theatre, particularly enjoyed how the performance was overlaid with familiar East Side geography. She notes, “I’m a native of Providence, so to be walking through the city with a different set of expectations and seeing the architecture in a different way – and kind of with suspicion – it’s really exciting.” Bear in mind the fact that in this day and age, you don’t get many chances to save cities from sea monsters. Cthulhu is a mighty, murderous creature, the very knowledge of whom can cause men to go mad. Lovecraft describes the beast as “the green, sticky spawn of the stars,” an ancient extraterrestrial “with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubberylooking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.” Worshipped by a terrible cult, Cthulhu wants to take over the world – starting with Providence. But you have the power to stop him. That is, if you dare.
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Alice Cooper had chickens. And Providence based metal/ hard rock band Panther Moderns have babies. Unlike Ozzy and Alice, however Panther Moderns don’t bite the head off of infants on stage – they just celebrate the act of a baby being born (“birth rock.” More on that later.)to try to classify their hard-to-describe sound. Playing guitar in various groups since 1993, Way O’Malley was in and out of the music scene, always on the prowl to find some artists with enough initiative to get something concrete started. After taking a hiatus and concentrating on his painting career, he decided to put out an ad on Craigslist to see who’d bite. He rounded up an old friend from back home in Westerly (Kate Adams), a nomadic singer with a background in musical theater (Jane Parisi), and a drummer from a variety of local bands (Pete Lima), and took the gamble. The result was the Panther Moderns, who since 2008 have shown how some talent and tenacity can stand out in the local music scene. For a music journalist, it can be kind of stereotypical, and frankly annoying, when artists shy away from identifying with a genre. Whether they’re trying to
be coy or are just too indie for words, bands are often reticent to admit that their sound is not completely genredefying. But the Panther Moderns’ sounds really is hard to pin down, making it valid when they struggle to answer the question, What kind of music do you play? Way says after various nights in their infamous Dike Street practice space, they’ve invented the farcical term “birth metal” to describe their music. They do have the slightly ominous tone of metal, but the songs never peak to shrill screams, and animal sacrifice is never mentioned. “It has a lot of the sound of stoner metal built-in, but there’s no satanic posturing and it’s not ‘deathsounding’” Way explains. “It’s the opposite of death, which is birth,” adds Jane with a laugh. The wonderful teetering and genrebending sound the band creates can most easily be recognized in Jane’s vocals. Like a modern, cooler version of Heart singers Nancy and Ann Wilson, Jane has great attitude and a voice full of command. On the track “Yellow and Red,” she glides over the trance-like guitar and bass in a mesmerizing way. The band agrees that the give-and-
take of two girls and two guys playing together is what helps make their sound cohesive, but constantly evolving. “A lot of people say that we have a ‘dynamic sound’ and I think the guy/ girl thing makes it interesting,” says Kate. “We have these heavy guitar riffs, but my bass isn’t really chugging. It’s more melodic.” Having multiple women in the band was something Jane was initially skeptical about. “When I first heard there was going to be another girl I was like, Wait a minute,” she admits. “But now, I think it’s really good to not be the only girl in the band.” While their sound might be complex and hard to define, their name is easily explained. Referencing the ‘80s science fiction novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, the Panther Moderns are a gang who Way says are a modern-day version of the Black Panthers. Don’t get it twisted: the four don’t have any affiliations with white or black power, but they do embrace the gang vibe of their multi-gendered, metal-esque band. To hear Panther Moderns and their signature “birth metal” sound, look them up on Facebook, watch for their latest release coming soon, or check them out at AS220 Foo Fest on August 13.
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end of summer, Harder and Cook say it’s likely to stay awhile. That the gallery was assembled in so short a time was not apparent on a recent visit. In fact, the space is relaxed and friendly, letting no clue slip that any stress ever transpired there. Light concrete floors and grey, white and off-white walls give it an informal, beachy vibe. Music – good music – plays. Within is a vast variety of contemporary artwork that does not have a common theme, medium or style. This is not accidental; the co-gallerists say they just seek out what they like, and don’t want to devise rigid criteria. While Cook and Harder (originally from St. Louis and New York, respectively) have found many local artists to grace both of their galleries, they are happy to include artists from anywhere and everywhere. (Harder travels often for photo shoots, and takes notice of new artists constantly.) Currently, the 25 or so artists’ works featured range from painting and mixed media to printmaking, jewelry and fine woodworking. There are the stern yet striking collages, sculp-
tures and black-on-cream drawings of S. W. Dinge; Ana Marinelli’s witty, homespun-esque “Art is for Suckers” linoleum print; an electrically lush painting from Buck Hastings’ Forest Floor series; the deathly dream of Michael Koehler’s oil painting; and gorgeous enameled steel “signage” by Plastic House. Cook’s mixed media and drawings, as well as photography from Harder, are also displayed. It’s a thoughtfully arranged and smartly curated collection that fits perfectly into the neighborhood. Cook says downtown’s been welcoming to the newcomers; the common refrain is, “Stay. Please stay.” The OneWay Gallery Providence, 231 Westminster Street, will host a fall reception featuring works by its new and continuing artists on September 17 from 6-9pm. Beaching it? Stop by a summer reception at the OneWay Gallery Narragansett, 140 Boon Street, on August 20 from 6-9pm. For more information about both galleries, visit theonewaygallery.com or onewaygallery.blogspot.com.
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tone of expressiveness mixed with increasing emotion. Daniel Radcliffe, who glided from cherubic charm to enigmatic intensity, will certainly go down, no matter what his on-screen future holds, as a formidable film icon, forever held on some exalted higher cinematic plain with the likes of Sean Connery’s James Bond, Clint Eastwood’s The Man with No Name or Charlie Chaplin’s The Tramp. (Now that’s one weirdly absurd declaration – but one difficult to debate.) While the Potter films certainly followed and fed from an obvious formula (as all film franchises do), their overall stature grows from the fact that movies – while quite easily seducing both children and adults, as well as J.K. Rowling readers and those who never picked up the books – remained free of voguishness and easy contempo irony. They utilized snappy action and an array of CGI effects, yet always kept character and plot as the central fulcrum, essentially painting a burnished narrative that was continually speckled with darkness and the intertwined accents of moral obligation and impending devastation of innocence. Yet, the movies twinkled with fabulist gewgaws and magical landscapes, and they fit together like an elaborate but addictive puzzle, always inching towards a collective emotional fission that I simply would never have
guessed at upon viewing the first of the series in 2001. As Potter directors have come and gone (Christopher Columbus, Mike Newell, Alfonso Cauron, David Yates), each with quite distinct styles and sensibilities, the acting troupe has remained steadfast, anchored by the growing-upin-public principals, Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. In the crazy quilt of supporting roles, many stood out – Gary Oldman, Helena Bonham Carter, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon – but none so much as Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, the embodiment of mythological evil and, by large, a classic movie villain, and Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, eschewing subtle expressiveness throughout the course of the eight movies. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is purposefully somber, with a well-crafted, grainy and drained color scheme, blips of fascistic ominousness, and the oh-so-familiar central setting of Hogwarts devoid of magic and wonder, weighed down with sorrow and bleakness. It’s a hugely satisfying end to it all, richly textured and intimate, enriched and poignant. Every once in a while popular art can entertain and imbue, and virtuosity can become part of an integrated and well-conceived vision. It just doesn’t occur nearly often enough.
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A Reel Celebration With multi-million dollar budgets, 3D adaptations and mass advertising with tremendous reach, filmmaking has become more of a money-machine and less of an outlet for artistic expression. Fortunately, independent film is growing every year, and low-budget filmmakers are being recognized for their creative works. Even major motion picture studios want in on the action; many have developed indie film studios, releasing successful productions such as Little Miss Sunshine and The King’s Speech. Big screen actors practically beg for roles that allow them more creative freedom. Lucky for us, our little state is home to one of the largest independent film festivals in the nation: the Rhode Island International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 15th year. 76
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One-hundred seventy-five films, from shorts to documentaries to animations, will be screened during the six-day event (August 9-14) this year, presented by the nonprofit Flickers. Aside from the screenings, the festival includes cultural programming, artistic workshops and nightly parties throughout the city, providing festival-goers with the ultimate indie film experience. Short films screened at the event even have the chance to be nominated for Academy Awards. (This year’s theme is, fittingly, “Road to the Oscars.”) It’s a chance to commemorate this world-class event’s 15th anniversary while supporting up-and-coming international filmmakers. For more information, including the festival schedule, visit www.film-festival.org. -Erin DeVito
The film festival’s first home was Broadway’s Columbus Theatre, now sadly closed. This year’s festival happens at a variety of locations, including the recently renovated Vets.
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