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HOWL AT THE MOON Mural by The Wheeler School draws attention to growing coyote population in the state A desert landscape reminiscent of the Southwest. Hazy purple mountains on the horizon. A cloudless blue sky. A wolf, its head thrown back in full howl. And, most strangely, a giant message reading “Greetings from Rhode Island.” Say hello to the most recent creation by The Wheeler School as part of the Thayer Street Public Art Program in Providence, a mural with a mission. As many might know, the coyote population is on the rise in Rhode Island as the animals make more and more frequent appearances in residential neighborhoods. “Our goal is to create a public display that will highlight the animal’s growing presence in our state through a juxtaposition of traditional views of the coyote from the Southwest (how most viewers might associate where coyotes live) with images from Rhode Island (where most viewers might not readily think of as a place where coyotes live),” explains Robert Martin, Chair of Visual Arts at Wheeler. The mural’s design was based off a vintage postcard, and photography students in their Upper School Advanced Art Seminar

combined several versions in Photoshop before students, alumni, and staff put paint to plaster. You’ll find the southwestern landscape dominate, but within the blocked letters, several familiar Ocean State landmarks appear, including the State House and Providence’s Superman building. “[It’s a] collaged-intention of colliding two previously unrelated frameworks,” says Robert about the mural. “The southwestern landscape and the Ocean State, now united by the mutual habitation of the coyote and rendered large by the artful design of our students.” Besides being thought-provoking, the mural also encourages education: a website address to CoyoteSmarts (CoyoteSmarts.org) is included, which provides information on coyotes, public and pet safety, research and management, and related news. And this might just be the first of many installments. Shares Executive Director of the Thayer Street District Management Authority Donna Personeus, “In the Wheeler School, we have found the perfect partner for our public art program.” 294 Thayer Street. -Megan Schmit

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In Ecclesiastes, there’s a poetic little verse about death: “All go to the same place. We are made from earth, and to earth we shall return.” “The Ellipse” takes this notion literally. This repurposed section of Swan Point Cemetery is dedicated exclusively to “green burials,” where those who have passed can

naturally decompose into the soil. Caskets are plain wicker or bamboo, untouched by toxic paints. There’s no concrete vault, a standard underground container since the 1930s. Markers are tiny square stones, which are quickly grown over with grass. To avoid chemical exposure, deceased persons aren’t

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even embalmed. “There’s this upward trend to care about the environment,” says Anthony Hollingshead, president of Swan Point Cemetery. Visitors have asked him about low-impact interment for the past decade or so, but interest has recently spiked. “It seemed surprising that so many people were asking about green burial.” “Families are beginning to take back the burial process,” says Candace Currie, who served as director of development of Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is also board secretary for The Green Burial Council and an outspoken advocate. In the traditional funeral home, the embalming process can sometimes be clinical and alienating for grieving loved ones. Candace describes “death midwives,” who help interested family members participate in funeral preparations. Attendants can request to fill the grave themselves, using shovel and soil, to provide closure. “The physical activity can make a difference,” says Candace. “Green burial isn’t for everyone,” notes Anthony. Cremation, for example, isn’t considered “green” because of crematorium fuel. Green burials don’t provide the “lifelike” display of an open casket. To date, only one person has been buried in The Ellipse, yet future names will be inscribed on an enormous stone tablet. Still, many clients may be comforted by this gradual return to the earth, and green burials have exploded in popularity: Candace says that, five years ago, only two “natural burial grounds” existed in Massachusetts; today, there are more than twenty. Swan Point provides the only green burials in Providence, and The Ellipse has its share of celebrity neighbors – H.P. Lovecraft and General Ambrose Burnside, among others. “It adds historic flavor,” adds Candace. “I think they’ve done a nice job of integrating the old with the new.” SwanPointCemetery.com -Robert Isenberg

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Read Alison Blackwell’s self-published graphic novel Hungry Ghost, and you might find your head swimming – in a good way. The main character Carey is anorexic, artistic, funny, and, at times, chillingly self-loathing. Fresh out of rehab, she befriends an 11-year-old girl

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They’re multidimensional. In Hungry Ghost, you’ll find familiar sprawls of the East Side – a hilltop view of downtown and panels of the RISD Museum. Alison explicitly states that these characters bare no resemblance to people in her life, but aspects of the setting, plot, and characterizations are based on her real-life experiences. Alison graduated from RISD in 2007, right before the housing bubble burst. Riddled with anxiety and the overwhelming reality of being an artist in a challenging job market, she leaned fully into an eating disorder. “I really spiraled super hard, and was just like, ‘There’s nothing special about me, I don’t matter.’” In the book, Carey too grapples with anorexia, but her mental illness is a subplot, not the plot, a decision the author made deliberately. When mental health is discussed in most media, a character’s struggle becomes their defining trait. Having battled an eating disorder herself, this representation was something Alison wanted to avoid. “I had read a lot of books about eating disorders and stuff but it’s just like, the entire plot is the eating disorder, and you don’t actually really understand a lot about the person doing it, other than that they have an eating disorder.” Readers will note that there is much more to Carey’s characterization than anorexia. She is funny, often inappropriately bantering with mentee, Alanna. She’s deeply troubled, misunderstood, and vulnerable, yet she yearns to express herself. Beyond Carey’s misfortunes, both Alanna and Henry have “ghosts” and tribulations of their own. Hungry Ghost is the first installment of this graphic thriller series. Currently, Alison is working on the second book, which she anticipates will be finished in the next year-and-a-half. You can find Hungry Ghost at Books on the Square in Providence and Rah-Coco’s Collectibles and Stillwater Books in Pawtucket. Read a portion at RhodaPerdition.com. -Lauren Vella

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in-person styling and shopping appointments. However, they welcomed the idea of a brick-and-mortar and in 2017, the 20-somethings launched their first fashion boutique Harper & Tucker – named for their respective four-legged canine companions – in Dakota’s native Newport. Flash forward a year-and-a-half later, and the dynamic duo is comfortably settled in the store’s second location in Wayland Square, which opened less than six months ago. Despite their combined career histories, both insist that what they’ve learned about business has come from starting and running their very own. Dakota shares that they “never stop learning.” The pair finds that their new East Side storefront perfectly complements their coastal location on Newport’s Bellevue Avenue. Wayland Square’s ever-growing

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What happens when you unite a handful of out-of-the-box thinkers who share a common goal of creating, inspiring, and impacting humanity for the greater good (while making a living, of course)? You get Animus Studios. Eight years ago, co-founders Justin Andrews and Arty Goldstein were working together at other media agencies but knew they could channel their talents into something greater. “We wanted to launch something that was

more true to our personalities,” says Justin. “We stepped out on a limb with no clients, but knew that our enthusiasm, passion, and focus would be a strong foundation.” Today, this merry duo has expanded to a band of content creators who work with a spectrum of clients to construct their narrative via documentary, animation, motion graphics, and scripted live action video. But the company’s passion morphed from focusing on profit to people, the majority

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of whom are right here in our backyard. “It boils down to telling great stories,” says Justin. Client work, he says, “pays the bills” while also being “really fun,” but the small-yet-mighty company decided they wanted to produce more original work. The Animus team supported Senior Editor Roy Power, a movie buff since childhood, when he set out to direct a short documentary entitled Memory Video, the story of an optimistic video-store owner in Philadelphia striving to keep the brickand-mortar tradition alive amidst the rising popularity of streaming. “It’s a ten-minute doc and it got into Hot Docs in Toronto,” says Justin. “A bunch of us flew up to see it. It’s basically THE festival for documentaries.” Officially called the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, it is the largest documentary festival in North America. Memory Video also got into the Montclair Film Festival (New Jersey), Nantucket Film Festival, Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Then, Animus editor and filmmaker Murphy McCann approached Justin one day and said she wanted to take on a project beyond her editor duties. “She wanted to do something from her perspective – a story about what it’s like to flirt if you’re a lesbian not knowing if the person you’re flirting with is a lesbian … I, personally, was really proud she did,” says Justin. The scripted short, Burning My Tongue, written and directed by Murphy, had its world premiere at the Provincetown International Film Festival in June. “It’s pretty cool, and good to get that affirmation – to get a third party to recognize your work,” says Murphy, who said it took about a year-and-a-half from when the film was conceptualized to when it was ready to hit the big screen. As Animus Studios expands their reach, so does their ability to push the envelope and tell the stories of even more compelling people and plots. Riverside, AnimusStudios.com -Andrea E. McHugh

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Exhibit at the Gallery at City Hall displays a photographer and a painter’s views of Providence The old aphorism “As above, so below,” has often been used in a secular context to mean that things experienced on a macroscopic scale find expression all the way downstream in the microcosm of everyday life. As Dr. Micah Salkind, Special Projects Manager in the Department of Art, Culture + Tourism at the City of Providence, suggests in his exhibition statement for the current show at the Gallery at City Hall, “When it comes to the built environment, our federal policies, such as urban renewal, have implications on policies and cultural shifts affecting the City of Providence’s downtown streetscapes.” As a native of Providence, Roberta Kaufman took countless photographs of structures that were demolished as part of the urban redevelopment plan envisioned in 1982 by Mayor Cianci. She recalls riding her bike around the old train tracks of the Providence-Worcester Rail line as Bill Warner’s massive infrastructural plan began to take shape. The photographs in this exhibition represent a small sampling of the archive of work Roberta produced over the course of 50 years. Dr. Salkind thought it would be illuminating to pair Roberta’s work with that of documentary

filmmaker and painter Carla Ricci, a recent transplant to Providence. He says, “Carla Ricci observes the cultural shifts that have taken place in the City with a less retrospective gaze. To me it seemed that, if viewed together, Kaufman’s photographs and Carla’s paintings might give audiences a robust, rounded perspective on the moment we find ourselves in now, in which dogmas are being complimented and challenged by the ideas and viewpoints of newcomers. We have much to learn when we honor the legacies of our past and encourage bold new visions for the future.” As Above, So Below: Visions of Transformation in Down City Providence by Carla Ricci and Roberta Kaufman (August 15 through October 14) August 15: Opening Reception between 4:30pm and 6:30pm Year of the City: The Providence Project is an unprecedented year-long exploration of the history, life, and culture of Providence’s 25 neighborhoods through exhibitions, walks, lectures, and conferences produced by 50+ different curators. Together, these projects reveal new stories and new ways of thinking about the city we love. YearOfTheCity.com

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SECRET BEACHES Get away from your summer routine – and the crowds – by exploring some of the state’s under-the-radar spots By John Taraborelli

Think you’re a true Rhode Island beach bum? Quick quiz: the state has more than 100 public and private beaches – how many have you visited? How many can you even name? Thought so. This summer, go beyond the beaches you know and explore the many under-appreciated miles of coastline that make this the Ocean State. Here are some faves:

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SOUTH COUNTY Primarily billed as a fishing area, Narragansett’s Camp Cronin is also popular with bird watchers and boasts breathtaking views of Block Island Sound. Ocean Road, Narragansett. No admission or parking fee. Westerly’s Sandy Point was once an extension of Napatree Point (which also has a beach that could be considered “secret”), but became an “island” in the Hurricane of ’38. It’s mostly a nature preserve but does offer a public beach. Getting there requires a boat and a permit from Stonington, CT, which claims ownership of five of the island’s 35 acres. North Kingstown’s Calf Pasture Point Beach is one of the most pristine and deserted in the state. Nestled in the Quonset area, it’s accessible from the Davisville Bike Path and is more popular with wildlife than people. Off the Davisville Bike Path, North Kingstown. No admission or parking fee. Though it’s mostly home to a private club, Quonochontaug (or “Quonnie”) Beach has a small public parking lot, so get there early. It’s located on a narrow stretch between the salt pond of the same name and the Block Island Sound. It’s remote, but worth the effort. Sand Trail, Charlestown. No admission or parking fee.

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THE ISLANDS Cast off as unwanted by the Newport elites at the private Bailey’s Beach, ”Reject’s Beach” isn’t even an official beach. It’s a small strip of beachfront that’s separated from its ritzy neighbor by a fence and a rope that goes out into the water. There’s no parking, and it’s generally only accessible by foot or bike, but lesser nobility are welcome. Off the Cliff Walk. No admission or parking fee. Jamestown’s Mackerel Cove Town Beach is located on the “beaver tail” that gives Beavertail State Park its name. Though light on amenities, it’s a relatively tranquil spot popular with families. Beavertail Road, Jamestown. Pay to park, but no admission. Occupying the same peninsula at the southeastern end of Aquidneck Island as Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge, Middletown’s Third Beach (aka Navy Beach) is small and relatively quiet, with shallow water

and minimal waves. Pets welcome after 5pm. Third Beach Road, Middletown. Pay to park, but no admission. Teddy’s Beach in Portsmouth is one of the few that’s pet friendly, which for some will make up for the lack of amenities. Find it near the northern tip of Aquidneck Island, directly across the water from Tiverton’s Grinnell’s Beach, itself worthy of under appreciated status. Park Avenue, Portsmouth. No admission or parking fee. Perched out at the end of one of the two extensions of land that enclose Block Island’s Great Salt Pond, Charleston Beach is not easy to get to and has no amenities, but it offers respite from the crowds and peaceful views of the boats entering New Harbor. Bring your own supplies and enjoy one of Rhode Island’s – nay, the world’s – last great unspoiled places. Off Champlin Road, Block Island. No admission or parking fee.

EAST BAY Little Compton’s Goosewing Beach is a narrow spit of land between open ocean and a coastal pond that’s adjacent to South Shore Beach. It’s also a historic landmark and Nature Conservancy preserve for rare birds. Off South Shore Road, Little Compton. Pay to park at South Shore Beach, but no admission. Tiverton’s Fogland Beach occupies a small peninsula that juts out into the Sakonnet River, creating a small cove on its north side that’s great for nature lovers or families with children. It also has a nature conservation area. 3 Rod Way off Fogland Road. Pay to park, but no admission. Warren Town Beach offers shallow water that’s good for kids (as well as a playground) and is right next to Burr’s Hill Park, providing picnicking and recreational opportunities. Off Water Street, Warren. No admission or parking fee. Almost more of a park than a beach, Union Street Beach is just off the main drag in Downtown Bristol. There’s a grassy plot with benches and picnic tables leading down to a small area for swimming and sunbathing. Bring a cooler and watch the boats go by. Union Street, Bristol. No admission or parking fee.

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By Lauren Vella In Providence, art is prolific and greatly appreciated. Home to institutions like RISD and WaterFire, the city isn’t named the Creative Capital for nothing. Art is everywhere in Providence. Take a walk around downtown and you’ll find a slough of larger-than-life murals and photos. In 2010, renowned artists like RISD alumnus Shephard Fairey ushered in a new era of narrative street art. His colorful mural captured his highly personal experience in Providence after living in the city for years. Since then, the street art landscape has evolved and changed. This new art aims to bring a new level of awareness to the cultural landscape of our city.

Art inspires discussion and debate, but the medium itself is a mode of preservation, a way to tell stories and reflect life. “Whose stories get preserved?” might be a provocative question. It’s one that the street artists and photographers in Providence have brought to the forefront of our city, emblazoning walls, utility boxes, and throughways with vibrant colors and faces that are not often the subjects of common historical discourse. This ever-growing body of work provides representation to people and cultures in the area and shines the light on stories untold.

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robably one of the most recognizable pieces of street art in Providence is Gaia’s Still Here.The portrait of Lynsea Montanari, a young Narragansett woman, looms large over the cityscape on Weybosset Street. When international artist Gaia was approached by The Avenue Concept to produce a mural for the city, the artist decided to focus on the idea of erasure. His work brings the contemporary Native American experience to the forefront of public consciousness today while harkening back to an unjust history. “When we talk about the preservation of a city, we generally tend to focus on sort of the white European history, and we very often neglect the longer history, which involves indigenous people,” says Nick Platzer, 2D Art Director and Mural Program Manager at The Avenue Concept. All too often, Nick laments, the general public only gets one side of the story. Painting a portrait of Lynsea was a chance to change the narrative. Gaia’s concept required extensive research and conversations with the Native American tribes here in Rhode Island about what would be included in the depiction. Both the artist and The Avenue Concept wanted to ensure that the mural accurately represented the locl indigenous community, and Lynsea was their guide. Take a look at Still Here and you’ll find strawberries, deer, flowers, and birds that are culturally significant to the Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes. In the portrait, Lynsea is also holding a smaller photo of Princess Red Wing, founder of the Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum in Exeter and vociferous indigenous rights activist. The actual placement of the mural itself is also meaningful. According to Nick, Weybosset Street is the only curved throughway in the area because the road follows an old trail that led to a Native American trading post down by the river; Still Here now sits at almost that exact location. Too often, Nick says, the indigenous story portrayed in art is one of violence, bloodshed, and heartbreak. However, Gaia’s art exists to push back against this, becoming a symbol of resiliency. Says Nick, “Through all the stuff that we did, this community is still here, and it’s extremely strong.” Lynsea’s clothing in the work exemplifies this: You’ll notice that her garb is not traditional, but rather everyday street clothes. Nick says that this was done on purpose to let people know how Native Americans dress today, that they are still, indeed in our communities.

In Still Here, Lynsea holds a picture of Princess Red Wing, a prominent Native American activist in Rhode Island

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ou may have seen them – electrical boxes rustically painted with the faces of Frida Khalo, Angela Davis, Coretta Scott King, and Malala Yousafzai – staring stoically into the distance on Wickenden and Elmwood streets. Talk to public artist Ysanel Torres, and she’ll tell you why she chose to portray these women with emphatic animation. Growing up in Providence, a daughter of a Dominican family, it was hard to see people like her depicted in mainstream media. Lack of representation fueled Ysanel’s desire to find a medium to tell the stories of people like her in her community. However, her creative aspirations clashed with the pragmatism of her family. Ysanel was always taught to take the safe route in life, one that would guarantee economic stability and put food on the table. Instead, she chose to go against what she explains is “the common immigrant narrative,” and she pursued her passion, art. “Being that one in many thousands of people in Providence, especially around that age, it was difficult to see myself. It was a way to show the rest of the young women who were around me... these women never settled.” The women we see on these electrical boxes reflect a common story of women of color in Providence. Each of Ysanel’s subjects has a story of perseverance, of vibrancy, and of struggle, and through all of their tribulations stood tall as an emblem of strength. “We have women, especially young women that are the spinal cord to this city,” she says, leaning over a coffee table at an East Side cafe. “It has always been these incredible women that have, I think, been unsung for a long time... Shout-out to them, but also, shout-out to us!” During her creative process, Ysanel also experienced empowerment, embracing the celebratory, bright colors she chose for her paintings. The artist noted that she wanted her work to have a “pop-artsy feel,” but still cover a cultural subject. You’ll also notice that many of her brush strokes and textures are imperfect – the polka dots on Corretta Scott King’s dress run, and the creator’s name isn’t stenciled, but scrawled across the box. These blemishes, she explains, are part of the rawness of imperfection she’d like the audience to embrace.

(top) Malala’s polka dots drip to convey imperfection (bottom) Coretta Scott King looks out on Wickenden Street

Photography by Savannah Barkley for Providence Monthly

MMMMM ary Beth Meehan’s portrait of Bidur, a young Syrian refugee, hangs on the brick wall on the back side of The Dark Lady bar. Before coming to the United States, Mary Beth writes that Bidur “packed up

a leopard print coat and a pink-and-blue-patterned head scarf. Her smile is slight, apprehensive even. Her demeanor, a bit weary. The image shows Bidur in her new home, a vibrant face in an increasingly diverse community.

her meager bag” and “walked away from her family business.” The then 27-year-old walked away from the life she had as bombs fell on her neighborhood and hundreds in her community perished. In response to the violence, she, her husband Hussien, and their three children decided to seek refuge in the US. However, after the 2016 election, tensions rose against Muslim communities in America, and life became scary again. But, as Mary Beth describes, Bidur and her family are resilient, hopeful, and long for community cohesiveness. “She [Bidur] says something in Arabic and holds up her hands, lacing her fingers together... ‘We should all be able to live together – Christian, Muslim, Jew.’” In the photo, Bidur is standing outside on a cold Rhode Island winter day. Snow peeks out from the side of the portrait and she’s in

Her photo serves as a reminder that people like her are real, they’re not part of the rhetoric of terror. “Right now, the conscious representation of immigrants as unworthy of being here, as a drain on the system, I mean those conscious representations, again, [perpetuated] by the dominant voices are not accidental. And they filter through the culture,” Mary Beth explains with a concerned tone. Nursing a cup of coffee, the photographer relays that she wrestles with the issue of storytelling and who has the privilege to be the narrator. In her work in her Providence photo collection, she seeks to eschew preconceived notions the general public might have of marginalized communities. Her photo Bidur flips the script of Muslim life in America by highlighting the subject in her every day life.

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ake a drive up Cypress Street off of North Main in Mount Hope, and you’ll pass it – a large mural of several African American musicians ensconced in a sepia-toned palette, superimposed on a black record and a map of the surrounding area. Upon further inspection, you may recognize some of the faces on the mural – Ray Charles, Etta James, James Brown, Sarah Vaughn, and Billie Holiday – and some you may not. Each have a significance to the Mount Hope community. The Mount Hope area has slowly gentrified. As white collar professionals spill over from Boston, the original neighborhood’s populations have been pushed to the fringes of the city. Mount Hope, a historically black neighborhood, has gradually shifted from a majority-black residential area to increasingly white. The mural, officially titled Stories of Mt. Hope: East Side Mural Project, is a response to this change. It seeks to remind community members, old and new, of the neighborhood’s black culture, history, and a community that doesn’t want to be forgotten. Hannah Resseger, artistic director of the project says, “Bringing that history and that culture to the new generation…[we are] keeping that history alive for the people that are living there now, so that, when they see they know that this was here, this happened, and the people and the community were a big part of it...That culture was here and it’s so important.” Amidst the familiar faces on the Cypress Street mural, you’ll also find local Mount Hope artists who “made it big.” The artist on the project, Elijah Faris, depicts Sisirretta Jones at the center of the work. Sisirretta, a soprano opera singer from College Hill, was the first black woman to perform at Carnegie Hall. Other native Mount Hopers include Billy Osborne, a talented drummer who played with noted jazz pioneer John Coltrane and later wrote songs for Ray Charles. There’s also David Hector, a saxaphone player who played with music big wigs like Etta James and James Brown. And finally, Sammy Hector (David’s son), otherwise known as DJ Leggs who “started breakin’” in the 90’s and DJing in the early 2000s makes an appearance on the wall as well. The mural reminds people of Mount Hope’s historic past, but it also stands as a work of aspiration and positive representation. Hannah says the project lets members of the black community know that success is possible in Rhode Island, and they can follow in the footsteps of great musicians who came from their community. “Rhode Island is relevant. We’re so left out of the big music scene, we kind of got skipped over. Like New York is big, Boston is big. It’s like, people think you have to leave Rhode Island to make it big, and a lot of times that’s true, but here you have a family that did make it big.”

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GO WITH THE BEET The East End’s new drink is an all-season refresher you need to try No, the Oaxacan Beet Box is not the name of a Mexican instrument or hip-hop cover band. It’s actually a craft cocktail favorite that has remained on The East End restaurant’s menu since the establishment’s opening two years ago. One sip of this unorthodox take on a classic margarita will send you on a bit of a sensory rollercoaster, oscillating between perplexion and exuberance. The Oaxacan Beet Box is made with mezcal, beet-carrot-ginger juice, and garnished with a slice of lime. Upon first taste of this colorful drink, your palate is hit (almost too forcefully) with the smoky-pepperiness of the mezcal – tequila’s slightly more luxurious sibling. The sensation makes you wonder if you were stupid to stray from a traditional margarita in the first place. But after a few more swigs, the flavors meld, rounding out the concoction into a refreshing, well-balanced cocktail.

The beet juice mixture gives the cocktail an interesting mouth feel, presenting differently than other non-alcoholic mixers. Thicker than fruit juice and thinner than coconut milk, the beet mixture proves earthy and sweet (but not too sweet) to balance the tartness of the lime and the acidity of the traditional Mexican liquor. Inspiration for the East End favorite came from bar manager Kayleigh Speck’s desire to include more kitchen-based items on her bar menu. “Running a bar that also has a great food program, I also wanted to use more culinary elements into drinks. So, rather than just using citrus, using things that we use on our food menu as well.” With summer in full swing, Kayleigh is changing the menu for the warmer months. Maybe she’ll come up with another masterpiece to rival her beet juice creation. 244 Wickenden Street, TheEastEndPVD.com. -Lauren Vella

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What’s for dinner? If that question is your daily dinnertime pre-game, you need to listen to Dinner Sisters, a podcast that Providence resident Kate Schulz hosts with her Atlanta-based sister Betsy Wallace. “Betsy would always call me at around five o’clock and say, ‘I have ground beef, one onion, and a head of lettuce, what can I make?’ and I would feed her some recipes.” They turned Betsy’s dinner woes into a podcast to help inspire other home cooks. Kate, a vociferous reader of food blogs, trolls the internet to find three recipes within their capabilities as home cooks to feature in each episode. “Two of the three must be weeknight recipes, something you can whip up quickly and painlessly after work.” The sisters make the dinners and then talk about their experiences for the podcast – the good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly. “Betsy always thought she was a bad cook,” says Kate. “But she isn’t a bad cook. She was just using bad recipes.” Kate explains that a good recipe includes flavorful ingredients in classic ratios and proportions as well as clear directions. “You would be shocked at how many recipes use weird ra-

tios or have directions that miss entire steps.” Kate and Betsy have adventurous palates – as do Betsy’s three kids – so the offerings range from the simple, like sprucing up a store-bought rotisserie chicken, to dishes with more complex flavor notes like massaman curry. Even with the more complicated dishes, Kate makes sure that the ingredients are easily found at local supermarkets. “The University Whole Foods in Providence is my go-to,” she says. “But I’ve found a lot of fun things at Good Fortune Grocery Store in Cranston.” While Kate produces and co-hosts a podcast for home cooks, she does appreciate dinners out, especially in her adopted home state, a foodie destination. “I never knew what good Italian food was until I moved here,” Kate, who hails from Wisconsin, says. Some favorites include Pane e Vino and Massimo on Federal Hill, as well as Persimmon for special occasions. “And I love Oberlin’s edge.” But for the podcast, the Dinner Sisters keep it simple. “We just want to help people figure out what the heck to have for dinner.” Find Dinner Sisters podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. DinnerSisters.com. -Karen Greco

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Providence is full of breweries – as is the state – so we’ll forgive you if you’ve never heard of Beer On Earth in North Kingstown. A quick review: Professional baker Paul DiBiase joined forces with veteran educator Adam Henderson. They bought their first beer-making equipment from Ocean State Job Lot. Last summer, they opened Beer On Earth in Paul’s already-functioning bakery. One year later, they moved their operations to Providence. Their new location on Fountain Street is slightly smaller, but it’s far better suited to beer-making. “Our transition to Providence couldn’t have been smoother,” says Adam. “We are now able to package our beer in cans, which was a dream of ours in North Kingstown, but just not possible given the layout.”

The new Beer On Earth is blessed with a cozier taproom and a surreal and colorful mural by artist Paul Endres, Jr. The team is quickly developing new brews, using two large wine barrels, and they have begun distributing their beers to pubs and eateries around the city. While the move from South County to the capital is a major geographic shift, the pair has appreciated the mix of old and new fans. “We have seen so many familiar faces from our days in North Kingstown,” says Adam. “We are also seeing repeat customers who live in the neighborhood and are excited to have a new brewery in the spot. They are digging the beers and like the way that we have made the space our own.” 425 West Fountain Street, BeerOnEarth.com -Robert Isenberg

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Natural wines pair with an ingredient-focused menu in Downcity On our last visit, we had beets and Toscano Fresco cheese, garnished with little sprigs of saltwort, a coastal plant. Our dish of pattypan and turnip greens was so bright with lemon flavor, it seemed more like a magic spell than squeezed fruit. The kale with lime and peanuts was similarly citrusy, well-balanced by the warm kale and roasted peanuts. I’m fond of kale, yet this was the first time I’ve ever fought over a plate. One of my favorite dishes, the Carne Cruda, is finely cubed raw beef, crunchy with dried fava beans and enhanced by the subtly warm spice of árbol chilis. The Mussels Escabeche, marinated and accompanied by tiny potato chips made from multicolored fingerling potatoes, reminds me that Siobhan used to co-run the best tapas restaurant in Providence. The tortillas are a must, whether ordered a la carte or as part of a dish (on our first visit, they were on the menu, served with fresh cheese). Red, white, or blue heirloom corn kernels are hand-ground at the restaurant before being shaped in a tortilla press. The warm, chestnut-brown bread is similarly compelling and so are the papas fritas (fries), which are heavily seasoned with salt and pepper and served with an oniondusted aioli. For a second time, we ordered the pork loin with tamarind and preserved lemon. It’s marinated in tepache, a fermented pineapple juice, and grilled over hot coals. Berrí has a selection of natural wines, including so-called “orange” wines made from white grapes naturally fermented with their skins. I had a glass of the Rubén Díaz Fiorel-la. Made from Albillo Real grapes, it had a cider-like

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August 3: Blackstone Valley Tourism Council brings back Gallery Night for an evening of music, food, drinks, slideshows, raffles, and art for sale from over 30 local vendors. 175 Main Street, Pawtucket, BlackstoneValleyTourismCouncil.org

August 6-11: Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival continues to bring the best of local and global film talent to the state for over three decades. Don’t miss the opening night gala or daily screenings. 220 Weybosset Street, Providence, Film-Festival.org

August 7: For classical musicians, there is no holier ground than the Temple of Music at the Roger Williams Park. This is where the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra will perform their free Summer Pops concert. 1000 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RIPhil.org/SummerPops

August 10-11: Nothing wraps up summer like Rhode Island Blues Fest, which boasts both great food and even better music. Featuring sounds by music makers like Crossrhode Blues Band and The Silks, and finger-lickin’ good grub from favorites like Wes’s Rib House. 1000 New London Avenue, Cranston, RIBluesFest.com

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August 16-18: The Assumption Greek Church’s parish grounds transform into a Greek Village during Greek Pride and Culture Fest. Try ouzo and slice of baklava cheesecake while perusing the agora (market), watching traditional Greek dance and baking demonstrations, plus rock climbing and face painting. 97 Walcott Street, Pawtucket, AssumptionRI.org

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August 22-25: Providence, a.k.a. “the birthplace of weird” and also of macabre author H.P. Lovecraft, will host NecronomiCon, a conference devoted to Lovecraftian fiction featuring a goulash of festivities, art, and academic presentations from scholars, artists, and historians. Various venues downtown Providence, NecronomiCon-Providence.com

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performed until 2010, but Keri feels she has come full circle now working with Wilbury on actual set pieces and poster art; she also takes tap dance classes at Modern Jazz Dance Company. In June, Keri exhibited a show at AS220 Project Space called Stages: Strange Familiar Worlds, a collection of highlights from projects including her massive collage mural for Providence Public Library’s On the Table exhibition in spring of 2017, where she researched and spotlighted food waste over the decades. Other displays included painted spaceships from 2018’s Foo Fest, props and posters from Wilbury, some new

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Ty Jesso has dug deeply into the Providence music scene over the past 30 years or so. Back when, his legendary Totally Wired promotions booked hundreds of happening shows, bringing Stereolab, Fugazi, Tiger Trap, Bikini Kill, Royal Trux, and anyone who was anybody to local clubs. His tireless work, DIY ethic, and great taste made Providence a significant stop on the indie/punk tour schedule. By the late-1990s, however, the ever-au courant Ty was growing weary of the “humorless slow bands” that were fashionable at the time. As Ty well knows, Providence has always preferred a riotous atmosphere; he sought to reclaim the good time immediacy afforded by dancing to some great music. Ty saw the future by looking towards the past. “Soul Power was inspired by the rare soul clubs in the UK such as Wigan Casino and The Golden Torch, as well as sixties and Mod events that are still going on today such

as Beat Bespoke Weekender or Euro Ye Ye Weekender,” says Ty. For the neophytes, Ty is referring to the fabled Northern Soul nights of 1970s England. These weekend dance parties, marketed to hardcore R&B fans, highlighted fast-moving, burn ’em-up numbers, the wilder and more obscure, the better. Fans would pack small clubs, dancing to stone grooves, showing off their latest threads and athletic prowess. Melting yourself down into a pleasantly sweaty puddle to the tune of The Contours and Lee Dorsey was each night’s goal. Inspired, Ty began spinning records at the now defunct Custom House, a virtually subterranean pub located downtown. He avoided morose indie and bloodless math-rock, de rigeur at the time. Instead, he blasted a wooly, pulsating mixture of Garage Punk, Funk, R&B, Mod, Twist, Boogaloo, and other deep beats. What would eventually become known as The

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Soul Power dance party was an immediate hit. Over the ensuing 15 years, The Soul Power train has stopped at a bevy of Providence locations including Jakes, Tazza, The 201, and Local 121. It currently reverberates at Dusk, occurring on the second and last Friday of every month. “To me, the perfect Soul Power night is when the club is full of old friends and new faces, all drinking and dancing to an eclectic mix of both known and unknown Soul, R&B, Funk, Garage, Mod, and Boogaloo, too, from 10pm till 2am,” begins the debonair DJ. “When I see people getting down to tunes I have never played before, I know that it’s not just me that can feel the magic of the musical genres we champion.”

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Aside from selling goods, record stores have turned into a place dedicated to preserving, rediscovering, and curating solid-state music in a way that is defiant to current trends of consumption. Not merely a holdover from a bygone era, the record shop is a place dedicated to the particular corners of a community. Music is discussed, traded, and argued over. Neil Young and The Young Adults find themselves glanced at in the same finger-flip through the racks. Maybe they both end up bought, maybe they get passed over, but that moment is what a record shop is all about. It’s not a place to get some preconceived item, it’s a place to find the unexpected. It

delivers a desire for music not typed into Google, but rather physically stumbled upon and scratched out of vinyl, or rolled through a near-endless coil of tape. Providence is home to a healthy host of earnest and vibrant record shops. Each with its own vibe, philosophy, content, and album playing in the store. Over the next few months, we will be checking in with local and regional record store scene and see what makes them the kind of thing that just sticks around. Hopefully, we will find that spot you were always looking for. Let’s start with A for Armageddon Shop and talk to owners Chris Andries and Ben Barnett.

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What genres of music would you find in your shop? We certainly try to cater to fans of just about all genres. We carry a wide variety of Rock, Blues/Jazz, Funk/Soul, Punk, Metal, and Indie on record, CD, and cassette. And we always try to keep a variety of more niche genres like local artists, noise, and world music. What record would be playing when you walk in? This week the WOLF – Edge Of The World LP reissue has been getting a lot spins and the Shakin’ Street LP. What kinds of people would you find perusing your shelves? Do you have regulars or a mix of different people? The people coming into the shop are a pretty diverse mix. We definitely have our regulars coming in to see what’s new on the shelves from week to week, but everyday there’s always someone coming into the shop (or any shop for that matter) for the first time. The people that come into the shop vary from young kids buying their first record to experienced collectors digging through every record and everything in between. What is different about discovering and listening to vinyl in a shop from streaming an album off the Internet? The sense of community is definitely the biggest difference. When you go to the shop to buy a record you’re interacting with other people sharing the common interest of music and its culture. You’re more likely to hear something playing completely new to you, or see a flyer for a show you never would have known about otherwise, or even overhear your future bandmate talking about needing a new drummer.

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