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The pells and The prius; unfriendly skies; The long slog To 2016 The story of the Prius stolen from Mrs.

Clay Pell — aka Michelle Kwan — has f reached farcical proportions. If there were

a late night Rhode Island TV version of The Tonight Show, it would take up half of the host’s monologue. As facts emerge, it appears that Pell, a gubernatorial candidate, is not the man to be handed the reins as a chauffeur. When Kwan’s Prius was stolen on February 25, her husband had evidently just thrown the keys back into the car when leaving it parked on the street. They also presumably left the doors unlocked. We guess Clay didn’t have time to write out a sign saying, “Car’s open, keys are on floor,” to stick on the dashboard to accommodate any wouldbe thieves. We then learned that Kwan had a hockey stick autographed by hockey legend Wayne Gretzky in the car when it was boosted. Well, that’s understandable. Whenever P&J get a memento from a sports legend, we usually stash it in the trunk of our car to show how much we value the item. It looks great when the trunk light goes on when you open it. Now it appears that this is not the first time the Pells have been missing their wheels. This week, the Other Paper reported that, in December, Pell drove the car to his neighborhood coffee shop, walked home, and then reported the car missing to the Providence Police when he noticed it had apparently vanished. This is either a) an indication that Clay has that good space cadet gene inherited from his beloved grandfather, Stillborn; or b) well . . . any time P&J have had trouble remembering where we parked, it usually involved numerous cocktails ingested during the previous evening. Of course, your superior correspondents would never suggest that a gentleman such as Clay might have been hammered when he forgot where he parked. But it appears it is time for a new bright yellow paint job on your future rides, old son. (And a quick tip for the educated, but clueless: hold your keys up and hit the “doors open” button until you hear a beep somewhere. This sure works in airport parking garages when you’ve been away on vacation for a week and you come back home brain dead. Trust us.) While we love the ingenuousness of Clay Pell, becoming a bit sharper as to the workings of the real world in the weeks and months to come may not be a bad thing to prioritize. Hop in. You goin’ Downcity, mister?

AsiAn flew

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 only points to how dicey taking to the air in Asia can be. P&J hark back to our own experience years ago taking a flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to North Sulawesi, up by the Spice Islands. We were on Megantara Airlines, airport code name MNA, which our witty Indonesian friends informed us was well known as “May Not Arrive.” The harrowing trip involved a stopover in Ujung Pandang (aka Makassar), where we managed to land at a severe angle and

on only two wheels. Taking time to change into clean underwear in the terminal, we reboarded. As we screamed down the runway, just before liftoff the pilot slammed on the brakes and reversed engines before we hit the end of the pavement. He then informed the ashen-faced passengers we had a mechanical problem of some sort. As we returned to a spot near the terminal, we looked out the window and saw

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an airline “mechanic” shuffling across the tarmac towards the plane carrying a large wrench. He was wearing flip-flops, short soccer shorts, an ancient and torn Rolling Stones tour T-shirt, and had a clove cigarette dangling from his mouth. The aerodynamics genius then climbed up on the wing, and mightily smacked something — absolutely vital to flight, we presumed — with the wrench about five times. He

then hopped down and gave the pilot the thumbs-up sign. Ready to go! Hardly comforted, we endured the next takeoff with eyes firmly closed. This wasn’t an isolated incident. One of P&J’s colleagues told us that while taking the same route, the flight she was on was so terrifying she stuck her passport down her boot, figuring that if the plane crashed, they could at least identify her body. Fly the friendly skies, indeed.

RemembeRing RichARd

In last week’s column, P&J mentioned where one could send nominations for the Red Bandana Award, a public service distinction in honor of the late educator/activist/author, Richard Walton, who passed away in December of 2012 at the age of 84. And there is yet another remembrance of Richard coming up that you should know about. On March 23 from 2 to 3 pm in the Student Union Ballroom of Rhode Island College (where Richard taught for many years), RIC President Nancy Carriuolo and Herb “Mr. Pawtucket” Weiss, the Economic and Cultural Affairs Officer for the City of Pawtucket, will be reading from an ebook they produced from emails Walton wrote to friends, acquaintances, and newspapers. (There may be a few electronic missives to P&J here, as Richard was a close friend and confidant for many years.) The book, Selected E-Mail Correspondence of Richard Walton, will be available at this event for a suggested donation of $10, and the money will go toward the cost of furniture, equipment, and a plaque in a room to be named for Walton at RIC. The fundraising goal is $5000. Individuals and organizations interested in sponsoring the event should call Paul Brooks at RIC at 401.456.8810.

Just stop it

How can we miss you if you won’t go away? If you don’t leave us alone, we’ll find somebody who will. Those words are directed to Hillary Clinton. P&J are already sick of hearing about Hill’s hopes for the presidency, with the 2016 election still over two years away. By spring of 2016 we’ll be putting our heads in the oven to end the madness. What’s now making it worse are rumors floated by columnists such as the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd that the GOP challenger could be former Florida governor Jeb Bush. And you can bet that the frenzy will build for Dubya’s smarter brother now that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has pulled a Hindenburg, crashing and burning not far from the site of that fiery disaster in Lakehurst. P&J make a plea to all media to just stop it with the Hillary speculation. She will be running, so get used to it, and cut the amateur psychoanalysis until at least the end of 2015, when we will also be sick to death of her cheating husband. We’re begging you. ^

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Pols, farmers, and ‘worm ladies’ at RI’s Compost Con

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“It’s not scrap, it’s a says Gerritt. For backyard goldmine,” says Kathand neighborhood composterine Brown of the potato ing, there is also the yuck peels, coffee grounds, moldy factor, and rats. But City of bread, and other gross stuff Providence Director of Suswe routinely shovel into the tainability, Sheila Dormody, trash. It’s Monday morning says with the use of proper and the former Executive containers and procedures, Director of South Side Comvermin can be held at bay. munity Land Trust is leading And participants in a pilot 130 attendees in a “facilitated composting project in the brainstorm” to open the West Broadway neighborRhode Island Compost Conhood were not at all grossed ference and Trade Show at out by composting, she exSalve Regina University in plains. The project provided Newport. During the session, 25 households with compost Charlestown farmer Mike buckets which they would Merner, 64, provides a rallyperiodically take to a nearby ing cry for food composting: site for emptying. In answer “If not now, when?” to the rhetorical question, In the last 20 years, recy“How many people in Provicling has become second nadence are willing to walk ture to many, but not so with two blocks with food slop?” composting. According to the Dormody says that, in West Natural Resources Defense Broadway, the answer is “a Council, only three percent lot.” There was a waiting list WORM-LADY-IN-CHIEF Warner. of food waste nationally is to join the program. composted, while the EPA At lunchtime, the trade estimates that just five percent of food waste genshow element of the conference takes over, and erated by US businesses is diverted from landfills. companies making, or trying to make, money The 2014 RI Compost Con, the fifth annual event, from other people’s garbage display their wares. is out to change that. You might call it the dark, John Motta is the operation manager for PF but fertile, underbelly of the glitzier Rhode Island Trading of East Freetown, Massachusetts. The Spring Flower & Garden Show, which attracted company provides a large stand-up bin to resthousands of people to the Rhode Island Conventaurants and other entities for their food scraps. tion Center last month. The bins are collected for a fee of $20, and Rhode “It’s ‘no fight, no win’ on climate change,” Island customers include GTECH and BlueCross says Sheldon Whitehouse, who provides openBlueShield. The program reduces trash removal ing remarks along with Rhode Island Senate costs, and “it looks good for a restaurant to be President Teresa Paiva-Weed. Composting is imgreen,” says Motta. Working on a larger scale portant in combating climate change, since food is SCS Engineers, a California-based company waste buried in landfills receives little oxygen, with offices in 30 states, including Rhode Island. and thus produces methane — a major culprit in Their goal is to partner with municipalities in global warming — as it decomposes. Composted running food composting and other waste disscraps, meanwhile, break down quickly, produce posal programs. little methane, and save landfill space. You expect composters to be (literally) down-toOne Rhode Island politician leading the earth folks, and they are — none moreso than the composting charge is state rep Donna Walsh (DWorm Ladies of Charlestown. “Dead worms smell Charlestown, New Shoreham, South Kingstown, terrible,” say Worm Lady-in-Chief Nancy Warner. Westerly), vice-chair of the House Committee on She was explaining what happens if you bring Environment and Natural Resources. Walsh is frozen worms in the house to thaw and find you a conference workshop participant who is also have corpses on your hands. Warner sells worms, spearheading a house bill that would require and over the years she has barnstormed the state, non-residential food waste be separated from visiting more than 100 schools to promote the goswaste destined for the landfill. The mandate pel of worm farming, or vermiculture. Warner is would begin with major institutions like coljoined by an apprentice worm lady, RISD professor leges, and apply to all Rhode Island businesses Chris Bertoni, in leading, “Worm Systems for Inand institutions by 2021. Similar measures have stitutions,” a workshop aimed at getting schools already been passed in Massachusetts, Connectito use worms to compost food scraps. cut, and Vermont. “Rhode Island is behind the There are also students at Compost Con, incurve” on this issue, says conference organizer cluding Lauren Behgam, a junior at Brown, and Greg Gerritt, who makes the connection between founding member of the university’s Food Recovsustainability, food security, and a healthy econery Network chapter, which takes leftovers from omy. He sees composting as “the only way to get campus and distributes them to local shelters. value from food scraps.” Aidan Huber, 15, is one of a group of tenth gradThere are barriers to food composting. One is ers from the Greene School in West Greenwich, low tipping fees (the price a landfill charges its which has its own composting program. customers per ton of waste). When it’s cheap to Huber’s take on food scraps? “We shouldn’t be bring garbage to a landfill, there is little economic calling it waste.” _Tim Lehnert incentive to divert food waste on a large scale,

Do you know who you’re watching when you sit in front of a TV or movie screen? The Representation Project — an organization concerned with gender diversity in the media — has found that women, despite making up 51 percent of the US population, make up only 37 percent of prime-time characters on television. Since 2012, the Women’s Media Center has published an annual study called the “Status of Women in US Media” which in 2014 uncovered, “From January through December, 2013, men accounted for roughly 74 percent of elected officials, candidates and journalists” appearing on weekly political programs on ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. Out of 250 of the top-grossing films of 2013, according to WMC, women accounted for only 16 percent of directors, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors, and “fewer women of color have been directing prime-time TV shows” than in previous years.” Earlier this year, researchers at WMC found seven Academy Award categories in which not a single woman had been nominated. One refrain from industry insiders responding to criticism based on these trends is that there are not enough qualified female filmmakers and media professionals. But this simply is not true, and Brown University’s upcoming Feminist and Women’s Media Festival (FWMF) offers proof. FWMF is a project spearheaded by a group of graduate students at Brown’s Department of Modern Culture and Media (MCM), where both undergraduate and graduate students look at “modern cultural and social formations” through the study of “photography, sound recording, cinema, video, television and most recently digital media.” The festival is an outgrowth of 2010’s Providence Women’s Film Festival, which was organized by a cohort of then-students in the MCM department. The five students spearheading this year’s festival altered the name of the event and, in addition to scheduling events at the Cable Car Cinema (which hosted the 2010 festival), added Brown’s Martinos Auditorium at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts as a screening site. Another change this year, say organizers Brandeise Monk-Payton and Rijuta Mehta, is a focus on women of color. The festival’s silent film series (shown Saturday at the Cable Car), for example, will be partly dedicated to the work of Zora Neale Hurston, an African-American woman known for the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But Neale Hurston was also an anthropologist, and some of the films, says Monk-Payton, will show footage taken by Neale Hurston while she was doing work in the field. Other notable African-American women highlighted in the festival are Audre Lorde and Issa Rae. Lorde, the late Black feminist, lesbian, poet, and activ-

ist, is celebrated in a film that looks at her “contribution to the Afro-German women’s movement” as well as her experiences with “racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, classism, and homophobia in Berlin before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.” Rae is a contemporary filmmaker who has risen to prominence through her online web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. This year’s festival has expanded geographically, as well, to include filmmakers born in and/or covering West Africa, Vietnam, and India, says Mehta. On Friday afternoon, festival organizers will show the movie Firaaq, a fictionalized account set in a town in India dealing with “the aftermath of violent riots and massacres” fueled by “Hindu-Muslim relationships and tensions.” After the movie, the film’s director, Nandita Das, will give a keynote address drawing on her experience bringing human rights issues to the screen as an actor and director. But what about Lupita? And Beyonce? And Lean In? “There is the Lupita film In My Genes,” explains Mehta, referring to the 2009 documentary directed by recent Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (Best Supporting Actress, for her role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave), which looks at the plight of an Albino woman living in Kenya. “But a big impetus was bringing things that wouldn’t be exhibited otherwise,” she says. “Fame or popularity was not necessarily the yardstick [for] this festival’s selections.” The Feminist and Women’s Media Festival kicks off Thursday, March 13 at 8 pm with a series of short “experimental films” at the Cable Car Cinema (204 South Main St, Providence). Admission is $5. All other screenings and events are free and open to the public. For more info, go to: feministwomensmediafestival.tumblr.com.

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_By ph il ip e il Grind, Ensemble, Con Artist, Secret Clubhouse, and AltSpace in New York. Citizen Space, NextSpace, and PARISOMA in San Francisco. Oficio and WorkBar in Boston. Enerspace in Chicago. Miami Shared in Miami. Indy Hall in Philadelphia. CoLab in Nashville. CoCo in Minneapolis. Jellyfish Cartel, Flip Work, and Blankspaces in Los Angeles. We’re talking about coworking spaces, those 21st-century gathering zones where people pay by the day — or week, or month, or year — for access to shelter, a desk, climate control, coffee, wifi, and the general feeling they’re participating in a profound shift in the way we think about work. The existence of these places isn’t news. As long ago as 2008 — ancient history in the Internet Age — The San Francisco Chronicle gazed wondrously at a “communal drop-in office space called Sandbox Suites — an example of a new and growing work arrangement called coworking.” But here in Rhode Island, well .. .we’re not San Francisco. And though we’ve had versions of coworking spaces for almost a decade, it appears the Ocean State recently reached a critical mass. (CriticalMass is, of course, the name of a coworking space in Boston.) Over the last six months, four coworking spaces have opened their doors on this speck of turf we call home — enough for us to take notice and start asking questions. What is a “coworking space”? Why are they popping up so frequently here? What do they cost to join? Why join one at all? Is there anything distinguishing them from one another? The answer to the last question is, “Yes, absolutely.” Come along for a statewide tour de coworking and we’ll find some answers to those other questions, too.

THE DESIGN OFFICE

LOCATION | Downtown Providence OPENED | November 2007 SQUARE FOOTAGE | 2600 RATES | $175/month (part-time), $385/

month (full-time) ONLINE | thedesignoffice.org OUR TAKE | The Design Office seems to be the oldest coworking space in Rhode Island and it feels fittingly dignified. There’s nothing forced or kitschy-“cool” about the place. With its wood floors, high ceilings, long tables, jigsaw piece-esque desks, and walls lined with uber-sleek graphic posters, it’s a space that asks, “Why wouldn’t a space in a building in downtown Providence be reconfigured and reimagined by the smart, creative people that make the city distinct?” At the Design Office you’ll find architects, graphic designers, photographers, programmers, professors, industrial designers, and even a font designer. You’ll also find a brain-tingling wall of books, ranging from The Pocket Book of Dinosaurs to Understanding Comics to Design and Form to Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age to former RISD President John Maeda’s Maeda @ Media. WHY COWORKING? “I think the general feeling in the last five to 10 years is that, working for a big company, you don’t just retire with a great pension and mow your lawn and hang out with your grandkids. There’s nothing guaranteed on the other

CREATIVE HUB the design office. end of that full-time gig, whether you’re laid off or the business closes or what have you. I feel a great deal of excitement around the possibility that we can reinvent the economy, and I think something like coworking is one piece of that.” _Design Office founder, owner — and RISD Graphic Design department head — John Caserta

KEESEH STUDIO/ANCHOR

LOCATION | West Side of Providence OPENED | June 2008 (Keeseh), June 2011 (Anchor) SQUARE FOOTAGE | Almost 14,000 RATES | Desks available for $150/month; artist spaces starting at $300/month; office spaces starting at $400/month ONLINE | keeseh.com, anchorprovidence. com OUR TAKE | Asher Dunn started his first Rhode Island coworking space — a communal woodshop called Keeseh Studio (“keeseh” is Hebrew for chair) in Hope Artiste Village — 16 days after he graduated from RISD. Before long, after his company Studio DUNN won a “Best New Designer” award at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, he needed a bigger space. Luckily there was a recently vacant warehouse on the West Side of Providence that the Providence School Department had used as a storage space. Dunn describes it as a “big white room.” Nowadays, that room is a ginormous inspiration factory. Stroll around the halls and you’ll find art exhibitions or an office where violin and electric guitar makers work shoulder to shoulder. Or you might run into the co-president of the Rhode Island AIGA (American Institute for Graphic Arts) or the program manager of the Rhode Island Sierra Club chapter — both of whom have offices at Anchor. The inspiration component isn’t accidental. After Dunn first set aside hours as

“open studio” time in his woodshop, “I wanted more people in here regularly that would be inspiring to me and that I could inspire,” he says. “And as that idea grew, I recognized that it would be really nice to have the artist spaces and the office spaces as well, to really create a lot of different backgrounds in one area that could share between industries.” Anchor’s March 19 open mic, Providence Hoot (one of many programs and events the space hosts), is the perfect chance to scope the place out.

THE BATCHHAUS

LOCATION | Jewelry District, Providence OPENED | May 2010 SQUARE FOOTAGE | A designated area (desks, a couch, a small room) within a 3500-square-foot total office RATES | Free (but the space only opens on Thursdays) ONLINE | batchhaus.com OUR TAKE | When the tech startup Batchbook opens their doors once a week to the roving, plugged-in masses, it’s more community-building exercise than a revenue generator, Batchbook CEO and co-founder Pamela O’Hara says. “Especially in Providence, there’s such a sort of migratory work environment: a lot of designers, a lot of freelancers, a lot of developers,” she explains. “So we like having those folks sort of rotating through our space . . . Why not share it with fellow entrepreneurs and, just, cool people?” As it turns out, Batchbook recently hired a developer who stopped in for a BatchHaus session. So maybe it’s a revenue generator after all. WHY COWORKING? “There’s coworking space for all different types of businesses: design businesses, creative businesses, tech businesses, real estate businesses. And I think it’s ...taking off of the ‘open web’ concept, this concept that the Inter-

net — the ‘cloud’ — should be very open, technology shared, we should all learn, we should open source our code so we can grow together. I feel like coworking represents that same mentality in the brick and mortar space.” _Pamela O’Hara

FOUNDERS LEAGUE

LOCATION | Jewelry District, Providence OPENED | January 2013 SQUARE FOOTAGE | 9500 RATES | $150/month (“gym-style” basic membership), $225/month (“Residence” membership), $300/month (“ResidencePlus” membership) ONLINE | foundersleague.co OUR TAKE | What’s the atmosphere like at Founders League? Last Friday afternoon offered a pretty good sample. There were long tables stacked high with freshlydelivered pizzas. There was freely flowing wine and beer. There was a guy strolling around wearing Google Glass. And, eventually, the crowd congregated in one corner of the room for the main event: a American Idol-style PitchOff, designed to help contest entrants hone their two-minute sales skills. The winners, who each took home a crisp $100 bill, persuasively described non-toxic, anti-dandruff cream; a video game controller designed for use with only one hand; and an app called Splitwise that helps friends and roommates track shared expenses. Commenting on one of the presenter’s tendency to point her fingers at the audience, as if she were firing guns, PitchOff judge and partner at Betaspring (the startup accelerator that runs Founders League) Jack Templin suggested it might be more effective to shoot those imaginary guns skyward, cowboy-style, as she talked. WHY COWORKING? “In a community that hasn’t done this before, how do you do it for the first time? It’s not like [how] when

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LOCATION | North Kingstown OPENED | September 2013 SQUARE FOOTAGE | 2500 RATES | $15/day, $55/week, $190/month ONLINE | thehiveri.com OUR TAKE | The Hive may seem like a haul for Providence residents. But consider this. It’s a mile from the new Wickford Junction MBTA train stop. It’s minutes from the Quonset Business Park. It directly abuts the 350-acre Ryan Park, which boasts miles of hiking trails. And it’s “10 minutes, tops,” from the nearest beach, says Hive co-founder Tuni Schartner. These factors — and the space’s location inside a repurposed mill complex — lend a low-key spontaneity and outdoorsy feel to the Hive. “We’re all about balance,” Schartner says. “If you want to come in and bang out some work in your flip flops, go for it. If the waves are big, we’re going surfing. Or, if it’s a summer day, [I’m] gonna go swimming. “It’s got that Southern Rhode Island vibe,” she says.

HATCH ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER LOCATION | Weybosset Street, in Downtown Providence OPENED | September 2013 SQUARE FOOTAGE | 6000 RATES | $100/month (“gym-style” basic

A PROESSIONAL RESOURCE Murphy at hatch entrepreneurial Center. membership), $250/month (residence membership) ONLINE | hatchri.com OUR TAKE | Uh, did you see the panoramic Providence views on our cover this week? WHY COWORKING? “The reason why I created this space specifically in downtown Providence was to combat the brain drain, that human capital that leaves [Rhode Island] every single year. So what I wanted to do was provide a space that was attractive enough to this entrepreneur that makes them realize, ‘You know what? I could be professional. I am professional. I am this entrepreneur that everyone keeps talking about, that I keep reading about in The Wall Street Journal, Providence Business News, the Phoenix. I am that guy!’ We really are a resource to help you make your dream a reality. All you need to do is raise your hand and tell me what you need.”

_Hatch co-founder and vice president of sales and marketing at Ocean Capital Daniel Murphy

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LOCATION | Warwick OPENED | January 2014 SQUARE FOOTAGE | 4500, with the ability to expand up to 10,000 RATES | $25/day; longer-term memberships start at $199/month ONLINE | workdigz.com OUR TAKE | There’s really no getting around the fact that WorkDigz looks like an abandoned set from Office Space. It’s all here: the vaguely flesh-colored filing cabinets, the wall-to-wall carpeting, the cubicle-style desk partitions. But that doesn’t mean the place offers the same soul-squelching existential claustrophobia of your last corporate gig.

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In fact, once you remove the overbearing bosses, the neutered dress code, and the rigid hours, well, WorkDigz starts to feel like an exciting blank space from which to plot your world domination. It’s corporate life, minus the shitty parts. (WorkDigz: call us if you want to use that as your catch phrase.) WHY COWORKING? “When the economy tanked back in ’06, ’07, and so many people were out of work, they sat around for a couple years crying over not being able to work and then finally got fed up with not being able to find work and said, ‘I’m going to start my own thing.’ So I think that the small business entrepreneurial spirit has spurred the coworking spirit. What you’re finding is people just can’t afford to do business as a small business and have the expense of the overhead of a private office or a private business location.” _WorkDigz community ambassador Jessica Northup

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you open up a coworking space in New York, there’s pent-up demand. Coworking spaces in New York fill up [instantly], no problem. Same thing in Boston, same thing in San Francisco. “In a second- or third-tier city, it’s different. You’re creating your own market. You’re creating awareness of why it’s better to be in a community of entrepreneurs than it is to be in your basement or your spare bedroom . . . or why it’s better to be in a community than go to the old-style networking events. So it’s a different kind of market creation activity. And it’s not competition [among coworking spaces in Rhode Island]; we’re all doing the same thing. Our competition is the status quo. Our competition is the way that startups worked here [in Rhode Island] for the previous 20 years, which is kind of ‘small business mode’ and not ‘startup mode.’ ” _Betaspring co-founder and Founders League manager Allan Tear

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LOCATION | Downtown Providence OPENED | February 2014 SQUARE FOOTAGE | 1200 RATES | $75/month (part-time), $150/ month (full-time), $250/month (“Core” membership) ONLINE | digitalcityri.org OUR TAKE | This latest addition to Rhode Island’s coworking scene is more than just a space. It’s a movement. “Clearly the time has come for us to really create an industry here in Rhode Island that has high wage jobs and can put a lot of people to work,” said Gary Glassman, the president of the production company Providence Pictures, at DC206’s launch in late February. “We really believe that digital design and media production is one very viable path to doing that.” DC206 is actually a subsidiary of a three-pronged initiative called Digital City designed to “transform Rhode Island into an international digital design and production hub.” There is an education component, helmed by Renee Hobbs, a URI professor and founding director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media. (Check out the recently published white paper, “Going Digital: Developing Business and Education Strategies for a 21st Century Rhode Island” online.) There will be a membership organization for designers, filmmakers, programmers, and other digital professionals. And there will be a physical space to serve as a hub for this activity. Glassman and others originally envisioned a building-sized, state-of-the-art production facility, complete with green screen studios and editing suites — the kind of place that would both lure companies from out of town and fulfill any local media-maker’s fantasy. But, “I don’t think Rhode Island is a big enough state for the kind of ‘build it and they will come’ mentality,” says Tally Gilkes-Bower, director of Digital City and co-founder of DC206. The current space, therefore, “is a very small but important test bed to try to understand what that larger space might look like.” A perk of membership? Pay-as-you-go access to DC206 host, AS220’s, almost unlimited set of toys: laser cutters, vinyl cutters, a media production lab, a screen printing studio, a darkroom, letter press machines, 3D printers, CNC routers, sewing machines, soldering stations, woodshop tools. “If there’s a project that you can’t complete over there . . . .” Bower says. He trails off. It just doesn’t seem possible there’s a project you can’t complete here. ^

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off pot,” members of the Providence f Journal’s editorial board called the idea of

legalizing pot “explosively contentious.” But according to a recent Gallup poll, 58 percent of Americans want marijuana legalized. According to polls done in January, just 41 percent of Rhode Islanders were against the idea. That number shrank to 23 percent for people between the ages 18 and 34. “We support decriminalizing marijuana and trying to help nonviolent criminals get treatment instead of jail terms,” writes the editorial board. But what about the fact that the very non-violent criminals mentioned here are only criminals because of the prohibition of an herb? Legalize the weed, and they won’t be “criminals” anymore. Plus, most people who use marijuana — a whopping 90-plus percent of them — aren’t addicted to pot. And those who might consider themselves addicted don’t go through the same physical withdrawal as those detoxing from heroin, alcohol, or coffee. So why do they need treatment? Because the great minds at ProJo think their recreational marijuana use is wrong? More wrong than having a beer in a bar after work? “We have our doubts about the effectiveness of prohibition,” the editorial admits elsewhere. “But outright legalization is something Rhode Island should table for further study.” Pssssst. Here’s a secret: the vast majority of adults in Rhode Island have tried marijuana. And I’d be willing to bet even your editorial board members have tried it at least once. And if you haven’t, then I know someone you know and love has. Are you, or are they, criminals? Do you need to study the idea of what would happen if you pulled back the judgment you place on others? Maybe, when people aren’t stigmatized, they live happier, more productive lives. Perhaps, they’d even smoke less pot, as was the case in Holland when it liberalized its marijuana policies. The editorial continues: “We fear that, despite politicians’ promises, it is not clear the drug could be effectively regulated to keep it from becoming even more of a scourge to children than it is today.” Because, you know, it’s always good to base public policy on fear. And leaving pot in the hands of unscrupulous drug dealers out to make money is way more effective and healthier for children than regulating it. “Addiction specialists forcefully warn

that young people seem to be seriously damaging themselves both neurologically and socially through marijuana use, turning to self-medication through pot rather than learning less debilitating means to avoid anxiety,” it goes on. The key words here are “seem to be.” Frankly, if you think pot is the biggest problem kids have to deal with — or their most popular means of dealing with other problems — you need to watch the 2009 documentary on the American school system, The War On Kids. Seriously. Go watch it. Now. Even CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, in his recent special Weed 2: Cannabis Madness, points out that the longterm effects on the brain of many drugs prescribed to children are also unknown, and marijuana, comparatively speaking, might just cause less harm than the drugs those kids are already being prescribed. “But it is hard to see how encouraging a vast new industry promoting the use of another potentially dangerous drug, on top of cigarettes and alcohol, would greatly benefit society,” the editorial says. ProJo editorial board, here’s a shocker for you: there already is a marijuana industry. In fact, it’s flourishing in Rhode Island, and it’s been the number one cash crop in states like Kentucky and New York, where it’s still illegal. This isn’t a “new” industry; people have been using and selling marijuana for decades. This is about bringing an industry from the shadows to the light for the sake of consumer protection and public health. You wouldn’t buy your alcohol from the black market. Why is it OK to force people to buy a plant that way? If you’re truly in support of healthy economic environment and business growth in Rhode Island, you would see how legitimizing and regulating an already existing industry creates jobs — no more farming the pot trade out to other states. And, yes, it raises money via tax revenues that can be directed toward any number of civic uses: schools, road maintenance, fostering other small business development, etc. ProJo, there used to be this idea that journalists and editors had the public’s best interest in mind. That respect has waned, in part, because of this “fair and balanced” reporting idea championed by some who think that by regurgitating the fears of the few balances out — or even outweighs — common sense and decades of anecdotal and scientific evidence to the contrary. The sky didn’t fall when Colorado legalized pot, just like it didn’t fall for the thousands of years people used marijuana before prohibition. ^ Got a burning question? Email theduchess@valerie vandepanne.com or tweet it @asktheduchess.

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We’re all ready to put this winter in the rear-view mirror, so the opening of “Retropical,” the new exhibit at Yellow Peril Gallery, 60 Valley St #5, Providence, is perfectly timed. Anabel Vázquez Rodrîquez says her “visual composites are made up of imagery from the places I call home, where one reality is inserted into another using photographs, moving images, and drawings. Tropical scenery cuts into the New England bleakness and the use of color and black-and-white imagery sets in motion a rhythm that reveals the intermediate spaces that come out of this latitudinal relationship. This third space is further explored through the invocation of colonial iconography, as well as an investigation into the notion of Otherness as it relates to

popular references of the extraterrestrial.” The show is on view through April 20 (Thursday + Friday 3-8 pm + Saturday + Sunday 12-5 pm) | 401.861.1535 | yellowperil gallery.com

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former Boston Ballet dancer and now the resident choreographer for festivAl bAllet proviDence, will be spotlighted in “Boundless Plotnikov,” at the Vets, Avenue of the Arts, Providence. The slowly unfolding limbs of the dancers in his modern ballet Orchis mirror the orchids in A. Cemal Ekin’s photos. Surrender has only been performed in 2011 in Belgrade, home turf to Festival’s artistic director Misha Djuric. And Sharps and Flats, a new piece, has dancers playing musicians. The troupe will perform today at 8 pm, on Saturday at 7:30 pm, and on Sunday at 2:30 pm | $23-$85 | 401.421.ARTS | festivalballet.com

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Warwick (401.649.0164), while Neil Young tribute crew Young rust play a freebie at the All American Bar & Grille in North Kingstown (401.294.3649). Holy smokes — St. Paddy’s weekend jumps off SATURDAY (the 15th) with stacked live action statewide, so plan accordingly and get a designated driver: head to Jimmy’s Saloon immediately following the parade for the rAvers, los DuDerinos and CT’s little uglY ($10, 401.846.5121); Firehouse 13 will be jumping courtesy of wAYne “the trAin” hAncock with the mcgunks, whiskeY kill, and gentlemen sounDsYstem ($15 day of show, 401.270.1801); the Met

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We’re always glad when a blitzen trApper song hits our shuffle. The quintet from Portland, Oregon, say their music is “lovingly called Rocky Mountain whoop-ass” which “brings together the strut, the twist, the headbang and the hillbilly tap, though in some cases it merely makes people want to drink or procreate.” They also note that the songs on their most recent album, VII (Vagrant), start “from a small place, like a headwaters, a remembrance and then widens into a song.” And they always bring spirit, passion, and drive to the stage. Enjoy a beverage or two (and who knows what after the show) when the band hits Fête, 103 Dike St, Providence. Torn Shorts open around 8 pm | $15 | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com

(401.729.1005) hosts a stArting over tuesDAY reunion with wAr gAmes, the vArsitY club, and plenty more (all ages, $12 at the door); six ten connector celebrates a new CD release at Dusk with kiD felix, morris & the eAst coAst, and 33 leAves; and TV On the Radio’s Kyp Malone returns to RI with ice bAlloons and stellar local duo pixels at Machines with Magnets (401.596.4225). For a slightly more relaxed affair on Saturday, get to the Columbus Theatre for legendary Miracle Legion frontman mArc mulcAhY (who played a pickup basketball game in Olneyville a coupla decades ago) with special guest support from the ’mericAns (all-ages, $15). Raise a pint with shArks come cruisin’ at the Parlour on MONDAY (the 17th) — aka St. Patrick’s Day — starting at 6 pm, dial 401.383.5858 for more. Ahead to Wednesday (he 19th), get to the Fête Lounge early for local greats torn shorts opening for blitzen trApper; tix are $15, dial 401.383.1112 for details.

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The picTures from The LincoLn cenTer show Look incredibLe. where does The experience rank in The pinch-me momenTs for deer Tick? That was really cool. We did Carnegie Hall a couple years ago and I was so screwed up on drugs, the show was so disjointed and weird, that I feel like I really blew it. I didn’t want something like that to happen with this opportunity. We played our balls off and we took the time to rework our songs to fit the room. It was really special. Our audiences have traditionally been pretty forgiving. It’s really sweet that they’ve stuck by us this long. We’re finally understanding things like that now. speaking of surreaL momenTs, how did sTevie nicks geT invoLved wiTh The wedding ceremony? Vanessa has been friends with Stevie for awhile now. She just asked her one day and much to our delight Stevie went online and got her minister card from some fake church that specializes in ordaining people to marry their friends. are you in ri righT now? i heard you were Living in nyc

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for a biT before buying a house in nashviLLe? We’re heading to Austin for SXSW, and then we fly back for Lupo’s. I just bought a house in Nashville. I moved up to New York last July knowing that I’d be going back to Nashville sooner than later. I love Rhode Island, but Nashville makes more sense for me. how did This pairing wiTh The hoLd sTeady come TogeTher? We played with them a couple of years ago and we’ve stayed in touch. They’re a great band. I’m kind of surprised this package hasn’t toured together yet. wiTh such a Large caTaLog To work from, how do you guys go abouT forming seTLisTs for shows? and have you cooked up any new covers for This nexT Tour? I don’t know. It can be tough. You don’t want to disappoint anybody, but at the same time as an artist you have to be able to do what you want to do. I like Neil Young’s approach to live music. As far as covers go, yeah, we’re always working on new stuff. how has scaLing back on The booze and parTying heLped your creaTive process? It’s pretty great. There’s a lot more music happening in my brain. Drugs and alcohol, as fun as they are, they really never did anything to motivate me creatively. i read your recenT facebook posT inquiring abouT karaTe Lessons? did you end up finding a sensei in nyc or nashviLLe? I haven’t been home enough! I think a better idea for me is to take up boxing. I have a feeling it would be an easier hobby for me to balance with my totally insane schedule. It’s good to hit stuff. mighT we ever see an aLbum of dueTs/covers wiTh The wife? Oh yeah. We’ve been thinking about that. Probably country and western songs. My mother-in-law really wants us to do it, and she’s a really smart lady. ^

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_By Bo B gulla In many ways, Mark Mulcahy comes off as a throwback, a musician whose time has come and, for all intents and purposes, gone. But no one told him. Since he debuted in the mid’80s with his band Miracle Legion, times have changed dramatically. Like, completely twice over. Yet here he is, in today’s musical world, making records, playing shows. “I try to stay on the positive side,” he says. “I guess that makes me some kind of Don Quixote. Either that or I’m one of those guys on Dumb and Dumber. I just like making records.” His latest batch of music, Dear Mark J. Mulcahy I Love You, proves that there will, in fact, always be a place for Mulcahy’s music. The record, his first in nearly eight years, has been hailed by esteemed journals like Mojo and Uncut as his best, proving that you can indeed get better with age. “I went into this record with the idea that I would do 11 days of recording and come out of it with one song each day. I vowed that I wouldn’t go back and fix it, fix anything, and it turned out to be a good thing.” Produced by Paul Kolderie at Rub Wrongways Records in Northampton, MA (not far from his home in Springfield) with multi-instrumentalist STAYING POSITIVE Mulcahy. (and touring partner) Henning Ohlenbusch, it hinges on the ever-present Mulcahy signatures: solid Epiphone guitar sound, true and basic pop-rock enting world. It was the opposite of the self-absorption hooks, quirky wit, and a rickety but endearing vocal I spent most of my time feeling. I had to turn that page style. His music resonates with the sound of bands he and not look back.” came of age with: the Pixies, Yo La Tengo, R.E.M. Fortunately, music has again assumed a major role in “I still have a lot to learn,” he admits, speaking about his life. “Every time I think about not doing it, I get kind his style. “I don’t feel like I really know how to do it right of black,” he says. “I don’t know anything else to do, jobyet. I still look at music as a challenge. I probably write wise. Maybe I’m good at something, but I never gave mythe same type of thing I’ve always written. I’m just glad self a chance to find out. One thing’s for sure: I’m never it means something to the people that care about it.” going backward; always just forward.” Mulcahy’s album has seen wider distribution in the Dear Mark J. Mulcahy I Love You, with its song-a-day moUS via Fire Records, joining the ranks of illustrious Fire dus operandi, is forward, without a doubt. It emanates artists (Pere Ubu, Mission of Burma, the Chills, Giant with a pulsating creativity, a ragged spontaneity, that Sand, and Half Japanese). The relationship with Fire recalls the best of Miracle Legion. “We really avoided tryhas given Mulcahy’s profile a real boost, something he’s ing a million different ways to do everything,” he says. always managed to get at just the right time. After his “It was like, ‘Dude, that sounds good. Let’s move on.’ ” Miracle Legion debut and subsequent recordings, he and He laughs, remembering a time when it wasn’t like that. his new “band” Polaris stumbled on a great opportunity “When [Miracle Legion] did Portrait of a Damaged Family in to develop and play music for The Adventures of Pete & Pete, a 1996, we recorded all these crazy studio gimmicks and then gave it to Pete Buck to mix it. When he heard it he popular kids’ show on Nickelodeon. “I’m still surprised was like, ‘What the hell is all this?’ He weeded out all of by the success of that show,” he says. “Lots of people the crazy stuff and made us sound like us again.” heard of that and tuned into the music; there was a ton For Mulcahy, part of his charm, and part of his ability of great music on the show. It was a lucky turn of events to stay relevant, is his penchant for cutting through the for me. I invented a fake band, and so had this great band bullshit and getting to the good stuff. “Back in those old without any of the headaches. That was a fantasy modays, [guitarist and co-founder] Mr. Ray [Neal] and I said, ment that lasted quite a long time.” ‘If we’re not going forward, let’s just quit.’ We stayed Mulcahy has always had some unlucky moments. In faithful to that promise for Miracle Legion; we were un2008 his wife, Melissa, mother of his twins, died suddenable to go forward, got stumped, and we all found somely. The deep loss led to a recalibration of his goals. “I didn’t thing else. A band is like a shark. It has to go forward. do music for very long time,” he says. “But I realized that You can’t sit around and do the same thing.” cutting myself off from something you’ve done a lot is not Mulcahy has managed to stay true not only to his healthy. I didn’t have time for it, though, with the kids. promise, but to his creative muse. 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DAVID ALLEN SIBLEY will discuss

and sign his new book, The Sibley Guide to Bird, Second Edition | Reservations are required [and the event may be moved to Brown’s MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer St] | Go to the website or call to reserve | 6 pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence | 401.863.3168 | brown. edu/campus-life/support/bookstore/ events POET JOHN BURNSIDE will read from his work | 2:30 pm | Brown University McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $3 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

TALKS FRIDAY 14

“BEYOND TRAUMA: SILENCE, EXORCISM, AND THE DOOMED JOURNEY TO A LOST SELF” | A

talk by Ashis Nandy, a writer, political psychologist, social theorist, and cultural critic | 2 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | 401.863.2809 | brown.edu/initiatives/india/ opjindal

SATURDAY 15

“THE ART OF DIALOGUE: DISCUSSIONS AND FILMS WITH FILMMAKERS, AUTHORS, POETS, AND SCIENTISTS” | The series con-

SUNDAY 16

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TUESDAY 18

“EDUCATION AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY” | A talk

by Pedro Noguera, executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education | 5 pm | Brown University’s Smith-Buonanno Hall, 95 Cushing St, Providence | brown.edu/academics/raceethnicity/events-programs/pedronoguera-education-and-civil-rights21st-century

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READINGS THURSDAY 13

FRIDAY 14

caller Will Mentor and music by Riptide | 8 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | $8 | 508.252.6375 | contradancelinks. com/rehoboth.html

sign his new book, The Ancestral Table: Traditional Recipes for a Paleo Lifestyle | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

REHOBOTH CONTRA DANCE with

LARS R. TRODMAN will read from,

RUSS CRANDALL will discuss and

“COURT TESTIMONY IN CRIMINAL CASES” | A talk by Jane Northup, a

criminalist and quality assurance officer at the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory | Part of URI’s Forensic Science Seminar Series | 3:30 pm | Pastore Hall at the University of Rhode Island, 51 Lower College Rd, Kingston | Free | chm.uri.edu/ forensics/seminars.php

THURSDAY 20

“CAN HEALTH REFORM FIX HEALTH CARE?” | A talk by Ira

C. Magaziner, a former advisor of policy development for President Clinton | 4 pm | Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 222 Richmond St, Providence | brown. edu/academics/public-health/2014paul-levinger-lecture

“KHRUSHCHEV IN POWER: UNFINISHED REFORMS, 1961-1964” | A panel discussion with Sergei Khrushchev, son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev | 5:30

pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | 401.863.2809

“THE DANGER OF THE SINGLE STORY: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLE” | A

talk by Dr. Carol Anderson, an associate professor of African American studies and history at Emory University | 5:30 pm | Brown University’s Smith-Buonanno Hall, 95 Cushing St, Providence | brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/events-programs/ carol-anderson-danger-single-storyafrican-americans-and-anti-colonialstruggle

ART GALLERIES AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6

BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm | Through Mar 22: “Parallels: Investigations of Geometry and Gesture,” works by Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo, James Cambronne, Wilson Harding Lawrence, Nona Hershey, Laurel Sparks, and Roger Tibbetts CADE TOMPKINS PROJECTS | 401.751.4888 | 198 Hope St, Providence | cadetompkins.com | Sat 10 am-6 pm + by appointment | Through Mar 29: “Selfies & Friends: Contemporary Portraiture,” with works by Eckhard Etzold, Julie Gearan, Aaron Gilbert, Buck Hastings, Sophiya Khwaja, Suzanne Schireson, Dan Talbot, and Ben Watkins

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| 401.421.9230 | 228 Angell St, Providence | chazangallery.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 2-4 pm | Through Mar 27: “We Don’t Make Mistakes,” with works by Sam Duket, Bradley Fesmire, Shawn Gilheeney, Buck Hastings, and Neal Walsh COASTAL LIVING GALLERY | 83 Brown St, Wickford | coastalliving gallery.com | Through Mar 28: “Shattered Visions: Portraits of a City,” paintings by Ian Mohon DAVID WINTON BELL GALLERY | 401 863.2932 | List Art Center,

Brown University, 64 College St, Providence | brown.edu/Facilities/ David_Winton_ Bell_Gallery | Mon-

dence | providenceri.com/ArtCulture Tourism/gallery-at-city-hall | Mon-

HOXIE GALLERY AT THE WESTERLY LIBRARY | 401.596.2877 | 44

Broad St, Westerly | westerlylibrary. org | Through Mar 31: works by

Kevin Dwyer and Catherine Radix Mansell

IMAGO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St,

8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through Mar 14: “RIAEA Educators’ Exhibit” MAD DOG GALLERY | 401.722.7800 | 65 Blackstone Ave, Pawtucket | maddogartiststudios.com | Mon-Wed + Fri-Sat 12-4 pm; Thurs 12-8:30 pm | Through Apr 11: “Human Nature,” a juried sculptural exhibit featuring interpretations of the human form and spirit

PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE AT THE MILL GALLERY | 560 Mineral Spring Ave | pawtucket artscollaborative.org | Through

Mar 28: “2014 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition,” with works by visual artists Bob Dilworth, Ernest Jolicoeur, Kirstin Lamb, Judith Larzelere, Jon Laustsen, Olivia McCullough, Quintin Rivera Toro, Eleanor Sabin, Jonathan Sharlin, Steven B. Smith, and J.R. Uretsky; video and music stations in the gallery with works by choreographers Ali Kennerrodsky and Danielle Genest, composers Paul Phillips and Kirsten Volness, filmmakers Xander Marro and William Smyth, and New Genres artists Megan and Murray McMillan PROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providenceartclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Mar 28: new work by Frederick Nowosielski, Lenny Rumpler, and David Witbeckn | “A Road Less Traveled,” drawings by Susan Hardy and photographs by Carole P. Kenny PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | 401.455.8000 | 150 Empire St | provlib. org | Through Apr 15: An exhibit celebrating the 200th anniversary of the death of Giambattista Bodoni, one of history’s most important typographers and printers

REILLY GALLERY AT PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | 401.865.2400 | 549 River

Ave | providence.edu/art/reilly | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm | Through Mar 21: “10 Forms,” large-scale video projection and handheld digital sculptures by Dwyer Kilcollin

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 |

Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | rhodeislandwatercolor society.wildapricot.org | Tues-Sat

10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through Mar 27: “RIWS Associate Member Show” SARAH DOYLE GALLERY | 401.863.2189 | 26 Benevolent St, Providence | brown.edu/ Departments/ Sarah_Doyle_Center/gallery.html | Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm | Through Mar 28: “Activism, Action, and Advocacy: Forty Years at the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center”

SOL KOFFLER GRADUATE STUDENT GALLERY | 169 Weybosset

St, Providence | risd.edu/About/ Galleries_Exhibitions/Sol_Koffler |

Sun-Fri 12-5 pm | Through Mar 16: “Ceramics Graduate Student Exhibition”

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 |

2587 Kingstown Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | Wed-Sun 10

am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Through Mar 15: “Open Juried Photography and Printmaking Annual” | Mar 20-Apr 19: “Storytellers: The Language of Visual Arts,” an open juried show TRESCOTT STREET GALLERY | 508.944.7898 | 8 Trescott Street, Taunton, MA | trescottstreetgallery. org | Tues + Thurs + Sat 11 am-2 pm | Mar 15-22: “Sedneser Seeds,” sculpture by Joe Resendes and photography by Diane DeMelo URI ART GALLERY | 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston | uri.edu/artsci/ art/gallery | Through Mar 28: “Objects — Forms,” sculptures by John Udvardy

URI PROVIDENCE CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80

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Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | Through Mar 28: “Rhode Island Women of Distinction,” photographs by Munir D. Mohammed and Erin X. Smithers VAN VESSEM GALLERY | 401.835.6639 | 63 Muse Way, Tiverton | sandywoodsfarm.org/vanvessem gallery.html | Through Mar 16: “Encaustica,” paintings by Arthur Moore

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MUSEUMS NEWPORT ART MUSEUM |

401.848.8200 | 76 Bellevue Ave | newportartmuseum.org | Tues-Sat 11

am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students and military personnel with ID; free for children 5 and under | Through May 4: “The Art of Craft: Selections from the Aquidneck Island Region,” with furniture by George Warren, jewelry by Ruth Brandt and Tamar Kern, baskets by Helen Lee, rugs by Ron Caplain, and stone carving by Brooke Roberts and Nick Benson | Through May 4: “Delicate Armour,” works on paper by Deborah Coolidge | Through May 11: “Avian Aquidneck,” collages by Irving Barrett | Through May 18: “Newport Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition 2014” RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Benefit St, Providence | risdmuseum. org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm [Thurs until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am-1 pm | Through May 11: “Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests,” short films made between 1964-’66 | Through June 29: “Andy Warhol’s Photographs” | Through July 6: “Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast,” an exhibition of sculptures | Ongoing: “Subject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century” + Ancient and Medieval Galleries + Impressionist Galleries + Pendleton House + “A Grand Gallery: European Paintings from the Permanent Collection” + American Art from the Permanent Collection + “Exine” by Paul Morrison + works by Jonathan Bonner

THEATER CONTEMPORARY THEATER |

COURTHOUSE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | 401.782.1018 | courthouse

centerstage.org | 3481 Kingstown Rd, West Kingston | Mar 15-16 2 pm:

GEORGE HOUSTON BASS PERFORMING ARTS SPACE AT BROWN UNIVERSITY | 155 Angell St,

Providence | Mar 14-15: Lyrics from

Lockdown, a multimedia performance written and performed by Bryonn Bain | Fri 7 pm; Sat 2 + 7 pm | Free [reservations @ eventbrite. com/e/lyrics-from-lockdowntickets-10741456987] GRANITE THEATRE | 401.596.2341 | granitetheatre.com | 1 Granite St, Westerly | Through Mar 30: Same Time, Next Year, by Bernard Slade | This week: Mar 14 + 15 + 20 8 pm + Mar 16 2 pm | $20, $17 seniors, $12 under 13 MIXED MAGIC THEATRE | 401.305.7333 | mmtri.com | Through Mar 16: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, by Ntozake Shange | Mar 15 3 + 7:30 pm + Mar 16 6 pm at 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $25, $20 seniors, $15 students + military NEWPORT MURDER MYSTERY | 401.848.8200 | newportartmuseum. org | At the Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave | Through Apr 26: Something Wicked This Way Comes | Sat 7 pm | $25, $20 seniors, $15 students + 17 and under

OCEAN STATE THEATRE COMPANY | 401.921.6800 | oceanstate

theatre.org | 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | Through Mar 16: The All

Night Strut!, a musical celebration of the ’30s and ’40s | Thiurs-Sat 7:30 pm + Sun 2 pm | $39-$54

PAFF AUDITORIUM AT URI PROVIDENCE | 80 Washington

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PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | 401.421.ARTS | ppacri.org |

TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com | 201 Washington St, Providence |

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Waxing moon in Leo, moon void-ofcourse 3:24 am until 10:17 am when it goes into virgo, virgo. the full moon looms, and virgo moons bring out the perfectionist in all. is your health okay? are you eating the right vitamins? if these questions make sense, you are very much in tune with the moon. however, the sun is at odds with the 15

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Waxing moon in virgo. excellent day for spring-cleaning. virgo moons bring out a work-ethic and an ability to see fine details. they can also bring out the pissy side of Sagittarius, Gemini, pisces, and aries. virgo, capricorn, taurus, and Libra: stay to the end. this is not the time for the “broad overview.” cancer, Scorpio, aquarius, and Leo: assess your health, and be realistic. 16

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Full moon in virgo, moon void-ofcourse 1:08 pm until 8:46 pm when it moves into Libra. Good day for bookkeeping or managing minutia, or getting your car fixed (in the morning). virgo, taurus, Gemini, Scorpio, pisces, and Sagittarius have macroscopic vision (little stuff looks huge). capricorn, cancer, aries, Leo and aquarius are “on the edge,” and could be unexpectedly emotional. Libra can get what they want. But what do they want? 17

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tuesday March 18 3

Waning moon in Libra, moon void-ofcourse 9:07 pm until 5:13 am Wednesday. Yes, a lengthy void-of-course moon always means that deeply held convictions hit the “spin cycle.” in this case, as Scorpio follows Libra, figure that vague notions turn into presumptions by the end of the day. cancer, capricorn, aries, taurus, aquarius and Leo should hold off on decisions. You don’t have all the information. Gemini, Libra, Scorpio, pisces, virgo, and Sagittarius: you’re the steady one. 19

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Waning moon in Scorpio. drive a hard bargain, and probe as deeply as you can, especially Scorpio, cancer, pisces, virgo and capricorn. taurus, Leo and aquarius can leap to conclusions, and then land with a thud. Gemini, Sagittarius, Libra, aries: it’s a waiting game for you. pay attention to trifles, no matter how much you want to “move on.” and, it’s a great “impromptu romance” night for all. 20

this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite 27 28 social 29 30 activities 31 sex,25family,26or authority figures; or romantic will not be at their best. | When the moon is in aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are taurus/ Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, Leo/aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.

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Jonesin’ _by matt J ones Across 1 ___ Bator (Mongolia’s capital) 5 part of a war plane 11 italian or Swiss summit 14 Fantasy sports option 15 Jiddah’s leaned 16 ___ paulo (Brazil’s most populous city) 17 Bathrooms brimming with lawn clippings? 19 Fashion world star anna 20 Words prior to “touche” or “tureen” 21 obvious disdain 23 Wheat bread pitt almost took away for 2011 26 appomattox initials 29 country musician axetone 30 Just ___, skip and jump away 31 Scandinavian fans of Wiggum’s kid (in Simpsons-iana)? 34 Quantity of bricks? 35 two from tijuana 36 Stir things up 37 British artist William with a 1745 portrait of him and his pug dog 39 hands out 43 Bangkok bankroll 44 Utmost ordinal 45 Wood that flavors bourbon 46 thousand dollar bills that fly and roost? 50 1052, to tacitus 51 Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...) 52 “two virgins” musician Yoko 53 Folks who owen Meany films, say

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Latvian-born artist Marek Mila’s “that 70’s Show” costar code and sea-lemon, for two transylvanian count, informally Bubbling, in a way pro tour sport Unworldly sort things worn to go downhill fast Fined without fault hour for a British cup, traditionally 48 Gaucho’s grasslands 49 how you might wax nostalgic 50 Works of art on walls

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