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course, the 2013 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox — there isn’t a better local story in SportsWorld than the Providence College Friars basketball team.

As you may be aware if you haven’t been locked inside a discarded refrigerator, the Friars shockingly won the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden on March 15, and thus earned a trip to the NCAA’s March Madness — aka the Final Judgment. The tourney kicks off right after the Phoenix hits the streets this week, and one can only hope that offering them praise here isn’t the kiss of death when they take on the mighty University of North Carolina in the first round.

The saga of this team of upstarts, which sounds more like it came from Hollywood than Our Little Towne, revolves around the head coach. Native son Ed Cooley came to PC in 2011 after coaching at Connecticut’s Fairfield University for five years. At that point, the PC program was a zombie — half-dead, hollow, and wreaking havoc in the community. The players, some of whom appeared to be total sociopaths, were welcomed with about as much enthusiasm as a band of Hell’s Angels at a church picnic.

Cooley had grown up desperately poor in South Providence, but he excelled for Central High School on the court, twice winning Rhode Island Player of Year.

He then became one of the fartoo-few who escape the Prov concrete jungle, going on after a prep school year to Stonehill College, where he continued making his basketball talents a ticket to ride.

After he graduated he got into the big rinse cycle of coaching, which drains college assistants dry for about the same money you find beneath the cushions in your sofa (he worked with Al Skinner as an assistant coach at URI in 1996 and at Boston College for nine years). But he eventually climbed his way up to the top spot at Fairfield, and delivered well enough to have PC come aknockin’. Hiring him was one of the smartest moves the Friar athletic department has made in recent memory.

Since then, Cooley has admirably stuck to his guns regarding the off-court behavior of players, whether it hurts the team or not.

This year, after losing his starting point guard for the season to injury, he still had the guts to suspend two more valued players before Christmas for disciplinary

reasons. This wasn’t something every coach would do, but it was clear the man has his principles, even if his future employment hinges on a win-loss record. The suspensions left his depth chart as thin as a wedding veil.

But these are just the basketball-related issues. As his team seesawed through the early part of the season, looking like heaven or hell depending on the night and/or the opponent, Cooley managed to stick to a weight-loss surgery program that weaned 100 pounds from his, how can we say it, rather rotund, 300-plus-lb. body. Then his East Greenwich house burned down. No joke.

So while his team was trying to win an NCAA spot — or at least respectability — he ended up living with his family in an extended-stay motel in Coventry. We’re sure that is the home of choice for other coaches like (ex-Friar) Billy Donovan of #1-rated Florida, and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, both of whom make more money off sneaker contracts than Cooley will see from his coach’s pay in a decade.

But somehow he pulled off a winning run at season’s end that even hardcore Friars fans wouldn’t have bet their change from a McDonald’s Happy Meal on. Now the operative phrase from all the blowhard sports analysts is, “This is a team no one wants to play,” which is high praise from the Toy Department’s soi disant geniuses. But they’re right. This Friars team embodies Toni Morrison’s famous phrase

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about the women who ran the New York City telephone operators’ department back when you need an operator to complete calls: “Talk shit, take none.”

Thanks to Ed Cooley, this year has been a gift to all the PC fans and, if they’re honest about it, even fans of archrivals like URI or Brown. This is what college sports are supposed to be all about: principles off the court, guts on it, and surprise gifts like an unexpected major conference championship.

Thanks, Mr. Cooley. Ya done us proud, no matter where the NCAAs take us.

Williams National Memorial. In particular, the Blackstone Valley Commission thrived under his leadership.

Jan will replace Kelly Mahoney, another compatriot of P&J’s, who did an excellent job in the Chafee administration and who is now off to work for gubernatorial candidate Clay Pell.

There’s no truth to the rumor she’ll be in charge of locating space cadet Clay’s autos when he loses them after a trip to the 7-Eleven for a late night sub and Dr. Pepper.

Have another on us, Clay.

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No, we’re not talking about the recently-cancelled Fox TV show, but the new 80-minute indie film, also titled Almost Human, created by the Vo Dilun-born duo of Joe Begos and Josh Ethier. Joe wrote and directed the film, while Josh edited, did the sound design, and starred.

Both are 26 years old.

It’s a horror/sci-fi/action movie featuring what the filmmakers promise is “plenty of bloodshed” (four people are murdered within the first 25 minutes). The plot has something to do with Ethier’s character (Mark) being under suspicion he was abducted by aliens.

And when Mark returns to Earth, much to the chagrin of his former girlfriend, who has settled in with a new guy, trouble ensues.

Your superior correspondents were also delighted to see our buddy, Chuck Doherty (more recently seen at Nick-a-Nee’s, as opposed to outer space), in the

A tip of the sombrero to Governor Linc Chafee for appointing our old friend and colleague Jan Reitsma as his new “special adviser for policy and legislative affairs.”

Jan has always been one of the most hard-charging and intelligent people we’ve worked with, and he deserves the post. He’s no shrinking violet, so you can bet he will make his voice heard with the guv, whether Linc likes it or not.

(Which is another reason why we like Linc: he’s smart enough to know he can be dumb at times.)

Jan was former director of the Department of Environmental Management, where he ruffled some feathers, but that’s what we should want from our elected and appointed officials. He has most recently been executive director of the Blackstone River Valley Heritage Corridor Commission and superintendent of the Roger

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small role of Clancy. The film is being distributed in the US by IFC Midnight, so keep your eyes open for it. The whole thing was shot in the Biggest Little.

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This Saturday (the 22nd), there will be a showing of photographs

by Rick Farrell of Mojo Photography, Garrett Sheehan, and our favorite singer/songwriter, Mark Cutler, at the Van Vessem Gallery at Sandywoods in Tiverton.

The opening reception is from 5 to 8 pm and, after that, the great bluesman, Paul Geremia, will be performing in concert at the Sandywoods Center for the Arts next door. The photo show runs through April 27.

KudoS and congratS . . .

...to writer/journalist and frequent Phoenix contributor, Victor Paul Alvarez. Victor has written the foreword to a new anthology about legendary Los Angeles poet and author, Charles Bukowski, Long Distance Drunks: A Tribute to Charles Bukowski, released on March 9, the 20th anniversary of the writer’s death. The book is available at Amazon, on Kindle, and at Barnes & Noble. Nice going, Victor.

Of course, Bukowski was the subject of the 1987 film Barfly — highly recommended by P&J — starring Mickey Rourke as the poet and featuring a cameo from Mr. Bukowski himself. ^

Send Pringles and Pulitzer-grade tips to p&j@phx.com.

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Bert Crenca talks nooses, nuclear meltdowns, and ‘Building AS220’

Our initial plan for interviewing AS220 co-founder and artistic director Bert Crenca involved a third participant: longtime Providence Journal arts writer Channing Gray.

After all, it was Gray’s scathing 1982 review of Crenca’s first major show in Providence (see sidebar) that is referenced in the title of Crenca’s upcoming exhibition at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, “Puzzled: Ode/Owed to Channing,” and that helped inspire Crenca to launch AS220. But, alas, Journal management wouldn’t green-light an on-the-record commingling between Journal and Phoenix, perhaps because doing so would involve acknowledging our existence. So our interview with Crenca stayed one-on-one.

Not that this was a problem. Crenca’s exhibition offers plenty of fodder for conversation. It includes an appearance by his Mobile Urban Gentrification Unit; prayer flags made from newspapers criss-crossing the gallery; a mural-sized, Dali-esque explosion of shapes and colors titled “Puzzle”; and numerous smaller paintings and drawings that address issues ranging from President Obama to the nuclear meltdown in Japan to marijuana to abortion to the origins of the universe. “Little things,” Crenca says.

The opening also comes days before Crenca takes the stage with various artists, musicians, and AS220 staffers at Trinity Rep for “BUILDING AS220: PAST. PRESENT. FUTURE,” an event Crenca describes as a “a kind of ‘State of AS220’ address.” “BUILDING” will, in part, untangle the dizzying web of departments that make up AS220; tell the story of how the nonprofit’s annual operating budget has risen from $800 to $4.1 million in 29 years; and address how the organization will continue to pursue its mission — “Envision[ing] a just world where all people can realize their full creative potential” — in the upcoming decades.

Our conversation with Crenca, which took place in AS220’s FOO(D) café on Empire Street in downtown Providence, has been edited and condensed.

industries, expand on the youth program. Work ourselves into retail; help serve more of the local economy of artists by helping provide outlets for them to sell their work. [Create] a convening place for tours of AS220, but also as a potential way of marketing all of the culture in the city.

An expanded media lab. Some transitional residency for youth [who] we work with coming out of prison. Potentially help develop some additional space for the Trinity/Brown MFA program and theater that we’re now also involved with, through our black box [theater].

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IF CHANNING GRAY WERE SITTING AT THIS TABLE, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO HIM? Thanks.

YOU’RE 63 YEARS OLD, WHICH IS APPROACHING TRADITIONAL RETIREMENT AGE. WILL YOU EVER RETIRE?

Thanks for that review. That’s become the foundation of my life. All of the events that occurred following that are the reason for the existence of AS220, and my mission in life.

THAT’S PRETTY BIG. It’s huge, because then

there was an op-ed piece written. And then there was a manifesto written. [Again, see sidebar.]

LET’S JUMP FORWARD A FEW DECADES. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE OF AS220 LOOK LIKE? More

building development. Creating more space to expand on a few programs: expand on the

Retire from what, though? My life at AS220 is extremely blurred with my being an artist. I think AS220 is a grand-scale work of art with many artists participating and many players. It’s a great social work of art. And I mean that like I breathe. So I don’t know what I’d be [retiring from]. That would be saying leaving AS220 is part of retiring as an artist.

I would expect my role here . . . will change. There may be a day when they change all the locks and I come to work and I can’t get in. I don’t think that would be an unreasonable thing for them to do. I can always recede to my studio very happily — to a point. Because, many years ago, I did a three-month sabbatical and came to realize that I need the interaction of society. I need to be attempting to make a difference out in the world. I need those social interactions or my studio, as bright a place it is, can become very dark.

ABOUT A YEAR AGO, I TALKED TO YOU ABOUT POSSIBILITIES FOR THE VACANT ‘SUPERMAN’ BUILDING. YOUR IDEAS INCLUDED COVERING THE

It’s time to retire the marijuana bust photograph.

So, this week in The Providence Phoenix, we are hereby sending the accompanying photo — both a recent local example of what we mean when we say “marijuana bust photograph” and a symbolic stand-in for an entire genre of news photography — somewhere warm and sunny to live out the rest of its days away from the public eye.

We cannot speak on behalf other local media outlets: newspapers, radio stations, TV channels, or online outlets like Coventry Patch, which ran this pic under the headline “Coventry, Scituate Police Make $250,000 Pot Bust in Joint Investigation,” on March 14. (There’s a nice “joint” pun tucked in there.) We can only speak for ourselves.

And we see no legitimate reason to unironically, uncritically publish a Rhode Island police department’s visual tally of how much of a dried plant they successfully snatched from the folks who grew and/or sold it. In this case, it was 3.5 pounds from Coventry, and 10 pounds from Scituate. There were apparently no guns or pills involved.

Pot bust photos had a good run. For decades — at the very least, since President Richard Nixon declared drugs “public enemy number one” in a famous 1971 press conference — they were a frequent reminder, produced by law enforcement and happily reprinted by news outlets, that cops were winning the War on Drugs. Like the preceding Prohibition-era snapshots of authorities proudly flushing barrels of alcohols into storm drains, such images aimed to stir within readers the sense that justice was being served. The photo meant fewer fellow citizens would be getting stoned, and a few Bad Guys would perhaps go to prison. And this, apparently, was news.

But this time-honored transaction isn’t nearly as simple these days. For starters, the War on Drugs has been widely condemned as a failure. This was the verdict from the Global Commission on Drug Policy, an international group of former presidents, prime ministers, and US and UN officials, who collectively vowed “fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed,” in a 2011 report. Closer to home, Rhode Island Department of Health director Dr. Michael Fine told us in a February interview, “I was around when President Nixon coined the term ...And I remember how incredibly effective it was in putting African Americans in jail and creating a huge racial disparity and not effective at all at ending addiction or reducing deaths from drugs.”

Marijuana prohibition, specifically, has faced similarly widespread, if not quite as

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BUILDING WITH GRAFFITI AND CONSTRUCTING A DOME OVER DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE. HERE WE ARE A YEAR LATER AND THE BUILDING IS STILL VACANT. IF YOU WERE HANDED THE KEYS, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? There’s something

about some of my radical proposals that is really about going out to the extreme just to get the people to meet me halfway. So when I say, “Why don’t we do a hundredyear graffiti project and put staging on every building in downtown and get every graffiti artist in the world to start graffiti-ing all of the buildings from the top all the way down?” and “What kind of economic boon and tourist attraction would that be?” and “What would that do?” and “The entire history of graffiti could be encapsulated in one city — similar to the Five Points project [in Queens], which is getting knocked near [the Museum of Modern Art’s] PS1,” that’s just to get the people to think differently and openly about possibilities. [The same goes for] putting a dome over downtown so we can make it a terrarium and have palm trees and perfect climate. We may have to do it, also, in reaction to the rising waters ...with the melting of the polar caps.

Somebody wanted to talk to me…the other day and they said, “I felt like I really needed to talk to you, because you’re an out-of-thebox thinker.” I said, “Listen, I’m trying to figure about how I get my way into the box.”

And, frankly, that’s the push and pull with AS220.

There’s times when I put on a suit. There’s been occasions where I have put a tie on, but the reality is, I feel like it’s a noose. Someone else is going to have to tie a noose around my neck; I’m not doing it myself. It’s symbolic to me of how the dominant culture works: to be successful, the first thing they ask you to do in the morning is tie a noose around your neck. Are you fucking kidding me?

Machines With Magnets (400 Main St, Pawtucket.) will host an opening for “Puzzled: Ode/Owed to Channing,” on March 22 at 5 pm. “BUILDING AS220,” will begin on March 24 at 5:30 pm at Trinity Rep (201 Washington St, Providence). Info @ eventbrite.com/e/ building-as220-tickets-9325704433. _Philip Eil

AS220’S ORIGINS: NEW CHALLENGES AND BAD REVIEWS Excerpt from the “New Challenge” manifesto, by Steven Emma, Martha Dempster, and Umberto Crenca. First published in The Providence Eagle, April 14, 1982.

We challenge the assumption that an art degree, education, position, or monetary success, necessarily legitimizes an artist’s endeavors, opinions, judgments, or gives credence to an artist’s work!

We challenge the award systems with their self-congratulatory aggrandizement that fosters the false premise that the winning of awards, prizes, grants, and so on necessarily validates an artist’s work, position, judgment or opinion.

We challenge the pervasive notion that complete, unbridled, uncensored freedom produces mediocrity and that excellence rises out of repression. It does not! Art is stifled and stagnates under repression whether that repression is overtly political or covertly economic, hence the historical exodus of artists and others from repressive states to those more conducive to the free expression of ideas. The relegating of an artist to an arbitrary position of insignificance, anonymity, or poverty by any group is a form of repression and must be challenged.

We challenge the discriminatory practices of the hierarchically interconnected art associations, art clubs, art galleries, art councils, art

publications, art schools, and art museums. They reek of favoritism!

We challenge the fairness of the methods of dispersing funds for the arts and we challenge the right or privilege of any art institution, public or private, that receives state support either directly through grants or indirectly through tax write-offs, to discriminate in any way against an artist.

We challenge the over-emphasis on technique and process which has become a limiting and debilitating factor in art and which has also become a primary criteria for judging artistic merit.

Excerpt from the “Art as Social Commentary,” by Channing Gray. The Providence Journal-Bulletin. November 5, 1982 Crenca is someone who appears to be deeply concerned about the injustices of the world. In fact, there is hardly an issue or event that has escaped his attention.

In this fairly modest show alone, Crenca speaks out against hunger, prejudice, the crises in Poland and Lebanon and the United States’ involvement in South America.

Unfortunately, his work — flat, post-like canvases, and abstract concoctions of urethane, dead leaves and bones — offers very little

insight into these often tragic situations; nor, for that matter, does it unlock any of the emotions associated with them.

Excerpt from “The Work of Umberto Crenca,” letter to the editor by Steven Emma. The Providence Journal-Bulletin, December 2, 1982.

Although today it may not be chic to be socially conscious, anyone with a nominal background in art history knows that social commentary has been a cornerstone of art. Indeed, some of the greatest and most moving works of art were created as social commentary.

Goya’s etchings of the horror of war, Daumier’s biting caricatures, Roualt’s portrayal of lawyers, judges, and prostitutes, Picasso’s “Guernica,” Kollwitz’s lithographs of the poor, are just some of the few that come to mind.

Mr. Crenca’s work, in particularly the small drawings, evoke a sense of a common link between those who participate in protest and those who suffer. They show the interconnectedness of those who suffer, protest, and oppress, thereby pointing out to all of us the fragility of power, security, and life itself.

I urge the public to view the show themselves and judge whether the “shortcomings” of Umberto Crenca’s art are in the art or in the review.

REST IN PEACE The Coventry-Scituate haul.

pronounced, doubts. According to numbers released by Public Policy Polling in January, 75 percent of Rhode Islanders age 18-34 support the passage of laws legalizing, taxing, and regulating marijuana, as Colorado and Washington have done. Since then we’ve seen Associated Press headlines like “Colorado Collects $2M In Recreational Pot Taxes.” We’ve also seen articles like Sunday’s Providence Journal PolitiFact report that confirmed as “TRUE” a recent New England NAACP claim that African Americans are 3.7 more likely than whites to be arrested on pot charges in the US. While the local pot-arrest disparity isn’t as bad as the eight-to-one rate seen in other states, African Americans are still arrested for pot 2.6 times as often than whites in Rhode Island, the article reported. (According to National Household Survey on Drug Abuse and Health numbers from 2001 to 2010, usage rates between blacks and whites were never separated by more than 5 percentage points.)

Now, we’re not faulting the Coventry and Scituate police for conducting these investigations. They’re doing what they’re paid to do: enforce the law. And we’re not specifically picking on Coventry Patch either. Search the Internet for recent marijuana busts and you’ll find stories from numerous RI news organizations accompanied by variations of the “Look How Much Pot We Scored!” pic.

Speaking of local news outlets, we understand that they don’t play by the same rules alt-weeklies do. Which is why we’re not expecting everyone — from WPRO to WJAR to WPRI to newspapers from The Westerly Sun to The Woonsocket Call — to immediately follow our lead in making pot-bust photos a thing of the past. But perhaps they can toss some questions into their pot-bust reports when the next opportunity arises.

A few to consider: Should we, as citizens, be proud or troubled by the fact that the Coventry-Scituate bust was the result of a “six-week joint investigation”? Should news outlets start reporting potential tax revenue estimates alongside numbers like the “street value of $250,000” from the Coventry bust? How exactly do we explain to Rhody children the fact that our state allows marijuana use for medicinal purposes, yet our federal government still classifies it alongside heroin, LSD, ecstasy, and peyote as a Schedule 1 banned substance “with no currently accepted medical use”?

And will the guys busted for possessing banned plants in Coventry and Scituate do more time in prison than Charles Moreau, the corrupt former mayor of Central Falls recently released from prison after 13 months? _Philip Eil

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_By ph il ip e il When guests arrive at URI’s first-ever humor symposium, “Open Mic, Open Minds: An Exploration of Social Issues Through Stand-up,” on Saturday, March 22, they will receive “gag bags” that contain a whoopee cushion or rubber chicken or electric hand buzzer in addition to the usual conference swag (folder, pen, water bottle).

It’s a fitting beginning for a conference that straddles the line between academia and comedia — or whatever the name is for the world where people ascend stages with the purpose of making their fellow humans laugh. “This is a chance for the theorists to connect with the practitioners,” says Renee Hobbs, founding director of URI’s Harrington School of Communication and Media, the event’s sponsor. “That’s what makes it so exciting.”

“Open Mic, Open Minds” caps off a school-year’s worth of programming that has included two stand-up shows on campus (Amy Schumer and Jim Gaffigan), a “Think Like a Comic!” workshop (see our sidebar) and a “Last Ram Standing” stand-up contest won by 20-year-old Hope Valley, RI native, Evan Little, who riffed on the ways that searching for a parking spot at URI’s Kingston campus changes a person. “I’ve never killed anyone . . . but I have considered murder-suicides in the parking lot,” he said, as the audience howled. Meanwhile, the PhD Writing and Rhetoric student who organized the “Open Mic, Open Minds” conference, Jillian Belanger, took second place with a routine that included an observational bit about how bossy rappers can be. “All their songs are like ‘Drop that ass down’ and ‘Grab the wall,’ and ‘Wiggle like you’re trying to make your ass fall off,’ ” she says.

Belanger — whose research involves watching numerous stand-up specials and comedy documentaries each week — has arranged a remarkable schedule for the symposium. There will be a keynote address on the historical roots of stand-up; workshops titled “The Comedic Portrayal of Transgender People” and “Canadian Comedy — Pod People From the North”; screenings and discussions of stand-up

or both. But if a stand-up only makes you cry, some people might have some questions about the nature of that stand-up.

Unless they’re only making YOU cry, and everyone else is laughing at that.

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JILLIAN BELANGER phd student in Writing and rhetoriC at uri’s harrington sChool; “open miC, open minds” symposium organiZer

routines by Margaret Cho, Louis CK, Bill Maher, and other comics; sessions to facilitate the creation of original sketches and routines by attendees; and an evening performance by the actor (Young Adult, Big Fan), firebrand Twitter philosopher, and stand-up comic, Patton Oswalt.

And it’s all open to the public ($20 for students, $30 for everyone else), which is why, to help whet your appetite, we got a preview of the funny feast from symposium guests. Ignoring E.B. White’s quote about the dangers of examining comedy too closely — “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it” — we aimed our questions straight at the heart of the symposium’s subject: what is comedy?

stand-up 101 if you’re just learning about uri’s “open mic, open minds” event series, than you probably missed Vermont-based comedian nathan hartswick’s “think like a Comic!” workshop at uri last fall. that’s oK; we missed it, too. lucky for us, hartswick sent us a “7 Ways to think like a Comic” list breaking down what we missed:

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Keep your eyes open all the time. Find something funny in the world around you. it might be something in the news, a strange road sign, or the way you behave when you visit your mom’s house. if it’s strange, unusual, uncomfortable, awkward, or different, chances are there’s something you find funny about it.

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Develop the joke. take that funny thing,

Read on for an up-close look at the frog’s innards, and a couple side dishes, too.

MYQ KAPLAN Comedian Featured on THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O’BRIEN, THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, and his oWn Comedy Central speCial; Co-leader oF “ComiCs on politiCal topiCs” session at “open miC, open minds” symposium, and opening ComiC For patton osWalt Comedy isn’t just one thing. It isn’t even just one thing to me.

I will say that it is one of the only art forms that has a very specific response desired/required/expected for it to be considered the art form that it is. That is to say, a movie can be dramatic or comedic or thrilling; it can make you laugh or cry

Sometimes people laugh because something makes them uncomfortable. Or sometimes people laugh because what Chris Bliss [of the TED Talk, “Comedy Is Translation”] calls, “A verbal magic trick has been performed,” where you think a sentence is going in one direction and it ends in another direction and the juxtaposition or the mismatch makes you laugh because it has tricked your brain, basically.

Another area of research I’m interested in thinking about is what has been described as the “ladder of humor,” that starts out at unsophisticated slapstick humor and very physical comedy and then it moves up the ladder, and irony and sarcasm are supposed to be the height of humor and you’re supposed to be smarter if you think that stuff is funny. But I think that a lot of that is cultural and whoever came up with the “ladder of humor” might not have been taking into account what people in different places and times have considered funny.

My whole mantra is that comedians are smart, funny, conversationalists who use rhetoric in their material. [But] I have a five-year-old, so I [also] laugh at fart jokes every day.

RENEE HOBBS proFessor and Founding direCtor at uri’s harrington sChool I think comedy is joy. It’s the release of tension. It’s the chance to see the world afresh.

DAN MARTIN proVidenCe natiVe, Comedian, host oF 990WBoB’s “ComiC’s Corner” podCast; WorKshop FaCilitator at “open miC, open minds” symposium

securities and flaws. that’s how you develop a unique voice. create a rough joke about it, and hone it until it starts to improve. some people write the joke word for word and then polish it onstage; others write bullet points and use the performance to flesh it out. the joke will start as a long, rambling mess and (hopefully) get shorter and more efficient.

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Try different ways of getting laughs. you can act out a scene between characters, make an analogy between two things, use misdirection, exaggerate sarcastically — there’s no “one way” to get a laugh. try everything.

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Embrace your flaws. nobody wants to see a comedian who is a perfect specimen of human existence. Comedy is personal; it’s a conversation with the audience, with you opening up to them. you shouldn’t be afraid to make jokes about your personal fears, in-

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Remember that the audience doesn’t know you. at a dinner party, the guests have a shared experience and everyone’s cracking jokes together. stand-up is tougher; you’re cracking all the jokes, and this audience doesn’t know your cousin rodney. paint the picture for them — why should they care? Why is this funny?

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Be self-aware. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will make it easier to improve. maybe you have great writing skills but you’re scared to perform. (maybe it’s the other way around.) Video or audio record your sets; pay attention to how the audience is receiving jokes and be honest with yourself about how you can make things better. don’t be too hard on yourself, though!

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Respect the room. make a good first impression on the crowd. dress comfortably,

myq Kaplan This is going to sound so fucking cliché, but, truth, I think comedy is the truth. If you’re lying to yourself onstage, or you’re making stuff up to be funny, it’s probably going to come off that way. But I think if you just be yourself, that’s the way to shine. Some people have different styles. The guys who do one-liners, guys who do goofy stuff, that’s them. They’re being themselves and they’re getting genuine laughs.

My brother is a heroin addict, so I sort of have bits about growing up with that. I was abused as a child, so I have jokes about my dad and his alcoholism. I have really dark jokes with stark images [that] make people cringe and laugh.

When I started stand-up, I weighed over 500 pounds. I weighed 625 pounds at my heaviest. Now I weigh under 300. I lost about 400 pounds. In the four years I’ve been doing stand-up, I wanted to improve my image and my health so that I could have longevity in comedy. So, that became part of my life now and part of my act.

[Comedy is] a great release.

Sometimes, I have people thank me for some of the things I talk about, because they’re not able to talk about them in their own life.

ANDREW CLARK Columnist, sCreenWriter, author oF STAND AND DELIVER: INSIDE CANADIAN COMEDY, program direCtor at humBer College’s [toronto] Comedy Writing & perFormanCe program; WorKshop leader at “open miC, open minds” symposium Comedy will always have to “fight” for respect. And I’m not saying that it should be held in the same esteem as opera. But part of that is that comedy always has a point of view. Comedy, when it’s done right — even if’s the most innocuous sort of comedy in the world — will always offend someone. That’s the difference. No one listens to, I hate to say it, a jazz performance, and goes, “You know what? That outrages me. I’m disgusted by that. It violates everything I think and hold dear.”

You go to a comedy event, that could happen. Even if it’s observational humor, it’s very personal. And that’s why people get in an uproar.

POPPY CHAMPLIN but not sloppily. don’t blame the crowd when a joke fails. Be on time. stick to your allotted time. thank everyone. remember that without the venue, the booker, and the crowd, you’d still be telling jokes into a hairbrush.

For more on Hartswick, go to nathanstandup.com.

rhode island natiVe, Comedian Featured on oprah, hBo, shoWtime, Comedy Central, Vh1 and elseWhere; “open miC, open minds” WorKshop leader Comedy, to me, is a social commentary, and it is a platform for free speech and ranting about what you don’t like in the world.

Because you take what you don’t like and I feel like I can point out what the majority

Jerry Zolten of people are thinking, what the majority of people don’t like. And then you make a joke about it, like, “OK. This sucks. But now here’s a joke to let you eat it.”

[In life,] we’re getting this shit, but we still have to eat it. But here’s a comedian, who’s going to put sugar on it so we can eat it.

JERRY ZOLTEN musiCian, produCer, author, assoCiate proFessor oF CommuniCation arts & sCienCe and ameriCan studies at penn state uniVersity; “open miC, open minds” symposium Keynote speaKer I’m going to do a history of standup [at “Open Mic, Open Minds”]. Not a complete

history; that would take an entire semester, and I do teach a course on the roots of stand-up comedy in America.

But I’m not just going to stand up there and yak. That’s boring. I have found video clips that illustrate certain moments in American stand-up comedy history and I use them as a vehicle to make the case that, in essence, stand-up in America begins in racism and minstrelsy and making fun of ethnicity, before it evolves, post-World War II, into something a little more observational and unifying. What I mean by that: when Abbott and Costello make fun of the game of baseball, everybody can laugh. We’re kinda laughing at ourselves and it kinda pulls us together.

It’s not about our ethnic differences.

And then ultimately I close with the Big Bang of Lenny Bruce. And along the way, we touch on issues of comedy technique, the role of character in getting laughs — creating a character — and the issues of freedom of speech, racism, gender. All of these things come out. That’s what makes comedy such a fascinating way to take a look at American cultural history. The subtitle of my talk is “We Were What We Laughed At.” ^ For more on URI’s humor symposium, go to openmicopenminds.com.

Philip Eil can be reached at peil@phx.com.

Follow him on Twitter @phileil.

an abridged intro to rhody humor VINCENT “BuDDY” CIANCI, JR.

has there ever been a more potent source of humor in rhode island than the man known simply as “Buddy”?

Whether he’s recalling, in Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined With Sinatra, Spent Five Years In a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale (the title of which, itself, is a punchline), how, “if i had the power to bring back Jesus Christ but it had to be approved by the city council, Jesus would have lost 16-11”; or whether he’s the one being recalled, as when dan Barry wrote in The New York Times Magazine, “the tools used in [his 1983 conviction for] assault are so well known they might as well be embossed on the city seal: an ashtray, a fireplace log and a lighted cigarette,” a dissertation could surely be written about how our most famous felon has influenced humor in the ocean state. any takers, graduate students?

veteran rhode islanders for two reasons.

First, there are the providence newspaper guild Follies, which held their 41st annual gala — per nonsensical tradition — across the border in swansea, massachusetts, at the airplane hangar-sized Venus de milo restaurant. parody tunes included “Bridge over tolled Waters” about the prolonged sakonnet river Bridge debacle and “sandal scandal,” an ode to miss universe and Cranston native olivia Culpo’s recent illegal photo shoot at the taj mahal. second, are the ocean state Follies, run by Charlie hall, the indefatigable comedian and cartoonist who’s made a career off cracking wise at rhode island’s expense. though hall retired his Follies in 2012 after

two decades of yuks, some of the group’s work — including “Corruption,” their ocean state spin on Fiddler On the Roof’s “tradition” — can still be found on youtube. hall tells us that if Buddy decides to run for providence mayor in 2014, he may resurrect the gang for the weeks preceding the election.

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mere mention of the word “follies” ought to get a chuckle from

Dumb and Dumber

these days, veteran ProJo columnist mark patinkin is funny for all the wrong reasons: writing phrases like “blow a lot of weed” in an article about the pot smoking and marveling at a “quirky ‘social news’ site called Buzzfeed” that, in his words, “seems to focus mostly on lists

produced with a bit of pizzazz, including photos and video.”

Back in the day, though, patinkin had some serious comedy chops — most notably when he teamed up with cartoonist don Bousquet (an ocean state humor legend, himself) on The Rhode Island Dictionary. there are hours of laughs here. sample entry: “disheea: the current year. ‘now that the genrasemblee’s passed mand’tory cah inshurnce, whan ah they gonna make roe dyelin compeh’a’tive faw mannafatchurin? disheea? dream on.’ ”

THE FARRELLY BROTHERS

Few comedic traditions are more hallowed in rhode island than watching this duo’s films — Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary, Me, Myself, & Irene, and others — to spot the rhody references. one you might have missed: when providence native and Federal Hill writer/ director michael Corrente, in 1996’s Kingpin, asks Woody harrelson’s character, “Can you get sick drinking piss? ...even if it’s your own?”

THIS JOKE

how many rhode islanders does it take to change a light bulb? one, because there is only Woonsocket. _p.e.

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24-ounce bottles), which features Yakima #291, an experiyou’re the only one outside of us and Del’s who knows mental hop with hints of blueberry in its flavor mix . . . about it.” I zipped my lips for months. A few weeks ago, MAGIC hAt has added a new year-round beer for the first a ’Gansett rep posted a photo of a prototype of the ’GANtime in nearly a decade: dREAM MAChINE is a nice take SEtt/dEL’S ShANdY can, and the reaction to the brew on the trendy India Pale Lager style, combining the bitter news was very enthusiastic. With the lessons learned hop profile of an IPA with the smoothness of a lager. from the instant shelf-clearing that greeted the release It’s a nice option, equal to Sam Adams’ Double Agent, of the Autocrat Coffee Milk Stout in December, the ’Ganbut a step below Otter Creek’s seasonal Citra Mantra (and sett folks are gearing up to keep the shandy in stores all head to MA for the splendor of Hoponius Union, by Jack’s summer long. They just need to jump through a Abby) . . . Two highly-regarded breweries will debut few bureaucratic hoops. Sez Mark: “When you add in the state in the next month or so: thE BRUERY something like lemon or blueberry or coffee to a (CA, which has a 99 rating at Beer Advocate), which beer, the gov’t gets involved and has to approve the does everything big — bottles, ABV, styles, flavor, recipe, and with the shutdown last fall they’re a and price; and Michigan’s NEW hoLLANd. We’ve little behind. We expect approval any day now and smuggled a few of their beers in from Joisey; the are aiming for a May 1 release.” Pucker up!

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The menu and layout are steeped in rock ’n’ roll — vintage concert prints, memorabilia, and gear galore. Two of the four owner/managers also play TAKE FLIGHT an array of wings at boneheads. in longtime local band Run For Covers: Matt Fazzina and Cranston native Matt Corona, broke the news that the bacon rub was the gregarious, burly, and bearded host who once again not available. cruises the room and works the crowd like a The three of us enjoy blindingly pro. The 23 tables are divided between a dinhot-and-spicy food, so I knew the diaboliing room section and a lounge/bar side. The cal Hell’s Bells would be making an fleet of servers (and lone bartender) tend to appearance. Ring the alarm — my face get slammed on weekends, but the staff is was on fire. I couldn’t see, yet I couldn’t friendly and welcoming. stop. We also dialed up the Firestarter, My friends Tom and Tasha live within a mustard-based sauce laced with ghost walking distance and have been raving pepper and pineapple which was tangy about Boneheads since it opened in May. and more mellow. Tom and I debated There was a 30-minute wait for a table between creative standbys like Pump Up during a recent Friday night visit so we the Jam (a signature PB-n-J sauce) or the floated around the packed eight-seat bar strawberry-teriyaki for our wings, but in the back corner, watching the waitstaff stumbled upon Breakfast at Tiffany’s and dart about while eyeing the heaping platit was a no-brainer. This sticky, candied ters of wings and tenders (a mountain of bacon-and-maple sauce is culinary crack; nachos earned a triple-take). The signature next time I’m adding that to the Chicken drink menu follows the musical motif & Waffles ($10).

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celebrate with a hometown record release show at the Columbus Theatre this Sunday (the 23rd). Thibodeau’s hypnotic (and sometimes unsettling) signature falsetto remains the star of the show, and the sound was further inspired this time around by a three-month recording session in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Island Intervals is Thibodeau’s third full-length release (and second for Sub Pop) as Death Vessel, following 2008’s Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us and the ’05 debut Stay Close. His Providence music roots date back to the late ’90s in the band as String Builder, alongside his brother, Alec K. Redfearn. We hadn’t heard much from Thibodeau over the past few years until the Low Anthem invited Death Vessel to perform at the 2013 Newport Folk Festival’s “Homegrown” stage. He also welcomed an offer from Sigur Ros singer Jónsi Birgisson and producer Alex Somers to travel to Iceland to record the new album, with help from longtime collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Pete Donnelly (NRBQ, the Figgs). Thibodeau clearly was inspired by the glacial surroundings and his reedy, impossibly high register complements the eight songs that comprise Island Intervals.

The creaky pump organ on the opener, “Ejecta” (recently highlighted on NPR’s All Songs Considered), wearily escorts Thibodeau and the trudging rhythm before giving way to the twinkling uptempo gem “Velvet Antlers.”

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One heartwrenching wail will do when it comes to punctuating an emotion; a

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This one leans more toward the Postal Service than the “neo-indie-folk” tag. “Mercury Dime” gallops along like a twisted fairy tale, with a trippy video (filmed at the Columbus) to match. Jonsi lends vocals to “Ilsa Drown” and the results are stunning. “Island Vapors” is another personal favorite, as Thibodeau cruises along with the subtle and steady waves of percussion. It’s easy to envision him penning a song like “We Agreed” under starry skies.

And the ethereal chant on the closing track, “Loom,” accompanies the chain-gang stomp while a contemplative Thibodeau notes, “I don’t know how to behave, when there’s nothing in my way.”

The homecoming show this weekend will serve as a tour kickoff for Death Vessel, with headlining dates in the US and Canada through the rest of the month, before they set sail for Europe in April supporting Marissa Adler.

Be sure to get to the Columbus early and catch a rare set from Chris Daltry’s legendary Purple Ivy Shadows.

Daltry also co-founded the ’Mericans, which covered Death Vessel on the excellent Tribute to Providence compilation, and Thibodeau recently debuted his new songs during an intimate set at Daltry’s What Cheer Antiques & Vintage shop.

Pick up Island Intervals at the show or visit subpop.com ($10/download, $12/CD, $14/vinyl). ^

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A feW WordS from JoeL Just before the templates went through the pipe to the printers, we received Thibodeau’s responses to a few e-mailed Qs. Where have you been the last six years? Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us was released in the fall of 2008, when i was living in coventry, ri. i toured a lot for the next couple of years, then began working on the next album in the fall of 2011 after flying to iceland for a trial recording session. the record was put on hold for another year due to scheduling conflicts. during that time i moved back to providence, then returned to iceland in late 2012 with the intention of completing the album. After a few more scheduling conflicts, the album was finally completed in the summer on 2013.

still a PvD resiDent? Yes, i’m currently living on the west side of providence with my gangly 11-year-old mystery pooch. hoW DiD you hook uP With JÓnsi anD alex, anD hoW DiD that exPerience affect or helP shaPe the album’s sounD? i met Jónsi and Alex when performing as the support act on the north American Go tour. Jónsi proposed we write a song together, one he’d already started. After getting to know them over the course of the tour, Alex invited me to iceland to record my next album with him. the added convenience of Alex and Jónsi living together allowed for the ilsa drown collaboration.

Who else Do you have With you for the touring banD? Will you be Pulling out any olDies from the Dv catalog? death vessel’s current five-piece touring lineup is comprised of Jeffrey Underhill, chris Sadlers, rachel Blumberg, and Liz isenberg. We’ll be playing much of Island Intervals along with selections from the two previous albums.

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zog’s The Great God Pan suggests that buried within us may be long forgotten or suppressed memories that can affect our decisions and actions, reach up and grab our ankles like monsters in children’s nightmares.

Epic Theatre Company is staging the play (at Theatre 82 through March 22), directed by Juli Parker. It’s a slight offering, little more than an hour, but that’s plenty of time to survey a broad array of decisions to be made by its characters — made well, badly, or deferred indefinitely.

No time is wasted in getting to the point. Frank (Michael Shallcross) has traveled across the state to WEIGHTY MATTERS crews and donnelly. speak with Jamie (Kevin Broccoli on opening night, standing in for Michael Puppi, who had before are reason enough to have carrot to attend to an illness in his family), who sticks dipped in salsa for supper this week. he hasn’t seen since they were boys 25 Even our health isn’t necessarily enough years ago. Frank says he recently recovered motivation for us to think straight. memories of being sexually abused in his Sometimes we can’t accurately anticichildhood by his father; he’s bringing a pate how people close to us will respond. criminal case against the man and has When Jamie tells Frank’s grim news to come to ask if Jamie recalls being molested. his mother, Cathy (Mary Paolino), he is “No” is Jamie’s immediate and definite surprised that she isn’t as sympathetic toanswer. But the certainty is about the ward his childhood friend as he expected, memory, not about the possible abuse. especially since she is a social worker. We Their babysitter at the time, Polly (Carget another inkling of his possible home ol Drowne), is gradually losing her memolife when his father, Doug (Bradford J. ry in a nursing home, so she is no help in Greer), enters; though they hadn’t seen determining what happened to Jamie. each other in many weeks, they shake Although the play doesn’t leave us up hands instead of hug. in the air about what if anything hapOh what a tangled web we weave when pened (informing us and Jamie about that our day-to-day practices deceive ourselves, at the end), the more interesting offering never mind deceive others. is about such uncertainty. To that purShallcross effectively presents Frank as a pose, several other characters enter. man with laser beam focus, powered by the Jamie has been living with Paige (Altrauma of his past, aiming to shed light on lison Crews) for six years. His not making a the truth. Broccoli has a subtle challenge in decision about getting married is common portraying Jamie, which he accomplishes enough these days, but another choice well, in conveying a haunting but unspohas suddenly come up. She is pregnant, ken uncertainty about his past. The play itso now not only marriage but abortion is self is equally nuanced, letting us draw our a question. We meet her the day after she own conclusions about these people. broke the news, when they are deep into The playwright’s choice of title is an an argument. She is angry and he is apolointeresting emphasis. Pan, a minor god of gizing for his initial shocked response. As nature, hanging out with wood nymphs befits the play’s subtext of uncertainty beand tooting his pipes, could be a seducing the human condition, for a while we tive creature — there is that naked lower don’t know what they’re talking about. He half of a goat, after all. Jamie and Frank’s asks for a week to think about how he feels babysitter innocently quotes an Elizabeth about the situation, and Paige agrees.

Barrett Browning poem that she used to Paige is a therapist and has a client, read to them. It begins: “What was he Joelle (Meghan Rose Donnelly), who gives doing, the great god Pan/Down in the another example of the fallibility of free reeds by the river?” But it continues with will. The young woman has an eating dis“Spreading ruin and scattering ban ....” order. While she has agreed to eat enough Frank’s father was cheerful and friendly, to gain a pound a week, she rationalizes but anyone who looked closely enough that the two pounds she put on the week might have seen cloven hooves. ^

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It’s directed with the same intelligent attention by Trinity Rep veteran actor Fred Sullivan, Jr., as he has done with a halfdozen other works of Shakespeare in the Gamm’s last eight seasons. Sullivan has a knack for bringing 500-year-old sentiments and insights home to the heart, not letting us escape identifying with them, even with hearts of darkness. As he says in his program note about the temptation to do evil that the Macbeths succumb to: “Everyone in my family works too hard and cares too deeply. Most people I know are theater people and are the strangest marriage of narcissism and insecurity possible. The Macbeths don’t seem inhuman to me at all.”

Less or more than human are the three witches consorting amidst thunder and lightning in the opening scene, looking forward to tempting Macbeth (Tony Estrella) with a crown in his future. Interestingly, Shakespeare doesn’t have them suggest knocking off Duncan (Richard Donelly), King of Scotland — planting such an ambition in a warrior accustomed to bloody hands is enough.

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Macbeth’s battle valor is described, and a stylized animated image of him is projected, the bayonet in his hand growing bloody, foreshadowing the “dagger I see before me” in his eventual guilt-provoked hallucination.

As Lady Macbeth, Jeanine Kane is a sinister match to Estrella’s eager, self-described “vaulting ambition.” It is Macbeth who grabs hold of the witches’ prediction and lets it tug him toward murder, but his wife proves to be even more darkly ambitious. When he seems to falter in resolve, she is aghast. We can forget that when Duncan is opportunely under the couple’s roof overnight, Macbeth decides: “We will proceed no further in this business/ He hath honour’d me of late.” But his Lady is more than aghast, she is outraged, objecting with perhaps the most shocking image in all of Shakespeare: that rather than violate such a pact she would have “dash’d the brains out” of a babe at her breast. Now that’s motivation.

There’s never just one or two deaths in Shakespeare, so Macbeth is driven to make worms’ meat out of the likes of his friend and fellow soldier Banquo (Michael Forden Walker), which prompts the new king’s first guilty imagining, seeing and addressing Banquo’s ghost before noble guests at a banquet. Another fellow thane, Macduff (Steve Kidd), had the foresight to flee the country, along with Duncan’s rightful heir, Malcolm (Jordan Ahnquist). Macbeth settles for sending cutthroats to Macduff’s castle and having everyone slaughtered — wife (Wendy Overly), children, servants, everyone.

This provides opportunity for the most poignant scene of this tragedy, when Macduff — elated over victory in battle — is brought the awful news. Malcolm tries to distract his shock by prompting revenge, but Macduff’s immediate reply is: “He has no children”; equaling the outrage would be impossible. The scene is painfully on-the-money psychologically, as Macduff keeps asking about what he already knows (“All my pretty ones?”), his mind not yet capable of fully engaging with the truth. Powerful stuff.

As much so as the brief concluding soliloquy by Macbeth, calmly resigned, defeated, having just received news that his wife is dead. “There would have been a time for such a word,” Estrella responds, and then creates a smart transition. “Tomorrow,” he says, full stop, establishing that time. But Shakespeare’s text has this begin a new thought: “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day/To the last syllable of recorded time,” going on to conclude that life is “a tale/told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/Signifying nothing.” Rather than blind obedience to the Bard, in this telling we get clarity.

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That’s the context for a show like “We Don’t Make Mistakes,” a group exhibition of abstract paintings and sculptures by local artists at the Wheeler School’s Chazan Gallery (228 Angell St, Providence, through March 27). A lot of the abstraction that is prominent nationally tends to be flashy and spectacular or odd and hermetic. The art in this show feels serious, measured, thinky, assured, reserved.

This local flavor is particularly apparent in the way the artists are attuned to their materials. In part, it’s the craftsmanship — that often seems reA GIANT SURFACE Fesmire’s A Misplaced Work Ethic. lated to what they teach at RISD. In part, the paintings seem to reflect Providence’s architecture — the rust of bridges, the layers and layers of paint on walls Shawn Gilheeney’s 2014 painting Foundations #2 is of old mill buildings, the way the life and history of the composed of minimalist horizontal stripes — bare wood place is apparent in its well-used structures. smeared with white paint, then a band of matte black, Neal Walsh, the gallery director at AS220, offers his then wood again, and a band of white, thin and washy, painting tinker’s curse, which you may recall as the best perhaps sanded down. Like Walsh, Gilheeney evokes piece in his show at 186 Carpenter last year. The four-footold industrial architecture with the way he layers and square painting divides into two halves that contrast thin smears his paint. And he burns a sketch of an old iron and thick, dark and light. The top is filled with tarry black bridge into the wood. One by one these elements are vertical strips of salvaged canvas that read like paneling. compelling, but they seem to compete for interest, not The bottom is white stained with blue, like a wall damcoming together in concert. aged by water leaking from a bad roof. The painting exemSam Duket’s 2014 wood sculpture Mistake 1 looks like plifies Walsh’s quiet rigor, patiently accumulating layers, a couple of curved beams of wood, wedged between the building up allusions to architecture and histories. concrete columns of the gallery wall. The surface is deWalsh’s first painting leaves you wanting more and signed with masterful marquetry, handsomely piecing bigger. It’s accompanied by three additional works, together veneers to create an optical illusion that the each as small as a sheet of copier paper, which makes wood is bending in or out from the wall. It’s a trick of them feel like studies. In the best of them, oh true believers perspective lines, but it feels like a self-deprecating sight (2014), a layer of rust brown paint seems to flake off to gag, acknowledging the smarts behind the minimalist reveal patches of blue-gray and a red that faintly aspires design while teasing the seriousness of it all. to glow like sunsets.

Buck Hastings’s paintings are suffused with an inbetweeness that can leave you feeling offkilter. He mixes realist renderings of a city at sunset and a soccer field with calligraphic marks swarming across the center of the compositions like flocks of starlings. In his 2014 oil painting Summer #1, orange and yellow confetti-like squiggles and dashes hover atop a painting of a forest. Even as Hastings captures the feeling of light shining through the leaves, his brushwork feels detached. The calligraphic marks on top rhyme with the short, dashed lines he uses to indicate leaves. The calligraphy is similar to Arabic writing — tantalizingly like something you could decipher, but its sense keeps eluding you.

A lovely undersea blue-green suffuses Bradley Fesmire’s 2014 A Misplaced Work Ethic, made with acrylic and pencil on three panels spanning six feet high and nine feet across. But the size seems too much, filled mainly with lots of thin, washy vertical dripped lines that become too regular as they repeat across the wide expanse. Along the right third, a vertical band of overlapping, stenciled letters — “thic,” “misc,” “clac” — resists comprehension. Instead your eyes might seek out a lighter, wavering strip of color running along the bottom edge and wide brushstrokes across the top, like the surface of waves. ^

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SATURDAY 22

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AS220 | Providence | 4 pm | Traditional Irish Music Session with Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi Scobi + friends | 9 pm | Barn Burning + Sharks Come Cruisin’ + Forts/ Gainesville + Cactus Attack THE BEACH HOUSE | Portsmouth | Damaged Goods BOONDOCKS BAR & GRILL | Fall River, MA | Felix Brown BOVI’S | East Providence | Control Freak CADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | Exit 17 CHAN’S | Woonsocket | 8 pm | Fat City Band CHIEFTAIN PUB | Plainville | Tom Lanigan CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | Sweet Tooth & the Sugarbabies CLUB ROXX | North Kingstown | Run For Covers THE CONTINENTAL | Smithfield | 7 pm | Rick DiRocco DAN’S PLACE | West Greenwich | Dacoda GAME 7 SPORTS BAR & GRILL | Plainville, MA | Mike Lebon

GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 7 pm | Open mic INDIGO PIZZA | Coventry | Mary Day Band IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | Gary Gramolini & Roger Ceresi JAVA MADNESS | Wakefield | 11 am | Jacob Haller JOE’S CAFE & LOUNGE | Westport, MA | 4 pm | Open jam hosted by Angry Farmer | 9 pm | Likk KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Rick Russell & the Cadillac Horns THE LAST RESORT | Smithfield | What Matters?

LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER

| Lincoln | 8:30 pm | Those Guys LOCAL 121 | Providence | West End Disco with Patterson

LUXURY BOX SPORTS BAR & GRILL | Seekonk, MA | Mercy Bullets THE MALTED BARLEY | Westerly

| WSQ

MANCHESTER 65 | West Warwick |

Northeast Traffic + Family + Kizos + Hobo Chili + Rad Thursday + Bootstrap Molasses MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 7:30 pm | Jason Colonies THE MET | Pawtucket | Lee DeWyze + Collington + Great Big Circles MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 6 pm | Steve Fredrick | 9 pm | DJ Franko NARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown | Nasty Habits NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Wayz & Means NEWPORT GRAND | Mondo Soul

NEWPORT GRAND EVENT CENTER

| Tusk [Fleetwood Mac tribute] NEWS CAFE | Pawtucket | Point Street Bridge + Nympidels NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The Barking Spiders OAK HILL TAVERN | North Kingstown | Bohemian Groove OCEAN MIST | Matunuck | DJ Lock Mess | Trails OLIVES | Providence | Good Will + Them Apples ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | The Wild Ones 133 CLUB | East Providence | Mark Cutler & Men of Great Courage O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | 8:30 pm | Tim Smith THE PARLOUR | Providence | The Throttles + Wild Sun + Shifty Eye PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | Marc Douglas Berardo POWERS PUB | Cranston | Kim Petrarca RALPH’S DINER | Worcester, MA | The Rationales + Preacher Roe + Sidewalk Driver + Easy Reasons RHINO BAR & GRILLE | Newport | Jason Rose Duo

RHODE ISLAND BILLIARD BAR & BISTRO | North Providence | Superbad RI RA | Providence | The Rock THE SALON | Providence | Upstairs |

DJ Pauly Dangerous | Downstairs | DJ Oscar Champagne SONOMA GRILLE | North Kingstown | 8:30 pm | Second Avenue THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | Providence | Daybreakers 39 WEST | Cranston | Steve Anthony & Persuasion UNCLE RONNIE’S RED TAVERN | Burrillville | Dan Lilley Band VANILLA BEAN CAFE | Pomfret, CT | 8 pm | Delta Generators THE WHISKEY REPUBLIC | Providence | The Pop Disaster + DJ Soulo

SUNDAY 23

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BOONDOCKS BAR & GRILL | Fall River, MA | 4 pm | Blues Buffet with Diane Blue CHAN’S | Woonsocket | 7 pm | Samantha Fish ELEVEN FORTY-NINE | Warwick | 10 am | Milt Javery FÊTE | Providence | 12-5 pm | Rhode Island Sneaker Exchange with DJ Bigstress

GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Steve Chrisitan

HANK’S DOWN SOUTH | Narragansett | 3 pm | Second Avenue

JAVA MADNESS | Wakefield | 11 am | Harold Ambler

LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER | Lincoln | 2 pm | Domenic LOCAL 121 | Providence | Allysen Callery MANCHESTER 65 | West Warwick | 7 pm | Amy Helm + Joanne Lurgio + Kait Clavette + Thayer Cabin THE MET | Pawtucket | 6 pm | Elise Testone + Eric French Band MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 8:30 pm | Sunday Night Blues Jam 133 CLUB | East Providence | 7:30 pm | Brother to Brother O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | 4:30 pm | Phenix Ave THE PARLOUR | Providence | Memorial concert for Doreen Mooney PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | 8 pm | Sandy Allen PLATFORMS | Providence | Sunday Night Salsa RHINO BAR & GRILLE | Newport | Latino Night with a live band RI RA | Providence | Karaoke hosted

by Nikki THE WHISKEY REPUBLIC | Providence | Live acoustic karaoke with Mark Beauchemin

MONDAY 24

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BOVI’S | East Providence | John Allmark’s Jazz Orchestra GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 7 pm | Hotel Jam Night NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The House Combo THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | Providence | Dropout Night with Viking Jesus + Big Jon Tierney

TUESDAY 25

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AS220 | Providence | 9:30 pm | John Faraone + Whitney Lockert + Steve Delmonico GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 7 pm | Open mic THE MET | Pawtucket | 8 pm | A Faylane Sky + Outliers + Watermarks + Marianas MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 7 pm | Groove E Tuesday with Joe Potenza, Ben Ricci, and Gene Rosati ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | DJ Blacklist THE PARLOUR | Providence | Vintage Vinyl Breakdown with Colonel Johnny Maguire POWERS PUB | Cranston | Acoustic karaoke THE SALON | Providence | 8:30 pm | Kimi’s Movie Night THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | Providence | Creation Tuesday [open mic + jam]

WEDNESDAY 26

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AS220 | Providence | Holy Roller High + the Three Busketeers + Valencourt CHAN’S | Woonsocket | 7 pm | Open Blues Jam with Lil Cousin FÊTE | Providence | Excision featuring Dirtyphonics + ill.Gates + Superdope GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Karaoke with DJ Deelish THE GRANGE | Providence | TylerJames Kelly of the Silks KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 7:30 pm | Dan Lord & the Big Shots LOCAL 121 | Providence | Reggae Night with Blademon & Roots MANCHESTER 65 | West Warwick | Juxo’s Soul Kitchen [open mic/show] MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 7 pm | Jim Tootell

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Listings Continued from p 17 NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The

Bluegrass Throedown with Tony Watt & Southeast Expressway NOREY’S | Newport | Dynamite Johnny 133 CLUB | East Providence | Karaoke with Big Bill O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | 8:30 pm | Bill Gannon THE PARLOUR | Providence | The Funky Autocrats PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | 8 pm | Sean W. Spellman + Thor Jensen PLATFORMS | Providence | Ladies’ Night Salsa POWERS PUB | Cranston | Open mic RI RA | Providence | 7:30 pm | Josh Cramoy THE SALON | Providence | Reggae Dancehall with DJ Red Beard & Friends

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LOCAL 121 | Providence | DJ Nook MANCHESTER 65 | West Warwick |

7 pm | Behind the Silence + more MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 7 pm | Ray Kenyon MEDIATOR STAGE | Providence | 7 pm | Open mic hosted by Don Tassone THE MET | Pawtucket | Zumo Kollie & Friends + Spocka Summa + Khary Durgans + Cesar Luciano + Hil Holla + Cam Bells + Roger + Lunch Bagg MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 6 pm | Tom Burgess NEWS CAFE | Pawtucket | Blues @ the News with Joshua 2 & the Dark Horse Band 133 CLUB | East Providence | 8:30 pm | Mac Odom Band PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | Men With Guitars POWERS PUB | Cranston | Mike & Mark RALPH’S DINER | Worcester, MA | Heavy Petals + Bent Shapes + Onslo RHINO BAR & GRILLE | Newport | Snailtoons with DJ Dayo RI RA | Providence | Wicked Awesome Karaoke Contest hosted by Ronnie THE SALON | Providence | DJ Handsome J

THURSDAY 27

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AS220 | Providence | 10 pm | Dementiacat + Running Maid + more THE BEACH HOUSE | Portsmouth | Kinky Karaoke with Johnny Angel CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | Batteries Not Included DAN’S PLACE | West Greenwich | Atlantic Avenue GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Open mic hosted by Bob Lavalley IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | 8 pm | Betsy Listenfelt KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Open mic with host band Wayne Burrows & Students THE LAST RESORT | Smithfield | College Night with DJ Peter C.

COMEDY THURSDAY 20

$5 FUNNIES: A WICKED FUNNY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Comedy Con-

nection, 39 Warren Ave, East Providence | $5 | 401.438.8383 | ricomedy connection.com IMPROV JONES | Thurs + Sat 10 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $5 | improvjones.com

PROVIDENCE IMPROV GUILD

presents Zonkey and the Moddell Brothers | 8 pm | Providence Improv Guild, 393 Broad St, Providence | $5 | improvpig.com ALONZO BODDEN | Thurs-Fri 8

pm; Sat 8 + 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $20-$40 advance | 860.312.6649 | foxwoods.com

FRIDAY 21

THE FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL, the 10th anniversary show of odd and hilarious found videos, hosted

by Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett | 7:30 pm | Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St, Providence | $12 | 401.272.3970 | foundfootagefest.com BRODY STEVENS | Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 + 10:15 pm | Comedy Connection, ast Providence | $20 HARDCORE COMEDY SHOW hosted

by Brian Beaudoin | 10:30 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $15

FRANK SANTOS + FRANK O’DONNELL | 10:15 pm | Olives, 108

North Main St, Providence | $22 | 401.751.1200 or olivesrocks.com THE BIT PLAYERS | Fri-Sat 8 pm | Firehouse Theater, 4 Equality Park Pl, Newport | $15 [$10 Sat @ 10 pm] | 401.849.3473 | firehousetheater.org BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | Fri 7 + 9 pm; Sun 6 pm | Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd | $5 | 401.737.0010 | bringyourownimprov. com FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE featuring improvised song, dance, and skits | 7 pm | Everett, 9 Duncan Ave, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9479 | everettri. org/what/stage/fnl

PROVIDENCE IMPROV GUILD

presents Aeropuerto + Part of a Balanced Breakfast | 8 pm | Providence Improv Guild, 393 Broad St | $5 | improvpig.com JOY BEHAR | 9 pm | MGM Grand at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $35-$55 | 866.646.0050 | mgmatfoxwoods. com

SPINNATO’S HYPNOTIC HYSTERIA | 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15-$25 advance

ALONZO BODDEN | See listing for Thurs

Salon, 57 Eddy St, Providence | $TBA | 401.865.6330 | thesalonpvd.com

SATURDAY 22

WEDNESDAY 26

THE COMEDY FACTORY with

Johnny Joyce, John Perrotta, Christina Thomas, Dennis Mello, Tim O’Leary, Pat Bowlby, and Russ Gelfuso | 9:30 pm | Asia Grille, 622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln | $15 | 401.334.3200 | comedyfactoryri. com

PROVIDENCE IMPROV GUILD

presents the Relay Play Series | “Every Saturday in March, we present the first 10 minutes of a different play by a local playwright and improvise the rest, live in front of the audience” | 8 pm | Providence Improv Guild, 393 Broad St, Providence | $5 | improvpig.com ALONZO BODDEN | See listing for Thurs THE BIT PLAYERS | See listing for Fri BRODY STEVENS | See listing for Fri IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs

“OPEN MIC, OPEN MINDS: AN EXPLORATION OF SOCIAL ISSUES THROUGH STAND-UP” | See

“Events”

SUNDAY 23

COMEDY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $10

MICK FOLEY | 8 pm | Comix at Fox-

woods, Mashantucket, CT | $25-$40 advance BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | See listing for Fri

MONDAY 24

THE COMEDY FACTORY with John

Perrotta and friends | 8 pm | Legion Pub, 661 Park Ave, Cranston | Free | 401.781.8888 | comedyfactoryri.com

TUESDAY 25

COMEDY OPEN MIC HOSTED BY JAMES CREELMAN | 8:30 pm | The

CLUB DIRECTORY ALL AMERICAN GRILL | 401.332.1512 | 1759 Mineral Spring Ave, North Providence AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence THE BEACH HOUSE | 401.682.2974 | 506 Park Ave, Portsmouth | beachhouseri.com BOONDOCKS BAR & GRILL | 508.673.2200 | 46 Water St, Fall River, MA | myboondocks.com BOUNDARY BREWHOUSE | 401.725.4260 | 1593 Newport Ave, Pawtucket | facebook.com/ Boundarybrewhouse BOVI’S | 401.434.9670 | 278 Taunton Ave, East Providence BROOKLYN COFFEE & TEA HOUSE | 401.575.2284 | 209 Douglas Ave, Providence | brooklyncoffeetea house.com CADY’S TAVERN | 401.568.4102 | 2168 Putnam Pike, Chepachet | cadystavern.com CHAN’S | 401.765.1900 | 267 Main St, Woonsocket | chanseggrollsand jazz.com CHIEFTAIN PUB | 508.643.9031 | 23 Washington St [Rt 1], Plainville, MA | chieftainpub.com CITY SIDE | 401.235.9026 | 74 South Main St, Woonsocket | citysideri.com CLUB ROXX | 401.884.4450 | 6125 Post Rd, North Kingstown | kbowl.com THE CONTINENTAL | 401.233.1800 | 332 Farnum Pike, Smithfield | smithfieldcontinental.com DAN’S PLACE | 401.392.3092 | 880 Victory Hwy, West Greenwich | danspizzaplace.com DEVILLE’S CAFE| 345 South Water St, Providence | devillesPVD.com DUSK | 401.714.0444 | 301 Harris Ave, Providence | duskprovidence.com EAST BAY TAVERN | 401.228.7343 | 305 Lyon Ave, East Providence EIGHTY EIGHT LOUNGE | 401.437.8830 | 55 Union St, Providence | facebook. com/EightyEightPianoLounge ELEVEN FORTY NINE | 401.884.1149 | 1149 Division St, Warwick | elevenfortyninerestaurant.com

THE FATT SQUIRREL | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | 401.808.6898 FÊTE | 401.383.1112 | 103 Dike St, Providence | fetemusic.com GAME 7 SPORTS BAR & GRILL | 508.643.2700 | 60 Man Mar Dr, Plainville, MA | game7sportsbar andgrill.com GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | 401.315.5556 | 105 White Rock Rd, Westerly THE GRANGE | 401.831.0600 | 166 Broadway, Providence | providencegrange.com GREENWICH HOTEL | 401.884.4200 | 162 Main St, East Greenwich | facebook.com/greenwichhotel HANK’S DOWN SOUTH | 401.792.9200 | 33 State St, Narragansett | facebook.com/HanksDownSouthRI INDIGO PIZZA | 401.615.9600 | 599 Tiogue Ave, Coventry | indigopizza.com IRON WORKS TAVERN | 401.739.5111 | 697 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | theironworkstavern.com JAVA MADNESS | 401.788.0088 | 134 Salt Pond Rd, Wakefield | javamadness.com JOE’S CAFE & LOUNGE | 774.264.9463 | 549 American Legion Hwy, Westport, MA | joescafelounge.com THE KNICKERBOCKER | 401.315.5070 | 35 Railroad Ave, Westerly | theknickerbockercafe.com THE LAST RESORT | 401.349.3500 | 325 Farnum Pike, Smithfield | thelastresortri.com LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER | 877.82.RIVER | 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | twinriver.com LOCAL 121 | 401.274.2121 | 121 Washington St, Providence | local121.com LUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | 401.331.5876 | 79 Washington St, Providence | lupos.com MACHINES WITH MAGNETS | 401.261.4938 | 400 Main St, Pawtucket | machineswithmagnets. com THE MALTED BARLEY | 401.315.2184 | 42 High St, Westerly | themalted barleyri.com

THE PARLOUR | 401.383.5858 | 1119 North Main St, Providence | facebook.com/ParlourRI PERKS & CORKS | 401.596.1260 | 48 High St, Westerly | perksand corks.com PERRY’S BAR & GRILLE | 401.284.1544 | 104 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett | perrysbarandgrille.com PLAZA MEXICO BAR & GRILL | 401.762.0383 | 2120 Diamond Hill Rd, Woonsocket | plazamexicobar andgrill.com POWERS PUB | 401.714.0655 | 27 Aborn St, Cranston | powerspub.com RALPH’S DINER | 508.753.9543 | 148 Grove St, Worcester, MA | myspace.com/ralphsdiner THE RHINO BAR | 401.846.0907 | 337 Thames St, Newport | therhinobar.com RHODE ISLAND BILLIARD BAR & BISTRO | 401.232.1331 | 2026 Smith St, North Providence | RIBBB. com RI RA | 401.272.1953 | 50 Exchange Terrace, Providence | rira.com THE SALON | 401.865.6330 | 57 Eddy St, Providence | thesalonpvd.com THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | 401.383.7133 | 101 Richmond St, Providence | thespotprovidence. com STELLA BLUES | 401.289.0349 | 50 Miller St, Warren | stellabluesri.com STEVIE D’S BAR & GRILL | 401.658.2591 | 80 Manville Hill Rd, Cumberland | stevie-ds.com 39 WEST | 401.944.7770 | 39 Phenix Ave, Cranston | 39westri.com 2 PAULS’ CITY GRILLE | 401.228.7285 | 315 Waterman Ave, East Providence | 2paulsgoodfood.com UNCLE RONNIE’S RED TAVERN | 401.568.6243 | 2692 Victory Hwy, Burrillville | uncleronniesred tavern.com VANILLA BEAN CAFE | 860.928.1562 | Rts 44, 169 and 97, Pomfret, CT | thevanillabeancafe.com WHISKEY REPUBLIC | 401.588.5158 | 515 South Water St, Providence | TheWhiskeyRepublic.com

Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $21-$36 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

JAMES GOFF | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance

CLASSICAL

THURSDAY 27

SATURDAY 22

LENNY CLARKE | 8 pm | Comix at

Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $25$50 advance IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs PROVIDENCE IMPROV GUILD | See listing for Thurs

CONCERTS POPULAR THURSDAY 20

LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER + WHITE HINTERLAND + DR. JONES & THE SHINERS | 9 pm | Columbus

Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 advance, $12 day of show | columbustheatre.com

FRIDAY 21

JOHNNY A | 8 pm | Narrows Center

For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $25 advance, $28 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter. org THE LOW ANTHEM | 9 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $15 [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic. com

THE MACHINE: PINK FLOYD TRIBUTE | 8 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28

Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $29 + $36 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre. com ROBBIE O’CONNELL | 7:30 pm | Linden Place, 500 Hope St, Bristol | $20 | 401.253.0390 | lindenplace.org ROBERT CRAY BAND | 8 pm | Park Theatre, 848 Park Ave, Cranston | $35 + $45 | 401.467.7275 | parktheatre ri.com

SATURDAY 22 MANCHESTER 65 | 65 Manchester St, West Warwick | manchester 65.com MARINER GRILL | 401.284.3282 | 142 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett | marinergrille.com THE MEDIATOR | 401.461.3683 | 50 Rounds Ave, Providence MERRILL LOUNGE | 401.434.9742 | 535 North Broadway, East Providence THE MET | 401.729.1005 | 1005 Main St, Pawtucket | themetri.com MULHEARN’S | 401.48.9292 | 507 North Broadway, East Providence MURPHY’S LAW | 401.724.5522 | 2 George St, Pawtucket | murphys lawri.com NARRAGANSETT CAFE | 401.423.2150 | 25 Narragansett Ave, Jamestown | narragansettcafe.com/ NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | 401.841.5510 | 286 Thames St | newportblues. com NEWPORT GRAND | 401.849.5000 | 150 Admiral Kalbfus Rd, Newport | newportgrand.com NEWS CAFE | 401.728.6475 | 43 Broad St, Pawtucket NICK-A-NEE’S | 401.861.7290 | 75 South St, Providence NOREY’S | 401.847.4971 | 156 Broadway, Newport | noreys.com THE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | 401.710.7778 | 812 Putnam Pike, Glocester | facebook.com/TheNuttyScotsman OAK HILL TAVERN | 401.294.3282 | 565 Tower Hill Rd, North Kingstown | oakhilltavern.com OCEAN MIST | 401.782.3740 | 895 Matunuck Beach Rd, Matunuck | oceanmist.net OLIVES | 401.751.1200 | 108 North Main St, Providence | olivesrocks. com 133 CLUB | 401.438.1330 | 29 Warren Ave, East Providence ONE PELHAM EAST | 401.847.9460 | 270 Thames St, Newport | thepelham.com O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | 401.228.7444 | 23 Peck Ln, Warwick | orourkesbarandgrill.com

THE RAT PACK: A TRIBUTE | 2 pm |

ENTER THE HAGGIS | 8 pm | Nar-

rows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $22 advance, $25 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org

LEGENDS OF THE CELTIC HARP FEATURING PATRICK BALL, LISA LYNNE, AND ARYEH FRANKFURTER | 8 pm | Blackstone River Theatre,

549 Broad St, Cumberland | $15 | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org PAUL GEREMIA + Chris Monti | 8:30 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $18 advance, $20 door [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com ROBBY HECHT + Will Houlihan of Haunt the House | 8 pm | Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell St, Providence | $15 advance, $20 door | 401.273.5678 | bellstreetchapel.org

SALLY ROGERS & CLAUDIA SCHMIDT | 8 pm | Stone Soup Coffeehouse, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 50 Park Pl, Pawtucket | $16 advance, $18 door | 401.921.5115 | stonesoup coffeehouse.com

SUNDAY 23

MAGNOLIA CAJUN BAND | 3 pm |

Roger Williams Park Botanical Center, 1000 Elmwood Ave, Providence | $10, free under 12, proceeds benefit the Botanical Center | 401.785.9450 x 250 | bccrwp.org EVIE LADIN & KEITH TERRY | 6:30 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $15 adults, $10 children, free under 6 | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic. com

COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS PRESENTS THE MICHAEL NYMAN QUARTET performing Schubert’s

Quartet #13 | Mar 22 4 pm @ Westminster Unitarian Church, 119 Kenyon Ave, East Greenwich [$10 suggested donation] + Mar 23 4 pm @ First Unitarian Church of Providence, 1 Benevolent St [$15 suggested donation] | communitymusicworks.org

EIGHT STRINGS AND A WHISTLE

will perform works by C.P.E. Bach and Schubert, and modern composers John Newll, Robert Davidson, and Pete Jona Korn | 7:30 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | $16, $14 seniors, $6 students + children | carpenter museum.org/Arts.htm

RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC,

with violinist Philippe Quint, performing works by Udow, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky | 8 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | riphil.org | 401.421.ARTS | $15-$70

SUNDAY 23

COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS PRESENTS THE MICHAEL NYMAN QUARTET | See listing for Sat

“WHOSE BODY IS IT ANYWAY?” | An

evening of improv comedy by Sea Tea Improv, cocktails, and food, to benefit Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island | 6:30 pm | Roger Williams Park Casino, 1000 Elmwood Ave, Providence | $75, $45 under 35 | giving.ppsne.org/ whose-body-providence

SATURDAY 22

“OPEN MIC, OPEN MINDS: AN EXPLORATION OF SOCIAL ISSUES THROUGH STAND-UP” | A sympo-

sium with a multimedia presentation on the historical roots of standup comedy by Jerry Zolten of Penn State Altoona; workshops (topics include the use of humor in the battle for same sex marriage in Rhode Island; tips on writing stand-up and touring; stand-up routines that address issues in race, gender, politics, and religion); and a performance

by Patton Oswalt and Myq Kaplan [8 pm in Edwards Hall] | 9 am-5 pm | University of Rhode Island’s Swan Hall Auditorium, 60 Upper College Rd | $30, $20 students [includes lunch and evening performances] | Complete details @harrington.uri. edu/open-mic-open-minds/

TUESDAY 25

JILLIAN MICHAELS: MAXIMIZE YOUR LIFE TOUR, a show about

health, wellness, and fitness | 7:30 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $25-$150 | 401.421.ARTS | thevetsri.com

WEDNESDAY 26

THE ARTEMIS STRING QUARTET will perform works by Brahms, Kurtág, and Beethoven | 7:30 pm | Sapinsley Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | $25 + $35, $5 students | 401.456.8144 | ricmc.org

DANCE PERFORMANCE FRIDAY 21

MOSCOW FESTIVAL BALLET performs Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty | 7:30 pm | Garde Arts Center, 325 State St, New London, CT | $49 | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org

STATE BALLET OF RHODE ISLAND presents “Cowboys, Cadets, and Collaborative Works” | Fri 7:30 pm; Sat 2 pm | Roberts Hall Auditorium at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | $30, $20 students, $16 under 13 | 401.334.2560 | stateballet.com

SATURDAY 22

STATE BALLET OF RHODE ISLAND |

See listing for Fri

WEDNESDAY 26 + THURSDAY 27

ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY JUNIOR/SENIOR DANCE CONCERT | 7:30 pm | Roger Williams University Performing Arts Center, 1 Old Ferry Rd, Bristol | $10, $5 students + seniors | 401.254.3626 | departments. rwu.edu/dance

THURSDAY 27

THE RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE DANCE COMPANY, with Kellie Ann

Lynch and Elm City Dance Collective, present “Almost Porcelain” | 7:30 pm | Helen Forman Theatre at Rhode Island College, 600 Mt Pleasant Ave, Providence | $15 | ric.edu/mtd/calendar_danceEvents.php TAO: PHOENIX RISING, featuring Taiko drumming and choreography | 7:30 pm | The Auditorium in Roberts Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | $35, $30 seniors, $15 students + under 13 | 401.456.8144 | ric.edu/pfa

EVENTS

FILM THURSDAY 20

THE ALICE IN WONDERLAND FILM SERIES presented in conjunc-

tion with the upcoming exhibit, “Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass” | This week: Mar 20, Alice (Neco z Elenky) (1988), a “free adaptation” of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland directed by Jan Svankmajer | Mar 27: Alice In Wonderland, a 1982 Broadway stage performance first shown on PBS’ Great Performances | 6 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org

THE RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS SHORTS FROM IRELAND | 7 pm | Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley St | $10 | 401.560.0979 | jamestownart center.org

A SCREENING OF FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, a documentary about the

street photographer | Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres [6 pm], film [7 pm], and post-film Skype conversation with director Charlie Siskel [8:30 pm] | Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave | $30 | 401.848.8200 | newportFILM.com

THURSDAY 27

URI FILM NIGHT, with screenings of work by eight students | 7 pm | Hera Gallery, 10 High St, Wakefield | Free [reservations encouraged] | 401.789.1488 | heragallery.org

THE ALICE IN WONDERLAND FILM SERIES | See listing for Thurs

READINGS THURSDAY 20

DAVID ALLEN SIBLEY will discuss

and sign his new book, The Sibley Guide to Bird, Second Edition | 6 pm | Brown University’s MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer St, Providence | Reservations are required; go to the website or call to reserve | 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

THURSDAY 20

TUESDAY 25

| Gallery Night Providence, 1 Regency Plaza, Providence | Free | 401.490.2042 | gallerynight.info

pm | Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer St, Providence | $3 | 401.383.8393 | facebook.com/groups/36169437169

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TALKS

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

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“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/carolanderson-danger-single-story-africanamericans-and-anti-colonial-struggle

SUNDAY 23

SANDRA MOYER AND THOMAS WORTHINGTON will discuss and

sign their new book, Cranston Revisited | 2 pm | Cranston Public Library, 140 Sockanosset Cross Rd | Free | 401.943.9080 | cranstonlibrary.org

THE TUNE IN & TUNE UP RHODE ISLAND MUSICIANS HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAM will

present a forum about coverage and the enrollment process | 4 pm | Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org

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MONDAY 24

COKIE ROBERTS will discuss her

book, Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies [the event will be held in the Campus Recreation Center Gymnasium] | 7:30 pm | Roger Williams University, 1 Old Ferry Rd, Bristol | Free | 401.253.1040 | pdq.rwu.edu STEVE KRASNER will discuss and sign his book, The Longest Game, with behind-the-scenes tales of the PawSox and Boston Red Sox | 6:30 pm | Cumberland Public Library, 1464 Diamond Hill Rd | Free [reservations recommended] | 401.333.2552 | cumberlandlibrary.org

WEDNESDAY 26

“FINGERPRINTS” | A talk by Mark

Zabinski, criminalist 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 27

OMAR BAH, a Gambian newspaper reporter who was forced to flee his homeland after the country’s security officials targeted him as a “wanted” man, will discuss his experience | 7 pm | Agnes Doody Auditorium at Swan Hall at the University of Rhode Island, 60 Upper College Rd, Kingston | Free | uri. edu/news/releases/?id=6968 RALPH PERFETTO, co-founder of QualityMetric Inc. and Response Technologies Inc., will discuss his “unanticipated entrepreneurial journey” | 3 pm | Cherry Auditorium in the Kirk Center for Advanced Technology at the University of Rhode Island, Upper College Rd, Kingston | 401.874.7892 | uri.edu/ news/releases/?id=6979

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

pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment |

Continued on p 20

3/28: Double CD Release Party! Girls , Guns and Glory/ Sarah Borges Band , 3/29: Crystal Bowersox (sold out) , 3/30: The Melodic, 3/31: Carolina Chocolate Drops, 4/3: Hot Club of Cow Town

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Project Ace

The Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University is seeking alcohol drinkers to participate in a study looking at the effects of alcohol cravings on behavior.

Earn up to $150 for completing the study.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE: * Adults ages 18-65 *Alcohol drinkers WHAT IS INVOLVED * Complete three sessions in 3 weeks * Each Session lasts about 1 hour If interested contact Rebecca (401) 863-6614 E-mail: ProjectAce@brown.edu

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Listings Continued from p 19 Through Mar 29: “Outsider Art,” new work by Sam Marshall and Dan Marks | In the Youth Gallery, new work by Wilson Aguilar and Kassy Cardona AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Mar 29: “Land Studies,” new work

by May Babcock | “Exploring Lions,” new work by Jen Booth BANKRI GALLERY | 401.456.5015 x 1330 | 137 Pitman St, Providence | bankri.com | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through Apr 2: clay paintings by Kate Champa — 1 Turks Head Pl, Providence | MonWed 8:30 am-3 pm; Thurs-Fri 8:30 am-5 pm | Through Apr 2: prints by Jessica Nalbandian

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

CHAZAN GALLERY AT WHEELER

| 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-

Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | Through Mar 30: “Alumni Exhibitions: Part 1,” with works by Dawn Clements, Paul Ramirez Jonas, and Kerry Tribe DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 134 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown | debloisgallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Mar 30: “Move It!,” an open show GALLERY AT CITY HALL | 401.421.7740 | 25 Dorrance St, Provi-

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

Fri 8:30 am-4 pm | Through Mar 24: “Community In Focus: Photographs and Stories of Olney-ville” GRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | facebook.com/grinprovidence | Through Apr 12: “nocebo/placebo,” works by Miika Benedetti HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through Mar 29: “Four Visions,” works by Uli Brahmst, Linda Denosky-Smart, Susan Hayward, and Myron Rubenstein HOPE GALLERY | 401.396.9117 | 435 Hope St, Bristol | hopegalleryfineart finecraft.com | Thurs-Sat 1-5 pm | Through Apr 4: “The World of Landscapes”

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, Warren | imagofoundation4art.org

| Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through Apr 12: An exhibit by stu-

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dents at Mount Hope High School | Through Apr 12: Works by Mary Dondero, Ellen Ferrin, Paul Clancy, Eileen Siobhan Collins, Rose EssonDawson, Lisa Legato, Pascale Lord, Eileen Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, and Lenny Rumpler JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestown artcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Apr 11: “Multi Media: Art and Invention,” works by Luke Randall MACHINES WITH MAGNETS | 401.475.2655 | 400 Main St, Pawtucket | machineswithmagnets.com | Mar 22-Apr 27: “Puzzled: Ode (Owed) To Channing?,” an exhibit by Umberto Crenca 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 Kenner-Brodsky 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 | Mar 21-Apr 13: “RISD Furniture 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 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 | Through Mar 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

Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/ prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm;

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 | Mar 22-Apr 22: “Cutler + Farrell + Sheehan,” with photographs by Mark Cutler, Rick Farrell, and Garrett Sheehan

WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36

Beach St, North Kingstown | wickfordart.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-

3 pm; Sun 12-3 pm | Through Mar 30: “Members Show” WOODS-GERRY HOUSE | 401.454.6141 | 62 Prospect St, Providence | risd.edu/About/Galleries_ Exhibitions/Woods_Gerry | MonSat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Mar 21-Apr 8: “RISD Senior Exhibition: Painting” YELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Providence | yellowperilmedia.com/gallery | Wed-Fri 3-8 pm; other days by appointment | Through Apr 20: “Retropical,” an exhibition of photography, video, drawing, and installation by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez

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 WARWICK MUSEUM OF ART | 401.737.0010 | 3259 Post Rd | warwick museum.org | Tues + Wed + Fri 12-4 pm, Thurs 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Apr 26: An exhibit by associate members of the Art League of Rhode Island

THEATER ARTISTS’ EXCHANGE AND MARLEY BRIDGES THEATRE COMPANY | At Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe St, Cranston | Mar 21 + 22 7 pm: To Love and To Perish: A Murder Mystery | $15 advance, $20 door

CLASSICO STAGE PRODUCTIONS

| 401.455.8000 | provlib.org | At Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St, Providence | Mar 23 + 30 2 pm:

The Riotous Times and Life of Elizabethan England — and . . . Oh Yeah . . . It’s About That Shakespeare Guy Too!, written and staged by Mark Charles Shertheton | $10

CONTEMPORARY THEATER |

401.218.0282 | thecontemporary theater.com | 327 Main St, Wakefield

| Now showing: “The Springboard Season,” a series of special small-scale shows | Mar 21 +22 @ 7 pm, The Allegory of the Well, a new collaborative piece about culture, help, and storytelling | $7 EPIC THEATRE COMPANY | EpicTheatreRI.org | At Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe Sq, Cranston | Through Mar 22: The Great God Pan, by Amy Herzog | Fri-Sat 8 pm | $15, $12 students GAMM THEATRE | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre.org | 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | Through Apr 13: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare | This week: Mar 20 + 25-27 7 pm + Mar 21 + 22 8 pm + Mar 23 2 + 7 pm | $38 + $48 GRANITE THEATRE | 401.596.2341 | granitetheatre.com | 1 Granite St, Westerly | Through Mar 30: Same Time, Next Year, by Bernard Slade | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 2 pm | $20, $17 seniors, $12 under 13 LAKESIDE PARK THEATRE | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com | At the Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | Mar 26 7:30 pm: The Diary of Anne Frank | $19 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 95 EMPIRE BLACK BOX | 95 Empire St, Providence | Mar 20-23: The Blue Collar Clown | The piece “tracks Elizabeth Anne Keiser’s artistic journey from doing film and theater in New York to endeavoring to reach the minds and souls of inner city youth in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Rhode Island using comedy as an intervention, Interweaving monologue, interactive multi-media vignettes, film, and music” | ThursSat 8 pm + Sun 3 pm | $TBA

OCEAN STATE THEATRE COMPANY | 401.921.6800 | oceanstate

theatre.org | 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | Mar 26-Apr 13: The Diary of Anne Frank | This week: Mar 26 7:30 pm + Mar 27 2 + 7:30 pm | $34-$49 [previews Mar 26 + 27 $30]

PAFF AUDITORIUM AT URI PROVIDENCE | 80 Washington

St | Mar 20 7:30 pm: Portrait of a Teen, a spoken word and movement collage by Part of the Oath | Free — Mar 22 + 23: Lady Fingers: A Tale of Three African American Woman Guitar Players, a musical play created and performed by Kim Trusty and Valerie Tutson | Sat 7:30 pm + Sun 2 pm | Free THE PLAYERS | At the Barker Play-

house, 400 Benefit St, Providence

| Mar 21-30: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $25, $15 students

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

220 Weybosset St, Providence | Mar 25-30: Flashdance — The Musical | Mar 25 + 27 7 pm + Mar 27 + 28 7:30 + Mar 29 2 + 8 pm + Mar 30 1 + 6:30 pm | $40-$77

ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | 1

Old Ferry Rd, Bristol | Mar 21 + 22 7:30 pm: Love Cycle: A Soap Operatta, with music and lyrics by Peggy Black and Bill Burnett and book by David Misch | $4, $2 students + seniors 2ND STORY THEATRE | 401.247.4200 | 2ndstorytheatre.com | 28 Market St, Warren | Through Mar 30: A Bright New Boise, by Samuel D. Hunter | Thurs-Sat 8 pm +Sun 3 pm | $25, $20 under 22 — Through Apr 13: Le Dindon or The Dupe, by Georges Feydeau | This week: Mar 20-22 + 27 7:30 pm + Mar 23 2:30 + 7:30 pm | $25, $20 under 22 TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com | 201 Washington St, Providence | Through Mar 30: Oliver!, by Lionel Bart | This week: Mar 20 + 21 + 23 + 27 7:30 pm + Mar 22 + 26 2 + 7:30 pm | $15-$60 YOUR THEATRE | 508.993.0772 | yourtheatre.org | 136 Rivet St, New Bedford, MA | Through Mar 30: Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 2:30 pm | $15

Unless otherwise noted, these listings are for Thurs Mar 20 through Thurs Mar 27. Times can and do change without notice, so please call the theater before heading out.

Film AVON CINEMA

260 Thayer St, Providence | 401.421.3315

STRANGER BY THE LAKE | Thurs: 4:05, 8:50 HER | Thurs: 1:30, 6:20 OMAR | Starts Fri: 1:30, 6:20 AMERICAN HUSTLE | Starts Fri: 3:30, 8:20

CABLE CAR CINEMA

204 South Main St, Providence | 401.272.3970

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON | Thurs: 4:30, 7, 9:30 NYMPHOMANIAC: VOL I | Starts Fri: 4:30, 7 | Sat: 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 11 | Sun: 7, 9:30 | Mon-Thurs: 4:30, 7, 9:30 FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL: VOL. 7 | Fri: 9:45 THE PROPER BINGE: AN AFTERNOON WITH JULIA CHILD, PART DEUX | Sun: 2

CINEMA WORLD

622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln | 401.333.8676

These listings are for Thurs Mar 20Sun Mar 23 only. Call for updates or go to cinemaworldonline.com.

ABOUT LAST NIGHT | Thurs: 3:20, 8 ENDLESS LOVE | Thurs: 1:50, 7:25 POMPEII | Thurs: 10, 1:05, 5:35 ROBOCOP | Thurs: 4:40, 9:55 DIVERGENT | Thurs: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 | FriSun: 10:30, 11:15, 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 4:30, 5r:15, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8:15, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 10, 10:30 MUPPETS MOST WANTED | Thurs: 7, 9:30 | Fri-Sun: 10:15, 11, 11:30, 12:15, 1, 1:45, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15, 5:15, 6:05, 7, 7:45, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:15 NEED FOR SPEED 3D | Thurs: 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15 | Fri-Sun: 11:20, 4:55 NEED FOR SPEED | Thurs: 10:30, 1:15, 4, 7:15, 9, 9:50 | Fri-Sun: 10:35, 1:20, 2:05, 4:10, 7:05, 8:05, 9:25, 9:50 TYLER PERRY’S THE SINGLE MOMS CLUB | 11:05, 1:50, 4:50, 7:20, 10:10 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN | Thurs: 3:30, 4:45, 5:45, 6:55, 7:55, 9:25 | FriSun: 10:40, 11:10, 12:50, 1:40, 3, 3:50, 5, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05* [*no show Sun] 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D | Thurs: 10:50, 6:45 | Fri-Sun: 9:55 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE | Thurs: 11:20, 1:25, 2:15, 4, 5, 7:45, 9:15 | FriSun: 10:50, 1:25, 4:45, 7:25 NON-STOP | Thurs: 10:35, 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45 | Fri-Sun: 11:35, 1:55, 4:20, 7:15, 9:35* [*no show Sun] SON OF GOD | Thurs: 10:40, 1:35, 4:25, 6:30 | Fri-Sun: 1:15 4:05 3 DAYS TO KILL | Thurs: 1:25, 4:20 | Fri-Sun: 2, 4:35, 6:55 THE LEGO MOVIE | Thurs: 1, 1:55, 3:15, 4:30, 5:30, 6:50, 7:50 | Fri-Sun: 10:55, 1:35, 4, 6:50, 9:15* [*no show Sun] RIDE ALONG | Thurs: 11, 9:30 | Fri-Sun: 8:30, 9:45 FROZEN | Thurs: 1:35, 4:05 | Fri-Sun: 10:20, 3:45 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW | Fri: 11

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ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES | Thurs: 12:40, 3:10, 6:10, 8:40 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 | Thurs: 12:05, 9:30 I, FRANKENSTEIN | Thurs: 12:50, 5:15, 7:25 LABOR DAY | Thurs: 2:55, 4:10, 9:10 SAVING MR. BANKS | Thurs: 1:20, 6:35 AMERICAN HUSTLE | Starts Fri: 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 VAMPIRE ACADEMY | Starts Fri: 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 6:50, 9:05 WINTER’S TALE | Starts Fri: 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET | Starts Fri: 1:20, 4:50, 8:20 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY | Thurs: 12:30, 3, 6:45, 9:15 | Fri-Thurs: 12:20, 3:30, 6:05

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE | 12:10, 3:05, 6, 8:55 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG | Thurs: 1:15, 4:30, 8 | FriThurs: 12:15, 5:35, 8:40 THE NUT JOB | Thurs: 5:35, 7:20, 9:20 | Fri-Thurs: 12:50, 2:45, 4:45, 6:35, 8:215 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT | Thurs: 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 | Fri-Thurs: 3:20, 8:45 NEBRASKA | Thurs: 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 | Fri-Thurs: 12 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB | 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:25

ENTERTAINMENT CINEMAS

30 Village Square Dr, South Kingstown | 401.792.8008

SON OF GOD | Thurs: 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 MUPPETS MOST WANTED | Starts Fri: 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 DIVERGENT | Thurs: 8 | Fri-Thurs: 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 NEED FOR SPEED 3D | 4:25, 9:35 NEED FOR SPEED | 1:30, 7 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN | Thurs: 12:20, 2:25, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 | Fri-Thurs: 12:50, 3:50, 6:30, 9 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D | 4:15, 9:40 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE | 1:10, 7:15 12 YEARS A SLAVE | Thurs: 12:30, 3:30 | Fri-Thurs: 12:30, 4:10, 7:25 NON-STOP | Thurs: 1:35, 4:10 | FriThurs: 4, 9:20 THE LEGO MOVIE | 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 9:15 THE MONUMENTS MEN | 1, 6:50

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