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david lamb Friends, family, and fellow musicians pay tribute to the beloved member of Brown Bird

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Q&A with the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn | p 12

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looking for clues

Trinity’s Veronica Meadows | p 14

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Friends, family, and fellow musicians pay tribute to the beloved member of Brown Bird. And go to facebook.com/ProvidencePhoenix to see photos from the memorial concert at the Columbus Theatre.

11 homegRown PRoduct _ b Y c h R I s c o n t I

Man on a (solo) mission: meRtz takes on life and love with The Good In the Bad.

12 musIc _ b Y m I c h Ae L A t c h Is o n

Staying positive: Craig Finn of the hoLd steAdY on putting down his guitar, the characters that boxed him in, touring with Deer Tick, and more.

14 theAteR _ b Y b I L L R o d R I g u e z

Searching for clues: Trinity Rep’s veRonIcA meAdows; plus, Ocean State’s dIARY of Anne fRAnk offers rose-colored memories.

24 fILm _ b Y c h R I s t o Ph e R gR A Y

dRAft dAY asks us to sympathize with people who don’t have any actual problems.

the uSuAL Stuff PhILLIPe & JoRge’s cooL, cooL woRLd

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Peter Matthiessen: a man of more than letters | Paging Quint | More from the obituary beat

Alex and Ali University a university? | Talking taxes

Kathy Griffin is ubiquitous but somehow never wears out her welcome; New Madrid push a lot of must-hear musical buttons; the majesty of B.B. King, and more. _ b Y s Y m b oL I ne dA I

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phillipe + Jorge’s cool, cool World

man of more than letters Mad for Matthiessen; swiMMing with sharKs; rip, dave and MicKey Peter Matthiessen, one of the greatest

American writers of his generation f and a longtime hero to Phillipe and Jorge,

passed away on April 5. His passing came just before the release of his latest (and last) novel, In Paradise.

Born into a wealthy family, Matthiessen all but ran from his elite upbringing.

And what a run he had. He was a charter boat fishing captain, a CIA agent, a cofounder of The Paris Review (with George Plimpton, among others), a worldwide explorer, and a Zen Buddhist priest — you know, just a normal guy. He was also a staunch environmentalist, a friend of Cesar Chavez, and a supporter of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, via his book, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

Perhaps his biggest accomplishment (although not to his mind) was winning National Book Awards for both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard) and fiction (Shadow Country). He also rightly won huge praise for the novel At Play In the Fields of the Lord, which comes highly recommended by P&J. But to our minds, his work of true genius was Far Tortuga. After P&J first read it in the mid-1970s, we pushed it on every one of our friends, demanding they read it, and RIGHT NOW. A ragged copy has been on our bookshelf for decades, because it’s simply one of the best novels ever written, despite the tight-assed detractors who couldn’t swallow all of Matthiessen's literary innovations. Eff ’em if they can’t take a joke.

So go to your local library or hop on Amazon and get yourself a copy of Far Tortuga. We guarantee it'll be the starting point for a few years of reading everything Matthiessen wrote — a considerable and awesome body of work.

Paging Quint

Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe And he keeps it out of sight You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe Scarlet billows start to spread _“Mack the Knife”

It looks like Newport is going to need a bigger events boat this summer.

On March 26, the Newport City Council gave the OK for the 28th Annual Monster Shark Tournament, which should guarantee a Jaws-themed circus to rival St. Patrick’s Day — or Ted “Captain Outrageous” Turner winning the America’s Cup in Newport — for the amount of alcohol consumed on the waterfront streets of the city.

The tourney organizers opted this year to leave their longtime home site in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard (the town featured prominently in Jaws as the fictional summer resort town of Amity). But having the shark tournament make Newport its new home drew the same reaction from some city councilors as when Quint drew his fingernails across a blackboard to get the town’s leaders’ attention.

From the sound of it, the Monster Shark extravaganza was told to hit the

road by Oak Bluffs town fathers. And Oak Bluffs police have already supplied what one Newport councilor called “adverse” information to our local gendarmes.

Read: scores of what another councilor called “yahoos” getting oiled up and running amok.

All reports of previous tourneys, however, exonerate the bulk of the 150 true

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fishermen who participated in the tournament, pointing the finger instead at the rum-swilling landlubbers who come to gawk at the fearsome predators being hauled aloft and weighed at the dock during the competition. The only question that P&J pose to those anglers is, “Just how many sharks caught are then released, versus those brought back to shore?” One

would hope that unless you caught a shark with a legitimate chance of winning a prize, every other shark would be handled on a catch-and-release basis.

Here in Vo Dilun, the Monster Shark Tournament should certainly enhance Newport’s reputation as a cultural and historic tourism destination, with scores of hammer(head)ed men and women lurching through the streets wearing artificial fin hats and screaming.

Take that, Doris Duke.

More FroM the obituary beat

Your superior correspondents are never happy to be an alternative obituary source because it means that someone of note — usually someone we know — has passed away. This week, we mourn the loss of David Lamb, 36, who, along with his life partner, MorganEve Swain, performed as the magnificent band, Brown Bird. David succumbed from leukemia.

Not only was Brown Bird greatly loved and appreciated in the Rhode Island musical community, but they were building a solid reputation nationally and in Europe, with lauded appearances at such prestigious events as the Newport Folk Festival.

Their frequently dark and mystical music was informed by a wide variety of roots music: folk, blues, and country, as well as ethnic European sources.

Since news of David Lamb’s passing was announced over the weekend, there has been an outpouring of grief from the RI music community as well as the national press (read more on pages 8 and 9). P&J send their condolences to the Swain and Lamb families. Very sad news, indeed.

Mickey Rooney is, of course, an entirely different story. Born Joe Yule Jr. in Brooklyn, Rooney had a long and storied career on stage and in films and television. His parents were vaudevillians, so he was virtually born into the business.

We’re sure you all have your favorite Mickey Rooney moments, be they from the Andy Hardy movies or his performances with his close friend, Judy Garland.

Jorge has an odd favorite moment: the 1959 film The Last Mile, where Mickey plays “Killer” John Mears. While this was during one of the lowest periods of Rooney’s career, he was still powerful and mesmerizing.

Many will also remember Rooney’s moving performance in the 1981 made-forTV movie, Bill — another outstanding performance where he was able to turn down his natural energy to portray a man with intellectual disabilities who spent 40 years in a Minnesota state institution.

But way up there on our list of favorite “Mickey moments” was the time he appeared on Tom Snyder’s Tomorrow Show on NBC. Mickey apparently needed money at the time and was marketing some sort of “Learn to Act at Home” package. One word comes to mind to describe this performance: surreal. ^

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“We believe if Tea Party principles were running the state, we would have far lower unemployment.”

This Just In

_MIkE puyANA

“Learning”

The Political Scene

Is Alex and Ani University a university?

guns, taxes, and a few things we all might agree on

Rhode Island’s loudest jewelry company, Alex and Ani, was recently featured in an intriguing newspaper article.

No, we’re not talking about the March 28 New York Times mini-profile in which founder/CEO Carolyn Rafaelian said her products are imbued with energy, thanks to consulting with “physicists all over the world”; that the company’s bangles “hold vibration of pure energy, healing love”; and that, before hitting stores, “every product has been blessed by my priests…by my shaman friends, protected from radio frequency, from radioactivity.”

We’re talking about the April 3 Providence Journal piece reporting A&A is closing their boutique on Weybosset Street in Providence to make way for “about 15 Alex and Ani University employees who will move into that location from the jewelry company’s Cranston headquarters.”

Alex and Ani University — not to be confused with Alex and Ani and/or Rafaelian’s stabs at winemaking (Carolyn’s Sakonnet Vineyard), coffee shops (Teas and Javas), a media and advertising studio (Seven Swords Media), and entertainment management (Alex and Ani Entertainment, which represents Colour of London, the soft-rock duo billed as the “voice of Alex and Ani”) — is the branch of the company that “offers workshops, Learning Journeys & Courses birthed to awaken, nurture, and inspire human development through self-understanding and systems thinking.”

AAU’s website features course offerings (“LEAD 310 AS3™- Approach Sensitive Systematic Storytelling,” “ORG 110 CORE PLUS™ Positivity Training”), testimonials (“It’s retail therapy at its finest,” a student gushes about the class RET 110 Rethinking Retail™); and signed copies of AAU Chief Education Consultant Dennis Rebelo’s “Story Manifesto,” a sheet dotted with phrases like “To story is human” and “Honor your calling & act on it with purpose” which is “Priced to ignite a spark daily” at $99.99. Rebelo has referred to himself as the “second CEO” of Alex and Ani. AAU’s insignia features the phrase: “(+)THINKING™.”

But is Alex and Ani University really a university?

In a word, “No.” Page four of the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education’s regulations for proprietary schools clearly reads: “No school may use the word ‘college’ or ‘university’ in its title.” When we inquired with RI Office of Higher Education interim director, Clark Greene, he responded, “Based upon discussions that the office has had with the company, its use of the

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name ‘University’ only applies to their internal employee training operation and not to the courses that they will offer to the public within RI.” Hypothetically, any future use of the word “university” for external purposes would run afoul of regulations, he added.

This perhaps explains why, as AAU edges ever closer to opening its doors to the general public — Rebelo offers no dates, only saying, “It’s coming” — AAU has spun off Alex and Ani Institute, which is short for the “Alex and Ani Evolutionary Leadership Institute,” Rebelo says. At Alexandaniinstitute. com, you’ll find descriptions of upcoming three-day, $3,785 retreats in Sausalito, California and North Adams, Massachusetts. “Story Like You Mean It™, a Path of Life™ narrative retreat, will give you the opportunity to reflect, story, and create,” the site says. “Through this self-reflection, you will begin to understand the connectedness of your seemingly disconnected story. Learn how to articulate your personal plot line to the world and create your life’s next chapter — story your dream™.”

Right now, these courses are exclusively for Alex and Ani employees, with course fees picked up by their respective internal department, Rebelo says. “We spend between $900 and $15,100 dollars per team member [for AAU tuition], depending on their role within the organization,” Rebelo says. “We deeply commit to learning.”

Does this mean AAU courses are required?

Rebelo is sensitive to the word “required,” he says. “There’s a line of people who . . . want to take more courses, and we say, ‘Not just yet. You’re almost at the point where you can qualify for the next class.’

“It’s like owning an ice cream stand,” he adds, laughing. “Everybody wants the courses.”

But aren’t Rafaelian’s ideas on vibrations, shamans, and radioactivity at odds with the values of more traditional, established universities?

“I’m not sure that what she said [to the Times] regarding shamanism is disconnected from learning,” Rebelo says. “In fact, it’s very connected to learning . . . The best kind of research as human beings that we ever encounter is ‘me-search’: understanding one’s self. And I think that was Carolyn’s intent.”

So does he, like Rafaelian, believe Alex and Ani’s products are imbued with “energy”?

Absolutely, he says. “I couldn’t be here and not feel that the product is as she proclaims it to be.”

_Philip Eil

Tuesday, April 15 is Tax Day. If you didn’t know this ...well, you should probably stop reading and start doing your taxes. If you did, and your 1040s and W-4s and W-9s have long been filed, perhaps you’re gearing up for the Rhode Island Tea Party’s 5th anniversary rally on the State House lawn.

This year’s theme is going to be — no big surprise — “loving liberty and fighting tyranny,” according to new RITP President Mike Puyana, an occupational health and safety consultant who lives in Burrillville.

We spoke with Puyana over the phone to get a sense of what it’s like fighting for smaller government, lower taxes, and fewer gun regulations in one of the country’s bluest states.

Our conversation has been edited and condensed.

HOW WOULD RHODE ISLAND LOOK DIFFERENT UNDER A TEA PARTY ADMINISTRATION? We

We [also] need an increase in our estate tax exemption. Right now the threshold is a little over $900,000. It should be at least double that. I’d love to see it go to $3 or $4 or even $5 million to encourage retirees to stay here so they can protect their hard-earned earnings.

We believe if Tea Party principles were running this state, we would have far lower unemployment. We would have far better income levels. We would have far fewer people who are in the situation where they might have at least a temporary need of public assistance.

GUNS ARE A BIG ADVOCACY ISSUE FOR YOU GUYS. WILL THE RI TEA PARTY AND LEFTLEANING RHODE ISLANDERS EVER AGREE ON THE WAY TO REGULATE THEM IN THIS STATE? If

[you’re referring to] the people who advocate for gun control and the people who proclaim loudly that it’s the guns that are causing crime and guns that cause violence in our society, then, no, there will never be any sort of meeting of the minds. Because we take the view of reason and rational, logical, common sense thought regarding all aspects of self-defense, all aspects of what the Second Amendment was truly written about.

And we believe that it is the decisions of individuals ...the behavior of individuals that have to be addressed.

Inanimate objects are just that; they’re not capable of doing anything. Unless somebody picks it up, [a gun is] a heavy, expensive paperweight or doorstop. Criminals are called “criminals” because they do not obey the law. So making more laws for people who do not respect laws is kinda pointless.

believe that the public assistance system is badly flawed in the way it’s applied. We would like to see it changed to stop the dependency cycle that keeps feeding the beast and have it be much more of what a man who ran for governor four years ago [said], “should be a trampoline, not a hammock.”

Our government would have much tighter controls and scrutiny for transparency and accountability issues. We would absolutely be aggressively pursuing full investigation of the 38 Studios debacle. We would be aggressively pursuing what appears to be a developing scandal and many questions about the Providence Economic Development Partnership.

YOU’RE AN OUTSPOKEN CRITIC OF THE PATRIOT Obviously, we need tax reform. We need ACT AND YOU’VE CALLED NSA SURVEILLANCE a cut in our fundamental sales tax rate — a A “GROTESQUE ASSAULT ON OUR 4TH AMENDsubstantial cut, we believe. We believe we MENT RIGHTS.” A LOT OF FOLKS ON THE OTHER need cuts in our corporate tax rates. We SIDE OF THE AISLE WOULD AGREE WITH YOU. should have cuts in our capital gains tax It’s funny. I’ve spoken with people from rates. We should get rid of that highly inOccupy Providence and it is surprising and sulting $500 minimum corporate tax every very interesting to see year that a business how often we can find entity has to pay, regardourselves in agreement. less of whether or not When you’re talking they turned a profit. We about fundamental civil have way too many taxes liberties, that’s someon business. thing that is genderOur regulatory problind, it’s color-blind, cess is far too convoluted and it’s political affiliaand complicated . . . it’s tion-blind. redundant. I’ve lost Civil liberties are count of the number critical to the existence of businesses I’ve gone and the function of a free into where I look at the society. And if you don’t wall and I’m amazed at protect the civil liberties the number of different of all people, then you are permits they have to living in what amounts to have for this, that, and a police state. everything else. Every The RI Tea Party Tax Day one of those permits will rally will take place on April 15 cost this business money from 3 to 6 pm on the lawn of and drive up their cost the Rhode Island State House of doing business, and, (the mall side). For more info, go therefore, it drives up to riteaparty.com or facebook. the overall cost of living. com/rhodeislandteaparty.

It gives people less disAIMING FOR REFORM Puyana. _Philip Eil posable income.

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friends, family, and fellow musicians pay tribute to the beloved member of brown bird Our local music commuAt the nity was dealt a devastating Newport blow with the announcement Folk Festival that Brown Bird’s David Lamb in 2011 had succumbed to his second bout with leukemia, at age 36.

Lamb passed away at Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket last Saturday while surrounded by friends, family, and longtime musical partner and wife, MorganEve Swain.

In May 2013, Lamb felt ill while on the road in Texas and was diagnosed with leukemia.

Fellow musicians and fans around the country chipped in more than $70,000 to assist with Lamb’s medical bills. He underwent chemo and a bone marrow transplant over the fall and winter, and positive news came when Swain reported that Dave was in good spirits and ready to begin work on the next album. On March 25, Lamb was informed of the dire news.

David and MorganEve shared an apartment in Warren, where David had previously worked his “fingers to the bone” at a local became bandmates, lovers and business shipyard before deciding to go all in with partners, and set the tone for what our life Swain and spread their wings full-time as would be for the next six years. We never Brown Bird in 2011. Swain and Lamb quit imagined the amount of success we would their day jobs, hired a booking agent, and steadily filled rooms behind their breakout enjoy in those years, how many incredible friendships would be forged, the experiencalbum, Salt For Salt. They toured overseas with dear friends the Low Anthem, played es we would share, and nothing could have sold-out rooms across the country with the prepared us for the events of this past year.

Dave entered the battle with leukemia Devil Makes Three, Trampled by Turtles, as only Dave could — determined, steadand Joe Fletcher, and a jaw-dropping set fast, smiling and always with his mind at the Newport Folk Fest in ’11 garnered on our future. His incredible ability to a main-stage invite the following year.

Two of the best shows I have ever attended continue writing through his struggle is something I’ll forever aspire to. were courtesy of headliners Brown Bird This week was the toughest in the — a sold-out at Firehouse 13 in ’09, and a battle, as Dave’s body began to shut down wild one at the Met in 2011. Lamb was all under the stress of a year-long fight and a smiles behind his woolly beard, simultasudden and aggressive leukemic relapse. neously operating a kickdrum, tambouToday, surrounded by his family and so rine, and banjo, with Swain by his side many friends, Dave peacefully let go. adding warm tones with deft cello and Thank you for all the love you’ve all double-bass skills. shown us. It helped so very much to know A week before Christmas, Brown Bird released a new song, “Weathering,” with a we had an army behind us.

Love and gratitude, bittersweet and heart-wrenching passage: MorganEve “And when the storm it does subside/this flood of roller coaster rides/we’ll lick the wounds and learn to live with this new ‘We Were alWays making blood/and on the other side of tears we’ll plans for the future’ build our strength and face our fears.”

My two favorite memories of Dave are both We checked in with a number of locals business meetings that we had in Warren. who offered thoughts on David and his It might sound strange to say, but it’s true musical legacy. The outpouring of support — my favorite thing about every meeting has been tremendous and we thank every- with Dave and MorganEve is that we were one who took the time to share rememalways making plans for the future. Last brances and tributes. summer, we went to dinner at a restau_Chris Conti rant down the street from their house — it was the first time in a few months I’d seen him outside of a hospital. At the time we ‘We had an army behind us’ thought that the worst was behind us and MorganEve Swain made this post on Brown Bird’s getting back on the road was just a few Facebook page on Saturday, April 5. months away. There was a lot of laughter Dear friends, and so much excitement about the future.

Over the past year, and especially this About a week later, I got the call that a bone past week, I have been so overwhelmed and grateful for the amount of love that has sur- marrow transplant was necessary, and that meant at least a year at home recovering. It rounded Dave and me throughout our life was sad, but that meant they would have and career together. You all have posted so time to write and record a new album. many beautiful stories about Dave — how About a month ago, we had dinner humble he was, how gracious, how talentagain — Dave had felt the best he had in ed ...He certainly was all those things. months, and was spending hours every day Four days after Dave and I met we

I love you, Dave. Thank you for letting me be on your team. I love you, MorganEve. Thank you for letting me be on your team.

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_tom Weyman, broWn bird’s manager

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‘his spirit is already Continuing through all of us’

writing music and recording demos. His beard was coming back strong! Plans had been made for recording, and we had just started thinking about the first few “comeback” shows for the fall and winter. Dave had been playing the drums again (did you know he is also an amazing drummer?), and all the new songs he’d been working on had full drum kit parts that he had recorded. They had started practicing with our friend James Maple, who had learned the parts that Dave had recorded and was going to be a crucial part of Brown Bird’s live show. Dave had mentioned wanting to try his hand at shooting a music video with a Super 8 camera he’d bought. I was so impressed that he had all these ideas for continuing to create and had so many different outlets for being creative. It was an incredibly rough year, but the music Dave was writing reflected on his experience and was so powerful. I was convinced that Dave and Brown Bird would come back stronger than ever before.

It was a total honor to work with Dave — he approached his career the same way he approached his personal life, with integrity and kindness. It’s not surprising how far their music spread in the past few years — once you hear Brown Bird, you become a supporter and evangelist.

Every band that took a chance on bringing Brown Bird on tour was rewarded with professionalism and friendship — that’s why so many bands brought them out on tour multiple times.

I knew him first as a fan, and then a business partner, but ultimately as a friend. This week has been so rough, but incredible to meet so many friends of Dave that knew him long before I did. I learned so many funny, weird things — did you know he was a Deadhead? A Black Crowes fan? Did you know he went to South Africa and the Philippines? Did you know they called him and his group of friends on Star Island Berserkers? Dave was only 36 but after hearing so many stories this week, I am certain he had several lifetimes worth of experiences.

[On April 5] I was lucky to spend the day with his family and close friends gathered together [at] the hospital to support each other and share stories and memories of his life. The vibe in that room was inspiring. Many of the people I met for the first time, since Dave had so many friends, and not one did I find who a) wasn’t an incredible human being full of love and heart b) didn’t have great little-known stories about Dave, like how he could keep a beat at the drums while walking around the kit! As heartbroken as we were, it was a testament to how Dave’s spirit still lingered on that such a community could spring forth naturally from his loved ones of different periods of his life. I think that’s why Dave will be remembered, because his spirit already is continuing through all of us — his family, and his music friends and colleagues — not only because he was a unique musician, intelligent, talented, and thoughtful, but because of his heart, that stood out the most. Our Providence, RI, music community has lost a dear friend, and we will miss him deeply. I am glad and feel thankful to have known and worked with him over the years, and feel very sorry for MorganEve, and those family and friends of Dave’s who have come from afar who are grieving this tragic loss. May the hugs we gave each other today in that room of mourning, hugs so tight that you felt like it was the last one you might ever get, spread out all over the world, and find you today. _Jeff prystoWsky of the loW anthem

‘embraCe the darkness to appreCiate the light’

What set Dave apart for me was his character. Few (especially what I consider to be “successful”) musicians have exhibited the sort of humility, grace, and down-toearth quality that Dave possessed. He was always warm and gracious any time you had the chance to chat with him and he never made you feel like you weren’t good enough or important enough to be on the same unmatched level that he certainly was on. What he and MorganEve accomplished artistically and what they had together was a rare thing. They were quickly placed among the (exciting, especially at the time) folk crowd when I was first aware of them and they did it with sincerity, conviction, and authenticity that is, today, often lost amidst that particular style. They broke those boundaries and continually redefined what they were doing and challenged us all as listeners or as fellow artists with their daringly refined unpredictability.

Recently, I read an interview with Dave where he discussed the importance of balance between light and dark and how too often the negative and darkness

_keith J.g. mcCurdy of Vudu sister

‘daVe brought many people Joy’

The first time I saw Dave perform was at a house concert at a hippie house in New England. His performance left me beautifully enticed. I was very nervous then, and remember how open and wonderful he was towards me. I saw him play in many iterations of the band over the years, but when he began playing with MorganEve, there was a special untouchable magic between them that translated to everyone. Dave brought many people joy through his big bearded smiling face and his beautiful music. His life was much too short, but it was full of gifts to the world. He will be lovingly remembered.

David and MorganEve in Warren in 2013

_JoCie adams of arC iris

‘there is no mistaking people With pure hearts’

I grew up in Warren and, aside from an apartment or two during my college years, I have lived there my entire life. When people relocate to Warren, there is a community there that will welcome you with open arms. The people here are trusting, helpful, eccentric, and my best friends in the world live here. Dave and MorganEve have been part of this community for awhile and honestly, they will always be. There is no mistaking people with pure hearts and Dave obviously had one.

The ramshackle print/recording studio that we set up on the ground floor of the “Fort Foreclosure” house Brown Bird has called home for the past few years on Water Street is where my friends and I spend most of our time. Homeowner Will Schaff and I are among the lucky few who got to listen to Brown Bird practice over

the past two years, just by simply opening a window or a door.

But 99 percent of the time when I saw Brown Bird, they were between tours, “civilians” walking back from the Warren corner store, carrying their food in grocery bags. They were, simply put, the cool, sweet neighbors on the third floor with their amazing dog Zed. Dave and MorganEve will always be part of our Warren family and community, and I will always be thankful that I was lucky enough to share my circle of friends with Dave.

_mark macdougall, oWner of 75orless reCords and member of siX star general

‘a brain like buddha’

I first met Dave at a gig we played with them and was really struck by his incredible songwriting. By the second gig we played with them I was more excited to watch them than to actually play. That was before

‘This sort of support was more than I could ever have hoped for’ On Monday, Morgan Even Swain answered a few questions: the second diagnosis around must have blindsided both of you. how was dave feeling just prior to getting the bad news again? the second diagnosis blindsided everyone, including the doctors. prior to beginning to feel run-down again about a week before the relapse, dave had been feeling more energetic than he had in months. he was spending almost all of his time playing drums and re-recording parts on the songs that we’d written since september, and we were actively planning to record our next album this month. getting back to making music must have been a great spiritual lift for him. dave never really stopped making music. there were certainly times when he was just to weak and tired to physically do it, but even then he was thinking about it. i used to tease him about it — he’d space out sometimes and i’d ask, “what are you thinking about?” and he’d always be like, “uh, oh...well, you know that drum

Years ago, when it was suggested to me that I consider David and MorganEve for my empty apartment, I was glad to have two musicians in the house.

I was unaware then just how lucky I would be to have these two musicians in the house.

David was inspiring. When not on the road, he would be practicing all day. Never taking for granted the blessing it is to be able to create for a living. I would be in my studio, all day, and I would hear the sound of David, working out some intricate guitar line, in combination with the amazing foot work he would do with the percussion pedals. I would hear him, and it reminded me to keep my nose to the grindstone, too.

The sound of David playing, and Brown Bird practicing could so often be heard wafting down Water Street. The absence of those sounds this past week or so punctuates the absence of the man.

I don’t believe it is any coincidence that people use the word “struggle,” or “fight,” when referring to the part of life that illness sticks its head into. To me, life is a war. My art has always been my bullets in my efforts towards the good. With David’s passing, I feel I have lost a brother in arms in this fight to bring art and beauty in the world. Our home has lost a champion in our struggle. The war is not over, and it has just become harder to fight. I will carry on trying to keep in my mind and heart that which I learned from David. To listen, to be patient, to be steadfast and true to the mission. To do what we do with love, and dedication. To not give up.

David was my better. He will be sorely, sorely missed. c ore y grayhors e

remembering david lamb

‘daVid Was inspiring’

is ignored in some naïve attempt to maintain positivity and joy in the wake of such horrors. He discussed how, essentially, it’s important to embrace the darkness to appreciate the light. I believe in the wake of this terrible sadness that there is light and beauty to be taken from it; that there is hope that we fellow artists, wanderers, gypsies, and rogues can continue on with a renewed sense of vigor and purpose to fulfill whatever destiny that was perhaps lost before and now regained. Keep making art and cherish the ones you love.

they really blew up. One of the last times I saw Dave was at a show Brown Bird did at the Met. Towards the end of the show, Dave’s guitar crapped out and I watched in amazement as his feet kept the drumbeat going, his voice kept the melody, and his hands immediately switched from those of a musician to those of an electrician as he started tinkering with the electronics in the guitar, and the song didn’t miss a beat. After the show I approached him and told him he has a brain like Buddha, in that he could use so many parts of it at once, to which he chuckled and immediately set about discussing what he thought was wrong with the guitar. We weren’t close friends but we chatted for a bit like we were. That was such a definition of his character. An incredibly gifted human being with the most humble of natures. An incredible songwriter who left the world richer with his work.

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part? i was just thinking that maybe it should go like this instead....” and we would’ve been in the middle of a different conversation, or watching a movie or something. we also always had our instruments with us at the hospital. i bought us each a little practice amp, and as soon as he was feeling strong enough for it we’d be working on new material. the nurses always got a kick out of coming into his room and finding me on electric bass and dave on guitar — in a hospital bed and gown.

Who was with you two during his final hours? this whole hellish week, we were just absolutely blessed with support. both our families were there with us from day one, and an incredible group of friends and neighbors who arrived with food and coffee and blankets and water. the lamb/swain group took over the entire floor of the icu. by friday night we’d seen at least 100 people come through, and had a group as large as 60 at one time. this sort of support was more than i could ever have hoped for, or even knew i needed. dave was a true beacon of light, humility, creativity, and love — all of that was reflected in the friends who were there with us. _Chris Conti

_artist William sChaff

To honor the memory of Dave Lamb, make a donation to the Be the Match Foundation, which provides marrow transplants to patients with leukemia, aplastic anemia, and other diseases.

Go to bethematch.org.

Go to providence.the.phoenix.com to read more remembrances, and facebook.com/ ProvidencePhoenix to see photographs from the “Celebrating David Lamb” event at the Columbus Theatre on April 8.

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the Bad. He sidesteps rap cliches in favor of a conscious, reflective, and matured outlook on life and love, with some unlikely inspiration along the way thanks to his day job working with autistic children as a teaching assistant at the Groden Center’s preschool in Providence.

April is Autism Awareness Month, and Mertz will headline the “Rocks for Autism Awareness” event at the Parlour on Saturday (the 12th), along with a wide range of musical acts comprised of Mertz’s co-workers at the Groden Center.

Rob Mertz relocated to Providence from Burlington, Vermont four years ago with the intention of taking the next step in his musical career as a member of Present Rhymes. The trio released Livin’ the Mission in 2011, but Mertz ultimately decided to part ways with his rhyme brethren and make moves on his NO HOLDING BACK mertz in action. own as a solo artist.

“We were living in the same apartment but we weren’t spending a lot of time working “I am so thankful for the opportunity. It has definitely on music together,” said Mertz (his surname doubles as been one of the best experiences of my life,” said Mertz. a great MC handle). “I was still creating beats and writThe children in his class also provided the inspiration ing lyrics, but I finally got sick of waiting on other people for the unique standout track “Madame Butterfly,” and while holding myself back creatively. star in the heartwarming video.

“I decided that I was no longer going to let my success “The best shots we got came from the kids playing be hindered by other peoples’ lack of motivation,” he told organically, with little instruction from us,” Mertz said. me earlier this week.

“The parents and families loved it when we showed The Good In the Bad marks a more professional approach the video at the preschool graduation ceremony, which for Mertz and a number of firsts in his musical career; means a lot to me.” he enlisted outside producers, connected with notable Personal growth is a common theme throughout The engineer Nastee (whose credits include Mobb Deep’s Good In the Bad. “They dragged me through the thick and Murda Muzik and Big Pun’s Capital Punishment) on the the thin, but I came out with a twisted grin,” Mertz first single “Life & Love,” and recorded the album at sneers on the second single, “Move On,” and “I Know It Beatbox Studios in Pawtucket with help from studio Well” (produced by SXMPLELIFE) is a smooth slow-burnmastermind Vertygo. er. The album closes strongly with “Growth” (“Grow like “I’m not the type of emcee that’ll tell you I’m the you’re never gonna stop and don’t count the years”) and hardest,” Mertz confidently declares on “Life & Love” “Beautiful Something.” and the hook represents a mission statement: “I keep The Good In the Bad is available for streaming and downmy music based on life and love, not death and hate — load free-of-charge, and the CD will be on sale at the we rise above.” show (and at mertzhiphop.bandcamp.com). ^ Mertz’s previous experience working at an early childhood program while living up north would lead to a richMERTZ + FAILSAFE + MATT FRAZA + PALE AMANITAS | ly fulfilling position at the Livingston Center Preschool Saturday, April 12 @ 9 pm | The Parlour, 1119 North Main St, (part of the larger Groden Center network).

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right to write some songs about that and some songs about not that.

iS there going to come a day when there’S a Big finale or reSolution when we know what happened to thoSe people? I doubt it. My best friend from

Rock

growing up was one of the writers on Lost, the television show, and when that ended, I felt like the fan base reacted so poorly — “You didn’t answer all the questions!” And it was a huge turnoff to me in some way.

You gotta make yourself happy with your art, and I don’t see any big resolution or any spelling it out for anyone.

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the hold steady’s craig finn on putting down his guitar, the characters that boxed him in, touring with deer tick, and his rock and roll teeth dreams _by micha e l a t chis o n Formed in New York a decade ago by Minneapolis ex-pats, the Hold Steady became indie rock heroes on the strength of four albums that earned the band loads of critical praise and a fiercely dedicated fan base. Singer Craig Finn and guitarist Tab Kubler sit at the creative heart of a group that includes longtime members Galen Polivka (bass) and Bobby Drake (drums) and draws influence from touchstones like Bruce Springsteen, the Replacements, and Thin Lizzy. A personnel change and Kubler’s struggles with substance abuse took their toll on the recording of 2010’s Heaven Is Whenever, the band’s least satisfying record. Now, with guitarist Steve Selvidge in the band, with Kubler healthy and rejuvenated, and with Finn having completed a solo album and tour in the interim, the Hold Steady recently released Teeth Dreams, a hard-rocking return to form. The Phoenix caught up with Finn by phone last week.

while Bobby’s playing. It’s this massive enthusiasm, unbridled.

He had this confidence right away. We played him a bunch of songs, and he said, “We’re ready to make a record. Let’s go do this.

I’m excited.” And he wasn’t hung up on “indie” shit. I would say he was only marginally aware of the Hold Steady. And I think that’s a good thing. He was like, “Let’s go make a rock and roll record.” In some ways, from the beginning, The Hold Steady was wary of being an indie rock band, and [wanted] to be a rock and roll band. So I really liked that about Nick. He was like, “Let’s not make an indie rock record.”

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“WE’RE FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS NOW” finn, drake, polivka, kubler, and selvidge.

let’S talk aBout the tranSition within the Band. franz [nicolay’S] keyBoardS were a diStinctive element on Boys and Girls in america and stay Positive, alBumS that puShed you into the Broader conSciouSneSS. then he left, you didn’t replace him, and now you’ve made two alBumS on which there are Barely keyBoardS at all. did you have any anxiety aBout meSSing with a SucceSSful template? Not really.

When you start touring as much as we tour, it becomes obvious that the biggest thing is to get people you love and really like working with, and make the music you can with them. To say there’s an open position and we need to fill it, like a receptionist at a brokerage firm, I don’t think that comes from the right place. When Franz left, it just became like, “What do we do? Who do we want to be with?” Looking back, on Heaven Is Whenever maybe we had less of a good plan going into that. It was like, “He’s gone, let’s just make a record.” Steve started with us on the touring for [that] record, and [Teeth Dreams] is the first one we wrote and recorded with him, and with him and Tad playing guitars together. Steve just fit in really well, and creatively it really happened. Having the two-guitar thing, I think, ultimately, is really cool, the push and pull between those, and it hearkens back to the rock and roll that we really love.

i think people were SurpriSed aBout Steve joining BecauSe there weren’t ma-

ny who thought “what the hold Steady needS iS another guitar.” But you’ve eSSentially Stopped playing. When Steve

started playing with us, we had two big guitars on stage, and I had my little plinky guitar that I just take my hands off most of the time anyway, and it ended up being almost silly. And it was to the point where I couldn’t really hear myself on stage. And so I [thought] maybe I’d enjoy myself more and maybe I’d even sing a little better if I just stopped playing guitar. I still play a little bit, but it frees me up to concentrate more on the vocal performance.

So now you’re more like roBert plant. The producer on this record, on one of the first days we were making the record, said “You know, you remind me of David Lee Roth.”

And I said, “Wow, I’ve never heard that before.” I do like it. And I love David Lee Roth.

Steve came in aS a Second lead player. tad iS a pretty rare creature, a Bona fide indie rock guitar hero. waS it hard for him to make Space for Steve? I don’t

think so. He was the one who was really pushing for another guitar player. I was like, “This Steve guy is something. Are you sure you want to bring this in?” But it allows them to do that back-and-forth thing. Tad had a real vision for what it could be. And Steve brings in this other thing. He’s from Memphis and he grew up in a very musical family in a very musical

place. He was around people like [famed record producer] Jim Dickinson and Alex Chilton as a kid, and his dad was friends with all those people. So he comes from this real musical place, and that kind of injected something into the band, I think a more musical quality and a different way of looking at things. Maybe something that was a little off of the “indie” thing.

it’S hard to know exactly who playS what, But that Solo he playS on “SpinnerS” iS pure hard-rock goodneSS. That’s

the kind of thing where you’re like “whoa.”

We did Letterman’s show the other night, and when he hit that solo, I was watching on TV and I was like, “There we go.”

the production on teeth dreams iS different than on your previouS alBumS. you Brought in nick raSkulinecz, who iS BeSt known for hiS work with more mainStream hard rock and heavy metal BandS like foo fighterS, ruSh, and deftoneS. what made you want to work with him?

We wanted to work with someone new.

We saw him in that Sound City movie that Dave Grohl did, and he came off really well in that. There’s one point where he got almost emotional about the studio, and we liked the vibe in that. So we met him, and he came into the space and said, “Play me something.” We started playing, and all of a sudden, he’s jumping around the room.

He’s over by the drums playing air drums

the Band’S firSt few alBumS were denSely packed with the ongoing StorieS of characterS like holly, gideon, and charlemagne. on the new alBum, though, you mention cityScape SkinS [a fictional Skinhead gang referenced in a few previouS SongS] in the very firSt line, But then thingS get leSS Specific. there are more pronounS than proper nameS. did you Begin to feel Boxed in By telling StorieS aBout thoSe Specific characterS? I remember when I was grow-

ing up, going to buy a Steve Martin album or an Eddie Murphy album, and you put them on and they’re really funny, and then you know the jokes. And then you play them again, and you’re like “eh.” You’re not encouraged to play them a third time.

And I felt like leaving some space for people to put in their own hopes and dreams, and their own interpretations, was ultimately good. Yeah, I was feeling a little boxed in, like “yet another chapter in Charlemagne, Gideon and Hallelujah.” It wasn’t bad, but I wasn’t as excited to do that. I wanted to do something that was more elliptical and a little less specific. And I’m thinking about the great short stories, the [Raymond] Carvers, whatever. Sometimes they’re great because of what they leave out.

Still, i’m curiouS aBout how you plot thoSe StorieS. each alBum almoSt feelS like a new SeaSon of a Serialized televiSion Show. when you’re writing aBout theSe characterS, are you ever thinking Beyond the next alBum toward the ultimate reSolution? Yeah, I kind of have the

ultimate thing in my head. It’s more like I’ve got a Christmas tree, and I’m hanging ornaments on it. These songs sort of support the big picture. So, yeah, I definitely have that. It’s just that I’ve reserved the

in 2012 you did a Solo alBum and tour. did anything from that experience impact the way you work with the Band now?

[The Hold Steady is] a big, loud rock band, and [during] some of the touring for Heaven Is Whenever we were just crushing-loud, and I didn’t feel like I was cutting through, and people were yelling “We can’t hear the vocals!” I thought, “If all I contribute is the lyrics, and I’m out here for months at a time and no one can hear me, what am I doing with my life?” So it was nice to go do something that was quieter, and really cuts through, tell the stories, and when there’s a funny line, people would laugh at the joke. At the same time, you play quiet music and people react, even though positively, they react quietly. And I started to miss people throwing beer up at the stage.

After 10 years in the Hold Steady, that’s how you get your validation. So by the end of the touring I was really excited to come back and make a big rock record. I think that’s mainly the way the solo album affected this record.

tad haS Been candid aBout hiS SuBStance aBuSe while the Band waS making heaven is Whenever and the negative effectS it had on hiS perSonal and creative relationShip with you. did the two of you have to navigate a new path forward in the four yearS Between recordS? Somewhat.

I think the whole thing changed, especially with Steve coming in. [Tad] had to get, obviously, some stuff worked out. And Heaven Is Whenever ended up being kind of a creatively disappointing record. If you look at our set list, we barely ever play anything off of that record. I mean ...that’s not true. We play like three songs from it. So there was kind of a regaining of trust, and making sure someone was going to show up. At the same time, there’s also this whole other thing. We’re running a band creatively, but we’re also running a business. So that has to be negotiated, too. So, yeah, there was uneasy footing.

But I think making Teeth Dreams was a real positive experience and I think we’re firing on all cylinders now.

the main set by a song or two, and then tried to extend the encore. So that puts some more spontaneity in the whole thing.

it SeemS like there aren’t many caSual hold Steady fanS. when you think aBout fanS like thoSe in the unified Scene [an organically-grown collective of hardcore fanS], doeS that Sort of dedicated Support mean Something different to you in 2014 than it did Seven or eight yearS ago? Yeah, it does. For one, some of

the real hardcore fans I’ve gotten to know.

A number of them have crossed into being friends. So that means a lot. I think we’re very aware of their role in this, and how lucky we are to have fans who are just that dedicated. It’s obvious to me that they set the tone for a lot of things. When we started this band, we wanted to build something that was very inclusive. And those are the people who have come to feel very included. That’s very exciting for us.

your ShowS are Such joyful, communal experienceS, and it SeemS like there’S never a Bad one. But there muSt Be timeS when you hit the Stage after a louSy day or during a rough patch in your life. how do you Bring the Same manic enthuSiaSm every night? There are times when I walk

on stage and say, “I don’t know, I’ve got doubt that this can happen.” But I try to lose myself in [the music], and it’s not that hard to lose yourself in it for 90 minutes.

You’re with your friends. Wherever you are, you’re drinking beer, you’re getting to travel, there are people in front of you. You look out and you think, even if it’s not the biggest crowd, these are the people that have been waiting to see you. And that’s flattering and you owe it to them. So to put whatever else aside and play the music and feel it and get a celebratory vibe going is expected and, ultimately, not that difficult.

JOE

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you’ll Be Sharing a Bill throughout the Second half of april with deer tick, who got their Start in providence. they Seem aBout aS cloSe in Spirit to the hold Steady aS any Band currently working. how did you hook up? We played in Ithaca a

‘When we started this band, we wanted to build something that was very inclusive.’

you mentioned the Set liSt. now you have Six alBumS’ worth of Stuff to pull from, and you play 16 or 18 SongS a night. doeS that make it tricky to pull a liSt together and try to pleaSe everyone, or do you juSt try to pleaSe yourSelf?

It’s a balance. We try to hit from each album. And then there’s songs we know that people want to hear, [like “Your Little Hoodrat Friend,”] “Chips Ahoy!” and “Stuck Between Stations.” You try to put those in there. One thing we’ve done, trying to keep it somewhat spontaneous is to map out the set and then come off stage and write the encore on the spot. I guess we’ve shortened

few years back, and I saw them and I’d been hearing good things about them. I thought they were amazing, and I went and got their records. They’re always on tour, so I kept running into [singer/songwriter/guitarist John] McCauley and Ian [O’Neil], the guitar player, in New York, and got to know them, and saw some amazing shows they did, including one on a boat for a friend’s birthday party. And I’ve always thought it would be a great tour. I’m really excited it’s happening. I think John is just a fantastic singer and songwriter, and their shows are also a celebration and they’re really spirited. I love, for a young band, how in touch with great rock and roll they are. They can whip off a Buddy Holly cover. That’s really cool, because rock seems like maybe it’s getting away from people that are younger than me, sometimes, but then you see Deer Tick and you feel like it’s all right. ^

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She’s not to be confused with TV’s girl detective Veronica Mars. This one has a forlorn side, as her story parodies the genre. She’s weary of her omniscient problem-solving knack, commendation plaques from the mayor spilling off the walls of her bedroom, down the hall, and piling up in her garage.

Forlorn eventually amps up into endangered, as reality elbows its way into her world of facile TRUE DETECTIVE Brazil. accomplishments and puts its fists up.

The theme here is the search for selfalways forgetting to bring a flashlight identity, especially after being complato their after-dark sleuthings. Her first cent about a beaming public persona that transformation is during a giddy boy-hundoesn’t match a more conflicted inner life. gry period after she discovers that boys Three years ago, Trinity mounted find her attractive, so detecting no longer Thorne’s The Completely Fictional — Utterly True interests her. Then a life trauma shakes — Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe. This new her into emotional sobriety, so by the bold effort by the company’s acting didn’t closing scene she is the responsible adult, completely hold up for me, seeming to sufwith Veronica meekly settling for being of fer from a shaky structure and abrupt plot use in the safest and most unchallenging changes. For example, we’re not prepared occupation she can find. for a sudden shift when Veronica finds Phyllis Kay is very funny as the girls’ herself in a future where she’s married and camp counselor who nervously pulls a working in an insurance office (arguably, gun on them after Veronica accuses her she is perplexed, too). This is to parallel the of stealing a diamond broach. “I’m not a psychological dislocation people can have bad person,” the thief whines, pointing when they find themselves with adult and unpointing the weapon in spasms of responsibilities but still feel like carefree approach-avoidance conflict. kids. Existential lag time.

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The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Good­ rich and Albert Hackett, is being staged by Ocean State Theatre Company (through April 13), directed by Amiee Turner. The perfectly cast production is affecting, though the adaptation itself is rather bland, the characters one­dimensional.

This version of the play — a revision was staged in 1997 — came to Broadway in 1955, eight years after Anne’s father had her words published in Holland. On the first anniversary of its New York pre­ miere, the play opened simultaneously in seven cities in Germany.

We’re introduced to the story by Anne’s father, Otto (Mark S. Cartier), as he re­ turns right after the war to the Amster­ dam attic where his family was hidden for two years, until they were discovered and distributed to concentration camps.

He confesses to the woman who harbored them, Miep Gies (Sarah Pierce), that he is “a bitter old man.” His reading of the diary that was left there frames the play and, perhaps by the end, his bitterness is lessened somewhat by memories of his daughter’s sweet playfulness.

Our first sight of the Frank family combines mild visual humor with visual shock. They are layered in all the clothes they could wear, since they couldn’t dis­ play their intent with suitcases. But glar­ ing on their coats are yellow Stars of David, which Jews were made to wear so they wouldn’t be accorded ordinary rights, such as riding streetcars. In addition to Anne (Olivia Gesualdi) and her father, the Frank family is filled out by Mrs. Frank (Karen Gail Kessler) and Anne’s older sister Margot (Alexandra Fortin), neither of whom we hear very much from.

Good­natured Mr. Frank used to own the business below the attic sanctuary. He must have treated his workers well, since former employees Miep and Mr. Kraler (Rudy Sanda) endanger themselves by be­ ing his links to the outside. In return for an earlier kindness, Mr. Frank allows the Van Daan family to join them. The impe­ rious Mr. Van Daan (Ethan Paulini) and the flirtatious Mrs. Van Daan (Elise Ar­ senault) can be annoying, bickering over such things as her sentimental attach­ ment to her fur coat. But making up for them, to Anne, is their 16­year­old son, Peter (Brian Roque). After she teases and annoys him for a while, can an innocent first kiss be far behind?

The Franks’ last guest is Mr. Dussel (Tommy Labanaris), a dentist who tells them that Jews are now being shipped to death camps, including Anne’s best friend. He is supposed to stay only a few

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Listings days, but he remains. In character, the self­centered Mr. Van Daan’s reflexive response is to object to increasing their ranks to eight, because having only three ration books is already limiting their food.

Gesualdi provides an animated and self­confident Anne, necessary qualities for such a chatterbox. “I’m going to be remarkable — I’m going to Paris,” she predicts, unaware that she is only half­ right. Though much of Anne’s animosity toward her mother can be chalked up to her age, her stated reasons are shallow when they could have given her a layer of insightfulness. Instead, she complains that when she’s upset her mother asks if she’s constipated.

Although performed well, the other characters are types rather than well­ rounded personalities — good­natured, imperious, flirtatious, self­centered, etc. (see above).

On the advice of its publisher, the best­ selling publication of The Diary of a Young Girl was edited with the consent of Otto Frank to remove some of Anne’s observations about her emerging sexuality and harsh words about her mother. The 1997 revision of the original play by Wendy Kesselman came to New York, with Natalie Portman playing Anne. That version tried to lessen the melodrama of the first production and added such touches as overt references to Zionism and ruminations about a crush on another schoolgirl. I wish we could be seeing the attempt at a grittier, more hon­ est version. Anne, we can assume, would have approved of greater accuracy. ^

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THURSDAY 17

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CHAN’S | Woonsocket | 6 pm | Diane Blue CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | World Premiere GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Open mic hosted by Bob Lavalley GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | Keepher Spudmonkey IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | 8 pm | Betsy Listenfelt JIMMY’S SALOON | Newport | Ocean Mic Night [musicians, poets, comedians, more] KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Open mike with host band Crows Toes LEGION PUB | Cranston | Karaoke hosted by Tommy Tunes LOCAL 121 | Providence | DJ Nook MACHINES WITH MAGNETS | Pawtucket | Sontag Shogun + Blevin Blectum THE MALTED BARLEY | Westerly | Happy & the Moonshine MEDIATOR STAGE | Providence | 7 pm | Open mic hosted by Don Tassone MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 7 pm | NEWS CAFE | Pawtucket | Joshua 2 & the Dark Horse Band

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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

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 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

NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | Dennis

McCarthy Band 133 CLUB | East Providence | 8:30 pm | Rory & the Hounds THE PARLOUR | Providence | Barn Burning + Haunt the House PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | Men With Guitars POWERS PUB | Cranston | Mike & Mark RI RA | Providence | Wicked Awesome Karaoke Contest hosted by Ronnie THE SALON | Providence | DJ Handsome J UNCLE RONNIE’S RED TAVERN | Burrillville | 7 pm | Tony Cerbo

Eyre | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15-$25 advance BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | See listing for Fri

MONDAY 14

THE COMEDY FACTORY with John Perrotta and friends | 8 pm | Legion Pub, 661 Park Ave, Cranston | Free | 401.781.8888 | comedyfactoryri.com

WEDNESDAY 16

MUNCHIE MAYHEM COMIX with Andrew Williams, Ryan Waining, and host Brian Beaudoin | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance

THURSDAY 17

COMEDY THURSDAY 10

A NIGHT FOR HOLLY, a fundraiser

for the Holly Charente Scholarship Fund, in honor of the Marine who was killed in Iraq in 2005, with Stephanie Peters, Rob Pierce, Sarah Blodgett, John Porch, and host Jay Burns | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, 39 Warren Ave, East Providence | $15 | 401.438.8383 | ricomedyconnection. com “A NIGHT OF IRISH COMEDY,” with Mark Shea, John Morris, and Frank O’Donnell, and host John Kelley | The event, which includes a buffet dinner, will raise money for the 3rd Annual James McNally Wilson Irish Music Festival | 7 pm | Murphy’s Law, 2 George St, Pawtucket | $30 | 401.724.5522 | murphyslawri.com/ IMPROV JONES | Thurs + Sat 10 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $5 | improvjones.com

PROVIDENCE IMPROV GUILD

presents Providence Pipes with Piggie Smallz | 8 pm | Providence Improv Guild, 393 Broad St | $5 | improvpig.com BRYAN CALLEN | Thurs-Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 + 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $25-$50 advance | 860.312.6649 | foxwoods.com

FRIDAY 11

COREY RODRIGUES | Fri 8 pm; Sat

8 + 10:15 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $15 | 401.438.8383 or ricomedyconnection.com 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 | olivesrocks.com THE BIT PLAYERS | Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 + 10 pm | Firehouse Theater, 4 Equality Park Pl, Newport | $15 [$10 Sat @ 10 pm] | 401.849.3473 | firehouse theater.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

SPINNATO’S HYPNOTIC HYSTERIA | 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15-$25 advance BRYAN CALLEN | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 12

BILL ENGVALL | 8 pm | MGM Grand at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $35-$60 | 866.646.0050 | mgmatfoxwoods. com IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs BRYAN CALLEN | See listing for Thurs COREY RODRIGUES | See listing for Fri THE BIT PLAYERS | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 13

KATHY GRIFFIN | 7 pm | The Vets,

1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $49.50 + $59.50 | 401.421.ARTS | thevetsri.com COMEDY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $10 J-TRAIN COMIX EXPRESS with Jared Freid, Matt D., and Brendan

THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN | 8 pm

| Comedy Connection, East Providence | $30 IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs PROVIDENCE IMPROV GUILD | See listing for Thurs MAZ JOBRANI | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $28$56 advance

CONCERTS POPULAR THURSDAY 10

HAPPINESS + ANDREW CEDERMARK + CANNIBAL RAMBLERS | 9

pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 | columbus theatre.com JOHN NEMETH & THE BO-KEYS | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $25 advance, $28 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org

FRIDAY 11

CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING + ARBOREA + VILLAGE OF SPACES |

9 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 | columbus theatre.com FURLONG & CARON | 8 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $10 [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic. com THE KENNEDYS + BECKY CHACE | 8 pm | Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell St, Providence | $15 advance, $20 door | 401.273.5678 | bellstreetchapel.org SIMON TOWNSHEND | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $20 advance, $23 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org TEMPEST | 8 pm | Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $13 advance, $15 day of show | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org

SATURDAY 12

AND THE KIDS + WAY OUT | 9 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 advance, $12 day of show | columbustheatre.com THE ASSEMBLY OF LIGHT CHOIR + ALEC K.REDFEARN & THE EYESORES + DEATH VESSEL + THE WHAT CHEER? BRIGADE | 8

pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | Suggested donation $10 [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com BILL STAINES + WS Monroe | 8 pm | Stone Soup Coffeehouse, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 50 Park Pl, Pawtucket | $16 advance, $18 door | 401.921.5115 | stonesoupcoffeehouse. com

THE HONEY DEWDROPS & JONAH TOLCHIN | 7:30 pm | Lily Pads, 27

North Rd, Peace Dale | $15 | musicat lilypads.com

MARJORIE THOMPSON AND CHRIS MONTI | 8 pm | Blackstone River

WEDNESDAY 16

WEDNESDAY 16

7:30 pm | Global Heritage Hall at Roger Williams University, 1 Old Ferry Rd, Bristol | Free | 401.254.3154 | rwu.edu

Leslie and music by Amy Larkin and Max Cohen | 7 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $8 adults, $4 children, $18 families | 401.241.7349 | sandywoods music.com

JAZZ PIANIST AARON DIEHL |

THURSDAY 17

MARK T. SMALL AND DANIELLE MIRAGLIA | 8 pm | Narrows Center

For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $18 advance, $20 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter. org

CLASSICAL

EVENTS THURSDAY 10

SATURDAY 12

NEWPORT GALLERY NIGHT | 5-8 pm | Newport Gallery Night, 76 Bellevue Ave | Free | 401.848.0550 | newportgalleries.org

will perform works by Ives, Mozart, and Shostakovich | 8 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $15$70 | 401.421.ARTS | riphil.org

Apr 11 9 am-8 pm + Apr 12 9 am-4 pm | Wheeler School Gymnasium, 407 Brook St, Providence | Free | wheeler school.org/clothingsale

THE RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC with pianist Robert Levin

THE WEISS-KAPLAN-NEWMAN TRIO performing works by Saint-

Saens, Nobre, Beethoven, Franck, and Ravel | 8 pm | Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA | $20-$55 | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion. org

SUNDAY 13

THE RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA will perform works by Couperin, Beethoven, Poulenc, Villa-Lobos, and Bach | 3 pm | Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School, 677 Waterman Ave, East Providence | Free | ri-philharmonic.org

VIOLINIST ALEXEY SHABALIN AND CELLIST THEODORE MOOK will perform works by Ravel and Kodaly | 2 pm | The Towers, 35 Ocean Rd, Narragansett | $10 | 401.782.2597 | thetowersri.com

THURSDAY 17

DIANA MCVEY & TIANZU ZHOU will perform a program of arias and songs titled “The Many moods of Love” | 7:30 pm | Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA | $25 | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org

DANCE PERFORMANCE FRIDAY 11 + SATURDAY 12

FESTIVAL BALLET PROVIDENCE PRESENTS UP CLOSE ON HOPE | Fri

8 pm; Sat 7:30 pm | Black Box Theater, 825 Hope St, Providence | $50 | 401.353.1129 | festivalballet.com

PROVIDENCE BALLET THEATRE

presents The Magic Box, with an original story and choreography by Eva Marie Pacheco, with original score

by Roger Seitz, and set and costume design by the Magic Box Studio at the Rhode Island School of Design | Fri 7:30 pm; Sat 2 pm | Nazarian Center at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant St, Providence | $30, $20 seniors, $15 students + children | 401.456.8144 | providenceballet.org

PARTICIPATORY

WHEELER SCHOOL’S CLOTHING & MORE SALE | Apr 10 10 am-8 pm +

FRIDAY 11

WHEELER SCHOOL’S CLOTHING & MORE SALE | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 12

THE 8TH ANNUAL GREAT INTERNATIONAL SPRING BEER FESTIVAL with unlimited samplings of

more than 250 beers + food + tutored tastings + music [Northeast Groove + Point Street Bridge] | 1-4:30 pm + 6:30 10 pm | Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin St, Providence | $44 | 401.351.2632 | beerfestamerica. com AN EVENING UNCORKED! | A celebration of food and wine benefiting Rhode Island PBS, with live and silent auctions; international and domestic wines and craft beers; sampling portions of gourmet dishes by local chefs; Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin from America’s Test Kitchen; and more | 7 pm | Pawtucket Armory, 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket | $85 | 401.222.3636 x 0 | ripbs.org

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THE RHODE ISLAND MINERAL HUNTERS’ MINERAL AUCTION |

Preview 11 am-noon, auction 12-5 pm | Community College of Rhode Island, 400 East Ave, Warwick | 401.825.1214 | rimh.us STARS ON ICE presents the US Figure Skating Team, | 7:30 pm | Dunkin’ Donuts Center, 1 LaSalle Sq, Providence | $25-$135 | 401.331.6700 | ticketmaster.com

WHEELER SCHOOL’S CLOTHING & MORE SALE | See listing for Thurs

THURSDAY 17

GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE | The ArtBus travels to 25 galleries, museums, and historic sites | This month’s celebrity guides: Catherine Little Bert, owner of Bert Gallery, and artist Bob Dilworth | 1 Regency Plaza, Providence | Free | 401.490.2042 | gallerynight.infor HIP-HOP SAVED MY LIFE | A Freedom Project Brain Café examining the role of hip-hop in the fight for social justice, featuring Tricia Rose, a professor at Brown University and author of Black Noise and the Hip-Hop Wars, and Case Closed!, Everett’s resident hip-hop company | 7:30 pm | Everett, 9 Duncan Ave, Providence | Free | 401.831.9479 | everettri.org

www.narrowscenter.org

20 minutes from Providence 16 Anawan Street, Fall River MA 02721 (near Battleship Cove) (508) 324-1926 Doors open @ 7pm Show starts @ 8pm (unless otherwise noted)

Nominated “Best Folk Venue 2014” in the Providence Phoenix “Best” 2014 !

Of course, we are so much more!

Rock, Blues, Jazz, World, Comedy, Art….

Thurs. 4/10:

JOHN NEMETH & THE BO-KEYS Nine piece Stax/soul revue!

Fri. 4/11: FRIDAY 11

REHOBOTH CONTRA DANCE with

caller Steve Zakon-Anderson and music by Julie Metcalf, Glen Loper, and Owen Marshall | 8 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | $8 | 508.252.6375 | contradancelinks.com/rehoboth. html

SATURDAY 12

Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $12 | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org PETE FRANCIS OF DISPATCH | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $18 advance, $20 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE with dance leader Linda Nelson and music by Dawn Chung | 7:30-10:30 pm | South Kingstown Land Trust Barn, 17 Matunuck Beach Rd, South Kingstown | $10 | 401.539.3009 | kingstonenglishcountrydance.org

SUNDAY 13

SUNDAY 13

Theatre, 848 Park Ave, Cranston | $65 + $75 | 401.467.7275 | parktheatre ri.com

by the Sunday Night Jammers | 7 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | Free | 508.669.5656

THE BEACH BOYS | 7:30 pm | Park

CONTRA DANCE with caller Linda

INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT PHOTOS

A COMMUNITY DANCE hosted

FILM SATURDAY 12

A WORK-IN-PROGRESS SHOWING OF JANIE GEISER’S “FUGITIVE TIME,” “a multidisciplinary perfor-

mance that integrates performed objects and puppetry with live-feed video manipulations of found, constructed, and collaged elements to form an integrated live ‘filmperformance’ ” | 7:30 pm | Brown University’s Granoff Center for Creative Arts, 154 Angell St, Providence | Free | first-works.org

SUNDAY 13

THE 9TH ANNUAL ROVING EYE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL presents “Private Lives, PUBLIC Actions,” featuring featuring a screening of the documentary The Sharps’

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Listings Continued from p 19 War: Two Americans Who Defied the Nazis (followed by a discussion with Artemis Joukowsky III, the film’s director and grandson of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, and Alexandra and Lydia Joukowsky, their great granddaughters), the recent Academy Award-winning documentary short, The Lady in No. 6, and other short films | 2 pm | Global Heritage Hall at Roger Williams University, 1 Old Ferry Rd, Bristol | Free | 401.861.4445 | film-festival.org/RovingEye.php

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week: Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll, the 1987 film by Taylor Hackford chronicling two 1986 concerts at the FOx Theater in St. Louis celebrating Chuck Berry’s 60th birthday | 6 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org

THE THIRD THURSDAYS SHORT FILM SERIES presents highlights

from the Rhode Island International Film Festival | This month’s theme: “Unique Worlds” | 7 pm | Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley St | Suggested donation $10 | 401.560.0979 | jamestownartcenter.org

THURSDAY 10

POET PETER WATERHOUSE will read from his work | 7 pm | Brown University McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw

SATURDAY 12

THE 3RD ANNUAL WORDS ON THE SQUARE | A celebration of Na-

tional Poetry Month with students from the Poetry Project at Slater Junior High in Pawtucket, hosted

by Providence Poet Laureate Ray Davey | 4 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | Free | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com A. K. SUMMERS will discuss and sign her graphic novel, Pregnant Butch | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | Free | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com THE MAD POETS CAFE, featuring an open mic [7 pm] and featured performer Amber Rose Johnson [8 pm] | Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd | $4 [includes light refreshments] | 401.737.0010 | warwick museum.org

Mary Beth Meehan

Miguel Rosario

A panel discussion on the state of documentary photography Moderated by Marc Levitt of Action Speaks!

Wednesday, April 16th at 7pm /// FREE

5:30 pm | Brown University Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 001, College and Waterman sts, Providence | Free | brown.edu/Facilities/ Haffenreffer/new/calendar.php

“CRIME SCENE ANALYSIS” | A

SATURDAY 12

“THE CIRCULATION OF ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD,” a conference

that will illuminate details about how astronomical knowledge was transferred between different cities, the relationship between “elite” and “popular” astronomy, and the reinterpretation of old traditions by astronomers | 9 am | Brown University’s Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting St, Providence | Free | Go to brown. edu/academics/egyptology for complete details

MONDAY 14

“REEFS, RUBBISH, AND REASON: BRINGING ART AND SCIENCE TOGETHER IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL WARMING,” a talk by author

Margaret Wertheim, whose work focuses on the relationship between science and the wider cultural landscape | 5 pm | Brown University’s Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium, 154 Angell St, Providence | Free | brown.edu/academics/theatre-artsperformance-studies

TUESDAY 15

“INVENTING TRADITION,” a talk

by Dr. Jane Lancaster, who is compiling the first full-length history of Brown University since 1914.

Topics include the origins of some of Brown’s traditions and the role traditions play in creating a community for students and staff | 5:30 pm | Brown University Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 001, College and Waterman sts, Providence | Free | brown.edu/Facilities/Haffenreffer/ new/calendar.php “WRITING INDIA: TWO AUTHORS AND AN EDITOR,” a conversa-

tion with novelist Rana Dasgupta and political scientist and theorist Ashutosh Varshney, moderated by New Yorker editor Jonathan Shainin | A reception and book signing will follow the discussion | 5 pm | Brown University’s Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting St, Providence | Free | brown.edu/initiatives/india/news

TUESDAY 15

WEDNESDAY 16

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

listing for Fri

GOTPOETRY LIVE! | An open mic | 8 Huascar Robles

“AN OLD ART FORM FOR NEW OCCASIONS: TLINGIT TOTEM POLES AT THE DAWN OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM,” a talk by Sergei Kan |

talk by Donna Brandelli, a retired member of the Torrance [CA] Police Department | Part of URI’s Forensic Science Seminar Series | Fri, Wed Fri + Wed 3:30 pm | Pastore Hall at the University of Rhode Island, 51 Lower College Rd, Kingston | Free | chm. uri.edu/forensics/seminars.php

READINGS

FROM THE EDGE: DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY NOW

THURSDAY 10

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his work | 2:30 pm | Brown University McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence | brown.edu/cw PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

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THURSDAY 17

POET CALVIN BEDIENT will read from

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THURSDAY 17

CONTEMPORARY PUEBLO PAINTER MATEO ROMERO will discuss his work,which is influenced by his urban upbringing and his connection to his family’s ties to the Southern Keresan Cochiti people | 5:30 pm | List Art Center, 64 College St, Providence | Free | brown. edu/Facilities/Haffenreffer/new/ calendar.php

“DEFINING UKRAINE: DOMESTIC POLITICS IN THE SHADOW OF CATASTROPHE,” a panel discus-

Meet the artists at our pre-panel cocktail reception at 5:30!

Tickets: $100 / $150 for two RSVP: as220photo.brownpapertickets.com

sion with Dominique Arel, chair of Ukrainian studies at the University of Ottawa; Margarita M. Balmaceda, professor of international relations at Seton Hall University;

Mychailo Wynnyckyi, associate professor of sociology and business, and director of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Michael D. Kennedy, professor of sociology and international studies; and moderator Linda Cook, a professor of political science at Brown | 5 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | 401.863.2809 | watson.brown.edu/ events/2014/defining-ukrainedomestic-politics-shadow-catastrophe

“HYSTERICAL SEIZURES IN ANCIENT GREEK WOMEN: PERSPECTIVES FROM MODERN PSYCHOLOGY,” a talk by Susan Mattern, a pro-

fessor at the University of Georgia | 6:30 pm | Brown University’s Rhode Island Hall, 60 George St, Providence | Free | brown.edu/academics/ classics/news/upcoming-lecturesevents/upcoming-events KEN GLOSS will discuss and appraise rare books [maximum two per guest] | 7 pm | Linden Place, 500 Hope St, Bristol | $10 | 401.253.0390 | lindenplace.org

“MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR GARDEN: PLANTIFUL PROPAGATION,” a talk by Kristin Green, a

horticulturalist at Blithewold and author of Plantiful: Start Small, Grow Big with 150 Plants That Spread, Self-Sow, and Overwinter, | 6:30 pm | Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope St, Providence | Free | 401.467.2700 x 2 | provcomlib. org/locations/rochambeau

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

pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Apr 26: “New Paintings and Body Paintings,” by Ian Gaudreau and Paul Roustan | “Through the Eyes,” new work by Diana Castelleone AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Apr 26: “Generations | 8 Chapters Blooming,” collage and ceramics by Meredith Stern | “The Paper Dolls Project,” with works by Jiyoung Chung, Jacqueline Frole, Holly Gaboriault, and Francoise McAree 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 | Apr 3-30: photographs by Bob Dansereau — 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 — 1140 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through July 2: Clay paintings by Kate Champa

BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm |

Through Apr 19: “Sabbatical Exhibition,” works by Richard Whitten CHARLESTOWN GALLERY | 401.364.0120 | 5000 South County Tr, Charlestown | charlestowngalleryri. com | Thurs-Sun 10 am-5:30 pm | Through June 10: “Made In Rhode Island,” works by Dean Richardson, Willy Heeks, Robert Rohm, Mark Freedman, Amy Goodwin, Kate Huntington, Shawn Kenney, Paula Martiesian, and more 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 | Apr 12-May 25: “Brown University’s 250th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition Part 2,” with works by Sarah Morris, Rob Reynolds, and Taryn Simon DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 134 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown | debloisgallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Apr 27: “Mimicking the Passing of Time,” paintings by Kris Offill and copper sculptures by Jay Catalan DEDEE SHATTUCK GALLERY |

508.636.4177 | 1 Partners Ln, Westport, MA | dedeeshattuckgallery.com

| Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through Apr 27: “Articulated Structure,” paper sculptures by Jane South, interactive sculptures

by Paul Myoda, and drawings by Jacqueline Ott GALLERY AT CITY HALL | 401.421.7740 | 25 Dorrance St, Providence | Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4 pm | Through May 12: “Quilted Together: Art & Community Well-Being,” a group show spotlighting the Recovery Quilt Project and Sojourner House’s Voices Unfold project

GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE

| 401.490.2042 | 1 Regency Plaza, Providence | gallerynight.info | Apr 17

5-9 pm: Gallery Night Providence | The ArtBus travels to 25 galleries, museums, and historic sites | This month’s celebrity guides: Catherine Little Bert, owner of Bert Gallery, and artist Bob Dilworth GRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | facebook.com/grinprovidence | Through Apr 12: “nocebo/placebo,” works by Miika Benedetti | Apr 17May 10: “It’s Just Me,” works by Leslie Schomp HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through May 3: “Landscape At the Edge: Contemporary Views,” | with works by Scott Andresen, Deborah Baronas, Michelle Benoit, Sarah Bielski, Jeff Brown, Stephanie N. Bryan, Jerilynn Bush, Luke Buffenmyer, Adrian Deva, Anthony Falcetta, Robin Gibson, Amy Goldsmith, Leah Gose, Catherine Jennings, Ashlee Lambart, David Mangels, Armin Mühsam, Steven Roebuck, Chris Sancomb, Alison A. Smith, Alec Spangler, and Alice Valenti

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 students 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 MACHINES WITH MAGNETS | 401.475.2655 | 400 Main St, Pawtucket | machineswithmagnets.com | Through 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 186 CARPENTER | 186 Carpenter St, Providence | 186carpenter.tumblr.com | Through Apr 18: “Buried Ice,” an interactive art and science exhibit of Antarctica’s Dry Valleys PROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providenceartclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Apr 18: “Two Visions — Deep Nepal & The Road Less Traveled,” works by Philip Lieberman & John deMelim | “Witness,” works by Julia Kiechel | “Assembled, Prints & Wood,” works

by Morris Nathanson 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

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 Apr 24: “RIWS 118th Annual Artist Member Show,” featuring RIWS artists and signature members

SOL KOFFLER GRADUATE STUDENT GALLERY | 169 Weybosset

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

Sun-Fri 12-5 pm | Through Apr 13: “RISD Furniture Graduate Student Exhibition”

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587

Kingstown Rd, Kingston | south countyart.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

URI PROVIDENCE CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Wash-

ington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | Through Apr 30: “Fragments: Portraits of Survivors,” photographs by Jason Schwartz created and circulated by the Florida Holocaust Museum VAN VESSEM GALLERY | 401.835.6639 | 63 Muse Way, Tiverton | sandywoodsfarm.org/vanvessem gallery.html | Through Apr 22: “Cutler + Farrell + Sheehan,” with paintings

by Mark Cutler and photographs by 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 Apr 27: “All Media,” an open juried show WOODS-GERRY HOUSE | 401.454.6141 | 62 Prospect St, Providence | risd.edu/About/Galleries_ Exhibitions/Woods_Gerry | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Apr 11-May 15: “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 | Through Apr 27: “Community In Focus: Photographs and Stories of Olneyville,” an oral history and photo exhibit

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 | Through Aug 3: “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” which explores some of the most vibrant graphic design work produced since 2000, including magazines, newspapers, books, and posters 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES | At Leeds

Theatre, Lyman Hall, 77 Waterman St, Providence | Through Apr 10: El

Grito del Bronx, by Migdalia Cruz | Thurs-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $15, $7 students | brown.edu/academics/ theatre-arts-performance-studies/ performances BURBAGE THEATRE COMPANY | 401.490.9475 | artists-exchange.org |

At thes\ Artists’ Exchange, 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston | Through Apr 19: Doctor

Cerberus, by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa |

Thurs-Sat 8 pm | $12 + $15 [previews Apr 10-12 $10] CONTEMPORARY THEATER | 401.218.0282 | thecontemporary theater.com | 327 Main St, Wakefield | Apr 10-12 [and Apr 25-May 3]: Cloud Nine, by Caryl Churchill | Thurs-Sat 7 pm | $20 Fri + Sat, $15 Sun, Thurs is pay-what-you-can THE COMMUNITY PLAYERS | At

Jenks Junior High School, 350 Division St, Pawtucket | Through Apr 13: Sweet

Charity | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $20, $15 students COUNTER-PRODUCTIONS | At 95

Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | April 11-19: Picasso At the Lapin

Agile, by Steve Martin | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $20 DAYDREAM THEATRE | At the Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell St, Providence | Through Apr 12: Newcastle, written and directed by Lenny Schwartz | Thurs-Sat 8 pm | $10 EPIC THEATRE | At Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe St, Cranston | Through Apr 26: Hurlyburly, by David Rabe | Fri-Sat 8 pm | $15, $12 students GAMM THEATRE | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre.org | 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | Through Apr 19: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare | This week: Apr 10 + 16 + 17 7 pm + Apr 11 + 12 8 pm + Apr 13 2 + 7 pm | $38 + $48 GRANITE THEATRE | 401.596.2341 | granitetheatre.com | 1 Granite St, Westerly | Apr 11-May 4: Old Love, by Norm Foster | This week: Apr 11 + 12 8 pm | $20, $17 seniors, $12 under 13

THE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT

| At the Met School, 325 Public St, Providence | Apr 11-13: A Change Is Gon-

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na Come: the music and social change plays, the culminating performance of the MAP’s Playmaking program, an afterschool playwriting class | Fri-Sat 7 pm; Sun 3 pm | Pay-what-you-can NEWPORT MURDER MYSTERY | 401.848.8200 | newportartmuseum. org | At the Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave | Through Apr 26: Something Wicked This Way Comes | Sat 7 pm | $25, $20 seniors, $15 students + 17 and under

OCEAN STATE THEATRE COMPANY | 401.921.6800 | oceanstate

theatre.org | 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | Through Apr 13: The Diary of Anne Frank | This week: Apr 10-12 7:30 pm + Apr 13 2 pm | $34-$49 OUT LOUD THEATRE | At Mathew-

son United Methodist Church, 134 Mathewson St, Providence | Apr 10-12

7:30 pm: The Most Massive Woman Wins, by Madeleine George | The play explores the topic of body image and is part of the company’s Tour For Social Change | Free

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

220 Weybosset St | Apr 15-20: We Will Rock You, the rock musical featuring 24 Queen songs | Apr 15 + 16 7 pm + Apr 17 + 18 7:30 pm + Apr 19 2 + 8 pm + Apr 20 1 + 6:30 pm | $40-$77

RISD MUSEUM’S CHACE CENTER

| 20 North Main St, Providence | April 13 2 pm: “Calm Assurance and Savage Pleasure,” a performance by Sylvia Ann Soares as artiwt Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, RISD’s first black graduate, featuring entries from Prophet’s 1920s Paris diaries | Free

ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY THEATRE | At the Performing Arts

Center, 1 Old Ferry Rd, Bristol | Apr 11-

26: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, by Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman | This week: Apr 11 + 12 7:30 pm + Apr 13 2 pm | $10, $5 students + seniors 2ND STORY THEATRE | 401.247.4200 | 2ndstorytheatre.com | 28 Market St, Warren | Through Apr 13: Le Dindon or The Dupe, by Georges Feydeau | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm + Sun 2:30 pm | $25, $20 under 22

TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY

| 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com | 201 Washington St, Providence | Through May 4: Veronica Meadows, by Stephen Thorne | This week: Apr 10-12 + 15-17 7:30 pm + Apr 13 2 7:30 pm | $28-$68

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| Apr 17-27: Chicago, by Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, and John Kander | This week: Apr 17 7:30 pm | $20, $15 students THE WILBURY GROUP | 401.400.7100 | thewilburygroup.org | 393 Broad St, Providence | Through Apr 12: Blasted,

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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY | Thurs: 12:45, 9:25 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB | Thurs: 3:55 HER | Thurs: 3:20, 8:55 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG | Thurs: 12:40, 6:20 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE | Thurs: 6 REPENTANCE | Thurs: 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET | Thurs: 12:30, 4, 7:30 FROZEN | Starts Fri: 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20 LONE SURVIVOR | Starts Fri: 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50 THE MONUMENTS MEN | Starts Fri: 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55 RIDE ALONG | Starts Fri: 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:45, 8:55 ROBOCOP | Starts Fri: 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50 GRAVITY | Thurs: 12, 2:05, 4:10, 6:15, 8:20 | Fri-Thurs: 12:40, 2:45, 4:50, 6:55, 9 PHILOMENA | Thurs: 2:15, 4:25, 6:35, 8:45 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 POMPEII | Thurs: 12:10, 2:25, 4:40,

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40-year-old troublemaker (Jason Bateman) takes advantage of a legal loophole to enter a nationwide spelling bee, dragging along a freaky journalist who’s writing a magazine story about him (Kathryn Hahn) and doing his best to corrupt a lonely Indian-American tyke (Rohan Chand) who’s entered in the competition.

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sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) trades that film’s 1940s setting for a contemporary one and its genial tone for a blithe cynicism more typical of Marvel Studios. The convoluted story involves the sabotage of SHIELD — the secret agency of Captain America (Chris Evans) and his superhero peers — by another organization that’s rooted in Nazi Germany. Unless you’re intimately familiar with the so-called Marvel universe (or you really love CG explosions), little of this will resonate; directors Joe and Anthony Russo race through everything but the special-effects set pieces, assuming that fans will compensate for the lack of nuance by drawing on their knowledge of the comic books. The

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this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality.

When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it opposes libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, leo/Aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if 11you can.12But it’s great 8 9 10 13 14 for brainstorming. | For Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 sally@moonsigns.net.

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Here comes the Pink Moon, a/k/a the Egg Moon, the Fish Moon, and the Planter’s Moon, on Tuesday. I love that lunations have different names, depending on the culture. And with lengthening days, many of us will be at our best during this period. Now, some folks are at their best during full moons; others are made extremely uncomfortable during this phase.

What’s your category? Email me at sally@moonsigns.net. It’s always interesting to see which signs are at their best. By the way, the moon rules Cancer, so you crabbies should be claws-up this week!

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