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InsIde ‘the system’; government at Its worst; dylanology Your superior correspondents were

listening to Dan Yorke on WPRO last f Friday afternoon when news broke that

former State Senate President Joseph Montalbano was being nominated for the state’s Superior Court. Immediately, Dan started putting the pieces together. The speculation goes like this: the recent passage of marriage equality was the linchpin for this new development. Historically, the marriage equality issue has been hamstrung in the Senate, where the current president, Teresa Paiva-Weed, was an opponent. Thus, in order to get the bill through, there would have to be some horse-trading among the pols. Although Paiva-Weed voted “no” on the bill, she could have been a lot more of an obstruction. This, we suspect, was where the horsetrading took place. Joe Montalbano, who had a fairly serious ethics charge lodged against him leading up to losing his Senate seat in a major upset back in 2008, was set up to finally get his reward, with the pols hoping that everyone had forgotten about the ethics charges. We have no animus against any of these people, but P&J have a strong suspicion that Yorke has it mostly right. And that is how “the system” works in the Biggest Little. It is also why many knowledgeable people who follow local politics closely are so frustrated and disgusted.

SequeStered again

Phillipe and Jorge didn’t really take the threat of sequestered funding by the federal government too seriously, figuring that it was just another scare tactic being used by DC blowhards to force Obama to look bad. Looks like we were wrong. The latest victim is Save The Bay’s traditional Swim the Bay event from Newport to Jamestown. This year the Navy can’t afford to let participants depart from Coaster’s Harbor Island where the swim usually begins. Instead, in what is now being called the “Sequester Swim,” organizers have set a triangular, 1.7-mile course in the Potter Cove area of the bay, doubtless lacking the majesty of the sight of hundreds of swimmers and accompanying boats crossing Narragansett Bay beneath the Newport Bridge Swim the Bay, which benefits one of the state’s great causes, is the second high-profile event to take a sequester hit this year. The first was the Quonset Air Show, which was canceled after the Blue Angels and other military participants had to bail once their funding was cut. P&J are meeting more and more people who are feeling the effects of the sequester, and they are not amused. And it’s all so that a bunch of clowns and losers in Washington can try to prove their manhood. This is government at its worst, folks.

Celebrating bob

It’s that time of year again when we celebrate the peerless Bob Dylan’s birthday. Although Bob’s actual birthday is May 24, this year’s annual celebration at Patrick’s

Pub on Smith Street in Providence will take place Friday, May 17. As usual, there will be a video, a quiz, and dedications sandwiched around live music performances. “But this year,” organizer Jim McGetrick says, “there could really be something with the addition of a second band, the ZimmerMen.” The event’s regular band, the BusKings, will be alternating with the ZimmerMen,

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THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL

which features Rick Bellaire, Nick DiBiasio and Fred Wilkes. Patrick’s first started having these celebrations in 1998 and the ZimmerMen, according to McGetrick, “have been doing something similar in northern RI for just as long.” Jorge has attended the Patrick’s Pub Dylan fest a few times. It’s a fun night and a must for Bob Dylan fanatics. Be warned, however, that the “quiz” is really,

really difficult. P&J hope to see some of you there.

MaMa’S boyS

Your superior correspondents primarily use Facebook to promote this phony baloney column. But it’s also a good way to keep in touch with friends all over the world whom we haven’t seen in a while. For instance, it’s great way to touch base with former members of Rubber Rodeo, the Mundanes, Talking Heads, Barry and the Remains, and other musical acts whom Jorge used to play with back in the ’70s. This past Sunday was Mother’s Day and, outside of posting the requisite Frank Zappa tune — in this case, “Peaches en Regalia” — we spent a good deal of time checking out old family photos of our friends’ mothers. Many were stunningly beautiful. Jorge’s mother passed away more than 18 years ago and, unfortunately, he doesn’t have the scanning equipment to post any old photographs. (Though he was able to post one of him and his mother that ran in the Other Paper for Mother’s Day, 1984). She — Marjorie Jenks McCrae — was an amazing woman who was very active in Pawtucket communities and held interesting jobs over the years. She was the secretary for Hasbro’s Don Levine, for example, at the time he invented G.I. Joe. To Jorge’s eternal gratitude, Marge also took an interest in genealogy and traced the family roots back to Roger Williams. Being a direct descendant of Vo Dilun’s founder was not something Jorge knew about, though he did know that he was related to Joseph Jenks, the founder of Pawtucket, because, well, that was his mother’s name. Needless to say, Jorge misses his mother terribly. She was the real force of energy that kept the family close. Phillipe was also fortunate enough to have a wonderful mother, whose strength is (still) beyond measure. Widowed at age 34 with a one-year-old, threeyear-old, and a nine-year-old who had just undergone open heart surgery (Phillipe), she soldiered on through her faith and was rewarded by remarrying a marvelous man whom she stayed with for 40 years until his death. She recently suffered a mini-stroke at her Florida home, so this Mother’s Day had special significance, because, while there is no doubt about the love involved, it only takes a scare like that to realize how much she would be missed.

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Nicholas Benson never ested in the digital. I’m a graduated from colhuman. I want the human lege. Instead, after a year in my product. of studying drawing and WHAT CAN TODAY’S COLLEGE design at SUNY Purchase GRADS LEARN FROM MAKand a 10-month tutorial at ING REAL-LIFE, PHYSICAL the Basel School of Design THINGS? When I was down in Switzerland, he came working on the World War home to Rhode Island to II Memorial, everyone on a join the family business. very, very large project like But this hardly means that that [held] a very specific the 2013 class at Salve Regiposition. You have project na University — for whom managers, you have foreBenson will deliver commen, you have sub-conmencement remarks on tractors, you have laborers, May 19, alongside his father and everything in between. and teacher, John — should And rarely do [any of the tune him out as they wait jobs] mix. You don’t get for their diplomas. people who are hyphenBenson is the owner ates. And when I was on and creative director of the that job, I was on the de300-year-old John Stevens sign team, which is the top Shop on Thames Street of the top . . . I am with the in Newport. He has been architect of the job, as a commissioned for inscrippeer . . . then I’m a project tions at the World War II MASTER CRAFTSMAN Benson. manager, which is the next and Martin Luther King step down; I’m a foreman, Jr. memorials in Washwhich is the next step down; and I’m a laborer. ington, DC; the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Four So, it was a really strange thing for other workFreedoms Park in New York City; and the Yale ers to see when I would be talking to either the Museum of Art in New Haven, among others. architect . . . or some of the really big brass and In 2010, at age 46, he received a $500,000 MacArI’d be having intense conversations with them, thur “genius” Fellowship to continue tapping and then I’d turn around and I’d grab a broom and his breathtaking, millimeter-specific designs I’d be sweeping up. They couldn’t understand the into stone. idea that I was involved with every piece of the When I swung by his shop recently to get a process. So, in learning how to make something, preview of his graduation day wisdom, we sat you understand the whole, which is something surrounded by cloth-shrouded hunks of carved that’s really, really valuable today . . . Specializastone, and various planes, brushes, rulers, drill tion has whittled everyone down to these bizarre bits, and mallets. Hanging from a nearby wall little myopic channels of understanding. was a plank of stained dark wood on which Benson’s father had once chiseled — with what his YOU’VE CARVED MANY QUOTATIONS INTO STONE. son described as “level of finish was so otherANY FAVORITES? Absolutely. One of the ones that worldly that it was very, very difficult to wrap I really, really love down on the Martin Luther your brain around the fact that this was a handKing Memorial was, “The ultimate measure of made thing” — the words “PROPORTION IS DIFa man is not where he stands in moments of FICULT.” Throughout our conversation, one of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at Benson’s co-workers tapped away with at a headtimes of challenge and controversy.” stone with a mallet and chisel in the other room. “He hasn’t stopped since you’ve come in,” WILL THERE BE A REALITY SHOW IN YOUR FUTURE? Benson said, gesturing toward the other room I’ve been approached twice by [a production after half an hour. company] to do reality shows. Absolutely not. “Basically, you start carving, and at the end No, it’s ridiculous — the idea of a reality show. of the day you stop carving. And that’s the way it They’re all so ridiculously orchestrated. And of goes. That’s your life.” course the relationship that I have with my cliOur conversation has been edited and ents is sacrosanct. There’s no way in hell I would condensed. have anybody standing over my shoulder with ARE YOU ANTI-DIGITAL? No. I think the computer a camera filming, you know, me and Mrs. Van is an incredible tool. But it’s a tool, and it all deAlen having a deep conversation. So many of my pends on who’s pushing the buttons. So if you go clients [for headstones] are the relations of the into it with a notion that doesn’t have to do with robber barons who were here in . . . the Gilded the digital and you’re not relying on what the Age. We tie into that world quite heavily bemachine gives, skill-wise, and you then force the cause, honestly, they’re the folks who can afford machine to do what you want it to do, you can our work. The work is expensive because, as you produce things that don’t have quite as much of hear the tap-tap-tapping, it takes forever to do. the digital taint. And I say the “digital taint” beAnd also [many of those people are] great friends cause when it comes to the work that I do — like of mine. And a reality show is just throwing all what I’m saying to the graduates [on Sunday] of that right in the trash. — I’m interested in the humanity. I’m not inter_Philip Eil co ur tESy thE mAc Arthur foundA ti on

Brown University’s Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments (MEME) program sits on the second floor of a brick building on Power Street in Providence. Downstairs, you’ll hear pianos trilling, mournful cellos, and other sounds that traditionally float from conservatory practice rooms. Upstairs, it’s zaps, zips, warbles, pings, and electronic groans that early-edition synthesizers emit. “It sounds like tortured whales,” says Chris Novello, sitting in the MEME grad lounge on a recent afternoon. We’re in a room crammed with a mini-fridge, computer screens, glue guns, open bags of pretzels, and a pantry-like closet filled with overflowing plastic bins marked “VIDEO ACCESSORIES,” “1/8” CABLES & ADAPTERS.” Novello — a student in Brown’s electronic writing MFA program and an honorary MEME member thanks to his electronic tinkering prowess — has brought me to meet Jordan Bartee and his new invention: Ming Mecca. The contraption sits on a nearby table, wired to a boxy old television and two first-generation Nintendo controllers. It looks like an open suitcase filled with plastic boards on which all kinds of buttons, dials, and blinking lights have been installed. “If a Nintendo Entertainment System and a recording studio mixing board had a baby,” one video game blog wrote when the machine debuted two weeks ago, “it would look a lot like Ming Mecca.” Bartee — a fourth-year MEME PhD student who created the instrument for his dissertation — describes it as a “reality synthesizer” capable of diving into old-school Mario or Zelda-esque game worlds and molding them like clay. Here in the lounge, he shows what that means. When he twists dials or plugs and un-plugs yellow wires from jacks on Ming Mecca, the glowing red bricks on the screen change from a maze to a checkerboard pattern, then continue to morph into countless other configurations. More flicks of buttons and switches make the humanoid icon on the screen — “DigiMan,” Bartee calls him — change to a flower, then a snake, which zooms around at different speeds. Ming Mecca’s reception in the blogosphere was mostly positive, Bartee says. Sure, some readers spouted off the usual digital snark. (“Everything that sucked about any and all systems/video game pasts, now in one convenient block of crap for you to control!?” reads one comment on the game blog Kotaku.) Others, like the nearly 60 people who have expressed interest in pre-ordering one, were pleasantly intrigued. Novello has an invention of his own that he is preparing to launch this month as well: a bible-sized metal box covered in knobs, buttons, jacks, and switches that plugs into laptops like an external hard drive. It’s called “illucia.” “It’s this way of patching game worlds together,” he says, taking the machine from his backpack and plugging it in to his computer. Classic games that look like Pong and Tetris appear on the screen, then begin to bend and speed up, with balls and blocks spinning off in neon cascades according to Novello’s control. (Last summer, he exhibited illucia at the RISD Museum, where he projected images onto a screen in a process he calls “using a video game to remix paintings.”) A few minutes later, another MEME PhD student, Peter Bussigel, arrives with the contraption that recently won him top prize at the UK’s Improvisation and Digital Arts Festival at Kingston University: the ndial. It is a sleek, turntable-sized contraption covered with — you guessed it — switches, buttons, and knobs. Bussigel cues up a Sade song from his laptop then filters it through the ndial, where he chops up and rearranges snippets of drums and voice by tapping blinking buttons. It sounds like the song has gone through a blender. What is the purpose of all of this? All three machines are instruments of exploration, Bussigel says. “Let go of sense,” he tells me with a smile. “We’re going for some type of nonsense.” I’m not sure whether he’s joking. To learn more go to specialstagesystems.com, illucia.com, and bussigel.com/ pb/projects/ndial/. A ‘REALITY SYNTHESIZER’ the ming mecca.

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WHO Stefanie Silvia, 38 and Kim Pare, 42 WHERE Swansea, MA HOW Stef was one of Kim’s clients at the Providence fitness studio where she

works. On their first date, they went downtown to Union Station Brewery after a workout. That night, Stef says, “I was like, ‘OK, so this is the person I’m going to spend my life with.’ ” THE BACK STORY “I’m a true Rhode Islander,” Stef says. She grew up in Bristol, attended URI, and now works in Providence. And yet when Rhode Island lagged behind on gay marriage, she moved to Swansea with Kim and Kim’s three kids (Cassie, Cole, and Jeremy) so that the couple could legally marry. Then Rhode Island passed the law, and wedding plans shifted back to the Ocean State. DOLLARS AND CENTS Rhode Island “totally lost our taxes,” Stef says. “Our house tax, everything we would have paid . . . they kinda lost out on us living there. Which is stupid, right?” WEDDING PLANS “I already have the whole wedding planned,” Kim says. It’s going to be in September 2014, on a beach Narragansett. One of Stef’s high school friends is going to DJ, she says, and one of Stef’s cousins is going to make the cake. “The colors are aqua, red, and white,” she continues. “The flowers are going to be gerbera daisies and white calla lilies, which is what we gave each other for Valentine’s Day this year.” “I just want [it] to be at the beach,” Stef says. “That’s all I care about.”

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incoln Chafee made history as he strode down the south steps of the State House on Thursday, May 2. Our Phoenix factcheckers have yet to find another instance when the governor used a dance remix of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” as his entrance music. There was other history made that afternoon, too, of course. With a few whisks of his pen in front of a cheering mass of onlookers, Chafee made Rhode Island the tenth state in the United States of America to legalize same-sex marriage. It was the final step in what one state rep-

resentative called a “legislative steeplechase” — a years-long journey that twisted and doubled back, meandering through committees, marathon testimony sessions, written and re-written bills, and endless lobbying campaigns on either side. And then, with an uncanny swiftness, it became a law, sealed with “Chapel of Love” sung by the Providence Gay Men’s Chorus and a front page Providence Journal photo of Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox kissing his long-time partner, Marcus, on the lips. The law doesn’t officially go into effect until August 1, which gives us a moment

to pause before the rice and streamers fly to check in with some of the people whose lives changed that day at the State House. They are state senators, attorneys, hair stylists, physical trainers, former nuns, and retired French teachers. They come from Louisville and Burrillville, Silver Spring and South Providence. They are 23, 33, 42, 53, 65, and 72 years old. They grew up in strict Catholic or born-again Christian households. They are Rhode Islanders who, for the first time in the state’s history, will be legally allowed to marry within the state’s boundaries. Here are a few of their stories.

WHO Josephine O’Connell, 72 and Maryellen Butke, 52

WHERE Providence HOW For 25 years, Josephine was

a nun. Then she met Maryellen, a social worker volunteering at the Chapel of St. Francis, where Josephine worked on a food program. “So Maryellen started coming and we started hanging out together,” she says. “After a little while I thought, ‘Twentyfive years, that’s good! I did a good job! I did good work.’ ”She laughs and pantomimes wiping her hands, as if finishing a task, as she tells the story. THEIR SON, THEIR STAR Maryellen (a former candidate for state senate), and Josephine were wellknown fighters and fundraisers for same-sex marriage in Rhode Island, but not quite as famous as their sixth-grade son, Matthew. There have been more than 105,000 views of the YouTube video of his testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “If there is one thing you don’t mess with in life, it’s love,” he says during the speech. “My parents — and all the other gay and lesbian people here — just want to be happy, just like you. All they want is to be treated fairly. Unlike most of you, they have to come here again, year after year, and explain over and over why their love is equal to yours. This year, you have the opportunity to change that. I say, choose love.”

WHO Derick Gough, 26 and Kyle Willis, 23 (with their dogs, Lily and Meko) WHERE Central Falls, via Warwick (Derick) and Burrillville (Kyle) HOW “Good ol’ social networking,” Derick says.

He first saw Kyle out at the Alley Cat in Providence, then messaged him the next day on Facebook. Their first date was a trip to see A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. “We haven’t been apart since then,” says Kyle. THE PROPOSAL “I went out shopping for a ring and then decided to do it on Valentine’s Day,” Derick says. “I ran around, went and got roses, cleaned the whole house, put on a suit. And then [when] he came home I had every candle in the world lit, rose petals going down the hallway.” When Kyle walked through the door, Derick was waiting on one knee. WEDDING PLANS Kyle has been dreaming of his wedding even before Derick came along, he says with a laugh. His vision? Plenty of guests, a mansion in Newport or Warwick, both grooms decked out in designer tuxedoes. “I know that I want to change jackets from ceremony to reception,” he says. “We’re probably going to wear white jackets during the ceremony, and then we’ll switch to black.”

WHO Donna Nesselbush, 50 and Kelly

WHO Emily Douglas [left], 35 and Steph-

anie Storch [right], 33 WHERE Providence, via Louisville, KY (Emily) and Saratoga Springs, NY (Stephanie) THE SHORT STORY These two Rhode Island transplants met at Scarborough Beach last summer. By November, they were engaged. WHEN THE LAW PASSED “I had some of my friends on speakerphone because they were trying to stream from work,” Emily says, “and I had my TV turned up as loud as possible and . . . all the senators were talking and then suddenly it was, ‘Boom!’ It went to the vote. And then it was over. “And everybody was like ‘What happened?!’ And I [screamed], ‘IT PASSSSED!’ It was just a culmination

of so many hopes. For our entire lives, it was a struggle for both of us to come out. To finally get a little bit of acceptance from the place [where] you live is pretty amazing.” BACHELORETTE PARTY? They know that their friends are planning a joint celebration, but details are murky. Stephanie is crossing her fingers for a Harry Potter theme. WEDDING PLANS A picnic-style feast outdoors at Colt State Park, featuring pulled pork and watermelon. There will be bagpipes during the ceremony and karaoke during the reception. THE HONEYMOON Two days at the Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, followed five days in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Carse, 53 WHERE Pawtucket THE STORY Kelly — a CrossFit trainer in Providence — says she was a bit intimidated by Donna’s resume: state senator, Pawtucket municipal judge, attorney with her own firm. But if she was, she didn’t show it on their first date at the Avery in Providence. Donna remembers Kelly cracking jokes, showing off weightlifting maneuvers, and correcting Donna’s African geography. “I was like, ‘This girl’s got game!’” she says.

THE VIEW FROM THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE The famous marathon ju-

diciary committee hearing was a tough one, Donna says. “As the only openly gay person there,” she explains, “my instinct is I

want to engage with every person who says something that I find offensive and say, ‘Really? You think I’m an abomination?’ I come up here every day, I’ve volunteered for a million different causes, I do my best with my nieces and nephews, and try to live the Christianity that I was taught as a child every day.” But if she had debated with everyone who testified in opposition to the law, she says, the hearing would have stretched for days. “We were there until 5 am as it was!” THE NEXT CHALLENGE? Planning the wedding. Donna wants to invite as many people as possible; Kelly prefers something small and intimate. “I keep making the joke that it is going to be easier to have passed marriage equality than it will be to plan our wedding,” Donna says.

WHO Raymond Beausejour, 65 and Bill Eyman, 72 WHERE North Providence TOGETHER SINCE 1981. “January the 9th at 4:30 pm,” Ray says. WHEN THE LAW PASSED “I cried a lot,” Bill says. “My life passed in front of

me. It never occurred to me that anything like this could possibly happen. And then to have it happen with such beautiful words being spoken by primarily straight legislators, including Catholics, who were saying, ‘I’m a civil servant. That’s my job.’ And especially in the context of other stuff that’s going on in the United States, I thought, ‘Damn, Rhode Island. I love you.’ ” An avid photographer, Ray has shot hundreds of weddings, he says. But he always did so with the sorrow of knowing he could never marry the man he loves. “It was a great sadness, now eclipsed by wonderful, unbelievable joy,” he says. WEDDING PLANS August 1, at North Providence Town Hall, with Mayor Charles Lombardi (they hope) officiating. “I don’t want it to be a gay thing,” Bill says. “I want it to be a North Providence thing.”

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The subject matter delivered by the Cranston West High grad hits home on many levels as he peels back the scabs of numerous life-altering moments across Working Man, including our state’s (ongo“NO GIMMICKS,” prolyphic says, “just me rapping my ass off.” ing) recession, the nightmarish flood of 2010, and his mother’s battle with UK-based producer Buddy Peace gets the call from the SFR leukemia. bullpen. Prolyphic’s personal journals are custom-fitted “I didn’t set out to make a blue-collar concept album, but with Buddy’s lively woofer-shredders (he also crafted that’s eventually what it turned into,” Pro acknowledged. beats for B. Dolan’s House of Bees mixtape series), and the “My wife and I both experienced job losses during the result is nothing short of must-hear material. recession — my wife was laid off twice in one year by two Working Man is bookended with “Stale Bread Winner” different companies,” he said. “It was fucking crazy. parts 1 and 2, but the somber subject matter in between “We couldn’t find full-time work and we were both is complemented by a barrage of unique beats, as Pro college grads, so the feelings of failure, anger, and hopecomes out swinging in double time on the bouncy leadlessness started to set in for me and began to shape the off single “Business As Usual.” Prolyphic documents overall theme of the album,” he continued. “All of these his mother’s battle with leukemia and her pill-pushing socio-economic issues started to make their way into my doctors on “Drug Dealer” (the video features Storm Dawriting — how could it not? vis as a street corner pharmaceutical rep): “My mother “I couldn’t write happy songs when all of this shit was said ‘fuck you,’ honest how it happened/Walked out his going on.” office, hasn’t been back since/Took her life back in her A few days following the hometown show at Fête, Prohands and turned, said she gonna live and die on her lyphic and his wife will officially relocate to Washington, own terms.” DC, where he landed a full-time video production job at “Six Feet High” will resonate with all of us locals, Georgetown University. as Pro recalls the horrific flood of 2010 and how it nearly “In a lot of ways this new album is a dedication to crippled the family business built by his great-grandfaRhode Island, and now I’m leaving — it’s crazy,” Prother more than 60 years ago. His father persevered lyphic said. and rebuilt with the help of friends, family, and “This show is going to be an emotional one for me,” his employees. he noted. “It’s like my going away party.” “I hope this song inspires people — we’re in this shit Prolyphic has been in the public eye for nearly a detogether and if we work together we can accomplish a lot cade. His demo hustle eventually landed him a deal with as a community,” he said. SFR in 2005. White-collar thieves who charge overdraft fees while “Prolyphic and his friends would visit my radio show “holding paychecks ransom” face Pro’s wrath on “Fuck at 90.3 WRIU back in the day,” Sage Francis recalled. Banks,” while the fickle rap game is served notice on “They were just kids at the time, 14 or 15 years old, and “UnPopular Demand” and the killer “Death of the Boomthey wanted to freestyle on the radio. box,” with guests Francis and Metermaids. “He was so shy and unassuming so I didn’t take note “Sage is one of the best hip-hop performers I’ve ever right away, but when I heard his demo tape I was pleasseen, so being able to learn from him has made me a betantly surprised by his skill and wit,” he continued. “It ter all-around artist,” Pro said. was interesting to discover he had so much going on in Francis offered valuable advice awhile back regarding his big ol’ alien head.” Pro’s onstage nervousness and anxiety and “transformFrancis also noted Pro’s continual development in ing it into something I can use in a positive way to give “shaping songs. He is speaking about a lot of difficult back to the crowd. things that he’s been dealing with, but he does it in a “No gimmicks, just me rapping my ass off,” Prolyphway that includes the listener rather than it just being all ic declared. “That’s a guarantee.” ^ about him. “That’s really important and not many songwriters can freak that angle.” SAGE FRANCIS + PROLYPHIC & BUDDY + B. DOLAN + METERFrancis paired Pro with SFR house producer The ReaniMAIDS | Saturday, May 25 @ 9 pm | Fête Ballroom, 103 Dike mator for the acclaimed The Ugly Truth; this time around St, Providence | 401.383.1112 | strangefamousrecords.com

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frockcoats, and top hats as the Western man’s uniform. Out of this London emerges the of Fashion” at the RISD Museum dandy, first in the form of George (224 Benefit St, Providence, through Bryan “Beau” Brummell, who was August 18), a smart, sumptuous remarkable not for ostentatious exhibit, one of the best shows in the decoration but for “his perfectly tairegion this year. lored woolen broadcoat, form-fitting Covering two centuries of men’s buckskin breeches, and faultless crafashion (itself a rare subject for vat,” for the “exceedingly correct,” study), it ranges from an 1820s deep elegant, and restrained cut of his jib. blue early wool coat and pantaloons But dandies really are a sort of to a 2012 three-piece suit made by counter-reformation, refusing to Japanese retail giant United Arrows relinquish some of the flamboyance from fabric depicting Hello Kitty. that defined their forefathers. And Relics on view include Oscar Wilde’s they’re direct descendents of extrava1899 white cotton shirt (his only gantly fashionable 17th century Engsurviving clothing, which remains lish fops of and macaronis of the 18th with us because it was in the launcentury. The line “he stuck a feather dry when he died); Mark Twain’s in his hat/And called it macaroni” white cotton shirt from the turn of in the 18th-century song “Yankee the 20th century; and Fred Astaire’s Doodle” was apparently authored by 1930s tuxedo. English troops to both mock dishevDandyism arose during the era in eled colonial American soldiers and ROYAL FINERY A banyan belonging to which the style of modern Western insult them as girly men. George, Prince of Wales, 1780s. men’s formalwear that continues to As early as 1818, cartoonist Robert this day was established. Manhood Cruikshank caricatured dandies as sisnow required plainer, streamlined suits, more closely sies fainting from their tight corsets. Amidst the new modaligned to male anatomy. The style emerged among royern vision of manhood, dandies quickly came to be defined as als and aristocrats in the rococo years and through the preening, superficial, effeminate, eccentric, vulgar, himbos. revolution in 18th-century France as an antidote to extrav- But for dandyism’s champions, it unified life, art, and elagant confections of velvet, satin, silk, lace, ribbons, and egance, challenged class distinctions, and mocked earnest wigs that reached their apogee in the 17th century under industriousness. “Dandyism is the last spark of heroism,” France’s “Sun King,” Louis XIV. Charles Baudelaire asserted in the mid-19th century. Modern men’s formal wear was then refined by the EngIt’s this dandyism that RISD curators Kate Irvin and lish at the start of the 19th century, drawing on Puritanism Laurie Brewer highlight with 18th- and 19th-century and casual country and sporting attire, to establish trousers, Middle Eastern-inspired robes; a 19th-century seersucker suit; a three-piece tweed suit by Dashing Tweeds designed in 2002 for bicycling. It’s fashion as individualism and rebellion that they showcase via Andy Warhol’s 1960s gray wig, white Brooks Brothers cotton shirts, and paintspeckled Ferragamo shoes; Tom Wolfe’s 1980s Southernstyle cream three-piece suit and cape by New York tailor Vincent Nicolosi; and John Waters’s purple and black suit by Comme des Garcons from the 2000s. Most remarkable is Daniele Tamagni’s 2008 photo of a gentleman in a salmon-colored suit and red bowler strutting down a gritty street in the Republic of Congo’s capital Brazzaville. He’s a Sapeur, short for the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (Society of Ambiance-Makers and People of Elegance), that arose there in the 1960s, mixing bespoke European menswear with hot African colors. It signifies the lifestyle they aspire to and an attempt to rise above the fray of their troubled nation. But it’s also a reactionary move to adopt high European fashion just as Africa was being liberated from European colonial rule. Dandies add color, pattern, and winking playfulness. But unlike women’s fashion, which twists and explodes dress styles, the cut of dandy suits remains pretty uniform through these two centuries, indicating the rigidity of men’s style. The most radical aspect of this metrosexual peacockery remains its gender bending — from femme dudes to ladies like Michael Strange (aka Blanche Oelrichs), Romaine Brooks, Patti Smith, and Diane Keaton dressing in conservative black and white men’s suits. It’s no accident that dandies have been branded as effeminate for two centuries. Dandyism’s prettiness defies traditional machismo. The clothes propose a new definition of the man. ^ TAILOR MADE A Portrait of Auguste Vestris, half length,

man? That’s the question at the f heart of “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men

wearing a Grey Coat and a Fur Hat (1793), by Adèle romany.

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Brown/TriniTy rep MFA’s Romeo and Juliet _ By Bill ro drig ue z The stage is bare bones, this theater-inthe-round surrounding an empty space, but Tilly Grimes’s design sets the last scene apart as removed floor tiles establish a funeral bier. And just as their outer appearances reflect their inner states of being, the sound design by Broken Chord Collective expresses what the characters are feeling. That makes for a brilliant transition for what usually is a problematic moment in

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Somewhere in the caves of France there is probably an undiscovered depiction of the earliest version of Romeo and Juliet. Everything in Shakespeare’s account, one of his earliest plays, is primal and timeless, from the transporting hope of young love to the tragic loss of love defeated. Theatergoers tend to lose track of how many times they’ve seen the star-crossed lovers waltz through their joy and woe, each viewing as pleasantly familiar as a rerun of It’s a Wonderful Life. Well, here’s a treat. A Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA production (through May 19) gives it a refreshing and delightful new spin. Directed by Ryan Purcell, the familiar tale takes on a youthful exuberance, and not just because the cast is young. From music to costumes to inserted interludes of dance and mad poetry, this staging is vivacious. What the iconic lovers show us about wide-eyed dreaming has been transformed into a show. With such touches as wildly striped stockings and colorful band uniform jackets, the costume design by Cait O’Connor establishes characters’ personalities before they speak and reminds us of such after they do. Juliet (Leah Anderson) playfully doffs a quirky chicken-head mask and sports a ragamuffin layered look to indicate the vulnerable selfconsciousness of the very young (she is “not yet 14,” after all). Romeo (Peter Mark Kendall) is in denim. The mercurial Mercutio (Grant Chapman) wears red sneakers and red suspenders over a bare chest throughout.

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_By Bill ro drig ue z Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, his first play besides a three-act sex farce he wrote at 12, is arguably the finest two-person play in American theater — unpretentiously insightful, quietly suspenseful, absorbing. Directed by Matt Fraza, Mixed Magic Theatre is presenting a definitive production (through May 19) that I’d bet my notepad and favorite ballpoint would earn enthusiastic reviews off-Broadway. The set-up couldn’t be more straightforward. Two strangers are having a conversation in New York’s Central Park. Correspondingly, the set couldn’t be more simple: a park bench in front of tall color photographs of its bucolic backdrop. Peter (Rich Morra), who has a highly paid position in the publishing industry, is minding his own business, puffing his pipe, intently reading. Jerry (Tom Chace), wearing a denim jacket, paces back and forth, whistling “Blue Skies” to get the

the play: between the beaming afterglow of Romeo after the balcony scene with Juliet and the following one in the cell of Friar Laurence (Brandon J. Vukovic). To Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” the stage is filled with bouncing revelers joining Romeo in expressing his happiness. Perfect. Kendall’s Romeo is convincingly changeable, by turns earnest and enthusiastic. Anderson takes an interesting approach to Juliet. The young girl is often portrayed as joyful to the point of giddiness, but here she is deeper, thoughtful where the text’s lines that supply that opportunity are usually rushed through. Smart interpretation. Amanda Dolan as Juliet’s Nurse, under

EARnEsT AnD ThoughTFul Kendall and Anderson.

Mixed MAgic’s ABsorBing Zoo StoRy man’s attention. “I’ve been to the zoo,” he repeats in his one-sided banter, until Peter finally gives up and closes his book. Albee wrote The Zoo Story in 1958, and it became an emblem of ennui in the existential ’60s. In 2007, the playwright wrote a prequel that has usually been performed, upon his insistence, as the opening act of a double bill. Homelife is about Peter’s relationship with his wife and ends with his going to the park with a book. It would have been interesting to have had that background understanding of Peter in this Mixed Magic production, but it wasn’t necessary. Without that particular introduction, Morra makes his character an Everyman we can relate to, just minding his own business as he is intruded upon by life. The ordinariness of the situation — who hasn’t been pestered for conversation while reading on a bus or plane? — eases us into Peter’s point of view. The play lasts only about 55 minutes,

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which seem to go by in much less time, like the recollection of a mugging. Which is not to say that Jerry is violent. No, what we experience is more of a psychological mugging. Just as the gunwielding ones often begin with something as casual as a “got a light?,” that’s pretty much how Jerry begins. He says that he usually doesn’t talk to people except to say things like “give me a beer,” or “where’s the john?” or “keep your hands to yourself, buddy.” (Notice how cleverly Albee informs us that this is not a gay pick-up?) But Jerry says that once in a while he takes a stab at conversation. He’s evidently not well-practiced, because after unrelentingly asking Peter about his family and home life, Peter protests that a conversation is not a series of questions. In the tradition that all happy families are the same for the same reasons and all unhappy families are different, we come to understand more about Jerry because there is more of interest to know. “I bet you got TV” is an early line, establishing that he was inadequately educated, at least in grammar, and perhaps also that he’s poor. (He also reveals that he lives in “a laughably small room.”) He comes up with an

a flamboyant peach-colored-flower hat, makes intriguing a normally dowdy character we usually take for granted; a hot Nurse, who’da thunk? Chapman’s frenetic Mercutio is quite a treat, especially with his main monologue. I was already appreciating his Queen Mab speech, where the character spins out a florid fantasy, as Chapman made entertaining a set piece that has always bored me. But then, toward the end of it, as Mercutio is rambling darkly out-of-control, comes a surprising touch: he recites a long, manic stretch from Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, that nihilistic anthem inveighing against “the narcotic haze of capitalism.” Yet another moment of ingenuity. When Juliet is found “dead,” another improvement on Shakespeare has simultaneous lamentations of mourners overlapping as they face away from each other. Their distressed confusion and disorientation couldn’t be better conveyed. Not everything here is on the money. In the performance I saw, the closing scene at the tomb was far too drawn out, breaking the audience’s thread of attention that had so carefully been created. The overly elaborate fight choreography is too labored and trudgingly paced to seem spontaneous. But after all, trying too hard and failing is more admirable than screeching safely to a halt before you reach your limits. Since Romeo and Juliet is probably most people’s favorite Shakespeare tragedy, much of what we hear is familiar. Some expressions will trigger a spark of recognition, such as “parting is such sweet sorrow” and “fortune’s fool!” (Fortunately, the overwrought line “love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs” doesn’t get heard much.) Thank you, Brown/Trinity troupe, for making an old song sound fresh and young. ^

occasional insight, as when he says that as a kid he used pornographic playing cards as a substitute for experience but that adults use experience as a substitute for fantasies. Jerry says that he wants to tell about his experience at the zoo. But by the end we can guess what he concluded there, because he gives us a long, dramatic account of trying to build a relationship with the snarling dog of his landlady. “I learned that neither kindness or cruelty attain anything beyond themselves,” he says, adding that life requires a combination. We learn far more about Jerry than we do about Peter, who remains more a reactor than an actor, in the non-thespian sense. This is understandable, that the comfortably upper-middle-class person would be more withholding — though, ironically, he has less to withhold. By the surprising, but in retrospect inevitable, conclusion, we understand them both all too well . . . sadly. Both Chace and Morra so fully inhabit these characters that, as theater productions always hope, we feel we are eavesdropping in real life. Congratulations, Mixed Magic, on quite a memorable accomplishment. ^

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NEWPORTFILM GREEN SCREEN presents The Last Ocean | Cocktails + light food @ 6 pm, film @ 7 | Casino Theater, 9 Freebody St, Newport | $20 | newportfilm.com

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THE BIG DRAW | “An exploration of the expressive possibilities of mark making,” featuring tape artists, make-a-drawing/take-a-drawing, conversations with artists, figure drawing, food trucks, and more | RISD Museum, 224 Benefit St, Providence | Free | 401.454.6500 | risd museum.org 31ST ANNUAL BIRDS & BREAKFAST | Bird walks every half-hour

from 7:30-11 am, breakfast seatings at 8, 9 + 10 am | Norman Bird Sanctuary, 583 Third Beach Rd, Middletown | $20 advance, $25 door, $5 ages 4-12, free under 4 | 401.846.2577 | normanbirdsanctuary.org

31ST ANNUAL WILCOX PARK GARDEN MARKET FAIR | with vendors

selling annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vegetables, herbs, and garden accessories, plus a children’s corner with garden crafts + food + the Westerly Town Band [2 pm] + more | 10 am-4 pm | Wilcox Park, 44 Broad St, Westerly

“THE ROAD TO HIGH STREET: A BUSKER’S DIGITAL ROCK & ROLL STORY,” a presentation by Andrew

“RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN GRADUATE THESIS EXHIBITION 2013” | See listing for Fri

WEDNESDAY 22

“TAPAS Y TINTO: A WINE AND TAPAS TOUR OF SPAIN” | A benefit

for the Community Preparatory School’s annual fund |Main tasting @@ 6:30 pm [$85; with VIP wine tasting @ 5:30 pm, $150] | Providence Art Club, 11 Thomas St, Providence | 401.331.1114 | communityprep.org

FILM THURSDAY 16

THE RISD FILM/ANIMATION/ VIDEO FESTIVAL will present the

MONDAY 20

“AMERICA’S MUSIC” | A six-week

program featuring contemporary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of 20th-century American popular music | This week, a screening of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley | 6 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 or | provlib.org/americas-music-filmconcert-series THE ARTIST FILM SERIES presents Matisse, a film by Didier Baussy, including an introduction and postscreening discussion with artist and instructor Margaret Owen | 6:30 pm | Weaver Library, 41 Grove St, East Providence | Free | 401.435.1986 | eplib.org

WEDNESDAY 22

THE SPRING FILM SERIES concludes

with People Sunday, a 1930 German silent film which follows the lives of a group of residents on a Sunday afternoon in Berlin during the summer of 1929 | Four Corners Arts Center, 3848 Main Road, Tiverton | Free | 401.624.2600 | fourcorners arts.org

READINGS THURSDAY 16

AMY MCNAMARA will read from,

EST WOMAN IN ART” | A “Lunch

THURSDAY 23

“A GUIDE FOR COMPASSION IN POLITICAL POWER,” a talk by

discuss, and sign her novel, Lovely, Dark and Deep | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | Free | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

GALLERIES

SATURDAY 18

AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St,

ANN DOWNER will read from and

“A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND,” a lecture about Jules Lecler-

SUNDAY 19

“A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND,” a lecture about Jules Lecler-

TUESDAY 21

GOT POETRY LIVE! | 6 pm | Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer St, Providence | $3 | 401.383.8393 | gotpoetry. com/News/topic=23.html

WEDNESDAY 22

PETER CALVERT will read from,

TALKS THURSDAY 16

“A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY OF FINDING A VOICE” | A talk by

“BEYOND EMPIRE STREET: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF PLACE IN PROVIDENCE” | A panel discussion

with Randall Rosenbaum, executive director of the Rhode Island State Council On the Arts; Mary-Kim Arnold, the arts and culture grant programs officer at the Rhode Island Foundation; Lynne McCormack, director of the City of Providence’s Department of Arts, Culture, and Tourism; Umberto Crenca, artistic director of AS220; and moderator Brett Egan, director of the De Vos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center | 5 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org

FRIDAY 17

“GETTING AWAY WITH IT: LUCY TRUMAN ALDRICH’S WEEKEND WITH CHINESE BANDITS” | A

panel discussion with Gloria Jan Masciarotte, senior lecturer at RISD; Jeanine Chartier, executive and artistic director at VSA Arts RI; and Vanessa Gilbert, producer of Brown University’s “Writing Is Live” and former executive artistic director at Perishable Theatre | 5 pm | Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providence athenaeum.org

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“GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: THE TOUGH-

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Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through May 25: new work by Maria DiFranco, Hannah Antalek, Shawn Patrick Duff, and D-Rex AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220. org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through May 25: “Down,” new work by C.W. Roelle | “Narrative & Nest,” new work by Danielle Vogel BANKRI GALLERY | 401.456.5015 x 1330 | 1 Turks Head Pl, Providence | bankri.com | Mon-Wed 8:30 am-3 pm; Thurs-Fri 8:30 am-5 pm | Through June 5: “Collected Fragments,” collages by John deMelim — 137 Pitman St, Providence | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through June 5: “Journey,” paintings by Manette Jungels — 1140 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown

| Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through July 3: “Animal Fantasy,” paintings by Abbot Low

BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | www.ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri

At Brown University’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell St, Providence | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm;

Sat-Sun 1-4 pm | Through June 3: “Freedom,” two- and three-dimensional and mixed media works by the Bruce High Quality Foundation CRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St, Providence | craftland shop.com | Mon-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through June 15: “Peaked,” explorations in paper forms by Matthew Shlian, Doris Häusler, Esther Ramirez, and Rebecca Siemering 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;

Light,” with new works by Jessica Pisano, Arthur Moniz, Bill Massey, Peter Campbell, Alex Dunwoodie, Carol FitzSimonds, David Witbeck, Cindy Wilson, Richard Harrington, Deborah Quinn-Munson, Cristina Martucelli, Del-Bourree Bach, Sarah Stifler-Lucas, Cindy Baron, David Witbeck, Christine Bean, Judith Perry, Jonathan McPhillips, Jeanne Tangney, Marieluise Hutchinson, Kris Donovan, Al Albrektson, Kathleen Weber, Tom Deininger, Patricia Walsh, Mark Fernandez, and Matthew Smith

DORRANCE H. HAMILTON GALLERY AT SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY | 401.341.2981 | Antone Academic Center, Lawrence + Leroy Aves, Newport | salve.edu/academics/ departments/art/gallery | Tues +

Thurs 11 am-6 pm; Wed + Fri 11 am5 pm; Sat + Sun 12-4 pm | Through May 19: “Senior Show,” with works by Dawn Armstrong, Bethany Lopes, Jillian Bartolini, Elizabeth Miniet, Beth Blycker-Koll, Molly Monarchio, Jenna Campbell, Brianna Occhialini, Megan Cassello, Lauren Napolitano, Emilie Rose Clauson, Alicia Purden, Sarah Dupont, Alexandra Rocci, Tanya Hovnanian, and Angela Schneider EXPOSÉ GALLERY | 204 Westminster St, Providence | risdexpose.com | Through May 19: “The Dog & Poiny Show,” a survey of work by RISD students curated by students GALLERY X | 508.992.2675 | 169 William St, New Bedford, MA | galleryx. org | Wed-Sun 11 am–3 pm; second Thurs 5-9 pm | Through June 15: “My Hometown,” a “show for work that tells us something abour your home town or a place where you feel at home” GALLERY Z | 401.454.8844 | 259 Atwells Ave, Providence | galleryzprov. com | Wed-Sat 12-8 pm + by appointment | Through June 1: works by Sharon Cutts, Valorie Sheehan, and Sue Butler HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through June 8: “In Cuba with Witness For Peace,” photographs by Iris Donnelly, Michael Hyatt, and Eliud Martinez IMAGO GALLERY | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imago foundation4art.org | Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through May 25: works by Lenny Rumpler, John Boland, and David Gonville, plus IFA member artists Eileen Collins, Mary Dondero, Rose Esson-Dawson, Lisa Legato, Pascale Lord, Eileen Mayhew, and Linda Megathlin JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestownartcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through June 7: “The Ceramic Spectrum: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics” with works by Chris Archer, Charlie Barmonde, Hayne Bayless, Kate Blacklock, Holly Curcio, Rose Esson Dawson, Tyler Gulden, Chris Gustin, Elizabeth Kendall, Jay Lacouture, Jim Lawton, Chloe Marr-Fuller, Maureen Mills, Hilal Minda, Steve Murphy, Allison Newsome, Matt Nolen, Seth Rainville, and Zach Shaw KRAUSE GALLERY | 401.831.7350 x 174 | In the Jenks Center at Moses

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am-4 pm + by appointment | 8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through May 24: “MB Alumni Exhibit” MAD DOG GALLERY | 401.722.7800 | 65 Blackstone Ave, Pawtucket | maddogartiststudios.com | Mon-Wed + Fri-Sat 12-4 pm; Thurs 12-8:30 pm | Through May 17: glass sculpture by Adam Waimon and works on paper and panel by Deborah Weiss 186 CARPENTER | 186 Carpenter St, Providence | 186carpenter.tumblr.com | Through May 10: “Walking Distance,” new photographs by Scott Lapham | “faint murmurs,” new paintings by Neal T. Walsh | Hours by appointment [carpenter 186@gmail.com, nealtwalsh@gmail. com]

PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE GALLERY | 175 Main St |

pawtucketartscollaborative.org | ThursFri 3-7 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through June 21: “6th Annual Pawtucket Foundation Juried Exhibit”

PORTSMOUTH ARTS GUILD GALLERY | 401.293.5ART | 2679

East Main Rd, Portsmouth | portsmouth artsguild.org | Fri-Sun 1-

5 pm | Through May 19: “Members’ Non-Juried Show”

PRESERVATION FRAMER GALLERY | 508.809.3224 | 16 North

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am-8 pm | Through May 31: “Artists of The Preservation Framer Gallery,” with works by Anatoly Dverin , Ria Hills, Shelly Eager, Kim Weineck, Lindsay Nygaard, Colleen Vandeventer, Karole Nicholson, Donna MacLure, Christina Beecher, Christopher Flanagan, Robin Wessman, Carol Wontkowski, Don Swavely, Galen Cheney, and Krzysztof Mathews

RHODE ISLAND CONVENTION CENTER | 1 Sabin St, Providence | Daily 12-

5 pm | May 17-June 1: “Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Thesis Exhibition 2013,” featuring work in a wide range of media created by the 194 master’s degree candidates

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876

| Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | riwsgallery.wix. com | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through May 16: “Volunteer Committee Show,” works by Susan Klas Wright and Kris Occhino | May 19-June 13: “Portraits and Figures,” an open juried show

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown

Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Through May 18: “Earthworks: Open Juried Clay Annual” | May 23-June 15: “All Media Open Juried I”

URI FEINSTEN CAMPUS GALLERY

| 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5 pm | Through May 31: “The 7th Annual Richard W. and Ronald S. Buteau Memorial PS2013 and the Gift of Art to the State of Rhode Island Exhibit”

WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach

St, North Kingstown | wickfordart.org

| Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm; Sun 12-3 pm | May 17-June 2: “The Blues,” an open juried show

MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF NEWPORT HISTORY | 401.841.8770 | 127 Thames St, Newport | newporthistory.org | Through May 31: “Hearth In Home: Keeping Warm In Early Newport” 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 + military with ID; free under 6 | May 18-Aug 13: “New Works: Constructions of Form and Color by Alexander Zaklynsky” | May 18-Sept 2: “McDonald Wright: Rhythm Flows in the Moment,” an exhibit of photographs | Through May 19: “New-port Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition” 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 19: “Grisgorious Places: Edward Lear’s Travels” | Through June 9: “RISD Business: Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Alejandro Diaz” | Through June 16: “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” | Through June 30: “Double-and-Add,” works by Angela Bulloch, Anthony McCall, and Haroon Mirza | Through July 14: “The Festive City,” an exhibit of rarely seen prints and books that provide a glimpse into the festivals of early modern Europe | Through Aug 18: “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion,” an exhibit drawn from the RISD collection and loans from other national and international organizations and private individuals that celebrates the dandy, tracing the variety of ways in which this personality has blazed through two centuries and investigating where he resides today WARWICK MUSEUM OF ART | 401.737.0010 | 3259 Post Rd |

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Many say that political rhetoric in the mainstream media is dead. NO purports to perform the autopsy. It’s 1988 in Chile, and Americanbacked General Pinochet is facing international pressure — his government’s policy of constant abduction and torture have turned the people against him. His cabinet sets up a plebiscite that will allow citizens to vote “Yes” or “No” on whether Pinochet should remain in power. With half the population frozen by fear and the other half mired in apathy, the regime’s victory seems assured. Enter René (Gael García Bernal), an ad man assigned to help the “No” campaign, which has 15 minutes of TV time nightly to plead its case to the people. The initial videos are painfully solemn, full of statistics, depictions of brutality, and outrage. They’re honest. They’re also, René whines, “a drag.” So René decides to take the politics out of the political programming. He starts broadcasting “We Are the World”–type music videos. He pulls the judges, commentators, and pundits representing the “No” campaign off the air. And he begins to use MTV-style editing techniques, replacing direct messages with abstract feelings. In other words, he stops being an activist and becomes a filmmaker.

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Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki may be celebrated as a fantasist, but he also excels at realistic portraits of early adolescence: in his screenplays for Whisper of the Heart (1995) and this 2011 period piece (directed by his son, Goro), he articulates precisely and sensitively what it’s like to discover adult life. A teenage girl, living in a Tokyo suburb in the early ’60s, befriends the bohemian boy who heads the humanities society at her high school, and Miyazaki defines her coming of age as a process of assuming new responsibilities in personal relationships and in civic life. The film maintains an optimistic tone without succumbing to nostalgia, and as always with Studio Ghibli, the company Miyazaki cofounded in the ’80s, the handdrawn animation is gorgeous.

_Ben Sachs

capsule reviews X THE GREAT GATSBY | 2013 |

The Great Gatsby will always be an unfilmable novel, because most of its drama resides in the space between the characters’ snappy dialogue and their unspoken feelings of ennui, disappointment, and despair. This may explain why, transposed to the screen, Gatsby tends to become the very thing it abhors: a wild, loud party. The hyperbolic director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) is exactly the wrong person to adapt such a delicately rendered story, and his feature plays like a ghastly Roaring ’20s blowout at a sorority house. Leonardo DiCaprio is typically fine in the title role, grasping the deep insecurity that forces Gatsby to worship his lost love, Daisy, from a mansion across Long Island Sound, but Tobey Maguire is too ingratiating to play Nick Carraway, the story’s actual protagonist, who’s enticed by the endless carousing at Gatsby’s mansion but still rooted in the midwestern values the other characters have abandoned as hopelessly passe. With Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton. | 142m |

XXW IRON MAN 3 | 2013 | None of the Iron Man movies has been as good as The Dark Knight (2008), but

their mix of spectacle and droll comedy goes down a lot easier than the other franchise’s thumping Sturm und Drang. One might even argue that their obsession with weapons manufacturing offers as interesting a cultural critique as the surveillance element of The Dark Knight, though the filmmakers have generally backed away from this idea as if it were a live grenade. This installment actually flirts with satire, sending its hero-ina-can(Robert Downey Jr.) on a vengeful mission against a mad, bearded jihadist (Ben Kingsley) before yanking the rug out from under the neocon story line. There are some good laughs as well, most of them involving Downey’s brutal put-downs of cute little kids. Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) directed; with Gwyneth Paltrow, Rebecca Hall, Guy Pearce, and Don Cheadle. | 130m |

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May 22 14 15 16 Waxing moon in Libra, moon void-ofcourse 3:35 am until 4:55 pm when it moves into Scorpio. Chatter and changes are29the theme, particularly for couples. 30 31 32 Can’t decide where to eat? You’re in tune 16 with the moon. Find yourself attracted to someone bad for you in the evening? Ditto. Libra, Scorpio, Gemini, Cancer, Aquarius and 32Pisces: romantic impulses make you dizzy. Leo, Sagittarius and Virgo: consider your options. Secrets could irk Taurus, Capricorn, and Aries.

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May 19 10 11 12 15 Waxing moon in Virgo. A fine13 day for14reviewing your health plan, or exercise regime. 13 16 Also super for14being a 15fussypants. Embrace the26anal-retentive side — and see how 27 28 29 30 31 others do the same, particularly for Sagittarius, 29 Gemini, 30 or Pisces 31 (it will 32come easily). Virgo, Capricorn, and Taurus: look for items or relationships of value, and invest. Libra, Aquarius, Aries, and Aquarius: It may take Moon KeyS you longer than you like to tell a story or unThis horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the derstand an experience. Invest the time.

May 16 7 8 9 10 11 12 Waxing moon in Leo. Fire sign moons prompt excitement, arguments, or “dis20 21 22 23 24 25 cussions,” depending on your perspective. Leo23 moons 24bring opportunities to indulge 25 26 27 28 your childish side or get a radical haircut that shows your fierceness (incredible how Sagittarian Tyra Banks totally coopted that word, isn’t it?). Leo, Sagittarius, Aquarius, Libra, and Gemini: you won’t be happy with the status quo. Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, Scorpio, Pisces, and Cancer: others may try MoNday to snow you. Remind them that’s out of May 20 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 void-of-course 15 16 season. Waxing moon in Virgo, moon 12:46 pm until 1:07 pm when it moves into Friday Libra, sun moves into Gemini. Flaunt ideas, May 17 23 writing, and all communication after31 1 pm, 32 21 22 24 11 25 12 26 27 28 15 29 16 30 8 9 10 13 14 Waxing moon in Leo. People are in a mood when air signs align. Libra, Gemini, Aquarto celebrate absolutely anything. However, ius, Virgo, and Sagittarius: others may be the credit-hogs could be lining up at the surprised at your opinions, but listen to your trough. This25 could make Taurus, Scorpio gut. Aries, Capricorn, and Cancer: stay on 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ,and Aquarius feel squeezed — and not in the fence. Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Pisces: a good way. Leo, Aries, Sagittarius, Libra, are you feeling the urge to merge? Partnerand Gemini: keep your dignity and overlook ship is where it’s at for you. the minions nipping at your heels. Virgo, Cancer, Capricorn, and Pisces: you’ll be Tuesday attracted to folks who need a lot of attenMay 21 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 16 tion. Is this good for you? 9 Waxing moon in Libra. When15the moon is in

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