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phillipe & jorge’s cool, cool world

Stupid criminal move of the week | The Bucket list | Tough times for the home team | Art with a view | The man behind G.I. Joe

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Code Island hacks for the greater good | The commence ment speech we needed to hear Toking up with Doug Benson at Fête; the Feelies return to the Met; and James Montford’s “Black Indians in Space: The Constellation.”

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stupid criminal move of the week a crank call; some bucket history; music, theater, and art tips It’s probably a good thing

that many people who are f a) violent, b) prone to criminal

thoughts, or c) just plain nuts, are also frequently stupid.

A story in Monday’s BeloJo tells the story of a 49-year-old man from Cranston, Andrew A. Calcione, who was contacted by an IRS agent about an investigation into back taxes he owed.

Calcione’s response? He called the agent and left a voice mail announcing he would “show up at the agent’s home and torture the agent, then rape and kill his wife and injure his daughter while the agent watched, before killing the agent,” as the ProJo describes.

Mr. Calcione later called the agent again to tell him to “disregard the earlier message” because it had been “left in error.” Oh, right. Just a simple mistake that you called to threaten to torture and kill a man and his family.

No problem.

As would be expected, the whole thing ended up in court where, on Friday, Mr. Calcione was convicted on “one count each of threatening to assault and murder an IRS agent and threatening to assault and murder the agent’s family.”

Sentencing is scheduled for September 11, with Mr. Calcione facing 20 years in federal prison.

We hope he will stop using his phone until then.

Bucket List

In the history of North America, the city of Pawtucket (aka “The Bucket” and “The Home of the American Industrial Revolution”) looms large. (Yes, the inclusion of the word “loom” is a pun.)

Samuel Slater’s mill on the banks of the Blackstone River is credited with kickstarting many of the economic, political, and cultural forces that, for better or worse, built this country.

Obviously, it hasn’t all been success and glory and, while plenty of inspirational history is celebrated at the historic Slater Mill site in downtown Pawtucket, tragedy and strife are also remembered there. From now until July 31, the exhibit “The Mother of All Strikes: The 1824 Textile Worker Turnout” will be presented at Slater Mill, featuring a combination of labor history and contemporary art. The show details the first organized factory strike in the United States, led by women textile workers who were informed that their pay was to be cut. The events that followed led to a decade of women-led labor actions in New England. This year marks the 190th anniversary of the strike

and, throughout the month of June, there will be speaking programs to accompany the exhibits.

So, if you’re interested in Rhode Island history, labor history, women’s history, or just notso-good-ol’ American history, you ought to head down to the place where the epic story of American industry started.

Kudos to Old Slater Mill Association executive director Lori Urso and the entire Mill staff for their work.

tough times for the home team

It appears to be another long summer for Boston Red Sox fans.

On Monday, the Sox snapped a 10-game losing streak. Meanwhile, to add insult to injury, out on the West Coast, former Red Rox hurler Josh Beckett tossed a no-hitter on Sunday against the Philadelphia Phillies (a doubly tragic turn for Phillipe, who grew

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up in the Philadelphia area and is a longtime Phillies fan on top of being a Red Sox partisan).

It’s a long season, though, so keep your Sox on and hope for a big comeback before the All-Star break.

shake it up

The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater, founded in 1971 by Biggest Little actor and director, Bob Colonna, will present King Henry IV: Part One, at Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence.

Performances start at 8 pm.

Expect a lot of action featuring quarter staffs and “other ninja weapons” and, of course, the amazing Sir John Falstaff (Joe Mecca) in this comic, historical drama. The whole thing is free and runs Thursday through Sunday evenings until June 16. Some seating will be provided, but if you’re planning on attending, you’re encouraged to bring blankets or

beach chairs. (The event is a great picnic idea, too.)

country rock at the parLour

This Saturday, May 31, at the Parlour in Providence (the old Penalty Box for those who need Vo Dilun directions), there will be two great country rock bands: Rhody’s own Biscuit City and Pages of Paul, from Pennsylvania. Also, in a not-so-rare local musical appearance, Jorge (Rudy Cheeks) will be playing with both bands and handling emcee duties.

If you like the sound of the pedal steel, this is the place to be, as there will be two fine pedal steel players in the house: Chris Brooks, playing with Biscuit City, and Mark Tomeo (formerly of Rubber Rodeo) playing with Pages of Paul. Also of interest to local fans will be the involvement of Mike “Secret Asian Man” Tanaka, who will be playing guitar with

Biscuit City, then switching to bass to play with Pages of Paul.

Wear a Stetson if you have one.

art with a view

Earlier this month a new art gallery, Fine Art at Chapel View, opened in Cranston with a gala celebration featuring work by a number of local, national, and international artists and a performance by the Big Nazo troupe. More than 400 people attended the opening (proceeds benefited Doctors Without Borders) and a closing reception is planned for June 12, beginning at 5 pm, with a number of live bands slated to play in the gallery’s parking lot.

For all the folks in the Biggest Little’s large and vital arts community, if you missed the opening, you won’t want to miss this.

the man Behind g.i. Joe

The man chiefly responsible for the creation of G.I. Joe, the original “action figure,” passed away last week. Don Levine was the head of research and development at Pawtucket’s Hasbro toy company; he and his team created the 11.5-inch articulated figure with accessories like guns, helmets, and vehicles, that became one of the most popular toys of the 1960s and the following decades. G.I. Joe originally sold for $4 when it hit shelves during the 1964 Christmas season, according to The Washington Post.

Jorge (Rudy Cheeks) remembers this well, as his mother, Marjorie McCrae, was Levine’s secretary at the time, and she brought home some of the original prototypes for the toy. Jorge was a little too old to be interested but his youngest brother played with these proto-Joes.

Levine was an Army veteran of the Korean War who said that he originally got the idea for G.I. Joe as a way to honor veterans — a thought that resonates at Casa Diablo during this week after Memorial Day. In a press release from Hasbro, the company noted that G.I. Joe’s “influence on the toy industry was profound” and that, Levine’s “work forever changed the way kids play with toys, and in particular helped birth the G.I. Joe brand which has been a part of the American fabric for 50 years.” G.I. Joe spawned comic books, cartoons, two movies starring Channing Tatum, a G.I. Joe Collector’s Club, and an annual convention.

P&J salute Don Levine and mourn his passing. He was 86 and leaves his wife, Nan, three children, and four grandchildren. ^

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“There is only a risk if everything goes wrong.”

This Just In

_DONalD carcieri ON 38 stuDiOs iN 2010

Plugging In

Code Island hacks for the greater good “Are you at a computer?” John Speck says. “Go to localwiki.net/ri.”

As we speak over the phone, Speck — a blogger, tech consultant, and self-described “civic activist” — proceeds to talk me through the process of creating a “Providence Phoenix” entry on Rhode Island’s new LocalWiki page. I click on the “Search or Create Page” tab. I type in the paper’s name and hit “Create This Page.” I add a quick entry: “The Providence Phoenix is Rhode Island’s largest altweekly newspaper.” And, voila, “Providence Phoenix” appears alongside “Brown University,” “Narragansett Bay,” “Pawtucket,” “Providence,” “Seven Stars Bakery,” “Woonsocket,” and a few other entries on the page’s growing list of topics.

The Rhody LocalWiki is a free online resource that Speck has designed to be “a tremendously deep and broad body of knowledge about all aspects of Rhode Island,” he says.

Whether it’s a page on General Ambrose Burnside, Del’s Lemonade, Talking Heads’ origins at RISD, the Naval War College, members of the General Assembly, if it’s a subject relevant to the past, present, or future of the Ocean State — and it passes the muster of editors like Speck, who will monitor the site for accuracy and appropriateness — it’s a welcome addition. It’s “a Wikipedia site specifically for Rhode Island,” Speck says.

But the LocalWiki isn’t just a crowdsourcing

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exercise; it’s also the most visible initiative of Code Island, the recently formed group of which Speck is an active member.

“Code Island”?

Its own Rhody LocalWiki page tells us it is “the Rhode Island Brigade of Code for America,” the San Francisco-based nonprofit that brings techies together to work on civic-minded projects. “In the past, all CfA brigades have focused on a city, like Chicago or San Francisco,” the page continues. “Code Island is the first CfA brigade to work at the state level; we are their test case.”

Further down, the page describes how Code Island has the “support and direct participation of Thom Guertin, RI’s first chief digital officer and leader of the Office of Digital Excellence,” and how, in addition to creating and expanding the wiki, the group is working to increase digital access to RI job training resources, create visualization tools for easy public access to the state budget, crank out a bus-tracking app for RIPTA, and design an app to “help neighbors exchange value-forvalue in ways like shoveling snow or fixing a broken fence,” among other projects.

“It’s sort of like the adult, IT version of Scouting,” says David Johnson, a local engineer and IT guru who serves on a volunteer basis as one of Code Island’s co-captains. The term “hacking” often gets a bad name, Johnson says, and Code Island, among its other

goals, is “taking it back to mean people who develop, innovators, anybody who, for the most part, takes something and . . . pushes the boundaries of what the limitations of that particular design were supposed to be.”

This Saturday marks the group’s first major public event since forming in January: a free, open-to-the-public gathering in Providence as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. There will be plenty of discussion of Code Island’s goals at the meet-up. For example, Johnson is interested in getting his hands on a Google Trekker backpack — a personal version of the Google Street View cameras usually affixed to cars — that volunteers could tote, say, inside the Superman Building or to the top the state’s highest point, Jerimoth Hill, to digitally capture the experience, upload it, then share it with computer users around he world.

But, for now, fleshing out the Rhody LocalWiki is top priority. By the end of the day, Speck says, he’d like to see the list of topics go from about 15 to more than 100. The project is the perfect advertisement for Code Island, he says. “It is highly accessible to anybody, regardless of their code experience,” he says. “All you need to know is basically how to type and use a computer and the Internet and know something about Rhode Island.”

Even folks who don’t end up going to the meet-up are welcome to submit entries, he says. While we at the Phoenix haven’t done much actual wiki-writing (we have a paper to put out, people), we have been enjoying thinking of entry possibilities. How about a page for “New York System Wieners”? “United Skates of America”? “The Pawtucket Red Sox”? “Narragansett Beach?”

And is there a brave, indefatigable soul who wants to take on, “A Complete List of Corrupt Rhode Island Politicians, Past and Present”?

Code Island’s National Civic Day of Hacking “Wikiathon” starts at 1 pm on Sunday, June 1 at Brown University’s TRI LAB (10 Davol Square) in Providence.

For more info, go to: code-island.org or meetup. com/Rhode-Island-Code-for-America-Brigade/ events/183365482.

_Philip Eil

Rant

the commencement speech we needed to hear projectiles. And there probably be the need for something approaching the level of security Harry Potter star Emma Watson employed when she donned a cap and gown to walk with fellow Brown graduates on May 25 in Providence (photos of her gun-toting sidekick and entourage of Secret Service-y looking dudes were widely shared on BuzzFeed).

R IC H A RD Mc CA ff RE y

Rhode Island’s college graduation season is mostly over by now. And, unless RISD dramatically changes plans for its May 31 commencement ceremonies (a keynote is scheduled to be delivered by business consultant, Bruce Mau), Rhode Islanders will not get the speech the state desperately needs.

Now, I’m not out to disparage 2014’s crop of speakers: people like forest ecologist, Nalini Moreshwar Nadkarni (Brown); engineer and autism activist, Temple Grandin (Providence College); author and TED conference founder, Richard Saul Wurman (Salve Regina); or even supermodel-turned-furnituredesigner, Kathy Ireland (New England Tech). But the fact is simple. Right now, the state needs someone to stand up in front of a large crowd and tell us how we collectively landed in this enormous pile of shit called “38 Studios.”

Such an address — whether from a podium, a pulpit, a television studio — has yet to be given in the two years since Rhode Island’s most infamous bankruptcy.

Of course, the logistics of a 38 Studios-focused commencement address would be tricky. There would be protests. There might be

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Hey, DON — everything went wrong.

But the benefits of such a speech would be big.

Is any topic more loaded with educational value than 38 Studios?

History majors might appreciate an argument about how this is our state’s Watergate — a Rhodysized version of what Gerald Ford called “our long national nightmare.” Business majors might benefit from a glimpse at the kind of strings that come attached when a company receives a politicianbrokered infusion of 75 million taxpayer-backed dollars. (Boston magazine’s 2012 feature, “End Game,” memorably describes the tiered hiring quotas built into the 38 Studios deal. “It became a joke,” one employee told the magazine, of the resulting hiring frenzies.

“Oh, you are a VP of lunch? Oh yeah, I’m a VP of doughnuts.”)

Poli-sci majors might be interested in an analysis of how members of the Rhode Island House of Reps voted nearly unanimously to pass the high-stakes bill that allowed 38 Studios to happen, then turned around when the company failed and, with near-identical unanimity, claimed to not know how the law was actually going to be implemented. And, of course, aspiring

PR professionals would benefit from a single, simple lesson: never let a sitting governor tell a reporter, “There is only a risk if everything goes wrong,” as Donald Carcieri told The Providence Journal in 2010.

But commencement addresses, particular in the YouTube/Twitter/ Google era, are never just about the students. And a 38 Studios speech would be delivered to us — the financiers of this disaster. Yes, the last few months have (blessedly) begun to deliver glimpses of the transparency and accountability we all crave. The Secretary of State’s office has — belatedly — enlisted the State Police to investigate potential 38 Studios lobbying violations. Earlier this month, a lawyer for former House Speaker Gordon Fox cited the existence of a wide-ranging grand jury investigation, involving more than 100 subpoenas. Eye-popping documents revealing internal 38 Studios operations continue to dribble out, thanks in part to the dogged work of reporters like Ted Nesi and Tim White at WPRI Channel 12.

But such behind-the-scenes activity, heartening as it may be, isn’t the same as, say, Don Carcieri emerging from hiding to offer a

detailed mea culpa, or Fox explaining why House Oversight inqueries into 38 Studios never really had teeth while he held the gavel, or former Fox confidante and handsomely-paid 38 Studios consultant Michael Corso offering a detailed breakdown of the leaked documents about his ties to the doomed operation. (Example: the 38 Studios headquarters renovation-budget spreadsheet with $25,000 mysteriously earmarked for Corso’s downtown café, Tazza.)

So next year — when, sadly, the 38 Studios meltdown is all but guaranteed to be ongoing — perhaps RIC or CCRI or URI can be convinced to invite Curt Schilling or former Economic Development Corporation executive director Keith Stokes or an executive from First Southwest (the bank Rhode Island is suing for 38 Studios-related fraud, yet has rehired for other state business) to say a few words after the last notes of “Pomp and Circumstance” fade.

What better entrée to the “real world” could grads receive than a clear-eyed account of the shattered state they stand to inherit from the folks who helped to break it?

_Philip Eil

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hen it comes to National Bicycle Month, we at the Phoenix are a bit late to the action. By the time you read this, it’ll be too late to take part in Providence’s Bike to Work Day, the Providence Ride of Silence in memory of riders who have lost their lives in biking accidents, and AS220’s series of forums on bikerelated topics: “Bike Touring 101,” “Post-Car Adventuring,” and “Livable Streets — Rethinking Urban Transportation.”

But we’re OK with all that.

After all, bike season is just getting started. The days are long,

the sun is bright, and the state’s roadways and bike paths — free of ice, snow, slush, and all the other nastiness Mother Nature hurled our way this winter — are as inviting as ever. And for a state as small as ours, the biking options — races, festivals, repairlessons, advocacy meetings, and more — are remarkably bountiful. For your reading pleasure, we’ve corralled as much twowheelin’ info as possible into our first-ever Bike Issue.

But please, for everyone’s safety, don’t read and ride at the same time.

Start pedaling: A two-wheeler’s summer 2014 guide

_By jesse g e ma n

The event includes a vegan dinner prepared by the traveling chef Joshua Ploeg, a movie (either the documentary Aftermass: Bicycling In a Post-Critical Mass Portland, or a selection of short films about bike activism and culture), and a lecture from Elly Blue, author of Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy.

Summer is here, and you know what that means: packs of middle-aged men on expensive carbon-fiber bicycles, sporting tight Spandex suits. Eyes on the road, ladies.

Regardless of your gear, or lack thereof, we think you should be biking this summer, and Rhode Island is the perfect place to do it. Whether you’re an avid rider, or just off training wheels; whether your bike has flat tires and cobwebs, or you have no bike at all, we’ve got you covered.

There’s something here for everyone.

It’s time to ride!

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tHe Fix

ride For a CauSe

Riding a bike is rewarding by itself, but riding to support a good cause is even better. And this summer the Ocean State offers no shortage of causes to ride for.

Coming up on Saturday, May 31 is Bike and BlueS tHe BlaCkStone. Part festival, part ride, this fundraiser for the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor kicks-off at 2:30 pm in Woonsocket with a “festive” 10-mile trip down the Blackstone River Bikeway. The ride ends in Cumberland at the Blackstone River Theatre, where riders will be rewarded with live music and craft beer from local breweries. The event also features a bike parade, an antique bike show, and a guided “twilight ride” to end the night.

Seeking more burn? On June 1, you can ride to stop Diabetes in the tour de Cure, a daylong event with routes ranging from seven to 100 miles. Two weeks later, on June 15, you can bike next to your Dad for up to 25 miles in the elliot kaminitz FatHer’S day ride. The money raised goes to Bike Newport, a nonprofit dedicated to making Newport a more bike friendly place.

For something really ambitious there’s Bike mS: ride tHe rHode 2014, on June 21 and 22. But be ready to work. Billed as the “premiere two-day cycling event in Rhode Island” (never mind it’s the only twoday cycling event in RI we could find), Ride the Rhode offers one-day 100- and 86-mile rides and a two-day 150-miler.

Surprisingly, the event is open to children as young as 12 and the Bike MS website describes the rides as being “easy to moderate.” We won’t hold it against you if you don’t finish.

Later in the season, the sixth annual ride ’round rHody bike-a-thon on August 10 gives cyclists a choice between a 25-mile ride and 75-mile ride. Proceeds go to local cancer treatment.

Finally, for those who plan ahead, there is the Woony river ride on September 20 and the 4 BridgeS ride on September 21. While these two events may not be happening for some time, they’re too good not to mention. The Woony River Ride, a fundraiser for the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, is an event for the whole family — and for politicos. According to the event page, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras “wants to see you!”

The 4 Bridges ride, meanwhile, promises beautiful views as cyclists cruise over the Jamestown Bridge, the Newport Pell Bridge, the Sakonnet River Bridge, and finally the Mount Hope Bridge. All funds go to the Aquidneck Island Bikeway Project.

are you a paCk animal?

You have the bike, you have the Spandex, you’ve even got a GoPro camera (why?).

What you don’t have are people to ride with.

Don’t be ashamed; it’s a common problem affecting adult cyclists. And there is a remedy — in fact, a few. Starting June 4, every Wednesday at 5:30 pm, group rides will be heading out from the daSH BiCyCle’s location on 267 Broadway in Providence. Go to DASH’s website (dashbicycle.com) to add yourself to their “Group Riders” newsletter for weekly updates.

If you’re looking to get out of the city, check out the narraganSett Bay WHeelmen, a bike club tracing its roots back to the Providence Wheelmen of 1879.

Riders of all abilities are welcome to join the club and partake in weekly Sunday

rides. The Wheelmen will take you to every corner of Rhode Island and even into Massachusetts and Connecticut. Check their website (nbwclub.org) for their summer schedule and to become a member.

SpokeSWomen CyCling is a femaleonly offshoot of the Wheelmen. The club, three years strong, boasts over 100 members. They ride every other Saturday, selecting choice routes from the Wheelmen’s repertoire. On their Facebook page the SpokesWomen write, “We’re active, we’re sassy, and we’re irreverent . . . but mostly we’re serious about having fun with a shared passion for cycling!”

For those of you who are looking to ride and then beach (a verb in Rhode Island), Bike neWport hosts weekly Saturday morning rides starting at Miantonomi Memorial Park. The rides range from 12 to 25 miles and they can’t help but be picturesque. Bike Newport also hosts rides every other Sunday sampling the remarkable variety of bike paths available throughout Rhode Island.

get involved

If you’re looking to get involved with bike advocacy, you can. (And you should, because it’s so damn easy.) The providenCe BiCyCle Coalition is a bike advocacy group working to make biking easier and safer in Rhode Island through education, legislation, and bike infrastructure.

They hold monthly advocacy meetings at the Brown Bookstore on Thayer Street in Providence. They also have events, like dinner and BikeS coming up on June 6.

You can fill your calendar with all the rides you want, but without a working bicycle it’ll all be for naught. Of course there are many bike shops to choose from, like legend BiCyCle and providenCe BiCyCle, to name a couple in the Providence area.

But if you’re a DIYer there are options, too, and you don’t have break the bank buying tools. reCyCle-a-Bike (RAB), in Olneyville, offers a space stocked with tools, bike stands, and used parts on the cheap, with in-house “Master Mechanics” there to help. Go during open shop hours for anything from a tune-up to a complete overhaul. They also have a great worktrade program by which you can volunteer time in exchange for parts and assistance building your own bike. And if you have Master Mechanic aspirations yourself, RAB offers bike-building courses. Check their website for details.

In the event that you’re riding around Providence when you realize you have a problem that needs fixing, well, you might be in luck. The City of Providence recently announced plans to install three bicycle repair stations in the coming weeks in areas with high bike traffic: Burnside Park, Roger Williams Park, and Riverside Park. Each station will include wrenches, screwdrivers, and an air pump.

How useful these stations will be remains to be seen, but we like the sentiment.

CyClovia

CyClovía is an export from Bogotá, Co-

lumbia that has been spreading across the country and around the globe. Nope, it’s not coffee, coco, or that other stuff Columbia is known for exporting. Cyclovia — the Spanish spelling is Ciclovía, which literally means “bicycle pathway” — is, as described on the city of Providence’s official website, a “a car-free event that opens the street for people of all ages to walk, skate, run, bicycle, exercise and socialize.”

Providence will host three Cyclovía events: in elmWood on June 29, on Federal Hill on July 27, and on the eaSt Side on September 7.

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Going Dutch: Biking myths, debunked _By jame s ke n n e dy

trips by 1972. In that year, the Oil Crisis and dissatisfaction with rising driving-related child deaths forced a policy change.

Now even rural locations have bike paths.

A “flat earther” is a person

who denies reality as it stares f them in the face. When it comes

to biking, for example, many people suppose that the Netherlands leads the world in bike commuting (one-third of trips nationwide, two-thirds in city centers) because it’s so flat. But David Hembrow of the blog The View From the Cycle Path reminds us that many parts of the Netherlands are hilly; that the flat parts have wicked headwinds, hot summers, and frigid winters; and that flat places elsewhere in the world (Kansas, anyone?) don’t have so much biking — at least not since the days of Ms. Gulch from The Wizard of Oz. Here in Rhode Island, you won’t find too many officials in Providence denyiong the benefits of biking. Instead, local flat-earthers draw on supposedly exceptional qualities of places like the Netherlands in order to justify a stance that we should grow biking by different, more timid, means.

Let’s bridge the gap between rhetoric and action by exposing these excuses.

tHe uS HaS longer CommuteS

Actually, 40 percent of US trips are two miles or less, and the majority of US trips are under five miles. (Rhode Island has a higher proportion of short commutes than even this US average.) The Netherlands? They have the longest commutes of any country in Western Europe. It doesn’t stop them. No one’s saying we all need to bike from Woonsocket to Westerly.

We’d just like to make it possible to do your errands on a bike.

it’S expenSive

Bike infrastructure is among the cheapest to produce. Compare this to the bills we pay to accommodate cars. At more than $30,000 per parking space plus interest, the loan principal for Providence’s proposed Garrahy Judicial Complex garage could pay for enough protected bike lanes to stretch from downtown to Canada’s Yukon Territory. (The most conservative estimate would still get us as far as North Dakota.)

Protected bike lanes in the US have succeeded far more than painted ones in encouraging bicycling, with bicycles accounting for as much as 50

Biking iS elitiSt

US bikers are more likely to be low income than non-bikers, according to a 2014 study. Which brings us to ....

iCk! BikerS are poor!

percent of vehicles on Kinzie Street in Chicago. (Convincing other drivers to bike also creates parking spaces from the existing supply — for free!).

By the way, a 2014 University of Connecticut study found a tax loss of $1200 for each parking spot added to a downtown, since expensive parking projects not only cost a lot up front, but also supplant more financially productive uses of the land, like business growth or housing. The study looked at cities that added parking (e.g., Hartford) and those that capped it (Cambridge, MA). Would we rather be Hartford, or Cambridge? The answer is clear.

it’S not in our Culture

Recent immigrants to the US bike 140 percent as much as Americans, but by the time they get citizenship their biking rate drops to the US mean of 1 percent of trips. In the Netherlands, immigrants bike somewhat less than the Dutch — “only” as much as the third and fourth most bike-friendly countries, Finland and Sweden (11 percent). While certainly this shows that being native to a cycling country affects biking rates, it reveals more about the impressive impact of infrastructure in changing even the entrenched habits of adults.

The Dutch themselves showed this in the 1950s and ’60s, when in an attempt to encourage car growth, they knocked down buildings for parking lots, built highways, and removed biking infrastructure. From a WWII peak of above 50 percent of trips, the Netherlands hemorrhaged 6 percent of bikers per year, to a nadir of around 15 percent of all

Bikers spend more money at local businesses. How can this be true if they have lower incomes? It costs about $10,000 (inflation adjusted) per year to own a car, according to The New York Times, but bicycle upkeep runs around $450. Lower cost of living equals more spending — and not on oil and cars that Rhode Island doesn’t produce.

We’re not denSe enougH

The city of Groningen, Netherlands is the world leader on bicycling, with bikes accounting for 50 percent of trips citywide, and 60 percent in the city center. It has a nearly identical population to Providence, but 50 percent more geographic area, so we’re actually denser.

Biking iS a ConSpiraCy

By College StudentS

Nearby Assen, Netherlands, which has an older population without any colleges, has “only” a 40 percent bike commuting rate, compared to Providence’s, which hovers around 1 or 2 percent. Protected bike lanes are exactly what allow older people, children, and the disabled to bike actively in the Netherlands without fear. In the US, biking improvements have taken off in cities like Portland to such an extent that the city now has a successful program to provide trikes to older adults for whom the balance of walking is a challenge.

In summary, success at biking is easy and cheap, and we know what works. It’s time to take a cue from the Dutch, and make Providence a biking mecca.

For more from James Kennedy on biking, policy, and Rhode Island, head to transportprovidence.blogspot.com or twitter.com/TransportPVD.

not your typiCal Biker gang name | Bike newport launCHed | may 2011 (on Bike to work day, to be exact).

miSSion | “to improve, encourage, and facilitate bicycling in and around newport for the health and wellbeing of our youth and families and as a viable and enjoyable method of transportation for residents and visitors.”

WHat tHey do | a lot. Bike newport runs bike skills and safety classes, organizes group rides, and operates a Bike library, from

driving etiquette tipS From a Bike meSSenger donny green — veteran messenger and dispatcher at Providence’s lone bike-messaging service, dash delivery — wants you to know something: the life of a bike messenger is not like it appears in the 2012 joseph gordonlevitt flick, Premium Rush. “the movie is obviously hollywood,” he says. “For us, it’s not about being daredevils, it’s about being able to organize and get everything done on time. Riding fast isn’t as important as riding smart.” speaking of “riding smart” green wants you — that is, folks riding in those hulking, high-speed blocks of rolling metal we call “cars” — to smarten up, too. Providence, it seems, has a disproportionate number of bike-oblivious (or worse, actively bike-averse) drivers. if more of them abided by green’s Rules of the Road — well, bike/car relations in the ocean state would be considerably less tense. take it away, donny.

1) use your turn signal. you know where you’re going but no one else does. they put that little stick next to the steering wheel for a reason. use it.

2) keep your head up and put your phone down. i’ve learned how to deal with a population of drivers who focus more on their phones then the act of driving. i shouldn’t have to, though. that text message can wait until you get out of the car. everyone will be much safer for it.

3) your main and most important job while driving is to drive. that may sound silly but most people have forgotten the huge responsibility they take on every time they get behind the wheel. cars weigh thousands of pounds, travel at extremely high speeds, and can cause catastrophic damage in a matter of seconds. even a honda Fit weighs more than 2000 pounds; my bike and i don’t even break 200. do your job.

4) don’t tell me to get on the sidewalk. it still amazes me that there are people here who don’t know that bikes have a legal right to be in the road. you may think i’m slowing you down by being next to you, but i’m not. i know the traffic patterns in this town better than almost anybody, and you’re not making it through that next light with or without me here. But that’s not even the point. the road is for both of us, so share it.

5) Step off the gas. continuing with the previous item’s theme: when you do go around me, don’t floor it. i know you want to prove how big, strong, fast, and superior your car is, but you just end up looking like a jerk when i pass you by at the next light.

For more on DASH Delivery, go to dashdelivery.com or facebook.com/pages/DASH-delivery-inc/146694925490374.

_Philip eil

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safety. you might have also seen their mobile bike-powered charging station, which allows folks to pedal their way to a refreshed smartphone battery. oh, yeah, then there was the time in 2013 when they helped more than 800 bikers rack and lock their bikes each day at the newport Folk Festival (see photo, left). this year, they’re preparing for 1000.

mapS | Bike newport’s got ’em. log

which bikes can be borrowed free of charge. they’re also known for raising funds to help newport’s bike-de-

pendent workers get the proper gear they need (lights, helmets, reflective vests, bells, locks) for maximum

on to their website to find maps of aquidneck island criss-crossed with routes that roll past mansions, bird sanctuaries, state parks, beaches, bridges, and, of course, bathrooms. the maps also point out one-way streets, steep grades, and bicycle repair locations.

laurelS | Bike newport is notable not just for its recent outstanding smart growth leader award from grow smart Ri, but for their work securing Rhode island’s first Bicycle Friendly community (BFc) distinction from the league of american Bicyclists. the award, given last november, brought with it a nice bit of historical symmetry: newport was the home of 1880’s inaugural meeting of laB’s predecessor, the league of american wheelmen — an event recognized as the birth of the us bike advocacy movement.

learn more | bikenewportri.org, facebook.com/BikenewportRi, twitter.com/bikenewportri.

_Philip eil

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Providence has a bike “master plan,” but is it any good?

_By zach g R e e n

for Providence — a 73-page plan for improving the city’s bicycling infrastructure, submitted by the transportation development firm Vanasse Hangen Brustlin.

The proposal opens with an assessment of the current state of cycling in our city.

Unsurprisingly, it turns out that if you live and work in Providence, chances are you use a car to get around. A 2006 US Census survey found that 63 percent of our city’s commuters regularly drove alone to work, and less than 1 percent rode a bike.

While that same survey, conducted again in 2011, found that the percentage of bicycle commuters had doubled to 2 percent, those numbers are still disheartening, especially considering the widely acknowledged health, environmental, and economic benefits of choosing a bike as your primary mode of urban transport.

Bike Providence enumerates several of these factors, outlining how states with the lowest incidence of biking and walking also have the highest incidence of obesity, and how car ownership costs the typical US household 18 percent of its annual income. (Interestingly, Bike Providence makes no mention of the obvious — and no less significant — environmental benefits of a strong urban bicycling infrastructure.)

While Providence’s bicycle commuting rate is somewhat better than the national average — 0.6%, according the League of American Bicyclists—we rank well below a number of similarly sized cities. Eugene, Oregon, boasts a bike commuting rate of 8.7 percent; Cambridge, Massachusetts has a rate of 8.5; and Boulder, Colorado

has a rate of 12.1. And given Providence’s relatively small geographic size, the short distances that separate the city’s neighborhoods, and our easy access to MBTA trains connecting us to Boston, Bike Providence suggests the city would be particularly well served if all of us started biking more. mayor To make this happen, Bike Providence proposes a “5E” plan, taveras looking at solutions related to engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement, and evaluation. On the education front, the plan seeks to “debunk the perception that bicycling is a dangerous activity,” citing evidence that, in terms of injuries sustained per hour of activity, bicycling is second in safety only to walking. (Regular bicycle commuters on the city’s “expand the existing bicycle infrastructure West End might reasonably disagree. for every level of cyclist.” But a striking Attempting a left hand turn on a bike aspect of the report is how little infrastrucfrom Westminster Street onto Parade at rush hour is hardly a safe experience). Bike ture there seems to be to improve upon. A Providence advocates adding a bicycle educa- 2012 inventory found a total of 38.1 miles of existing bikeways in the city, the majority tion program in the city’s elementary and of which are identified as “Phase 1 Routes,” middle school curricula, and recommends which include “shared lanes, marked traffic offenders complete bicycle training shared lanes, and paved shoulders.” Bike courses in lieu paying fines. Bike Providence Providence’s own definitions help us parse suggests “intense periodic enforcement those phrases. The term “shared lane” is campaigns” to ensure bicyclists are respecting stop signals and lights, but this somewhat of a misnomer, as it refers to any street where bicycles can legally be recommendation feels particularly impeoperated — basically any road other than rious, as the plan makes so few notes of a highway. A “paved shoulder” is simply a the need to ensure that motorists are also road where the shoulder — that’s the strip adhering to the rules of the road. of road outside the normal travel lane — is Of the five “E’s,” engineering gets the most focus, as the plan stresses the need to paved, allowing for travel by bicycle, but

iS providenCe getting a Bike SHare?

Bikesharingworld.com offers a hypnotic interactive google map listing known or planned bike-sharing programs around the world, from aachen, germany to zhuzhou, china. when visitors log on, they find cities where a bike share program is already underway — denver, Rio de janeiro, Paris, moscow, tel aviv, singapore, and scores of others — indicated by a green icon of a little man riding a bike. cities where programs have been proposed, meanwhile, have a blue question mark hovering over them. such is the case with Providence, Rhode island, where a click on the question mark brings up the message: “agreement in december 2013 for 200 bikes in 20 locations to start.” when we sent over an inquiry to Providence director of sustainability/acting director of Policy sheila dormody for confirmation, here’s what she told us: “through a competitive bid process the city of Providence has chosen [Portland, oregon-based] alta Bicycle share to manage the Providence bike share program. alta has successfully installed and managed bike-sharing schemes in more than 10 cities around america. the proposal is cost-neutral to the city with alta responsible for identifying sponsors of the program and membership and users fees to create a long-term, financially-sustainable system. “the first phase will be 20 stations and 200 bikes, largely concentrated downtown and on college hill,” she continued. “there are also plans for expansion to other neighborhoods if the first phase is successful . . . the program details are still in development, but the plan is to confirm installation details and financing plans in Fall 2014 with the current target of commencing construction of bike stations in spring 2015.” while dormody listed a few reasons why a bike-share’s arrival in Providence is significant (“publicly accessible bikes will provide a healthy and convenient transportation option to our residents, commuters, students, and visitors,” “bike sharing will help us become a more bicycle-friendly city and will attract and retain creative young professionals”), we also reached out to the curator of bikesharingworld.com, Russell meddin for added perspective.

(meddin happens to be the founder of Bike share Philadelphia.)

Bike shares are an “inexpensive, maintenance-free form of public transportation that uses a 19th-century vehicle coupled with 21st-century technology that allows personal mobility to get from point a to point B,” he tells us. “it will afford the users of the system a healthy way to commute, run errands, or just [get] around without having to worry about parking or traffic or having to pay for fuel!” consider us excited.

PostscRiPt: dormody tells us that alta is working with the Providence-based ad firm nail to help nail down (pun intended) a sponsor for Providence’s bike share by conducting a bidding process scheduled for june. “this will be the most prominent naming rights and sponsorship opportunity to come to Providence in many years,” she says. “any interested parties should contact jeremy crisp at nail communications — jcrisp@nail.cc or 401.331.6245.”

_Philip eil

also for parking by car. In urban transportation parlance, a “marked shared lane” is generally known as a “sharrow,” and refers to roads painted with the familiar bicycle and double-chevron icon, designed to indicate that a street is frequented by bicyclists.

These options are the most basic of urban bicycling engineering ideas, and for better or worse, they represent the predominant proposals of Bike Providence. The plan suggests repaving roads, adding street signals and signage, and other ambiguous small-scale improvements like “street furnishings,” and often fails to describe how these solutions will improve Providence’s bicycling environment. At times Bike Providence seems willfully uncreative and uninspired, even as it notes that “experience in the US has shown that most bicyclists prefer riding on separated bikeways such as bike lanes, cycle tracks, or off-road, shared-use paths.”

So why don’t we see more of those in the proposal? The plan suggests it is a question of money: “Major transportation and/or redevelopment projects in the city can provide the opportunity to make large scale improvements to the cycling infrastructure, such as off-road shared-use paths, bike lanes or cycle tracks, but these major projects are usually very expensive and take years of permitting and approvals before construction can begin.”

The plan’s architects have said that Bike Providence is designed to be a “living document” that’s continually open and subject to change. The Providence Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Commission, a group appointed by Mayor Taveras, has regularly taken comment on Bike Providence. And local residents James Kennedy and Rachel Playe have written thoughtfully and extensively about the present and future of bicycling in our city on Transport Providence (transportprovidence.blogspot.com), arguing, for example, that the sharrows proposed by Bike Providence fail to realistically address the needs of bicyclists in the city. “Sharrows represent shared space, and shared space is only appropriate in low-volume, slow-pace areas,” they write.

“There’s nothing wrong with taking small steps forward, but it is wrong to tell people that you’re taking steps forward when you’re treading water.”

When the plan was released last November, an accompanying press release from Mayor Angel Taveras stated, “The master plan will continue to be evaluated as it is implemented and can be updated periodically as conditions and funding sources evolve,” which neither reads as a full endorsement of, nor inspires a lot of confidence in, the commissioned plan.

If Providence is ready and able to become a great bicycling city, then what are the conditions necessary to make that happen? Is it a lack of funds, or a deficit of vision, holding us back?

Bike Providence is available for download via the Greater City Providence blog, at gcpvd.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/11/bike-providence.pdf. c ouRte s y gc Pv d.oRg

Last fall, Mayor Angel Tavares

unveiled the rather redundantly f named, Bike Providence: A Bicycling Master Plan

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editors picks ’ f high times _compiled by lou papineau

friDAY 30 smokin’!

With appearances on Mr. Show, Best Week Ever, How I Met Your Mother, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, you might expect Doug BEnson’s star to have risen a little higher. But the career standup has carved himself out quite the niche online with two hugely popular podcasts. On Doug Loves Movies, he discusses some favorite and failed films with guests both from a studio and live on stage. On his other (video) podcast, Getting Doug With High, Benson does just that — gets high with celebrity guests and talks about whatever comes to mind.

He also starred in Super High Me, a faithful send-up of Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me in which he conducts a series of tests to determine how weed affects his life. Ultimately, Benson is just relatable. He’s a pop culture nerd who unabashedly loves smoking pot. Toke up and join Benson at Fête, 103 Dike St, Providence, at 9 pm | Seats: $18.50 advance, $22 day of show; standing room: $12 | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com

sAturDAY 31 thE BAnD plAYs on

Last year, thE fEEliEs played their first RI show in about three decades. We didn’t have to wait another 30 years for their retrurn:

FridAY | doug benson @ Fête the quintet is bringing its compelling rhythms, jittery riffs, and jukebox full of covers (from Television to the Doors and beyond) to the Met, 1005 Main St, Pawtucket. And don’t bolt for the exit when they say, “Thank you, goodnight” — they returned to the stage seven or eight times in ’13. Showtime is 9 pm | $17 advance, $20 day of show | 401.7229.1005 | themetri.com

thursDAY 5 culturAl clichEs

JAmEs montforD’s “Black

Indians In Space: The Constellation” is an exhibit of mixed-media collages which delve into Native American and African

American stereotypes. “I am acutely interested in and fascinated by the issues raised by the work in addressing false societal constructs — racism as it affects community and environments — and the persuasiveness of myth,” Montford says. “My practice is focused on the deconstruction of stereotyped images as they relate to people of color in the global sense.” He also notes, “I do not see the work as political, but as being more closely related to ‘a conversation’ in its broadest and most inclusive context.”

The show is at Yellow Peril Gallery, 60 Valley St #5, Providence, through July 13 (the opening reception is on June 7 from 6-9 pm) | 401.861.1535 | yellowperil gallery.com

The block is hot!

An ALL-StAr roSter At the hope Street BLock pArtY Last call for the “church of proviDEncE” at Fête, courtesy of Strange Famous records;

$10 gets you a night with mpc pro DurAzzo, dc’s BrokEn clock, local rap duo DirtYf DurDiE, and pvd punks Ask thE DEAD. And head right back there on FridAY (the 30th) for thE silks headlining in the Fête Lounge with torn shorts, thE curtis mAYflowEr, and olD JAck ($10); dial 401.383.1112 for info on both shows. piano-pop pros fAirhAvEn will play the met (401.729.1005) on Friday with thE octoBEr AccorD and thE most DAngErous mEn AlivE (all ages, $12). the good folks at dusk (shoutout to ricky and pat!) have another solid weekend of shows on tap, with lAst onE out and northEAst trAffic leading a solid bill on Friday, and on SAtUrdAY (the 31st) there’s an art/punk benefit gig featuring crust-punk legends DropDEAD with chEm-trAils (ct), pArtY pigs, and the fantastic BlooDphEAsAnt; tix are $10 at the door; call 401.714.0444 for more. Also on Saturday, head to hope Street (near rochambeau and 5th) for the annual hopE strEEt spring Block pArtY, featuring sets from local greats rAvi shAvi, JAY BErnDt, hugE fAcE, AtlAntic thrills, and more, plus plenty of brews and eats and fun activities for the kids, all starting around noontime. on SUndAY (the 1st), start your day with Seekonk’s school of rock at the met for“the Ultimate motown experience”; the show starts at 2 pm with a $10 cover. on WedneSdAY (the 4th), nYc’s intErpol returns to Lupo’s (401.272.5876), while locAl frEight leads the weekly Bluegrass throwdown series at nick-Anee’s (21+ and no cover, 401.861.7290). Looking ahead to next thUrSdAY (the 5th), rock out with JAY BErnDt & thE orphAns AnD hEllBounD glorY at Fête (all ages, $10). _chris conti

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Bottles and Cans and Just Clap Your Hands drink these beers

local pros pick underappreciated brews _b y lou p ap ineau

Enjoying beer is a social endeavor, and during a few recent social endeavors, the topic of underappreciated beers got floated. Then I realized it’s been a year since we asked our ever-evolving panel of local beer savants to weigh in on a topic (it was summer beers/craft in cans 52 weeks ago), so I reached out and asked folks to share their taken-for-granted/readily available/often veteran selections. The next time you’re parsing those tantalizing new offerings, you should mix-a-six and revisit (or finally try) these time-tested (and a few new) brews.

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sam glyNN

oWNer/oPerator, ChomP kitCheN aNd driNks The first that comes to mind is loNg trail ale. Sometimes you just want a solid ale

that isn’t trying to be anything it’s not supposed to be. Perfectly balanced. One of my go-to beers any time of the year. harPooN iPa is one of those beers that gets lost in the shuffle with all the new IPAs and DIPAs coming out. Great hop/ malt balance, floral, and has a refreshing aftertaste that doesn’t ruin your palate.

It seems today everyone is trying to “outhop” one another; sometimes you just want a IPA that is true to the style. Harpoon hits the nail on the head. It’s also one of the most approachable IPAs at 42 IBUs. mayFloWer summer rye: 3.7% ABV, great flavor for a very low ABV beer. The session drinker’s ideal choice, where you get great rye, hop, and citrus flavor without all the booze.

seaN roBiNsoN

CraFt Beer maNager, C&C distriButors 1) smuttyNose FiNestkiNd iPa: A beauti-

fully balanced IPA that really hits the spot for hopheads. Maybe not the most aromatic or complicated IPAs, but this beer really delivers a great balance of citrus flavors and hop bitterness. A number of Smutty’s beers always seem to go unnoticed — Robust Porter, Old Brown Dog, and the entire Big Beer Series in particular. I think this brand is overlooked because of its market

maturity (they started in 1994 and have been in the market since the late ’90s).

2) North Coast Brother theloNious: For me this is the quintessential Belgian Strong Dark Abbey Ale, full of flavor and one of the best interpretations of the style.

3) ViCtory Prima Pils: I can remember trying this for the first time around seven years ago thinking I wasn’t going to like it.

I am traditionally not a German Pils kind of guy. The earthy hop notes are phenomenal on this beer, and with a low ABV and malt bill, this beer is dangerously drinkable. This is still one of my go-to beers for the warm weather months.

I think in this day and age consumers are so drawn to the new releases and new breweries in the market that a number of breweries get overlooked (by myself included). I always look forward to the Stone Enjoy By’s, Founders KBS, etc. releases of the world, but I still tend to go back to old favorites more often nowadays. sierra NeVada Pale ale is a prime example.

diaNe asCeNCao

oWNer, madeira liQuors, ProVideNCe smuttyNose FiNestkiNd iPa: It has a

great citrusy hop flavor, made with a mixture of Simcoe, Centennial, and Santiam.

We love the whole Smuttynose line. The guys on the package remind me of the Bartles & Jaymes wine cooler spokesmen from the 1980s. Don’t make that reference to anyone born after 1975, they have no idea what you’re talking about! rogue dead guy ale: It’s made in the style of German Maibock. Perfect beer, pairs with anything. It’s not just for Halloween. mayFloWer iPa: A big hoppy beer with a smooth, bitter finish. It’s one of my favorite IPAs. Our go-to beer when out and don’t see anything we like is NeWCastle BroWN ale.

The new beers we are excited about besides the ’Gansett Del’s Shandy is the tWo roads road Jam. It’s a raspberry American wheat ale and best ice cold. Also FlyiNg dog’s new offering in the low-ABV category, easy iPa, is pretty awesome!

beer — a crisp Kolsch. It seems like summer beers have been overtaken by the shandy craze, but I love a beer that is true to style and doesn’t require lemons to make it thirst-quenching. I remember drinking Harpoon Summer since it was first introduced (many years ago) and I still have it in my fridge today.

Bill NaNgle

oWNer, the rhode islaNd BreW Bus Stone, Founders, and Dogfish Head seem to have new beers out every week and I feel their roots in the beer world — stoNe iPa, FouNders Porter, and dogFish 60 miNute iPa — get overlooked.

Local stuff: grey sail FlyiNg JeNNy, FoolProoF raiNCloud (one of the best year-round porters anywhere, in my opinion), NeWPort storm iPa (great IPA, never disappoints). As for new beers, kiNg oF the yahd by Foolproof is a beast and it’s great to see an imperial IPA in RI.

mark helleNdruNg

PresideNt & Ceo, NarragaNsett Beer I’m a lager beer drinker to the core, although I do appreciate all the great big craft beers that are coming out.

Prior to launching our Bohemian Pils, I drank a lot of different European-style lagers and PilsNer urQuell really struck me as a great beer. It’s the original pilsner, and it’s really a quality, sessionable lager. Our Bohemian Pils is a hoppier style within the pils family, more of a craft style, but the Pilsner Urquell is a great beer that probably misses a lot of people’s radar because of all of the other choices out there.

NiCk garrisoN

PresideNt & FouNder, FoolProoF BreWiNg ComPaNy I think as a whole, Rhode Island beers are underappreciated. The Ocean State is in the midst of a very exciting craft beer renaissance — there are so many fabulous beers available that are produced right here in Rhode Island.

Unfortunately, it seems that there are still many accounts that would rather serve an out-of-state craft beer, an import, or a domestic lager rather than consider an offering from a Rhode Island craft brewery. Of course, there are many bars that do see the value in marketing locally produced beer, but I think there’s much room for growth and improvement in giving Rhode Island beer the attention and respect it deserves.

I’ve always been impressed by sierra NeVada’s beers . ..not just their popular mainstays, but many of their lesser-known products. For a brewery that has grown to such a large size, the quality and consistency they’ve maintained over the years is quite impressive.

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(75orLess Records), the full-length follow-up to the 2013 EP Rural Introspection Study Group. Expect a packed house in the upstairs lounge at the Columbus Theatre (where the album was recorded) this Friday when Houlihan and his Housemates return to headline their album release party. Fans of Brown Bird, the Low Anthem, Iron & Wine, and Bon Iver should grab a copy of Jack Rabbit Jones ASAP. The album gleams with a stirring, spiritually-inflected sound that well represents the band name on the marquee, as Houlihan explained when we caught up following a particularly stunning performance a few weeks ago at Theatre 82 in Cranston’s Rolfe Square.

“I started off playing solo at open mics and people would often tell me how haunting my songs were, but it also has a spiritual origin whereby the Holy Spirit is often referred to as ‘living within you’ after Christian conversion,” he said. “Our bodies are also called the temple of the Lord, so it just made sense to me that the Holy Spirit haunts your house.”

And while Houlihan remains the SOUL MAN houlihan. lyrical architect, this time around he has assembled an impressive backing House band which includes Stephen Law (mandolin), ruminates over a lost lover. Each of the 13 songs on Jack Vudu Sister’s Amato Zinno (upright bass), Bessie Bessin Rabbit Jones portrays a conversation between the two (accordion/vox), and backup vocals and harmonies from personalities,Jack Rabbit Jones and his evil alter ego King the best in the biz, Allysen Callery.

Amish. The album is meant to be “projected into your “I am really happy for Will — he is one of the sweetmind’s eye, and viewed as a theatrical experience,” the est, funniest, and most wise people I know,” Callery said Jack Rabbit press release notes. after the show. “When he asked me to sing on his new “I initially had a grand scheme to release a small album I was delighted.” comic with it and do an elaborate stage production early Houlihan also enlisted the Columbus Theatre and inon, but as I got deeper into the writing process it became house mixologists (and Low Anthem co-founders) Ben clear that the songs would be cohesive enough to allow Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky. the listener enough room to imagine their own inter“I feel very blessed and fortunate to have worked with pretation,” said Houlihan. “The songs evolved into a Ben and Jeff and the Columbus folks,” Houlihan said. dialogue between two people, one of which has a split “We couldn’t have asked for a more friendly, patient, and personality like a Jekyll/Hyde character, and this creates professional set of engineers.” a messed-up love triangle.”

Prystowsky had nothing but praise for the House that The album opens with Houlihan’s acoustic gallop on Houlihan built. “Will’s voice sneaks up on you, it’s subtle “Mosquito Coast,” where he wraps a well-worn couplet in and intense, and before you know it, he’s jumped into the chorus: “Tell my body not to leave my soul, I’ll grow falsetto and a powerful wave of musical joy washes over up but I’ll never grow old/I’m so tired doin’ what I’m you,” said Prytsowsky via email. “I remember him telling told, breakin’ my back for another man’s gold.” Houlime his journey that led him to music and it was so comhan certainly channels Orbison on standout cuts “Black pelling it inspired me for weeks. His music is charged, Butte” and “Burial Waltz.” In “Jealous Vow,” Houlihan’s not just with an aptitude for words and melodies, but conflicted character vows, “I will have my vengeance on with a deep feeling of soul.” your soul” and is “tortured by rushing winds” on “Pity Westerly/Charlestown native Houlihan decided to once Creek Ravine,” though on “Emerson” he confidently again release his music via Warren-based imprint 75ordeclares that “love can heal our scars.” And it’s no coinLess. Label boss Mark MacDougall met Houlihan through cidence that some of the most beautiful moments occur artist William Schaff at his Fort Foreclosure, where Macwhen Houlihan and Callery are entwined around the Dougall screenprints CD jackets and hosts his “That’s Not mic, particularly on “Little Bird” and “You’ve DisapIncredible” podcast. 75orLess labelmate Callery had also peared” (she will join HTH for the entire performance on been in MacDougall’s ear exulting Houlihan’s music. He Friday). Their rendition of “Ease Your Troubled Mind” at caught a Haunt the House set and was convinced. the Theatre 82 show held the room in total silence. This “Will happily embraced reverb on his vocals, remindsong is absolutely gorgeous. ing me of Jim James and Roy Orbison, while the music “Will is a gifted songwriter and an amazing soul,” was stark, bare, and emotional,” MacDougall told me. commended Callery. “I can’t wait for everyone to hear “When I finally got to speak with him after the show, I his music.” ^ found out how ‘organizationally challenged’ he was, and we agreed to start working together.”

CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE: In last week’s column, the Houlihan’s vivid and stark storytelling is carried by photos of Reziztance, Freddie Black, and Meta P were weary yet warm vocals as his schizophrenic character taken by Jessica Pohl for rhymeCulture.

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The combatants are Orson Welles (Alex Duckworth), once an enormously celebrated director-genius but now only enormous, a far cry from the handsome young man married to film goddess Rita Hayworth; and Sir Laurence Olivier (Church), whose acting prowess is legendary but whose love life badly needs a script doctor.

THE INSPIRATION Welles.

The playwright deliciously imagines what conversations could have gone on when they worked (Valerie Westgate). At 47 she is well past together in 1960. The occasion is Welles the height of her career, which peaked directing Sir Larry in a production of Euin the role of Gone With the Wind’s Scarlett gene Ionesco’s absurdist classic Rhinoceros O’Hara. Leigh is more than volatile, she’s (one by one, townsfolk turn into rhinocerdownright “crazy,” as she cavalierly deoses: fascism metaphor). Also in the play clares more than once, manic-depressive. is co-star Joan Plowright (Allison Crews), As director, Church keeps the action whom Olivier would eventually marry, moving briskly along while giving enough and English theater critic Kenneth Tynan time here and there for the characters to (Nathaniel Lee), who had written of Plowblossom in our imaginations. He is conright’s “agonized inadequacy.” Three cerned that we empathize with them: in years later Tynan would be appointed a hyper-naturalistic touch, on two occaliterary manager for the new Royal Court sions he has Duckworth set knife and fork Theatre, but at this point he was just to a real steak, despite the disadvantage of sucking up to Olivier for such a position having to then chew and deliver lines at (nervously stammering before him), a the same time. striking conflict of interest that goes unreFirst-rate acting makes this producmarked upon in the play. tion, performed in a stark black box, fairly While Welles’s first film, the 1941 masabsorbing. Church gives convincing digterpiece Citizen Kane, had launched him as nity to Olivier, within the ambit of the a 26-year-old Wunderkind, that triumph actor’s sporadic fits of failed confidence. subsequently and increasingly served as As Welles, Duckworth now and then lets an invidious comparison. (“Am I to be reus glimpse a spark of erstwhile genius, but membered for one movie, which I directed his performance is handicapped by a lumpy from my highchair?”) As we meet him fat suit that makes him look like an obese here, he is 45 and has never again come bobblehead doll. As Kenneth Tynan, Lee close to such an accomplishment. Welles makes the obsequious/confident balancing is bitter. The studio withdrew his right act look natural. The Joan Plowright charto make the final cut for his subsequent acter is largely window dressing, but Crews films, he grumbles. Olivier “destroyed me gives the lass class. Vivien Leigh comes into in Hollywood in 1948,” he charges. the story late, like a glamorous Godot everyOlivier disputes that accusation, and one is waiting for, but Westgate provides there is plenty more for them to dispute: an ample burst of fetching charisma. And Acting on stage compared to on film (Olalthough the incidental character Sean is ivier had recently given a well-received merely Welles’s Irish assistant, Andrew Iaperformance as a vaudevillian in John Oscovelli gives him a feisty personality that’s borne’s film The Entertainer). Whether oldfun to see rise and fall. school classical acting is up to the demands Orson’s Shadow is an intriguing little inof modern plays, such as Ionesco’s. Welles terplay play, even if neither of the main has been directing Plowright in a modern characters is particularly important to you style, while Olivier thinks she should come in cultural history. Whether interesting across more like Vivien Leigh. people are celebrities or ordinary folk, The 53-year-old Olivier has an additionlistening and watching them bump and al performance challenge with his martussle for a couple of hours can be instrucriage — another stage — to actress Leigh tive as well as fun. ^

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The challenge of this way of drawing is for it to make it feel dashingly casual, but still acutely observed, not half-assed. Butler’s drawings of a Victorian clock and ancient marble column feel too dashed off. He seems to be stretching to add weight to drawings of old machinery by adding pastel to his usual pen, but the results feel mushy.

But when he’s really on — like his pen drawing of the ornate that is the façade of the Hollywood Theatre — a revealing transformation occurs. The movie house opened in 1926 in Portland, Oregon, with a style described as Spanish colonial revival, though it also seems to have Orientalist fantasies inspiring its soaring, stacked arches and half-naked mermaids. Butler renders an elaborate caricature of the building that takes artistic liberties with how the building looks to channel exactly how the place feels.

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If I was going to hashtag the art of Judith Klausner, on view in her show “From Scratch” at the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center at Brown University (26 Benevolent St, Providence, through May 30), the terms that come to mind are: tiny, eccentric, historic, edible (but don’t eat them), wondrous.

She’s whittled away the cream filling of Oreo cookies to create ivory-hued cameos of symbolic Classical ladies with elaborate coiffeurs. She’s embroidered actual toast with trompe-l’oeil depictions of fake mold. She’s crossstitched Chex corn cereal with the slogan “Breakfast — The most important meal of the day.” And in her most recent transformation of food into art, she’s carefully arranged hundreds of gummy candies into a three-foot-tall art nouveau, faux stained glass peacock. Each artwork is a marvel of handcraft and ingenuity and erudite wit.

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And then the sly ecological and feminist politics of this art seeps through. Klausner interrogates what has been traditionally defined as “women’s work” — cooking, sewing, jewelry, wallpaper. She questions whether we’ve made a Faustian bargain to get the convenience of processed foods and mass-produced fabrics. And she simultaneously acknowledges how our modern labor saving foods and devices have freed up women to pursue new opportunities, to be ever more themselves. ^

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SUNDAY 1

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AS220 | Providence | 8 pm | The Empire Revue with the Superchief Trio and your favorite funnybone fondlers, The Sparkling Beatniks [Richard Goulis, Hannah Devine & Kate Lohman] BOUNDARY BREWHOUSE | Pawtucket | 7 pm | Open blues jam with Wolfie & the Jam Daddies CADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | 3 pm | Open mic blues jam with the Rick Harrington Band ELEVEN FORTY-NINE | Warwick | 10 am | Milt Javery FÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | 4 pm | The Providence Battle of the Bands with the Varsity Club + the Sweet Release + Blue Light Bandits + the Woodsides + Cherry Mellow + Dr. Slick + the Novi Giants + Lure of the Animal + the Cultured FINN’S HARBORSIDE | East Greenwich | 4 pm | The Remnantz GEORGE’S OF GALILEE | Narragansett | 2 pm | Second Avenue GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Steve Chrisitan JAVA MADNESS | Wakefield | 11 am | Rachel O’Neill & Jasper Flour

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MONDAY 2

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BOVI’S | East Providence | John Allmark’s Jazz Orchestra GEORGE’S OF GALILEE | Narragansett | DJ Action Jackson + Kyle Nicholas LUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | Providence | Future + Rico Love + Que NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The House Combo 133 CLUB | East Providence | 8:30 pm | Open mic with Eric & Matt THE PARLOUR | Providence | Reggae Night with Upsetta International + the Natural Element Band PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | Songwriters’ open mic THE SALON | Providence | 6 pm |

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GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 8:30 pm | Open mic JOE’S CAFE & LOUNGE | Westport, MA | 7 pm | Angry Farmer MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 7 pm | Groove E Tuesday with Joe Potenza, Ben Ricci, and Gene Rosati NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Newport | Felix Brown THE SALON | Providence | 8:30 pm | Kimi’s Movie Night THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | Providence | Creation Tuesday [open mic + jam] TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Billy Solo

WeDNeSDAY 4

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AS220 | Providence | Delay + Spoonboy + Martha + Colour Me Wednesday GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Karaoke with DJ Deelish THE GRANGE | Providence | Pale Amanitas KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 7:30 pm | Mystic Horns LEGION PUB | Cranston | Open mic LUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | Providence | Interpol NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Soul Shot NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The Bluegrass Throedown with Local Freight NOREY’S | Newport | Dynamite Johnny 133 CLUB | East Providence | Karaoke with Big Bill

PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | 8 pm |

John Fuzek + Allysen Callery PLATFORMS | Providence | Ladies’ Night Salsa POWERS PUB | Cranston | Open mic THE SALON | Providence | Free Up Wednesday with DJ Moy TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Matt Silva

THURSDAY 5

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CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | eNVy FÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | Hellbound Glory + Jay Berndt & the Orphans + Tigerman WOAH FINN’S HARBORSIDE | East Greenwich | 8 pm | DJs GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Open mic hosted by Bob Lavalley IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | 8 pm | Betsy Listenfelt JIMMY’S SALOON | Newport | Ocean Mic Night [musicians, poets, comedians, more] KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Marcia Ball LEGION PUB | Cranston | Karaoke hosted by Tommy Tunes MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 7:30 pm | Alger Mitchell MEDIATOR STAGE | Providence | 7 pm | Open mic hosted by Don Tassone THE MET | Pawtucket | Apathy + Celph Titled [of the Demigodz & Army of the Pharoahs] NARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown | 8 pm | Shiny Lapel Trio NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Erika Van Pelt 133 CLUB | East Providence | 8:30 pm | Mac Odom Band PICASSO’S PIZZA & PUB | Warwick | 9:30 pm | Karaoke RALPH’S DINER | Worcester, MA | Mockingbird + Faces of Bayon + Titanis RI RA | Providence | Wicked Awesome Karaoke Contest hosted

by Ronnie THE SALON | Providence | DJ Handsome J

THE SPOT UNDERGROUND | Providence | Alan Evans’s Playonbrother + Danny Mayer

TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Joe Macey

COMeDY THURSDAY 29

BRUCE BRUCE | 8 pm | Comedy Con-

nection, 39 Warren Ave, East Providence | $25 | 401.438.8383 | ricomedyconnection.com IMPROV JONES | Thurs + Sat 10 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $5 | improvjones.com

PROVIDENCE IMPROV PIG PRESENTS GOOD WOMAN JOAN AND PIGGIE SMALLZ | Providence Improv Guild, 393 Broad St | $5 | improvpig. com LONI LOVE | 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 30

DOUG BENSON | 9 pm | Fête, 103

Dike St, Providence | Seats $18.50 advance, $22 day of show; standing room $12 | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic. com LAMONT PRICE | Fri 8 pm; Sat 9 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $15 HARDCORE COMEDY SHOW hosted

by Brian Beaudoin | 10:30 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $15 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 | 7 + 9 pm | Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd | $5 | 401.737.0010 | bringyour ownimprov.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 MICETO IMPROV | 9:30 pm | Contemporary Theater, 327 Main St, Wakefield | $TBA | 401.218.0282 | contemporarytheatercompany.com DUELING COMIX PIANOS | 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15-$25 advance LONI LOVE | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 31

THE COMEDY FACTORY with Marty

Carponi, John Perrotta, Jay Are Adams, Derek Colamatti, and Scott Gendron [family-style dinner 7:30 pm, show 9 pm] | Spirito’s Restaurant , 477 Broadway, Providence | $45 includes dinner + show + tax + tip | 401.434.4435 | comedyfactoryri. com IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs LONI LOVE | See listing for Thurs LAMONT PRICE | See listing for Fri THE BIT PLAYERS | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 1

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

MONDAY 2

THE COMEDY FACTORY with John

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

WeDNeSDAY 4

LULZ! COMEDY NIGHT with Shawn Carter, Sam Johnson, and Will Vail, and hosted by Randy Bush | 8:30 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $6 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org THE COMEDY FACTORY with Dick Doherty, Katie Grady, and Corey Tencharra | 8 pm | Lou’s Cafe, 47 Summer St, Manville | Free | 401.461.7896 | comedyfactoryri.com

THURSDAY 5

MOSHE KASHER | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $20$40 advance IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs Continued on p 18

CLUB DIRECTORY AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence AURORA | 401.272.5722 | 276 Westminster St, Providence | aurora providence.com 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 | 67 Garrity St, 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 CHeLO’S | 401.884.3000 | 1 Masthead Dr, Warwick | chelos.com/ waterfront-entertainment.php 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 DUSK | 401.714.0444 | 301 Harris Ave, Providence | duskprovidence.com 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 FINN’S HARBORSIDe | 401.884.6363 | 38 Water St, East Greenwich | finnsharborside.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 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 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 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

PADDY’S BeACH | 401.596.2610 | 159 Atlantic Ave, Westerly | paddys beach.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 PICASSO’S PIZZA AND PUB | 401.739.5030 | 2323 Warwick Ave, Warwick | picassosrocks.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 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

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JOHN FULLBRIGHT | 8 pm | Narrows

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

FRIDAY 30

HAUNT THE HOUSE + THE ALEC K REDFEARN TRIO + OL’ FACTORY | 9

pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 | columbus theatre.com SIOBHAN MAGNUS | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $18 advance, $223 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org

MICHAeL TROY + CHUCK WILLIAMS | 7:30 pm | Sandywoods

Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $10 advance, $12 door [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com

JAM’N 94.5’S SUMMER JAM

with Kendrick Lamar + Kid Ink + Juicy J + Ty Dolla $ign + B.o.B + Lil Jon + YG + Jennifer Lopez | 5:30 pm | Xfinity Center, 885 South Main St, Mansfield, MA | $57.50-$200 | ticketmaster.com TAMAR BRAXTON | 8 pm | MGM Grand at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $47.50 | 866.646.0050 | mgmatfoxwoods. com

SATURDAY 31

THE WAILERS + RUSTED ROOT + ADAM EZRA | 4:30 pm | New-

port Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf | $39.50-$591.50 | 401.846.1600 | newportwaterfront events.com

BIKE AND BLUES AT THE BLACKSTONE, a fundraiser for the

Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Inc. with music

by Ken Lyon & Pendragon [4 pm] + the Superchief Trio [6 pm] + a craft beer tasting + a food truck + more | Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $20 | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org AMERICAN A CAPPELLA with the Coastline Show Chorus + the Narragansett Bay Chorus + Sounderella + Trade Secret + more | 7:30 pm | Ocean State Theatre Company, 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | $25 | 401.921.6800 | oceanstatetheatre.org SHELBY LYNNE | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $40 advance, $45 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org THe HI-TONe RAMBLeRS | 8 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $10 [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com ANTHONY SANTOS | 8 pm | MGM Grand at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $55 + $85 | 866.646.0050 | mgmatfoxwoods. com

GEORGE STRAIT + TIM MCGRAW + FAITH HILL | 6 pm | Gillette Sta-

dium, 1 Patriot’s Pl, Foxborough, MA | $99.50-$199 | 800.543.1776 | ticketmaster.com KISS CONCERT 2014 with Jennifer Lopez + Calvin Harris + Karmin + Rixton + R5 + MKTO + Ariana Grande + Timeflies + Cash Cash + Katy Tiz + Fifth Harmony + Aer | 2 pm | Xfinity Center, 885 South Main St, Mansfield, MA | $62.50-$200 | ticketmaster.com

TOY SOLDIERS + QUIET LIFE + MORE | 9 pm | Columbus Theatre,

270 Broadway, Providence | $10 advance, $12 day of show | columbus theatre.com

caller Chris Weiler and music by Julie Metcalf and Eric Eid-Reiner | 8 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | $8 | 508.252.6375 | contradancelinks. com/rehoboth.html

TUeSDAY 3

OPEN MIC WITH FEATURED PERFORMER HANNAH FAIR | 7 pm |

Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | Free [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoods music.com

THURSDAY 5

ANDY IRVINE | 8 pm | Irish Ceilidhe

Club of Rhode Island, 50 America St, Cranstonb | $20 | 401.944.3233 | irishclubri.org CAROLYN WONDERLAND | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $22 advance, $25 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org

POOR RICH BOY + BOB KENDALL & NERVE PILL | 7:30 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $10 advance, $12 door [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com

CLASSICAL THURSDAY 29 + SATURDAY 31

#PROVIDENCECREATES WORLD PREMIERES CONCERTS, “Rhode

Island’s All-Star classical musicians and composers present an exciting and innovative program of New Music” | May 29 8 pm @ Providence Art Club, 11 Thomas St + May 31 8 pm @ the Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley St | $25, $15 students | providencepremieres.org

SUNDAY 1

THE GREYBEARDS will perform works by Blavet, Handel, Telemann, CPE Bach, and Le Clair | 2 pm | The Meeting House, 3852 Main Rd, Tiverton | $15 advance, $20 door | 401.624.2600 | FourCornersArts.org THE RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA

will present “An Afternoon of Rossini and Beethoven” | 3 pm | Corkery Auditorium in the Metcalf Building at Providence Country Day School, 660 Waterman Ave, East Providence | $15, $5 students + seniors | ri-philharmonic.org

MONDAY 2

AUREA ENSEMBLE will perform

Rhapsody On a Windy Night, with the poetry of Eliot, Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Rimbaud, and music by Debussy, Faure, Stravinsky, Britten, and a newly commissioned work by Eliane Aberdam | The concert will be followed by a talkback and reception with the artists | 7 pm | Slater Mill, 67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket | $25, $20 seniors, $5 students | 401.725.8638 | slatermill.org VIOLINIST HAGOP ANMAHIAN will perform works by Brahms, Mozart, Dvorak, and Beethoven, plus gospel, opera, and folk music selections | 7 pm | Weaver Library, 41 Grove St, East Providence | Free | 401.434.2453 | eastprovidencelibrary.org/epl

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eVeNTS THURSDAY 29

THE 12TH ANNUAL AUCTION FOR THE ARTS GALA | 6 pm |

Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $15, $25 couples | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

FRIDAY 30

SIXTH ANNUAL TASTE OF BLOCK ISLAND, with many events, includ-

ing farm and lighthouse tours, wine and beer tastings, workshops and demonstrations, a chance to design your very own ice cream sundae | Block Island, 16 Old Town Rd, Block Island | $5 | 800.383.BIRI | blockislandchamber.com/tasteblock-island WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE | A basin lighting begins at 8:13 pm | Downtown Providence, Memorial Blvd, Providence | Free | waterfire providence.org

SATURDAY 31

A GRANDE FÊTE BY THE RIVER | Slater Mill’s annual spring fundraiser, to benefit the Educational Scholarship Program, which provides free or reduced-rate tours and in-classroom programs for disadvantaged students, with light fare, cocktails, self-guided tours amidst luminaria, and jazz by the Paul Broadnax Trio | 7:30 pm | 67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket | $50 | 401.725.8638 | slatermill.org SIXTH ANNUAL TASTE OF BLOCK ISLAND | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 1

THE PROVIDENCE FLEA, a juried flea market with more than 200 vendors [fashion and accessories, antiques, art, collectibles, furniture, crafts, more] + food trucks + music + more | 10 am-4 pm | South Water St, Providence | Free | providenceflea.com

SIXTH ANNUAL TASTE OF BLOCK ISLAND | See listing for Fri

MONDAY 2

THE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AND GALA, with food and

drink + a getaway auction + wine pull + music by Keith Munslow & the Ukulele Armada + a special appreciation award to Trinity Rep actor Joe Wilson, Jr. + performances of original works by MAP kid playwrights | 6 pm | Fête, 103 Dike St, Providence | $50 advance, $60 door | 401.331.7007 | mantonavenue project.org

FILM THURSDAY 29

THE HAIL! HAIL! ROCK ’N’ ROLL DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES concludes with This Is Spinal Tap, the 1984 mockumentary by Rob Reiner featuring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer | 6 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8090 | provlib.org

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Well and Living in Paris [1975] | 7:30 pm | The Meeting House, 3852 Main Rd, Tiverton | Free | 401.624.2600 | FourCornersArts.org

“65th Annual Dancecapades” | 7 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $18 + $20 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

THE DANCE EXENSION PRESENTS “MOVIN’ IN MANHATTAN” | 2 pm

| Garde Arts Center, 325 State St, New London, CT | $24, $10 under 5 | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org

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LIT eVeNTS THURSDAY 29

CAROLE MARSHALL will read from, discuss, and sign her new book, Stubborn Hope: Memoir of an Urban Teacher | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471

Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

FRIDAY 30

LAURA MOORE will read from,

discuss, and sign her new book, Once Tasted: A Silver Creek Novel | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq. com

TUeSDAY 3

GOTPOETRY LIVE! | An open mic | 8 pm | Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer St, Providence | $3 | 401.383.8393 | facebook.com/groups/36169437169

TALKS FRIDAY 30

“COLLECTING NATURE: MENAGERIES, MUSEUMS, AND THE HUMANNATURE CONNECTION [WITH A DIGRESSION ON A 21ST-CENTURY GIRAFFE],” a talk by Neal Overstrom, the director of RISD’s Edna Lawrence Nature Lab | Part four of “ ‘What Use Is the Giraffe?’The Evolution of Science, Society, and Spectacle In the Cosmopolitan 19th Century,” a series on the giraffe who went to Paris in 1827 | 5 pm | Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providence athenaeum.org

SATURDAY 31

“LIVING AND SUSTAINING A CREATIVE LIFE,” a discussion with Mer-

edith Stern, Robert Stack, and Michael Waugh, moderated by Sharon Louden | 2 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | Free | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

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“Inspired Color,” abstract works by Linnea Toney Leeming 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 June 4: photographs by Norlan Olivo | June 5-July 2: “Sign of the Times: The Art of Boris Bally” — 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 CADe TOMPKINS PROJeCTS | 401.751.4888 | 198 Hope St, Providence | cadetompkins.com | Sat 10 am-6 pm + by appointment | Through June 20: Works by Dean Snyder 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 COASTAL LIVING GALLeRY | 83 Brown St, Wickford | coastalliving gallery.com | Through May 30: “Pop 1 Flash Premiere,” paintings by Karen Murtha | June 3-30: “It’s A Jungle Out There,” works by Lorraine Bromley COLO COLO GALLERY | 508.642.6026 | 101 West Rodney French Blvd, New Bedford, MA | Wed-Sat 1-6 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through May 29: “Mutables,” paintings by Susan Strauss | May 31-June 15: “Pacanga: Sun, Moon, and Traces,” paintings by Ricardo Terrones CRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St, Providence | craftland shop.com | Mon-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through June 26: “Past Objects,” colored drawings by Dan Butler CROWeLL’S FINe ART | 508.992.5231 | 382 Acushnet Ave, New Bedford, MA | crowellsfineart.com | Through June 14: “Aqueous, an (Un)Watercolor

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am-4 pm + by appointment | Through May 30: “Reflections From My Garden,” a macro exhibition of photographs by Elaine Dickson 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 30: “Silver Hippopotamus,” a “pop-up” showroom featuring industrial/modern furniture and artifacts, including tables, benches, lighting, and unique interior art and accents MYSTIC ARTS CENTER | 860.536.7601 | 9 Water st, Mystic, CT | mysticarts.org | Daily 11 am-5 pm | Through May 31: “The Blues,” an open juried show | “The Elected Artists,” featuring Mystic Arts Center artist members

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“Fall River Portraits: People, Neighborhoods, and Community,” works by BMC Durfee High School and UMass Darmouth photography students ONE WAY GALLERY | 140 Boon St, Narragansett | onewaygallery.com | Through June 1: “URI Senior Thesis Exhibit,” works by Ben Andrews, Nicole Bowden, Mike Carlin, Victoria Cunetta, Mea Duke, Ashley Farney, Danny Henriquez, AnnaLise Karapatakis, Steve LaFogg, Jack Onorato, Christiano Penso, Emily Raymond, Aaron Stark, Sarah Tacey, and Audrey Whitfield ONE WAY HOPE | 999 Main St Unit 712, Pawtucket | onewaygallery.com | Thurs + Fri 4-8 pm; Sat 1-6 pm | Through June 14: “Here & There: 7 Years of Travel Photography,” by Christian Harder PROVIDeNCe ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providenceartclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through May 30: “Three Worlds Considered,” works by Nina Ackmann, Carol Shelton, and Judy Vilmain | “Color, Pattern, and Form,” works by Paulette Carr and Elena Obelenus PROVIDeNCe PUBLIC LIBRARY | 401.455.8000 | 150 Empire St | provlib. org | Mon + Thurs 12-8 pm, Tues + Wed 10 am-6 pm | Fri + Sat 9 am5:30 pm | Through June 5: “The Whale Guitar, a “work of art with a mission: to increase awareness of the plight of whales and to preserve endangered cetaceans,” by creator Jen Long and luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz | Through July 25: “Block Island Idyll: Memories of Manisses,” with materials and artifacts from the Rhode Island Collection at Providence Public Library and the Block Island Historical Society

“RISD ANNUAL GRADUATe THeSIS eXHIBITION” | Daily 12-5

pm through May 31 | Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin St, Providence | Free | gradexhibition. risd.edu/2014

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Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | rhodeislandwatercolor society.wildapricot.org | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through June 12: “Reflections,” an open juried exhibit of watermedia works SARAH DOYLE GALLERY |

401.863.2189 | 62 Benevolent St, Providence | facebook.com/Sarah DoyleGallery | Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm |

Through May 30: “From Scratch,” works by Judith Klausner

SOL KOFFLER GRADUATE STUDENT GALLERY | 169 Weybosset St, Providence | risd.edu/About/ Galleries_Exhibitions/Sol_Koffler | Sun-Fri 12-5 pm | May 30-June 1: “RISD Graduate Selections”

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown

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Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | June 5-July 5: “Earthworks: 41st Open Juried Clay Annual”

STUDIO Z/GALLeRY Z BUTCHeR BLOCK MILL | 401.454.8844 | 25

Eagle St, Providence | galleryzprov. com | Through June 7: “Photographs, Prints, and Multiples,” with serigraphs by Anthony Quinn, works

by Marc Chagall, Mihail Chemiakin, Salvador Dali, Honoré Daumier, Albrecht Durer, Alan Metnick, photographers David Black, Sandor Bodo, Stephan Brigidi, William Daby, Virginia Delgado, David DeMelim, Linda DiFrenna, John Hames, Valerie Kitchin, Aristide Maillol, Salvatore Mancini, Angelo Marinosci, Jr., Dore Page, Phillip Palombo, Robert Peabody III, Howard Rubenstein, Howard Schulman, and other photographers/artists/ printmakers from the Gallery Z/ Studio Stable

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St | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | June 2-30: “The State of the Art: URI, RIC, CCRI,” a mixed media exhibit highlighting the fine arts education at the three state schools, with works

by Nichole Dingee Allinson, Scott Allinson, Nadine Almada, Ben Anderson, Eric J. Auger, Mary Caparrelli Bagley, Marjorie Ball, Lindsey Beal, Joe Belanger, Raymond Bel-

tran, Jeff Bertwell, Nathan Blaney, Donald Booth, Taylor Booth, Emily Boucher, Mike Bryce, Kate Burke, Jennifer Cahoon, Michael Carlin, Tony Carniero, Wendy Crooks, Susan Dansereau, Michael Dates, Audrey Davidson, David DeMelim, John DeMelim Elaine Devonis, Tamara Diaz, Melanie Ducharme, Lilian R. Engel, Ashley Farney, Lili Feinstein, Susan Fossati, George Garcia, Alice Benvie Gebhart, Nick Gebhart, Christian Goncalves, Stephen P. Gross, Melissa Guillet, John Harrington, Sean Harrington, Tara Harrington, Joshua Harriman, Elle Hart, Alan Hawkridge, Kira Hawkridge, Jill Ann Cook Heffernan, Graham Heffernan, Jessie Darrell Jarbadan, Kathy Horridge Kenney, David T. Howard, Sylvia C. Krausse, Liliya Krys, Jay Lacouture, Charles Laflamme, Michael Lapointe, Nixon Leger, Bridget McMahon, Betsey MacDonald, Maurice Mancini, Titilola O. Martins, Claudine Metrick, Pamela Messore, Ian Mohon, Tracie Montgomery, Tom Morrissey, Kerry Murphy, Dale Noelte, Barbara Pagh, Sam Peck, Philip J. Palombo, Gerry Perrino, Cassandra Petronio, Jason Preston, Lisa-Marie Ricci, Gary Richman, Carol Rodi, Edward Lymon Rondeau, Amy Rudis, Ernest Silva, Jade Sisti, David Shapiro-Zysk, Kathleen Stack, Janice Lee Strain, Jacqueline Sylvia, Susanne Tierney, Anthony Tomaselli, Katie Wakefield, and Arielle Weston VAN VeSSeM GALLeRY | 401.835.6639 | 63 Muse Way, Tiverton |

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MUSeUMS BRISTOL ART MUSEUM |

401.253.4400 | 10 Wardwell St, Bristol | bristolartmuseum.org | Wed-Sun 1-4

pm | Through July 6: “50 Years,” a juried exhibition 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 | May 31-Sept 14: “Very Simple Charm: The Early Life and Work of Richard Morris Hunt In Newport” | Through Aug 12: “Elizabeth Congdon: Heaven and Earth,” an exhibit of paintings | Through Sept 1: “Marine Botanicals,” works by Mary Chatowsky Jameson | Through Sept 7: “Magic Gold, Full Sun,” paintings by Corinne Colarusso 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 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 | Ongoing: “Subject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century” + Ancient and

Medieval Galleries + Impressionist Galleries + Pendleton House + “A Grand Gallery: European Paintings from the Permanent Collection” + American Art from the Permanent Collection + “Exine” by Paul Morrison + works by Jonathan Bonner WARWICK MUSeUM OF ART | 401.737.0010 | 3259 Post Rd | warwick museum.org | Tues + Wed + Fri 12-4 pm, Thurs 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through June 14: “Visual Rhythms,” a juried exhibit with works by Rufus Abdullah, Robin Beckwith, Judith Bertozzi, Cate Brown, Brad Caetano, Jennifer Cameron, Mary Carlos, Gary Carlson, Cathy Chin, Diana Cole, Becky David, Cynthia DiDonato, Joan Edge, Pat Edwards, Lynn Etchingham, Barbara Green, Jason Hack, Diane Hoffman, Bonnie Jaffe, Marc Jaffe, David Kendrick, Tricia Marcaccio, Larisa Martino, Rachel Marzocchi, Cate McCauley, Marilyn McShane Levine, Paul Murray, Joyce Neville, Nancy Nielsen, Wendy Radin, Patrick Ruff, Louise St. Pierre, Don Swavely, Warren Tassone, Elinor Thompson, and McDonald Wright

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Mac . . . Beth?!, by Shannon McLoud and Stephen Nani | Fri-Sat 8 pm | $10, $8 students + seniors

TRINITY RePeRTORY COMPANY | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com | 201 Washington St, Providence | Through June 29: A Lie of the Mind, by Sam Shepard | This week: May 29-June 1 + 3 + 5 7:30 pm + June 4 2 + 7:30 pm | $28-$68 [discounted previews May 29-31; May 30 is Pay What You Can] THe WILBURY THeATRe GROUP | 401.400.7100 | thewilburygroup. org | 393 Broad St, Providence | Through June 7: Cabaret, by Joe Masteroff, John Kander, and Fred Ebb | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm | $25, $20 students + seniors

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MALEFICENT 3D | Starts Fri: 4:40, 9 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 7 | Fri-Thurs: 12:15, 2:30, 6:50 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | Thurs: 8 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 4:20, 7:25, 9:45 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST IN 3D | 1:10, 4:30, 7:40 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | 12:25, 3:30, 6:35, 9:30 MILLION DOLLAR ARM | 12:30, 4, 6:40*, 9:15* [*no shows 5.29 + 6.5] GODZILLA | Thurs: 12:40, 4:15, 7, 9:35 | Fri-Wed: 12:40, 3:45, 7, 9:35 | Thurs: 12:40, 3:45, 6:30 NEIGHBORS | 12:45, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 EDGE OF TOMORROW | Thurs [6.5]: 8 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS | Thurs [6.5]: 9

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GODZILLA 3D | Thurs: 12:20, 3, 6:30, 9:10 MOM’S NIGHT OUT | Thurs: 1:10, 3:30, 6:50, 9 RIO 2 | Thurs: 12, 2:10, 4:20 MALEFICENT 3D | Starts Fri: 1:15, 2:25, 3:40, 7:40, 9:50 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | Starts Fri: 1, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 7 | Fri-Thurs: 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:50, 9 BLENDED | Thurs: 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 | Fri-Thurs: 12:50, 3:30, 7, 9:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D | 12, 3, 6:30, 9:15 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | 1, 3:50, 7:10. 9:50 MILLION DOLLAR ARM | 12:40, 3:20, 7*, 9:35* [*no shows 6.5] GODZILLA | 1:20, 4, 7:15, 9:50 NEIGHBORS | 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:30, 9:45 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 | 3:15, 9:25* [*no show 6.5] THE OTHER WOMAN | Thurs: 9:25 | Fri-Thurs: 12:30, 7:05* [*no show 6.5] EDGE OF TOMORROW | Thurs [6.5]: 8 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS | Thurs [6.5]: 9

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FED UP | Thurs: 11:35, 2:15, 4:35, 6:50 GODZILLA: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 12:40, 3:40 MILLION DOLLAR ARM | Thurs: 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 MALEFICENT: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | Starts Fri: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 7:30 | Fri-Thurs: 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | Thurs: 8, 9, 10:35 | Fri-Thurs: 11, 12:50, 1:20, 1:50, 3:40, 4:10, 4:40, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 9:40, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:40, 11:50, 12:20 BLENDED | Thurs: 11:40, 1:05, 2:10, 3:55, 4:45, 7:15, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 11:30, 1, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 CHEF | 12:45, 3:45, 6:35, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST IN 3D | Thurs: 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1:25, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | Thurs: 11, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:25, 12:55, 3:20, 3:50, 4:50, 6:25, 6:55, 7:25, 7:55, 9:20, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 11, 12:15 GODZILLA 3D | Thurs: 1:20, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 11, 12:10 GODZILLA | Thurs: 11:20, 12:20, 2:05, 2:35, 3:05, 4:55, 5:25, 6:10, 8:10, 9:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:40, 2:10, 4:25, 4:55, 7:10, 7:40, 9:55, 10:25

NEIGHBORS | Thurs: 4:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 | Fri-Thurs: 11:35, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 | 12:15, 3:30, 7:05, 10:15 RIO 2 | Thurs: 11:55, 2:45 | Fri-Thurs: 11:20, 2:05

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 | Thurs: 12:10, 3:15 GODZILLA 3D | Thurs: 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 MALEFICENT | Starts Fri: 12, 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5, 7:30, 10 MALEFICENT 3D | Thurs: 7, 9:30 | FriThurs: 7, 9:30 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | Thurs: 8, 10:35 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST IN 3D | 12:25, 3:20, 6:40, 9:40 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | Thurs: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:55, 1:25, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:10 BLENDED | 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 GODZILLA | 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 MILLION DOLLAR ARM | Thurs: 12:45, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 12:20, 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 NEIGHBORS | Thurs: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 | Thurs: 12:25, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 GODZILLA 3D | Thurs: 12:45, 3:45 MALEFICENT 3D | Thurs: 7, 9:30 | FriThurs: 7, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 7:30 | Fri-Thurs: 11:30, 12, 2, 2:30, 4, 4:30, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | Thurs: 8, 9, 10:30 | Fri-Thurs: 11, 1:20, 1:50, 4:20, 4:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:40, 11:50, 12:20 BELLE | Thurs: 11:45, 2:10, 4:40, 9:45 | Fri-Thurs: 11:15, 1:40, 4:15, 6:40, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45 CHEF | 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 BLENDED | Thurs: 12, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 | FriSat late show: 12:25 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST IN 3D | 12:30, 3:30, 6:25, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | 1, 1:30, 3:55, 4:25, 6:55, 7:25, 9:55, 10:30 THE RAILWAY MAN | 3:05, 6:35, 9:35* [*no show May 29] | | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05 GODZILLA | Thurs: 11, 1:15, 1:45, 4:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:45, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:15, 12:45, 3:40, 4:10, 7:15, 7:45, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 11 MILLION DOLLAR ARM | Thurs: 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 12:50, 9 NEIGHBORS | 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL | Thurs: 4:20 | Fri-Thurs: 12:35

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MALEFICENT 3D | Thurs: 7, 9:30 | FriThurs: 7:15, 9:45 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 7:30 | Fri-Thurs: 11:45, 12:15, 2:15, 2:45, 4:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | Thurs: 8, 9, 10:35 | Fri-Thurs:

11, 1:20, 1:50, 4:10, 4:40, 7:20, 7:50, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:40 BLENDED | Thurs: 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST IN 3D | 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 10, 10:30 GODZILLA 3D | Thurs: 12:15, 3:15 | Fri-Thurs: 9:30 GODZILLA | Thurs: 11, 12:45, 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:45, 10:15 | FriThurs: 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 MILLION DOLLAR ARM | Thurs: 12, 3, 6:50, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 4:20, 7:05 NEIGHBORS | Thurs: 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:55, 10:20 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 | 11:30, 2:30, 6:40*, 9:50* [*no shows 5.29] THE OTHER WOMAN | 9:55 RIO 2 | 11:15, 1:45

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BEARS | Thurs: 12:40, 2:50, 4:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER | Thurs: 6:50, 10 GODZILLA 3D | Thurs: 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 MALEFICENT 3D | Thurs: 7, 9:30 | FriThurs: 7, 9:30 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 7:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:30 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | Thurs: 8, 10:35 | Fri-Thurs: 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 BLENDED | Thurs: 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 | Fri-Thurs: 1:15, 4:10, 7:25, 10:15 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST IN 3D | 12:15, 3:35, 6:40, 9:35 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | Thurs: 1, 4, 7, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:45, 4:05, 7:10, 10:05 GODZILLA | Thurs: 1:15, 1:45, 4:15, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 MILLION DOLLAR ARM | Thurs: 12:50, 3:55 | Fri-Thurs: 12:35, 3:50, 6:45, 10:10 NEIGHBORS | 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 | 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 THE OTHER WOMAN | 7:05, 9:45 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL | Thurs: 1:40, 4:05, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 1:40, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 RIO 2 | 1:20, 4:35

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GODZILLA 3D | Thurs: 1:45, 4:15, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05, 10:35 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL | Thurs: 1:20, 4:40 MALEFICENT 3D | Thurs: 7:20, 10 | FriThurs: 1:15, 3:40, 7:40, 9:50 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 7, 9:45 | FriThurs: 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:50, 9 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | Thurs: 8, 10:35 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 BLENDED | Thurs: 12:20, 4:05, 7:05, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:50, 3:30, 7, 9:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST IN 3D | Thurs: 12:30, 1, 4:20, 7, 7:30, 10:45 | Fri-Thurs: 12, 3, 6:30, 9:15 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | Thurs: 12:45, 3:40, 4, 7:15, 10:15, 10:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50 GODZILLA | Thurs: 12:45, 1:15, 4, 7:10, 7:25, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 4, 7:15, 9:50 MILLION DOLLAR ARM | Thurs: 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:40, 3:20, 7*, 9:35* [*no shows 6.5] NEIGHBORS | Thurs: 1:50, 4:50 | FriThurs: 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:30, 9:45 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 | Thurs: 12:35, 3:50, 7:20, 10:40 | FriThurs: 3:15, 9:25* [*no show 6.5] THE OTHER WOMAN | Thurs: 1:10, 4:40 | Fri-Thurs: 12:30, 7:05* [*no show 6.5] EDGE OF TOMORROW | Thurs [6.5]: 8 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS | Thurs [6.5]: 9

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Sagay turns her plight into a Jane Austen-style romance involving both sincere and scheming suitors, which allows the writer to unpack the social attitudes of the time. Her invented narrative works much better than the ensuing legal drama based on the 1781 Zong massacre, in which British slave traders tossed their sick slaves overboard; Murray ruled on the case as lord chief justice, and though the verdict is presented here as a blow against slavery, it was really a more mundane question of insurance law.

Amma Asante directed; with Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as the title character, and Tom Wilkinson in a strong performance as Murray. | 104m | W BLENDED | 2014 | In this bawdy, ugly farce a widowed father (Adam Sandler) goes on a disastrous blind date with a single mom (Drew Barrymore) only to wind up sharing a hotel room with her when their families are accidentally booked on the same African vacation. As their dysfunctional kids bond, the two gradually fall for each other; the film is sweet in stretches, but screenwriters Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera deflate every sentimental gesture with a sophomoric quip. Unlike comic greats Groucho Marx and

Jerry Lewis, who deflected sincerity with style and impudence, Sandler is simply cruel; his movies would be more likable if the jokes weren’t so mean-spirited and the characters such sexist and racist caricatures.

Frank Coraci directed; with Kevin Nealon and Terry Crews. | 117m | XXW gODZiLLA | 2014 | For the latest Hollywood remake of the scifi classic, screenwriter Max Borenstein and director Gareth Edwards hew to the Jaws formula, dividing audience identification between an eccentric techie (Ken Watanabe), a straight-shooting family man (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and the monster, which in this case turns out to be the most charismatic of the three. Their movie may be highly calculated, but at least it doesn’t feel soulless; as in Spielberg’s blockbusters, the sets (decorated

by Elizabeth Wilcox) are filled with quirky bric-a-brac, bringing a livedin dimension to the big-budget spectacle, and Edwards displays a welcome playfulness in some of his flamboyant camera movements.

Alexandre Desplat’s score is an enjoyable pastiche in itself, drawing from John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, and Akira Ifukube’s theme from the Japanese original. With Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, and David Strathairn. | 123m |

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story is encrusted with formula: the cute young doctor (Lake Bell) who rents the hero’s backyard apartment and appears on cue to offer one-liners and life advice, the cranky old baseball scout (Alan Arkin) who comes along to India and rips on everyone in sight, the wide-eyed teenagers with good arms (Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal) who journey to America and get into trouble like naughty children. The movie was inspired by the real-life experiences of agent J.B. Bernstein, but the story stretches all the way back to Disney’s Jan-Michael Vincent comedy The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973). Craig Gillespie directed; with Aasif Mandvi and Bill Paxton. | 124m |

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2013 | Captured by the Japanese in the 1942 invasion of Singapore, British officer Eric Lomax labored over the Thailand-Burma Railway, just like the soldiers in The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957), but given the torture and deprivation he endured, this adaptation of his 1995 memoir is unlikely to send you out of the theater whistling. The story opens in 1980, as the damaged veteran (Colin Firth) takes a loving wife (Nicole Kidman) but their happiness is threatened by his night terrors and other emotional problems; eventually he decides to return to southeast Asia and confront one of his torturers, who now runs a war museum (Hiroyuki Sanada). As an early reference to Brief Encounter suggests, this falls squarely in the British tradition of quality, but the cast is excellent (especially Stellan Skarsgård as a fellow survivor) and the screenplay, by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, is delicately attuned to the emotional cost of war and the terrible struggle to be healed. | 108m |

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No matter what else is going on in your life, there’s no denying the next three weeks are sweet indeed, as the days lengthen through the summer solstice. And with the moon on the increase for the next two weeks, the nights will be bright indeed. Mars is still in Libra, and since Libra is the sign of partnership, from now through June, relationships are emphasized, particularly for air signs Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. Ironically, normally drifty Libran born the first week of October will be compelled to make big decisions (and could also be comically accident-prone).

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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 16zodiac. | 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 32 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.

13 14 15 16 | When the moon is in aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, Leo/aquarius, 30 31 and29 virgo/pisces. the moon32stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.

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10 addis ___ (ethiopia’s capital) 15 they may get locked 16 cheese in a red rind 17 Bogs down 18 “Farewell, Francois!”

19 “all right then, leave!”

20 controversial performers 21 Blue ribbon-worthy 22 create raised lettering 24 he’ll be replaced by Stephen 25 “charles in charge” star Scott 26 attaches using rope 27 Frigga’s spouse 28 charlie parker’s instrument 30 Laugh riot 32 more, in managua 33 marceau persona 34 Bee-related 37 outdoor coat in harsh weather?

41 Backspace over 45 valli’s voiced vote on a track event?

48 Bobcat cousin 49 “resume speed,” musically 50 Billy of “titanic” 51 Fast runner 52 Keebler employee, in ads 54 the brainiest explorer in history?

62 Longtime mtv newsman Kurt 63 “march madness” org.

64 “the empire Strikes Back” director Kershner 66 new age giant 67 Some cookie crumbs 68 hotel booking 69 Get happy 70 angry hand 71 ashton Kutcher’s role on “that ‘70s Show” Down 1 ranks on the reggae charts 2 “Forget it!”

3 end of an incredible statement 4 Boxing cat who can’t spell well?

5 Sch. in the Big ten 6 cd full of electric guitarist paul?

7 acrobat software company 8 africa’s largest city 9 novelist who was uncredited on “the Joys of yiddish”?

10 “i love,” in Latin 11 cockatoo in the White house?

12 donkey Kong’s establishment 13 “Fire! Fire!” speaker 14 acquiesce 22 Flight board data, briefly 23 Brush-off 29 hit the bottom 31 German actor Udo ___ 34 merged sports gp.

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