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The new film, Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner, celebrates Providence’s iconic food truck _by Philip Eil | p 8

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8 thE hEart of thE city _ B y p hilip Eil

Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner, directed by Jeff Toste, tells the tale of Providence’s iconic food truck.

10 diNiNg _By Bi ll rod ri gU Ez

You’ll shout “Ole!” after a meal at toro rEstaUraNt.

12 homEgrowN prodUct _ B y chris coNti

Sizzling sounds: local music abounds in the havEN BrothErs film.

13 thEatEr _By B i ll rod rigUEz

Hard truths: Trinity Rep’s stunning a liE of thE miNd.

14 art _ By grE g cook

History lesson: works by NaNcy ElizaBEth prophEt; plus, “NoNspacE” at GRIN.

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“Short Takes” on Jodorowsky’s dUNE, thE lUNchBox, and more.

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phillipE & JorgE’s cool, cool world

General Assembly police log | Minimum wage news | RIP, Dennis McCarthy | Alec Baldwin in Olneyville? | Selected TV viewing

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The World’s Oldest Penny Arcade is in Burrillville! | A people’s history of Pawtucket Movies On the Block kicks off with The Breakfast Club; the Wilbury Group whips up Roadhouse: The Musical; and Terror Con is a deep dish geekout.

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the 38 studios morass; baldwin for books; tv eye Your superior correspondents

always find it difficult to f keep up with potential and actual

criminal activities at Halitosis Hall, particularly when the legislature is in session. But we do our best. The dominant story these days is, of course, the who/what/ where/when/why of the 38 Studios meltdown. Suffice to say, if Biggest Little taxpayers are going to pay through the nose — and, one way or the other, we will — we’ll want to see somebody hauled off to the pokey for creating this debacle. The latest prime candidates would appear to be former House Speakers Bill Murphy and Gordon Fox and unelected lawyer/tax credit broker/wheeler dealer/ Prince of Darkness, Michael Corso. Last week, WJAR Channel 10’s I-Team discovered that Murphy, Fox, and Corso initially made contact with bloody-socked video game entrepreneur, Curt Schilling, in early October of 2009, months before the fundraiser at Schilling’s home where then-Governor Don Carcieri reportedly first met Schilling and became interested in 38 Studios. For Murphy’s part, he claims his only involvement with 38 Studios was to facilitate their negotiations with the legislature in Massachusetts. But now it appears that he, along with Fox and Corso, signed non-disclosure agreements with the company on October 8, 2009. Meanwhile, on Monday, a Superior Court jury found former state representative Leo Medina guilty of “unlawful appropriation of funds.” The charges came from an allegation that he had stolen $28,000 from a life insurance policy of a friend’s daughter, who passed away in 2007. He faces a potential 20 years in prison for this. Medina served one term as representative for District 12 in Providence from 2011 to 2013, and happens to be facing a misdemeanor and a felony charge on separate matters.

MiniMuM Wage neWs

As Vo Dilunduhs undoubtedly know, there’s been a raging battle in Providence over raising the minimum wage here. It might be of interest, then, to note that on Monday, June 2, Seattle’s ninemember city council unanimously approved an increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour. The mayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, ran his most recent successful campaign for the office on a pledge to increase the minimum wage to $15, so there appears to be no obstacle to this becoming real policy.

Rip, Dennis McCaRthy

Early Monday evening, word began to spread in the Rhode Island music community that the beloved singer Dennis McCarthy had passed away. This was not only unbelievably sad, but shocking, since in recent months Dennis had been looking and sounding better than ever. From regular gigs at Nick-a-Nee’s in Providence to the Met in Pawtucket to the Ocean Mist in Matunuck to Chan’s in Woonsocket to dozens of other clubs throughout the area, Dennis seemed to be playing everywhere the past few years. Dennis was a veteran performer, who started in the 1970s with stellar bands like the Groovemasters and the Dynamic Johnsons, playing the original Met and Lupo’s on a regular basis. His specialty was soul and blues but he could sing most anything with great conviction and power. He moved to Miami over a decade

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ago, but returned to Rhode Island in early 2011. At the time of this writing, there is no information on funeral arrangements. Our hearts and prayers go out to his family — especially his son, Jefferson. Dennis gave us years of solid music and entertainment and his impact and presence will be felt for decades to come.

aleC BalDWin in Olneyville?

This Saturday, June 7, big time (and controversial) screen star, Alec Baldwin will be appearing at the Olneyville New York System in a heroic eating . . . no, sorry. That’s wrong. But Alec Baldwin will indeed be in Olneyville at Fête for a benefit performance/meet-and-greet in support of the Central Falls Public Library. The evening will start out with a performance by the band Denver Boot and there will be food

provided by the Budare Grille. The featured event of the evening will be “engaging presentations of literature by Renee Hobbs, Deloris Grant, Scott Palmieri, some excellent CF Students” (and, of course, Alec Baldwin). Get tickets at baldwinforbooks.ticketbud.com; all proceeds will go to the library.

seleCteD tv vieWing

As you already know, the political season never ends here in the Biggest Little. But that special time for political advertising has now officially arrived. General treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Gina Raimondo has been the first one out of the chute this year and her latest ad features a family biking adventure in Providence. Yes, they are all wearing helmets and her son is also sporting a Superman cape. We figure they had to shoot this early on a Sunday morning because, magically, there appears to be no

traffic in the capital city. It looks to Phillipe & Jorge that, if Gina doesn't win election as governor, she should definitely get together with the crew who conceived and shot these ads to make an entertaining sitcom. Meanwhile Allan Fung, the Cranston mayor also vying for the governorship, has released a zany ad that doesn’t actually say anything about Allan Fung but has plenty to say about his Republican primary rival, Ken Block, and Block's supporters. Yes, the “Blockheads” ad is currently sweeping the state with some loose talk and funny graphics. Your superior correspondents heard a radio interview with one of Fung’s operatives who claimed that this “wasn’t an attack ad.” We guess it was just a great opportunity for the Fung creative team to show what zany guys they are by poking fun at their rival.

MORe BaD neWs fOR neWspapeRs

The Halifax Media Group, which bought The Worcester Telegram and Gazette three weeks ago, let go about 20 of its 80 news staff on Monday. (Michael Redding, CEO of Halifax, maintains that the layoffs “will not impact our news coverage in any way.”) And, of course, this happened while the Other Paper is up for sale in Our Little Towne. So it goes in the daily newspaper business, not just in New England but throughout the country. As you have read here many times, the continued loss of daily newspapers is something that we consider a grave threat to our democratic republic. P&J hold onto hope for a working model that can deliver daily news as written, researched, and vetted by real professionals. Without that, we’re in big trouble.

KuDOs anD COngRats . . .

. . . to former state representative Frank Montanaro (D-Providence) for avoiding the General Assembly Police log by paying the $3869 in fines he owed the State Board of Elections for quite a few years. (He lost his seat in the legislature in 2004). Luckily, Frank has bounced back from his troubles as, this week, he started his new job as executive director of the office that runs day-to-day operations at the General Assembly, the Joint Committee on Legislative Services (JCLS). The job pays $111,298 a year. One door closes (very slowly) and another one opens. Isn’t life at Halitosis Hall grand? ^

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“I wanted to connect workers’ struggles today to the struggles of workers in the past, and make it clear that the fight continues.” _iAN cozzENS

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In Burrillville, Peepshow Popeye and electric shocks

at slater mill, a people’s history of pawtucket

Few Rhode Islanders “But if you look at the picseem to know it, but ture on top, the soldiers the World’s Oldest Penny are actually still in World Arcade is located in the War I-era uniforms.” northwest corner of the Bateman gets excited state. That’s the claim when asked about how made by Spring Lake Arscoring in pinball has cade, which opened in changed over the decades, 1931 and features a numor the little machine from ber of machines that prethe 1940s that intentiondate its opening. Located ally delivers an electric just outside of Glendale (a shock. (The jolt “Increases village so small that the Your Circulation” and US Census doesn’t recog“Purifies Your Blood,” nize it) the arcade faces it promises.) The oldest Spring Lake, a freshwater game of all is Rose Bowl, beach owned by the Town which looks downright of Burrillville. In Rhode primitive today. Faceless Island driving terms, it’s football players in helabout 10 minutes past mets and knit sweaters Wright’s Farm. move their delicate legs The parking lot is dividin unison, looking more ed into separate areas for like dancers than football locals and non-residents, players. The whole thing but on Memorial Day the looks a little like a child’s dozen or so cars in the outpapier-mâché project, siders’ lot all had Rhode but the game has been at Island plates. Visitors Spring Lake since before included a few groups of the arcade was even built. middle school-aged kids, a A Cumberland native, dad playing a racecar game Bateman started collectwith a Baby Bjorn strapped ing coin-operated maAMUSEMENTS at Spring Lake. to his chest, and a handful chines in the mid-1970s, of people from Providence acquiring some original who made the trek up to see a beloved place from items from Spring Lake along the way. He their childhoods. There was even an elderly bought the arcade in 1989 and now balances woman who met her husband nearly 50 years penny and nickel games with the fifty-cent ago on the old Arcade’s porch. games that allow the business to stay in operaThough the business dates back to the tion. With Spring Lake open from Memorial Great Depression, the original arcade buildDay to Labor Day, he keeps busy the rest of the ing was razed in the 1990s to make room for a year by leasing contemporary games to other sturdier, more waterproof structure. Today’s area arcades and consulting on a variety of single-story building is split roughly in half, other entertainment businesses. with around 50 antique games occupying one Since the arcade is on a beach in one of side and the larger, more modern games on the Rhode Island’s most remote areas, its busiother. (There’s a bit of crossover. Area 51, an ness is almost completely weather-dependent. Atari game from 1995, rests with the antiques, Memorial Day is chilly and overcast, but that while the newer section boasts Peepshow Popdoesn’t stop a few dozen diehards from showeye, an example of something called a Mutoing up. Even with relatively little foot traffic, scope, which is sort of like a flipbook you crank the arcade floor gets sandy quickly; about half by hand and watch through a tiny window.) the game players are barefoot. “On a slow day like this, people come here A century ago, before arcade games existed, for the antique games they remember when the site was the center of a popular beach rethey were kids,” says John Bateman, the arsort with a hotel. On the arcade wall, an 1894 cade proprietor. “But on a hot weekend day, advertisement mentions a dance-hall, merryit’s all kids playing the ticket games. They all go-round, and shooting gallery, as well as fishwant to win tickets.” ing rods for the men, pond lilies for the ladies, Ticket games keep the business afloat, but and “a good barber for those who need tonsoBateman waited until 2006 to install them. rial treatment.” There was also a bar, popular They’re just not as charming as the antiques, among Italian immigrants who rowed their which include Ski Jump, a deceptively simple way over for a drink after finishing shifts at the but maddening game requiring navigating a granite quarry across the pond. Those are all marble down a slope. There’s also Sky Fighter, gone now, as are the original buildings, which a missile shooting game from 1939 featuring were replaced in the 1990s when the town took a screen backlit with two incandescent bulbs; the beach over from its prior owners. the white one lights up when you insert your Spring Lake Arcade is located at 52 Old Hillside Dr nickel, and the red one lights up when you hit in Glendale. It is currently open on weekends, and opens your target. “It came out right as World War seven days a week from June 14 through Labor Day. For II was breaking out,” says Bateman, who is more info, go to springlakearcade.com. _Matthew Lawrence happy to talk about the history of every game.

“I think that everything we purchase has a history of exploitation behind it, whether it be the time the laborer gives up of their life . . . the unsafe conditions they work in and the low pay, or the people who were colonized in order to steal the resources necessary to make whatever ‘goods.’ What we buy is dripping with blood and we are trained not to notice unless we are the laborers themselves.” This is Chelsea Carl — a 23-year-old artist, teacher, and RISD Film/Animation/ Video grad — talking about her large, black-and-white digital illustration entitled “it’s illegal to commit suicide” in the new show at the Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket. “suicide” is a dystopian maelstrom featuring surveillance cameras, shopping malls, radioactive products sliding down conveyor belts, barbed wire fences, and assembly line workers maimed and handcuffed by clocks — all of it circling text that reads, in part, “BEING SUBJECT TO THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, FOUNDED ON OUR ENSLAVEMENT, WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND AN END TO THE IMPERIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT AND ITS ALLIANCES AND GLOBAL CAPITALIST REGIME!” It’s a surprising piece to be exhibited inside a factory-turned-museum where a plaque announcing “THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN AMERICA HERE IN 1793” hangs near the front door and the chipper line “Where Innovation Starts” plays prominently on its logo. But, well, the “The Mother of All Strikes: The 1824 Textile Worker Turnout,” is a surprising show. The concept comes from Joey DeFrancesco, a local musician, artist, and organizer perhaps best known for his star turn in the 2011 viral video, “Joey Quits.” That video, in which he hands his Renaissance Providence Hotel boss resignation papers as the What Cheer? Brigade blasts a celebratory tune on horns and drums, has been viewed more than four million times on YouTube. But by the time the video was edited and uploaded, Joey already had a new job — one he still holds — working as a tour guide at Slater Mill. He has since added “Program Creator” to his title. Visitors to the Mill for “Mother of All Strikes” find the museum’s usual artifacts

Cozzens’s “A-U-T-O-N-O-M-I-A”

and accouterments: the cotton gin, the looms, the high-speed braiding machine, the oil portrait of Samuel Slater hanging on the wall. But they’ll also find panels explaining what happened during a tumultuous week in May of 1824. “On Monday last there was a meeting of the manufacturers, which was generally attended, and an agreement made to run the mills about an hour longer, and to reduce the wages of those who worked by the piece, after the 1st of June, about 20 percent,” reads one contemporaneous newspaper account. “On Wednesday evening a tumultuous crowd filled the street,” it continues, “led by the most unprincipled and disorderly part of the village, and made an excessive noise — they visited successively the houses of the manufacturers, shouting, exclaiming and using every imaginable term of abuse and insult.” In all, 102 women walked off the job that week, protesting decreased wages and increased hours. After a week of such protests — “screaming & shouting thro the streets,” as one diary entry on display describes — prior conditions were restored. Yes, the Mill may be the world-renowned “Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution,” but it’s also the birthplace of the labor movement, DeFrancesco says. “A few decades later, after the building of the first factory, you get the first massive strike.” In addition to Chelsea Carl’s print, there are paintings (by Christine Ashley and Kristina Brown) paying homage to the strike’s participants, and a series of aprons overlaid with a pattern of 102 threads (Priscilla Carrion). Of his installation of large, bright pink letters spelling “A-U-T-O-N-OM-I-A,” hanging from the room’s ceiling, local artist Ian Cozzens says, “I wanted to connect workers’ struggles today to the struggles of workers in the past, and make it clear that the fight continues — right now, with the struggles of fast-food workers across the US and here in Rhode Island for a $15-an-hour minimum wage, among many other battles.” DeFrancesco, who describes his politics as “pretty far left,” says that the show‘s bottom-up historical approach isn’t necessarily a partisan statement. It’s simply thorough and accurate history. “Whatever your ideology is, it is factually inaccurate to push this perspective that these factories came here and everyone said, ‘Oh, yay! We have jobs now. Isn’t this great?’ ” he says. “That just did not happen.” “The Mother of All Strikes” runs at Slater Mill (67 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket) until July 31. For more info, including listing up exhibition-related events, go to slatermill.org.

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the heart of the city

haven brothers: legacy of the american diner tells the tale of providence’s iconic food truck

r i c h ar d Mc caf f r e y

_By ph il ip e il

THE LEGEND the diner, ready for action. Providence,” but there was a rationale, Haven Brothers Diner will be parked he says. “Haven Brothers was attracting outside the Columbus Theatre on a large amount of motorcycle groups and Saturday, June 7 when Jeff Toste’s documentary, Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American gangs into that area,” he says, “and I thought it was disruptive and . . . a great Diner, premieres inside. deal of noise pollution.” The ensuing This is a great idea. brouhaha, stoked in part by talk radio Not only does the truck — which, hosts and what Paolino describes as “libat various times in the film is called a eral reporters” is proof, the former mayor “fixture,” a “landmaahk,” and “A shinsays, of how political opponents will use ing food oasis in a desert of night” — “the smallest, dumbest thing” as a weaprichly deserve the food truck equivalent on against you. of a stroll down the red carpet. But the In the end, the diner got the Rhode arrangement makes perfect business sense. The 75-minute film has an uncanny Island version of a “happily ever after” ending. Paolino invited Haven Brothers way of eliciting cravings for chili fries; back to its parking spot, and proceeded to hot dogs slathered in onions, relish, and throw a 100th-anniversary “Champagne mustard; and Haven Brothers’ worldand Hot Dogs” gala in its honor. Never famous “Triple Murder Burger,” a greasy mind that the year was 1988 and the diner tower of ground beef, melted cheese, was founded in 1893. “They figured . . . it fried egg, bacon, onions, mushrooms, was close enough,” Ivan Giusti, son of the and condiments wedged between two halves of a bun. Once the film ends, there will be a feeding frenzy for the ages. But the sight of Rhode Island’s favorite late-night chow spot positioned under a theater marquee on Broadway will also be a little weird — a bit like, say, if the Big Blue Bug were to flutter its wings, go airborne, and come to rest on the other side of I-95. One of the key moments in Toste’s film occurs in the mid1980s, when then-Providence mayor Joseph Paolino, Jr. booted the diner from of its timeworn spot on Fulton Street next to City Hall. Petitions, protests, and angry letters to The Providence Journal followed. Paolino, interviewed decades later for the film, is both contrite and defiant when discussing this. He acknowledges that evicting the diner was “probably one of the dumbest things “SUFFERING FOR MY ART” toste. I ever did when I was mayor of

diner’s current owner, Sal Giusti, says in the film. “You know how politics is.” Today, the iconic red script on the diner’s shining metal exterior still reads, “A PROVIDENCE TRADITION — SINCE 1888.”

living history

Haven Brothers is not America’s first food truck. That distinction, as a recent New York Times Magazine article points out, goes to another street vendor from our capital city. “In 1872, a vendor named Walter Scott cut windows into a small covered wagon and parked it in front of a local newspaper office in Providence, R.I.,” the May 2 article “Who Made That Food Truck?” begins. “Sitting on a box inside, he sold sandwiches with pies and coffee to journalists and pressmen working late.” “You can trace this whole industry to him,” Johnson & Wales Culinary Arts Museum director Richard Gutman told the magazine. But Haven Brothers was a pioneer in other ways. Despite its masculine name, it was actually founded by an Irish immigrant and mother of six, Anne Haven, with the insurance money left when her husband died. At the time, single women weren’t allowed legal custody of their own kids, let alone the chance to run their own businesses. That is, unless they were widows. And so, in 1893, an institution was born, serving hot meals at odd hours to, among other customers, workers coming and going from the city’s more than 1500 factories. Booming cities have big appetites. In Haven Brothers, Rhode Island Historical Society executive director C. Morgan Grefe calls the diner a symbol of “in many ways, [the] best economic moment in our history.”

Grefe is one of more than 100 interviewees in the film. Aside from Paolino, there are other ex-politicos. Buddy Cianci recalls late nights working on budgets at City Hall when he would sneak out for beans and burgers. “Haven Brothers is kind of like the original squatter,” he says. “Don’t know how the hell they got permission to be where they are, but no one’s gonna move ’em!” Former Congressman Eddie Beard (US Rep from RI’s 2nd District from 1975-1981), meanwhile, says a trip to the diner was an effective gauge of public opinion. “If you were worth your weight in salt, politically, you’d better make sure you got in there,” he says. “If things were not going good, people let me know.” But Toste — a commercial filmmaker who spent three years working on Haven Brothers, his debut feature — says he actively steered away from making a film with too many lengthy interviews. “I wanted to tell a story that was more about a collection of voices speaking together to make a point,” he says. And so we hear from great grandchildren of Anne Haven, a professor of nutrition at URI, Tony Lepore (aka the “Dancing Cop”), restaurateurs, a visiting BBC television host, college students, archivists, diner enthusiasts, a former doorman at the State House, a homeless poet, and a Providence Police officer who says, “If I were to ever be killed in the line of duty, I’d want the Haven Brothers truck at the graveside.” At one point, a wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran recalls returning from the war to the Providence train station at 3:30 am and heading straight to his beloved diner. In another moment, Providence Journal reporter Karen Lee Ziner sings an old Haven Brothers tune from a bygone Providence Newspaper Guild Follies routine: “I’m a Haven Brothers hot dog. I’m a gastronomic treat. Smothered in tons of . . . condiments, you can smell me from 30,000 feet.” At another point, a former Providence Civic Center (now the Dunkin’ Donuts Center) security guard remembers how the Beach Boys were “too drunk to get out of the limo, so they had the driver come and get the food for ’em.” What emerges is a memorable — and mouthwatering — portrait of a business that seems as much a feature Rhode Island’s natural landscape as Conanicut Point or the bluffs on Block Island. There are shots of the “NO PARKING AFTER 5 PM — HAVEN BROS. DINER — TOW ZONE” sign that now sits on the diner’s allotted space at City Hall. Patrons recall having gone to the diner for 20, 30, 40, even 50 years. To one of them, the diner is a the reminder of the crazy aunt who drove there before flying to California to pack an Igloo cooler full of Haven Brothers wieners, then take them on the plane so she could proudly hand them out to her West Coast friends, upon arrival. To another, it’s a reminder of the night she was enjoying a meal on the steps of City Hall, only to see a man on the steps nearby “jerkin’ his gherkin.” One of the film’s themes is authenticity — “I don’t think anything could be more symbolic of that than Haven Brothers,” AS220 artistic director Bert Crenca says — and Toste doesn’t shy away from what he calls the “dark side” of that authenticity. There’s iPhone footage

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‘you’ve become culture’

“The American dream used to be, ‘Run your business, be successful, act a part in your community, give back,’ and that was enough for people,” Jeff Toste says. “Now . . .I think the American dream has become about becoming rich and famous. Period.” In Haven Brothers, he says, he pays tribute to a business owner — Sal Giusti — who still subscribes to that first version of the dream. Every single day, including Christmas, Easter, New Year’s Eve, the truck is in its place, Giusti explains. “People . . . they’re happy when they see us open, so they can have a bite to eat.” This isn’t to say the diner hasn’t had a taste of fame. Haven Brothers-themed scratch tickets from the Rhode Island Lottery are taped up inside the diner, alongside framed stills of appearances on Family Guy and Today. But toward the end of the

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film, we learn that Giusti never had his eye on expanding and franchising. He’d rather stay small and happy than go big and be miserable. “One diner is enough,” he says. “What is being successful?” Toste asks during our conversation. “To me, if you’re getting that kind of local recognition, you’ve transcended success. You’ve become culture.” Toste is both different and similar to the folks he features in the film. On one hand, he’s a vegetarian for whom hours of smelling cooking bacon in the diner equated to what he describes as “suffering for my art.” (He did order plenty of grilled cheeses and French fries during on-site filming, he admits.) But like so many Rhode Islanders, Haven Brothers played a memorable role in his childhood. He was around eight years old when he first went there with his father on a trip from their dairy farm in Tiverton. “I remember the bikers,” he says. “I remember walking by all these big burly dudes; that was kinda scary. I see then there’s this gleaming, shiny vision of this reflecting entity. I thought I was going into a spaceship or something.” ^ Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner premieres Saturday, June 7 at 7 pm at the Columbus Theatre (270 Broadway) in Providence. Tickets are $11 in advance, $15 at the door. For more info, go to havenbrothersmovie.com.

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I don’t know about you, but $5 appetizers all day Thursdays — not just at appie hour — can make me a regular. And it’s that same price for the classic Margarita at Toro Restaurant, to keep things happy. The space was formerly occupied by Blush Wine Bar, and the glow remains. As befits a place with the self-confidence or blithe audacity to open on Atwells Avenue, Providence’s restaurant row, you can’t pass by withEYE-CATCHING toro’s colorful interior. out your attention being yanked to Toro’s unusually colorful interior. The blocky wooden In addition to the starters, every weekchairs are cheerfully painted in kinderday the lunch specials are quite ample for garten colors: warm yellows and hot reds, $8.50. There are 10 choices, from as simple with a wall-length mural full of saguaro as tostadas, tacos, and taco salad, to as specactuses and mountains against an orange cial as the tomatillo pork. One of my lunch sky. Just looking around makes you need companions had the latter, and the plentia beer. And nothing against sports bars or ful chunks of meat were tender and deliESPN, but it’s refreshing to see only two cious. All specials are served with refried big flat-screens, tuned to CNN at that. beans (topped with melted cheese, as it Call me cheap, greedy, or just hungry, should always be) and jalapeño-packed rice. but I appreciate the hospitality of chips I was at Toro because one of my foodie and salsa being set down unasked for, and friends at the table had been so impressed uncharged for, at a Mexican restaurant. with the shredded beef enchilada, in My mango margarita was a cooling comboth size and taste, that he insisted I plement while I munched and perused the go. But today we enjoyed and I sampled menu, though you should ask for yours other dishes on that lunch specials list: without ice if you want to sip longer witha cheese-filled poblano chile relleno as out it diluting. Our server was owner Efrel delicious as any I’ve had; and shredded Lopez, and he’s eager to help. chicken quesadillas that contained plenty Let me give a thorough rundown of of white meat, though it could have used those eight appetizers, since on Thursdays more sauce on top. you can assemble a delightful little tapas Family-friendly restaurants like meal quite inexpensively from them exToro have to have a kids menu. Here clusively. The regular prices range from the items “Para Los Ninos” include a taco $6.25 for the pickled jalapeno cheese dip and burrito, as well as chicken fingers and the shrimp cocktail, to $10.50 for a and a cheeseburger. three-cheese and olives sampler. There are From among the five desserts ($4.75), also chicken wings, fried baby shrimp, which include churros and sopapillas, nachos, and taquitos. we enjoyed a flan that was creamy with I can highly recommend those last little condensed milk and a tres leches cake that treats, six half-tortilla-wraps stuffed with was even more rich and sweet. When you marinated and shredded beef, red saucego, to end your meal ask if they have Guatopped and accompanied by generous temalan coffee, which is extra bold from amounts of sour cream, guacamole, and the delicious silt that will be left in the a slightly sweet slaw called escabeche. If cup, like Turkish coffee. It’s sent up by the you like ceviche, the coctel de camarones, mother of Erica Lopez, the heart and soul though called a shrimp cocktail, looks more of the kitchen. like the former, in pieces rather than whole You’ll eat heartily at Toro. Any day of shrimp. Since they’re not marinated in lime the week. ^ juice, you might want to ask for more than the wedge with which it’s served. They have black bean, tortilla, and even chicken noodle soups, but no way I wasn’t going to have the pozole ($4.25), a favorite of mine; not every Mexican 401.455.2328 | tororestaurant.net 332 atwells ave, Providence restaurant serves it. The Toro version is sun-wed, 11:30 am-midniGht; thurs-sat, bowl-size at a cup price, but I would have 11:30 am-1 am preferred it smaller and thicker, both with ingredients and the fairly flavorful broth major credit cards itself. Yet there was plenty of pork, plus Full bar shredded cabbage and cilantro on the side sidewalk-level accessible to add — lots to love.

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A true sign of summerness is when the Rustic Tri Vue Drive-In opens its gate and uncorks its neckcraning double features on its trio of mega-screens. A month or so later is the urban equivalent, when mOvies On the BlOck starts projecting its alwaysengaging, genre-jumping, decade-spanning fare. The 2014 season kicks off with school’s-almost-out crew from The Breakfast Club (don’t you forget about them); on the 12th, Thelma and Louise hit the road. We’re getting our blankets ready for Woodstock (hippies!) on July 4th Eve, Reality Bites (“My Sharona” group dance!) on July 24, and Moonrise Kingdom (charming local color!) on August 7. Shows are at the corner of Westminster and Union sts in Providence. Check the whole season @ goprovidence.com/blog/ post/2014/11/Movies-onthe-Block-Returns/60/

friday 6 road wOrk

When talk turns to guilty (or not-so-guilty-at-all) pleasures, it doesn’t take long for Road House, the 1989 film starring Patrick Swayze (as Dalton: “Pain don’t hurt”), to be talked about. Here’s a great synopsis by Chuck Klosterman: “This is a movie I love. But I don’t love it because it’s bad; I love it because it’s interesting. Outside the genre of sci-fi, I can’t think of any film less plausible than Road House. Every element of the story is wholly preposterous: the idea of Swayze being a nationally famous bouncer (with a degree in philosophy), the concept of such a superviolent bar having such an attractive clientele, the likelihood of a tiny Kansas town having such a sophisticated hospital, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Every single scene includes at least one detail that could never happen in real life. So does that make Road House bad? No. It makes Road House perfect. Because Road House exists in a parallel reality that is more fanciful (and more watchable) than The Lord of the Rings. The characters in Road House live within the

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mythology of rural legend while grappling with exaggerated moral dilemmas and neoclassical archetypes. I don’t feel guilty for liking any of that. Road House also includes a monster truck. I don’t feel guilty for liking that, either.” It’s safe to assume that Brien Lang agrees with every word of that synopsis. He has written and directed roadhouse: The Musical, described as “a new tongue-in-cheek tribute to everything that is, at once, great about the famous film in particular and action movies and American music in general.” The concert/ workshop (“mostly music with some narrative”) will be presented today and Saturday at 10:30 pm by the Wilbury Theatre Group at 393 Broad St, Providence | $5 | 401.400.7100 | thewilburygroup.org/ new-works.html

saturday 7 Get yOur fan On!

At the Editors’ Picks desk, we’ve embraced a sprawling range of fandom — becoming singularly obsessed with music (the Strokes) and movies (Pulp Fiction) and books (Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine) and TV (do you have an hour or 15 to hear about Orphan Black?). Our favorite line about fandom is in one of our favorite movies, Almost Famous, when Sapphire dismisses the new wave of groupies with these words: “They don’t even know what it is to

be a fan. Y’know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts.” Most of the people headed to the Rhode Island Convention Center for the oddly titled terrOr cOn certainly know what it’s like to feel that silly little hurt so good. The range of mostly-notterrrifying (though some genuinely unsettling; it’s hugely subjective) celebrities includes movie stars Linda Blair, Michael Biehn, and John Dugan (from serial Texas chainsaw massacres); Walking Dead-ers Irone Singleton, Lew Temple, and Vincent M. Ward; rockers Stephen Pearcy and Richie Scarlett and “rock goddesses” Lita Ford and Cherie Currie; TV guys recent (David Guintoli and Russell Hornsby from Grimm — first East Coast appearance!) and vintage (Butch Patrick, aka Eddie Munster). Oh yeah, and two Dees — Wallace (E.T.’s mom!) and Snider (still Twisted). Plus wrestlers (Kane, Charles Wright, Shelly Martinez) and world-famous cosplayers (Lee Anna Vamp, Destiny Nickelsen) and artists (John Febonio, Roger Kastel) and paranormalists and mediums and props from Jaws and a Dale Earnhardt Sr. NASCAR and . . . and we’ve kinda barely scratched the surface of this deep dish geekout. There are photo ops, panel discussions, film fests, costume contests . . . . OKOKOK, we’re going! Sessions run today from 10 am-9 pm and on Sunday from 10 am-5 pm | $25 per day, $35 both days | terrorcon.net

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musician and band that I could find. I wanted the music to not only provide the right emotion, but also have lyrics and/or song titles that “gelled” with (or added to) the narrative of a particular part of the story. I’d try out 10 different pieces of music for one scene. There were countless bands I wanted to work with, but in the end it was a matter of trial-and-error. I did my best.

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Diner, but he’s a card-carrying veteran of the Rhode Island music community dating back more than 20 years. So it comes as no surprise that the accompanying soundtrack features a wealth of Rhody-based greats in just about every genre imaginable. Clocking in at a whopping 42 (!) songs, the soundtrack is stacked higher than dId you consIder usIng some REPPING RI Olneyville Sound System. a triple-decker Murder Burger. of your own musIc on the Toste’s old-school roots reach to soundtrack, eIther laurels or the early ’90s as part of the indie-rock band Laurels, and detroIt rebellIon? No. Initially I was basically going to his start-up label Heparin released landmark PVD records go in one of two directions: compose an all-instrumental from Bossman, Olneyville Sound System, and Arab On original soundtrack either solo or with RI musicians willRadar; singer/guitarist Toste is currently in the grimy ing and available to record with me. But in the end, since blues duo Detroit Rebellion (pick up the new full-length I wanted the film to be a story about Rhode Island as debut The Man ASAP) with drummer Mikey Lamantia. much as about the diner, getting existing contributions OSS is featured twice in the film and AOR alums Craig from Rhode Island musicians seemed like a better idea. Kureck and Eric Paul’s Doomsday Student are also includFor my debut film, I wanted to keep my projects separate. ed. A pair of trailers released in March was proof-positive I want each to stand on their own. that Toste was deeply invested in the soundtrack, cranking up the Silks’ “Living In the World” and unearthing any chance of releasIng an offIcIal soundtrack of Lightning Bolt’s “Assassins.” The sorely missed Brown some sort? or maybe a show or two wIth some of Bird is also featured, and Toste included a memoriam for the bands featured? Yes, I have thought about it, but David Lamb in the closing credits. I’ve had to do so much work to promote the film that I I caught up with Jeff this week as he prepares for the simply haven’t had the time to discuss the idea with the big premiere on Saturday. artists. I did reach out to attempt a soundtrack showcase back in March, but everyone was on their way to SXSW and I couldn’t make it happen. If the bands are willing, It must have been pretty paInstakIng to narrow maybe we can get this together over the summer. ^ down both the artIsts and songs you wanted to Incorporate Into the fIlm. Have you ever tried to coordinate with 28 different musicians? Definitely a Haven BrotHers: Legacy of tHe american Diner premiere | Saturday, June 7 @ 7 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 complicated situation. I spent months researching and Broadway, Providence | $15 | havenbrothersmovie.com listening to the music of every Rhode Island composer,

songs In order of appearance Jimmy warren: “beeline” george m. cohan: “you’re a grand Old Flag” allysen callery: “honeymoon” Joe Fletcher and the wrong reasons: “Say what you will” cobra-matics: “he was a happy camper” midnight creeps: “mugshot” craig howell: “headed To the city” allysen callery: “highway gone” The Flying Ditchdiggers: “24 hours” Shawn waters: “why’d you come To my Town” Jimmy warren: “Table Set for Two” craig howell: “Sleepy lone banjo”

lightning bolt: “assassins” John Toste: “On you” Doomsday Student: “Slap That loud mouth” The Flying Ditchdiggers: “heart and Soul” Kolour Kult: “run Down [Kodacrome remix]” Kanerko: “confessions” The Silks: “living In the world” haunt the house: “bright Star” brown bird: “Thunder and lightning” The Silks: “big Talk” craig howell: “hard Day Slide” The Sugar honey Iced Tea: “Sister, Stay away” Joe Doyle: “I want To go back”

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on 75orLess records); tix are $15, dial 401.241.7349. A busy week at Fête kicks off on thursday with hellbound glory, Jay berndt & the orphans, and tIgerman woah; and expect a packed house at the Fête Lounge on FridAY (the 6th) for JessIca hernandez & the deltas, with locals ravI shavI and atlantIc thrIlls; call 401.383.1112 for info on both gigs. Also on Friday, zoe muth, the captivating rootsy singer, will do songs from her new disc, World of strangers, at in Your Ear in Warren around 4 pm, before heading to the Narrows for a show with her Lost high rollers. And even more action abounds on Friday,

boo city: “we’ll be Just Fine” chris monti: “haven” Olneyville Sound System: “pimp machine” cannibal ramblers: “last Night I Drank Too much” party pigs: “It’s all right” la machine “baby chiffon” cF James: “american Dream” atlantic Thrills: “Day at the beach” Shawn waters: “get On home mama” Olneyville Sound System: “Dynamite II” The Silks: “Smokey Eye” cobra-matics: “Tunnel of love” craig Kureck: “haven help us” craig howell: “Downcity Shuffle” Jimmy warren: “Dog Town”

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theater hard truths trinity rep’s stunning a lie of the mind _By Bill r o drig ue z No way we audi-

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tentedly while the selfdeluded characters in Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind are the only ones shaken up. With this stunning Trinity Repertory Company production (through June 29), director Brian Mertes has been as creative as the playwright. At the outset, on Eugene Lee’s wide-open, purposefully cluttered set we see cartons of bottled water. In an action not in the script, one of the characters packs them into an oversize suitcase and throughout the play struggles to lug around this untapped “HE IS MY HEART” Faulkner and grills. relief. In an even more prominent metaphor, the only door is set in a wall of electric was his mother, Lorraine (Janice Duclos). fans — at first inert, eventually balky, ulShe knows that he will never take his antimately full-powered, as the unrelenting ger out on her or his brother Frankie, but winds of change blast past all resistance. outsiders? — well, she observes, “ineviIn the opening, we don’t see the beattable.” Duclos makes her scarily chirpy, ing that Jake (Benjamin Grills) has given increasingly smug as strangers perish, alhis wife Beth (Britt Faulkner), we just though we can’t help but love her spirit as hear his lamenting on the phone to his a survivor. Daughter Sally (Rebecca Gibel) ever-forgiving brother Frankie (Charlie is the one dragging around the suitcase Thurston). Jake is convinced that he killed but never slakes her existential thirst. her this time. But she survived, though Yet Jake is no facile villain. He seems her face is black and blue and her head to feel victimized by his own anger, is clamped rigid in her hospital bed. Her though not to absolve himself; helpmind is confused and her speech muddled less, rather. The proof is his getting so (“Who fell me here?”), but her brain damdepressed, immobile, that even his momage has given her a childlike simplicity my’s spoon-fed delicious soup can’t move (“I’m above my feet!”). And clarity. To her him. His jealousy, which prompted his comforting brother, Mike (Billy Finn), she violence, is entirely baseless and irratiodeclares of Jake: “He is my heart.” nal, so there’s no chance it will stop. As That last line is a throwaway here, he calmly says to Beth, “Everything in me observed lightly, though in the heartlies. Tells me a story.” Jake hasn’t given wrenching interpretation at Trinity in up the desire to change, but he knows the 1980s it was so anguished that I can himself too well to think he can. still bring it to mind and feel a chill. This Self-identity and self-delusion merge production has taken a more balanced back and forth for the two central charapproach, with other troubled characacters. What are they going to believe — ters sharing our sympathy. Sometimes their hard-fought senses of self or their lyhumor relieves the tension, as when Loring minds? Beth and Jake love each other raine uses a bag of ice cubes to breathe obsessively, she regardless of all reason, into like a paper bag, our only indication he despite truly believing his fantasy that that she is stressed. she is constantly unfaithful to him. Beth and Mike’s parents are scary Mertes’s intelligent direction leaves us American archetypes. Mother Meg (Anne rest spots to catch our breath and think Scurria) is an ever-beaming, “yes, dear”about what we just witnessed. Helping ing adapter to spousal tyranny. Father this is the occasional scene-break music Baylor (Timothy Crowe), a Montana or song written and powerfully performed rancher, is the sort of bellowing, angry by Phillip Roebuck. “Get me a beer!” patriarch that keeps red A Lie of the Mind concludes Trinity Rep’s states crimson. Crowe makes him deeply 50th anniversary season, a fitting capunsettling; to say his temper is volcanic stone for a world-class company. If you sounds too passive. love theater and have another 50 years Jake’s upbringing was hardly more in you, this remarkable production could benign. His father died when he was a very well echo in your recollection when young boy, so his only manly influence Trinity hits the century mark. ^

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History lesson Works by NaNcy ElizabEth ProPhEt; “NoNsPacE” at griN _b y gr Eg cook The portrait of the sculptor in 1960 and was buried in CransNancy Elizabeth Prophet ton’s Oakland Cemetery. (1890-1960) that emerges from Other art in the show inthe small exhibit “Delicious cludes a metal head of a woman, Sensation of Rightness,” at the a painted wooden profile of a John Brown House (52 Power St, woman with lilies, and four loose Providence, through June 30), drawings, including a squiggly is fuzzy. watercolor and chalk rendering of “Cutting stone. How I love it,” houses among trees, that suggest, she once said. “I feel so much in perhaps, the influence of early contact with myself.” 20th-century French modernism. Organizers promote her as One of her last works, ac“RISD’s first black graduate.” She cording to the exhibition, is an seems to have been a powerful elongated wooden head thought personality, who sculpted heads to date from the 1950s. Prophet in marble and wood and plaster. often favored a smooth finish — In particular, she frequently whether in her more stylized efmade art about African Ameriforts or her skilled realism. This cans at a time when the fine art piece demonstrates an expresworld didn’t much give a damn. sionist style, animated by her The show, organized by Robb rough gouging of the wood, that Dimmick in the museum’s lobby, might bring to mind the emooffers just 10 artworks, along tional force of Alberto Giacometti with some memorabilia, mainly or folk art. The face’s expression reproductions of photos. It feels is calm, with eyes nearly closed, more like a book than an exhibibut the marks zigzag up the hair tion. And it seems an invitation as if the person’s mind was afire. for some other local institution (perhaps Rhode Island College or The six-person show “NonRISD, both of whom own works space,” curated by Matthew FUSED FUN a mixed media work by by Prophet) to organize someKing at GRIN (60 Valley St, ProviMclean graham. thing more extensive. dence, through June 14), has two Here’s the story that emerges. standouts. Julia Csekö connects Prophet was born in Warwick in 1890, the daughter of an a pair of stainless steel spoons by one handle like a wishAfrican American mother and a Narragansett father who bone. She makes a group of forks that all hang down made a living as a farm worker and, later, a laborer for from one handle like a root system. The sculptures are a the Providence Parks Department. She changed her last bit gimmicky, but dreamily intriguing. name from Profitt to Prophet around the time she graduClark McLean Graham offers weird piles of toys apated from RISD in 1918. parently stuck together with and mounted atop piles of Prophet sailed for Paris in the 1920s, where she worked beeswax. Which themselves sit atop child-sized red chairs hard on her art and connected with African Americans mounted on the wall. For example, one has a bunch of — including painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, poet Counlittle rubber wrestler dolls, a Donald Duck head, a cartoon tee Cullen, and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. But Tasmanian Devil figurine, and a Lego dude. A Barbie-ish she also struggled with poverty and depression — as she doll stands atop the pile. And a cutout photo of model Kate would for the rest of her days. Moss, with the eyes sliced out, is stuck on the front of She moved to Atlanta in the early 1930s, where she taught the weirdness. There’s something of the late artist Mike at Spelman College. Her art from this era included a folksy, Kelley’s love-hate-freakout relationship with pop culture painted woodcarving from the 1930s of a row of heads and here. They feel like shrines the Predator might concoct the sun, titled Facing the Light. The show also displays a tradifrom spit and the ruins of humanity, or tchotchkes that tional realist, gilded terra cotta mask with a faint smile that grandpas and grandmas in 2055 may display around their she made sometime before the end of World War II. living rooms in nostalgia for their 1980s childhoods. I Prophet moved back to Providence in the mid-’40s mean that as a thumbs up, of course. ^ and had an exhibition at the Providence Public Library in 1945. But her art career foundered and she took on domesTell Greg Cook he doesn’t know what he’s talking about on tic work. She was broke when she died of a heart attack Twitter @AestheticResearch or Facebook.

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JOHN PORCH | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $15

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TUESDAY 10

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THURSDAY 12

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| crowellsfineart.com | Through June 14: “Aqueous, an (Un)Watercolor Show,” with works by Erica Adams, Milton Brightman, Kim Carlino, John Fazzino, Nilsa Garcia-Rey, Roger Kizik, and John Guy Petruzz DAVID WINTON BELL GALLERY | 401 863.2932 | List Art Center, Brown University, 64 College St, Providence |

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Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | June 7-July 7: “Going Nowhere: Alumni Artists in Providence,” with works by Peter Glantz, Kevin Hooyman, Xander Marro, Jenny Nichols, David Udris, and Tatyana Yanishevsky DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 134 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown | debloisgallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | June 7-29: photography by Marc and Bonnie Jaffe DEDEE SHATTUCK GALLERY | 508.636.4177 | 1 Partners Ln, Westport, MA | dedeeshattuckgallery.com | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through June 29: “Paint Pattern Print Texture: Exploring the Blurred Lines Between Textile and Paint,” with works by Daphne Taylor, Pat Coomey Thornton, Sophia Narrett, Elin Noble, and Eck Follen GALLERY AT CITY HALL | 401.421.7740 | 25 Dorrance St, Providence | Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4 pm | Through June 23: “The Colors of Southeast Asia,” a photography exhibit with works by Eva Sutton, Mihaela Hunayon, Sovann & Toby Photography, and Ian Travis Barnard GRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | facebook.com/grinprovidence | Through June 14: “Nonspace,” guest curated by Matthew King, with works by Julia Csekö, Matthew King, Joseph Leroux, Clark McLean Graham, Jessica Pinsky, and Nathan Wellman HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through June 7: “19 On Paper,” works by Grace Bentley-Scheck, Jill Brody, Sally Caswell, Milisa Galazzi, BL Green, Brooke Hammerle, Joan Hausrath, Chris Kelley, Paul Murray, Trish Ellwood O’Day, Howard Rubenstein, Myron Rubenstein, Hiroko Shikashio, Kristin Street, Marion Wilner, Cindy Wilson, and C.C. Wolf

IMAGO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imagofoundation4art.org |

Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through June 7: “A Table,” featuring paintings by Pascale Lord, ceramic artist Cathleen Scanlan, furniture maker Robert Barrow, printmaker Mei Fung Chan, and photographer Angel Tucker, plus artist members, including Eileen Siobhan Collins, Rose Esson-Dawson, Mary Dondero, Lisa Legato, Eileen Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Lenny Rumpler, and Michael Scriven | June 12-July 19: works by member Eileen Collins and guest artists Leigh Medeiros & Michaela Collins JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestownartcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | June 6-July 10: “Recent Work: Paintings and Monotypes,” by Lisa Barsumaian ONE WAY GALLERY | 140 Boon St, Narragansett | onewaygallery.com | 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 June 20: “Land & Sea,” works by Fay Bartling and Richard Grosvenor | “Motion & Stillness,” works by Kelly McCullough and Victoria McGeoch 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

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SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 |

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

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

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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 | June 12-July 12: paintings by Alaina Mahoney and VF Wolf

URI PROVIDENCE CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington

St | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | Through June 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 Beltran, 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 | sandywoodsfarm.org/vanvessem gallery.html | Through June 8: “Blue

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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 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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These listings are for Thurs June 5-Mon June 9 only. Call for updates or go to cinemaworldonline.com. EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D | Thurs: 9 | Fri-Mon: 7:45, 10:30 EDGE OF TOMORROW | Thurs: 8, 10:30 | Fri-Mon: 11, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9, 10 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS | Thurs: 9 | Fri-Mon: 10:30, 11:45, 1:15, 2:30, 4:15, 6:15, 7:15, 9:55 CHEF | 10:50, 1:50, 4:50 7:50, 10:20 MALEFICENT 3D | Thurs: 5, 10 | FriMon: 12, 2:45, 5:45 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 11:15, 12:15, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 7:45, 9:15 | Fri-Mon: 10:15, 11:15, 12:15, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9:15, 10:15 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | Thurs: 1:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 | Fri-Mon: 10:20, 1:15, 4:45, 7:45, 10:25 BLENDED | Thurs: 4:10, 7:20, 9:55 | Fri-Mon: 11, 1:35, 4:10, 7:35, 10:10 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | Thurs: 10:15, 11:15, 1:15, 2:15, 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 7:45, 10:15 | Fri-Mon: 10:25, 11:20, 1:20, 2:20, 4:15, 5:15, 7:05, 8:05, 9:50 GODZILLA | Thurs: 10:45, 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 9:35, 10:25 | Fri-Mon: 10:45, 1:40, 4:25, 6:40, 7:40, 9:25, 10:25 MILLION DOLLAR ARM | 10:35, 1:30 NEIGHBORS | Thurs: 11:05, 1:30, 4:55, 7:40, 10:05 | Fri-Mon: 11:10, 1:55, 4:35, 7:55, 10:05 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 | Thurs: 10:35, 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 | Fri-Mon: 4:20, 7:20 THE OTHER WOMAN | Thurs: 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 | Fri-Mon: 7:10, 9:30 RIO 2 | Thurs: 1:05, 3:35 | Fri-Mon: 10:55, 1:10, 4:05

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Disney’s live-action, revisionist remake of its own Sleeping Beauty (1959) unfolds from the perspective of the villainess (Angelina Jolie), depicted here as a good fairy who turns bad only after being persecuted by humans. The original movie’s stark sense of good and evil is replaced here by a more nuanced, relativist perspective, which effectively prohibits the sort of nightmarish visions that made Walt Disney’s early animation features so powerful. This looks impressive, though, making use of highly imaginative, state-of-the-art 3-D effects while still evoking old-school Disney animation (even the wide-screen compositions seem to be modeled on those of the original). The supporting cast — which includes Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Sam Riley, and Imelda Staunton — is enjoyable too. Longtime special effects artist Robert Stromberg directed. _Ben Sachs

jodorowsky’s dune Chilean-born director Alejandro Jodorowksy planned to follow up his cult sensation The Holy Mountain (1973) with a big-budget adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune; the project never came to be, though the filmmaker spent three whole years in preproduction, generating a wealth of material. This straightforward 2013 documentary recounts his thwarted attempt — primarily through interviews with Jodorowsky, who remains an animated presence in his 80s. His stories feature an impressive roster of would-be collaborators (Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, H.R. Geiger, and Pink Floyd), and some of the set pieces he describes sound pretty neat. But if you’re not a Jodorowsky fan, this probably won’t register as more than a collection of amusing anecdotes. Frank Pavich directed. _Ben Sachs

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The title container is a collection of round tins that can be filled with food, stacked into a column, and locked in place with a vertical handle, which is how they’re delivered to office workers in Mumbai from a local restaurant; that novel design was about the only thing remotely engaging about this tedious Indian rom-com. Writer-director Ritesh Batra, making his feature debut, combines the old food-is-love gimmick with the even older epistolary gimmick of exchanged notes between strangers, in this case a lonely widower (Irrfan Khan) who’s preparing to retire from his accounting job and an unhappy wife (Nimrat Kauer) whose tasty lunches for her husband are misdirected to the other man’s desk. As in an old Nora Ephron comedy, each of the prospective lovers is supplied with an irritating comic foil; for the accountant, an overly ingratiating trainee (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), and for the wife, a domineering mother (Lillete Dubey) heard almost entirely through an open window as she calls down from the floor above. In English and subtitled Hindi. _J.R. Jones

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Granted, there’s modern-day slang in Blazing Saddles (1974), which many would call the greatest western comedy ever. But what does it say about a writer-director when all the other people on his team — the location scouts, the production designer, the costume designer, the props manager, the title designer — strive for period authenticity while the boss lazily tells his story in, like, totally whatever dialogue? Despite all the costumes, stunt work, and locations in Monument Valley, this big-budget western spoof by Seth MacFarlane (Ted, Fox’s Family Guy) is too glib to live up to its potential. MacFarlane has a solid comic angle, scoring numerous laughs off the brutal living conditions of the old west, but his hyperactive riffing as the hero, emulated by Charlize Theron as his love interest, tends to spoil any jokes that don’t involve urine, semen, horse manure, or diarrhea. Didn’t anybody tell these guys that cowboys are tight-lipped? With Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson, Sarah Silverman, Giovanni Ribisi, and Neil Patrick Harris. _J.R. Jones

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Waxing moon in Libra, moon void-ofcourse 3:47 pm until 6:38 am monday. Friday, June 1, waxing moon in Scorpio. “cut to the chase” is the theme, and if you’re getting a haircut, removing extraneous details, or being direct in your language, you’re in tune with the moon. excellent romantic prospects for Scorpio, Libra, virgo, Sagittarius, capricorn, cancer, Aries, pisces. missed signals, or social awkwardness for taurus, Leo, and Aquarius. 12

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Waxing moon in Scorpio, moon voidof-course 10:21 pm until 11:23 am

Wednesday June 11

Waxing moon in Sagittarius (moon void-of-course in Scorpio until 11:23 am). head in a direction you don’t usually travel (north, for lovers of the sunny south, or inland, for those who live for the beach). Also a fine day for joke-telling, particularly for Sagittarius, Libra, Scorpio, capricorn, Aquarius, Leo, Aries. Gemini, virgo, pisces, taurus, and cancer: this will sound rude but so be it: today, please get over yourself. 15

Wednesday. Scorpio moons make it easy to remove items, so even though the waxing moon focuses on “building” or “adding,” today is about subtracting. Scorpio, pisces, virgo, cancer, Sagittarius, Libra, and capricorn: be blunt, but be fair. taurus, Aries, Leo, Aquarius, and Gemini: hold off decisions until tomorrow, particularly relating to relationships.

Moon keyS this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if 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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