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Summer Guide

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The next few months have the potential to be so much more than just a string of backyard barbecues. This year, make it a feast for the senses with our annual Summer Guide. We’ve uncovered the season’s coolest things to do and hottest places to be, including the region’s best outdoor music, extreme races (are you ready for the Goruck Challenge?) — and so much more.

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A whole new world: aLLySen caLLery’s steel strings for starry nights.

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Buildings people love to hate: vIera LevItt looks at Brutalism.

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Poker faces: Chafee ups the ante | Cianci’s Italian 101 | Giving up the Crown (Vic) | Clear as dirty water

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Poker faces Chafee ups the ante; Colorful language; road worriers May 30, when Governor Linc Chafee officially changed his party affiliation from Independent to Democrat, cannot have been a good day for Providence Mayor Angel Taveras or state General Treasurer Gina Raimondo. While the announcement was a shock equivalent to Jenna Jameson declaring she is not a virgin, it now makes the potential gubernatorial Dem primary for Taveras and Raimondo a real poker game. Who is bluffing about seriously running for Chafee’s current job? And who will blink first? Now, Angel and Gina, who both enjoy high public ratings, will not only have to face each other if they decide to run, but a sitting governor. Even with Linc’s abysmal poll numbers, it isn’t any politician’s wish to run against an incumbent. And don’t think that if it becomes a three-way race, Chafee’s 36 percent vote total in 2010 will slide too far in 2014, given the high respect his family name holds for many moderate, old-school Yankee voters. If you need a primer on how threeway races work, give a call to our old pal Buddy “Vincent A.” Cianci. The Bud-I was the master of three-way races when running for mayor of Providence, thanks to a rock-solid base of just over one-third of the population who would vote for him no matter what he did. And he did just about everything you could do to provide a reason for being voted out of office, bless his Jekyll-and-Hyde little heart. Taveras has some strong supporters among big-time Dem operatives in the state — no small cheese in a party primary. Raimondo is no slouch either in the influential friends department (including a few on the upper floors at The Urinal), and she has raised as much as one would expect from a financial pro who was a capital investor before getting elected. Her only weak spot so far — besides sending the unions into a state of apoplexy with her pension reform — is her continued coziness with Wall Street. She can explain how investments made with hedge funders who make huge profits off Vo Dilun taxpayer dough are actually beneficial until she is blue in the face. But a typical Little Rhody resident would invite a Komodo dragon into their living room before a hedge fund manager, and just the idea of Our Gina palling around with their ilk and putting money in their pockets could be enough to seriously hurt her chances. Linc isn’t laying down his cards yet about an official run to retain his seat, but you know he’s a chalk bet to do so. But with Taveras and Raimondo making no bones about being ambitious pols, someone will indeed have to blink first, knowing that if they come up short, they may have eight years to wait for a second shot at the governor’s office. Or, they can do us all a favor and both jump in, which will doubtless provide a year’s worth of the political madness and mayhem on which P&J rely and thrive. Oh, yeah — we don’t think the GOP would mind, either.

ItalIan 101

Speaking of the Bud-I, one of the great things about listening to him on WPRO-AM radio

is that you can learn a lot of Italian slang. If you’re not referring to money as “’scarole,” you’re not listening. While we have always been partial to the terms “spaccone” (meaning “a loudmouth or braggart”) and “cavone” (a disrespectful person with no class), the Bud-I has also been a booster of the word “brulion,” going so far as to calling the show “the brulion barrier.”

the CIty _By D ER F

It could be that we are spelling this word wrong, but we can’t find the word or its definition on the Internet. The only reference to “brulion” P&J found was a Polish magazine famous a few decades ago with the Warsaw underground for exposing scandals. We could use a little help here, so if someone can provide us with a reference for (and, perhaps, the proper spelling of) “brulion,” we’d be grateful. And, while

we’re at it, we did find a word that might be worth reviving: “cicciobomba” which translates as “a fat slob.”

GIvInG up the Crown

Anyone who has done a reasonable amount of driving over the years is sure to have one highly tuned skill: the ability to identify a Ford Crown Victoria in the rear view mirror from at least a mile away. That’s because Rhode Island state troopers have been driving the distinctive Crown Vics for decades, and if you’re stupid enough to not know what they look like, you probably paid a few speeding tickets in your day. Mark Reynolds did an excellent story in the BeloJo on Sunday about how, since production of the Crown Vic ended with the 2011 model, the staties are now transitioning over to a mix of other Ford models, Chevys, and Dodges. Never mind how this will probably improve things for the troopers in terms of speed, handling, and the addition of more high-tech equipment than a video game arcade inside the vehicle. The problem for motorists is the damn things don’t stand out in traffic. The only foreseeable hope, pointed out to P&J by a friend who is a former statie, is that any trooper six feet tall or over may have trouble keeping their famed park ranger-style hats on while driving — a requirement that goes back to the days of legendary head of the staties Walter Stone, who would reportedly suspend any trooper for a day without pay if he were ever caught with his hat off in a patrol car. So look for the hat when you’re on the road, kids. It’s your only chance once the last of the Crown Vics goes to the car compacter.

MusIC tIp of the week

As always, there’s lots of great music happening all over the Biggest Little, but the highlight this week is a rare appearance by the great jazz singer, Kim Marcoux. Kim spends half of the year in Mexico so she only does about one or two shows a year in these parts. On Sunday, June 9, she will be at the Ocean Mist in Matunuck with a crack band: Artie Cabral on drums, Marty Ballou on bass, Greg Warson on piano, and Arnie Krakowsky on sax. If you’re a jazz fan, you know all those names and will want to get down there to the beach to catch this show. It starts at 3 pm.

Clear as dIrty water

Cock-eyed optimists that P&J are, we gave some people the impression in our item last week about the highly successful Urban Pond Day at Mashapaug Pond that the water there is fine and dandy for swimming and fishing. Organizer Lucia O’Reilly informs us, “The point of the project is that it is NOT safe to swim in the pond or to eat the fish — and that it pollutes the whole Lower Pawtuxet watershed.” So take note. And that’s probably the first time we've been accused of being too positive in our comments. ^

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This Just In As the ProJo Turns

A journalism ‘giant’ sits for an exit interview

Robert Whitcomb set a ground across stuff you wouldn’t come rule before our interview about across when you go to the web. As his retirement as longtime Providence they invade our privacy and find Journal vice president and editorial out what we’re looking at, [the page editor. He would talk about inweb is] increasingly focused on dustry trends, he wrote in an email, what they think you’re interested but he would “NOT” talk about the in . . . One of the best pieces of paper’s internal operations. advice I got many, many years ago But this didn’t mean I couldn’t when I worked for the Wall Street try. At one point during our meetJournal was [that] usually the best ing at his neighborhood East Side story is, like, on the bottom of deli, I read a string of recent headpage 37. lines from WPRI reporter Ted Nesi’s WHAT ARE SOME LOCAL “PAGE 37” blog: “Advertising sales down 15 STORIES RIGHT NOW THAT AREN’T percent at ProJo during first quarGETTING ENOUGH ATTENTION? ter,” “ProJo’s Sunday circulation [Rhode Island] is a great place for slumps 10%; owner loses $8M,” aquaculture. In the end, it’s very “ProJo revenue nearly steady in minor . . . it’s what, $2.5 million? 2012, but ad sales are down 66%.” [But] I think that’s the kind of Whitcomb didn’t flinch. It would thing that can be written about be “dishonorable” for him to delve A mAN oF hoNor Whitcomb. and sort of ramped up. into behind-the-scenes details from Another economic developFountain Street, he said. ment area would be [promoting] Newport as a sort of He is a man of his word and a lover of words, too. intellectual center. Because they’ve got all these exAt one point he half-jokingly described his approach spies, they’ve got the Naval War College, they’ve got to editing as “amoralist”; his primary concern with an the Pell Center [for International Relations and Public opinion piece wasn’t necessarily agreement with its Policy at Salve Regina], they’ve got the Navy base. And ideas, but the quality of its writing. I think that could be a much, much more important He is also a fan of percentages. Roughly 80 percent place, intellectually. of the “Letters to the Editor” he’s read during his career Oh, and trains. On the east side of Narragansett have been angry and negative, he said. This might have Bay, you’ve got almost a perfect stretch . . . to bring to do with his calculation that only about five percent of back commuter trains. Because you’ve got these densely the general population is actually interested in offering populated village centers: Barrington, Bristol, Warren. suggestions for making the world better. [Also, think of] what you can do with places like Central We spoke at a table flanked by diners who munched Falls and Pawtucket if they had train stations there. sandwiches and flipped through the Journal’s Saturday edition, in which an editorial called Whitcomb “a YOU’VE NAMED SOME OF THE CURRENT ISSUES FACING THE giant of Rhode Island journalism.” And yet when it NEWSPAPER BUSINESS: THE HUGE LOSS OF CLASSIFIED ADS, came to sizing up his legacy, he was self-effacing. THE WORST RECESSION SINCE THE 1930S. BUT COULDN’T “I might have affected 0.15 percent of public policy SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT THE JOURNAL, SPECIFICALLY, around here,” he said. Then he paused, before adding, SHOULD HAVE BEEN NIMBLER IN ADAPTING? I would only “But that’s 0.15 pecent that wasn’t there before.” go so far as to say that every paper should have been Our conversation has been edited and condensed. nimbler, including the New York Times, the Washington YOU SAY YOU WORKED WELL WITH JOURNAL PUBLISHER Post ...I think the entire industry has been slow . . . in HOWARD SUTTON BECAUSE YOU “GENERALLY HAVE THE making these transformations to making money on [the SAME VIEW OF THE WORLD.” CAN YOU DESCRIBE THAT Internet]. It’s actually a very conservative industry. ManWORLDVIEW? Well, I don’t want to speak for him, but agements were presiding over local instructions [that my view of the world [is], politically, I’m somewhere bewere] almost like the banks used to be before deregulatween a Truman Democrat and an Eisenhower Republition caused all this trouble. They were almost like public can, which is funny because they didn’t particularly like agencies: very staid, stodgy. Publishers were local famieach other. And I’m kind of a fatalist, an internationallies and the people running these companies were from ist. I don’t believe in exceptionalism, American or otherthe families, like [late Journal publisher] Michael Metcalf. wise. I think life is a mystery. I think it’s almost sacrileWe’d have recessions. Things would go up and down. gious to say what God wants. It’s a mystery; it’s all a big But it was pretty predictable, pretty stable. weird, eerie mystery. I look at life in very surreal [terms]. And it was difficult to wrench yourself out of that Not quite ...Salvador Dali, but approaching that. and go into this crazy churn where there would be technological developments every 15 minutes which WHAT IS THE ROLE OF A PRINTED NEWSPAPER IN TODAY’S would cast into doubt your business model. The ProJo WORLD? If you put something on paper, on a physical ...was a much, much bigger company than people object — not just backlit, but [with] reflected light — it realized. We owned [the media conglomerate] King has a dignity and a gravitas and a weight and, if it’s Broadcasting; Colony Communications, which is the done right, a credibility that stuff on a screen doesn’t cable company; a billion dollar cell phone company. have. It’s why you have a treaty, an international In the old days — which in my case would be, say, treaty, on [a] sheet of paper [of] good stock, signed, the ’70s, ’80s, early ’90s — they could look ahead and inked. The physicality of it makes you retain it differmake capital investments and have a pretty good idea ently; it raises your attention level and gives it a kind what their revenue would be in four or five years. of seriousness, even if it’s funny. Now, it’s like six months is long-term. The other issue is serendipity. If you’re looking Whitcomb will continue to contribute a biweekly column to the through a magazine or a newspaper or even a book — ProJo. You can follow his blog at newenglanddiary.com. _Philip Eil an old-fashioned, non-Kindle book — you tend to come

“Usually the best story is, like, on the bottom of page 37.”

_robert whitcomb

A Vital Voice

Street SightS SendS up a diStreSS flare It could be a bake sale. Or a yard sale. Or a Kickstarter campaign. Or a Mario Hilario story on Channel 10. Or an hour-long show on Rhode Island Public Access to raise awareness. Or a car wash. “I’m not wearing a bikini, let’s just get that straight.” someone says. It’s Saturday afternoon at the George Hunt H.E.L.P. Center in downtown Providence and, today, the drop-in depot where local homeless folks can usually pick up shirts, shoes, and mini-bottles of soap and shampoo is dark. In the adjacent room, though, the staff of Street Sights is sitting around a conference table, brainstorming ways for the paper to survive. Since its March 2007 debut Street Sights — a free, monthly forum offering “accurate and honest information about issues relating to homelessness” — has always run on a tight budget, production manager/creative writing editor Stan Kapelewski says. (“When I first started editing I was homeless and put myself through transitional housing, which finally led me to a nice two-bedroom apartment of my own,” his bio on the paper’s website reads.) But the staff usually finds ways to crank out issues that announce meal times at local shelters and churches; include articles like “Unnoted Death in Sober House, Questions Unanswered” and “Rotating Shelter System, Gears Up for Cold Weather”; and, in March 2013, feature wallto-wall coverage in memory of homeless advocate John Joyce. But the paper’s finances have never been quite this dire. “How much money do we have now?” asks Barbara Kalil, a formerly homeless staff writer who wrote May’s cover story on a big band concert benefitting the Rhode Island Homeless Advocacy Project. “I’m not exactly sure. I’ve got to wait until Monday to find out again,” Kapelewski says. Last time he checked, they needed abut $300 more to pay for the full run of 2500 copies. He has already pushed production of the issue back a week, but he doesn’t want to axe it, entirely. Neither does Bill Harter, a staff writer who wrote filed five articles and a poem called “Watch Your Step!” for the May issue. “Some of these people have subscribed,” he says. “If we cut out an issue or two this year because we haven’t got the money, what are they doing to think next year when it comes time to subscribe again?” The meeting pushes on and Kapelewski passes out “PLEASE HELP US!!!” flyers to be distributed around town. Later, Harter suggests soliciting ads from local politicos. “Politicians are always looking to get their name in something-orother,” he says. The crew is about halfway through their meeting when staff photographer Jordan Montgomery walks through the door. He just spent 11 hours at the free dental clinic at CCRI, he says. He first arrived at 4:45 am. He went to the clinic to take pictures for the paper, of course, but also to see a dentist himself. “I thought I had to have some teeth pulled,” he tells the group, “but they said, ‘Keep ’em as long as you can.’ ” He left with a new filling for one tooth and a warning that he’ll eventually need a crown. But, right now, he says, he doesn’t have the extra $700 or $800 that will cost. “If you had that,” Kalil says, “You could donate it to Street Sights.” To learn more about Street Sights, go to streetsights.org.

_Philip Eil

DeDicAteD Kapelewski and Bill Harter.

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Summer Guide

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Full steam ahead these New eNglaNd alterNa-races iNvolve more thaN ruNNiNg _By d eir dre ful t o n Saturday, July 7 | RiRa Irish Pub, Providence, RI | $90-160 | urbandare.com

Run For Your Lives

In addition to terrifying man-made obstacles (e.g., “blood pits”), this race adds a motivational element in the form of “stumbler” and “chaser” zombies who pursue runners.

Saturday, July 27 | Wilderness Lake Campground and Resort, Willington, CT | $87-97 | runforyourlives.com

Bradbury Mountain Breaker

This 9-mile route “takes you up and down Bradbury Mountain more times than you can count.” Sounds awful! By which we mean, awesome!

Sunday, August 11 | Bradbury Mountain, Pownal, ME | $20 | trailmonsterrunning.com

Sweltering Summer Six-Hour

Competitors have six hours to complete as many loops as they are able around a .355-mile dirt and cinder track. Better bring a good audiobook . . .

run for your lives

Saturday, August 17 | Clapp Park, Pittsfield, MA | $40-60 | burcsrunners.org

Goruck Challenge

he growing popularity of alterna-races (like obstacle course challenges and mud runs) indicates that some of you need an extra push to lace up your sneakers. We get it. Running is just more fun when there are zombies involved! Here, we’ve rounded up some of the more unique running events happening around New England this summer. Prices are for individual participants.

Xtreme Urban 5K

Saturday, June 22 | Bolton Fairgrounds, Lancaster, MA | $80 | wickedmudrun.com

This course boasts more than 20 urban obstacles, such as cargo nets, shopping carts, sand pits, and something called a “School Bus Evacuation.” You remember practicing those in grade school, right?

Urban RAID

Ruckus Boston

Saturday, June 29 | Ocean Gateway Pier, Portland, ME | $65-75 | raidevents.com

Saturday, June 9 | Salem Willows Park, Salem, MA | $55-60 | xtremeurbanrun.com

Mud, monkey bars, and Tarzan-esque rope swings — this obstacle race has it all. At the end, take a moment to proudly observe the course and spectators from the 2.5-story “Mount Ruckmore” before sliding down to the finish line.

Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16 | Marshfield Fairgrounds, Marshfield, MA | $76-90 | runruckus.com

Longest Day 5K

Celebrate the longest day of 2013 with an evening forest trail run starting at 7:15 pm. How bucolic.

Friday, June 21 | Libby Hill Forest, Gray, ME | $10 | libbyhill.org

Wicked Mud Run

Co-founded by a former marine and sports tech guru, the Wicked Mud Run is another obstacle course, this one featuring — shocker — lots and lots of mud.

Founded in 2008 by a Green Beret, this event is less of a race and more of “an 8-10 hour, 15-20 mile guided tour led by a Special Operations Cadre, designed to turn 30 individuals into a team.” This ain’t for the faint of heart, but organizers are proud to boast a 94 percent completion rate.

Friday, August 23 | Providence, RI (start point to be announced closer to the event) | $120-140 | goruck.com

Apocalypse Run

At the first-ever Apocalypse Run, dreamt up by another former marine, participants pay one price and can choose to run a 5, 10, or 15K, all while navigating “never before seen” obstacles and roving “Marauders.”

Saturday, August 31 and Sunday, September 1 | Cheshire State Fair Grounds, Swanzey, NH | $60-75 | runtheapocalypse. com

Designed for “a new breed of cross-training athletes,” the RAID’s 5K course features monkey bars, a chain-link crawl, a sandbag carry, and cargo-net climb, all around downtown Portland.

The Color Run

The first-ever Color Run happened just last year, but it’s brightened many a run. Participants in the untimed 5K wear white and are doused by an (all-natural) color concoction along the race route, resulting in a vibrant (and messy) after-party.

Saturday, July 7 | Southern Maine Community College, South Portland, ME | $40-50 | thecolorrun.com

Urban Dare

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Tennessee may have Bonnaroo — the country’s largest and most expansive folk/pop/indie music festival — but it also has Tennessee, and its attendant heatstrokes, sludge puddles, and profound middle-American isolation. A New England summer — temporarily inoculated, by and large, from the crazy-making impacts of global warming — offers a cornucopia of more modest and inherently more pleasurable affairs. From municipal sunset concert series to a smattering of multi-day, campground affairs, this summer’s outdoor music slate is diverse and busy enough that it seemsto be united by nothing but picturesque settings and a reasonable proximity to a refreshing body of water. Whether three minutes or three hours from your doorstep, what follows is a sampling of some of the season’s most promising offerings. Further details can be found in our listings and on festival websites.

Rhode Island

The country’s smallest state seems to boast its most massive density of impressive summer concerts, most of which occur in postcard-ready Newport. Leading the pack, of course, is the Newport Folk Fest, whose target

demographic manages to get younger by the year without disrupting the event’s storied tradition of excellence. The three-day (July 26-28) affair boasts sets by Feist, the Mountain Goats, the Avett Brothers, Andrew Bird, Beck, the Lumineers, the heroically deadpan Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Amanda Palmer, and the alternately chilling and rambunctious alt-folk group Phosphorescent. Tickets are available for the 26th, but you’ll have to get creative to get into the Saturday and Sunday shows. The Newport waterfront boasts plenty more festivals and concerts throughout the summer. The NaNtucket Nectars suNset Music series hosts the B-52s (June 21), Chris Isaak (July 10), B.B. King (July 12), and plenty more. July 20 brings the Newport Blues aNd BBQ Festival, headlined by the James Cotton Blues Band, while the August 2-4 Newport Jazz Festival features Natalie Cole, Herbie Hancock, and Esperanza Spalding. Genre-hopping continues with an August 10 waterFroNt reggae Festival and the August 24 celtic rock Festival, amped up by the Dropkick Murphys. With an assist from WBRU, the city of Providence plays host to a free concert series Friday nights in waterFroNt park for six weeks beginning in June. Teenleaning pop-punk act New Politics begin the event on

A multi-day festival that manages to appeal to those normally repelled by the idea is the Wilco-produced and -curated solid souNd Festival, which takes over the wonderful Berkshires campus of MASS MoCA in North Adams from June 21-23. As you might expect, it’s kind of the Park Slope of summer fests: upper-middle-class thirty-something couples toting their toddlers around, organic hot dogs, local beer, acres of innovative art available for your perusal, etc. That said, the event is remarkably pleasant and comfortable, and boasts a particularly excellent roster this year. Neko Case, Yo La Tengo, and Os Mutantes join the hosts in uniting cred and popularity, and other acts like the idiosyncratic folk singer Sam Amidon and the raucous Austin hippie-punk band White Denim are not to be missed. Museums right in Boston get in on the action as well, with occasional courtyard (Museum of Fine Arts) and Harborside (ICA) events throughout the season. Both offer stellar backdrops for innovative artists: the MFA will be focusing on world music this summer, while the ICA showcases the work of Berklee students from July 12 through August at its free, Thursday evening harBorwalk series. Also right in the city, the Bank of America Pavilion is stocked with concerts catering to the young, artsy crowd: the austere duo XX join orchestral pop standard-bearers grizzly Bear on June 8, while Belle aNd seBastiaN revisit teenage awkwardness July 9 and Beck attempts to maintain his relevancy on August 2. A grander affair rounds out the summer on August 10, as Jay-z and JustiN tiMBerlake bring their winning, nouveau-Rat Pack chic to Fenway Park. Elsewhere around the state, summer concert series for your to-do lists include a trip to taNglewood. The Lenox institution is best known as a hub for summering classical musicians and prodigies-in-training, but offers a few great pop and jazz shows as well: bassist Esperanza Spalding performs August 4, Spike Lee scorer Terence Blanchard plays with his group June 28, and Grace Potter and Josh Ritter bring their bands to the festival on August 19. In Lowell, BoardiNg house park plays host to a Summer Music Series; choice engagements include dates with Richard Thompson (June 29), Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell (July 18), and the gleefully imitable Michael McDonald (July 13). The “Nashville North” of the country music circuit is Indian Ranch in Webster, and their summer slate includes Dwight Yoakam (June 23), Peter Frampton (June 30), and Pat Benatar (August 24). Among the Bay State’s most impressive multi-day events are the greeN river Festival in Greenfield, which runs July

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20-21 and features Gogol Bordello, Brandi Carlile, Todd Snider, hot air balloons, and a whole lot more; and the New BedFord Folk Festival, a July 6-7 oceanside fest with Antje Duvekot, Anais Mitchell, Ellis Paul, and more.

Maine

With its spacious Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, Bangor has become the unlikely hub for many of Maine’s biggest annual outdoor events. The venue plays host to a series of ticketed evening shows this summer, beginning with Sting’s “Back to Bass” tour on June 20. phish will clog the highways before creating a temporary township on the site July 3, two weeks before acclaimed filmmaker Rob Zombie brings his latest “MayheM Festival” to Maine, with Five Finger Death Punch and critic-favorite metal band Mastodon (among others) in tow. Later, Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five, and Guster make an inevitably futile attempt to be funny or provocative as their “last suMMer oN earth” tour arrives on July 21, just 48 hours before T.I. and Lil Wayne hit town. (Fans of cognitive dissonance may want to stick around for the next day’s performance by Nickelodeon’s prefab pop group Big tiMe rush.) Appealing late-summer engagements include a co-headlining tour by country-pop great MiraNda laMBert and dierks BeNtley on August 2 and an August 30 date with the irrepressible ke$ha. The venue is also home to a few multi-day affairs, the most longstanding of which is the aMericaN Folk Festival, which runs from August 23 to 25, and the fifth annual kahBaNg Festival (August 8-11), Maine’s great white hope for a thriving hipster music festival. The lineups for both festivals will be announced soon. Elsewhere around the state, blues, folk, and druggy campground affairs rule the calendar. The North atlaNtic Blues Festival returns to the Public Landing in Rockland for the weekend of July 1314, and features the unstoppable Mavis Staples, along with Sugar Ray (not that one) and the Bluetones, and the Holmes Brothers. Rockland also plays host to the MaiNe loBster Festival (July 31-August 4), which offers a rotating cast of local acts and an August 2 performance by the Spin Doctors. Bluegrass fans will hitch their trailers to the campgrounds at the ossipee valley Music Festival in South Hiram from July 25 to 28; that event will feature Marty Stuart and His Band, along with Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins, and dozens of other bands (and the odd flatpicking competition). The town of Starks plays host to a few weekend music festivals explicitly aligned with marijuana legalization efforts; assuming no further

details are needed, you can educate yourself about those events online at mainevocals.net. Lastly, a favorite stop for Maine musicians is one of the longest drives in New England. The arootsakoostik Music Festival goes down in the county on July 13 with the Mallett Brothers, Jacob Augustine, Dead End Armory, and plenty more.

New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut If a jaunt to Funspot or a day of Romneyspotting on Lake Winnipesaukee isn’t temptation enough, New Hampshire’s got a few concert series lined up to lure in the summering crowd. The MeadowBrook pavilioN in Gilford hosts festivalish, day-long events throughout the summer, and the 8000-person venue hosts everyone from the Avett Brothers (June 8) to the Black Crowes and the Tedeschi Trucks Brand (July 27 for that interesting double-bill), and from John Mayer (August 18) to Ke$ha (August 31), the two of whom I hope I’m not alone in wishing were a double-bill. Also lakeside, the great waters Music Festival is ongoing throughout the summer, with a few pops and classical nights, and headlining shows with Cheryl Wheeler (June 28), Jason Spooner (July 26), and Lorrie Morgan (August 16). Right in Portsmouth, the

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pittance of a donation to catch the likes of Justin Townes Earle (July 10), Trombone Shorty (July 26), the Head and the Heart (July 31), and Dar Williams (August 14), among quite a few others. In the Northwestern reaches of the region, Ben and Jerry’s serves up a few concerts on Shelburne’s museum green; expect big fun and great crowds on June 11, as the maximalist indie anthemists edward sharpe aNd the MagNetic zeros play, and on June 22, with the unimpeachably cool duo of david ByrNe aNd st. viNceNt. Safely distant from the sweltering New York summer, a couple events in Connecticut caught our eye as well. The gatheriNg oF the viBes is one of the more renowned music festivals on the everlasting Deadhead circuit, and will prove its worth from July 25-28 at Seaside Park in Bridgeport. Headliners at the admirably eclectic fest include Phil Lesh and Friends, the Roots, Galactic, and Grace Potter, but be sure to save some energy for late-night DJ sets by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy. Over in New Haven, the iNterNatioNal Festival oF arts aNd ideas (June 15-29) is an important summer pit stop for intellectuals and theatrical and dance performance troupes, but it also offers some terrific free concerts over the fortnight. ^

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Shifting lines in the sand In thIs excerpt from snob Zones, the author examInes Watch hIll’s clampdoWn on napatree poInt, WhIch sparked suspIcIons of an Intent to exclude _By Lisa Pre vo s t

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tail-like extension of Rhode Island’s southwestern tip, the spit of sand and gravel known as Napatree Point gracefully curves off toward the horizon, a wide-open pathway into the sea. Its entire mile-and-a-half length is barren of development, save for the century-old ruins of a fort used briefly as a coastal defense lookout. A hump of grassy dunes runs down Napatree’s middle. On one side, a broad beach faces the open Atlantic; on the other, a rockier shore forms a protected harbor within Little Narragansett Bay. The view from atop the dunes or from Napatree’s rocky tip takes in a spectacular three-state panorama that grazes the shores of Block Island, Long Island, Fishers Island, and Stonington, Connecticut. Part of the historic village of Watch Hill, in the town of Westerly, Napatree is both shorebird preserve and public beach. Nature foiled long-ago attempts to civilize its shores. The devastating Hurricane of 1938 wiped out an entire cottage community along Napatree, killing many of its inhabitants. The storm also amputated the farthest reach of Napatree, forming an island known as Sandy Point. Without so much as an ice cream vendor now, the “Naps” is a no-frills idyll as popular with beachcombers as with birds. The peninsula’s long reach into the bay also makes it an anchorage mecca for boaters looking to get to shore. On a sunny summer weekend afternoon, the back side of the spit often resembles a motorboat parking lot. “You go up and down the shore and there are not many places where you can anchor,” says Fred DeGrooth, a char-

ter captain who has lived in Westerly for about twenty years. “So people anchor in Little Narragansett Bay, take their inflatables to Napatree, and walk to town.” About 90 percent of Napatree is owned by the Watch Hill Fire District, an unusual quasimunicipal authority chartered in 1901. Fire districts in New England are commonly separate taxing districts that pay for and maintain their own fire departments. The Watch Hill Fire District, however, has additional powers that give it considerable control over valuable real estate within its extremely affluent borders. Under its state-approved charter, this fire district may buy and manage property. In addition to a firehouse, the district owns prime beachfront and precious parking lots in the village’s small commercial strip on Bay Street. The district also owns and runs the Watch Hill public beach, bathhouse, and the antique “Flying Horse” carousel. If some of its property, like the harborside park on Bay Street and the Watch Hill beach, is accessible to the public, much of it is reserved for and leased to private entities. These include the members-only Watch Hill Yacht Club in the harbor, as well as the yacht club’s beachfront cabanas, and the Misquamicut Beach Club, a shorefront

extension of a highly selective nearby golf club. The self-serving aspect of this arrangement has not gone unnoticed—a state lawmaker once accused the Watch Hill fire district (and two others like it in Westerly) of holding onto beach properties as a means of “exclusion.” Watch Hill residents’ usual response to such criticisms is to wave their sizable property tax bills, a reminder that the high property values in their desirable district are a boon to town coffers. Surrounded by water on three sides, Watch Hill has served as a summer resort since the nineteenth century, when polite society began coming by steamer to escape the city heat and while away the season in rambling wooden hotels. “The visitors to this place represent annually the choicest class of society,” reported one newspaper correspondent in 1868. Gradually, the wealthy built their own “cottage” colony, laid out by a Cincinnati syndicate whose members were all summer people. They carved a 130-acre farm into house lots and controlled the sales so as to shape a colony where, according to one Watch Hill history, “one could meet only the ‘best’ sort of people.” Today, newer money, much of it flowing from Wall Street, competes with older, pedigreed wealth. Private homes have replaced the old hotels, though some of the “cottages” are of nearly hotel-size proportions. Visitors of lesser means have long found Napatree Point to be one of the more accessible features of beautiful Watch Hill. Gaining admission to the peninsula’s beach has simply demanded that you are able to get there. On foot, that means walking through a public parking lot off Bay Street and then around the private beach club’s fenced parking lot to the Naps’s narrow pedestrian entry path. In the summer of 2007, however, the policy of unhindered access to the point suddenly began to change. First, a big green sign appeared at the trail entrance. Use of the point is “permissive,” the sign said, “but permission may be withdrawn at any time for any purpose.” Visitors were advised that they could not bring in beverages, not even bottled water. Nor could they bring their dogs, unless it was early morning or after 6 pm, and then only on leashes. This came as a rude surprise to dog owners. A town ordinance similarly prohibited dogs on public beaches, but the rule had never been enforced on Napatree. A gate went up — not locked, but off-putting nonetheless. Hired wardens began patrolling the dunes, watching for violators. Then smaller signs, dozens of them, popped up in the grass warning visitors of the importance of dune protection and the hazards of ticks. Ropes were strung across the many pathways over the dunes. Napatree, it turned out, was now a threatened-species zone. The Watch Hill Fire District, along with another Napatree parcel owner, the privately funded Watch Hill Conservancy, had signed agreements with the US Fish and Wildlife Service authorizing the agency to manage the federally protected piping plovers and least terns common to the point. Fish and Wildlife’s role was to rope off and monitor areas where plovers were nesting in the sand. The fire district and conservancy had taken it upon themselves to hire the wardens and put up signs. This new arrangement was necessary, the groups said, in order to protect Napatree from overuse. Conservancy

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and studios’ zeal to quench it. To illustrate the point, he shared an anecdote about being seated next to a “white guy in his mid-30s” on cross-country flight. The seatmate opens his iPad. Curious to see what he’s watching (and perhaps hopeful it would be Magic Mike or Contagion), the auteur finds that his seatmate’s iPad has “loaded in half a dozen action sort of extravaganzas and he’s watching each of the action sequences; he’s skipping over the dialogue and narrative.” “This guy’s flight is going to be five and a half hours of just mayhem porn,” Soderbergh said. If you’re like Soderbergh’s neighbor, this summer’s lineup will not disappoint. But a notable underlying theme among this year’s summer crop is that, while Earth is being destroyed, the villains are not an external alien threat. We, ordinary citizens of Earth, are the cause of our own demise. But that doesn’t mean that we won’t revel in our own undoing. You can always count on director Roland Emmerich to provide images of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in various stages of distress, like getting blown up by an alien spaceship in his 1996 Independence Day. This summer, Roland and Co. are back in DC with White House Down (June 28). But unlike its extraterrestrial predecessor, White House Down stars Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx fighting against good ol’ human terrorism. Emmerich suggests, with Abraham Lincoln’s ominous epigraph “we destroyed ourselves,” that America’s demise comes from within. Summer isn’t summer without Johnny Depp in eyeliner. Having directed Depp

in all of the Pirates of the Caribbean films and as the voice of the hapless desert lizard Rango, Gore Verbinski works again with his muse in The Lone Ranger (July 3). But within the great unfurling of a Disney Western, a strident tone of distrust of authority reigns. In the Old West, power is concentrated into the hands of a few men who “control the railroad, the cavalry, everything,” laments Lone Ranger Armie Hammer. “If these men represent the law, I’d rather be an outlaw.” Grown men who wear masks and work outside of grown-up rules aren’t just a fixation the summer action-thriller set. In comedies, too, themes of regression and shunning the bummer adult world abound. And no duo better recede back into their fraternity days than Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in The Internship (June 7). With their company closing, Vaughn and Wilson do the only logical thing: score an internship at Google. It’s hard not to imagine that in a few years the storied technological amenities of the Googleplex — ping-pong table, burrito buffets, cars that drive themselves — will look as kitschily retro as the keypad door entry in 1992’s computer heist Sneakers. In Grown Ups 2 (July 11) — which should be subtitled “Not Grown Up Yet!” — crack team Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and Kevin James are simultaneously thrilled and confounded by the adolescents they seek to emulate. What’s up with those Situation-like abs on the younger bucks? As with the first Grown Ups installment, wives are still nags and offspring still re-

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quire too much attention. But this time a moose urinates on Sandler. Who wants to grow up in a world where the bodily functions of large mammals are not the source of hilarity? Man-children are not the only characters regressing back into petulant teens. In director Shari Springer Berman’s first feature film Girl Most Likely (July 19), Kristen Wiig’s Imogene has a meltdown and must be returned to the care of her narcissistic hot mess party mom played by the indomitable Annette Bening. But moving back home does not preclude romance; mom has hired out a room to a hunky tenant (Darren Criss), and Wiig must determine (in her glorious Lucille Ball-style physical comedy) if parental proximity will dampen the flame. Perhaps in response to the trends in filmmaking that Soderbergh discussed, auteur indie directors are lightening up their summer stock. Taking a notable departure from her atmospheric and minimal dialogue films, Sofia Coppola’s

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The Bling Ring (June 14) is based on the real events of a group of LA teens who, using social media to track their marks’ whereabouts, raided the homes of Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton for handbags and Louboutins. With a fun Spring Breakers bad girl aspect, Emma Watson leads the unlikely robbers in this frothy caper. But the standout indie film of the summer may have already been released. Noah Baumbach co-wrote Frances Ha with the film’s star Greta Gerwig, who previously played an ebullient foil to the caustic Ben Stiller in Baumbach’s last film, Greenberg. Shot in black-and-white like Woody Allen’s Manhattan and free of romcom sentimentality, Frances Ha is a tribute to female friendship and shucking away layers of youthful narcissism. Baumbach’s latest is the antidote to the other comedies’ backward progress, and it’ll be Gerwig’s calling card for years to come. It’s one of the only films this summer in which growing up doesn’t seem less likely than mutant spaceships blowing up the White House. ^

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The lo-down on froyo Weighing the existential question of the summer _By P h il iP E il

y the time you finish reading this article, another froyo lounge may have opened in Rhode Island. “What’s a froyo lounge?” you say. You could start by asking the nearest teenager, who probably still has gummy bears and half-melted “Cake Batter” yogurt stuck in their braces from the last visit.

Or you could cruise around the state with an eye for those brightly lit parlors with neon-painted walls; rows of metal-armed machines awaiting customers’ sweaty palms; plastic trays overflowing with sprinkles, cookie bits, candy corn, and diced strawberries; and a cashier’s counter that looks like a miniature highway weigh station. To put the trend in perspective: Lincoln, Rhode Island has two froyo lounges within half a mile of each other. In a span of six months during 2012, the Oklahoma-based franchise Orange Leaf (“American’s Frozen Yogurt™”) opened storefronts in Newport, Kingston, Warwick, and East Greenwich, with two more in Cranston and Westerly opening soon, according to their website. Meanwhile, rumors on Hope Street in Bristol and Wickenden Street in Providence indicate that two more froyo lounges are on their way. We at the Phoenix are conflicted about this. On one hand the chilled, colorful goop that pours out of those machines is damn addictive, as the name of Narragansett’s “Froyo Fix” lounge seems to acknowledge. This, combined with the chance to dispense as much as we want and top it with cookie dough balls, banana slices, snow caps, and Reese’s Pieces . . . well, it’s our inner chubby kid’s fantasy come to life. On the other hand, every time we eat at a Yo-Mix or a Fruitzzy, we feel like we’re cheating on our old standby ice cream joints. To froyo or not to froyo? This is the existential question of the summer. And we’re here to help you think it through.

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Face it: froyo lounges are the future. The surfaces are shiny. The blinking screens on the wall play Pixar movies or announce the day’s flavors. The speakers play the newest, bounciest, synth-inflected, Auto-Tuned pop. And the toppings include glistening orange globules called “Boba poppers.” This ain’t no science fiction novel. This is dessert in 2013. Plus, froyo lounges are healthy — sort of. We don’t exactly take FroyoWorld literally when they say their product is connected to “a healthier lifestyle that enhances your body and beauty.” But their bevy of low-fat options and toppings like granola and almonds are hard to deny. Even if we do slather our froyo towers with Nilla wafers and chocolate syrup, the chilled air and polished tiles of these places makes us at least feel fitter. And the self-serve model (ingeniously) places the guilt squarely on us, not the store. In a froyo lounge, your health is in your hands. Speaking of self-serve, what’s more American than choosing your own adventure? This is dessert of the people, by the people, and for the people — just like Honest Abe would have ordered it. You want to top that salted caramel pretzel-flavored froyo with more caramel and more pretzels? You want to fill your cup with a dollop of yogurt topped with a mountain of gummy worms and

coconut shavings? That’s your inalienable right, as long as you can foot the $0.49 per ounce tab. God bless America.

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The much-touted healthiness of froyo lounges, is, of course, a mirage. “[When] the eater’s head is saying ‘this is healthy,’ it could lead to more being consumed,” Dr. Mary Flynn, a nutrition expert from Brown Medical School and Miriam Hospital tells us. And it’s not just words like “fresh” and “probiotic “ that keep us eating more; it’s the yogurt itself. Fat makes us feel full, Dr. Flynn says. Without it, you’re chasing a satisfaction that low-fat froyo can never give, and tossing back hundreds of calories as you go. Plus, these joints don’t seem to be the place for homemade, locally sourced ingredients. Look up the ingredients for FroyoWorld’s “Cake Batter” online and you’ll find “turmeric,” “distilled monoglycerides,” “cellulose gum,” “pectin,” “carrageenan,” and “modified food starch.” The list of ingredients has parentheses within parentheses — something you never want to see on a food label (One ice cream shop owner

described new-wave froyo to us as “Cocoa Puffs on top of chemicals.”) And do we really want stores that feel like the spawn of a space station and an American Idol set? Gone is the salt air of Matunuck’s Vanilla Bean. Gone are the picnic tables, trees, and grassy patches from Gray’s in Tiverton. At a froyo lounge, you have a mirror pane that slides open in front of you as you’re scooping up blueberries at the toppings station, then a disembodied arm reaches out to refill a container of chocolate chips or wipe a dollop of errant froyo off a counter, then the arm disappears and the mirror slides back into place. Is this utopia or dystopia? Give us scuffed surfaces, give us Sam Cooke singing “Tennessee Waltz” on the stereo, give us a pile of old board games in the corner — all of which can be found at Three Sisters in Providence. Give us good ol’ Del’s lemonade where, when we called the Cranston headquarters to ask about froyo, someone told us, “I have no idea about frozen yogurt whatsoever. Nor do I like it. Nor do I care about it.” Give us the Sunshine Creamery on Roger Williams Avenue in East Providence, where we can dive into a heaping pile of peppermint ice cream alongside leathervested bikers and squealing kids playing tag. And when we’re hankering for a sip of water at, say, Cool Licks Creamery in North Providence (which feels like it’s been there since the dawn of time), after our mouths are full of waffle cone and peanut butter cups and frozen cherries, we don’t walk to buy a bottled water. We want to walk over to the on-site water fountain — known around here as the “bubblah” — for a long, refreshing slurp. When was the last time you saw a “bubblah” in a froyo lounge? ^

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JUNE 8 + 9 | FESTIVAL FETE’S GARDEN CITY CENTER ART FESTIVAL with more than 140 artisans, food, music, strolling entertainment, and more | Garden City Center, Rte 2, Cranston | 401.374.3899 | festivalfete.com

JUNE 14 | SMITH’S CASTLE STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL | Savor strawberry shortcake! Plus craft vendors and children’s activities | 12 to 4 pm (rain date June 16) | Smith’s Castle, 55 Richard Smith Dr, Wickford | 401.294.3521 | smithscastle.org JUNE 15 | RI PRIDE FEST with a GLBT marketplace and business exposition + a Kids Pride Zone + entertainment (with headliner Thea Austin) + the Illuminated Night-Time Parade | 12 to 8:30 pm | South Water St, Providence | 401.467.2130 | prideri.com JUNE 21-23 | NEWPORT FLOWER SHOW | This year’s theme: “Jade: Eastern Obsessions,” with judged horticultural specimens and floral designs, garden exhibitions, lectures and demonstrations, and the Gardeners’ Marketplace | Rosecliff, 548 Bellevue Ave, Newport | $23 ($25 June 21), $6 ages 13-17 | 401.847.1000 | newport mansions.org

JUNE 22 | 3RD ANNUAL BLACKSTONE RIVER

THEATRE SUMMER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL with food + craft vendors + music by the AtwaterDonnelly Trio + Cantrip + Aoife Clancy + Core 4 + Sheila Falls & Mark Roberts + Genticorum + the Gnomes • Paddy Keenan + Cassie & Maggie MacDonald + Robbie O’Connell • Pendragon + Irish step dance featuring Tir Na Nog Irish Dance and Showcase Dance Productions + more | 11 am to 7 pm (rain date June 23) | Diamond Hill Park, Rt 114, Cumberland | $15, $10 seniors, $5 kids, free under 5 | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org JUNE 22 | RHODE ISLAND CHARTER 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION with an open house

from 10 am-1 pm, Junior Ranger activities, Native drumming, and Ranger programs from 1-6 pm, and a “Singing About Providence” concert featuring WS Monroe, Billy Mitchell, Indigo Bethea, Heather Rose, Jacob Haller, and Ed McGuirl from 4-6 pm | Rhode Island State House, 82 Smith St, Providence | 401.456.0200 | goprovidence.com JUNE 22 + 23 | NARRAGANSETT ART FESTIVAL | This festival features more than 100 fine-art exhibitors, mostly from New England. Displays include oils, acrylics, drawings, graphics, sculpture, photography, watercolors, and pastels. Proceeds from artist-registration fees benefit the Rotary Club scholarship program |9 am to 5 pm | Veterans Memorial Park, Memorial Sq, Narragansett | Free | 401.789.7713 | wakefieldrotary.com JUNE 22-JULY 7 | BIG APPLE CIRCUS | One-ring European-style circus with clowns, acrobats, and horses | Ninigret Park, Rte 1A, Charlestown | $15-$45 | 401.364.0890 | bigapplecircus.org

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vendors | 2-5 pm | The Rhode Island Eye Institute, 150 East Manning St, Providence | $10 | rifoodfights.com JUNE 29 | ZOOBILEE! FEAST WITH THE BEASTS | A fundraiser for the Roger Williams Park Zoo with food and beverages from local restaurants and caterers, music by the World Premiere Band, an auction, and more | 7-11 pm | Roger Williams Park Zoo, 1000 Elmwood Ave, Providence | $125 | 401.941.3910 x 453 | rwpzoo.org

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| The festival features more than 50 events, workshops, and demonstrations of Japanese culture, including kite flying, sushi making, karate, origami, and Taiko drumming. Call or visit the Web site for detailed information on events and tickets | Newport | 401.847.7666 | blackshipsfestival.com

JULY 19 + 20 | CIRCUS SMIRKUS’ 26TH ANNUAL BIG TOP TOUR | Washington County Fairgrounds,

Rte 112, Richmond | $19, $17 kids | 877.SMIRKUS | smirkus.org JULY 19-21 | EAST PROVIDENCE HERITAGE FESTIVAL | Music, food, crafts, and classic cars. This year’s performers include Tramps Like Us (Bruce Springsteen tribute), the Unforgettable Fire (U2 tribute), Who Are You (the Who tribute), and more. See the website for schedule and ticket prices | Pierce Stadium, East Providence | 401.435.7511 | epheritagedays.com

JULY 19-21 | 35TH ANNUAL SOUTH COUNTY HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL | The fest features hot

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of Rhode Island farmers, fishermen, and food artisans featuring two dozen local farmers and producers teamed up with chefs from Castle Hill, Newport Restaurant Group, and 10 more; plus, local wines, beers, live music, a photo booth, and a silent auction | Castle Hill, 590 Ocean Ave, Newport | 4 pm-dusk | $75 advance, $90 door | 401.312.4250 | farmfreshri.org/about/localfoodfest.php

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demonstrations + food + music + more | 10 am-4 pm (rain date July 21) | The Mill Pond, 3948 Main Rd, Tiverton | Free | tivertonfourcorners.com

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JULY 21 + 22 | EASTERN RHODE ISLAND 4-H COUNTY FAIR | The event features amusements, watermelon

JULY 27 + 28 | 13TH ANNUAL CULTURAL SURVIVAL BAZAAR | A cultural festival that provides indigenous

artists, cooperatives, and their representatives from around the world the chance to sell their work (traditional and contemporary crafts, artwork, clothing, jewelry, carpets, and accessories) directly to the American public; plus music, Native American storytelling, craft-making demonstrations, films, food, and more | 10 am-5 pm | Free | Four Corners Arts Center, 3852 Main Road, Tiverton | 617.441.5400 | bazaar.culturalsurvival.org

August AUG 2-4 | 29TH CHARLESTOWN SEAFOOD FESTIVAL |

Feast on seafood, lobsters, steamers, chowder, fish and chips, clam cakes, corn, a raw bar, and even non-seafood delights. Attractions include music, arts and crafts, amusement rides, rock-wall climbing, children’s shows, bungee jumping, and a lobster raffle | Aug 2 + 3 12-11 pm + Aug 4 11 am-10 pm | $8, children 12 and under free, $1 donation to park | Ninigret Park, Rte 1A, Charlestown | 401.364.4031 | charlestownrichamber.com

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Pop Music 3RD ANNUAL BLACKSTONE RIVER THEATRE SUMMER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL | At Diamond Hill Park, Rte 114, Cumberland | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org/brtssf June 22: The Atwater-Donnelly Trio, Cantrip,

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Experience July 10: Kid Rock + Kool & the Gang + Uncle Kracker July 11: Vans Warped Tour 2013 with Letlive + Hawthorne Heights + Defeater + New Years Day + Versa Emerge + Architects UK + Atilla + Forever the Sickest Kids + Man Overboard + Woe is Me + I See Stars + Go Radio + the Story So Far + Like Moths to Flames + Big Chocolate + Stick to Your Guns + Hands Like Houses + Anarbor + Black Dahlia Murder + Wallpaper + the Early November + Upon a Burning Body + Shy Kidx + Tonight Alive + Action Item + Oh, Sleeper + Middle Finger Salute + While She Sleeps + Allstar Weekend + Rdgldgrn + Mac Lethal + the Amity Affliction + MC Lars + the Chariot + For the Foxes + the Summer Set + Outasight + Stephan Jacobs July 12: 311 + Cypress Hill July 16: Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival with Thrown Into Exile + City In the Sea + Children of Bodom + Amon Amarth + Rob Zombie + Five Finger Death Punch + Mastodon + Machine Head + Job For a Cowboy + Butcher Babies + Battlecross + Huntress + Behemoth + Emmure + Born of Osiris + Motionless In White July 19: Eagles July 20: Americanarama Festival of Music with Bob Dylan + Wilco + My Morning Jacket + Ryan Bingham July 21: Big Time Rush + Victoria Justice + Jackson Guthy + Olivia Somerlyn July 27: Train + the Script + Gavin DeGraw Aug 4: Lil Wayne + T.I. Tyga Aug 7: Wiz Khalifa + A$AP Rocky + B.o.B. + Pro Era + Berner + Chevy Woods + Smoke Dza Aug 9: Maroon 5 + Kelly Clarkson + Rozzi Crane Aug 10: Keith Urban + Little Big Town + Dustin Lynch Aug 12: Black Sabbath Aug 14: Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival with Alice in Chains + Jane’s Addiction + Coheed and Cambria + Circa Survive + Walking Papers + New Politics + more Aug 15: Zac Brown Band Aug 17: John Mayer + Phillip Phillips Aug 18: Matchbox Twenty + Goo Goo Dolls + Kate Earl Sept 6: The Allman Brothers Band + Grace Potter & the Nocturnals Sept 7: Blake Shelton + Easton Corbin + Jana Kramer

CONSERFEST 2013 | Block Island | conserfest.org Aug 3 + 4: The fest raises funds and awareness for

land conservation and environmental education projects on Block Island. The headliner is the Giant Panda Guerrilla Dub Squad; more than 20 other acts will be announced. Shows are on Aug 3 at the Poor Peoples Outdoor Stage [3-6 pm] at the Club Soda Indoor Stage [9 pm-1 am] and on Aug 4 at the Town Beach Pavilion Stage [11 am-4 pm], Captain Nick’s Outdoor Stage [4:30-9 pm], and Yellow Kittens [9:30 pm-1 am].

FÊTE | 103 Dike St, Providence | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com June 8: The Lovely Bad Things + Wyatt Blair

INDIAN RANCH | 200 Gore Rd, Webster, MA | 508.943.3871 | indianranch.com June 22: Zonkaraz June 23: Dwight Yoakam June 29: Jo Dee Messina June 30: Frampton’s Guitar Circus with Peter Frampton, Sonny Landreth, and Don Felder

July 7: Montgomery Gentry July 13: Changes In Latitude [Jimmy Buffett tribute]

July 27: Three Dog Night July 28: Phil Vassar Aug 4: Jamey Johnson Aug 10: Scotty McCreery Aug 11: Marshall Tucker Band Aug 17: Kenny Rogers Aug 24: Pat Benatar and Neil Gerardo Sept 1: 38 Special Sept 7: Sara Evans Sept 8: Charlie Daniels Band LUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | 79 Washington St, Providence | 401.331.5876 | lupos.com June 7: Queensrÿche + the Voodoos + Something Unto Nothing

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Formidable June 28: The White Panda July 5: French Montana July 13: Streetlight Manifesto + Rodeo Ruby Love + Empty Orchestra July 19: Mac Miller + Earl Sweatshirt + Chance the Rapper + Vince Staples + the Internet July 21: Gogol Bordello Aug 1: Guster + Jukebox the Ghost Aug 24: Neurosis + Lustmord Sept 3: Zappa Plays Zappa Sept 6: The Gaslight Anthem

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THE MET | 1005 Main St, Pawtucket | 401.729.1005 | themetri.com June 7: Start Making Sense + Nights Without Television

June 10: Swingin’ Utters + the Goddamn Gallows + This Is a Movement June 12: Hot 8 Brass Band + the Funky Autocrats June 14: Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkins June 15: The Technicolors + the Clox June 18: The Psychedelic Furs June 26: Authority Zero + Ballyhoo! + Versus the World June 26: The Murder Junkie June 27: The Church of Providence with B. Dolan + Juan Deuce & Falside + Olneyville Sound System + Brown Girl Burlesque + Marq Twain + Born Casual July 5: No Recall + Cad Guests July 9: Texas In July July 10: Hockey + Saint Motel + Swann July 14: The Wild July 18: Young Dubliners July 19: Grand Evolution + Heather Rose In Clover + the Wandas + Satellites Fall July 20: Incantation + Acheron + Bog of the Infidel + Churchburn

Aug 2: Antidote + Neutral Nation + the Trans Fats + Opposition Rising + Redline Rebels + Done With You Aug 7: Tribal Seeds + Josh Heineichs Aug 13: Pere Ubu

FOX THEATER | At Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | 800.200.2882 | foxwoods.com June 13 + 14: Old School Hip-Hop Jam with DMX

+ EPMD + Special ED + Rakim + Naughty By Nature + Slick Rick [both nights] + Chubb Rock + Kid N Play + Doug E. Fresh [the 13th] + Big Daddy Kane + Biz Markie [the 14th] July 11: Original stars formerly of Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Blue Öyster Cult, and the Knack July 12: Lyle Lovett July 13: Doo Wopp Hall of Fame of America with the Contours, the Original Vandellas, Dynamics, Randy and the Rainbows, the Legacy of Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters with son Ron McPhatter, Billy Davis and the Hank Ballard Midnighters Revue, and Harvey Robbins’s Roy-

June 8: Calexico + Arc Iris June 9: School of Rock — Seekonk

June 10: Tommy Malone of the Subdudes

June 12: Royal Teeth + American Authors June 13: Terrapin Flyer featuring Melvin Seals and Mark Karan

June 14: Kool G Rap June 17: Atlas Genius + Pacific Air + Haerts June 18: WHY? + Sarah Jaffe June 20: A Silent Film + the Unlikely Candidates June 26: Action Bronson June 28: Souls of Mischief July 13: Relient K + the Almost + the Rocketboys July 19: The Lemonheads July 26: Elise Testone & Her Band Aug 13: Baroness + Royal Thunder MGM GRAND THEATER | At Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | 800.200.2882 | foxwoods.com June 13 + 14: Old School Hip-Hop Jam with DMX + EPMD + Special ED + Rakim + Naughty By Nature + Slick Rick + Chubb Rock + Kid N Play + Doug E. Fresh [the 13th] + DMX + EPMD +

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Naughty By Nature + Rakim + Big Daddy Kane + Special Ed + Slick Rick + Biz Markie [the 14th] June 21: Counting Crows + the Wallflowers July 10: Aerosmith July 13: Cyndi Lauper July 14: The TGT Tour with Tyrese, Ginuwine, and Tank July 28: Lynyrd Skynyrd Aug 2: One Republic Aug 10: George Thorogood & the Destroyers + Buddy Guy Aug 28: Cheap Trick Aug 29: Huey Lewis & the News Sept 7: Alan Jackson

MOHEGAN SUN ARENA | 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd, Uncasville, CT | 888.777.7922 | mohegansun.com June 21: Alice Cooper + Marilyn Manson June 22: Sting June 27: Bruno Mars + Fitz & the Tantrums July 3: The Doobie Brothers July 4: Heart +} Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience

July 5: Megadeth + Black Label Society + Device +

Hellyeah + Newsted + Death Division July 18: Eagles July 19: Barenaked Ladies + Ben Folds Five + Guster + Boothby Graffoe July 20: Big Time Rush + Jackson Guthy + Olivia Somerlyn July 23: Jonas Brothers July 24: Robert Plant presents the Sensational Shape Shifters + Bombino July 28: The Beach Boys Aug 2: The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour starring Beyoncé Aug 8: Black Sabbath Aug 10: KISS + Leogun Aug 13: Matchbox Twenty + Goo Goo Dolls Aug 17: American Idol Live! Tour 2013 Aug 23: Ke$ha + Mike Posner & Semi-Precious Weapons Aug 24: Styx + REO Speedwagon Aug 30: The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream Sept 5: Fall Out Boy + Panic At the Disco

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1ST ANNUAL MYSTIC BLUES FESTIVAL | At the Mystic Shipyard, Olde Mistick Village Arts Cinema, the Captain Daniel Packer Inne, the Dog Watch Cafe and Restaurant, La Luna, Mystic Boathouse, Olde Mistick Village, the Steak Loft, Voodoo Grille, and the Knickerbocker in Westerly | Complete schedule @ mysticbluesfestival.com June 28-30: James Cotton, Al Kooper, Jaimoe’s Jasssz

Band, Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez, James Montgomery, Kal David/Jeff Pevar and the Joint Venture, Jim Weider and ProJECT PERCoLAToR, Roomful of Blues, Debbie Davies, Ricky “King” Russell & the Cadillac Horns, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Johnny Nicholas & Hell Bent, Sugar Ray & the Bluetones, Greg Piccolo & Heavy Juice, the Chris Leigh Band, Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood, Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts, the Greg Sherrod Blues Band, Fran and Bob Christina, Johnny & the East Coast Rockers, Ramblin’ Dan Stevens, Wooly Mammoth, Travis Moody, the Don’t Taser Me Bro Band (with Fran and Bob Christina, Sam Gentile, Steve Burke, and Gary Gramolini), the Mystic Horns, Al Copley, Lisa Marie and Johnny Juxo, Neal Vitullo & the Vipers with Dave Howard, John Fries, Ms. Marci & the Lovesick Hounds, Original Jelly Roll Soul, Tim Gartland, Brandt Taylor, Chris MacKay & the Toneshifters, High Times, Josi Davis, Rufus “Baby Grand” Davis,

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NANTUCKET NECTARS SUMMER MUSIC SERIES | At the Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf | 401.846.1600 | newportwaterfrontevents.com June 6: Gov’t Mule + Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers June 14: Brandi Carlile June 15: Willie Nelson & Family June 20: Chicago June 21: The B-52s June 23: moe. + Eddy’s Shoe + more June 28: Foreigner July 3: Boz Scaggs July 6: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings + the James

Hunter Six July 12: B.B. King July 17: The Doobie Brothers July 20: Newport Blues & BBQ Festival with the James Cotton Blues Band + Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes + Matt “Guitar” Murphy with Rick Russell & the Cadillac Horns + Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters + Quinn Sullivan July 30: One Republic + Major Hawthorne Aug 4: Under the Sun Tour with Smash Mouth + Sugar Ray + Gin Blossoms + Fastball Aug 9: George Thorogood & the Destroyers + Buddy Guy Aug 10: 4th Annual Newport Waterfront Reggae Festival with Morgan Heritage + Anthony B. + Bushman + Chuck Fenda + Wait For Green + DJ Realm & Jah Soldier of OmegaSound Aug 17: The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute Aug 22: Styx Aug 24: 2nd Annual Newport Celtic Rock Festival with Dropkick Murphys + Eileen Ivers + the Town Pants + Screaming Orphans + more Aug 31: Pat Benatar and Neil Gerardo

NARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org June 7: Aoife O’Donovan June 8: Los Straitjackets + the Sarah Borges Band June 11: Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra June 14: Craig DeMelo & Rebecca Correia June 20: Caravan of Thieves June 21: The Handsome Family + Sean Rowe June 22: John Fullbright + Sam Doores + Riley Downing & the Tumbleweeds

June 24: Chic Gamine June 27: Sonny Landreth + Delta Generators June 28: Amy Correia June 29: Slaid Cleaves July 10: Julia Sweeney & Jill Sobule July 11: Della Mae Aug 6: Jimmy LaFave Aug 9: Buckwheat Zydeco Aug 17: Nick Lowe Aug 22: Carolyn Wonderland Aug 23: Pousette Dart Band Aug 24: Leon Redbone Aug 29: Albert Lee Band THE 2013 NEW BEDFORD FOLK FESTIVAL | At the Whaling National Historical Park and the Zeiterion Performing Art Center | newbedfordsummerfest.com/tickets.html July 6 + 7: Lori McKenna, Cheryl Wheeler, John

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Maggie Boyle with Paul Downes, Kevin Burke, Susie Burke and David Surette, Howie Bursen, Jeff Davis, Antje Duvekot, Marina Evans, Finest Kind, Ari and Mia Friedman, Beppe Gambetta, Raymond Gonzalez, Kim and Reggie Harris, Michael Johnson, the Kennedys, Jeremy Kittel, Peter Lang, Mustard’s Retreat, Chris Pahud, Sally Rogers, Claudia Schmidt, Art Tebbetts, Gareth Turner, John Whalen Trio, Brooks Williams, New Bedford Harbor Sea Chantey Chorus [11 am-9 pm]

2ND ANNUAL NEW BEDFORD JAZZ FESTIVAL | At Pier 3 on the New Bedford [MA] waterfront | 508.993.0772 | facebook.com/NewBedfordJazzFest June 15: Dino Govoni & the Horseneck Trio, Dino

Govoni & the UMD Faculty All-Stars, Southcoast Jazz Orchestra, Dori Legge with the John Harrison Quartet, the Marcus Monteiro Quartet, and the UMD Latin Jazz Vision Ensemble [2-7 pm]

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THE ODEUM | 59 Main St, East Greenwich | 401.885.4000 | theodeum.org July 19: Jonathan Edwards Aug 10: An Evening of Song and Conversation with

RHYTHM & ROOTS FESTIVAL | At Ninigret Park, 4890a Old Post Rd, Charlestown | 800.922.3772 | rhythmandroots.com Aug 30-Sept 1: Hosted by Cedric Watson et Bijou

Creole [Fri-Sun] + Steve Earle & the Dukes & Duchesses [Sat] + Jim Kweskin’s Jug Band’s 50th Anniversary Reunion Tour, with Jim Kweskin, Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, and Bill Keith [Sun] + Taj Mahal [Sun] + Carolina Chocolate Drops [Sun] + Marcia Ball [Sat] + Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys [Sat & Sun] + the Texas Guitar Women with Carolyn Wonderland, Cindy Cashdollar, Shelly King, Sarah Brown and Lisa Pankratz [Sat] + Brown Bird [Fri] + Holly Williams [Fri & Sat] + Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie [Fri & Sat] + Los Tex Maniacs [Fri-Sun] + Jason D. Williams [Sat & Sun] + Albert Lee [Sun] + Corey Ledet & His Zydeco Band [Fri-Sun] + Eilen Jewell [Sun] + the Red Stick Ramblers [Sat & Sun] + Yvette Landry [Fri-Sun] + Bill Kirchen & Texicali [Sat] + Linda Ortega [Fri & Sat] + Della Mae [Sat] + Phoebe Hunt [Fri-Sun] + Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars [Fri & Sat] + Ed Poullard & Preston Frank [Sat & Sun] + Golden Triangle [Sat & Sun] | Fri 5 pm-midnight + Sat + Sun noon-midnight

THE TOWERS | 30 Ocean Dr, Narragansett | 401.782.2597 | thetowersri.com June 6: Eight To the Bar June 13: Original Jelly Roll Soul June 20: The Revelers June 27: Coastline Swing July 11: Reminisce July 18: Neal Vitullo & the Vipers July 25: Sarah & the Tall Boys Aug 1: The Honky Tonk Knights Aug 8: Roger Ceresi & His All Starz Aug 13: Broadway At the Towers: Phoebe Madden & Friends

Aug 15: The Superchief Trio Aug 22: Slippery Sneakers Aug 29: Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys TWIN RIVER EVENTS CENTER | 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | 877.82RIVER | twinriver.com June 22: Dwight Yoakam July 26: Gordon Lightfoot Aug 2: Yes Aug 23: Toni Braxton

Classical KINGSTON CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | At the University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston | 401.789.0665 | kingstonchambermusic.org July 24-Aug 4: The 25th season of the KCMF presents

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PM PICNICS | At the Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave | 401.848.8200 | newportartmuseum.org July 10: The Ravers July 17: The Honky Tonk Knights Aug 14: Abbey Rhode

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CATCH A RISING STAR | At Twin River, 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | 877.82RIVER | twinriver.com June 7: Bobby Collins June 8: Vic DiBitetto (The Bread and Milk Guy) June 14 + 15: Max Dolcelli June 14: Frank Santos Jr. June 21 + 22: Tommy Savitt June 28: Wild Bill Simas June 29: Travon Free July 5: Frank Santos Jr. July 13: Gilbert Gottfried July 20: Rob Bartlett July 26: Ace Aceto July 27: Jackie Martling COMEDY CONNECTION | 39 Warren Ave, East Providence | 401.438.8383 | ricomedyconnection.com June 6: Love Forward With Laughter: An All-Star

Comedy Night to benefit Pride RI June 7 + 8: PJ Thibodeau + Dan Chron June 13: Laughs For Breath: A Night of Comedy to Cure Cystic Fibrosis June 15: Joe Derosa June 28 + 29: Robbie Printz + Donnie Soares July 5 + 6: Mike Bonner July 12 + 13: Pete Costello July 19 + 20: Corey Rodrigues July 26 + 27: Joe List Aug 2: Eric Andre Aug 22: Corey Holcomb

NEWPORT SUMMER COMEDY SERIES | At the Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf | newport comedy.com July 13: The cast from TruTV’s Impractical Jokers, The Tenderloins

July 14: Bill Burr July 26: Lily Tomlin July 28: Bill Maher Aug 1: Rodney Carrington Aug 2: Lisa Lampanelli Aug 11: Jeff Dunham Aug 18: Ron White Aug 25: Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla Aug 30: Nick Offerman with special guest Me-

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Family & newportFILM, at the Casino Theatre, 9 Freebody St, Newport July 11 + 19 + Aug 1 + 8 + Sept 5: newportFILM Outdoors, at various locations [check the website for details] July 27 + 28: Muscle Shoals and Musicwood, presented in conjunction with the Newport Folk Festival, at the Casino Theatre

Dance ISLAND MOVING CO. | 401.847.4470 | island movingco.org | At Great Friends Meeting House, 30 Marlborough St, Newport July 18-21 + 23-27: The Fourth Annual Great

RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | 401.861.4445 | film-festival.org Aug 6-11: The RIIFF will screen 200 films in

Friends Dance Festival, featuring the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company

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ARTISTS’ EXCHANGE | 401.490.9475 | artists-exchange.org | 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston June 6-30: BOB: Blessed Be the Dysfunction That Binds, written and performed by Anne Pasquale

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BROWN/TRINITY PLAYWRIGHTS REP | 401.863.2838 | playwrightsrep.com | At Leeds Theatre, 77 Waterman St, Providence July 10-13 + Aug 2: Melena A High-Energy Drama, by Emily Young

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CONTEMPORARY THEATER | 401.218.0282 | thecontemporarytheater.com | 327 Main St, Wakefield June 21-July 13: Fuddy Meers, by David Lindsay-Abaire July 19-Aug 10: A Flea In Her Ear, by Georges Feydeau Aug 16-Sept 7: Bob, by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb COUNTER-PRODUCTIONS THEATRE COMPANY | 401.490.9475 | artists-exchange.org | At Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe Sq, Cranston June 7-16: Speed-the-Plow, by David Mamet EPIC THEATRE COMPANY | At the Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main St, Pawtucket Through June 8: Through June 8: Alice In

Wonderland, a version of Lewis Carroll’s work created by the Manhattan Project June 7-22: Fire Island, by Charles Mee July 5-27: This Might Be It: An Examination of a Possible Apocalypse, by Kevin Broccoli Aug 9-24: Dividing the Estate, by Horton Foote

GRANITE THEATRE | 401.596.2341 | granitetheatre. com | 1 Granite St, Westerly

Through June 9: The Exact Center of the Universe, by Joan Vail Thorne June 21-July 21: Boeing Boeing, by Mar Camoletti July 26-Aug 25: Skin Flick, by Norm Foster Sept 6-20: The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie

MIXED MAGIC THEATRE | 401.305.7333 | mmtri.com | At Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main Street, Pawtucket June 12-30: House In Providence, by Kevin Broccoli, adapted from Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

NEWPORT PLAYHOUSE & CABARET RESTAURANT | 401.848.PLAY | newportplayhouse.com | 102-104 Connell Hwy Through July 7: Beau Jest, by James Sherman July 11-Aug 18: Hallelujah Girls, by Jessie Jones,

Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten Aug 22-Sept 29: The Love List, by Norm Foster

OCEAN STATE THEATRE COMPANY | 401.921.6800 | oceanstatetheatre.org | 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick July 10-28: Legally Blonde: The Musical OPERA PROVIDENCE | 401.331.6060 | opera providence.org | At the Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence June 14, 15 + 21 + 23: The Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan

PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | 401.421.ARTS | ppacri.org | 220 Weybosset St Sept 8-15: Evita 2ND STORY THEATRE | 401.247.4200 | 2ndstorytheatre. com | 28 Market St, Warren July 5-Aug 30: The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie July 12-Sept 1: The Murder Room, by Jack Sharkey — At the Bristol Statehouse, 240 High St Through June 30: The Exonerated, by Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank, presented in conjunction with Mixed Magic Theatre

STADIUM THEATRE | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre. com | Monument Sq, Woonsocket July 13: Rather Dapper Entertainment presents Neighbors

Aug 16: Encore Summer Stock presents Thoroughly Modern Millie

THEATRE BY THE SEA | 401.782.TKTS | theatrebythe sea.biz | 364 Cards Pond Rd, Matunuck Through June 16: Nunsense June 19-July 13: Cats July 17-Aug 10: Annie Aug 14-Sept 1: La Cage Aux Folles TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com | 201 Washington St, Providence Through June 30: House and Garden, by Alan Ayckbourn

THE WILBURY GROUP | 401.400.7100 | thewilbury group.org | At the Trinity Theater at the Southside Cultural Center, 393 Broad St, Providence Through June 8: The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

June 20-29: It’s a Spaceship Now, by Stuart Wilson

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Look at that! A win-win: get out of the heAt And into the Art Galleries

Fri 3-8 pm; Sat + Sun 12-5 pm; other days by appointment or chance Through June 16: “Flushing the System,” new

ALTA LUNA GALLERY | 401.688.0396 | 297 Hope St,

mixed media abstract works on canvas by S.W. Dinge June 20-July 14: “im propia,” video, performance, photography, and installation work by Raquel Paiewonsky July 18-Aug 11: “Pre-Existing Condition,” photographs and collages by Kathryn Parker Almanas

Bristol | altalunagallery.com | Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm; Sun 12-5 pm Through June 30: “Cruisin’...A Car Show,” with

paintings by Kathy Kittell and photography by Carl Keitner, plus non-themed works by Alta Luna artists AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by ap-

Museums

pointment Through June 29: new work by Bill Killen and

Gerry Figueroa; new paintings by Ted DiLuca; new work by Kassy Cardona

MUSEUM OF NEWPORT HISTORY | 401.841.8770 |

AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson

127 Thames St, Newport | newporthistory.org Through June 7: “Hearth In Home: Keeping Warm In Early Newport” | June 7-Sept 2: “The

St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment Through June 29: “Brutally Sweet,”new photo-

Greatest Trial: Lincoln, Newport, and the Civil War,” featuring Civil War-era artifacts and photographs

graphs by Viera Levitt; “SummerSSSSwarm,” new work from the FlatFile Project

ATRIUM GALLERY | 401.725.0247 | 1 Capitol Hill,

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION | 401.851.8949 | 492 Bellevue Ave, Newport

Providence | vsartsri.org | Mon-Fri 8 am-4:30 pm Through June 20: “Art On the Farm: Sandywoods

Artist Cooperative At the Atrium Gallery,” featuring paintings by Jessica Dubois and Janice Causey; mixed media and paintings by Erin Thomson, Doreen Lapointe, and Deirdre Greene Moniz; polymer clay and mixed media by Jennifer Phelan; a handmade sailboat and furniture by James Kerr, Philip Kerr, and steel work by Shaun Kerr; photography by John Wojtowicz, Audrice Guerce, Fraser Thomson, Jonathan Clancy, Harvey Bean Thomson, Couper Reed Thomson, and Angus Flynn Thomson; collage by Isabelle Long; hand felted work by Mary Geisser; and pottery and mosaics by Peter Geisser and Mika Seeger

THE AVENUE CONCEPT GALLERY | 401.490.0929

| 304 Lockwood St, Providence | theavenueconcept.com

June 8-July 6: “Urban: Urbane,” paintings by

Nived offering “an introspective study of the unexposed beauty in urban environments”

BILL KRUL GALLERY | 401.782.1715 | 142 Boon St, Narragansett | billkrul gallery.com | Daily 10 am-8 pm Through June 30: “Different Journeys,” paintings by Dianne Webb and John Schora

CADE TOMPKINS PROJECTS | 401.751.4888 | 198 Hope St, Providence | cadetompkins.com | Sat 10 am-6 pm + by appointment Through July 26: “John Udvardy: Iron and Wood 2012-2013”

COHEN GALLERY | 401.863.9720 | At Brown Univer-

sity’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell St, Providence | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun

1-4 pm

June 10-July 19: “Breaking Even,” an installation

of several thousand handmade clay and ceramic objects by Kelli Rae Adams and s everal hundred jars of local produce canned by the artist

CRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St,

Providence | craftlandshop.com | Mon-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm Through June 15: “Peaked,” explorations in paper

forms by Matthew Shlian, Doris Häusler, Esther Ramirez, and Rebecca Siemering June 20-July 20: “Foot Apple Parade,” prints, puppets, and papier-mâché works by Xander Marro

DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 138 Bellevue Ave, Newport | deblois gallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm Through June 30: “Annual Members’ Show,”

with works by Valerie Debrule, Daniel McManus, Kathleen Morton, Karen Nash, Valorie Sheehan, Rosemary Day, Lisa May, Rodie Siegler, Jonathan Small, Izabella Casselman, Helen Poniatowski, Felicia Touhey, Ronald Caplain, Marion Wilner, Michael Guertin, and Kathleen Armor July 6-28: works by Susan Medyn, Gloria Merchant, and Trish O’Day Aug 3-Sept 1: works by Rita Rogers and Rodie Siegler

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 15: “Peaked,” explorations in paper forms

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“Breaking Even,” at the Cohen Gallery

by Matthew Shlian, Doris Häusler, Esther Ramirez, and Rebecca Siemering

DONOVAN GALLERY | 401.624.4000 | 3895 Main Rd,

Tiverton | donovan gallery.com | Wed-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat 11 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm Through June 11: “Changing Light” June 16-July 2: “The South Coast Artists Open Studio Tour Preview Show”

FOLLOW YOUR BLISS GALLERY AT BLISS COFFEEHOUSE | 401.491.9182 | 12 Stilson Rd, Wyoming |

Ave, Pawtucket | maddogartiststudios.com | MonWed + Fri-Sat 12-4 pm; Thurs 12-8:30 pm June 7-28: “Painted People,” large format photo-

graphic prints of Paul Roustan’s body painting artwork

186 CARPENTER | 186 Carpenter St, Providence |

186carpenter.tumblr.com Through June 30: “Artless: Rhode Island Outsider Art from RHD-RI”

PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE GALLERY |

175 Main St | pawtucketartscollaborative.org | ThursFri 3-7 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm Through June 23: “6th Annual Pawtucket Foundation Juried Exhibit”

PORTSMOUTH ARTS GUILD GALLERY |

pm; second Thurs 5-9 pm Through June 15: “My Hometown,” a “show for work that tells us something abour your home town or a place where you feel at home”

401.293.5ART | 2679 East Main Rd, Portsmouth | portsmouth artsguild.org | Fri-Sun 1-5 pm Through June 30: “Imagine Green,” a juried show

Providence | galleryzprov.com | Wed-Sat 12-8 pm + by appointment Through July 27: “Elibekians: 3 Generations of

Blvd, Pawtucket | riwsgallery.wix.com | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm Through June 13: “Portraits and Figures,” an

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Painters,” with works by Vagharshag, Robert, and Areg Ekibekian

HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 |

10 HIGH ST, WAKEFIELD | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm Through June 8: “In Cuba with Witness For

Peace,” photographs by Iris Donnelly, Michael Hyatt, and Eliud Martinez

HERITAGE ART GALLERY & GLASS STUDIO |

401.884.0130 | 5580 Post Rd, East Greenwich | MonFri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 12-4 pm Through June 15: Art League of Rhode Island’s

“Small Works Exhibition & Sale”

IMAGO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS |

401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imago foundation4art.org | Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm Through June 14: works by students from Mount

Hope High School and Bristol/Warren regional schools June 20-July 20: “Ocean-Going Vessels,” a curated exhibit July 25-Aug 31: “Drawing!”

KATHRINE LOVELL STUDIO & GALLERY |

401.743.6077 | 3964 Main Rd, Tiverton June 8-23: “Old Friends, New Work,” featuring paintings and pottery by David Harrington, Gary Heise, and Kathrine Lovell

KRAUSE GALLERY | 401.831.7350 x 174 | In the

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 | Slater Memorial Park, Armistice

open juried show June 16-July 5: “Small Picture Show” July 7-Aug 1: “Group Show” Aug 4-29: “Light”

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195

| 2587 Kingstown Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm Through June 15: “All Media Open Juried I” June 20-July 13: “Members’ Invitational” July 18-Aug 17: “86th Members’ Annual” Aug 22-Sept 14: “The Great Art Heist,”

[guided tours Fri 3 pm] Through Sept 1: “The American Muse,” an hom-

age to women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with works by Charles Dana Gibson, Harrison Fisher, Philip Boileau, MacClelland Barclay, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, Henry Hutt, Walter Granville Smith, Paul Stahr, and Albert Beck Wenzell

of Form and Color by Alexander Zaklynsky” | Through Sept 2: “McDonald Wright: Rhythm Flows in the Moment,” an exhibit of photographs Through Sept 8: “Marion Carry: An Art Educator Remembered” Through Sept 15: “NetWorks 2011/2012,” a project showcasing and recording the work, achievements, methods, and profiles of Rhode Island artists, with works by Andrew Moon Bain, Nilton Cardenas, Barnaby Evans, Nancy Friese, Philip J. Jameson, Shawn Kenney, Scott Lapham, Janet Prip, Andrew Raftery, Duane Slick, Esther Solondz, Mark Taber, and Laura Travis [2011] and Kate Blacklock, Brian Chippendale, Wendy Edwards, Richard Fishman, Lucas Foglia, Corey Grayhorse, Bunny Harvey, Tayo Heuser, Eugene Lee , Meg Little, Jane Masters, and John Udvardy [2012]

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 16: “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inven-

open juried show

tories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” Through June 30: “Double-and-Add,” works by Angela Bulloch, Anthony McCall, and Haroon Mirza July 12-Nov 3: “Locally Made,” the Museum’s first large survey of work from the greater-Providence region in more than 20 years Through July 14: “The Festive City,” an exhibit of rarely seen prints and books that provide a glimpse into the festivals of early modern Europe Aug 9-Jan 5: “Historias: Latin American Works On Paper” Through Aug 18: “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion,” an exhibit drawn from the RISD collection and loans from other national and international organizations and private individuals that celebrates the dandy, tracing the variety of ways in which this personality has blazed through two centuries and investigating where he resides today

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Post Rd | warwickmuseum.org | Tues + Wed + Fri 124 pm, Thurs 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm Through June 29: “Light Sho,” with works by

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URI FEINSTEN CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5 pm Through June 28: “The Annual State of the Arts:

URI, RIC, CCRI” | A faculty, staff, and alumni exhibit July 8-23: “Thomas F. Morrissey: A Retrospective Look,” featuring more than 90 works from his five-decade career

WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY |

401.294.6840 | 36 Beach St, North Kingstown | wickfordart.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm; Sun 12-3 pm June 7-23: “Juried Artist Members’ Show” June 28-July 14: “Art of the Ocean State,” an July 19-Aug 4: “All Media II,” an open juried show Aug 9-25: “Poetry & Art,” an open juried show Aug 30-Sept 15: “Anything Goes,” an open

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Meritage ExcEllEncE in East GrEEnwich _b y j OhnEttE r Od r iGu Ez When we arrived early on a recent Wednesday for supper at Meritage, we were surprised to find the parking lot full, as well as the lounge/bar area. Was it the “almost-half-price” apps before 6 o’clock that lured the locals? The super-generous margaritas? The wood-grilled pizzas? The high-tops in the bar were packed with the after-work crowd; the long UPSCALE CHARM Meritage is buzzy yet restful. dining room behind the bar was filling with family groups, twosomes, and foursomes of how pleased he was with the judicious use friends. of Gorgonzola — a very nice accent to this Then we noticed the table-tent andish but often overdone so that it detracts nouncement: “Guy’s Night” — entrées from the main attraction. half-price for men that night. Score for My cod was perfectly cooked, leading the guys! Meritage also offers many other me to note that even with the large turnspecials on various evenings (see website), out of meals from the kitchen, the quality and every night has bargain-priced apps of the food didn’t suffer. It was perched and pizzas before 6 pm and after 9:30 pm above a delicious bed of jasmine rice that at the bar (their sister restaurant, Charwas covered with creamed spinach and donnay’s, in Seekonk, does the same). topped with crispy onion rings. Lots of Bill began his Meritage adventure with nice texture contrasts, as well as subtle flaa pear martini, which was full of fruit vor variations. flavor; later he had a glass of ArgentinFor dessert, there are several offered ian Gascon Malbec, which we both liked. with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream (a fire-grilled Meritage (which rhymes with heritage, by banana split, a s’mores ice cream pie, the way) is known for its carefully selected and a warm brownie sundae). The crème wine list — a meritage wine is a blend of brûlée came highly recommended, as did two or more varieties of grapes for both the chocolate mousse. But in the end, we reds and whites. The restaurant draws were simply too sated from the generous from several small vineyards in California, appetizers and entrees to even attempt plus Italy, France, South Africa, Argensplitting a dessert. tina, New Zealand, and Australia. Despite the restaurant being buzzy busy Our meals continued with two carefulthat night — there was also an event going ly-chosen appetizers from a baker’s dozen, on in a separate function room — the staff plus nine pizzas and seven salads. From was cool, calm, and attentive. The acousa few chicken and several seafood dishes, tics kept the dining room from feeling overincluding Rhode Island-style calamari, loud from the hopping bar scene; we never Bill ordered the pan-seared scallops ($10), had to shout to make ourselves heard (as jumbo-sized with a tasty wakami salad happens in many restaurants these days). and a sriracha dipping sauce. I gravitated The decor was also restful; the soft toward the salads; bypassing the house, greens and browns on the walls echoed the the Caesar, and the pear/Gorgonzola, I pine trees beyond the large windows on picked the roasted beet with arugula ($10). the back side of this space. The fireplace Sliced roasted red beets on one side of the along that same wall enhanced the feel of oval plate and golden ones on the other being in a summer camp cabin. But the side framed an arugula salad topped with illuminated glass case filled with wine goat cheese and candied walnuts. Quite bottles at one of the room reminded you delicious. of Meritage’s homage, and of its more upThe dozen-plus entrées ranged from two scale aspirations and achievements. ^ chicken and two pork possibilities through five seafood dishes (lobster mac and cheese Johnette Rodriguez can be reached at johnette.rodriguez@cox.net. is now as ubiquitous as calamari), meatloaf, and three steak options. There are more than half-a-dozen pastas and five sandwichy ideas (blackened fish tacos among them). The capellini putanesca beckoned to me, the jambalaya to Bill. But 401.884.1255 | MEritaGEri.cOM in the end, he went for the pork medal5454 POst rd, East GrEEnwich lions ($22, or $11 on Wednesday), and I got sun-wEd, 4:30-10 PM; thurs + sat, the oven-roasted cod ($20). 4:30-11 PM; Fri, 4:30-11:30 PM Bill didn’t say much during his first few MajOr crEdit cards bites, each pork piece swirled in the Dijon/ Full bar port/brown sugar sauce. But when he was sidEwalk-lEvEl accEssiblE able to pause for words, he mentioned

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Epic Theatre Company is making its new production truly interactive. In Charles Mee’s Fire island, a few couples ruminate on their relationships while weekending on Fire Island. Epic’s home at the Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main St, Pawtucket, will imaginatively fill in for the title location, as the audience joins the ensemble on a walking tour of the site during the performances (Friday and Saturday at 8 pm through the 22nd) | All shows are pay-what-you-can | epic theatreri.org

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Our colleague Nicholas Schroeder reports: Haunting is a term that gets thrown around folk artists a lot, but it truly applies to the music of DiAne cluck, whose sparse compositions seem to float defiantly from some fortress the conscious self had long left behind. Cluck plays her songs on piano or guitar, but it’s her voice, often layered in a chorus of three or four, that makes the mark on listeners. On her best songs its wail can surpass the meaning of the words it’s singing. She plays the Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence, with locals Omnivore at 9 pm | $10 | columbustheatre.com

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Phil “The Host” Goldman always throws out a subject that’s purposefully pliable, like this month’s heading, “Safe At Home.” You come in and tell a personal tale (no one will know if you’re making it up) that applies to it. That’s how live bAit works, and whether you’re a listener or a speaker, it’s a hoot. We live in a culture desperate for connection, and this ongoing presentation engenders some welcome and enlightening human interaction. Let’s see . . . safe at home . . . is he talking about peace of mind, a sense of community, or the happiness of a warm gun, to cite Mr. Lennon’s song? The ball is in your court at the 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire Street, Providence, at 10 pm | $7 | 401.331.2695

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in the mid-’90s, blending a post-punk ethos with AfroPeruvian music, ’50s jazz, noirish film soundtracks, and panache lifted from a 20th-century classical ensemble. Joey Burns, John Convertino and company will play the Met, 1005 Main St, Pawtucket, with the Providence folk band Arc iris, a group featuring pedal steel, horns, and three female singers. Showtime is 9 pm | $25 | 401.729.1005 | themetri.com

sunDAY 9 Angling

In “Flushing the System,” s.W. Dinge fills his canvases with marks from graphite, conte crayon, china marker, colored pencil, wax, and other elements. “In general, I try not to prescribe to the notion of a strict concept when it comes to abstract work,” he says. “The idea that there could be multiple angles of interpretation intrigues me. All I can do as the artist is offer up my angle.” He elaborates, “As I worked on these pieces, I began to see them as a representation of the creative process itself.” Which explains the exhibit’s title. It’s at the Yellow Peril Gallery,

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monDAY 10 WhAt’s it Worth?

“Breaking Even,” the new exhibit by kelli rAe ADAms, is an installation which combines several thousand handmade clay and ceramic objects with several hundred jars of local produce canned by the artist. What’s the deal? Adams says the show “is an installation in three parts which together compose a balanced equation of alternate currencies resulting from five months of creative labor. Larger-than-life dominoes, home-canned foods, and porcelain coins represent the work, the energy required to produce the work, and the funds invested in the work, respectively. Through these three currencies, the installation offers a means of comparison by which visitors can consider what constitutes value and exchange in artwork and artistic production.” The show opens today at the Cohen Gallery at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell St, Providence, through July 19 (an opening reception is on the 7th at 5:30 pm) | 401.863.2932 | brown.edu/campus-life/ arts/bell-gallery/

ottmAr liebert found his calling early. He recently told the Montgomery News, “I was 19 and traveling in Asia, with my guitar, of course, when I realized that I wanted to be a professional musician. Sharing music with other travelers and with locals was inspiring. Also, the feeling of communicating with people through music, even when I am unable to speak their language.” The flamenco master has become remarkably eloquent in the universal language of rhythm and melody. “For me, music is a journey, a process, not something that can be arrived at or mastered. There is always more to learn. Music is a bottomless container that can never be filled.” Liebert and his group, Luna Negra, will perform at the Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA, at 8 pm | $45 advance, $50 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org

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677 (401.270.6144) will host an outdoor metal fest featuring Solanum, aBSynthe, and SorroWSeeD; doors at 6 pm and tix are $12 at the door. hip-hop is on the docket for our South dartmouth peeps on SAturdAY (the 8th), with Fall river’s Big city BumPuS and pvd crew reziztanze at miller’s homeport; 21+ and no cover all night, dial 508.992.1311. or head to the met early and catch arc iriS (featuring Low Anthem’s Jocie Adams) open for calexico (allages, 401.729.1005). And Benny Sizzler will liven things up at the providence roller derby’s doubleheader at thayer Arena in Warwick; the first bout is at 6, hit providencerollerderby.com for details. Ahead to WedneSdAY (the 12th), funk it up at Fête with the hot 8 BraSS BanD and the FunKy autocratS, or mosey over to the weekly “Bluegrass throedown” series at nick-a-nee’s with lizzie JameS & the greyStone rail (21+ and no cover, 401.861.2790). And get back there next thurSdAY (the 13th) for the chriS monti BanD performing in celebration of nick-a-nee’s 17th birthday. congrats!

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Open mic night

DIVE BAR | Providence | Sinfest [fetish night]

EAST BAY TAVERN | East Providence

| DJ Midnight

FÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | Hot 8

Brass Band + the Funky Autocrats

GAS LAMP GRILLE | Newport | B. Mitchell

GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Karaoke with DJ Deelish

JOE’S CAFE & LOUNGE | Westport,

MA | Wild Nites

KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | The Superchief Trio

LADDER 133 | Providence | Kyle Nicholas

McNEIL’S TAVERN | North Provi-

dence | Micawber | WEDM [electro, dubstep, trap, hip-hop]

THE MET | Pawtucket | Royal Teeth + American Authors

NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The

CLUB DIRECTORY Saturday June 15th Noon – 4pm Featuring all the Great Rhode Island Breweries in one beautiful waterfront location right alongside the Blount Clam Shack on historic Water Street in Warren!

The First Ever East Bay Beer Festival is also a Fundraiser to benefit two great local charities -The Hopkins Center and TAP-IN!

Tickets can be purchased online at eventbrite.com

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PERKS & CORKS | Westerly | Jessica Smucker

THE ROOTS | Providence | 8:30 pm | Gypsophilia

THE SALON | Providence | BSR DJ

Night with DJs from Brown Student & Community Radio

THURSDAY 13

CHELO’S WATERFRONT BAR & GRILLE | Warwick | 6 pm | Batteries Not Included

CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | Them Apples DIVE BAR | Providence | DJ Born Casual

EAST BAY TAVERN | East Providence

| DJ Midnight

GAS LAMP GRILLE | Newport | Video DJ Mike D.

GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly |

LUXURY BOX SPORTS BAR & GRILL | Seekonk, MA | Chris from What Matters?

THE MALTED BARLEY | Westerly | Happy & the Moonshine

McNEIL’S TAVERN | North

Providence | Seven-Year Plan MEDIATOR STAGE | Providence |

THE SKYLINE LOUNGE AT LANG’S BOWLARAMA | Cranston | Dance party with Erika Van Pelt THE SPOT | Providence | Skytree

TIPSY SEAGULL DOCKSIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7 pm | Justin Machamer

TIPSY TOBOGGAN FIRESIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7:30 pm | Don Hammontree

COMEDY THURSDAY 6

“LOVE FORWARD WITH LAUGHTER!,” a benefit for Rhode Island

FRIDAY 7

10:15 PM | Comedy Zone at Showcase Warwick, 1200 Quaker Ln | $10 | 401.885.1621 | showcasecinemas.com THE BIT PLAYERS | Fri-Sat 8 pm | Firehouse Theater, 4 Equality Park Pl, Newport | $15 | 401.849.3473 | firehousetheater.org BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | June 7 10 pm at Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe St, Cranston + June 9 at 6 pm at the Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd | $5 | bringyourownimprov.com FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE with improvised song + dance + skits + more | 7 pm | Everett, 9 Duncan Ave, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9479 | everettri.org

SATURDAY 8

CONCERTS POPULAR THURSDAY 6

GOV’T MULE + Nicki Bluhm & the

Gramblers | 4:30 pm | Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf | $35.50 advance, $45.50 day of show | 401.846.1600 | newport waterfrontevents.com DIANE CLUCK + Omnivore | 9 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 | columbustheatre. com EIGHT TO THE BAR | 7 pm | The Towers, 35 Ocean Rd, Narragansett | $15 | 401.782.2597 | thetowersri.com

FRIDAY 7

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS NEW POLITICS | 7:30

pm | Waterplace Park, Memorial Blvd, Providence | Free | providence ri.com/artculturetourism

JOE FLETCHER & THE WRONG REASONS + J.P. Harris + Smith &

Weeden | 9 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $15 | columbustheatre.com THE KINGSTON TRIO | 7:30 pm | Park Theatre, 848 Park Ave, Cranston | $25-$35 | 401.467.7275 | park theatreri.com

SATURDAY 8

10TH ANNUAL WOMEN OF RISA SHOW hosted by Jan Luby | 8 pm

| Church Street Coffeehouse, 25 Church St, Warren | $12 | 401.245.8474 | churchstreetcoffeehouse.com DISPATCH + GUSTER | 7 pm | Comcast Center, 885 Main St, Mansfield, MA | $35 + $49.50 | 800.745.3000 | livenation.com

LOS STRAITJACKETS + THE SARAH BORGES BAND | 8 pm | Narrows

DERRICK TENNANT + RUBYN WARREN | See listing for Fri P.J. THIBODEAU | See listing for Fri THE BIT PLAYERS | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 9

COMEDY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Come-

MONDAY 10

COMEDY FACTORY with Coleen Gal-

WEDNESDAY 12

SUMMER SHOWDOWN SEASON III with local comedians competing for cash and stage time | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $10

NEW ENGLAND ALL-STAR COMIX

hosted by Orlando Baxter | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance

THURSDAY 13

“LAUGHS FOR BREATH,” a benefit for cystic fibrosis research with Derek Furtado + Dan Martin + Kenny

TUESDAY 11

“NIGHT VOICES” | A fundraiser for

Mixed Magic Theatre with music by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley and Robert Schleeter and poems by Pitts-Wiley, with musical guests Miss Wensday, Tom Chace, Valerie Myette, Hannah Lum, Amos Hamrick, Tess Jones, Jenanie Carson, Jason Quinn, Justin Breault, Jamie Milan, Bethly Cruz, Alonzo Jones, Beverly Fears, Paul Bisch, Rick Andre, Mibbit Threats, and Rose Weaver, and poets Ruby Cabrera, Melanie Stone, Bill Pett, Bernadet Pitts-Wiley, Manuela Hincapie, Matt Fraza, Paul Mooney,

Celebrating 25 Years!!

THURSDAY 13

ORIGINAL JELLY ROLL SOUL | 7 pm | The Towers, 35 Ocean Rd, Narragansett | $15 | 401.782.2597 | thetowersri. com

CLASSICAL SUNDAY 9

MUSICA DOLCE STRING QUARTET performing works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann | 2 pm | Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave | $15 | 401.848.8200 | newportart museum.org

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ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE with “community night” callers and music by Jean Munroe and Bill Ouimette | 7:30 pm | South Kingstown Land Trust Barn, 17 Matunuck Beach Rd, Kingston | $10 | 401.539.3009 | kingstonenglishcountrydance.org

SUNDAY 9

GIRLS, GUNS & GLORY with BRIAN McKENZIE

Americana/Alt-Country - 4 Boston Music Awards!

Every Sat.: 3:30 to 6:30 Rock ‘n Roll on the beach!

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plus weekly special guest stars!

THURSDAY 6

Sun. 6/9: 3:30 to 6:30

7TH ANNUAL HUNGER AWARENESS DAY | The public is invited to

set a new record for the World’s Biggest Human Pizza; the record was set last year with 152 people dressed in “pizza colors” and documented by an aerial photo | The event also features free pizza + ice cream + music by the Westmoreland Street Jammers | Donations for the emergency food pantry at the Johnnycake Center of Peace Dale are encouraged | 5 pm | Marina Park, Salt Pond Rd, Wakefield | 1of52.net

FRIDAY 7

JAZZ AT THE MIST!

THE KIM MARCOUx QUINTET Thurs. 6/13: LIvE REGGAE MADNESS

THE EQUALITES Fri. 6/14:

LIVE BAIT: TRUE STORIES FROM REAL PEOPLE, hosted by Phil “The

Host” Goldman, with musical accompaniment by Jerry “The Professor” Gregoire | This month’s theme” Safe At Home” | Put your name in the fishbowl and if it’s called, tell your tale [six-minute limit] | 10 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $7 | 401.489.2555

SATURDAY 8

34TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF HISTORIC HOUSES | June 8 10 am-5

plus

THE MIKE DILLON BAND

pm, “Overlooking the City: Prospect Street Historic House Tour” | June 9 11 am-4 pm, “In the Working Valley: Historic Monohasset Mill, the Steel Yard, and Box Office Tour” | Sat-Sun | Providence Preservation Society, 21 Meeting St, Providence | $40 advance, $45 day-of [advance two-day tickets $75] | 401.831.7440 or ppsri.org

early Rhythm & Blues, Stax/Volt, Motown, northern Soul, Muscle Shoals, Funk and a dash of new Orleans

Games gold medalist Kevin Robinson | Registration @ 8:30 am at Pierce Field for walkers, runners, and cyclists; the event ends at the Looff Carousel, the site of the Wisdom To Youth BMX Contest [10 am] and Family Fun Festival [11 am-5 pm] with karate and gymnastics demonstrations + a football combine led by former NFL safety Jamie Silva

6/21: The Mallet Brothers Band 6/23: Westmorland Street Jammers, 6/28: The Kenny Mehler Band, 6/29: Max Creek, 6/30: Heavy Rescue, 7/5: Rustic Overtones, Northern Lands, 7/7: The Senders, 7/12: THE SKATALITES

3RD ANNUAL K-ROB FAMILY FUN FESTIVAL hosted by three-time X

Continued on p 52

featuring Mike Dillon of the Billy Goats

Sun. 6/16: 3:30 to 6:30:

THE GHOST TONES

Rolling In...

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State Coffee, 300 Thayer St, Providence | $3 | 401.383.8393 | gotpoetry. com/News/topic=23.html

TALKS Continued from p 51 + vendors + music + more | Pierce Memorial Field, 201 Mercer St, East Providence | Free | krobfoundation. com

FESTIVAL FETE’S GARDEN CITY ART FESTIVAL with more than

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THE NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL POLO SERIES XXII | This week: the

Newport Cup | 5 pm | Glen Farm, Route 138, Portsmouth | $20 + $12 | nptpolo.com PROVIDENCE ROLLER DERBY with the Rhode Island Riveters vs Suburbia Roller Derby’s Suburban Brawl [6 pm] + the Mob Squad vs the Sakonnet River Rats [8 pm] | Thayer Arena, 975 Sandy Ln, Warwick | $10 advance, $15 door, ages 5-12 $5, under 5 free | providencerollerderby.com

RHODE ISLAND SCOTTISH HIGHLAND FESTIVAL with competitions

+ Celtic harp demonstrations + children’s games + Scottish country dancers and entertainers + sheep dog demonstrations + more | 9 am-5 pm | Washington County Fairgrounds, Rt 112, Richmond | $15, $5 ages 6-12, free under 6 | riscot.org WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE | Downtown Providence, Memorial Blvd, Providence | waterfire.org

SUNDAY 9

34TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF HISTORIC HOUSES | See listing for Sat FESTIVAL FETE’S GARDEN CITY ART FESTIVAL | See listing for Sat

THURSDAY 13

FILM MONDAY 10

“AMERICA’S MUSIC” | A six-week

MONDAY 10

“UNDER PRESSURE: THE STORY OF OUR NATION’S WATERS” | A

talk by EPA senior policy advisor Dr. Ellen Gilinsky | Part of the Metcalf Institute Annual Public Lecture Series, “Scientists and Journalists: Getting the Point Across” | 3:30 pm | URI Narragansett Bay Campus, 218 South Ferry Rd, Narragansett | Free | metcalfinstitute.org

TUESDAY 11

“PAINTING FINGERS OF THE HAND IN GREAT ART: THE HARDEST OBJECT TO DO!” | A “Lunch

“RETHINKING THE GLOBAL FISHERIES CRISIS” | A talk by Dr. Olaf

“THE ADHD AND AUTISM EPIDEMIC: WHAT’S CAUSING IT AND HOW HEMISPHERIC INTEGRATION CAN HELP,” | A talk by Dr. John

WEDNESDAY 12

“BUILDING RESILIENT COASTS: LESSONS FROM HURRICANE SANDY” | A talk by Dr. William Solecki, the director of the City University of New York Institute for Sustainable Cities and professor of geography at Hunter College-CUNY | Part of the Metcalf Institute Annual Public Lecture Series, “Scientists and Journalists: Getting the Point Across” | 3:30 pm | URI Narragansett Bay Campus, 218 South Ferry Rd, Narragansett | Free | metcalfinstitute.org

THURSDAY 13

“OCEAN ACIDIFICATION IN EARTH’S PAST: INSIGHTS TO THE FUTURE” | A talk by Dr. James

Zachos, a paleoclimatologist at UC Santa Cruz | Part of the Metcalf Institute Annual Public Lecture Series, “Scientists and Journalists: Getting the Point Across” | 3:30 pm | URI Narragansett Bay Campus, 218 South Ferry Rd, Narragansett | Free | metcalfinstitute.org

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READINGS

ART

THURSDAY 6

GALLERIES

and sign her new book, The Movement of the Stars | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

ALTA LUNA GALLERY |

AMY BRILL will read from, discuss,

NEW ENGLAND POETRY & ART GALA, with a buffet, music, art,

and readings by Fred Marchant, Stephen Dobyns, Rick Benjamin, Wendy Mnookin, Alan Feldman, Alice B. Fogel, Richard Hoffman, and others; the winners of the 2013 Loft Prize for Poetry, judged by poet Denise Duhamel, will be announced at the event | 5 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | $15 | 401.455.8000 | theloftanthology.com

SATURDAY 8

PAULA CHAMPA will read from, discuss, and sign her new novel, The Afterlife of Emerson Tang | 4 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com ETHAN RUTHERFORD will read from, discuss, and sign his new collection, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories | 7 pm | Books On the Square, Providence

TUESDAY 11

GOT POETRY LIVE! | 6 pm | Blue

401.688.0396 | 297 Hope St, Bristol | altalunagallery.com | Mon-Sat 10 am-

7 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through June 30: “Cruisin’ . . . A Car Show,” with paintings by Kathy Kittell and photography by Carl Keitner, plus nonthemed works by Alta Luna artists AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through June 29: new work by Bill Killen and Gerry Figueroa; new paintings by Ted DiLuca; new work by Kassy Cardona AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220. org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through June 29: “Brutally Sweet,”new photographs by Viera Levitt; “SummerSSSSwarm,” new work from the FlatFile Project ATRIUM GALLERY | 401.725.0247 | 1 Capitol Hill, Providence | vsartsri.org | Mon-Fri 8 am-4:30 pm | Through June 20: “Art On the Farm: Sandywoods Artist Cooperative At the Atrium Gallery,” featuring paintings by Jessica Dubois and Janice Causey; mixed media and paintings by Erin Thomson, Doreen Lapointe,

and Deirdre Greene Moniz; polymer clay and mixed media by Jennifer Phelan; a handmade sailboat and furniture by James Kerr, Philip Kerr, and steel work by Shaun Kerr; photography by John Wojtowicz, Audrice Guerce, Fraser Thomson, Jonathan Clancy, Harvey Bean Thomson, Couper Reed Thomson, and Angus Flynn Thomson; collage by Isabelle Long; hand felted work by Mary Geisser; and pottery and mosaics by Peter Geisser and Mika Seeger

THE AVENUE CONCEPT GALLERY

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

Sat-Sun 1-4 pm | June 10-July 19: “Breaking Even,” an installation of several thousand handmade clay and ceramic objects by Kelli Rae Adams and several hundred jars of local produce canned by the artist COLO COLO GALLERY | 508.642.6026 | 29 Centre St, New Bedford, MA | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun 1-4 pm | Through June 18: “Congruence,” paintings by Keith Francis CRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St, Providence | craftland shop.com | Mon-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through June 15: “Peaked,” explorations in paper forms by Matthew Shlian, Doris Häusler, Esther Ramirez, and Rebecca Siemering DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 138 Bellevue Ave, Newport | deblois gallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through June 30: “Annual Members’ Show,” with works by Valerie Debrule, Daniel McManus, Kathleen Morton, Karen Nash, Valorie Sheehan, Rosemary Day, Lisa May, Rodie Siegler, Jonathan Small, Izabella Casselman, Helen Poniatowski, Felicia Touhey, Ronald Caplain, Marion Wilner, Michael Guertin, and Kathleen Armor 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 15: “Peaked,” explorations in paper forms by Matthew Shlian, Doris Häusler, Esther Ramirez, and Rebecca Siemering DONOVAN GALLERY | 401.624.4000 | 3895 Main Rd, Tiverton | donovan gallery.com | Wed-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat 11 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through June 11: “Changing Light,” with new works by Jessica Pisano, Arthur Moniz, Bill Massey, Peter Campbell, Alex Dunwoodie, Carol FitzSimonds, David Witbeck, Cindy Wilson, Richard Harrington, Deborah Quinn-Munson, Cristina Martucelli, Del-Bourree Bach, Sarah Stifler-Lucas, Cindy Baron, David Witbeck, Christine Bean, Judith Perry, Jonathan McPhillips, Jeanne Tangney, Marieluise Hutchinson, Kris Donovan, Al Albrektson, Kathleen Weber, Tom Deininger, Patricia Walsh, Mark Fernandez, and Matthew Smith

FOLLOW YOUR BLISS GALLERY AT BLISS COFFEEHOUSE | 401.491.9182 | 12 Stilson Rd, Wyoming | facebook. com/BlissCoffeehouse | Mon-Sat 7

am-6 pm; Sun 8 am-6 pm | Through

June 30: works by Karen Hamre GALLERY X | 508.992.2675 | 169 William St, New Bedford, MA | galleryx. org | Wed-Sun 11 am–3 pm; second Thurs 5-9 pm | Through June 15: “My Hometown,” a “show for work that tells us something abour your home town or a place where you feel at home” GALLERY Z | 401.454.8844 | 259 Atwells Ave, Providence | galleryzprov. com | Wed-Sat 12-8 pm + by appointment | Through July 27: “Elibekians: 3 Generations of Painters,” with works by Vagharshag, Robert, and Areg Ekibekian HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through June 8: “In Cuba with Witness For Peace,” photographs by Iris Donnelly, Michael Hyatt, and Eliud Martinez

HERITAGE ART GALLERY & GLASS STUDIO | 401.884.0130 | 5580 Post

Rd, East Greenwich | Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 12-4 pm | Through June 15: Art League of Rhode Island’s “Small Works Exhibition & Sale”

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 14: works by students from Mount Hope High School and Bristol/Warren regional schools JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestownartcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through June 7: “The Ceramic Spectrum: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics” with works by Chris Archer, Charlie Barmonde, Hayne Bayless, Kate Blacklock, Holly Curcio, Rose Esson Dawson, Tyler Gulden, Chris Gustin, Elizabeth Kendall, Jay Lacouture, Jim Lawton, Chloe Marr-Fuller, Maureen Mills, Hilal Minda, Steve Murphy, Allison Newsome, Matt Nolen, Seth Rainville, and Zach Shaw

KATHRINE LOVELL STUDIO & GALLERY | 401.743.6077 | 3964 Main Rd,

Tiverton | June 8-23: “Old Friends,

New Work,” featuring paintings and pottery by David Harrington, Gary Heise, and Kathrine Lovell KRAUSE GALLERY | 401.831.7350 x 174 | In the Jenks Center at Moses

Brown School, 250 Lloyd Ave, Providence | mosesbrown.org | Mon-Fri 8

PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE GALLERY | 175 Main St |

pawtucketartscollaborative.org | ThursFri 3-7 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through June 23: “6th Annual Pawtucket Foundation Juried Exhibit”

PORTSMOUTH ARTS GUILD GALLERY | 401.293.5ART | 2679

East Main Rd, Portsmouth | portsmouth artsguild.org | Fri-Sun 15 pm | Through June 30: “Imagine Green,” a juried show

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 |

Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | riwsgallery.wix.com | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through June 13: “Portraits and Figures,” an open juried show

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | Wed-

Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Through June 15: “All Media Open Juried I”

URI FEINSTEN CAMPUS GALLERY

| 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5 pm | Through June 28: “The Annual State of the Arts: URI, RIC, CCRI” | A faculty, staff, and alumni exhibit with works by Nadine Almada, Peter D. Anderson, Jennifer Antes, Eric J Auger, Mary Caparrelli Bagley, Marjorie Ball, Paige Bardsley, Andrea Barboza, Jeff Berthelette, Jeff Bertwell, Taylor Booth, Tiffany Cabral, Jen-

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nifer Cahoon, Michael Carlin, Tony Carniero, Mark Chearino, Jill Ann Cook, Wendy Crooks, David DeMelim, John DeMelim, Elaine Devonis, Tamara Diaz, J. Brooke Doherty, Melanie Ducharme, Lilian R. Engel, Natalia Falcone, Owen Filion, Amy E. Folz, Susan Fossati, Chelsea Fredrikson, George Garcia, Leslie Whyte Gernt, Christian Goncalves, Stephen P. Gross, Sean Harrington, Joshua Harriman, Sherell Hart, Graham Heffernan, Jake Hegenauer, Mark Hartshorn, Vee Hight, Kathy (Horridge) Kenney, David T. Howard, Kristin Kaczmarek, Sylvia C. Krausse, Liliya Krys, Mary Kudlak, Michael Lapointe, Ashley Lefebvre, Chelsea McWilliams, Titilola O. Martins, Justina Martino, Don Martone, Annie Messier, Ian Mohon, Tracie Montgomery, Tom Morrissey, Kerry Murphy, Dale Noelte, Barbara Pagh, Sam Peck, Gerry Perrino, Lynn Parente Petronio, Cassandra Petronio, Lisa Marie Ricci, Gary Richman, Edward Lymon Rondeau, Amy Rudis, Frank Santopietro, Jade Sisti, Rosanne Sniderman, David Shapiro-Zysk, Janice Lee Strain, Jacqueline Sylvia, Anthony Tomaselli, Nathan Whittaker, and Lynn Wirth

WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach

MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF NEWPORT HISTORY |

401.841.8770 | 127 Thames St, Newport | newporthistory.org | June 7-Sept 2: “The Greatest Trial: Lincoln, Newport, and the Civil War,” featuring Civil War-era artifacts and photographs

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION | 401.851.8949 | 492 Bellevue Ave, Newport | american illustration.org | Sat + Sun 11 am-5

pm [guided tours Fri 3 pm] | Through Sept 1: “The American Muse,” an homage to women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with works by Charles Dana Gibson, Harrison Fisher, Philip Boileau, MacClelland Barclay, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, Henry Hutt, Walter Granville Smith, Paul Stahr, and Albert Beck Wenzell NEWPORT ART MUSEUM | 401.848.8200 | 76 Bellevue Ave | newportartmuseum.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students + military with ID; free under 6 | Through Aug 13: “New Works: Constructions of Form and Color by Alexander Zaklynsky” | Through Sept 2: “McDonald Wright: Rhythm Flows in the Moment,” an exhibit of photographs| Through Sept 8: “Marion Carry: An Art Educator Remembered” | Through Sept 15: “NetWorks 2011/2012,” a project showcasing and recording the work, achievements, methods, and profiles of Rhode Island artists, with works by Andrew Moon Bain, Nilton Cardenas, Barnaby Evans, Nancy Friese, Philip J. Jameson, Shawn Kenney, Scott Lapham, Janet Prip, Andrew Raftery, Duane Slick, Esther Solondz, Mark Taber, and Laura Travis [2011] and Kate Blacklock, Brian Chippendale, Wendy Edwards, Richard Fishman, Lucas Foglia, Corey Grayhorse, Bunny Harvey, Tayo Heuser, Eugene Lee , Meg Little, Jane Masters, and John Udvardy [2012] 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 16: “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” | Through June 30: “Double-and-Add,” works by Angela Bulloch, Anthony McCall, and Haroon Mirza | Through July 14: “The Festive City,” an exhibit

of rarely seen prints and books that provide a glimpse into the festivals of early modern Europe | Through Aug 18: “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion,” an exhibit drawn from the RISD collection and loans from other national and international organizations and private individuals that celebrates the dandy, tracing the variety of ways in which this personality has blazed through two centuries and investigating where he resides today | Through Dec 31: “Made For Eternity,” an exhibit of ancient art WARWICK MUSEUM OF ART | 401.737.0010 | 3259 Post Rd | warwickmuseum.org | Tues + Wed + Fri 12-4 pm, Thurs 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through June 29: “Light Sho,” with works by Bryson DeanGauthier, Brooke Hammerle, Deenie Pacik, and Shawn Towne

COUNTER-PRODUCTIONS THEATRE COMPANY | At Theatre 82, 82

Rolfe St, Cranston | June 7-16: Speed-

the-Plow, by David Mamet | Fri-Sat 7 pm; Sun 2 pm | $18 EPIC THEATER COMPANY | At the

Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main St, Pawtucket | Through June 8: Alice In Wonder-

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12:55, 3:20, 4:20, 6:30, 7:25, 9:25, 10:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 THE GREAT GATSBY | 12:10, 3:25, 6:35, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 IRON MAN 3 | 12:45, 3:35, 6:45, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:35 MUD | 1, 3:50, 6:50, 10:15* [*no show June 6]

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For years Sarah Polley was teased by older siblings about her lack of resemblance to her dad, but only in her late 20s did she learn that her mother — actress Diane Polley, who died in 1990 — had conceived her during an extramarital affair with a producer named Harry Gulkin. To reconstruct this family scandal, Sarah interviews family members, her mother’s friends, and her biological father; they paint an unhappy portrait of Diane, a vibrant, charismatic woman who felt unloved by her diffident husband and who agonized over whether to terminate her late pregnancy by another man. Sarah might have wrapped up this documentary after her parentage is revealed about 70 minutes in, yet it continues for another 50 as she ruminates over the tale and ponders some of the discrepancies in different versions, her engrossing personal story gradually devolving into an exercise in self-regard.

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| In this sixth installment of the action franchise, the auto-racing roughnecks (Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez) team up with a federal agent (Dwayne Johnson) to hunt down an international terrorist. Director Justin Lin, who took over the series with the third release, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), manages to imbue the material with Hawksian notions of masculinity, group dynamics, and moral authority even as he preserves the franchise’s multicultural milieu and gleefully exaggerated action sequences. Tying up some story lines while introducing others, this has the feel of a B-movie series from the ’40s, like the Boston Blackie or Charlie Chan programmers. XXW FRANCES HA | 2013 | Comparable to Woody Allen’s imitations of Bergman and Fellini, this black-andwhite comedy by Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg) is basically an extended homage to early-’60s French New Wave films. Greta Gerwig, who cowrote the script with Baumbach, plays a sprightly apprentice for a ballet company who drifts from one apartment to another, looking unsuccessfully for love. The dialogue and editing are

zippy and generally charming, combining with the tart observations of 20-something culture to create a nice frisson. (This may be the least acrid movie Baumbach had ever made, despite its underlying theme that growing up means learning to accept chronic disappointment.) Yet most of the energizing formal ideas are taken from other movies; the creative nadir may be when Baumbach uses Georges Delerue’s iconic theme from Jules and Jim as a shortcut to pathos. | 86m |

XW NOW YOU SEE ME | 2013 | Jesse

Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, and Dave Franco are strutting stage illusionists who launch a Vegas act, called the Four Horsemen, in which they rip off banks and other financial institutions and shower the money on their deliriously happy audience members. (Can’t they just reduce the ticket price?) This is one of those mystery thrillers that are supposed to culminate in a big shocker ending, though the script piles up so many implausibilities that by the time the ending arrives, nothing is surprising anymore. Harrelson and Eisenberg are insufferably smug as they fire off brutal put-downs of each other and

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Friday june 7 16

dark of the moon in taurus, moon voidof-course 9:02 a.m. until 6:06 p.m. An all-day void-of-course moon could prompt errors in banking and security issues. Where are the car keys? Wait until tomorrow for new projects, and don’t be stupidly stubborn in matters that don’t matter. this means you, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Warning to taurus, capricorn, virgo, pisces, and cancer: others may need to le-e-ean on you. don’t step away and let them drop. Libra, Gemini, Sagittarius, and Aries: slow down. 32

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new moon in Gemini. Yack, yack, yack!! A moon which brings out the “Why don’t we — ” or “What about trying — ?” impulse in everyone. caution for virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius who may have misunderstandings arise over trivia (“i don’t like how you said that”). capricorn, taurus, Leo, and Scorpio could sign up for more than they’d planned. Aquarius, Gemini, Libra, and cancer may have “information overload” in the form of shallow encounters. 1

Waxing moon in cancer, moon voidof-course 5:15 pm until Wednesday, June 12, 12:58 am. that is a crazy-long voc moon. plans may unravel, but use monday and tuesday to shake up your life in a good way. Sagittarius, Leo, Gemini, and virgo: be open to the vagaries of the universe. And with cancer moons, coziness prevails, particularly cancer, Scorpio, pisces, and taurus. capricorn, Libra, Aries, and Aquarius: Are you over-reacting? do you need to respond right now? the moon’s position is sucking rationality out of your head. 3

tuesday june 11

Waxing moon in cancer, moon voidof-course until Wednesday, June 12, 12:58 am. vulnerability could be the story for 5

Waxing moon in Leo. the past two days could have been a “Soma holiday” for some (blissed-out trip from Brave new World). my two cents’ is that Leo, Aries, Sagittarius, and Gemini hit the ground running. Advertising, and children’s activities are favored, and Libra, Aquarius, taurus, and Scorpio want to make big changes, and don’t mind raising their voice. Scorpio, pisces, cancer, and capricorn: make a point of being generous for no reason. Yes, it’s okay to advertise this. 5

Moon Keys

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this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | 10 11 14 15 16 When the moon is in12your sun13 sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon 26 28 29 30 (see below), 31 32 moves into27the sun sign opposite yours 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 11 12 13 14 15 16 be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.

Jonesin’ _by matt Jones F “Euro winnEr!” —places, everyone. Across 1 oldest member of hanson 6 Just barely make it 11 inst. 14 movie with Geoffrey rush as david helfgott 15 Brand name yodeled in ads 16 it’s pitched while courting 17 plays April Fools on, in Krakow? 19 rowing machine unit 20 Smithers, e.g. 21 how a hard worker works 23 nest eggs of sorts 25 ___-stealer 26 talks like this he does 29 overthrow attempts 33 ruler, once 34 pie ___ mode 35 Flog but good 37 “Jeopardy!” uberwinner Jennings 38 “mary, Queen of Scots” biographer Fraser 39 hooters mascot 42 “So it would seem!” 44 tub temperature tester 45 makers of the Giant rubber Band and dehydrated Boulders 47 “have i got ___ for you!” 48 id’s used in identity theft 49 “the Bell Jar” poet 51 “hercules: the Legendary Journeys” spinoff 53 cats that look like big puffballs 57 Spin around 61 Snack

62 Singles bar thought, in prague? 64 Alternative to a .wav file 65 harold’s friend, in a 2004 movie 66 She was “the Little mermaid” 67 character in a tv episode called “Space madness” 68 Laziest of the deadly sins 69 Best picture nominee of 1975 Down 1 cosby show redone as a 2002 eddie murphy movie 2 comic strip with an allbird cast 3 Suffers discomfort 4 hemoglobin-deprived condition 5 Labor leader chavez 6 hoodwink, politically incorrectly 7 “Goodbye ___” (dixie chicks song) 8 cuisine with peanut sauce 9 Knock on the head 10 ox collars 11 Best parts of the tennis racket, in uppsala? 12 Brand of cerveza 13 one who won’t share, as with blankets 18 Snake mentioned in “Baby Got Back” 22 Show opener 24 Worked in a mailroom 26 Bovine of burden 27 Bullfighting shout 28 Big crooner in copenhagen?

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Waxing moon in Gemini, moon void-ofcourse 4:29 am until 12:16 pm when it moves into cancer. Writing and cooking, talking and eating: stick to the simple stuff and you’ll be okay. Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, and Leo could be eager to meet new folks, while capricorn, taurus, Scorpio, and cancer prefer solitude or social stability (don’t bring your Boratesque buddy to their house for coffee). virgo, pisces, Sagittarius, and Aries are in a risk-taking mode, or attracted to those who gossip.

capricorn, Libra, Aries, and Sagittarius. You could be overwhelmed by the extremes of your reaction. cancer, pisces, Leo, and Scorpio: it’s summer — do you have comfortable clothes? Add an item to your life that makes things easier. taurus, virgo, Aquarius, and Gemini: you may need to listen to others more than you want to.

30 rte. running from Key West, FL to port Kent, me 31 nikon competitor 32 they guzzle a bunch 35 Yes, in Yokohama 36 Silo stuff 40 Got the medal 41 electric guitarist paul 43 duck docs, perhaps 45 Show up, as in a vision 46 Split in two 48 “modern humorist” genre

50 Backwoods types 52 Like points at zero amplitude, on waves 54 Blue, in Bolivia 55 Fish in a pixar pic 56 rather gross fetish 58 not “fer,” to hillbillies 59 Some govt. agents 60 Sorta fishy, sorta snaky 63 Abbr. for a king or queen solution on page 51

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