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who are these gUys? One of them may be the next mayor of Providence _by Philip Eil | p 8

is ‘i always knew i was a boy’ th J t in A Q&A with a transgender pioneer | p 6 Us

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We offer a field guide to the Providence mayoral race. Get to know Brett Smiley, Michael Solomon, Jorge Elorza, Daniel Harrop, and Lorne Adrain.

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Phillipe + Jorge’s Cool, Cool World

long-distance tribute Farewell, Casey Kasem; the spurs do it right; summer solstiCe Fun P&J were saddened to hear

about the passing of Casey f Kasem, the famed radio jock

(and TV host) who gave us the America’s Top 40 countdown show. The weekly review of Billboard’s hits, which he hosted from 19701988 and 1998-2003, was rightly viewed with nostalgia in the obits for Kasem. Casey was an iconic type of disc jockey, complete with an exaggerated voice and delivery, which could get you laughed out of a room if you used it in public; fake teeth; bad toupee, and a trophy wife. But his little factoids accompanying the hits of the day made him worth listening to. Perhaps the best memory P&J have of Casey was the famed pirate tape, recorded when he didn’t know the mic was live, when he went berserk on the fact that he had to talk about doing a “Long Distance Dedication” for a dead dog after playing a bouncy, upbeat song. The obscene tirade aimed at a staffer was hilarious, despite the subject matter. (You can still find the clip on YouTube.) Rut-row, Shaggy, but thanks for the memories. (Kasem voiced Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo cartoons, which guarantees him a free pass to heaven.)

Good riddance to bad rubbish

Phillipe and Jorge could not be more delighted to see the obnoxious, arrogant, self-serving egotist, Eric Cantor, the US House of Representatives Majority Leader, lose his GOP district primary to an upstart Teabagger in Virginia. Cantor has been overtly slithering towards the House Speaker job currently occupied by John Boehner, drooling for its high profile and power all the while. Unfortunately, with his eye on that prize, and a tendency to spend time and money on other Republican races nationally, he forgot one small element of seeking re-election: campaigning among your own voters. Cantor’s adoring view of himself and assumption that the public must obviously be just as smitten, was more than well seen by his GOP constituents, who voted for his opponent in an upset that made headlines coast-to-coast, and doubtless sent shivers through the Republican old guard. Be afraid, very afraid, Karl “Pig Boy” Rove and the Koch Brothers. You now have more than the Dems to worry about.

Global three-pointer

Can the San Antonio Spurs save the National Basketball Association? The Spurs, who just blew out the Miami Heat, four games to one, in the NBA Finals, would be doing the league a huge favor. Most of P&J’s friends have a healthy interest in sports, but almost all share the view that the NBA isn’t worth watching unless it’s the finals, and only when there’s a chance to see Heat superstar and arrogant a-hole (though admittedly the best player in the game), LeBron James, get his shorts blown off on national TV. College hoops? Beautiful. Pros? Bite me. The NBA now revolves around a bunch of high-priced athletes jamming and going one-on-one for 48 minutes, which gets old after . . . like three minutes. And the fact that the players make

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about 10 times more than their coaches means that any instructions they’re given from their supposed leaders are viewed as polite suggestions, such as asking them if they are in the mood to rebound or play defense that evening. But the Spurs have proven different in recent years, which may explain the five NBA titles they now own. And they have added an intercontinental flair to their game of blistering shooting, withering defense, constant movement, good and great players who know their roles and play them to perfection, and a coach whom the players respect and obey. The San Antonio lineup, built around American superstar Tim Duncan, reads like a United Nations roll call: Frenchmen Tony Parker and Boris Diaw, Aussie Patty Mills, Argentine Manu Ginobli (God, P&J love that man!), and

Brazilian Tiago Splitter, among other “furriners.” Such a lineup should spark further interest in a game already advancing like a brushfire outside the United States. The execs in the NBA might not deserve it, but San Antonio’s global roster and style of play make the league almost palatable, even more so when it produces players like Parker and Ginobli. Thanks, Spurs.

More than 1100 people were at the Diamond Hill event last year and there will be an eclectic and dazzling array of performers this year, among them Burning Bridget Cleary, Scotland’s Cantrip, Aoife Clancy, Robbie O’Connell, Mark Roberts and Kieran Jordan, Pendragon, and an Algonquin and Native American drum outfit, the Eastern Medicine Singers (the rain date is June 22).

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This Saturday, June 21 from 11 am to 7 pm, the annual Blackstone River Theatre Summer Solstice Festival will be kick off at Diamond Hill State Park on Route 114 in Cumberland. There will be more than 40 food and craft vendors on site and five stages. The focus of the festival is Celtic music, dance, and culture.

Pizza aficionados in “Da Bucket” remember with fondness the Pizza Palace on Newport Avenue — home of a unique style of pizza during its heyday in the ’60s and ’70s. At the end of its run as one of the city’s favorite pizza joints, the place was run by Pawtucket’s own, Ron Campanelli, and rumors are flying around the Bucket that Ron is looking into taking over the space that once housed Archie’s Pizza, a few miles down Newport Avenue near the South Attleboro border. Currently, this is only a rumor but Pawtucket pizza lovers are chomping at the bit with anticipation. Longtime Pizza Palace fan Jorge (Rudy Cheeks), who grew up across the street from Ron, is keeping his fingers crossed that the reemergence of the Pizza Palace will become reality. Or, as one veteran Bucket resident posted on a Pawtucket Facebook page, “Pizza Palace . . . best pizza on the entire freakin planet!”

Farewell, sandra Morra

Your superior correspondents join all those in Vo Dilun’s peace and justice community in mourning the passing of Sandra Morra. Sandra, who died a few weeks ago, was a fierce proponent of social justice for decades, a volunteer organizer at the George Wiley Center, and a member of the board there. Another longtime activist, Maggi Burns Rogers, mentioned to Phillipe & Jorge that Sandra was “one of Father Bernie Duffy’s early converts to real social justice.” (Father Duffy was a key figure in human rights struggles in Rhode Island going back to the 1950s.) There are plans for a remembrance and celebration of Sandra’s life at Roger Williams Park on Sunday, June 29 at 4 pm. Next week, we should be able to fill you in on the specifics. ^

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This Just In

‘When you talk about a human being, there are so many other things that we don’t know about ourselves, and the depths of our feelings, our dreams, our hopes.’

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‘I always knew I was a boy’: a small-town coach becomes a big-time pioneer

There was something triumphant about outsports.com’s lengthy November 2013 profile of Glocester sports coach Stephen Alexander. Not only did the article, “Transition Game,” identify Alexander as the “first high school coach to come out publicly as transgender,” it also described how various members of Alexander’s family and, even his hometown, itself — “the last place on earth most would expect to find a thriving transgender coach” — have rallied around the high school-sports-star-turned-coach. “The little village of Glocester, it seems, has had a transition of its own,” author Cyd Zeigler wrote. But Alexander’s previous sports stardom (he won a combined six state championships as a tennis/basketball/soccer/volleyball/ softball player, and scored over 1000 points in basketball) was also one of the story’s sore points. At the time of the outsports.com story’s publication, Alexander had been snubbed from an induction into the Ponaganset High School Athletic Hall of Fame — a blatant slight in what should have been an “openand-shut case,” in Zeigler’s words. Nine months later, we at the Phoenix are happy to report that Alexander recently received word of his induction into the Hall of Fame’s 2014 Class (the official ceremony will take place this fall). We’re also happy to report that the 35-year-old multi-sport coach has also been named honorary marshal of this weekend’s RI Pridefest in Providence. We caught up with Alexander to hear what life is like as one of the folks pushing America toward what a recent Time magazine cover story called “The Transgender Tipping Point.” Our conversation has been edited and condensed.

body doesn’t understand, the person that you’re confused about ...get into their world by saying, “You know what? I don’t know anything about this. Can you help educate me?” And more often times than not, it’s an opportunity for the individual to share, to maybe have some of the pressure taken off them, where two people can converse and learn a little bit more about each other and what’s going on in the world when it comes to gender.

HOW EARLY DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE TRANSGENDER? I knew since I was aware of myself.

So, four years old, five years old. I always knew I was a boy. I remember I would always have my shirt off when I was younger. I just had my shorts on and my shirt [off] and [I would] go play mud pies or go do Transformers or explore in the woods and make bow and arrows ... But one of the very first memories that was traumatic for me was my mother feeling the social pressure to put a bikini top on me while we had family members for 4th of July around. She was embarrassed for me because she saw me as a little girl running around. I was just a kid. I think that, unfortunately, what transgender people struggle with is our innocence gets taken away very quickly due to survival. We want to be who we are, and we are, and then all of sudden there’s this moment where somebody tells us ...we can’t be who we are. And then we struggle trying to get back to that point. Now you’re getting better stories. There’s [the Ryland Whittington] story out there that’s all over the web, where there’s a young [transgender] six-year-old and the parents were educated enough to seek some help and do their readings. And now the kid seems very well adjusted. They haven’t done gender reassignment; there’s no need for it at this point. The child hasn’t experienced puberty. They’ll

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LET’S TALK ABOUT SPORTS, WHICH SEEM TO BE BOTH BEHIND THE TIMES IN MANY WAYS, YET, WHEN PLAYERS LIKE JASON COLLINS (BASKETBALL) AND MICHAEL SAM (FOOTBALL) COME OUT, SPORTS CAN BE ONE OF THE WAYS A BROADER RANGE OF PEOPLE — SUBURBAN DADS, FOR EXAMPLE — CAN TALK ABOUT CERTAIN ISSUES. WHAT DOES BEING INVOLVED IN SPORTS MEAN TO YOU? When I look at sports, we still have a

HALL OF FAMER Alexander. have to deal with that later on. [There is a] new wave of, if you see a kid who does have a very profound sense of gender dysphoria, they can go on hormone blockers to stop certain things from growing. But that’s where it’s parents and it’s kids and ...a gray area of what to do with the child and what’s best.

A LOT OF PEOPLE HEAR ABOUT A SIX-YEAR-OLD HAVING GENDER DYSPHORIA OR IDENTIFYING AS TRANSGENDER AND THEY SAY, “NO WAY. THAT CAN’T BE. THIS IS A SIX-YEAR-OLD. GIVE IT TIME.” WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT? It’s real. One of the arguments that we had read in one article against [Orange Is the New Black star and subject of the Time story] Laverne Cox being a woman, saying, “Laverne Cox is not a woman,” is the argument that it’s strictly coming from the biological perspective. And that’s all good and said if you’re going to define us as homo sapiens. That’s the biological. But when you talk about a human being, there are so many other things that we don’t know about ourselves, and the depths of our feelings, our dreams, our hopes. We’re not just reactive to the [physical] environment. There are other things that go on within ourselves that make us more than just biology.

If they want, call people homo sapiens. But we’re not. We’re humans. We’re people. And they can’t just use that one argument. What makes a man and man and a woman a woman? Is it biology? Is it the chromosomes? Is it hormonal? Is it anatomical? Is it how other people perceive someone? Or is it how the individual views themself internally?

WHAT DO YOU SAY? WHAT MAKES A MAN A MAN? The declaration that they are such. When I think of a man, I think of somebody who takes responsibilities for their actions, [who] can own up to them. They present on the male side of the spectrum. It’s what they say and how they say it and how they feel. And [it’s also about] if others can get that, if it’s conveyed that they are, in fact, a man or male.

ONE OF THE THINGS PERHAPS PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM TALKING MORE ABOUT THESE ISSUES ARE WORRIES ABOUT USING THE PROPER LANGUAGE — USING THE APPROPRIATE PRONOUNS, FOR EXAMPLE. CAN YOU TALK A BIT ABOUT THE LANGUAGE YOU’RE MOST COMFORTABLE WITH? I’m comfortable with the “he” pronoun. For people that are worried, I think, human beings, we respond to kindness. If some-

very long way to go. It is segregated in terms of male and female. And where do the other people in between fit? How? These are more discussions [we need to have]. I get the empowerment of women with Title 9, but I would love to see the NFL, Major League Baseball incorporate more women. If they can’t physically play to that certain level, [they can] still be behind the decision-making processes. And it’s not just women coaching women. It would be women coaching men, because they could offer different perspectives. When you talk about a real, true team — or anything that reflects how we want things to grow — women can offer perspectives to men. Men can offer perspectives to women. Trans people can offer perspectives. As time moves on, and I see things from different spots, wouldn’t it be great if sports weren’t as segregated as they are in any of the professional sports? In high schools? In colleges? [Instead of] this exclusionary kind of behavior, it’s like, “Hey, who can actually add to our experience, in making us a better team strategically or emotionally?” Chemistry is a very big thing in determining a winning season versus a losing season.

IS THIS JOURNEY OVER FOR YOU? IS IT STILL A STRUGGLE? I think there’s always a dark side

that we all carry with us. We’ll be satisfied at certain moments with who we are. And then at other times, we’re not and you have to recognize it and just move on and do the things that you love to do. It’s always just there, just because the world can be very cruel, too.

WHAT WOULD MAKE LIFE SMOOTHER AND EASIER FOR TRANSGENDER FOLKS? I think it’s allies. I think it’s people who are not transgender, but are understanding — our parents, our brothers, our sisters, our friends — to know that [they are] huge in understanding our movement. The allies, our teammates, are the keys for helping us access better healthcare, accessing better mental healthcare, accessing sports, or being part of those discussions where things need to change. For more on the 2014 RI PrideFest taking place June 21, go to prideri.com.

_Philip Eil

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who are these guys?

a field guide to the providence mayoral race _By ph il ip e il

Journal noted the ad’s stylistic resemblance to the work of Royal Tenenbaums/Moonrise Kingdom/Grand Budapest Hotel auteur Wes Anderson, adding, “The Wes Anderson schtick may well be the liberal equivalent of shooting a gun in your campaign ad.” A few days later, Camp Smiley posted a graph to Facebook showing how the video has been viewed more times on YouTube than ads for all other Providence mayoral — and Rhode Island gubernatorial — candidates, combined.

June 25 marks the deadline for filing paperwork to enter the 2014 Providence mayoral race. And, until then, the big question is, of course, “Will or won’t Buddy Cianci run?” It’s an interesting question, but the longest-running mayor in city history has yet to give a definitive answer. And so, for now, since we’re not big fans of the gaseous speculation that fuels the 24-hour cable news cycle, we decided to steer our attention away from Rhode Island’s most famous felon and toward the next question on local voters’ minds: “Who the hell are the other guys in the race?” While there is nary a household name in the current field — Michael Solomon, Brett Smiley, Dr. Daniel Harrop, Jorge Elorza, and Lorne Adrain — they’re all interesting dudes. (And it’s worth noting that they are all dudes. Providence hasn’t had a female mayoral candidate in decades. What’s up with that?) So won’t you come along, as we learn a bit more about these guys? And, don’t worry, we’ll be sure to inform you of Buddy’s decision when the time comes.

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accounting and election compliance firm, CFO Compliance • Chair of the Providence Water Supply Board, 2011-2013 THE CONTENDERS elorza, adrain, harrop, Smiley, and Solomon. • State House lobbyist for the City of Providence during 2013 legislative but will job titles like “lobbyist” and “elec- a 16-page economic development plan) session tion compliance consultant” resonate with Smiley is by far the most prodigious pubWHO IS THIS GUy? | A job as campaign the average voter? We’ll see. lisher in the mayoral field. Of these promanager for then-Lieutenant Governor posals, the firearms and ammunition tax Charles Fogarty’s 2006 Democratic guberMEMORABLE MOMENT FROM PHOENIX bill he submitted to the General Assembly natorial bid brought Smiley to the Ocean INTERVIEW | “I have a vision of being the this year — which proposes a statewide 10 State. Now, the longtime consultant and mayor who shows up at work with a list percent sales tax on guns and ammo, the behind-the-scenes guru on “dozens” of po- of 15 things in my pocket every day that I proceeds of which eventually go to nonlitical campaigns is placing his own name encountered the night before that aren’t on the stickers and signs. fixed. I think, not only is it important that violence-focused nonprofits — is sure to infuriate Second Amendment enthusiasts The youngest candidate in the mayor’s I lived here for years without a car and across the state and endear Smiley to the race, Smiley is also the most wonk-ish. live and work and go out at night in Provicapital city’s Prius-driving, Whole FoodsHe’s remarkably fluent in subjects like dence, I think it will be important to me shopping, coffee shop denizens. water supply policy, refinancing school that my team do the same. We did away bonds, and the implications of how a fire with the residency requirement [requiring CAMPAIGN CASH ON HAND | $191,283.07 sale of the Superman Building could destacity employees to live in Providence] years RECENT CAMPAIGN NEWS | The first TV bilize the downtown office market, trigger ago . . . [but] I can mandate it for my senior ads of the mayor’s race were released on a revaluation of commercial property, and staff [and] I do intend to do that. Because Friday, June 13, with entries by Smiley and perhaps compel the city to hike its alreadyI think it matters. I want my team to have City Council President Michael Solomon. high commercial taxes even higher. “So their kids in the city schools. I want my And, at least in terms of YouTube views it’s really important team to be parked on the street when the and national Internet chatter, Smiley was that we get this garbage man takes both the recycle and a clear winner. Smiley’s 30-second spot right,” he says, of the trash and puts it in the trash truck, casts him as a relentless, hard-wired planthe building. because I’ve seen that. I want my team to ner: from publishing detailed plans for Smiley’s smarts ride their bikes on the weekends and see school recess and family vacations, as a and eloquence will how dangerous it is for cyclists. Because child; to proposing to his now-husband, no doubt be assets I think those things matter. And those James, via a PowerPoint presentation; on the campaign things are the things that make me crazy.” to his lengthy list of planned policies for trail (his LinkedIn Providence, as a mayoral candidate. The BIG IDEA | With a growing stack of policy profile lists “Media Washington Post’s “The Fix” blog called it plans and statements (a 16-page schools & Community Rela- plan, a 14-point list of environmental ob“one of the most unique [political ads] tions” and “Crisis we’ve seen in recent years.” Slate gushed jectives, a plan to overhaul the troubled Communications” that it is “almost certainly the most adorProvidence Economic Development Partas top specialties), able campaign ad ever made.” And National nership, an eight-page public safety plan,

Wes’ Rib House in Olneyville, and president/owner of Cozy Caterers since 2002 • Providence City Council member since 2007 • Providence City Council president since 2011 WHO IS THIS GUy? | Though he has long made Smith Hill his home, the Council President is perhaps more associated with Olneyville. Providence’s “second downtown” is where young Michael began sweeping floors and making deliveries for his father Anthony’s pharmacy. It’s where he started his own business, Wes’ Rib House. And it’s also where he’s been embedded in civic and community service as a former volunteer at the Joslin Community Center, a co-founder of the Olneyville Merchants Association, and a former president of the Olneyville Housing Development Corporation. Solomon, to put it simply, is an insider candidate. His father was a six-term Rhode Island general treasurer. He, himself, was first appointed to the Providence Redevelopment Agency in 1992, elected to the City Council 15 years later, then sworn in as City Council president on the same day Angel Taveras became mayor in 2011. His recently-released TV spots show him literally standing at Taveras’s side while a narrator describes their work together to push Providence back from the “brink of fiscal disaster.”

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day I’m in office. I’m not going to [have to] learn how to deal with the council. I’m not going to have to learn how to deal with all the departments. So we can hit the ground running from Day One . . . This administration and this council, we’ve proven together that we can get things done for the city. And that’s why I want to run for mayor. I want to make a difference. I want to continue to

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move this city forward and I think we can do that.” BIG IDEA | Camp Solomon literally calls its plan to invest $250 million in renovating Providence schools over the next decade the “Big Idea.” In a policy paper comparing the scope and ambition of the plan to Providence’s past reconfiguring of rivers and highways, Solomon says, “The Big Idea will make every Providence school a place where parents will want to send their children. The Big Idea will make our schools places where children are safe and comfortable in their classrooms. The Big Idea will make our schools places in which our teachers are proud to teach. At the same time, we will create more than 2000 constructions jobs right here in our city and put residents back to work.” CAMPAIGN CASH ON HAND | $602,461.96 RECENT CAMPAIGN NEWS | If you’re a voter swayed by stamps of approval from elected officials and political committees, Solomon is your man. Recent weeks have brought a steady stream of endorsements from state reps (Slater, Williams, Palangio, Almeida, Carnevale, DeSminone, Diaz, Goodwin), fellow City Council members (Yurdin, Zurier, Hassett, Jennings, Narducci, Castillo, Aponte, Correia, Salvatore, Matos), and Providence ward committees (from Wards Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, Nine, 10, 14).

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AGE | 37 HOME NEIGHBORHOOD | Silver Lake PARTy AFFILIATION | Democrat RESUME HIGHLIGHTS

• Professor of law at Roger Williams University School of Law since 2005

• Co-founder of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University

• Associate judge in the City of Provi-

dence’s Housing Court since 2010 • Field plan manager for Angel Taveras’s campaign for US Congress in 2000

WHO IS THIS GUy? |

Elorza has the most dramatic backstory of any mayoral candidate . . . unless/until Buddy jumps in. In an interview with the Phoenix — and during his official campaign kickoff speech at his childhood home on Cranston Street — he told the story of how he was working as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City, when he received a late night phone call from his father that a childhood friend had been gruesomely murdered in a Providence basement. “That day, when I received the news about my friend’s death, I decided that I was going to leave my job in New York,” he says. “I knew I wanted to be here in Providence and I knew I wanted to work in the community.” Years later, as he makes his first bid for elected office, it will be interesting to see how Elorza wrestles with the shadow of outgoing mayor Angel Taveras. The similarities between the two men are striking; they’re both bilingual, Latino sons of factory-working mothers who graduated from Harvard (Taveras, as an undergrad; Elorza, from the law school) and went on to serve as Providence Housing Court judges. Asked about whether he’ll be Taveras 2.0 on Channel 12 WPRI’s Newsmakers last year, Elorza said, “One thing that’s very

different is that I have an accounting degree . . . I’ve worked on Wall Street. And so I come at it with that perspective.” In his interview with the Phoenix, Elorza said that, while Taveras did a “great job” tackling fiscal problems, an Elorza administration would be able to be more proactive with its policy agenda.

MEMORABLE MOMENT FROM PHOENIX INTERVIEW | “[As a housing court judge,]

if there are any homes that have fallen into disrepair throughout the city, they come to my court. There are about 500 abandoned properties in city and when I first came on the bench, this city would prosecute cases before me . . . There’s an urgency to these properties. They bring a blight on the entire community. I started issuing subpoenas to the banks [that had threatened to foreclose on them, but never followed through] to appear before me and to tell me, ‘What’s your plan? What’s your time frame?’ At first they didn’t appear, so I found them in contempt of court, I fined them hundreds of thousands of dollars . . . and I even threatened to arrest the presidents of two of the biggest banks in the world until they came in and they took responsibility for the properties. Eventually, [representatives from the banks] came in and they took responsibility for every single one of the properties.” BIG IDEA | In May, Elorza released a plan for “revitalizing and revamping City Hall” that urges switching the current phone help line for citizens to a 3-1-1 hotline, upgrading payment-processing systems and digitizing license applications processes, and establishing a chief innovation officer (“CINO”) who “will prepare reports on both the performance of City departments and departmental needs, as well as engage City workers to propose solutions and to find efficiencies.” CAMPAIGN CASH ON HAND | $217,082.95 RECENT CAMPAIGN NEWS | Followers of the Rhody politics/activism/media scenes will recognize a number of familiar, young faces on Team Elorza. Former president of the Young Democrats of RI, Kristina Fox, is Elorza’s field director. Former writer/editor/special projects manager at Providence Media (East Side Monthly, Providence Monthly), John Taraborelli, is the communications director. Tim Shea, a recent Classical High School graduate and former student organizer with the Providence Student Union, is Elorza’s East Side field organizer. And former Phoenix intern (and Roger Williams University undergrad) Harrison Connery is Elorza’s primary staffer and scheduler.

Harrop describes himself as a moderate “Rockefeller Republican” who’s more liberal or “laissez-faire” on social issues. (He and Smiley are the only two current candidates to publicly support marijuana legalization in Rhode Island.) “It is all about the finances,” he wrote to us in a recent email. “I have no problem with any of the proposals made by any of the other candidates, actually — including the growing list of position papers put out by some of them — but they continue to avoid the difficult subject of where the money will come from, which is irresponsible in this election.”

MEMORABLE MOMENT FROM PHOENIX INTERVIEW | “I’m perfectly blunt with

people. I think you need a Republican mayor to come in for four years. You need a Republican mayor to do the things no one else wants to do. I think what the city needs is receivership, to start with the contracts right from the base line at this point — teachers’ contracts, public service contracts, and the like — and to do the things that need to be done and make everybody pissed. And then you can vote him out after four years when everything’s cleaned up. I’m willing to go in there, [but] whether they’re willing to elect me I think is a problem at this point.” BIG IDEA | When discussing the campaign Dr. Harrop, all roads seem to lead back to the city’s pension system. On Day 1 of a Harrop administration, he says, he would begin negotiations to swap out defined benefits plans for defined contributions plans and permanently eliminate of cost of living allowances (COLAs). “Negotiations fail?” he says. “Receivership or bankruptcy — there is really no other way out of it.” “[The candidates] all get asked, ‘Will you give more money to the libraries? The zoo? For more police? For better schools? To fix the potholes?’” he says. “Of course you say yes, but I, at least, put a caveat on that: only if we reduce our pension obligations.” CAMPAIGN CASH ON HAND | $108,675.73 RECENT CAMPAIGN NEWS | Harrop, ever-realistic about a Republican’s prospects for election in Providence, seems equally excited to use his candidacy to THREE FAVORITE PROVIDENCE RESTAURANTS | Rancho Grande, Los Andes, Sakura galvanize local Republicans and inject conservative ideas into the discourse. Last month, he co-hosted an event in ProviDR. DANIEL HARROP dence for statewide GOP candidates for AGE | 60 office and later this month, he’ll be hostHOME NEIGHBORHOOD | East Side ing an event for Republican challenger of PARTy AFFILIATION | Republican David Cicilline in RI’s First Congressional RESUME HIGHLIGHTS • Private practice of psychiatry, 1983-present District, Stan Tran. This fall, the nonprofit • Clinical assistant professor of psychiatry he founded, the Roosevelt Society (“raisand human behavior, Warren Alpert Medi- ing the bar of center-right politics in the Ocean State”) will once again host the LIcal School at Brown University, 1987-2008 • Libertarian Party of Rhode Island Chair- BRE Initiative to discuss local and national Latino politics. man, 2000-2005 • Republican Mayoral Candidate for Provi- THREE FAVORITE PROVIDENCE RESTAURANTS | Tortilla Flats, Al Forno, Angelo’s dence, 2006 and 2010 WHO IS THIS GUy? | “Providence needs radical change, and that will only come LORNE ADRAIN with a Republican administration,” reads AGE | 60 Harrop’s campaign website (harrop.org). HOME NEIGHBORHOOD | Fox Point And if you sit down with the candidate PARTy AFFILIATION | Democrat to talk policy, you’ll get a sense of what RESUME HIGHLIGHTS this means. Public subsidies for a Provi• MBA from Harvard Business School dence streetcar line? “If it’s such a good • Managing director at the wealth manidea, why isn’t private industry doing it?” agement firm, Ballantine Partners, 2011A public/private partnership to save the 2014 Superman Building? “If it’s going to be a • Chairman of the Rhode Island Board of good commercial venture, let private Governors for Higher Education, 2011-2012 industry do it.” • Co-founder, Social Venture Partners

Rhode Island (now Social Enterprise Greenhouse) • Financial representative at Northwestern Mutual Life, 1993-2011

WHO IS THIS GUy? | He is the second

of eight children, who helped pay his own way through URI by working as a counselor at Camp Yawgoog and driving school buses. He has climbed the tallest mountains on four continents. He has authored a series of inspirational books — each, a compilation of handwritten notes from people like Muhammad Ali, the Dalai Lama, and Yoko Ono — called The Most Important Thing I Know About . . . . He is the founder of the nonprofit National Neighborhood Day, “an annual day to recognize and reinforce the relationships that are the fabric of our communities.” And, yet, at this point, Adrain is considerably less famous than his wife, the celebrated author, Ann Hood, who recently published the novel The Obituary Writer.

MEMORABLE MOMENT FROM PHOENIX INTERVIEW | “I think I have a much broader

network [than the other candidates]. I have worked with — as clients, as collaborators, as friends — people all over the world who have expertise in different areas, who are CEOs of major, major companies, who are leaders in all kinds of ways around the nation . . . Mike Fascitelli, who grew up in North Providence, we went to URI together, we went to Harvard Business School together. He just retired as CEO of Vornado Realty Trust in New York. He’s one of the top five guys in real estate in the United States. Mike Bloomberg’s his best buddy and the head of Goldman Sachs is a good friend. He got paid $50 million as a signing bonus to join Vornado. I have access to guys like that, who have expertise and connections in different areas. “[I have] a broader view of what Providence needs to be as an international city, the way we need to be outside of the little box that we live in.” BIG IDEA | One of the pillars of Adrain’s soon-to-be-released education plan is the implementation of citywide free Internet access. “We must prepare all of our students for careers increasingly reliant on skilled computer use,” the report reads. “Increasing access to technology for our most vulnerable students will help level the playing field, readying those students for college and a career. As mayor, I’ll expand access to Wi-Fi by installing a comprehensive network of free, citymaintained hotspots in our marginalized neighborhoods. We’ll begin in Olneyville, South Providence, and Elmwood.” CAMPAIGN CASH ON HAND | $150,829.82 RECENT CAMPAIGN NEWS | In May, Adrain testified before the RI House Committee on Finance in support of in-state tuition for the children of undocumented immigrants, a policy he helped implement while chair of the RI Board of Governors for Higher Ed. “Every Rhode Islander who wants to go to college should be able to,” he said. “The strength of our state lies in the breadth of its diversity, its long tradition of migrants who have found acceptance and community along our bays and rivers. Roger Williams was merely the first to arrive.”

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The promo photo for Veja Doolittle: liVe in ConCert draws you in: on a small stage, a woman in a whiteand-red marching band (or Evel Knievel) (or rodeo) -type uniform is sitting in a kitchen-type chair, which shares the platform with small tables with lamps, a stool, a vintage album, a rotary phone, some postcards on a wall, a rug, a tapestry, and an array of tchotchkes. She’s wearing glasses and holding a harpsichord, in front of a microphone on a stand. To her left, there’s a portable projection screen with an image of a young, ponytailed woman who seems to be very happy with the person her eyes are locked on. What’s it all mean? The notes from the Wilbury Theatre Group offer these clues: “Veja Doolittle: Live In Concert is a multi-media solo performance, a traveling show, a memorabilia tour, and a concert of covered songs. This journey, like a dusted-off LP, delves into the mysteries, heartbreaks, and artifacts that make up our sparkling lives.” Another program note adds to the intrigue: “Originally from Texas, singer Veja Doolittle has been touring the US, spreading her particular kind of joy and seeing familiar faces everywhere.” The show, written and performed by Meg Sullivan and directed by Susie Schutt, will be presented at 393 Broad St,

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Free is always good, but sometimes free is ultragood. Case in point: phantogram is kicking off the WBRU Dunkin’ Donuts Summer Concert Series, with an opening set from the Brother Kite. On Saturday they’ll be at the House of Blues in Boston; tickets are $25 + $35 (pre those oh-so-”convenient” Ticketmaster fees). Such a deal! Get there on time for TBK, whose soaring, hooky, melodic gems are absolutely captivating. Then get ready for the headliners. Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter (and friends) meld rock-driven trip-hop with elliptical lyrics, and deliver it with a distinctive visual panache. They emerged in 2009 with Eyelid Movies, toured relentlessly while honing their engaging sonic mix, and broke through to an ever-growing audience with the release of Voices in February. Carter has noted that the band “achieves [a] soulful and organic sound with electronic elements.” It’s a swell mashup. “Fall In Love” and “Black Out Days” will be the big singalongs at Waterplace Park in downtown Providence. Showtime is 7 pm. Admission is free | wbru.com

tuesday 24 following the muse Sam Beam, aka iron & wine, has embraced a wide range of expression since releasing his debut, The Creek Drank the Cradle, in 2002. It’s not exactly the progression from a whisper to a scream, but the hushed early work has been imbued with livelier musical and emotional strains. It’s been a natural progression. “I have expanded the palette of what I was writing about,” he recently told c-ville.com. “I was using what I had at the time. I didn’t have a band and was doing music in my spare time.” And he’s doing it for the right reasons. “You can’t be doing it for the business,” he said. “You have to do it because you like it. If you like it enough and you do it enough, and you keep working on your craft and your chops, you can make it. That said, I should be more commercial-minded. I should be, but I follow the muse.” Beam and his four tourmates will keep it fresh when they get to the Columbus Theatre (270 Broadway, Providence). “I’m not interested in regurgitating the recordings,” he told c-ville.com. “We switch the songs around, pull the loud ones back to quiet, or the opposite.” Get ready to roll with the changes. The Secret Sisters open at 8 pm | $40 advance, $45 day of show | columbustheatre.com

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These are fully inhabited performances in a play that’s not only dramatically powerful but encapsulates an important span of social history.

triumph and tragedy

epic’s magnificent angels in america It doesn’t hurt that Angels In America

is, in several regards, the greatest f American play ever written. And judging

from the Epic Theatre Company production of the first part, audiences are being gifted with a magnificent, definitive production (through June 29 at Theatre 82), perfectly cast and directed by Ashley Arnold and Kevin Broccoli. Playwright Tony Kushner’s masterwork, which snapped up a Pulitzer in 1993, is so audaciously ambitious in all it spans that it needed to be presented in two three-hour-plus sections. Subtitled “A Gay Fantasia On National Themes,” Part I is titled Millennium Approaches, and Perestroika is Part II. Its primary subject is, of course, the “plague” that began decimating the gay community in the early 1980s. We begin by seeing how HIV and AIDS affect a typical couple, Louis Ironson (Kevin Broccoli) and Prior Walter (Michael Puppi), when the latter starts noticing his Kaposi sarcoma lesions, early indicators of immune system failure. Appropriate for a subject so emotionally fraught, the play opens at a brief fevered pitch, with a nearly hysterical Prior in bed, having imagined an angel above him about to herald some auspicious pronouncement. Another such scene ends Part I. Louis is too well-drawn to be a mere placeholder for society’s neglect of those felled by AIDS, but he does serve as that metaphor. Louis anticipates not being

able to cope with the illness of his partner of four years, and he’s right. He tries out on a rabbi (Mary Paolino) his rationalizations for abandoning Prior, but he remains guilty and self-centered as self-charged. Prior, scion of a pre-Mayflower family, has to settle for hallucinatory consolation from three prior Priors who tell him of plagues in their own times. Near the beginning, we get to the moral fulcrum of the plot, a meeting of ethical opposites in our society: upright Mormon Pitt being offered a Justice Department job by his mentor, Roy Cohn (R. Bobby), who is nearly satanic in a comical way, with his volcanic hubris and all-consuming grasp (“I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. Eight loving arms and all those suckers, know what I mean?”). Cohn obviously wants a compliant minion. Naïve goodness doesn’t stand a chance in these chambers of power. Cohn was an actual historical figure, the powerful conservative acolyte of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. To his last breath, he insisted publicly that the disease wasting him away was liver cancer. He can’t be a homosexual, he insists, since they “don’t have clout.” So, as he puts it, “Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man who fucks around with guys.” Underscoring such denial rampant among closeted gays, there also is Joe Pitt (C.T. Larsen) — a Mormon, no less — coming to anguished terms with who he is, wracked with guilt. He eventually hooks up with Louis, who would rather hate himself

punching the clock rWu’s the receptionist _by b ill ro drig ue z We come into the world, we rub our eyes, we look around and squall, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out why we had to bother. For us and the people in Adam Bock’s The Receptionist, which Roger Williams University Barn Summer Theatre is presenting through June 21, briskly directed by Dorisa S. Boggs, that’s also metaphorically true. Unfortunately, this is a one-note oneact, since its 80 minutes rely on an eventual surprise understanding of what has been going on, a note that resounds for the final 20 minutes as we witness the consequences of what has preceded. It wasn’t enough of a payoff for me, and left me greedy for more. Late daily to her private office is Lorraine Taylor (Kristina Dahlene), who apparently so dislikes her unspecified work that she always misses her bus. The boss must be Mr. Raymond (Robert Gillet), since we aren’t told his first name. With only reception-

ist Beverly Wilkins (Katie van der Sleesen) at her desk, tension is introduced by the arrival of Martin Dart (Mick Jones) from the central office to see Mr. Raymond for unspecified reasons. The place seems to be run by the receptionist, who purrs a sugary “Northeast office” in answering the phone, even if she was upset a beat before. At the opening we don’t even know we’re supposed to be puzzled. It’s a perfectly ordinary office situation, with gossip and conflicts, a lazy worker here, a peculiar boss there. But we can consider this humorous drama as a subtle sort of mystery, the reward coming in assembling the hints and figuring out how this world differs from ours. (Of course, if we’re to learn from any moral it presents, we’d have to conclude that it’s not different from our own in essence, only in particulars.) The hints are in the preamble to the play. Before the office action, Mr. Raymond addresses us off-stage under a

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Short, I IS ANOTHER bobby, puppi, and clement as various priors. for fleeing than be there for his sick partner. Larsen is transfixing, yet the characterization psychologically is shaky. Nonetheless, self-hatred seems a likely prompt for Pitt’s anonymous sex in Central Park. His Valium-addicted, housebound wife, Harper (Melanie Stone), may ironically be the most clear-sighted person we meet, though she insists, “I’m not addicted. I don’t believe in addiction.” Sexually deprived, having to settle for the occasional “buddy kiss,” as her husband calls them, she ends up imagining herself in pristine, snowbound Antarctica, aided by her imaginary companion. Mr. Lies (Victor Terry). Unlike most of the others, at least she knows what she needs. Since Kushner is always aware that this

gay fantasia is about “National Themes,” he tosses in Ethel Rosenberg (Paolino) for Cohn to hallucinate. The lawyer brags that he was responsible for her getting the electric chair, after he illegally badgered a judge who wanted to give her life. Smartly directed, this staging. For example, sometimes characters from the previous scene remain briefly frozen in shadows, reminding us of a thematic overlap. These are fully inhabited performances in a play that’s not only dramatically powerful but encapsulates an important span of social history. The occasional monologues are mini-essays, but they illuminate rather than bore. Terrific stuff. Grab tickets for the marathons on June 22 and 29, when the two parts will be performed at 2 and 7 pm. ^

spotlight. He’s talking about how he loves flyfishing, the graceful curve of the line slowly whipping back and forth, the catch, the release of the fish if it’s not injured. If it is damaged, a merciful killing it is next, he tells us. “And that’s okay,” he says. “Because everything out there is eating something.” Should I have announced “spoiler alert”? I don’t think so. Consider that an ambiguous pocket guide to the dark undercurrent flowing between any chirpy exchanges in these proceedings. Carry it around and pat it reassuringly when you fear getting lost. Sometimes a play’s payoff is simply in its illuminating or entertaining process. Ongoing humor and the interplay among characters are probably what’s made The Receptionist successful in other productions. But the opening night foray was a bit shaky, with occasional hesitations and faltering in dialogue that needed to flow as smoothly as anecdotes around the morning water cooler. This is probably inevitable without extra rehearsal, since playwright Bock’s dialogue is full of fidgets, halts, and half-expressed thoughts, especially when the speaker is nervous or excited, a common state here. Characters

sometimes have to switch from contra dance to Apache dance on the fly. All the actors do well, but van der Sleesen skillfully controls the ebb and flow and tone of the proceedings, getting most of the dialogue in her traffic cop role. The sweet insincerity of her phone answering informs the character we see develop. The receptionist has a firm sense of morality, chastising a friend who is interested in a married man, repeating “he’s married!” again and again as sufficient argument. She says Mr. Raymond is a fine boss, “considerate,” so she apparently responds well to consideration. Lorraine is still emotionally attached to an excessively narcissistic ex-boyfriend, blaming herself for believing guys “who say they’re good guys.” But Beverly has no loyalty to her, telling the central office arrival that Lorraine “would walk out of here with a three-hole punch if I didn’t watch her like a hawk.” If you leave high expectations behind, the process of following these characters is, to paraphrase Obama to Hillary, illuminating enough. The director’s note in the program consists of the John Donne meditation that concludes: “Therefore, send not to know/For whom the bell tolls/ It tolls for thee.” ^

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fighting the power james montford’s confrontational art _By Gr eG cooK It was around 1983 when ProviMonson Academy, RISD and, since dence artist James Montford 2005, as a teacher at Rhode Island and a friend posed as photographers College and director of its Bannisto check out the Ku Klux Klan rally ter Gallery. in Norwalk, Connecticut. “My work from then forward “There were about a dozen Klan was about a willingness to take members in their Klan regalia berisks,” Montford says. He exhibhind a police fence in a public park. ited photos of lawn jockeys, a There was a crowd of 300 to 400 sound-piece that bombarded lispeople,” he recalls. teners with racist slurs, and in 1992 “They came right up to us with he began doing a series of lynching their blowhorns and they said, performances. A haunting photo ‘These niggers are the problem.’ We in his archive shows him under a were the only black people there. It black hood, bound by numerous was a defining moment because I nooses to a column outside Niagara felt somebody could have just put a University’s Castellani Art Muknife in my back. seum in the early 2000s. “It took me about year to process Yellow Peril screens television it,” says Montford, whose exhibinews footage of Montford dressed tion “Black Indians in Space,” is at as a living cigar store Indian wearYellow Peril Gallery (60 Valley St, ing a child’s feather headdress for Providence, through July 13). “It a performance he did at Buffalo changed the direction of my work.” City Hall. He says police arrived to Growing up in Connecticut and arrest him for standing outside the Hawaii, he’d not dreamed of being building as a living lawn jockey an artist. His African American with a flaming torch. father was career Coast Guard; his “Right as they were about to do Massapequa Pequot mom was a that, the news crew showed up,” TAKING RISKS montford outside niagara homemaker. He was recruited to Montford recalls. The TV anchorUniversity’s castellani art museum. attend Brandeis University in 1970 man “steps up and starts talking under a federal program to increase with me . . . Then it switches to this academic diversity. art thing. This guy basically saves my life and then does “I’m a product of the civil rights movement,” Montthis really nice [TV] representation.” ford says. “The doors opened a little bit in the late ’60s The exhibition’s center is a series of new collages deand ’70s and I was one of the people they let through.” picting mammy-astronauts with feathered headdresses In college, he found his way into abstract painting and floating in space. They feel like small gags after his fierce urban planning. He became immersed in the art world protests and performances. For the 62-year-old Montford, when he spent some years in New York. He studied at Cothey’re a continuing exploration of the racism that remains lumbia University and the Maryland Institute of Art. He “right there under the surface all the time . . . Very little has made minimalist paintings. But seeing the Klan promptchanged in the last 60 or 70 years. White culture has maned him to make hangman’s nooses and collect mammy aged to create the appearance of equity. But it’s just the apdolls and other commercial memorabilia featuring racist pearance. The power structures haven’t been affected.” ^ caricatures of black folks that he lynched in videos. In 1989, Montford taught at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, which gave him a home and studio; it was an oasis for him and his two sons after he divorced his wife. “But they didn’t celebrate the [Martin Luther] King holiday,” he says. “What does that mean?” He tried to get the school to recognize the assassinated civil rights leader but felt his efforts were going nowhere. “So I went on a hunger fast . . . I’d drink water, but I would not eat until they agreed to celebrate the King holiday.” Word spread around the campus as he hung signs, “Day 1,” “Day 2” in the window of his office in the library building. “Day seven, I got this note from the principal’s office. It said, ‘James, stop your fast. We’ll do whatever you want to do.’ ” (“Martin Luther King Day To Be Recognized: James Montford, Minority Advisor, Ends Six Day Fast,” the headline in the student newspaper read.) He ended it with an open forum, attended by nearly 300 people, to answer questions. “I decided on my own that I had to leave [the school soon after]. I realized that I was messenger and other people had to come after that. It was so intense to be there.” (When the school held its 20th annual MLK Day in 2011, it invited him back.) BLACK BUFFALO JOCKEY from “Black indians in space.” Montford has since worked at Wilbraham &

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Perrotta, Bernie Perrotty, Steve De-Nuccio, Evan Rocha, and Brian Vincent | Twelve Acres, 445 Douglas Pike, Smithfield | $40 includes dinner [7:30 pm] + show + tax + tip | 401.461.7896 | comedyfactoryri. com

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Irish Dance and Showcase Dance Productions and participatory set dancing with Devine’s Diner + children’s entertainment by Irish magician Debbie O’Carroll, Mary King & Phil Edmonds, Aoife Clancy, and Marvelous Marvin’s Circus Arts + more than 30 food and craft vendors | 11 am-7 pm (rain date June 22) | Diamond Hill State Park, Rt 114, Cumberland | $15, $10 seniors, $5 kids, free under 5 | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org FIRE CAMP | The event will feature hands-on mold-making; attendees can purchase a sand mold [$20], which can be scratched into to create unique designs, patterns, or images. The customized scratch molds will be cast in iron during the event, and be cleaned and ready to take home | 1-7 pm | The Steel Yard, 27 Sims Ave, Providence | 401.273.7101 | thesteelyard.org

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HESTER KAPLAN will read from, discuss, and sign her new collection of stories, Unravished | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM GRAND SLAM CHAMPIONSHIP |

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These listings are for Thurs June 19Mon June 23 only. Call for updates or go to cinemaworldonline.com. EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D | Thurs: 9:55 MALEFICENT 3D | Thurs: 4, 10 JERSEY BOYS | Starts Fri: 10:25, 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO | Thurs: 7, 9:30 | Fri-Mon: 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 8:15, 10:10, 10:30 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D | 11:35, 9:45 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 | Thurs: 10:30, 11:30, 1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9 | Fri-Mon: 10:30, 11:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9 22 JUMP STREET | 10:45, 11:45, 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:30, 8, 10, 10:25 EDGE OF TOMORROW | Thurs: 11, 1:40, 4:40, 7:25 | Fri-Mon: 10:50, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 9:55 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS | Thurs: 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 8:20, 10:15 | Fri-Mon: 10:20, 1:20, 2:20, 4:20, 5:20, 7:20, 10:15 CHEF | 10:35, 1:10, 4:50 7:50, 10:20 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 10:15, 11:15, 1:15, 1:45, 4, 7, 7:45, 9:15 | Fri-Mon: 10:15, 11:15, 1:15, 2:15, 4, 5, 6:45, 7:45, 9 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 BLENDED | 11:05, 1:35, 7:10 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | Thurs: 10:50, 1:50, 2:50, 4:05, 5:15, 7:05, 9:50 | Fri-Mon: 10:35, 1:25, 4:05, 7, 9:40, 10:05 GODZILLA | Thurs: 10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:40, 10:25 | Fri-Mon: 10:55, 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 NEIGHBORS | Thurs: 11:10, 1:55, 4:35, 7:55, 10:05 | Fri-Mon: 4:10, 9:50

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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 | 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20 22 JUMP STREET | 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45 EDGE OF TOMORROW | 1, 3:50, 7:15*, 9:40* [*no shows June 26] THE FAULT IN OUR STARS | 12:40, 3:45, 7, 9:35 MALEFICENT | Thurs: 12:15, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50, 9 | Fri-Thurs: 12:15, 3, 6:40, 9 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | 1:10, 4:20, 6:50*, 9:20* [*no shows June 26] X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | 12:25, 3:30, 6:35, 9:30 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D | Thurs [6.26]: 9 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION | Thurs [6.26]: 9

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MALEFICENT 3D | Thurs: 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 9:55 JERSEY BOYS | Starts Fri: 12:05, 3:10, 7, 10:10 THE ROVER | Starts Fri: 11:50, 2:20, 5, 7:25, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO | Thurs: 7, 7:30, 9:30, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 11:10, 11:45, 12:15, 1:40, 2:15, 2:45, 4:15, 4:45, 5:15, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:20, 9:50, 10:20 | FriSat late show: 11:20, 11:50, 12:20 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D | 1:05, 1:35, 4:05, 6:35 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 | 10:30, 11:30, 1:05, 2:05, 3:35, 4:35, 6:05, 7:05, 8:45, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 11, 1:30, 4, 6:35, 9:15 | Fri-Thurs: 12, 2:25, 4:55 22 JUMP STREET | Thurs: 11:15, 1:20, 1:50, 4:20, 4:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10, 10:30 | Fri-Thurs: 10:55, 11:25, 1:30, 2, 4:20, 5:05, 7:10, 7:40, 9:45, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 EDGE OF TOMORROW | Thurs: 11:25, 11:55, 2, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 | Fri-Thurs: 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 EDGE OF TOMORROW: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 7:20, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:35

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80 minUtes | Avon Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love), this story of faith and despair is gracefully told, its simple, uncluttered spaces and luminous black-and-white photography harking back to Robert Bresson. Innocent young Ida (Agata Trzebuchowska), raised in a Polish convent and preparing to take her vows, is directed by the Mother Superior to make contact with her only living relative, an aunt (Agata Kulesza) who reveals to the young novitiate that her father was Jewish and her parents both died in the Nazi occupation. Hoping to uncover the details, the two of them set off for the family’s hometown, where the romantic attentions of a handsome young sax player in the hotel bar prove almost as troubling to Ida as her parents’ demise. In Polish with subtitles. _J.R. Jones

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Four Seasons, comes to the big screen under the unlikely tutelage of Clint Eastwood. His treatment of the material is decidedly prosaic, perched midway between cold realism and showbiz fantasy: the colors are muted where they ought to be gaudy, and even the irrepressibly catchy songs come and go without much impact (the only one accorded the proper razzmatazz is Frankie Valli’s monster solo hit “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”). The scenes detailing Valli’s family problems are so perfunctory you wish Eastwood had just dropped them, though the emerging conflicts among the four singers are nicely handled; this isn’t the movie it should have been, but it serves its purpose as a souvenir of the stage show. With Vincent Piazza, John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, and Christopher Walken. _J.R. Jones

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The opening title for this Australian action flick announces that it takes place “10 years after the collapse” — that’s all the backstory the movie provides, but it’s impressive for its ingenuity in suggesting, on a relatively low The beloved boomer-nostalgia musical, which budget, a 21st century in which the world traces the rise and fall of the chart-topping monetary system has disintegrated, leaving every man for himself. Guy Pearce, barely recognizable in matted hair, bushy beard, and scruffy clothes, plays a silent loner whose car is stolen by a trio of outlaws and who takes off in hot pursuit, his relentlessness unfathomable until the final scene. Along the way he passes roadside crucifixions and freight trains lettered in Chinese, mysterious signifiers of a dystopian future in which bombs figure less than bucks. David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) directed; with Robert Pattinson (Twilight). everY MaN FOr HiMselF Pattinson in The Rover. _J.R. Jones

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H. Weber, who wrote the superior teen romance The Spectacular Now, reunite for this generous, sensitively performed melodrama about cancerstricken teens who fall in love. Like the earlier movie, it was adapted from an acclaimed young-adult novel, features Shailene Woodley as a lonely young woman who blossoms in her new romance, and aspires to a gentle, moony tone. Yet James Ponsoldt, director of The Spectacular Now, sculpted his dramatic effects with a scalpel; Josh Boone, who directed this movie, uses a chainsaw. An emotional climax arrives every 15 minutes or so, and every affecting moment is underscored with a soppy light-rock song. With Laura Dern, Mike Birbiglia, and Willem Dafoe as a reclusive novelist based on Thomas Pynchon. | 126m |

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

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This year, the waning moon synchs up with the solstice which makes for a rather dim light if you’re going to frolic among whatever standing stones you like to use for rituals. Dim light is definitely a theme this week, when spaciness prevails later in the week, and an urge to chatter drives the weekend. However, it is the Solstice, a time for general revelry and merriment, and as it coincides with the weekend, “laissez les bon temps roulez!”

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Waning moon in taurus. excellent shopping day, especially for getting good deals on antiques, apparel, or anything to do with music (concert tickets?). taurus, capricorn, virgo, pisces, Aries, Gemini, and cancer enjoy “sticking to their guns,” while Scorpio, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius should be cautious about overreacting. Are you hearing the full story? 28

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Waning moon in Gemini. the days before the new moon is a time for reflection, and potentially accidentprone. this is when the white knight comes riding along. Yet he’s here to help the maiden in the next castle. Be open to options, and understand that decisions made today will not stick. Grooving with the uncertainty: Aries, taurus, Gemini, cancer, Leo, Libra, and Aquarius. resisting the zeitgeist: virgo, pisces, capricorn, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. 31

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but still entertaining) detail. Also excellent for projects with a partner or sibling. Aries, taurus, Gemini, cancer, Leo, Libra, and Aquarius are full steam ahead, while virgo, pisces, capricorn, Scorpio, and Sagittarius could be a little steamed, especially if it seems people aren’t listening carefully.

Waning moon in Aries, moon voidof-course 10:24 pm until 3:03 am, solstice begins. Let the wild rumpus start! Buy a hat, have a barbeque, put the sunscreen on your forehead — Aries rules the “quick start.” At their zingiest: Aquarius, pisces, Aries, taurus, Gemini, Sagittarius, Leo. Be brave, and follow your instincts. cancer, capricorn, Scoprio, virgo, and Libra could find themselves in the middle — or is it a muddle? 24

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Waning moon in Aries. A great day for the “do-over.” Second chances for many, including Aquarius, pisces, Aries, taurus, Gemini, Sagittarius, and Leo. take another look at what has perplexed you. Libra, cancer, Aries, virgo, and Scorpio: don’t get talked into something because someone knows your weak spots better than you do. 26

Last quarter moon in pisces, moon void-of-course 7:05 pm until 9:25 pm when it enters Aries. A turning point for decisions made at the end of may, or that reached a climax around June 13. Your artistic side is howling to get out. With the moon at odds with the sun, male/female relationships are in flux, particularly for virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius, cancer, capricorn, and Libra. 6 25

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Waning moon in taurus. An urge to organize prevails, and shopkeepers should think about extending nighttime hours (people want to buy-buybuy!). An excellent day for enjoying music or the performing arts. taurus, capricorn, virgo, pisces, Aries, Gemini and cancer: think practical, but be romantic — your partner will be pleasantly surprised. Scorpio, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius: look for areas of agreement, if disagreement is coming too easily. 29

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Waning moon in taurus, moon void-of-course 1:48 am to 11:05 am, and then moves into Gemini. A great day for communication and for hearing stories with lots of (extraneous 30

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

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48 hBo series set in new orleans 49 cheapskate 50 one ___ (certain odds) 53 dope 54 hip joint 55 Abbr. at the bottom of a letter 59 den., Switz., etc. Solution iS on page 17