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8 beck’s new morning _ b Y michaeL atchison

A conversation about recording the old-fashioned way, the enduring power of the album, the folk music in his DNA, and never taking success for granted.

12 homegrown prodUct _ bY chris con ti

Straight outta Aquidneck: Freddie bLack and b LUv keep rap heads fed.

14 theater _b Y bi LL rod rig Uez

The final countdown: 2nd Story’s and then there were none.

15 art _ bY gre g cook

Doodles, lights, and dreams: proUtY, sanchez, and perrY at AS220.

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“Short Takes” on words and pictUres, stand cLear oF the cLosing doors, and third person.

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phiLLipe & Jorge’s cooL, cooL worLd

The one-third majority: doing the mayoral math | Bookworms | Star struck | Grounded in reality | Bring on the Glamazons!

Jen sorensen

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Providence gets a Fringe fest (finally) | At PVD Putt Putt: chicken wire, see-saws, and dragon-birds

NRBQ at the Met; Max Frost at Waterplace Park; the South Coast Artists Tour; and a flurry of fests (Black Ships, South County Hot Air Balloon, RI Beer, 4-H County Fair, and more).

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Phillipe + Jorge’s Cool, Cool World

the one-third majority doing the mayoral math; a word for the warriors; get your sparkly on The entrance of former may-

or Buddy “Vincent A.” Cianci f into the Providence mayoral

campaign has claimed its first casualty in local businessman Lorne Adrain, who announced on Monday he was quitting the race. Although he didn’t say it outright, Adrain, who is highly respected locally as a former RI Board of Governors for Higher Education chairman, among other civic involvements, appears to have been pushed out of the running by the spectre of the Bud-I taking advantage of split votes among Democrats, Republicans, and other independents to reclaim his former office. Adrain is right on the mark with his fears and suspicions. The Bud-I is a master of the multiple-candidate race, because he can count on at least one-third of the vote in La Prov just by rolling out of bed in the morning, past indiscretions (including the mere matter of a felony and time spent at the government’s pleasure) notwithstanding. In his last reinvention in 1990, Cianci won a mayoral ménage a trois by a whopping 317 votes. And as this race shaped up, with a Dem, GOP choice, and another Indie (Adrain) in the race, that appeared to be clearly playing to Buddy’s strong suit. Meanwhile, the key Democratic rivals will get their own taste of three-way politics in the primary, with Michael Solomon, Brett Smiley, and Jorge Elorza all having their eyes on the prize of representing their party in the general election. From the Casa Diablo viewing window, it is unlikely the winner of that showdown will take more than 50 percent of the vote, as all three candidates draw from strong and somewhat varied constituencies. P&J are not normally gambling men, but we're tempted to put a flutter on the idea of the Bud-I licking his chops about his chances with that diehard 33 percent in his back pocket, and winding up the last man standing. Believe it, brother. And sleep tight, Roger Williams.

Bookworms

P&J always enjoy receiving new books to sate our thirsty literary minds. So P. was delighted to learn the prize he won in a recent Wounded Warrior Project benefit golf tournament was two new hardcovers. Imagine his surprise and joy when he saw they were two tomes by P&J’s BFF Ed Achorn — editorial page editor and vice president at the Urinal — both

about the early days of baseball in the US, including Fifty-Nine in ’84, about old-time Providence Grays pitcher “Old Hoss” Radbourn. Naturally, since both books are about baseball, they will go to the top of the Casa Diablo recommended reading list. This should delight Mr. Achorn, who remains none too fond of P&J for our comments about his wife, Valerie Forti, who infamously mismanaged funds that were supposed to go to needy young local scholars while serving as head of the doomed nonprofit, the Education Partnership. (P&J can only imagine the pillow talk in their household, given Eddie’s ongoing attacks of the teacher’s unions in the Biggest Little.) Well, as they say, it’s a one degree of separation state. We’ll give our review once we get through these new literary treasures. Note: The Wounded Warrior Project will host a number of

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tourneys in Little Rhody this summer, and there is no better way to direct your money than to the military victims of our misguided wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the tournament in which Phillipe played, young Navy ensigns from states across the country who are stationed at the Newport base tended the pins on every hole in full uniform. And virtually every golfer made a point of thanking them for their service when they arrived at the green. If these ’utes represent the future of America, we are in better hands than the mass media would have you believe. They provide even more reason not to have cowardly armchair general politicians in Washington, DC send these exemplars of what you would hope this country is all about to get killed or wounded in ill-advised conflicts in far-flung nations to serve corporate America.

star struck

Courtesy of the news and opinion compilation magazine, The Week (if you don’t get it, subscribe now), comes a nice little item about Russian head ramrod “Bad Vlad” Putin and his adoring fans in the Anschluss country of Ukraine. Evidently a band of maverick Ukraine astronomers paid $10 to one of those staradoption services (full disclosure: P&J have done the same whilst in the throes of love) to rename a star formerly known as “KIC 9696936.” The new moniker they gave it is “Putin-Huilo,” which translates nicely into English as, “Putin is a dickhead.” Are the stars out tonight . . . .

Grounded in reality

Theater buffs Phillipe and Jorge always get excited when our friend, colleague, and mentor Judith Swift directs a play at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket.

So we are tippy-toed about the New England premiere of George Brant’s Grounded that Ms. Swift and the Gamm will present from September 4 through 28. Sample raves of Grounded productions elsewhere include, “Five Stars. Outstanding,” from The London Evening Standard; “a rare and precious experience: theatre that is both soul searing and core shaking,” from New York Theatre Review; and “a Top 10 Play of 2013,” from The Guardian. As Judith and the Gamm folks describe it, “George Brant’s gripping one-woman play [is] about a hot-rod fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Reassigned to fly remote-controlled drones in Afghanistan from a windowless, air-conditioned trailer near Vegas, ‘The Pilot’ hunts terrorists by day and goes home to her family at night. But what happens when the boundaries blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols? Brant’s new play explodes our assumptions about modern warfare and unapologetically tells a story of our times.” Phone 401.723.4266 or head to gammtheatre.org for tix. Be there or be square.

Glamazons are here

If you have never seen the alttheater/neo-vaudevillian force of nature — and, according to Providence Monthly, “most sparkly” person in town — Kristen Minsky, in action, you’ll want to make your way to Fête in Olneyville on Friday (the 18th). Her current project, the Glamazons Variety Show is the feature attraction, along with a performance by the Chifferobe Tropigals. (Ms. Minsky also serves as curator/director of Chifferobe, the “boutique event production company, which specializes in period-inspired soirees such as Speakeasies, USO Shows, Murder Mysteries, Sideshows, and Circuses, and events that evoke Old Hollywood glamour and style.”) The Glamazons are Ms. Minsky and fellow neo-vaudevillians, Reggie Bugmuncher, Eyrie Twylite, and Lady Egress. Providence is the current stop on their tour of the Northeast, which also includes trips to Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Vermont. The performance includes live music, dancing, and “sideshow performances.” Things will be getting underway at 8 pm for VIP ticket holders ($35) and 9 for the general audience ($15 in advance, $20 at the door). You are encouraged to wear “vintage, circus and/or imaginative” attire. In other words, you are invited to enter the world of Ms. Minsky. ^

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WhaT, Where, and When

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At last, Providence gets a Fringe

With the launch of Providence’s first-ever fringe festival on the horizon — FringePVD kicks off Wednesday, July 23 — it’s worthwhile heading to the United States Association of Fringe Festivals’ website for a reminder of what, exactly, a fringe is. Fringe fests originated in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1947 “as an alternative festival that played concurrently with the Edinburgh International Festival,” fringefestivals.us tells us. The page goes on to explain that present-day descendants are known for being affordable (low ticket costs for attend“A SUITCASE THEATER SHOW” Nixon’s Lava Fossil. ees, low production costs for performers), uncensored (“no one gets too fussy about swears or nuGroup founding artistic director, Josh Short, dity”), passionate about original works (look and Trinity Rep executive director, Michael elsewhere for Cats or A Chorus Line), and rapidGennaro, asked one another during a conversafire in their presentation of low-fi, usuallytion this past winter. It was quickly followed by shorter-than-60-minute performances. A a resolution, Short says: “We could do that.” fringe is a “performing-arts smörgåsbord,” “I felt like if we had 12 artists — 12 differthe site says. ent performances — then we could call it a When scrolling through the USAFF ‘festival,’ ” he adds. website’s “Festival Directory,” though, it’s To Short’s enormous credit, he and fellow tough not to also notice just how late to the festival organizers have leapt way, way over action Providence is. With our inaugural fest that bar in the months since (the Wilbury in 2014, we’re following in the fringe-steps Group is the FringePVD’s main producer). The of New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louinaugural Providence Fringe Fest will feature is, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Kansas more than 50 performers, 40 performances, City, and Minneapolis, which isn’t particuand 30 distinct works. Those shows — which, larly embarrassing. But there’s more. We’re with rare exception, cost $5 or less to attend also trailing Syracuse, Rochester, Cincin— span five venues: AS220’s Black Box Thenati, Missoula, Wilmington, and Orlando. ater at 95 Empire Street, Aurora Providence We repeat: Orlando. (formerly the Roots Cultural Center, at 276 What took Providence — self-described Westminster), URI’s Providence Campus, the “Creative Capital,” and home of Trinity RepMovement Exchange in Pawtucket, and the ertory Company, among other qualifications Wilbury Group’s home space (where Trin— so long to get on the fringe train? ity Rep was born, once upon a time) at the This was the question Wilbury Theatre Southside Cultural Center, on Broad Street. Those offerings include:

• A one-man “mostly nonfiction” show titled Monocular Man, that follows Jamestown-based retired magazine publisher R. Jim Stahl’s life after losing an eye in a fireworks mishap while sailing on Biscayne Bay a week after his Bar Mitzvah. • A theatrical collaboration between nunturned-Rhode Island-attorney-general-turnedtalk-radio-host-turned-columnist-turned-playwright, Arlene Violet, and retired-NYPD-detective-turned-URI-adjunct-English-professor, Robert Leuci, called, The Centurion.

MEMOIRIST Stahl in Monocular Man.

• A reprise of local artist/writer/teacher, Kate Schapira’s “Climate Anxiety Counseling” booth, which the Phoenix covered in May during Schapira’s month-long residency at Kennedy Plaza. (If you missed that article, here’s her description: “Stop at [the] booth to share your fears and hopes for the changing and warming world, or just what’s pressing on your mind the most. For five cents (donations go to the Environmental Justice League of RI), you can put your worries on the map, walk away with a small piece of art, and learn

more about an online library of climate action resources that’s in the works.”)

• A performance by local art-star, of RISD Museum/ Dirt Palace/AS220/deCordova Biennial fame, J.R. Uretsky titled Hymn, which she says, “follows three stories about women being stifled by institutions (particularly Girl Scouts and the evangelical church) and ultimately tells how I lost my faith and found a new identity with the help of my friends.” She will be performing in a Boy Scout uniform, she adds. • A presentation entitled Music Moves from blogger, DJ, activist, teacher, and Phoenix freelancer, Reza Clifton, that veers from recitations of original poetry to citing statistics about the modern media marketplace. Example: according to the Women’s Media Center, Clifton says, “For production of the 250 top-grossing domestically made films of 2013, women accounted for 16 percent of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors.” • An anything-goes, participatory mockfuneral procession titled El Funeral de la Luna de Fresas y la Procesion Del Trueno (The Funeral of the Strawberry Moon and The Thunder Procession) that begins at 95 Empire Street and ends at Grant’s Block, at the corner of Westminster and Union Streets. The procession is the fourth such public ritual, following the staging of a wedding, a dinner party, and a cockfight in previous months by the performance groups Islands and Fluxus Moon Cabaret. • A multi-performance dinner theater fea-

turing noise music, experimental dance, avant-garde/activist puppetry, and shadows projected through a nine-foot paper cut scroll illustrating English folk ballads, all of it curated by local artist (and the man behind the paper cut scroll) Erik Ruin. Of the unique format, he says, “By the time the performers begin to hit the stage, everyone’s already on the same team and in a really good mood, because they’ve been eating this delicious food.” So, what’s the sum of these performances, and many others, crammed into four days in Rhode Island’s capital city? If you ask Short, the festival pulls the lid off of a town where, “It’s less about aspiring to have your name in lights and more aspiring to do something really cool in a garage somewhere.” He’s already talking about FringePVD it like it’s an annual event. Beth Nixon, the local puppetry/clown/theater dynamo who will perform her show Lava Fossil (“A suitcase theater show about a dad, a crab, a dentist and where things go when they are gone”) on Friday and Saturday at Aurora is similarly excited. “There aren’t a lot of venues in the world for doing suitcase theater or mime, or bizarre-

The Wilbury TheaTre Group 393 Broad Street, Providence 7.24 @ 7:30 pm: Summer Street Dinner Theater (In Exile), curated by Erik Ruin, with dinner by executive chef Chris Mulligan, featuring performances by John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Nell Gross, Julia Moses, Katrina Clark, Joe Burgio, and Gelsey Bell 7.25 @ 7 pm: Music Moves presentation by Reza Clifton 7:30 pm: Assembly of Light Choir 8 pm: Overture to a Thursday Morning and Vamping by Kali Quinn 7.26 @ 6 pm: iPan by Milly Romanzi 7:30 pm: NY Stories: Eye Contact by Diane Postoian 8 pm: Monocular Man by R. Jim Stahl 9:30 pm: Broad Street Parade from Wilbury Group to Aurora/Grants Block with the Extraordinary Rendition Band aS220’S 95 empire black box 95 Empire Street, Providence 7.24 TBA 7.25 TBA 7.26 @ 7 pm: The Funeral of the Stawberry Moon and the Thunder Procession to Grants Block | A metaperformance comprised of 10-plus artists executing performance art

aurora providence 276 Westminster Street, Providence 7.23 @ 7 pm: Official FRINGEPVD Opening Celebration, with Veja Doolittle, the Chifferobe TropiGals 7.24 @ 7 pm: Kickin’ Ass & Takin’ Names by Seth Lepore 8:30 pm: It is Just Defiance by Sylvia Ann Soares 9:30 pm: Infinitely Covariable by J.P.A Falzone 11 pm: Beating Heart Cadaver by Alex Maynard and T.S. McCormick 7.25 @ 7 pm: Fecund Blessings by Planchette 7:30 pm: The Centurion by Robert Leuci and Arlene Violet 8:30 pm: Hymn by JR Uretsky 9 pm: Lava Fossil by Beth Nixon 10:30 pm: New Music by Srsy 7.26 @ 6 pm: This Is Not Jazz 7:30 pm: Lava Fossil by Beth Nixon 8:30 pm: This Is Not Jazz 9 pm: The Road to High Street by Andrew Potter 10:30 pm: Roadhouse: The Musical by Brien Lang uri providence campuS 80 Washington Street, Providence 7.24 7 pm: Mysterious Nostalgia by Saul Ramos 7:30 pm: Entropy featuring Christopher Johnson, Rachel Rosencrantz, Blevin Betchum 8 pm: Art of Love and The Hemlock Cup, two short plays by Gene Spector 7.25 @ 7 pm: The Road to High Street by Andrew Potter 8 pm: Once Again by Lenny Schwartz & Daydream Theatre Co. 8:30 pm: Kickin’ Ass & Takin’ Names by Seth Lepore 7.26 @ 7 pm: Towards a Synchronic Historiography by Andy Boyd 8 pm: Spin Against the Way it Drives by OUTLoud Theatre Co. The movemenT exchanGe 545 Pawtucket Ave. Pawtucket, RI 7.24 @ 7 pm: Little Engines of Proof by Andy Russ 7 :30 pm: Chalk by Alex Curtis 7.25 @ 7 and 9pm: improv/in/sight | Contact dance improvisation featuring Stephanie Turner, Shura Baryshnikov, Aaron Brandes, Shaina Cantino, Sara Konne, and Rebecca Lin Bone. 7.26 @ 7 pm: Little Engines of Proof by Andy Russ 7 :30 pm: Chalk by Alex Curtis

o spoken-word when you’re standing upside down,” she says. A fringe fest, she says, is “about creating a space for people to widen their imagining of what’s possible in the performative arts, and then, ideally, a way to invite audiences in to either celebrate, or be exposed to, or be horrified at whatever stuff they might not see if they were just season subscribers to a regional theater or . . . just went to the movies.” Amen. Oh, and as for that, “What took Providence so long to get a Fringe fest?” question? Erik Ruin brings up a valuable point: Providence is still a step ahead of fringe-less Boston. FringePVD kicks off Wednesday, July 23 at 7 pm with an opening party at Aurora Providence (276 Westminster St), and runs through Saturday, July 26. For more info, head to fringepvd.org.

_Philip Eil

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at pvd putt putt: chicken wire, seesaws, and dragon-birds Hole number four at PVD Putt Putt, the newly-opened temporary mini-golf course at Dexter Field on Providence’s West Side, could pass for a busted carnival game, an artisanal chicken coop, and/or a backwoods science lab. Pasted with old license plates — many of which are cut up and pieced together, ransom note-style — and wrapped in chicken wire, this array of funnels, metal piping, rusted gears, spigots, and faulty dials lacks the bright plastic and aquatic lighting schemes that characterize the typical minigolf hole. Here, the putted ball slips into a hole and disappears — lost, eaten. “The Junker,” is, however, laid with green AstroTurf. And at a little past 4 pm on a recent Saturday, a line is forming at the volunteer-staffed, free-to-play nine-hole course that’s the most recently launched project funded by the City of Providence’s “PopUp Providence” initiative. Kara Dziobek, PVD Putt Putt’s creator, says she got the idea while strolling through the neighborhood one day. A RISD graduate, Kara works as an experience designer at Providence’s Business Innovation Factory (BIF), which specializes in designing, prototyping, and testing new business models for businesses in fields like health care and education. She cites the company’s motto — “Start small, think big, scale fast” — as part of her working method for the project. She reached out to a number of local artists whom she knows, and found others via social media; everyone she told about the project was instantly on board. “Usually I get naysayers, but there [were] no naysayers for this,” she says. There is something surprisingly, oddly egalitarian about the putt-putt course. Is it the smallness? The pointless difficulty? In addition to the legions of children and neighborhood locals playing rounds this afternoon, there are young couples, and older women who set up lawn chairs around the perimeter to watch. Andy Cutler, the local PR consultant

FORE! The Junker.

and tireless social media booster of “#OurPVD,” shows up, as does Providence mayoral candidate Jorge Elorza. Some children decide the holes are too difficult to putt, and resort to bowling the balls toward their targets. Some holes were designed by well-known Providence arts organizations. Big Nazo Lab, downtown’s monster puppet and sculpture troupe, built the ninth hole, titled, “PuttPutt Dragon-Bird.” At the end of its steep incline, a hulking, disconsolate-looking dinosaur-bird leans over a nest of golf ball-shaped eggs. “Dragon-Bird” requires a classic finesse shot: too much force and the ball flies off the end of the ramp and into the grass; too little, and it simply rolls back down. AS220 Labs built hole number two, “Dwarf Fortress,” based on the famed computer game. It looks like a scale version of a precipitous mountain, with a maze of rickety mineshafts trailing out of it. A few of the artists are on hand to see their creations in action at today’s Grand Opening. Chris Hampson, a local animator and designer of hole number eight, “The Lucky Super Rainbow!” is putting on some finishing touches just prior to show time, his face specked with green paint. “I used to study landscape architecture, and the joke was that I’d end up doing mini-golf design—and here I am!” he says. “I was up all night cutting AstroTurf.” Back at hole number four, Adam Salisbury, the hole’s creator, stands nearby in a Dead Kennedys T-shirt, smoking a cigarette. The last person whom Dziobek asked to be part of PVD Putt Putt, Salisbury conceived and constructed his hole out of found, recycled, and upcycled materials in 24 hours. It’s a crafty, deceptively intricate piece of work, which in its superfluousness falls squarely in the mini-golf tradition. Once the ball is putted into an initial hole, it rests, out of sight, at one end of a large seesaw. Players then have to leap onto the other end to propel to ball onto the next stage of the layout. There is a brief time lag between when the ball disappears into the first hole and when it settles on the hidden launch pad, and the giant red button that reads “JUMP HARD” is hard to resist. (Many kids seem to be looping back to take another crack at it.) Salisbury patiently provides the necessary bit of instruction (“Wait — okay, now jump”), but seems to be babysitting his contraption as much as anything else. Once airborne, lucky shots are shunted to one side, where they descend again down a Plinko-style board of old nails, and finally, into the hole. It’s the sound of that seesaw slamming into the bottom of the platform that really makes it, though: wood on wood, loud, heavy, and a little menacing. PVD Putt Putt is open Thursdays from 4 to 8 pm and Saturdays from 12 to 8 pm at Dexter Field (near the intersections of Parade and Willow streets) through October 31. Admission is free, though donations — which go to a different Providence nonprofit every week — are encouraged. For more info, go to pvdputtputt.com.

_Zach Green

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beck’s new morning a conversation about recording the old-fashioned way, the enduring power of the album, the folk music in his dna, and never taking success for granted

_ by micha e l a t ch i s o n

Twenty years after his breakthrough album Mellow Gold, and six years since his last recording, 2008’s Modern Guilt, Beck returned early this year with Morning Phase, a luminous collection of songs that reverberates with echoes of sounds that rose from Laurel Canyon and the singer-songwriter boom of the early 1970s. A stylistic companion to 2002’s Sea Change, but miles from the heavy electronics and elliptical wordplay of 1996’s multi-platinum and Grammy-winning Odelay, Morning Phase is bathed in a warm analog glow that sets it apart from the computerized music that now rules radio. Even with the long delay between albums, Beck Hansen remained prolific in recent years, producing recordings for other artists, and re-recording notable albums (from The Velvet Underground and Nico to Yanni Live At the Acropolis) with a revolving cast of musicians and then posting the results to his website for a project called Record Club. In 2012, he released Song Reader, a book containing sheet music for twenty original songs that had not previously been recorded. It was recently announced that Song Reader will be released as an album on July 29, with performances by 20 artists, including Beck himself. Currently on tour, Beck and his band will play at the Providence Performing Arts Center on Saturday, July 26 (ppacri.org). The Phoenix talked with him by phone last week.

YOU’VE COVERED A WIDE SWATH OF MUSICAL TERRITORY IN YOUR CAREER, BUT THE ALBUMS ARE ALL STYLISTICALLY COHESIVE. WHICH COMES FIRST, THE FEEL OR THE SONGS? I think sometimes the songs come out of the feel. There’s a certain sound or mood that I’ll be playing with and then the song will emerge out of that. Sometimes I’m able to think of some kind of feeling I want the songs to have and then come towards that. And then other times I write a song and in the studio it just

becomes something, not necessarily what I intended. Every song has its own kind of life, its own gestation, its own way of working itself out. The whole process is a little bit mysterious and ultimately can be out of my hands to a large degree. It’s dependent on the sound that we got in the studio, what people are playing that day. There are so many factors.

WHEN YOU’RE SEARCHING FOR SONGS WITH A CERTAIN FEEL, DO SONGS THAT DON’T FIT ALSO COME AND THEN GET SHELVED? Exactly. I shelved a lot of stuff

that didn’t quite fit on this record. I was pretty ruthless. Some of the other records, the net gets cast a bit wider and I can throw different things together, but on this record [I felt] that if you broke the momentum and changed the sound too much it would break the spell of the record. I did take about a couple of dozen songs out, at least, if not more than that.

YOU SEEM MORE COMMITTED TO THE IDEA OF THE ALBUM AS A UNIFIED STATEMENT THAN DO MANY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. WHY IS THAT STILL IMPORTANT TO YOU? I grew up with albums as a conceived idea, as an aggregate of songs and sounds that become a bigger idea when they’re all put together. That’s not to say that’s a better way of going about it. Trying to make 10 number-one singles for a pop artist, that might be just as valid a way to go. But I am interested in how an album can elaborate on an idea beyond one song, and what kind of impression you can make with all those

songs together. There’s a sort of friction that songs have together. A really good friction. And also there’s something to be said for a group of songs that work together, that have a flow, that have a beginning and an end. More like a story where each chapter is pulling you to the next one. Some other albums can have 15 songs thrown together, and people will fast-forward to the songs they like or download the ones they like. In thinking about the value of putting out an album versus a single or EP, you might as well try to make it something that works as a piece.

EVEN THOUGH IT’S CLEARLY A MODERN RECORD, MORNING PHASE SITS NICELY ALONGSIDE THE EARLY 1970S WORK OF NEIL YOUNG, NICK DRAKE, AND BOB DYLAN. DID YOU MAKE A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO EVOKE THAT ERA? I made a

“I AM INTERESTED IN HOW AN ALBUM CAN ELABORATE ON AN IDEA BEYOND ONE SONG, AND WHAT KIND OF IMPRESSION YOU CAN MAKE WITH ALL THOSE SONGS TOGETHER.”

conscious effort not to use a lot of the modern techniques that are used in making records in 2014. All those techniques are valid and relevant, and a lot of great music is made with them. Part of it had to do with my continuing uncertainty with all the exciting different ways of making music, and different sounds, and even things that are groundbreaking. What things are going to be dated and what things are going to be valid in 20 or 30 years? In a way, I just sidestepped most of the possibilities and tried to record it very simply with music played by live musicians, and it being more about voice and musicianship. You can make very impressive records, probably records that would be much

more engaging for people to hear than my record, by using techniques of programming and looping and arranging in a computer. But we’re at a point now where almost anybody can do that. Almost anybody can make a pretty decent sounding record, if not a great record. But looking at my life and all these musicians that I’ve been playing with over the years — all the time and effort and pains that we’ve taken to learn how to do what we do — I felt like, let’s just make this in a way that completely relies on our hands and our voices and the things that we’ve learned through our life. And again, the next record I’m making has lots of programming in it, and completely embraces all the things that I’m talking about, everything that’s modern. But for this specific record I just felt like, let’s just try to not use any tricks and any newfangled ways of doing things, and let’s just have it be about a really direct human expression, which I think lent itself to the tone and the feeling of the songs.

WHEN YOU’RE CREATING AN ALBUM WITH SUCH A SPECIFIC FEEL, DO YOU LISTEN TO OTHER SIMILAR MUSIC AS A REFERENCE POINT? Not consciously. I have listened to

many records for decades. And like a lot of musicians, they’ve become a part of my DNA as a musician. So I didn’t necessarily have to go and pull out certain things. Because, to be honest, if said, “I’m gonna go do something that sounds like Joni Mitchell” or “I’m gonna pull out the second Leonard Cohen record and we’re going to do something just like the third track,” it wouldn’t come out good. It wouldn’t work at all because, believe me, I’ve done that before. What works, though, is that if I go into the studio, and I’m in there for weeks, and I record 20 kind of mediocreto-bad songs, and then I just stumble onto something or I start riffing on some chords and the band falls in, and we capture something that was kind of unplanned, then we

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go “Now we have something. That was special. The last 20 things weren’t at all.” But in retrospect, down the line, it might be like, “Oh, that sounds a little bit like Neil Young or Joni Mitchell or John Martyn.” But at the time, it was the furthest thing from my mind ....I think most people probably think “this sounds a little bit like the second Paul McCartney solo record. He must have been listening to that.” And I would say in my case, I probably wasn’t, but I probably have over the years, and in the throes of working in the studio something of Paul McCartney or one of these classic records could possibly happen. And when you’re using acoustic guitar and piano and acoustic drums, that’s well-mined territory. That’s one of the things that has kept me from more singer-songwriter records. I think I spend half of my time feeling like it’s a such a well-trodden, deeply-mined strata of music-making that for me to even assume to add something else to something that’s already been completely explored is almost presumptuous. It takes a certain kind of mind frame for me even to engage in that kind of work. But I do really love it because it is so simple. I feel like somebody who is using all the colors and all the possibilities, and then somebody gives you a pencil and says, “OK, now make something with this.” It’s very cleansing in a way.

AT A COUPLE OF RECENT SHOWS, YOU’VE STARTED WITH AN ACOUSTIC SET THAT SHOWCASES MUCH OF THE NEW ALBUM, AND THEN YOU’VE PLAYED AN ELECTRIC SET THAT FEATURES YOUR MORE RHYTHMIC SONGS. IS THAT SOMETHING YOU’RE GOING TO DO MORE OF? I’ve done that off and on

for years. I did that on the Mutations tour [in 1999] where we did two sets. In a way it helps because if you put out a record that’s really slow, but two-thirds of the audience is there to hear stuff from the other records that’s much more loud and raucous, it’s easier to not chop up the set. We change it up every night. If we’re in a theater and we have all the time in the world, we’ll come out and play 10 of the newer songs first and then go into more of a loud set.

EVER LET YOURSELF THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE THAT? No, I don’t really think about

that, just because I’ve never made any assumptions. When this record came out and I had some journalists say that they liked it, and the record company said that the record sold really well, and it exceeded their expectations — these are all things I’m not assuming. Not that I’m a pessimist necessarily, but I make no assumptions. Even on this last tour, I’m amazed when we come to a place like Columbus, Ohio, where I haven’t played in almost 10 years, and the place is full. We’re not playing the arena or anything, but still it’s amazing. I haven’t put out a record in six years, I haven’t put out anything that was on the radio for a lot of years, the last few records were more experimental, not really records that were on the radio. To me all of that is just a constant surprise.

SONG READER WILL BE RELEASED SOON AS AN ALBUM WITH PERFORMANCES BY ARTISTS AS DIVERSE AS JACK WHITE, JARVIS COCKER, AND SPARKS. WERE THEY GIVEN ANY DIRECTION BEYOND THE SHEET MUSIC? None. I did send a note to everybody and I said, “Please, disregard the sheet music. Take the melodies; you can change those if you want. Take the lyrics; I don’t even mind if you change those.” I think one of the songs that Jarvis did at the concert we did last year, he added lyrics, and I told him they’re much better. I like that idea. I’ve made plenty of albums where I wrote every word and every chord, and I even played most of the instruments. I’m really interested in what other people can contribute to the songs. It informs me of possibilities. I know where I’m going to take something, and then someone else takes it to that place where it needed to go. It was right there, it just took somebody else to walk in the room and point it out, and that’s a beautiful thing. That’s the collaborative aspect of this whole project.

DID ANYONE SPECIFICALLY TAKE A SONG IN A DIRECTION THAT YOU NEVER EXPECTED? Most of them are different from what I

WHEN YOU BROKE THROUGH 20 YEARS AGO WITH MELLOW GOLD, YOU WERE PERCEIVED AS THIS VERY YOUTHFUL SLACKER CHARACTER. YOUR LIFE IS A LOT DIFFERENT NOW. YOU’VE HAD SUSTAINED SUCCESS. YOU HAVE A YOUNG FAMILY. HAVE THE CHANGES IN YOUR LIFE AFFECTED YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS? Not

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YOU’RE RETURNING TO RHODE ISLAND ALMOST EXACTLY ONE YEAR AFTER HEADLINING THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL. YOU’VE SHOWN REVERENCE TO TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FOLK SONGS EVEN AS YOU’VE RECORDED DECIDEDLY FORWARD-LOOKING MUSIC. HOW HAS THAT MUSIC SHAPED YOU AS A SONGWRITER?

“MORNING PHASE COMPLETELY TOOK OVER MY LIFE JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER RECORD DOES. THERE’S THIS PERIOD OF MANY, MANY MONTHS WHERE I’M NOT SLEEPING, I HAVE NO LIFE. THE RECORD IS ALLCONSUMING.”

It was huge for me, especially when I was starting out. I could hear a record by anyone from Bob Marley to Slayer to Public Enemy to Madonna, and I had no idea how those songs were made. But when I heard folk music and rural blues music, I was hearing an acoustic guitar and a voice for the most part, or a banjo, and those were much more musically accessible in a way where I could pull them apart and figure out what they were made of. So that was the kind of music that I learned to play music on, to play piano and guitar. And I was aware pretty early on that there is a power and a value in having these kinds of roots in your music, even if you don’t necessarily spend your life being a folk artist or somebody who plays that kind of music. I feel like even if you were a rap artist or even if you were playing modern R&B, all of that stuff feeds into something. It’s a deep vein of music. Just like a writer who comes up reading the great writers. It’s so primal. It’s music that has been passed along for hundreds of years. These are modern iterations of the kind of music that goes way back in human history, whether it’s music with African roots or mountain music, which has its roots in northern Europe. The thing that was so telling for me was that Werner Herzog documentary [Cave of Forgotten Dreams] about the caves that they discovered in France, and how they found shards of a 30,000-year-old flute that they spent 10 years reconstructing, and when the scientist pulled it out and started playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” on it. We’ve had the equipment, we’ve had the pentatonic scale, we’ve had all these things. To go back in deep human time, and so everybody from Hoagie Carmichael to the Beatles to Nirvana to Lorde — these are all melodies that go back a lot farther than anyone can imagine. That’s something that that music gave to me, more than anything.

YOU HAVE DONE A FAIR AMOUNT OF PRODUCING RECENTLY, INCLUDING SOME WORK ON THE NEW JENNY LEWIS ALBUM. WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT WORKING ON OTHER ARTISTS’ PROJECTS?

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really. I know other people who have very specific hours, and they won’t work certain days. But when I was working on this record, it completely took over my life just like every other record does. There’s this period of many, many months where I’m not sleeping, I have no life. The record is all-consuming. In that way, I don’t think a lot has changed. There were certain points in the record where there was a deadline, and I was working every day of the week for a matter of months, which I don’t recommend. I don’t think it’s healthy. But that’s the way it always goes with me. You’re trying to get the record out at a certain time, and I have to go on tour, so we’ve got to get these songs done. It always takes longer than you think.

had in mind, but there’s also songs that sound exactly how I was hoping they would sound. Like the song that Jack [White] did. I remember when he got that song, and when he sent it to me, it was exactly what I fantasized in my head.

“IT’S A DEEP VEIN OF MUSIC” beck at the newport folk festival in 2013.

I just love being around other artists. Helping somebody else work on a song is immensely gratifying to me. I’ve had a lot of records where there is a producer

or engineer helping me. I’ve found in the last 10 years working with people like Charlotte Gainsbourg and Thurston Moore and Marianne Faithfull — being able to be intimate in their music-making and live in their world for a while and how they approach what they do is really as gratifying to me as making my own records. I wish I had more time. The reason I didn’t have a record for six years is that I set aside about five of those years to work with other people. Being a solo artist, I think you can end up in a bubble in a way, and I think it’s healthy to get out and mix it up with other people. I think that music needs that. It needs somebody who has worked and discovered things for themselves, and then somebody else who has gone off in a totally different direction, and for them to come together and compare notes. I think it’s good for music, that collaboration.

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE THE LAST RECORD CLUB. WILL THERE BE MORE? I wasn’t

planning on it. I made a few attempts. There was a point where I was going to do one with a few different people, but they fell through at the last minute. I think it became hard to get people to agree to do it. I think another part of it is that there are so many websites doing their own version of it that it didn’t feel as necessary. I was doing it because so much of music-making is somebody working on something and crafting something, very crafted, whereas music 40 or 50 years ago was very spontaneous and live. How many books do you read where you hear that the Beatles recorded this record in two days? Or Dylan did this record in three afternoons and maybe did one song on another night when he popped in for an hour? Do you know where the seed of this probably was? I was mixing Midnite Vultures in the late ’90s, and [veteran producer and engineer] Eddie Kramer was next door mixing some unreleased Hendrix tapes. And we’d been in there for months trying to make this record work. It was arduous and painstaking. And I walked into his room, and he had the tapes up. And there were about eight tracks as opposed to 70 or whatever we had going in the other room, and everything had been recorded live, and he hit “play” and immediately there was everything that we were trying to achieve in the music that had been played live. And probably 1/10,000th the time had been put into the recording, but with 10,000 times more impact. The record that I had done before that was mostly recorded live, so it was not that I had never done that before, but it made me feel like what happens when musicians get together in a room and try to make something happen live. That’s always such a gratifying thing. That’s not the only way to do things, but it’s good to not lose sight of that. Even if it’s just an exercise, it’s helpful to go back to that and remind ourselves that the first Beatles record was recorded in one day, and that that’s possible, and that sometimes magic can happen. And what I found [in Record Club] was that when we recorded one of these albums in a day there would always be at least two songs that had a kind of magic, something that you could never plan. They just happened. It’s something I loved doing. I would love to do it again. ^

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bee’s thai cuisine too many tasty choices for one visit _By Bill r od r iG u ez On the radar of Providence foodies, the ding of Bee’s Thai Cuisine has grown increasingly louder and brighter. Being a Thai guy myself — in gustatory enthusiasm, not ethnically — my visits in recent weeks have been a strain on my smile muscles, but I’m not complaining. Owners Nilubol and Bee Moungsa opened their doors in April last year, with daughter Bet heading the kitchen, using her grandmother’s recipes. Without departing from authenticA VISUAL TREAT Bee’s mango fresh roll. ity, non-Thai customers and newbies to the dishes are attended to; the default one-chili heat or meat, with a dozen choices, from mild warned of for some of the items on the broccoli with oyster sauce to red, green, or menu is mercifully mild. And some items yellow curry. I got drunken noodles, which are renamed for clarity, with traditional were spicy and brown-sauced and the same names in parentheses, so pad see ew is medium-width rice noodles in the padBrown Soy Noodles and pad kee mao is Thai ($10.95) that I loved another time for Spicy Brown Soy Noodles. its slight sweetness (I’m so easy). The brightness of the space, even on a Italian food fans should appreciate recent overcast day, is enhanced by yellow Thai, since the noodles dishes, which I walls and large, relaxing photographs, usually order, are virtually pasta. One from exotic market food to a row of gilded of the carb-free items I had was a chili Buddhas. Paper napkins and placemats duck special ($13.95). The slices of meat indicate that the prices will be right, and were well-enough grilled to offer some their BYOB policy is sane, as in not chargbrowned textural contrast; the pieces of ing you for their decision to not get a lizucchini were scored decoratively, and a quor license. carrot “flower” accompanied the parsley The trouble with a place like this is garnish at one corner. The next time I that there are so many choices to make. may check out the boneless crispy duck Take the appetizers. The mango fresh roll ($17.95), which is prepared with garlic ($5.95) — two of them, actually — is a viand chili sauce. sual treat, a display of proffered bounty: Vegetarians will be pleased to notice the avocado, greens, carrot slivers, and plenty menu’s “Healthy Corner.” It features sauof the eponymous fruit. Tastes good too. téed mixed vegetables, with or without sriThe crab Rangoon ($5.95), those filled fried racha sauce ($10.95), or a steamed “Green wontons, has a pleasant sweetness to the Garden,” with either tofu or chicken loose cream cheese. And the chicken satay ($9.95/$10.95). ($6.50), which comes with kitchen-made For dessert, I don’t care what else they peanut sauce and particularly tasty sweet offer because their wonderful sweet sticky vinegar sauce, is tauntingly superior to the rice with mango ($6) is such a treat — half ones I always order at the Thai restaurant a fruit, perfectly ripe on my visit, next to a near me that I visit every week or two: large clump of extra-guilt-inducing carbs. they are thick enough to remain juicy from Neat and sweet. Okay, there’s also green their delicious marinade. tea, coconut, or vanilla ice cream ($3.50), Lest I lose credibility through liking and fried ice cream and coconut custard everything here, let me note that the (each $5), but don’t be silly. coconut soup ($3.50-$4.50) doesn’t have Speaking of which, you can grab a enough lime juice tang for me (though flight to Bangkok and be there in time for I could add it), or creamy coconut milk lunch tomorrow, but why bother when (possibly because it’s low-fat). My shrimp there’s Bee’s? ^ tom-yum soup ($4.50) was tasty with lime, spiciness, and fresh-tasting shellfish; there was plenty of chicken but I wished the mushrooms were cut bite-sized. On that visit, a friend enjoying a meal-sized seafood noodle soup ($10.95) also remarked 401.273.2727 167 ives st, Providence on the freshness of the seafood. mon-fri, 11:30 am-9:30 Pm; sat, 12-9:30 Pm; There are six curry dishes ($11.95sun, 4-9:30 Pm $12.95), all one-chili hot, and Johnnie gave her yellow curry dish a thumbs-up. On major credit cards that visit I had one of the lunch specials, ByoB which are served weekdays 11:30 am to 3 sidewalk-level accessiBle pm. They are $7.95 whether you have tofu

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Joey lives on the Cape and plays music with Johnny under the name the Spampinato Brothers. Al lives in Nashville and writes hits for country dudes. Tommy passed away in 2012. Terry bounced back from severe health battles and is carrying on with his well-regarded Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet — ’cept he changed its name to NrBQ. It was a gutsy move, and quite a legend to live up to, of course: the ’Q was one of the most revered rock groups around, so it’s no wonder eyebrows were raised about the nomenclature thing. The new crew — guitarist Scott Ligon, bassist Casey McDonough, and drummer Conrad Choucroun — just released Brass Tacks, which the LA Daily News says is “as accomplished and as spirited an album as the band has ever made.” One thing’s for sure: Adams is a charismatic bandleader who turns the stage into a hotbed of grooves — jazz here, rockabilly there, pop all over the place. He knows a mess of tunes and is a sage filter when it comes to connecting the dots. You’ll get a kick out of the action — jumping and fun, odd and entertaining — at the Met, 1005 Main Street, Pawtucket, at 8:30 pm | $20 | 401.729.1005 | themetri. com

One song can open a lot of ears. For max frost, that song was “White Lies,” an upbeat number about paranoia which was released in April ’13 and gradually lodged itself in the brains of all who heard it (the song was featured in a Beats by Dre ad, which surely helped). You can hear the Austin-based musician’s influences — Beatles, Sam Cooke, OutKast, Erykah Badu — in his fare. It’s a winning blend, as evidenced on the EP Low High Low. Frost will heat it up at the WBRU Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park in downtown Providence. Roz & the Rice Cakes open at 7 pm | Free | wbru.com

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coastline is rather undeniable. Visual artists who focus on natural elements revel in such an environment and, for the last seven years, a large number of them have organized to spotlight their particular creative processes. The doors are open once again this summer; the 12th annual south coast artists tour allows laymen access to the studios of more than 70 participants. Oils, acrylics, watercolors, photography, sculpture, basketry, fiber arts, ceramics, glass, wood, metal, jewelry, and paper are among the media that the artists work with. Imagine being a frustrated watercolorist and picking up a tip or two about how to roll the paint from the brush to the paper. A valuable and intriguing experience. Self-guided tours take place today and Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. Get all the specifics and a map of the action at southcoastartists.org

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Cotter, Sharon Carpentier). The entire dozen of them soon are accused of having gotten away with murder on various occasions. This is established toward the beginning when the butler, following written instructions, puts on a phonograph record, but instead of music out comes a voice detailing each of their crimes. As each is knocked off, another tiny soldier in a row of statuettes is noticed missing. The first victim is the person we least care about, the obnoxious blowhard Mr. Marston (Charles Lafond), succumbing to cyanide in the drink that made it easier for him to put his moves on the most sympathetic character, Miss Claythorne (Erin Elliott). A secretary hired for the event, the young woman had been a governess, but in complicity with her lover had allowed a boy in her charge to drown. That sort of contrast, playing with our sympathies and aversions toward characters, guides our feelings and the plot, and 2nd Story has the talent to make it work. For example, there is the joking, sympathetic Captain Lombard, whom Jay Bragan gives enough personality to make us want him to stick around as the bodies accumulate. Correspondingly, one person who can’t kick off soon enough for us is the intolerant religious fanatic Miss Brent, played with pinch-nosed fuming by Paula Faber. Nathanael Lee provides a quiet sense of mystery to Mr. Blore, and gives him a convincing South African accent when he is feigning his origins at the beginning. Elliott plays her sweet, young character with enough ambiguity to leave possible that she’s sour and sinister at the core. And Then There Were None was staged in London four years after the novel was published and on Broadway two years later, both times successfully. In 2005 a revamped version that restored the original unhappy ending was produced in London, understandably closing in three months. Although the novel was hardly a literary masterpiece, it looks like Christie’s readers could accept grim reality while her watchers need some sunshine to lift the dark cloud of mayhem and murder. ^

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“Sometimes you have to go about painting like a child,” Jessica Lee Perry writes in introduction to her exhibit “Campaigns for the Sun” at AS220’s Project Space (93 Mathewson St, Providence, through July 26), “like you know nothing of it and that’s when the magic happens.” Which is an apt description of the dreamlike world created in her oil painting She Beast, Kiss Off and Rebirth. A gray cat stands upright dancing with closed eyes, human-ish breasts, and arms like fluttering wings. She seems to be walking on water as red flowers float in the air and sailboats hug the horizon where the sun sets. The painting gives off a calm, slow-burn happiness. This solo show rests on this painting and two other midsized canvases plus a handful of small ink, watercolor, and gouache sketches of a woman riding a tree branch swing or dancing ferns. It feels a bit slim; I would like to see more. What’s here are a few glimpses of the sunny, sweet fantasy land Perry imagines via brushy, fecund paint. In Perry’s oil painting, Campaigns For the Sun, what looks to be a female lion wearing a crown of red beads and flowers gets hugged by a young lion wearing a blue crown. They stare across green water (the painting gets rather vague in this part) to a yellow sun on the horizon, peeking through two stands of tall trees, white like clouds or dogwoods blooming in spring. The most sharply executed painting is Perryworld, in which a white quail-dove perches at the edge of a dream garden of (what looks like) strawberries and chard, sea anemones and jellyfish, giant pearl, and a yellow sun. This place seems, by turns, on the ground and underwater. It seems symbolic of the promise of nature’s bounty — and to convey aspirations for a harmonious way of living. ^

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31ST ANNUAL BLACK SHIPS FESTIVAL | The festival features

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NEWPORT MONSTER SHARK TOURNAMENT | Casey’s Marina,

10 Spring Wharf, Newport | bbgfc. com

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36TH ANNUAL SOUTH COUNTY HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL |

The fest features hot air balloon rides, crafts, car shows, a Revolutionary War encampment, carnival rides and games, performances by the Flying Wallendas, music (including Roomful of Blues on July 18), an airplane show, fireworks (July 19 @ 9 pm), the Official RI State BBQ Championship, a petting zoo, and more | July 18 5-9 pm + July 19 + 20 5:30 am-9 pm | URI Athletic Fields, Rt 138, Kingston | $10, $5 children, $25 families | 401.783.1770 | south countyballoon fest.com

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27TH ANNUAL TIVERTON FOUR CORNERS ARTS & ARTISAN FESTIVAL with fine art + pottery + demonstrations + food + music + more | 10 am-4 pm (rain date July 20) | Mill Pond Area at Tiverton Four Corners, 3852 Main Rd, Tiverton | Free | 401.624.2600 | tivertonfour corners.com

2ND ANNUAL BAKE ON THE BEACH | A traditional McGrath

EASTERN RHODE ISLAND 4-H COUNTY FAIR | The event features

SOUTH COAST ARTISTS’ 11TH ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO TOUR |

Self-guided tours featuring more than 70 artists in Tiverton, Little Compton, Westport [MA], and Dartmouth [MA] | southcoastartists. org

NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL POLO SERIES | This week: USA vs. Italy |

5 pm | Glen Farm, Route 138, Portsmouth | $20 + $12 | 401.846.0200 | nptpolo.com

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CRAFT BREW RACE | A 5K road

race followed by the Rhode Island Brew Fest | 11 am | Downtown Providence | $65 [race and brew fest] | ribrewfest.com

RHODE ISLAND BREW FEST

with 30 breweries pouring more than 100 beers | 4:30-7:30 pm | The Providence Rink at the Bank of America Center, Kennedy Pl | $55 [$20 designated driver] | ribrewfest. com

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EAST PROVIDENCE HERITAGE FESTIVAL | See listing for Fri EASTERN RHODE ISLAND 4-H COUNTY FAIR | See listing for Sat SOUTH COAST ARTISTS’ 11TH ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO TOUR | See listing for Sat

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FRINGEPVD with more than 50

theater, music, dance, multimedia, and performance artist events at AS220’s 95 Empire Black Box, Aurora Providence, the Movement Exchange, URI Providence Campus, and the Wilbury Theatre Group’s space at the Southside Cultural Center | $0-$5 | See website for complete details: fringepvd.org

FILM THURSDAY 17 + 24

MOVIES ON THE BLOCK presents

The Great Escape [7.17] and Reality Bites [7.24] | Movies On the Block, Westminster and Union sts, Providence | Free | indowncity.com

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NEWPORTFILM presents Alive Inside,

a documentary that demonstrates how connecting the elderly to the music they love not only combats memory loss but supplements a broken health-care system often indifferent to interpersonal connections | 8:20 pm | International Tennis Hall of Fame, 194 Bellevue Avenue, Newport | Suggested donation $5 | 773.350.0946 | newportFILM.com

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BIG SCREEN MOVIES ON THE BEACH | This week: Despicable Me 2

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ART GALLERIES ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE GALLERY OF WESTERLY | 401.596.2221 | 7 Ca-

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

Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through July 19: works by member Eileen Collins and guest artists Leigh Medeiros & Michaela Collins JUST ART GALLERY | 401.272.0820 | 60 Valley St, Providence | justartgallery.com | Wed 1-5 pm; Thurs + Fri 1-7 pm; Sat 12-5 pm | Through Aug 2: “Disambiguation,” works by Alex Delby

NARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERY | 508.324.1926 | 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | narrowscenter.org | Wed-Sat 12-5

5:30 pm | Through July 25: “Block Island Idyll: Memories of Manisses,” with materials and artifacts from the Rhode Island Collection at Providence Public Library and the Block Island Historical Society

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 | Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | rhodeisland watercolorsociety.wildapricot.org |

Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through Aug 7: “RIWS Annual Invitational Show,” featuring the artwork of local Rhode Island high school students from Shea High School and Tolman High School in Pawtucket and St. Mary’s Academy, Bay View in East Providence

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Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am8 pm | Through Aug 23: “Members and Staff Invitational,” with paintings by Christina Ashley, Dan Lake, and Kathy Weber, oil pastels by Vincent Castaldi, photography by Gail PAO Carpenter, Lori Ellen Goodman, sculpture by Sean James Harrington and Troy West, ceramics by Christine Herron, and encaustic works by Taleen Batalian SPRING BULL GALLERY | 401.849.9166 | 55 Bellevue Ave | springbullgallery.com | Daily 12-5 pm | Through July 31: “2nd Annual Les Petites Oeuvres en Êté,” little works by area artists

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pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | Through Aug 8: “Untitled/Unjuried: Small Format Tapestry 2014,” with more than 240 works from 13 countries, six continents, and 33 US states, presented by the American Tapestry Alliance VAN VESSEM GALLERY | 401.835.6639 | 63 Muse Way, Tiverton |

sandywoodsfarm.org/vanvessem gallery.html | Through July 20:

“Stare,” works by David Barnes and Dan McManus YELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Providence | yellowperilmedia.com/ gallery | Wed-Fri 3-8 pm; other days by appointment | Through Aug 24: “Altared States,” a mixed media exhibition “exploring the making of the sacred in everyday urban life,” by Toby Barnes

MUSEUMS HAFFENREFFER MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN MANNING HALL | 401.863.2065 | College + Waterman sts, Providence | brown.edu/Facilities/ Haffenreffer | Tues-Sun 10 am-4 pm | Free admission | Through Aug 31: “Images of Power: Rulership In the Grasslands of Cameroon” | Through Aug 31: “In Deo Speramus: The Symbols and Ceremonies of Brown University” | Ongoing: “Reimagining the Americas,” an exhibition “bringing together the innovative cultural diversity of the Americas before European contact” NEWPORT ART MUSEUM | 401.848.8200 | 76 Bellevue Ave | newportartmuseum.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students and military personnel with ID; free for children 5 and under | Through Aug 12: “Elizabeth Congdon: Heaven and Earth,” an exhibit of paintings | Through Sept 1: “Marine Botanicals,” works by Mary Chatowsky Jameson | Through Sept 7: “Magic Gold, Full Sun,” paintings by Corinne Colarusso | Through Sept 14: “Very Simple Charm: The Early Life and Work of Richard Morris Hunt In Newport” RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Benefit St, Providence | risd museum.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 am1 pm | Through Aug 10: “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” which explores some of the most vibrant graphic design work pro-

duced since 2000, including magazines, newspapers, books, and posters | Ongoing: “Subject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century” + Ancient and Medieval Galleries + Impressionist Galleries + Pendleton House + “A Grand Gallery: European Paintings from the Permanent Collection” + American Art from the Permanent Collection + “Exine” by Paul Morrison + works by Jonathan Bonner WARWICK MUSEUM OF ART | 401.737.0010 | 3259 Post Rd | warwick museum.org | Tues + Wed + Fri 124 pm, Thurs 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through July 19: “Summer Cruising: Art of the Auto,” with works by illustrator Guy Cassaday, line artist Jim Weicherding, and photographers Corey Silvia and Don Swavely, plus Warwick artists: auto-parts furniture maker Jeffrey Goldstei, painter Joan Edge, and photographers Kerri Bastien, Barbara deCesare, and Christopher St. Pierre

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WORDS AND PICTURES 111 minUtes | pg-13 | Jane pickens With remarkable ease, director Fred Schepisi (Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation) delivers a literate, grown-up comedy in the forgotten tradition of George Cukor and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A once-successful poet (Clive Owen), working at an elite prep school in Maine, rediscovers his love of teaching when an individualistic painter (Juliette Binoche) joins the faculty as an art instructor. Their flirtatious sparring over the relative merits of literature and visual art evokes the great Tracy-andHepburn comedies and culminates in an epic debate between their respective students. Plot generally takes a backseat here to performance and characterization, and the two leads gracefully negotiate a final, unexpected turn from romantic comedy into sober drama. _Ben Sachs

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STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS 102 minUtes | cabLe car An autistic 13-year-old boy (Jesus SanchezVelez) wanders away from his Rockaway Beach home and spends a few days adrift in the New York City subway system; meanwhile his panicked mother (Andrea Suarez Paz), an undocumented worker keeping house for a wealthy, idle hipster, searches for him aboveground. Director Sam Fleischner treats

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the boy’s excursion impressionistically, conveying his amazement with, and occasional aversion to, the cacophony and eccentric characters of the transit line. But the director’s view of the wider world is flat and schematic; the mother’s dealings with an indifferent school district, the ineffectual police, and her aloof ex-husband lack complexity, and the maudlin tone overwhelms any social insight. In English and subtitled Spanish. _Drew Hunt

THIRD PERSON 136 minUtes | r | cabLe car Trust is essential to any love relationship, writer-director Paul Haggis wants us to know, though he trusts us so little to grasp this theme ourselves that he makes his alter ego here, a world-weary novelist played by Liam Neeson, spell it out on his laptop. Well, Paul, I’m leaving you. It’s been good between us for a long time (Crash, In the Valley of Elah, The Next Three Days), but you’re smothering me and I need to move on. Three loosely connected romances play out in Paris, Rome, and New York City (though Neeson’s story line, transpiring mostly in a gleaming hotel room and featuring a naked Olivia Wilde, seems to be set in the Republic of Male Menopause). With Mila Kunis, Moran Atias, Loan Chabanol, James Franco, Adrien Brody, Maria Bello, and Kim Basinger. _J.R. Jones

capsule reviews Carney’s cult favorite Once (2006) took a thin love story and filled it out with magical scenes of musical improvisation and discovery; this follow-up works the same way, its soft-rock bonhomie prevailing over a story that often registers as trite or naive. A British songwriter (Keira Knightley) accompanies her musical and romantic partner to New York City, where he’s been signed to a major label; after he dumps her for someone else, she’s adopted by a down-and-out A&R man (Mark Ruffalo), who assembles a band around her and records them live on the city streets. The stars work overtime to put this across — particularly Ruffalo, who’s saddled with a corny subplot involving the record man’s alienated teenage daughter (Hailee Steinfeld of True Grit). Much of the story is resolved in a hurried closingcredits montage, which suggests the narrative kept getting elbowed out by the more satisfying musical segments. With Catherine Keener, Mos Def, and CeeLo Green. | 104m |

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Planet of the Apes (2011), 20th Century Fox successfully rebooted its 40-year-old sci-fi franchise by remaking not the 1968 classic but one of its low-rent sequels: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), about an ape rebellion in (more-or-less) contemporary America. In like fashion this follow-up is recycled from the subsequent Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), in which the talking apes, having launched their own society, clash with humans amid a postapocalyptic landscape. Battle was one of the weaker entries in the original cycle, and its preachy, sentimental story hasn’t improved with age. The digital rendering of the ape characters is even more spectacular here than in Rise, but the human characters (played by Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, and Keri Russell, among others) are so bland they don’t stand a chance against their simian counterparts. Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) directed. | 130m |

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human drive toward ecological collapse often seems like a screaming train that can’t be halted, which gives this postapocalyptic thriller by Bong Joon-ho (The Host) a potency indivisible from its premise. Decades after an atmospheric experiment to counteract global warming has instead plunged the world into a new ice age, a little community of survivors rides a passenger train around and around the planet, the haves housed near the engine and the have-nots suffering at the back; a rebellion led by two malcontents (Chris Evans and Jamie Bell) and leading up through the cars introduces us to a succession of fantastic technology and eccentric characters (not the least of which is Tilda Swinton as an officious Thatcher-like governess). As with The Host, the political satire is teased out gradually as the story progresses and never intrudes on one’s enjoyment of the movie’s richly imagined world. With John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, and Ed Harris. | 126m |

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last quarter moon in taurus (moon void-of-course 2:18 am until 8:42 am in Aries). A turning point for events that began around the summer solstice or that climaxed around July 11. What (or who) can you live without? practice discretion and expediency, particularly for Aquarius, leo, Scorpio, libra, and Sagittarius. pisces, Aries, virgo, taurus, cancer, capricorn, and Gemini: if something needs “break,” just go with it. 6 25

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Waning moon in taurus, moon void-ofcourse 2:12 pm until 4:36 pm when it moves into Gemini, Sun moves into leo. okay, now the dog days are officially here. the sun and moon are at odd angles, so male/female relationships could be fraught, or sulky, until later in the day. you should keep your mouth shut in the morning if you’re leo, pisces, virgo, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. Keep your ears open if you’re libra, Gemini, Aquarius, Aries, leo, and cancer. 30

Waning moon in Gemini. many notions, few ideas. Keep it loose, because now through thursday is that last week of the lunar phase, so diminished expectations are more comfortable than initiatives. (in other words: no pressure, chill out!). in tune with the moon: Aries, taurus, Gemini, cancer, leo, Aquarius, and libra. Zigging where others zag: virgo, pisces, Sagittarius. 28

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Waning moon in Gemini. do you know “pick a little,” from The Music Man? it’s sung by the gossips of river city, talking about what they do best. picking (and griping) a lot could come easily to virgo, Sagittarius and pisces, who are in that “get something happening at all cost” mood. Aries, taurus, Gemini, cancer, leo, Aquarius, and libra: finish communications! take the draft to polished product. 29

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