Providence 09/05/14 by The Phoenix

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local pundits on why politics matter, plus we weigh in on the democratic races for governor and mayor of providence | p 6 + 8

bringing it all back home Joe Fletcher talks about moving from the East Bay to East Tennessee, and his great new album, You’ve Got the Wrong Man _by chris conti | p 12

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as the projo turns

Bob Kerr and other writers get the boot | p 4

digging in the dust

Brown’s ‘Lost’ museum | p 14

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As the primary clock ticks down to zero hour, we threw open a forum to a bunch of smart folks who spend their lives thinking about politics and who, collectively, make a good case for hopping off the Apathy Train.

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Digging in the dust: exploring John Jenks’s “loST MuSEuM” at Brown.

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So long, Bob: Kerr and other writers get the boot at the ProJo | More Urinal musings | The wilds of Woonsocket

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Choosing not to choose in the Democratic gubernatorial race; and Jorge Elorza for mayor of Providence

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Phillipe + Jorge’s Cool, Cool World

so long, BoB Kerr gets the boot at the ProJo; more Urinal mUsings; the wilds of woonsocKet Well, it didn’t take long for

that shoe to drop. fMore bad news came from

Fountain Street on Tuesday when word broke that longtime Journal reporter and columnist Bob Kerr had been laid off. Bob is 69 and had been with the paper for more than 43 years, during which his column became one of the paper’s best-read and most significant features. He probably saw this coming, but it’s pathetic nonetheless to think that he was dismissed so quickly and without fanfare. Bob is a Vietnam vet (support for vets was a regular topic in his columns), a native of Detroit, Michigan, and a voice of integrity and compassion. A friend to both the Providence Phoenix and P&J for decades, Bob is exactly what a great columnist should be: he did his homework, expended lots of shoe leather, and could make you laugh and cry, sometimes in the same column. Your superior correspondents spoke with him Tuesday and he told us, “I loved every minute of it. [The paper] let me write three columns a week and never told me what to do. “It’s business,” he continued. “[The newspaper business] is not about the writing anymore. Today, I walked out of the building with Bill Reynolds, who is just about my best friend in there, and I thought, ‘I’m never going back in that building again.’ ” He also mentioned something he was proud of: “Because of some columns, little changes happened.” Bob did a few other things that are not public knowledge. Toward the end of his tenure, after the paper dispensed of its full-time pop music writer, he wrote a number of stories on local popular music and — here’s the part few know — he wasn’t compensated for this work. He simply felt that music was a vital part of our Rhode Island community and that there should be some coverage of it. A number of other prominent Journal reporters were given the axe as well on Tuesday, including Tatiana Pina, an excellent reporter (and, to our knowledge, the only Journal writer who spoke fluent Spanish), and the great Thomas J. Morgan, who will carry a huge chunk of institutional knowledge with him out the door. His fluid writing style will be greatly missed. P&J offer best wishes to our friends who have lost their jobs and especially to Bob Kerr — a singular talent who was a huge part of the glory days of the Other Paper.

We are watching a great institution crumble before our eyes, folks.

An EmpirE in ruin

Hail and farewell, Howard Sutton, longtime publisher of the Urinal, who retired gracefully last week. Fountain Street mourns you, but probably not as much as when it lost Hope’s, or the strip club-and-hot sheets hotel up the street from your office. In all fairness, Sutton’s main contributions to Our Little Towne and the state were his extensive community service involvements — most notably his work with Crossroads Rhode Island. But there were many others he took time to benefit. Phillipe and Jorge say “Salud!” on that front, and offer well-deserved kudos. Although the arselicken tributes to Sutton the BlowJo ran on two consecutive days were just shy of fawning — and for very obvious reasons included no laudatory

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quotes from any of the ink-stained wretches in the newsroom — what’s most sad is that this change moves the Urinal even further into absentee ownership. At least Sutton lived in Little Rhody, had grown up here, and could actually understand typical Vo Dilun directions like, “Take a right where the Esso station used to be and then a left where the Dairy Queen was when Rocco ran it.” Even if he did have to answer to his former Texas bosses, he at least knew where to get a good “grindah.” The new interim publisher will be Bernie Szachara. (Huh? Who he? Didn’t he play for the Rhode Island Reds?) Bernie works for GateHouse Media and its parent company, New Media Investment Group, which bought the Urinal from the drugstore cowboys at Belo Corp. in Dallas. His newspapering experience in Rochester and Denver should be an enormous asset in helping

him find a community meeting in South Providence or South County. To be fair, P&J have never met Mr. Szachara. He could be an utterly charming, intelligent, suave, and informed gentleman with great business acumen. Or he could be a heartless and soulless puppet of a media corporation. But, as P&J said, we have yet to meet the man.

politics Ain’t popsiclEs

P&J may be late to the party on this, but since the political campaign season in all its horror and glory is upon us, we recommendation you binge-watch the two seasons of the excellent (and since-cancelled) Starz series, Boss, in which Kelsey Grammer plays the corrupt-beyond-even-Biggest Little-standards mayor of Chicago, Tom Kane. If this doesn’t conjure up life in Little Rhody, you’re just not paying attention. And while we certainly

wouldn’t necessarily equate Wonderful Woonsocket with the Windy City, our esteemed pals at the Urinal’s weekly “Political Scene” provided excellent vignettes from Woon-Sah-KETT in their September 1 column. The story revolves around the firing of former state Rep John Brien from his part-time post as a prosecuting attorney for the city by his former Halitosis Hall colleague, Lisa Baldelli-Hunt, who left the House in 2013 to become Woonsocket’s mayor. Baldelli-Hunt fired Brien for what was called poor job performance. P&J won’t dispute the merits of that (since we have no effing idea what they were) but we did see the scaly, slithering arm of the good-ol’-boy-and-girl network when Political Scene revealed Brien’s interim replacement as Tom DeSimone, who just happens to be the brother of House Majority Leader John DeSimone. What a cowinkydink! Oh, and how did Baldelli-Hunt come up with Tommy D’s name to replace Brien? She called the House Speaker’s office to ask for a recommendation. Shades of Dick Cheney heading up a committee to find a suitable veep running mate for Dubya Bush and finally coming up with ...himself. Adding to the absurd backroom dealing that makes Vo Dilun politics so much fun for outside observers is the fact that Baldelli-Hunt apparently wasn’t pissed off at Jon Brien, but his father, Albert Brien, yet another ex-state rep (they’re very thick on the ground up there, apparently) who is currently the Woonsocket City Council president. Political Scene says the elder Brien recently survived an attempt by his fellow city councilors to remove him as president — a move which must have come as an utter shock to Lady Baldelli-Macbeth. (Honk!) Out of all this comes not one, but two, P&J political quotes of the week: #1) Brien describing a scene in the mayor’s office involving Baldelli-Hunt, Brien, and Brien’s father: “She pointed at my father [while looking] directly at me and said ‘Fair or unfair, whatever he does, Jon, has direct blowback on you.’ ” #2 ) From Brien to “Political Scene”: “The moral of the story is: if you can’t ice the old man, ice the kid, and everyone knows it.” If you can manage to stop either cringing, laughing, or sobbing for long enough after contemplating how this state is run, please drop by the voting booth on September 9 to at least try to quell the insanity in your neck of the wild woods. ^

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Primary Endorsements

choosing not to choose

the Raimondo-taveRas match-up is too close to call Picking a 2014 Democratic gubernatorial candidate isn’t simple. Yes, it’s fairly easy to pass up endorsing Clay Pell, who has never held so much as a school committee seat here, and who, though technically a Rhode Island resident for many years, only seemed to show up last fall. Since then, he’s poured millions of dollars into his campaign from his own pocket, which wouldn’t necessarily be a problem if he didn’t make, “I will not accept contributions from PACs or state lobbyists,” a major talking point. Not only is this position infinitely easier with a family fortune like his to rely on, but when we asked him numerous times during his visit to Phoenix HQ to elaborate on this stance, Pell couldn’t give us a single specific example of how PACs and state lobbyists negatively affect Rhode Island. This grandson of legendary six-term Rhode Island US senator Claiborne Pell seems like a smart, earnest guy who has served our country in the Coast Guard and the Obama White House. But right now, we don’t advocate handing the keys of the state to him. (Speaking of keys, you can insert a joke about his infamously misplaced Prius here: _______.) This leaves Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina Raimondo. And here’s where the decision gets tough, since both are intelligent, qualified, experienced candidates capable of grappling with the myriad challenges Rhode Island faces. You’ll have to go elsewhere for a slam-dunk endorsement. The similarities between the two are remarkable. Both went to Harvard and top-tier law schools, after humble upbringings. (In fact, each has a parent who worked at RI’s bygone Bulova Watch factory.) Both were later elected to high-profile offices — Providence mayor, for him; general treasurer, for her — in 2010. And, now, four years later, each presents their time in office as a tale of grand-scale salvation. Taveras inherited what he called a “category five fiscal hurricane,” and through a series of tough choices and negotiations – taking a personal pay cut, asking for increased contributions from the city’s universities and hospitals, reforming the city’s pension system – fought to steer the city toward calmer seas. Raimondo inherited her own crisis: a state pension system her office described as “provid[ing] neither retirement security nor financial sustainability and

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. . . in dire need of re-design,” in the May 2011 report, Truth In Numbers: The Security and Sustainability of Rhode Island’s Retirement System. This report planted the seeds for a landmark pensionreform law marshaled by Raimondo, The Rhode Island Retirement Security Act of 2011. (For all the vitriol that law has unleashed, it’s helpful to remember it passed 57-15 out of the House and 35-2 out of the Senate, and a tentative February 2014 settlement agreement between RI and its public employees preserved 94 percent of the law’s belt-tightening. That agreement, alas, has since collapsed and the law remains in litigation.) Even on the gubernatorial campaign trail, similarities between the mayor and treasurer persist. Both favor stricter gun-control laws, raising the state’s minimum wage to $10.10, and investing heavily in fixing the state’s deteriorating infrastructure. Both have ambitious, praiseworthy environmental plans, and both spout the silly, politically safe “not at this time” when asked about legalizing marijuana.

Both advocate jumpstarting the state’s economy through increased tourism marketing, bolstering public education and manufacturing, and taking better advantage of the state’s universities and hospitals. So, then, how do you choose? Given that the economy is the single most important issue in this election, Raimondo — a former venture capitalist who was once in the business of building economies — seems to have a job-creation edge. But that edge comes with the lingering whiff of foul Wall Street odors. Her spokespeople will tell you that the transfer of billions of dollars in state pension funds into high-fee, low-transparency hedge funds during her tenure as treasurer reduced exposure to risk. But was there really no other way to do that without the nasty side effects? Angel Taveras, meanwhile, is no angel in the investment department. Providence’s pension system remains woefully underfunded even after its “reform” and, though the Taveras administration has dialed back hedge fund investments, Providence had a higher percentage of its pension funds invested in hedge funds than Raimondo’s state pension system as recently as May 2013. And anyway, what about the laundry list of problems he’s leaving behind in Providence (detailed in our mayoral endorsement, further down this page) after just one term — a term watered down by a major campaign for higher office? Ultimately, we decided that since we were barely convincing ourselves of one candidate’s superiority in the final hours before our deadline, then doubling back to support the other, then still calling it a “coin toss,” as one Phoenix staffer described it, it was best to remain officially (and painfully) undecided. Our job is to be informed, honest, and straightforward with you, even if that means choosing not to choose. Is it a cop-out? Perhaps. But it’s a cop-out built on hours of interviews, phone conversations, debate-watching, article reading, writing, editing, emailing, tweeting, and talking creepily to ourselves out loud. Since Phoenix readers have voted Taveras “Best Politician” in the state in our last four successive “Best” issues, perhaps many of you already made your choice. Then again, some might favor Raimondo, the Smithfield-raised Rhodes Scholar who would be Rhode Island’s first female governor. There are worse choices we could leave you with.

elorza for mayor of providence Providence has big problems. The “Superman” building is vacant. The pension fund is more than $800 million underfunded. The schools are crumbling and underperforming. The employment rate is dismal. Gun violence remains a persistent — and atrocious — problem. Federal Hill seems to be deteriorating into a Mad Max-style freefor-all. And, though the IWay bridge was christened several years ago, there appears to be little major progress on redeveloping the former I-195 land —a project on which so much of the city’s future hinges. And so the city’s next executive needs to be a problem-solving wizard. Who’s the best pick in the Democratic race? City Council President and longtime owner of Wes’ Rib House Michael Solomon has a commendable record, ranging from helping to establish an Office of Sustainability, to supporting increased accountability and transparency measures, to working with Mayor Angel Taveras (who assumed office the same day Solomon became Council President in 2011) to pull the city back from a fiscal cliff. That said, we’re troubled by the fact that Solomon and his business partners still have hundreds of thousands of dollars left to pay on a loan taken out from the city of Providence in the late 1980s to redevelop the Conrad Building on Westminster Street. Mr. Solomon has repeatedly touted the fact that he hasn’t walked

away from the loan, but is, “Hey, I didn’t default!” really the standard we’re seeking in the capital city? We’re also concerned by the fact that, as Channel 12 WPRI reported in February, under Mr. Solomon’s leadership there has been “chronic absenteeism among several council members, including some who missed 62%, 85%, and even 100% of the meetings scheduled by their committees.” Shouldn’t the elected — and $20,850 salaried — leader of the council have more control over this? Indeed, it is Mr. Solomon’s opponent — 37-year-old Roger Williams University law professor and former Providence Housing Court Judge, Jorge Elorza — who impresses us more in this race. Yes, Elorza has never held elected office. But he is a Swiss Army Knife candidate. As a judge, he has impressive record of holding mega-banks to account for their inaction on local abandoned homes. As an accountant, he brings an eye for detail in financial matters that Mr. Solomon seems to lack. (Mr. Solomon has blamed “clerical errors” for mistakes on disclosure forms that are the subject of a current RI Ethics Commission investigation.) He is also an academic — a writer, thinker, and speaker, by trade — who founded the Latino Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based at Roger Williams University. And in a city on its way toward becoming 50 percent Hispanic, it doesn’t hurt that he can deliver a speech

in English and Spanish, as he did when he formally kicked off his campaign at his childhood home on Cranston Street, in November. But what distinguishes Elorza isn’t just his intelligence, his resume, and the ease with which he navigates the city. It’s his ideas. His candidacy has an international, futuristic flair. He wants to bring a citywide broadband network to Providence delivering service “approximately 100 times faster than most current internet speeds.” He wants to double exports from the Port of Providence in five years. He wants to create a week-long, South By Southwest-style arts and culture festival in Providence “to showcase the city’s vibrant arts and culture scene on a regional and national level.” He wants to thoroughly digitize and revamp City Hall, and appoint a Chief Innovation Office to help enact and safeguard those reforms. Elorza — who boasted the “Ethics of a Judge” in a recent mailer to voters — had an embarrassing stumble when GoLocalProv recently revealed that an autobiographical letter he sent to thousands of voters admitting to a teenage shoplifting arrest included near-identical language to a similar admission made by then-Central Falls mayoral candidate James Diossa in 2012. (Elorza says the words, though true to his story, were written by staffer who is no longer affiliated with the campaign, and had he known the language

was borrowed “of course” he would not have approved it.) This incident bruised, but did not break, our confidence in him. We remain proud and excited to endorse him in the hopes that, in the wake of this gaffe, he commits with renewed intensity to his stated ideals of ethics, honesty, accountability, and meticulous attention to detail. Michael Solomon has served Providence effectively. But Jorge Elorza is the smart, fair, tech-savvy, financially literate, leader who seems most qualified to usher our city into a new era of prosperity and world-recognized excellence. ^

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why politics matters

It’s your money. It’s your state. It’s your vote _By ph I l Ip e I l This year, nearly half the members of the Rhode Island General Assembly will run unopposed. They’ll just cruise right back into a $15,000 taxpayer-funded salary and the power to vote on things like whether Rhode Islanders can legally smoke a joint, marry a same-sex partner, drive over the Sakonnet River Bridge without being billed, and any number of other matters relating to business, public safety, schools, the environment, and the way our state functions. They’re called “lawmakers” for a reason. Meanwhile, if voter turnout from recent non-presidential-election years is any indicator, somewhere between 50 and 60 percent of the state’s eligible citizens will head to the polls on November 4 to cast ballots in these GA races, along with contests for governor, attorney general, US representative, and a handful of others. On Primary Day — Tuesday, September 9 — participation will almost certainly fall below 50 percent. These numbers — half of the state’s eligible citizens voting in political races that aren’t technically “races” nearly half of the time — are not good. Why? Well, that question leads to a larger question about why politics matters at all. And to this, as a formerly politically apathetic arts and culture writer who is flush with the zeal of the newly-converted, I have many answers. I could talk about how politics would have broader appeal if it had the more honest, attention-grabbing name “What People Are Doing With Your Money.” (See: 38 Studios. See: $5 million in tolling equipment installed on the Sakonnet River Bridge, rendered useless when the General Assembly retracted the toll it previously created. See: smaller but no less important things like those large metal signs that pop up on street corners in Providence to inform citizens that road repairs are, indeed, happening, thanks to Mayor Angel Taveras. How much does one of those signs cost? Do they serve any purpose other than propaganda for an incumbent mayor, who also happens to be a gubernatorial candidate? Where does that money come from?) I could talk about how, on a pure entertainment level, politics is the ultimate story. Where is there a better character than Buddy Cianci? Where is there a better image than former Rhody Governor Ed DiPrete diving into a dumpster outside of a Walt’s Roast Beef for a bag of cash? Where is there a more memorable line than State Senator Josh Miller’s (D-Cranston, Warwick) March 2014 response to an outspoken

based on a specific agenda which reflects their socioeconomic and educational interest, then for them politics doesn’t matter. They simply become the subjects of someone else’s politics. If we evaluate the struggle taking place in Ferguson [Missouri], what do we see: a community that’s nearly 70 percent Black but only has 12 percent voter participation. However, the Black community in Ferguson is now organizing to develop a political agenda which will allow Black folks in Ferguson to either vote for candidates who will push policies which reflect their interest, or put forth their own candidates.

CHAS WALKER

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citizen journalist/2nd Amendment enthusiast underneath the State House rotunda: “Go fuck yourself”? We’ve already paid for a ticket to this show with our taxes, so why not tune in? And finally (though not finally, since I could go on about this for hours), as a political journalist, I’ve got a whole drawer full of inspirational quotes pertaining to the intersection of news, citizenship, and democracy. Tops is legendary reporter Walter Lippmann’s riff from his 1920 book, Liberty and the News: “The news of the day as it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.” But then there’s Washington Post/Watergate legend Bob Woodward’s oath: “I get up in the morning and I ask the question: ‘What are the bastards hiding?’ ” And let’s not forget Hunter S. Thompson’s altpress rallying cry from his obituary for Richard Nixon: “Some people will say that

‘The voting booth is the last place in Rhode Island where every citizen is equal . . . If you don’t vote, you are letting others make the choices of who gets what.’

words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but they miss the point. It was the builtin blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.” But I don’t want to hog this conversation. So, this week, as the clock ticks down to Election 2014 in Rhode Island, we threw open the forum to a bunch of smart folks who spend their lives talking and thinking about politics, and who, collectively, make a hell of a good case for hopping off the Apathy Train. The following submissions have been edited for length and clarity, in some cases.

SCOTT MACKAY

POLITICAL ANALYST AT RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO The voting booth is the last place in Rhode Island where every citizen is equal — whether rich or poor, newly-sworn citizen, or Mayflower family that can trace their lineage all the way back to slave traders or rum runners. In a state that becomes more stratified each day among the haves, the have-nots, and the have-mores, your vote is what makes you equal to your boss, wealthy uncle, or [a] Harvard graduate. If you don’t vote, you are letting others make the choices of who gets what in our state.

MARCO MCWILLIAMS

WRITER, ACTIVIST, TEACHER Unless communities of color are organizing to exert their collective political power

Decisions get made by those who show up. Saying “I don’t care about politics” is basically saying “I don’t care what they do to me.” Most people I meet who say that, though, actually mean, “I don’t think my voice matters to those in power.” And often (though not always) they are right, especially given the influence of big money in politics. The balance of forces that get to implement their will aren’t typically aligned in favor of workers, women, immigrants and people of color, youth, LGBTQ folks, etc. But that very fact is precisely why people who feel shut out need to find a way to get engaged. Maybe it’s cliche, but if you look at history, it’s clear that change happens when people get together and push for it: abolishing slavery, outlawing child labor, winning the right to vote for anyone who wasn’t a landowning white man, establishing basic environmental protections — or even two recent victories here in RI, marriage equality and paid family leave. But politics is so much more than voting. Politics also means organizing in our communities, campuses, and workplaces. It means mobilizing around issues of equality and justice, and building movements that last beyond Election Day so that ordinary people — and not just the 1% — can make our voices heard in the halls of power.

REBECCA NIEVES MCGOLDRICK

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT (THE RI-BASED ANTI-WAR ON DRUGS NONPROFIT) PROTECT FAMILIES FIRST Politics is the battleground for our society’s heart and soul. It’s where we fight for the values and principles that determine how we collectively live. Political apathy means tolerance of injustice. For women, people of color, the poor, and other historically marginalized communities, especially, ignoring politics is tantamount to surrendering our bodies, our cultures, and our ways of life to the oppressive status quo.

JOHN MARION

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT COMMON CAUSE RI Politics is about the authoritative allocation

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fewest per capita public sector workers in America. The results are horrendous. So many Rhode Islanders face the misery of being unable to find a job. Many more are stuck in jobs they do not enjoy. The sheer human misery that bubbles up from our state’s economic mess is breathtaking. I believe we face this tragedy because of the policies the General Assembly enacted. So yes, politics does matter.

of values and resources. Or at least that is what the textbooks say. We are lucky enough to live in a representative democracy and therefore we get to choose the folks who make those decisions about allocating resources and values. But if we don’t get involved individually — and, collectively, enough of us don’t get involved — then the connection between citizens and our leaders starts to break down. All sorts of bad stuff happens when societies don’t trust their governments. People stop obeying the rule of law; they don’t pay their taxes, or stop at red lights, or respect personal property. In the extreme you end up with Somalia, or large parts of Afghanistan prior to 9/11. Or you end up with a government that doesn’t have legitimacy and has to rule by fear, like authoritarian states. Now if voter turnout slips to 40 percent we aren’t going to see a sudden erosion of our society or the replacement of representative democracy with North Korea. But it does matter that people are involved in politics, if only by voting, because they are invested in the political process and they feel that the process for picking our representatives is a legitimate one.

In our polarized society, people have come to shy away from politics, I think, because they think it’s a winner-take-all battle between interests, and they can plainly see that it’s usually true that people on all sides have legitimate points. The last thing that government in Rhode Island and the United States needs is less input from people who aren’t interested in taking up the causes of any given faction. Rather, we need more people to bring their own perspective on how to balance the endless cascade of claims made on the political system.

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JASON BECKER

‘The last thing that government in Rhode Island and the US needs is less input from people who aren’t interested in taking up the causes of any given faction.’

DIRECTOR OF THE LATINO POLICY INSTITUTE AT ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY When people are fully engaged in the process, are aware of the issues, know the solutions, it becomes clear that politics is a way to get things done. [A] perfect example that I can speak to is Central Falls. That little city is a completely different place today than it was even a year ago. What’s different? CF has one of the strongest ethics policies, an ordinance to support women in the work place, a burgeoning small business climate, private investors [and] developer interest, transparent [and] open government, an elevated bond status (from bankruptcy!), and CF alumna returning to CF to work, teach, volunteer, and motivate others! Many things coming together sparked this renaissance, however, one can’t deny that politics had a big role to play in this change. Politics at every level: a new mayor; a new city council, with the exception of the council president; a school board that at times is seen as very political; and tremendous amount of engagement with the community of Central Falls from in and outside of that city.

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STATE COORDINATOR OF THE RI PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS Rhode Island faces a painful, embarrassing economic disaster. Unlike our neighbors Massachusetts and Connecticut, which have enacted good liberal policies, we have enacted very conservative policies. We slashed income taxes for the wealthiest Rhode Islanders, we raised property taxes on the middle class and small businesses, and we have implemented austerity policies so extreme that we now have the second

JUSTIN KATZ

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RESEARCH SPECIALIST AT THE RI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND DIRECTOR OF DATA AT (EDUCATION SOFTWARE STARTUP) ALLOVUE The problem with local politics is how ignorable it all seems. We don’t often confront big issues in obvious ways. Most of us feel like we get to ignore the role of government in our lives. So often when I talk to someone frustrated about their neighborhood or their schools and I am shocked to find out that they don’t realize those problems were not emergent, but designed. People we elected or hired to run our government wrote the zoning regulations, or voted to allow a variance. People we elected or hired designed the street we lived on, the bus service we use, the policing policy meant to keep us safe, and the school system we send our children to. I say “we,” because I firmly believe that those who engage in the political process have nearly an endless capacity to shape its results. We all can “know a guy” if we show up. In local politics, it’s not “to the victor goes the spoils” but instead “to the participants goes the spoils.” Our whole government is designed on the premise that through active participation of the governed, we can assure the best outcomes. It breaks if we all stay home. ^ Do you care about politics? Why, or why not? We want to hear your thoughts via email (peil@phx. com), Facebook (facebook.com/ providencephoenix), and Twitter (@provphoenix). And please vote on September 9. It’s good for you; it’s good for us. You’ll find out lots of helpful — and personalized — voting info at sos.ri.gov/vic.

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Labor Day is gone and the curtains are going up. The Gamm is starting its 30th season — congrats, folks! — with the New England premiere of George Brant’s Grounded. The one-woman show starring Liz Hayes shares the experiences of a fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy leads her to be reassigned to fly drones over Afghanistan. It runs through the 28th at 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | $41 + $49 (previews $30 Sept 4-7) | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre.org . . . And Trinity Repertory Company is opening its 51st season — the theme is “The Necessity of Human Connection” — with Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov, with a world premiere translation by artistic director Curt Columbus. The play, which has been described as “the comic Russian Hamlet,” runs through October 5 at 201 Washington St, Providence | $28-$68 | 401.351.4242 | trinity rep.com

friday 5 three Weeks of fun The 16th Annual PaWtucket arts festival bursts with culture and creativity, offering a bountiful supply of music, art, film, family fun, and much more. The

blackstone river Party/ taste of the valley ($10,

free under 12) kicks off at Slater Mill at 6 pm with a diverse sampling of local food, dessert, and beer, accompanied by the propulsive grooves of the Fat City Band (6 pm) and Ruben Moreno and the Zydeco Re-evolution (from 8:30-11 pm). Check the listings on pages 17 for details on the annual Chinese Dragon Boat Races and Taiwan Day Festival

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and the S.A.M. Festival and Steampunk Soirée, and head to pawtucketartsfestival.org to make your Bucket plans for events that run through the 28th

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breW at the Zoo will offer a unique mix: beers from 60 brewers, including all of our esteemed locals and top-shelf national brands, plus encounters with Roger Williams Park’s wild things and live music. It’ll be a great way to wrap up a steamy week. The fest runs from 5-9 pm | $50 ($25 designated driver) | rwpzoobrew.org

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Music lovers know the Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA, as a spot that has served a great purpose to our area:

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offering roots musicians (and acts from many other genres) a special concert stage. But the space has also been a home for regional culture and local visual art, and the 13th Annual narroWs festival of the arts is the day when all three pieces of its presentation blend to make a full day of entertainment. You can check out the Gallery, where the 3rd Annual Poster Show is the current main attraction; hit the street for a wide world of food trucks and artisan vendors; and dig sounds that stretch from Eric Lindell, the Paul Thorn Band, Fruition, and the Delta Generators on the main stage outdoors to TJ’s Music All-Stars, the Monteirobots, Cask Mouse, and Mark Cutler & Men of Great Courage inside, where the Narrows magic happens all year-round. And the sizable children’s area allows those fans with families to frolic with the entire brood. The fun runs from 11 am to 7 pm | Free | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org

Okee dokee folks . . . The 1st Annual Providence folk festival is hitting the ground running, showcasing our finest singer-songwriters — Allysen Callery, Ed McGuirl, Bob Kendall, Steve Allain, Kala Farnham, Tracie Potochnik, Jacob Haller, and many more. And there are a coupla vets headlining the main stage: Robin Lane (“When Things Go Wrong” hit the shuffle the other day — yes, we sang along with the “ooh, eee, I”s) and Andy Pratt (we hope he breaks out “Summer, Summer”). Dozens of songs will fill the air at the Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main St, Providence, from 12-6 pm | Free | HearInRhodeIsland.com

thursday 11 anti-slacktivism The folks at Yellow Peril Gallery, 60 Valley St #5, Providence, say that

andreW Paul Woolbright’s “ShrineBeast” is a mixed media exhibit “about alternate realities and the transformative nature of love.” Woolbright, who focuses on his wife and himself in his work, notes, “When I met my wife, I found myself able to return to an optimism, sincerity, and sentiment that I eventually recognized as pre-9/11. I realized that sentiment has the ability to recover previously disengaged models and inscribe itself as a form of time travel.” The exhibit “favors Clinton-era American optimism, love, and sentiment in opposition to the millenarianism, nihilism, irony, slacktivism, failed neo-liberalism, and the resurgence of cultural conservatism we are currently experiencing.” “ShrineBeast” runs through October 5 (Thurs + Fri 3-8 pm, Sat + Sun 12-5) | 401.861.1535 | yellowperilgallery.com

with six star general, sick Pills, Pom Poms, and plenty more; all ages and just $6 at the door (401.270.1801). the met delivers a punk throwdown on Saturday with We oWn land and neutral nation opening for the dictators nyc (401.729.1005); and a busy week at the mediator kicks off on Saturday with the gnomes celebrating a new disc titled Liven Up ($10, 401.461.3683). on SUndaY (the 7th), swing by dusk and check out gil moss, the Quahogs, and more ($5, 401.714.0444). ahead to WedneSdaY (the 10th), shake that ass with the funky autocrats at the Parlour (free, 401.383.5858). and mark your calendar for detroit rebellion at burnside Park next thUrSdaY (the 11th); and don’t forget the gW mercure album release show during the mediator’s open mic night (plus, it’s bYob!).

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from kennedy Plaza) as part of the free weekly music series, starting around 5 pm. then mosey over to aurora (formerly roots cafe) for the new retro night called “devotion,” spinning a wild mix of ’80s retro, punk, goth, and whatever else deejays nick bishop and mikey Lams whip out (Lams promises a my bloody valentine mix). fatt Squirrel delivers an eclectic mix of acts on fridaY (the 5th) with shore city, budlong connection, midnight heist, and others (21+, 401.808.6898). 75orLess records heats up firehouse 13 on SatUrdaY (the 6th)

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(available everywhere on September 23), the long-awaited follow-up to his 2010 breakout platter White Lighter. Fletcher left the studio behind this time around in search of a “raw and personal and imperfect sound” for this “solo” album, setting out with only his guitars and a portable recorder and recording in three locations. The results are simply stunning, as Fletcher’s raspy drawl and finger-picking skills drive his captivating brand of Americana, roots, and honky-tonk. Fletcher relocated last year from the East Bay to East Nashville, but is back in RI for an album release jamboree this Friday at the Columbus Theatre’s cozy upstairs nook. And oh yes, expect an all-star array of special guest musician friends to join in on the fun with Joe and tourmates Matt Murphy and MorganEve Swain. On Monday, it was another humid-ashell afternoon and Fletcher was savoring a well-earned day off in true RI style — enjoying a Del’s Lemonade in his Warwick hotel following a lunch date with his mom at a nearby Gregg’s Restaurant, “eating the bowl of pickles like I’m 10 years old again.” He no longer rents a small onebedroom apartment in Warren (he was born in St. Louis and raised here) and had plenty of offers to crash with friends and family while in town on this Northeast swing, but pet allergies and the desire to decompress following a few recent grueling road trips has landed him at “the Holiday Inn near the airport.” Fletcher was in good spirits during our 30-minute phone chat (he still has the 401 number intact) to plug the new album and upcoming hometown throwdown. Fletcher’s musical career (following a sting as an Enligh teacher) has been on a steady ascension since the release of White Lighter, including appearances at the Newport Folk Festival and sharing bills with Jason Isbell, John Doe, Lucero, and many more. And his song “Drunk & Single (For George Jones)” was recently featured on HBO’s True Blood. Fletcher moved to Tennessee last October, and fate struck when he met his current girlfriend, who had also planned on moving from Georgia to the crown jewel of country music. “Some things shifted in my personal life, and I was sort of free to go,” Fletcher said. “Some of my friends had already moved there so I knew it would eventually happen. It just took longer than I had anticipated.” His new digs in East Nashville provided one of three makeshift recording studios, along with his former pad in Warren and a house in Arnoldsville, GA (about 10 miles east of Athens) owned by his girlfriend’s family. He was armed only with a couple

to record the song that night of microphones and guitars, and totally forgot they were a Tascam four-track recorder coming down to visit, so I told he bought more than 15 years them they had to work for their ago, and plenty of his preferred accommodations!” Maxell XLII blank cassettes, The closing cover of Brown which are “getting harder and Bird’s “Mabel Grey” (from The harder to find nowadays,” he Devil Dancing) has become a noted. By way of “extensive staple in Fletcher’s live set over trial and error,” Fletcher would the past few years; performing find the “mood and personalthe song alongside MorganEve ity” he was looking for in each Swain has provided a coping batch of songs, constantly remechanism for the devastating positioning microphones and loss of David Lamb, Swain’s trying different rooms in the husband and Fletcher’s close house, from the storage closet friend. to the grand foyer. (The album “It’s still hard, and it has was later mixed and mastered definitely been a learning proat Machines with Magnets in cess — sometimes I’m still in Pawtucket). The portastudio shock when I sit back and think approach recalls Springsteen’s about it,” said Fletcher. “I am Nebraska and (ex-Archers of Loaf sort of still processing all of it. frontman) Eric Bachmann’s “But I get something out of solo acoustic album To the Races, it each time we perform that and derived inspiration from song.” early recordings by Leadbelly The liner notes for You’ve and Woody Guthrie. There’s Got the Wrong Man reads: “This also plenty of influence from record is dedicated to my dear his idols Townes Van Zandt and friend David Lamb for all that Bob Dylan across You’ve Got the he taught me about friendship, Wrong Man. music, living well, and working Fletcher found a heft of inhard. You are forever a part of spiration during a tour swing my heart.” through Alabama (“some amazSwain and veteran bassist ing and strange things hapMatt Murphy are accompanying pened during that trip”); a visit him on this tour, though You’ve to the Civil War monuments Got the Wrong Man should be helped develop Wrong Man openbilled as a Fletcher solo release, er “Florence, AL,” concerning a just to avoid any confusion (he small-town soldier who deserts is listed as three different artthe Confederacy and falls in ists on iTunes). love, only to be deserted him“My first idea was a title like self. “Haint Blue Cadillac” folFROM THE EAST BAY TO EAST NASHVILLE fletcher at the met. Just One Reasons but that didn’t lows and finds Fletcher living a convey the outlaw imagery I was feverish dream following a visit going for,” Fletcher cracked, “so I knew I to the Hank Williams Museum in Montthe album’s most intriguing tracks. A trip needed to throw the word ‘Wrong’ in there.” gomery. The singer’s nicotine-laced rasp to a Cumberland Farms in south Boston Expect a heavy dose of the new album accompanies the hazy guitar twang. spurred the idea. As he was in line waitIt’s no surprise to hear that the country ing to pay for his Gatorade, a headline on a on Friday, as well as a handful of oldies and some new covers. And Fletcher couldn’t ballroom waltz “Miss Red” was recorded newspaper read “Baby killed in house fire help but chuckle when I asked about special in the 150-year-old farm house in Arnoldsin Long Island.” Fletcher meant to read guests popping in at the Columbus. ville, with Fletcher wielding the 12-string the story but it slipped his mind before he “Oh yeah, we have a few things guitar for “a more orchestral sound.” The walked out. Hours later the headline stuck planned for Friday night,” he said through slinky electric notes on “Blame Game with him and he penned his own take on an audible smile. Blues” dance around Fletcher’s drawl. “I what may have happened and wrote the And no, we won’t need to wait three Never (Reprise)” dials up the Wrong Reasong in just one hour, a first for Fletcher. It or four years for the next album, which sons’ classic finale from the 2007 debut was an intriguing exercise — challenging Fletcher reports is “pretty fleshed out, and Bury Your Problems. The song was re-recorded himself to learn a melody and chorus he will be a pretty rockin’ record.” (with some minor lyrical tweaks) in wrote but couldn’t yet perform. He recordAdvance tickets are highly recomFletcher’s new residence with help from ed “The Wilsons” in a small closet inside JP Harris, Nashville neighbor John McCauthe farm house and successfully exudes the mended as this one will surely be sold out by showtime; hit columbustheatre.com ley of Deer Tick, and a dozen or so friends “really creepy vibe” Fletcher was after: or visit joefletcherwrongman.brownpaper (dubbed the East Nashville Motivational “I wanted it to sound like I was sitting tickets.com ASAP. ^ Choir) jumping in on the accelerated choin a chair right next to your bed, whisperrus: “Well I’d-a never gotten on this ship if ing in your ear.” I known that it was gonna take me home/I On “Life of the Party,” Dan Blakeslee JOE FLETCHER + TJ KELLY | Friday, September was never meant for life on land and I can’t and Danny Roaman joined in on the 5 @ 8 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, make it on my own.” Recorded on that hootin’ and hollerin’ while staying at Providence | All ages | $15 | 401.621.9660 | same evening was “The Wilsons,” one of Fletcher’s Nashville pad. “I was going joefletchermusic.com richard mccaffrey

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NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Felix Brown NEWPORT GRAND | The Merge NEWS CAFE | Pawtucket | Elliot & the Ghost

OAK HILL TAVERN | North Kingstown | That Acoustic Duo

OCEAN MIST | Matunuck | DJ Kristen Kastaway

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THE WHISKEY REPUBLIC |

Providence | DJ Sinatra + Louie Bello

SUNDAY 7

See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses. AS220 | Providence | 8 pm | The Empire Revue with the Superchief Trio + the Sparkling Beatniks

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SEPTEMBER 26

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MONDAY 8

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Pawtucket | 7 pm | Open blues jam with Wolfie & the Jam Daddies

CADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | 3 pm

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WEDNESDAY 10

THURSDAY 11

KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Sleepy LaBeef

MACHINES WITH MAGNETS | Pawtucket | Dead Rider + the Sediment

Club

MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 7 pm | Alger Mitchell

NARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown

COMEDY THURSDAY 4

SUMMER SHOWDOWN SEASON IV: FINALS | 8 pm | Comedy Con-

FRIDAY 5

BOB MARLEY | Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 +

CLUB DIRECTORY Sun – Thurs Noon – 11pm Fri /Sat Noon – 1am 198 Atwells Avenue, Providence, RI 401-383-6559 | NAMIPROV.COM

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BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | 7

[family-friendly show] + 9 pm | Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd | $5 | 401.737.0010 | bringyourown improv.com MICETO IMPROV | 9:30 pm | Contemporary Theater, 327 Main St, Wakefield | $7 | 401.218.0282 | contemporarytheatercompany.com

SPINNATO’S HYPNOTIC HYSTERIA

| Fri 10:30 pm; Sun 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10$20 advance KURT BRAUNOHLER | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 6

IMPROV JONES | 10 pm | 95 Empire

SUNDAY 7

COMEDY SHOWCASE

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

SPINNATO’S HYPNOTIC HYSTERIA | See listing for Fri

THURSDAY 11

$5 FUNNIES: A WICKED FUNNY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Comedy Con-

nection, East Providence | $5 JULIAN MCCULLOUGH | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15-$40 advance

CONCERTS POPULAR THURSDAY 4

DAN BLAKESLEE + TALLAHASSEE + WILL DAILEY | 9 pm | Columbus

FRIDAY 5

JOE FLETCHER & THE WRONG REASONS | + T.J. Kelly | 9 pm |

Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $13 advance, $15 day of show | columbustheatre.com

MICHAEL MCDONALD + TOTO

| Twin River Event Center, 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | $55-$125 | 877.82RIVER | twinriver.com

SATURDAY 6

MAGNOLIA CAJUN BAND | 8 pm |

Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $12 advance, $15 door [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com THE HUMMINGBIRD TRIO | 2 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $21 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

MIRANDA LAMBERT + JUSTIN MOORE + THOMAS RHETT + JUKEBOX MAFIA | 7 pm | Xfinity Center, 885 South Main St, Mansfield, MA | ticketmaster.com

SUNDAY 7

13TH ANNUAL NARROWS FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS with Eric Lindell

MEZZO-SOPRANO ALLISON MESSIER with pianist Geraldine Anello

on piano and flutist Laura Smolowitz | 6 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton |

TUESDAY 9

CHRIS MACDONALD’S MEMORIES OF ELVIS CONCERT | 7:30 pm |

THURSDAY 11

BILL EVANS’ SOULGRASS | 8 pm

| Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $25 advance, $28 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.org

DANCE PARTICIPATORY SATURDAY 6

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE with dance leader Orly Krasner and music by Linda Pezzullo and Bill Ouimette | 7:30 pm | South Kingstown Land Trust Barn, 17 Matunuck Beach Rd, Kingston | $10 | 401.539.3009

EVENTS THURSDAY 4

WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE | A basin lighting begins at 7:14 pm | Downtown Providence | Free | waterfire providence.org

FRIDAY 5

16TH ANNUAL PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL | At various venues city-wide | See website for details | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival.org

BLACKSTONE RIVER PARTY/ TASTE OF THE VALLEY with food

and dessert samplings from some of Pawtucket’s (and the surrounding communities) finest restaurants, plus beers from the Bucket Brewery and Foolproof Brewing Company and music by the Fat City Band [6 pm] and Ruben Moreno & the Zydeco Re-evolution [8:30] | 6-11 pm | Slater Mill, 67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket | $10, free under 12 | Part of the Pawtucket Arts Festival | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival. org

29TH ANNUAL CRANSTON GREEK FESTIVAL with food + imported items from Greece + raffles + a children’s area + entertainment by the Asteria Orchestra + the Odyssey Dance Troupe + more | Sept 5 5-10 pm + Sept 6 12-10 pm + Sept 7 12-9 pm | Church of the Annunciation, 175 Oaklawn Ave, Cranston | Free | 401.942.4188 | annunciationri.org

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

Host” Goldman, with banter, musical accompaniment, and monthly theme song by Jerry “The Professor” Gregoire | This month’s theme: “Back To School” | | 10 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $7 | 401.489.2555

PSYCHIC/MEDIUM/SPIRITUAL COUNSELOR CHIP COFFEY | 8 pm |

Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $26 + $31 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

SATURDAY 6

S.A.M.FEST: SLATER’S AR(T) CHITECTURE AND MANUFACTURE FESTIVAL | A “blend of creative

artisan enterprise, historic architectural restoration, Steampunk merrymaking, and the performing arts,” featuring the Bosch Ensemble, Uilleann piper Torin Ryan, Pendragon, Irish step-dancer Kevin Doyle, NIGHTMOM, Michelle Cruz, Kristen Minsky & the Tropigals, and Marvin Novogrodski, plus traditional artists and makers, fiber and textile artists, antiques and restoration wares, technology, a taste of Victoriana, musical instruments, and more |

Sept 6 11 am-5 pm + Sept 7 12-4 pm [free] | Also on Sept 6 from 7-11 pm: the 7th Annual Steampunk Soiree, with Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores and the Chifferobe performers [$10] | Slater Mill, 67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival.org | Part of the Pawtucket Art Festival

15TH ANNUAL CHINESE DRAGON BOAT RACES AND TAIWAN DAY FESTIVAL | A rowing competition

+ Asian arts + music + dance + crafts + kite-flying + food + more | 8 am-5 pm (rain date Sept 7) | School Street Pier, Rte 114, Pawtucket | 401.724.2200 | dragonboatri.com | Part of the Pawtucket Art Festival AUDUBON RAPTOR WEEKEND | Experience eagles, owls, hawks, and falcons in live fight demonstrations, educational programs, and activities | 10 am-4 pm | Audubon Environmental Education Center, 1401 Hope St, Bristol | $12, $6 children, free under 3 [two-day pass: $20/$10] | 401.949.5454 | asri.org BREW AT THE ZOO with more than 100 beers from more than 50 regional brewers, plus animal encounters, music, and more | 5-9 pm | Roger Williams Park Zoo, 1000 Elmwood Ave, Providence | $50 [$25 designated driver] | 401.785.3510 | rwpzoo.org/693/rwpzoo-brew

NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL POLO SERIES | This week: Newport

vs. Baltimore | 4 pm | Glen Farm, Route 138, Portsmouth | $20 + $12 | 401.846.0200 | nptpolo.com

16TH ANNUAL PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL | See listing for Fri 29TH ANNUAL CRANSTON GREEK FESTIVAL | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 7

“FROM SKETCHES TO PRODUCT: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSFORMER FIGURE” | A presentation

16TH ANNUAL PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL | See listing for Fri 29TH ANNUAL CRANSTON GREEK FESTIVAL | See listing for Fri S.A.M.FEST: SLATER’S AR(T) CHITECTURE AND MANUFACTURE FESTIVAL | See listing for Sat AUDUBON RAPTOR WEEKEND |

See listing for Sat

THURSDAY 11

44TH ANNUAL NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW | with

more than 600 exhibitors | Sept 11-13 10 am-6 pm + Sept 14 10 am-5 pm | Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf | 401.846.1600 or | newportboatshow.com

FILM THURSDAY 4+ 11

MOVIES ON THE BLOCK presents

Dazed and Confused [9.4] and The Goonies [9.11] | Movies On the Block, Westminster and Union sts, Providence | Free | indowncity.com

THURSDAY 4

NEWPORTFILM presents Mission Blue, a documentary about oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle’s wake-up call to save the world’s seas, with a post-film Q&A with director Robert Nixon | Sunset, with pre-film music by Lainey Dionne with Izzy Marcil [picnics welcome; rain site: Casino Theater, 9 Freebody St] | King Park, Wellington Ave, Newport | Free | newportFILM.com

SATURDAY 6

A SCREENING OF CAN’T STOP THE SERENITY | 9 pm | Columbus The-

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

LIT EVENTS THURSDAY 4

PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | An

open mic followed by a slam featur-

ALWAYS 22 BEERS ON TAP! EVERYDAY $12 BEER FLIGHTS (6-7oz glasses) TUESDAYS $1 TACOS SUNDAYS $6 BURGER & BEER

ing Ian Rosales, Naomy Gutierrez, Alice Rayner, Joely Barrios, Seth Larbi | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

MONDAY 8

SLAM UP/SAME BRAIN TOUR with comedian Randy Bush + poets Vatic Poet and Naomy Gutierrez | 8 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $5-$10 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

Trivia Wednesdays Karaoke Fridays Live Music Saturdays Tues-Thurs & Sun 3pm-Midnight Fri & Sat Noon - 1am

TALKS TUESDAY 9

“FERGUSON TEACH-IN” | A teach-in

about the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, MO, with Stefano Bloch, post-doctoral fellow in the Urban Studies Program and Cogut Center for the Humanities; Anthony Bogues, director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice; Marcia Chatelain, assistant professor of history at Georgetown University; Richard Locke, director of the Watson Institute for International Studies; James Morone, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy; and Tricia Rose, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America | 5:30 pm | Brown University’s Salomon DeCiccio Family Auditorium, Waterman and George sts, Providence | Free | news. brown.edu/events

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10 am-5 pm | Through Sept 28: “A Change of Seasons,” works by John Fast and Nina Briggs ARTISTS’ EXCHANGE | 401.490.9475 | 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston | artistsexchange.org | Through Sept 13: “Convergence,” an exhibit by artist and curator Reed McLaren, the third installment in her Integrated Exhibitions series, which will highlight work from Resources for Human Development RI, Flying Shuttles Studio, and (gallerie ellipsis) ARTPROV GALLERY | 401.641.5182 | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | art providence.com | Through Sept 6: “Patterns & Perspectives,” works by Marjorie Hellman, Nick Paciorek, Jeff Schneider, and Nina Weiss AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | WedFri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Sept 6-28: “Weirdo Stuff” by Steve Mardo | “Night Photography” by Kevin Reardon | “Stasis: New Work,” by David Fischer | “Fences: New Work,” by Lindsey Whelan AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220. org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Sept 6-28: “Safe Space,” a collaborative drawing project by Delia Kovac and Marissa Paternoster | “Welcome Home: A Sweet and Sour Quilt,” an installation by Brooke Erin Goldstein BANKRI GALLERY | 401.456.5015 x 1330 | 137 Pitman St, Providence | bankri.com | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through Oct 1: paintings by Abbott Gleason — 1140 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through Oct 1: “Choose a Path,” paintings by Carolina Arentsen

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| Through Sept 26: “Graphic Design from Konkuk University,” “where traditional Korean culture melds with Western communication media, featuring posters, package designs, book designs, advertisements, and website designs” BERT GALLERY | 401.751.2628 | 24 Bridge St, Providence | bertgallery.com

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Brown University, 64 College St, Providence | brown.edu/Facilities/ David_Winton_Bell_Gallery | Mon-

Fri 11 am- 4 pm; Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | Through Oct 12: “Audible Spaces,” sound installations by Zarouhie Abdalian and [The User] and at the Cohen Gallery at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts [154 Angell St] by Tristan Perich DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 134 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown | debloisgallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Sept 6-28: “Uncommon Women,” works by Izabella Casselman, Judi Israel, and Karen Nash DEDEE SHATTUCK GALLERY | 508.636.4177 | 1 Partners Ln, Westport, MA | dedeeshattuckgallery. com | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through Sept 6: paintings by Richard Whitten and painted wood works by Emi Ozawa DRYDEN GALLERY | 401.421.6196 | 27 Dryden Ln, Providence | providence pictureframe.com | Mon-Sat 8:30 am-6:30 pm | Through Sept 5: “The Newport Folk Festival 2009-2014,” photographs by Richard McCaffrey GALLERY 4 | 401.816.0999 | 3848 Main Rd, Tiverton | gallery4tiverton. com | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through Sept 7: “Trio: Texture, Structure, Passion,” paintings by Ruth Hamill, Harry Nadler, and Susan Strauss GRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | grinprovidence.com | Sat 12-5 pm | Through Sept 13: “tttrip.,” a group exhibit of installation and sculpture by Claudia O’Steen, Garret Gould, and Sophia Sobers HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Sept 6-Oct 11: “New Visions,” works by Iris Donnelly, Connie Greene, Elizabeth Lind, Jill McLaughlin, Mara Trachtenberg, and M.J. Yeager

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Warren | imagofoundation4art.org | Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through Oct 12: works by Lisa Legato, the Globalheart Project, and Christiane Corbat, | plus a woodfired kiln event featuring Rose Esson-Dawson, Seth Rainville, Hollis Engley, Kimberly Sheerin Medeiros, Ron Mello, Elizabeth Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Anne Marie Rossi, Lenny Rumpler, Michael Scriven, and Howard Windham, plus student artists Melissa Cruz, Jennifer Norton, Sarah Springer, and Jessica Tranvo 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 Sept 6:

“Wander the Paths,” paintings by Lee Chabot MYSTIC ARTS CENTER | 860.536.7601 | 9 Water st, Mystic, CT | mysticarts.org | Daily 11 am-5 pm | Through Sept 20: “The 58th Regional Show,” an all-media juried show with work from local and regional artists | “Figures, Faces, and Food,” oil paintings by Doug Aaberg

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

pm | Sept 6-Oct 25: “Third Annual Poster Exhibition,” with works by Ghost-Town, Doe Eyed, Land Land, LeDouxville, and Little Friends of Printmaking PROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providence artclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm; SatSun 2-4 pm | Through Sept 5: “16x16 Members’ Exhibition” | “Travel Posters From the Permanent Collection” | Sept 7-26: “New Work: Memories In Glass,” by Alice Benvie Gebhart PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | 401.455.8000 | 150 Empire St | provlib. org | Mon + Thurs 12-8 pm; Tues + Wed 10 am-6 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am5:30 pm | Through Oct 30: “Protecting Providence: Three Centuries of Policing In Rhode Island’s Capital”

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 Sept 4: “Celebrating The Rhode Island Watercolor Society with 1000 Works On Paper” | Sept 6-Oct 2: “The Artist Travels,” an open juried show

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION

| 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org |

Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Sept 11-Oct 11: “The Great Art Heist,” a member-donated artwork fundraiser

URI PROVIDENCE CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington

St | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | Through Sept 30: “Bringing Guantánamo Home: Guantánamo Public Memory Project,” a traveling exhibit of stories, images, and documents from before 9/11 and after, co-curated by Brown and 11 other US universities. In Providence, the exhibit will feature newsletters written by detainees at Guantánamo, plus works by Mary Beth Meehan, Chris Simms, and students at the International Charter School in Pawtucket, to connect the themes of migration, security, refuge, and human rights with our communities

WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach

St, North Kingstown | wickfordart. org | Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm; Sun 12-3

pm | Through Sept 14: “Members’ Invitational” YELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Providence | yellowperilmedia.com/ gallery | Wed-Fri 3-8 pm; other days by appointment | Through Oct 5: “ShrineBeast,” a mixed media exhibition about alternate realities and the transformative nature of love by Andrew Paul Woolbright

MUSEUMS HAFFENREFFER MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN MANNING HALL | 401.863.2065 | College +

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6-Jan 11: “Solemnities,” works by Claudia Flynn | 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” | Through Jan 4: “Palate to Plate: Prints & Recipes From Members of the Boston Printmakers” 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 Nov 16: “UuDam Tran Nguyen: Waltz of the Machine Equestrians,” a video installation | Through Feb 22: “Circus,” with 40 circus-themed paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and posters from 1850-1960

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btctheater.webs.com | At the William Hall Library, 1825 Broad St, Cranston | Through Sept 7: Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 3 pm | $15, $12 students + seniors CONTEMPORARY THEATER | 401.218.0282 | thecontemporary theater.com | 327 Main St, Wakefield | Through Sept 6: Art, by Yasmina Reza | Thurs-Sat 7 pm | $20 Fri + Sat, pay-what-you-can Thurs EPIC THEATRE COMPANY | Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe St, Cranston | Sept 5-20: Compleat Female Stage Beauty, by Jeffrey Hatcher, a “witty, lush, and fascinating look at the most famous actor to ever play female roles in Shakespeare’s plays, and what happened when actual women were allowed to take his place” | This week: Sept 5-7 8 pm | $15, $12 students + seniors [previews Sept 5-7 $10] FIRST HAND THEATRICAL | At 95 Empire St, Providence | Through Sept 7: Interrupting the Sermon, by Kevin Olson | “A gentle story-play about the evolution of a theologically conservative kid from the Midwest into an intellectually progressive religious thinker over the course of a 50-year career as a minister and educator” | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm + Sun 2 pm | Free GAMM THEATRE | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre.org | 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | Through Sept 28: Grounded, by George Brant | A one-woman play “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, airconditioned trailer near Vegas, ‘The Pilot’ hunts terrorists by day and goes home to her family at night. But what happens the boundaries blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols?” | This week: Sept 4 + 9-11 7 pm + Sept 5 + 6 8 pm + Sept 7 2 + 7 pm | $41 + $49 [previews Sept 4-6 $30] GRANITE THEATRE | 401.596.2341 | granitetheatre.com | 1 Granite St, Westerly | Sept 5-28: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 2 pm | $20, $17 seniors, $12 under 13 2ND STORY THEATRE | 401.247.4200 | 2ndstorytheatre.com | 28 Market St, Warren | Through Sept 14: Sylvia, by A.R. Gurney, Jr. | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm + Sun 2:30 pm | $30, $21 under 21 THEATRE BY THE SEA | 401.782.TKTS | theatrebythesea.biz | 364 Cards Pond Rd, Wakefield | Through Sept 7: Monty Python’s Spamalot | This week: Sept 4 2 + 8 pm + Sept 5 8 pm + Sept 6 4 + 8 pm + Sept 7 5 pm | $42-$62

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What if Elvis Presley’s twin brother hadn’t died at birth, but instead got adopted in infancy by an evangelical preacher, grew up to be a mechanic, and harbored a desire to perform his brother’s songs? That’s the premise of this would-be inspirational rock musical, which feels like one of the biopic parodies from Mr. Show (e.g., “Why Me? The Bob Lamonta Story”) played completely straight. The Elvis stand-in (Blake Rayne) is named Drexel Hemsley, most of the songs that are supposed to have been written in the ’60s sound like contemporary soft rock, and Ray Liotta, as the preacher, delivers a sermon about the Six-Day War that comes out of nowhere. With Ashley Judd and Seth Green; Dustin Marcellino directed a script by Howard Klausner. _Ben Sachs

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Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, and director Michael Winterbottom reunite for this sequel to their indie favorite The Trip (2011), with the stars embarking once again on a restaurantreviewing tour that guarantees plenty of food porn and literate table talk. The most remarked-up scene in the original was a hilarious sequence in which the two master mimics debate how best to impersonate Michael Caine; it’s reprised endlessly here, with quick takes on Hugh Grant, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, and Gore Vidal. Despite these moments, some spectacular seaside vistas, and numerous quotations from Byron, the movie soon grows tedious; Coogan’s irritation with his traveling partner has diminished significantly, and the laughs along with it.

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An intriguing and intensely creepy premise is sqaundered on this rudimentary foundfootage horror film. A young archaeologist enlists a pair of colleagues and a trio of thrill seekers to help search the Catacombs of Paris for the mythical philosopher’s stone; when they wind up lost in a cursed section deep underground, their innermost demons come out to haunt them, the Lovecraftian metaphor being that this labyrinthine ossuary is akin to an ailing subconscious. Similar to Neil Marshall’s zombie chiller The Descent (2005), this deals in claustrophobic dread, and there are some genuinely squirmy scenes that find the actors squeezing through tight spaces. But the banal dialogue and poor performances zap the tension, and the surreal scares quickly lose steam. John Erick Dowdle directed. _Drew Hunt

capsule reviews XXXW BOYHOOD | 2014 | Filming periodically over 12 years, writerdirector Richard Linklater follows a Texas boy from first grade to high school graduation, noting along the way how his mother’s unhappy relationships with men color the boy’s own interaction with the opposite sex. The movie is being hailed for its novel production, though in fact British director Michael Winterbottom beat Linklater out of the box with his superb, little-noticed Everyday (2012), chronicling a workingclass family over five years. That movie progresses more naturally than this one, which can’t afford to introduce a single character unless there’s a significant payoff later. But Linklater’s writing is typically warm and insightful, and the cast is uniformly excellent, including Ellar Coltrane as the quiet, down-to-earth hero. With Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. | 165m | XXXW CAVALRY | 2014 | A

good-hearted Irish Catholic priest (Brendan Gleeson) hears confession from a man who claims that as a child he was serially raped by his parish priest; because the rapist has died, the victim promises to murder his confessor in a week’s time as a perverse vengeance against God and the church. This gripping spiritual drama by writer-director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard) functions as a transparent Christian allegory, yet it derives most of its emotional force from our popular rage against the priesthood; the

cross shouldered by its hero consists, in no small part, of all the ecclesiastical crimes now tumbling out of the closet. Gleeson brings his usual fierceness and gravity to the role, and there are fine supporting turns by Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aiden Gillen, and Dylan Moran. | 105m |

the main character but also to the famous fossilized skeleton, an ancestor of Homo sapiens; Besson implies that both represent the birth of a new species, turning this enjoyable shoot-’em-up into a dumbbell 2001: A Space Odyssey. With Morgan Freeman and Choi Min-sik. | 88m |

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begins to describe this maudlin tearjerker, adapted from a young-adult novel, about a 17-year-old girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) who suffers a nasty car accident, slips into a coma, and has an out-of-body experience. Her parents and younger brother have died in the crash, so she has to decide whether she wants to move on to the next life with them or stay on earth with her on-again, off-again rocker boyfriend (Jamie Blackley). In the fashion of melodrama, every moment is impossibly huge, and the movie is occasionally compelling in its brazen lack of subtlety. With Joshua Leonard and Mireille Enos. | 107m |

XXW LuCY | 2014 | A young American in Taipei (Scarlett Johansson), coerced into serving as a drug mule for gangsters, accidentally absorbs a powerful new product that unlocks 100 percent of her brain capacity, turning her into a superhuman being and an ass-kicker extraordinaire. No one has ever accused French action director Luc Besson of thinking too hard, and this frantic exercise in pseudoscience and goofball metaphysics is best enjoyed by following his lead. The title refers not only to

| 2014 | Woody Allen on autopilot, retreating into the Jazz Age again for a blunt, listless thesis film about the limits of rationality. An arrogant stage illusionist (Colin Firth) is hired to discredit a fake mystic (Emma Stone) but soon falls under her spell; the story takes place in the late 1920s and most of the action transpires at an estate on the French Riviera, so there are good tunes and lovely scenery to distract one from the tossed-off script. As usual the writer-director has attracted a strong cast (including Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Simon McBurney, and Eileen Atkins), though I’m sure most actors understand by now that making a movie with him is like playing the lotto. Better luck next time. | 98m |

XXXW A MOST WANTED MAN

| 2014 | This adaptation of a John le Carré novel works smashingly as a suspense film, a mood piece, and a vehicle for the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, playing a world-weary German spy who gets more than he bargained for when he investigates a suspicious Chechen immigrant. Director Anton Corbijn (Control, The American) seems to have modeled the film’s somber look and muted drama

on such paranoid ’70s thrillers as The Conversation and All the President’s Men; the most suspenseful passages tend to be the quieter, more cerebral ones. Corbijn employs wide-screen framing to striking dramatic effect, using it to emphasize the characters’ confinement in tight spaces and their vulnerability in open ones. It’s very entertaining, though as an assessment of post-9/11 surveillance culture it’s cynical, not sophisticated. With Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, and Homayoun Ershadi. | 121m |

XXW WHEN THE gAME STANDS

TALL | 2014 | Playing both sides against the middle, this fact-based drama about high school football coach Bob Ladouceur and his De La Salle Spartans makes a commendable effort to invest the inspirational sports movie with some deeper meaning but simultaneously labors to keep all the genre cliches firmly in place. Ladouceur led the Concord, California, team through a record 151-game winning streak from 1992 through 2004; the movie chronicles the string of defeats that followed before the Spartans roar back with their hard-fought 2001 victory against Long Beach Polytechnic. (Yeah, I know that’s achronological, but I told you it’s fact-based.) Along the way the jocks learn that teamwork is more important than individual glory and sports is about building character, not muscles. Of course, what really builds character is losing, something the Spartans seldom did. Thomas Carter directed; with Jim Caviezel, Michael Chiklis, and Laura Dern. | 115m |

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This week’s full moon may be melancholy for some, as we are programmed to think “summer” disappears at Labor Day. However, it’s an excellent time for “bringing in the sheaves,” in terms of work that got delayed or derailed in August (when everyone goes away). Love stories, particularly involving Scorpio, Libra, Cancer, Pisces, and Gemini folks, are very welcome— write me at sally@moonsigns.net or find “Sally Cragin Astrology” on Facebook. I have an idea for book #3. 8

thursday september 4

Waxing moon in capricorn. are you telling someone what to do? You should be—capricorn moons can bring out the efficient side in us all, along with a touch of gloom. So if you feel like eeyore when you’re usually piglet, you could be an aries, Libra, cancer, Leo, or Gemini. if you feel like you’re the “responsible one” and it works for you, you could be a capricorn, taurus, virgo, aquarius, Sagittarius, Scorpio, or pisces. 13

Friday september 5

Waxing moon in capricorn, moon voidof-course 11:08 am until 7:59 pm when it moves into aquarius. Go over those bills, and see about reconciling expenditures. Yes, not glamorous, but today your tolerance for tedium is high, particularly for capricorn, aquarius, virgo, Libra, taurus, and Gemini. aries, Sagittarius, Leo, pisces, Scorpio, and cancer could resent it if told they’re not “paying attention” (hey, who sets the gold standard in that measurement anyway?). 14

saturday september 6

Waxing moon in aquarius. as the full moon approaches, today and tomorrow are a likely time to connect with eccentrics—expect contact from your kookier compadres. and if a delivery truck pulls up next to your house, and clown after clown pours out, you are so in tune with the moon. Sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, pisces, aries, Gemini, and Libra may still be chuckling after clown #50. taurus, Scorpio, Leo, virgo, and cancer could feel rushed. 15

sunday september 7

Waxing moon in aquarius, moon voidof-course 1:19 pm until 7:47 pm when it moves into pisces. So many ideas! So few people listening! aquarius moons bring intellectual excitement, and with tomorrow’s full moon emotions are roiling. aquarius, pisces, aries, Gemini, Libra, and Sagittarius could burst with ideas that come forth in a poetic torrent, not coherent sentences. Leo, Scorpio, taurus, virgo, cancer, and capricorn: you are overthinking a situation. 16

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full moon in pisces, the “chrysanthemum moon,” according to the chinese. an exciting day for photographers, radiologists and those who work with the incarcerated or otherwise incapacitated. a day for creating art, particularly if you’re a capricorn, aquarius, pisces, aries, taurus, cancer, Scorpio. a day for feeling everything deeply, especially for Gemini, virgo, Sagittarius, Libra, Leo. 17

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Waning moon in pisces, moon void-ofcourse 3:10 pm until 7:33 pm when it moves into aries. pisces moons prompt nostalgia, which can be pleasant (let’s have a root beer float!) or rankling (females in grade-school are “girls,” not those managing a department). Scorpio, Sagittarius, capri18

corn, aquarius, pisces, taurus, and virgo: indulge your senses. aries, cancer, Libra, virgo, and Gemini: sense your indulgences (can you still afford?).

Wednesday september 10 3

this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the 8 9 13 of 14 moon’s influence as10it moves11through12the signs the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you24 can expect increased insight and28emotionality. 25 26 27 29 30 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 as the moon 9 10 11 12 days. | 13 14 15 moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider this a null27time and28try to avoid making 25 26 29 30 31 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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Waning moon in aries, moon void-ofcourse 8:58 pm until 9:17 pm thursday. it’s still officially summer, despite the fact that the month has an “r” in it (hey, it’s okay to eat oysters again). arguments could erupt over trifles, but the best use of your time is finding tasks that can be accomplished quickly. this will be an easier sell for aquarius, pisces, aries, taurus, Gemini, Leo, and Sagittarius. Libra, capricorn, cancer, virgo, and Scorpio could suffer from “short attention span,” on projects ranging from emotional conversations to putting projects together.

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Schedule of Events Most Events are Free unless otherwise indicated and Outdoor Events are Rain or Shine unless indicated.

Blackstone River Party/Taste of the Valley September 5th • 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. Slater Mill • Admission $10, children under 12 free Fat City Band • Ruben Moreno & Zydeco Re-evolution The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre September 4th - 28th • Grounded by George Brant 15th Annual RI Chinese Dragon Boat Races & Taiwan Day Festival* September 6th (rain date Sept. 7th) • 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Festival Pier • Free Admission S.A.M. Steampunk Soiree* September 6th • 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. Slater Mill • Admission $10 S.A.M. Festival* September 6th & 7th • Sat. 11a.m. - 5 p.m. Sun. 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. Slater Mill • Free Admission Sun. 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Michelle Cruz* Big Band Hasbro Presents “From sketches to product, the development of a TRANSFORMER” September 7th • 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Pawtucket City Hall • Free Admission Sponsored by Pawtucket Advisory Commission on Arts & Culture

Louisiana Night September 12th • 5 p.m. - 11 p.m. Pawtucket Town Landing (Taft Street) Admission $20 pre-sale, $30 the day of Tavares, JJ Caillier & Zydeco Knockouts, Slippery Sneakers Forget-Me-Not Gallery* & The Samaritans presents “Reflections of Africa” September 12th • 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. 67 Park Place • Free Admission Rhode Island Watercolor Society Fall Art Experience* September 13th & 14th • 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Slater Park • Free Admission Slater Park Fall Festival September 13th & 14th • 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Slater Memorial Park • Free Admission 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. • Slater Park Ramble presented by Stone Soup* Pawtucket Teachers’ Alliance presents “Pops In The Park” with the RI Philharmonic Orchestra September 13th (Rain date Sept. 14) • 5:30 p.m. Fireworks to follow • Slater Memorial Park • Free Admission Third Annual James McNally Wilson Irish Music Festival September 13th • 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Murphy’s Law Irish Pub • Free Admission Arts MarketPlace* September 20th & 21st • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 172 Exchange St • Free Admission • Music by The Rossonians

Pawtucket Arts Festival is Sponsored By 16th Annual

www.PawtucketArtsFestival.org

Donald R. Grebien, Mayor

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XOS -Exchange Street Open Studios* September 20th & 21st • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Five Mills in the Armory District • Free Admission Central Falls Bright Future Festival September 20th • 12 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Jenks Park • Free Admission Aurea Presents*: Not About Heroes September 21st • 7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Slater Mill • Free Admission Mixed Magic Theater* September 24th - 25th • 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Slater Mill • Free Admission Boys & Girls Club - Day for Kids September 27th • 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. One Moeller Place • Free Admission 15th Annual Pawtucket Film Festival September 26th - 28th Visitor Center • $10 (Includes T-Shirt, Music, Food & Beverages) City of Pawtucket 15th Annual Photo Contest Awards* September 28th • 4 pm Visitor Center • Free Admission * Sponsored by The Pawtucket Arts Review Panel

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