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epic’s compleat female stage beauty _by Bill Rodriguez | p 13

outside tHe lines “What Nerve!”: The RISD Museum’s stimulating history of underground American art _by Greg Cook | p 8

is our fertile creative soil tH j t in Design Week RI and Outpost Journal | p 6 us

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Pawtucket Arts Festival

16th Annual

SEPT. 5 - SEPT. 28 Most Events are Free unless otherwise indicated and Outdoor Events are Rain or Shine unless indicated. Saturday and Sunday

SEPTEMBER

20 th & 21st

11:00 am~~-5:00 pm Music • Food • Activities • Arts & Crafts 16th Annual Pawtucket Arts Festival Presents

10am to 4pm

www.pawtucketartsfestival.org

over 50 artists in one location

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FOLK DANCERS 3 STAGES FACEPAINTING ROCK A BABY DANCE CLASSIC CAR CRUISE KIDS TENT FARMERS MARKET OVER 100 ART VENDORS ACROBATS ILLUSIONS LIVING STATUES

Music, Demonstrations, Food & Beverages

SPONSORED BY: Friends of Pawtucket Library, Pet Food Experts, Webster Bank, TD Bank, Bristol County Savings Bank, RI Textile, Ocean State Printers, City of Pawtucket, Pawtucket Arts Panel, Pawtucket Teachers Alliance Design by John Hunter Housley

SATURDAY FREE CONCERT RI PHILHARMONIC POPS IN THE PARK AT 5:30 FOLLOWED BY FIREWORKS

More studios just steps away - visit Exchange Street Open Studios XOSpawtucket.com

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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15th Annual Pawtucket Film Festival

Fine Art & Contemporary Craft

SHOW&SALE

16th Annual

Music, Food, Drinks, Short Films, Features, and a T-Shirt ALL for $10 (per scheduled time)

Armory Art Center 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket artsmarketplacepawtucket.com Schedule of Events Most Events are Free unless otherwise indicated and Outdoor Events are Rain or Shine unless indicated.

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 15th Annual Irish Music Festival Pawtucket Film Festival September 13th • 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. September 26th - 28th Murphy’s Law Irish Pub • Free Visitor Center • $10 (Includes T-Shirt, Admission Music, Food & Beverages) Arts MarketPlace* September 20th & 21st City of Pawtucket 15th Annual 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Photo Contest Awards* 172 Exchange St • Free Admission • September 28th • 4 pm Music by The Rossonians Visitor Center • Free Admission XOS -Exchange Street Open Studios* * Sponsored by September 20th & 21st The Pawtucket Arts Review Panel 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Five Mills in the Armory District • Free Admission For More Details: Central Falls Bright Future Festival September 20th 12 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Jenks Park • Free Admission www.PawtucketArtsFestival.org 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

Pawtucket Arts Festival is Sponsored By 16th Annual

Donald R. Grebien, Mayor

www.PawtucketArtsFestival.org

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contents

CovEr CrEdits | All works © the artists. Clockwise from top left: Her Face Fits (1968), by Jim Nutt, courtesy Karen Lennox Gallery. Shady Lady (1971), by Christina Ramberg, from the collection of Joe Rishel. Stompin At the Snake Pit (1968), by Gladys Nilsson, courtesy of the artist. Fur Rat (1962), by Joan Brown, courtesy University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

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8 ouTSidE ThE linES _ B Y gREg cook

“What Nerve! Alternative Figures In American Art, 1960 to the Present,” the new exhibit at the RISD Museum, connects the dots between the often overlooked scenes in San Francisco, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Providence. It’s hot, sweaty, satirical, messy, manic, cartoony, psychedelic stuff.

11 dining _BY Bi ll Rod Ri gu Ez

In Warren, a new restaurant and an old master at SiMonE’S.

13 ThEaTER _BY Bi ll Rod Rig uEz

Gender confusion and complicated sexual identity leads to loads of fun in Epic Theater Company’s coMPlEaT fEMalE STagE BEauTY.

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“Short Takes” on ThiS iS whERE i lEavE You and TuSk.

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PhilliPE & JoRgE’S cool, cool woRld

Pinky (and the ProJo’s) changing world | Year of the Moose? | Border war | Not-so-green gov candidates

JEn SoREnSEn

ThiS JuST in

You’re walking on fertile soil: the lowdown on Design Week RI and the Providence-centric issue of Outpost Journal

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The 11th Annual Providence Improv Festival | Dan Moretti & the Hammond Boys (with Duke Robillard) | FirstWorks’ Urban Carnevale | The Fall Out of Summer Art Festival

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22 JonESin’ _P u z z l E B Y M a TT J o n ES Providence

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Phillipe + Jorge’s Cool, Cool World

Pinky (and the Projo ’s) changing world measuring morale; healey on the horizon; ignoring the environment Two weeks ago, there was

much sadness and consterf nation after the dismissal of Bob

Kerr, Tom Morgan, Tatiana Pina, and other longtime employees from our hometown daily newspaper. In the midst of this, in a column published on September 7, Mark “Pinky” Patinkin relayed the story of how he came to land a job at The Providence Journal decades ago. While his assertion in that piece that “if a company doesn’t adapt, it doesn’t survive” is undoubtedly true, we have to question another claim by Pinky in the same column: “[D]espite transition pains and the loss of a few beloved colleagues, I’m reporting today from the inside that the mood is pretty good.” Obviously, Pinky is not talking to the same Journal employees as your superior correspondents. We’ve heard from numerous reporters and others that there is great fear on Fountain Street, and morale at the paper is at an all-time low. In a follow-up column on September 14, Pinky made some amends by writing about the contributions made over the years by Kerr and Morgan. And while P&J have always liked Pinky as a person and view him as a very talented reporter, we’ve still seen no evidence GateHouse is going to be anything but another bad corporate newspaper owner.

Year of the Moose?

The gubernatorial race appears to have gotten very interesting with the news that Bob Healey, the Cool Moose from Warren, has been chosen to run under the Moderate Party banner. We say “apparently” because the RI Republican party quickly challenged the validity of placing his name on the ballot, claiming that the Moderate Party may have “circumvented the legitimate electoral process for nominating a candidate” when they replaced the original Moderate candidate, James Spooner. A look at past decisions on a party chair’s ability to switch candidates when one is unable to run (in this case, Mr. Spooner has health issues) seems to indicate that the move is totally legal, and Healey commented during an interview on WPRO-AM radio that the GOP’s challenge seems “desperate.” But, we’ll see. P&J are of the opinion that with so many disenchanted voters out there and Healey’s record of consistency and straight talk, he has a much greater chance of actually winning the whole thing than most people believe. It will be very interesting to see how the Moose scores in future polling.

Border War

From P&J’s viewpoint, it looks like Mother England is going to get a sweet “Glasgow kiss” from the Scottish independence vote September 18. No, that doesn’t mean that Scots will choose to stay united with England; a “Glasgow kiss” means bashing your head into someone else’s face, much damage resulting. This vote for Scotland’s independence is of interest to P&J, as we come from Scottish heritage. Essentially, both P. and J. are “jickies,” a tribe thick on the ground in olden days in Philadelphia and Pawtucket, their respective birthplaces. (“Jickie” is what working class immigrants from Scotland and England were not-so-pleasantly called when they hit American shores.) Thus Jorge has been roaming Casa Diablo in full Braveheart blue face paint, shouting out calls to war in an unintelligible Scots accent.

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England’s publicity campaign to retain Scotland in unity has been a disaster. The country used financial fear at first, and then the notion that the Scots are stupid gits who are too dumb to vote the way posh Prime Minister David Cameron and his Eton, Oxford, and Cambridge pals from the Conservative Party tell them to. The misguided promotional tactics only furthered the resentment and hatred Scots have toward the toffs down in London who order them about, take a healthy share of their North Sea oil reserve profits, and tell them to store their nuclear weapons aboard submarines for them. Indeed, the key voting bloc in this referendum may be the poor, disenfranchised youth of Scotland, whom P&J believe will find pleasure in giving England two fingers up with a hearty, “Get stuffed, ya fookin’ wankers.” But we dinna ken until the votes are cast, eh laddies and lasses?

Scottish Joke of the Week: “Two Scotsmen walk out of a bar . . . (wait for it) . . . could happen!”

Not-so-greeN gov caNdidates

As of press time, Gina Raimondo and Allan Fung seem to be ducking the chance to discuss environmental and economic issues in a debate forum. The invitation from leaders at ecoRI news and the Environment Council of RI to take part in an event on September 30 at Providence College, sent out over a month ago, is being danced around by both campaigns, despite a highly successful forum in April at Brown on that same topic among the Democratic primary runners. A candidate for governor who doesn’t see the direct link between the economy and the environment in a state that only exists because of Narragansett Bay is clueless. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse recently filled the Convention Center with a confer-

ence that included the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and this week the National Land Alliance is bringing 2000 attendees to the same site, because Rhode Island is a national model for land conservation and preservation. Many people are green with envy over Little Rhody’s natural resources. The only green thing Raimondo and Fung seem to care about is the money they raise for their campaigns.

Bad push poll of the Week

Meanwhile in La Prov, here’s the script from a “robo-call” that a number of residents received in recent days: “Buddy Cianci believes that there needs to be a separation of church and state and teaching about God’s existence or nonexistence has no place in our public schools. Who do you agree with? Press ‘1’ if you agree with Cianci that teaching about God’s existence or non-existence does not belong in schools. Press ‘2’ if you agree with Jorge Elorza that it would be acceptable to teach in schools that there is no God.” Your superior correspondents say, “Press ‘3’ if you agree that this is not an actual issue and has nothing to do with the Providence mayoral election.”

see Ya, sarge

RIP Jack Taylor, a fixture at the Jamestown Golf Club and King of the Monkey (the latter reference is too hard to explain). Jack was a proud soldier, a loving husband, father, and grandfather and, most of all, a great friend who always went the extra mile for people and showed his care and appreciation for others in a million ways that drew no attention to himself. And God just got a hell of a putter for his foursome.

Quiz BoWl at MccoY

The fifth annual Quiz Bowl to benefit the George Wiley Center (the Pawtucket-based grassroots agency “aimed at alleviating problems associated with poverty”) will take place Friday, September 26 at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket. It’s an evening of trivia with teams of up to eight people competing for the Wiley Center’s “Brightest Bulb” award. The evening’s “Quizmaster” will be the fabulous former ProJo columnist Bob Kerr. And, consider yourself forewarned: smartphones are not allowed. The suggested donation of $50 per person includes dinner and snacks and a there will be a cash bar. For more info, contact Debbie Clark at 401.728.5555 or debbiec@ georgewileycenter.org. ^

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This Just In

“THINKING ON YOUR FEET” A Focal Upright work station.

Arts & Crafts

Reminder to Rhode Islanders: you’re walking on fertile creative soil It’s easy to forget during this hyperactive campaign season, with its safely-dressed politicos delivering safely-worded speeches, that Rhode Island isn’t solely a stage for debates, photo ops, and consultants scurrying around while talking on cell phones. We’re more than that. And there’s proof. In the coming days, two local events — one of which actually contains numerous other events — have aligned to provide a dual reminder that this place is pretty inspiring, after all. Read on to bask in the knowledge that Providence’s self-appointed nickname, “The Creative Capital,” is a political slogan with some actual truth behind it.

This means people are bumping into each other and sharing ideas all the time. “There’s a way in which it feels really good to leave the house.” The Design Office, the Westminster Street design collective founded by Caserta in 2007, is itself a compelling reason to leave the house. (We raved about it in our March cover story on co-working spaces in RI.) It’s one of 41 firms in Providence, Pawtucket, and Warren participating in Design Week RI’s September 24 Open Firms Night.

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WHeRe: All across Rhode Island, but mostly focused in Providence WHen: September 17-27 OnLine: designweekri.com Did you know the set designer for Saturday Night Live, Late Night With Seth Meyers, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon lives in Providence? His name is Eugene Lee, he’s in his mid-70s, he’s fond of wearing bowties and collecting typewriters, and he is incomprehensibly accomplished. (He’s received Tony awards for his work on Wicked, Sweeney Todd, and Candide, and designed sets for countless other Broadway productions; he’s been given three honorary PhDs; and he remains the resident designer at Trinity Repertory Company.) “I always say Eugene is the only actual genius I’ve worked with,” longtime SNL producer Lorne Michaels recently told The New York Times. Lee — who quietly lives in Providence, while producing work that’s celebrated around the world — is a fitting symbol for the inaugural Design Week RI, a 10-day stretch dedicated to showcasing the typeface gurus, web-design visionaries, inventors, architects, and other tasteful tinkerers who toil in our midst. Lee will be give a rare public presentation at 4 pm at Aurora Providence, on Monday, September 22, as part of Design Week RI’s “4x4” speaker series. Aside from that event, there’s plenty more to look forward to, like a “Design and Manufacturing in Rhode Island” panel and open house at the new, 25,000-square foot Quonset headquarters of Focal Upright Furniture, which sells its revolutionary, not-quite-sitting/notquite-standing workspaces to clients around the world, including Google and Facebook. (“Literally, thinking on your feet is better for you,” company founder Martin Keen says.) There will be an architectural pub-crawl highlighting the revitalization of three Providence buildings — the Dean Hotel (formerly the Sportsman’s Inn) on Fountain Street, the Dreyfus Building on Washington Street, and the building at the southwest corner of Eddy and Westminster streets — that each have top-notch watering holes at street level (Faust, Local 121, and the Eddy, respectively). There will also be a rooftop ceremony inducting four local designers, including Keen and the late, legendary architect Bill

Warner, into the newly-created Rhode Island Design Hall of Fame. But Design Week RI — organized by DESIGNxRI, a consortium of designers and architects founded in 2013 with the help of a Rhode Island Foundation “Make It Happen” grant — is less a single distinct event and more a series of events tucked under a large umbrella. At one end, is the Providence-based Business Innovation Factory’s 10th annual summit, BIF10 (September 17-18): a heady, futuristic forum in which various thinkers, authors, and entrepreneurs deliver TED-style talks. This year’s roster includes a New Yorker cartoonist, a roboticist, the chief innovation officer at the Coca-Cola Company, and the renowned The Way Things Work author/illustrator, David Macaulay. At the other end of Design Week RI, is the American Institute of Architects (AIA) annual New England Regional Conference (September 26-28). In between, you’ve got the increasingly mindblowing Better World by Design Conference at Brown and RISD (September 19-21; more than 700 students from around the world will attend) and Providence Park(ing) Day (September 19), during which 32 parking spaces across the city will be transformed into “parklets” and local cyclists will enjoy a temporary protected bike lane on Broadway. So what makes Providence so design-y? Design Week RI’s organizers point to a series of compelling statistics: RI’s 3rd highest percentage of creative sector jobs in the country and second largest per-capita corps of industrial designers; the world’s top design school (RISD); and the creation of 500 new design-related businesses between 2007 and 2012. John Caserta, meanwhile — head of RISD’s Graphic Design department and a featured speaker at Design Week RI’s September 25 “Marathon Clambake” – points to something slightly less tangible. “There’s something really special about how close the West Side and Olneyville are to downtown, to the East Side, to Brown, to RISD,” he says.

WHeRe: Available for purchase at Ada Books and the RISD Museum’s RISD/Works shop, and also online WHen: Launch party Thursday, September 18 from 5 to 9 pm, at the RISD Museum, coinciding with Design the Night and the opening of the Museum’s “What Nerve!” show (featured on pages 8-10 in this week’s Phoenix) OnLine: outpostjournal.org It took three years and three issues for Outpost Journal to focus on its hometown of Providence. But it was worth the wait. The new Outpost issue is an almanac for the Providence arts scene — a glossy, 66-page edition exploding with essays, interviews, and luscious photos of both local landmarks (the Turks Head Building, the trismokestacked Manchester Street Power Station) and lesser-known spaces like the abandoned synagogue on Broad Street that’s flagged for revival as a museum, meeting place, and public market. So, what is Outpost? It’s a nonprofit magazine with a mission to “shed light on innovative art, design, and community action from cities that have been traditionally underexposed beyond their local contexts,” according to its mission statement. Co-founded by a Brown/Google/New Yorker/Vanity Fair alum (publisher and co-editor Manya Kay) and a RISD MFA Furniture grad currently teaching product design at Parsons The New School for Design in Manhattan (creative director and

WORTH THE WAIT A spread from Outpost Journal.

co-editor Pete Oyler), the magazine’s first three annual issues focused on Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Kansas City, respectively. This time around, Outpost’s pages are filled with profiles of Providence arts institutions like AS220 and The Steel Yard; interviews with members of the “big, bold, raucous Providence-based brass band,” the What Cheer! Brigade (“Our founding members . . . wanted to start a loud party band that didn’t have to rely on electricity”); a glossary of local food jargon, from Awful Awfuls to stuffies; and, in the magazine’s final pages, a listings-style guide to art spaces, record stores, restaurants, blogs, museums, and other local treasures, like the wholesale jewelry clearing house, Wolf E. Myrow in Olneyville, which gets its own full-page tribute. Oh, and there’s art in Outpost. Lots of it. On one page, you’ll find an excerpt from a play about an alien from the planet I’m Not Sure, written by a local fourth-grader, performed by professional grown-up actors, and produced by the Manton Avenue Project. On another page, you’ll find a mesmerizing snapshot of the local duo Dancey Town dancing to Patsy Cline in an unnamed, dust-and-rubble-filled post-industrial space somewhere in the city. Elsewhere, there are mini-profiles of Providence printmakers, sign painters, sculptors, photographers, and installation artists that, taken collectively, make our little town feel internationally significant. Art literally tumbles from the pages of Outpost: each issue comes packed with a removable, sparkly “OUTPOST JOURNAL” sticker and an original print by local artists Brian Chippendale and Jungil Hong. The print is followed by a two-page photo of the colorful chaos of Chippendale’s studio: amplifiers, action figures, and jars of screen-printing ink. The most memorable part of Outpost’s Providence issue, though, are the words of the artists themselves, as they strive to describe the place in which they live and work. Clothing designer and former Project Runway contestant Joseph Aaron Segal says, “The thing I love is that there’s less pressure to succeed, which sounds strange . . . but I like that I can keep in my own little world and work and have the privacy to make whatever I want and then sell it on the Internet.” Chippendale and Hong say, “Providence has a great weirdo music scene . . . The art scene is a bit damaged, though. Somehow it’s easier to start up music show spaces than art viewing spaces. Art can suffer here.” “I have always felt that Providence has this sort of ‘fuck it’ nature to their arts culture,” What Cheer! Brigade’s Will Samsa adds. “‘Fuck it’ in the sense that we are not New York, we are not LA or Boston, so no one really expects to be ‘discovered.’ As a result, people don’t seem too worried about doing what we should do. We just do what we love. A lot of very poor quality art comes out of it, but there is this cream that does float to the top and it is a beautiful cream.”

_Philip Eil

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See America First (1968), by h.c. Westermann

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monsters “What nerve!”: risd’s stimulating revisionist history of underground american art _By GreG COO k

“There used to be an underground and only the right people would find it,” punk cartoonist Gary Panter, who is perhaps best known for designing sets for the 1980s Pee-wee’s Playhouse television show, said in a 2006 talk at RISD. “But now there’s the Internet and everybody finds it. My dad reads it. He’s part of the underground now.” One of the striking things about the RISD Museum’s new exhibition, “What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present” (224 Benefit St, Providence, through January 4), is how even now so much of this astonishing art still remains invisible. It’s not in the history books nor in the museums. Curators Dan Nadel and Judith Tannenbaum place Panter at the crossroads

of their electrifying alternative history of American art over the past half-century, the dude connecting the dots between often overlooked scenes in San Francisco, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Providence. These artists, Tannenbaum notes, painted people when abstraction reigned supreme, were “counter modern,” and developed regional aesthetics in communities outside the American art market capitals of New York and, later, Los Angeles. “Definitely the fact they were not in New York is part of whey they weren’t in the narrative,” Nadel says. “But part of it was they were making work that didn’t fit . . . It’s painting, it’s cartooning, it’s surreal, it’s ‘not serious.’ ” All art school-trained, they rebelled against the fine art world’s notion of a lin-

ear progress of apolitical abstraction from Picasso’s Cubism to Pollock’s drip paintings to Donald Judd’s minimalist “primary structures” that mimicked the Western theory of the progress of modern society. Instead the artists here keep mucking around the real world and making ecstatic escapes into fantasy. It’s hot, sweaty, satirical, messy, manic, Technicolor, cartoony, psychedelic stuff that makes the usual museum suspects look horribly square and stiff, pretentious and gray, cold, and boring.

inventing a new language

On May 14, 1945, H.C. Westermann was an anti-aircraft machine gunner on the USS Enterprise in the Pacific. “We didn’t know it then, but we were shooting the first of the suicide planes,” he later recalled. “It came

out of the sun and bore down on us, and we stood there sweating it out until finally our shells tore a wing off. Then the plane swerved at the last minute and went down.” It struck the stern of the aircraft carrier, killing 14 and bloodying 34 others. Westermann would go on to fight as a Marine in the Korean War, but his experiences of naval battles would inspire a series of uncanny wooden sculptures of ghost ships. He also built miniature houses (1958’s Mysteriously Abandoned New Home) and robot-like faces (1958’s The Evil New War God [S.O.B.]) that feel like magic idols or shrines to an uncanny America. “He really was a guiding light,” Nadel says, “a model of the independent artist working from the interior, inventing his own language.” Westermann was part of a lineage of “abject expressionist” art (California curator Michael Duncan’s term) about the horrors of war and the underbelly of society that can be traced back to scathing German Expressionist art created there after the defeat of World War I; to the dark visions of Boston Expressionist painters inspired by those Germans; to Ivan Albright, who returned to Chicago after making medical drawings during the war and began painting hyper-real scenes of people so world-weary that their flesh seems to rot before our eyes. Westermann was affiliated with a Chicago group called the Monster Roster that included Leon Golub (another veteran) and Nancy Spero. “While Abstract Expressionism rules the cash register in Manhattan’s prospering art galleries, young artists across the land are turning back to images — but with a difference,” Time magazine reported in 1959. “Their figures are human, but horrible. The horror school has its center in Chicago.” At RISD, we see Westermann’s 1968 series of cartoony lithographs See America First, an acid poke at the old tourism slogan. Inspired by a 1964 road trip to San Francisco that he took three years after moving from Chicago to Connecticut, he scrawls America in flames, Michelin men wandering the desert, a bruised Native American, a cowboy making a pistol with his hand in the bright sunset, ships listing at sea or trapped in ice, zombies having sex. It’s America littered with the wreckage of our self-inflating myths.

Bring in the funk

One of the first curators to begin to connect the similarities between these artists spread across the country was Peter Selz. He fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, wrote his dissertation on German Expressionism while in Chicago, and linked the abject expressionist paintings of Westermann and Golub with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Jean Dubuffet in the 1959 exhibition, “New Images of Man” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Then in 1967, as curator of University of California at Berkeley’s Art Museum, he organized a survey exhibition of a new style he dubbed “Funk.” The show marked a turning point in Bay Area art — as well as for Chicago’s Monster Roster gang, the Boston Expressionists, and all the rest — from grim, rusty brown, cobwebbed, nuclear winter assemblages of the 1950s to the shiny, candy-colored, pop surrealism of the 1960s. The change was in part a reflection that the younger artists came of age amidst post-World War II abundance — the first generation to grow up immersed in television. RISD’s “What Nerve!” rounds up a number of sculptures from that 1967 exhibition. Joan Brown’s 1962 Fur Rat represented the older style with a rodent of unusual size Frankensteined together from a raccoon

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fur over a wood skeleton. The new style was represented by Robert Arneson’s 1965 lumpy ceramic Typewriter, in which all the keys have surreally transformed into ladies’ fingers and Jeremy Anderson’s 1965 River Run, a gaily painted, coffin-like wood box holding a chain of lumpy shapes that resemble a human digestive system and a car’s exhaust pipes. Roy De Forest, whose bright, goofy wood assemblages are in the show, could have been speaking for a lot of the artists here when he said in 1985, “I am an eccentric individual creating fantasy art with the amazing intention of totally building a miniature cosmos into which the artful alchemist could retire with all his friends, animals, and paraphernalia.” Funk came to be identified with the later candy-colored, psychedelic weirdness which also ran through the contemporaneous Bay Area underground Zap Comix of Robert Crumb and Victor Moscoso, the creator of some of the most iconic rock concert posters of the psychedelic ’60s. That neon cartoony style appears here in a painted Styrofoam sculpture of a man on an electric chair and Vietnam, a 1966 fever dream painting by Peter Saul. “One of the rules of modern art is you’re not supposed to have any political content (for no good reason; some nonsense about a lot of artists doing it in the ’30s, therefore no one is supposed to do it again),” Saul said in 1980. “How could I resist breaking such a stupid rule . . . I didn’t care whether or not the American government was right or wrong, or about anyone getting killed. That only occurred to me after months of work when I suddenly thought about it. The more I thought about it, the more I protested the war.” Saul stoked offensive, tabloid visions, but even quieter artworks in “What Nerve!” share a feeling of unease. Many of the artists from World War I into the ’50s had

Vietnam (1966), by Peter saul first-hand experience with war or fearing for their lives. The show only looks at white artists (unfortunately), but a larger context makes clear that African American artists like Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, and Kara Walker, who can seem like outliers among the New York abstract canon, stuck with an expressionist realism to express the deadly reality of race in America. By the late 1960s, the art in the RISD show begins to channel America after the peak of postwar abundance, beginning to slide down with Vietnam, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., police assaults on protestors at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Nixon’s Watergate, the oil crisis, and the collapse of big manufacturing. In Chicago, a gang of cartoony, sordid,

surreal painters who had studied at the Art Institute there began exhibiting together in 1966 under the name Hairy Who. In contrast to the New York Pop of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, who basically just enlarged images they swiped from the media, Chicagoans James Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum were pop artists like Saul, who invented their own languages from cartoons, B-movies, cheap advertising, folk art, and the ethnographic collections at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History (“the Louvre of Chicago art,” Wirsum said). Nutt worked for a time at Chicago’s Allan Frumkin Gallery, which exhibited art by Westermann and Saul. His 1968 painting Officer E. Doodit depicts the head of a cartoon policeman in front of stripes, which might be the ruler lines on the wall behind people posing for a mugshot. He seems to have been in a fight. He has stitches above his eye, snot oozes from his nose, wax drips from his ear, he foams at the mouth. Nutt painted on the backside of Plexiglas, so his pictures seem like they’re printed on plastic, the apotheosis of slick and commercial, while at the same time the imagery is so deliciously sweaty and gross. Rocca had a looser, sketchier style for her paintings of dancing couples and lots of little graphics of heads, legs, diamond rings, and wiggly body organs — like items copied from old Sears catalogs. Wirsum designed flat, graphic, cartoon show girls and bluesmen composed of manic, dazzling patterns, like rippling psychedelic tattoos or Mexican wrestling masks sparkling (literally) with glitter. The Hairy Who printed comic books, posters, and buttons — as advertising and souvenirs — but also as part of an extended project of inventing their own worlds that continued into their exhibitions, where they hung their paintings on walls pasted with lurid flowery wallpapers. The Hairy Who were part of a larger Chicago Imagist scene that included Christina Ramberg, who made streamlined, fetish finish paintings of women in lingerie, dark satin, and flowery lace. She peers closely at the small of women’s backs as, say, a finger probes the top of a girdle. Everything’s charged with midnight desire while simultaneously questioning the confining, stereotypical sexual packaging of women.

Channeling the demons

At a New Year’s Eve party at a comic book distribution warehouse in 1974, the story goes, Destroy All Monsters — Mike Kelley,

Typewriter (1965), by robert arneson

Wow (1968), by Jim nutt

Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw — made their public debut as an experimental noise band by performing Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” at a party “for about 10 minutes and then were unceremoniously unplugged and thrown out,” Loren recalls. They were based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, an hour’s drive west of Detroit — and their creature-double-feature endeavors seemed to channel the demons unleashed by the collapsing auto industry. “In this cultural suburban wasteland, there was only isolation and a sense of being betrayed,” Kelley later said. “The strange brew of avant-garde experimentation and populism of late ’60s acid rock had failed in its social promises. To someone of my age (too young to be a hippie, too old to be a punk), there was definitely a feeling of resentment at having missed the short, hedonistic flowering of this dream.” Inspired by antagonistic European modernist shenanigans, sleaze pop culture, and gangs like the Hairy Who, the quartet made gritty goth music and zines, though “they never exhibited as a group,” the curators report. Kelley sketched cartoon geeks, monsters, and dogs with contorted, naked bodies. Niagara drew sad-eyed fantasy maidens. Loren photographed Shaw with a bubble over his head like a B-movie zombie astronaut and Niagara as a glam femme fatale. Shaw made photocopied collages of skulls, cars, swastikas, and Mickey Mouse. Together the group filmed experimental slasher flicks in which Niagara got cut up and a guy with his face painted like a skull was murdered and cannibalized by Niagara and the rest. Kelley and Shaw left for Los Angeles in 1976. One branch of Destroy All Monsters, fronted by Niagara, remained behind and obscure, becoming more of a straight-up rock band with the addition of guys from the Stooges and the MC5. In LA, Kelley presented psychologically charged performances and installations that wallowed in adolescent anxiety and anger. He occasionally performed his own version of Destroy All Monsters as a punk-inflected experimental noise outfit. He became one of the premiere fine artists of his generation, showcased in retrospectives at New York’s Whitney Museum in 1993 and at the Museum of Modern Art’s PS1 in 2013, the year after he committed suicide. And one of his projects involving collections of forlorn, scavenged, hand-knit dolls appeared on the cover of Sonic Youth’s 1992 album Dirty. Gary Panter, a contemporary of Kelley’s in LA, made punk paintings and apocalyptic goofball comics as he hung Continued on p 10

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Not According to Plan (1974), by niagara

Samuel Walking Coyote, from The Near Extinction and Salvation of the American Buffalo series (1981), by gary Panter

out with Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons). “I thought the next generation of pop artists would put things into the media and then pull them back out of the media,” Panter told me when I visited his Brooklyn home in 2008. “And then it would be a warmer kind of pop art.” He’s represented here by a 1981 series of cartoony paintings using a decapitated head hung from a branch and silhouettes of a George Jetson-type character to tell of The Near Extinction and Salvation of the American Buffalo. “What Nerve!” places Panter at the nexus of everything here — saying he drew inspiration from Westermann, the Hairy Who, Saul, Funk, and Jack Kirby, the co-creator of superheroes including Captain America, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four. (The show includes Kirby drawings from 1969 to ’76, when he was working on his crazy Fourth World comics about gods living is a parallel dimension.) Then Panter and Kelley were among the inspirations for the Providence collective Forcefield.

Bring in the thunder

an array of forcefield “shrouds” CREDITS | all works © the artists (except where noted). See America First © lester Beall, Jr. trust/licensed by vaga, new york, ny, from the collection of Beth rudin deWoody. image courtesy lennon, Weinberg, inc., new york. Vietnam courtesy collection of sally and Peter saul. Wow from the collection of Karl Wirsum and lorri gunn. Typewriter from the collection of the university of california, Berkeley art museum and Pacific film archive. Samuel Walking Coyote from the collection of the artist. Niagara from the collection of dan nadel.

Where are the Providence women? in any big survey like “What nerve!,” some vital folks are going to end up left out. curators need to give order to history — and there are never enough walls or money. But it’s terribly disappointing — not to mention factually wrong — that the exhibition doesn’t include any Providence women. and it misses an overall point of a show like this: to include people in the history who historically have been shut out. When i noted the women from other art communities represented in the show but the lack of Providence women, cocurator dan nadel wrote back, “it is not about ‘regions.’ it’s about four collectives or groups, and six interconnected artists. there is not a ‘Providence’ part of

the show, nor is there a chicago part, etc. there was not an ‘effort’ made to include female artists in the hairy Who, dam or funk sections: they are in the show because they were a part of those groups, just as the male members were. the question implies that these artists need special effort, which is offensive. they are equals. the reason there are not women in the forcefield section of the show is that there were not any female members of forcefield. forcefield was precisely four members, all of whom happen to be male.” a flaw in nadel’s argument is that he made up these rules, so he could make exceptions. and he has made exceptions. “funk” was never a collective, it was a

group put together for an art show, and a number of the artists rolled into it at the time disputed the idea. the “six interconnected artists” part is a built-in exception allowing him to add in whomever. it’s a big, embarrassing deal that nadel and the risd museum leave out Providence women — Xander marro, Pippi Zornoza, Jungil hong, Jo derry, and many others — because their work is great. But also because the territory the show covers is rarely addressed by major museums, so this incomplete, sausage party version has a good chance of defining the history. i’d thought the organizers and risd were smarter than this. _g.c.

Forcefield was begun in 1996 by Ara Peterson, a painter of eye-popping abstract patterns, and Mat Brinkman who, with Brian Chippendale (sadly not included in this show), co-founded the creature comics and psychedelic poster factory/costumed wrestling gym/noise rock venue /home for lost boys that they dubbed Fort Thunder — because the cold, dead mill in Olneyville was a place to be loud. Later the duo added Jim Drain and Leif Goldberg. Forcefield wore wildly patterned “shrouds” stitched together from old afghans that covered much of their tall, lanky bodies and hid their faces, making them look tribal, otherworldly, ominous. They produced aggressive music that was, in Chippendale’s words, “electronic, alien, a sort of inhuman soundscape”; psychedelic animated films; and weird low-fi, apocalyptic sci-fi costume adventure videos around Providence. “Providence is full of fucked up places to go,” Goldberg says in the catalog. “America. Fucked up and grimy. It’s a great cross-section of American backdrops. There’s also this feeling that no matter what something looks like on the surface, there’s something underneath it as well.” Fort Thunder and the feminist collective Dirt Palace (still active in Olneyville, but disappointingly ignored here) were grungy utopian outposts of the Providence psychedelic scene of the 1990s and 2000s. The whole thing was the mutant offspring of the “Renaissance City,” spouting amidst the toxic brownfields of the post-industrial, post-apocalyptic “Creative Capital.” Scanning “What Nerve!” Nadel says, “These voices cut to very fundamental things about ourselves, and about America.” To live the dream, but also to opt out of business as usual, the Providence artists, like so many of the other artists here, invented their own passionate universes, twinkling, alien, subterranean and fantastic, where new wondrous possibilities lay. “What Nerve” teases with the tantalizing idea that instead of this being the hidden history of outsiders and the overlooked, almost a counterfactual history of the past half century, that this art and its deep engagement with our old weird America could be the canon. May everybody find it. ^

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SaTURdaY | dan moretti & the hammond boys @ Chan’s jewelers, textile designers, and more — in four renovated mill buildings. Both free events take place today and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival.org

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making this a success.” The sound is steeped in rich ’60s grooves, as heard on “Soul Shouting,” “Shuffle Twist,” and King Curtis’s “Low Down.” Dan and Duke, with Dave Limina on Hammond organ, bassist Jesse Williams, and drummer Lorne Entress, will head back to Woonsocket to celebrate the disc’s release. If you were there the first time around, you’ll definitely want to be there again. Showtime is 8 pm | $20 | 401.765.1900 | chanseggrollsandjazz.com

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Fruit crew), Italy (the rhythmdriven Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino), and Morocco (the funky/Afropoppy/call-and-responsing Ribab Fusion), plus some local talent (Sidy Maiga & AfriManding featuring Michelle Cruz and the Brown University African Dance Troupe, and RI-Sounding Voices, a statewide chorus). Plus: the Avenue Concept will create a temporary sculpture park; Tape Art will spawn an installation; the Providence Peace Flags Project will inspire you; and FirstWorks Rising Stars, including Napua O’ Polynesia, Jump! Dance Company, master drummer Brandon Weddel, and Voces de los Andes will dazzle you. All of this splendor will take place downtown at the Providence Rink, Kennedy Plaza, and the surrounding parks starting at 5 pm. And it’s all free! | 401.421.4278 | first-works.org

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Exchange, 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston. From jewelry to paintings to pottery, the gathering brings an array of perspectives to the table. And the sidecar stunts are wonderfully attractive. There’s a street art contest (bring your chalk and use the sidewalk as your canvas), a scavenger hint, a new! beer and wine garden, and music by Steve Allain, Red Ed & the Undead, Peacewise, Sheez Late, and Antonio Forte. Plus plenty of family fun and food trucks. The fest runs from 11 am to 5 pm (the rain date is the 28th) | $1 (to benefit Artists’ Exchange’s programs), free under 13 | 401.490.9475 | artists-exchange.org

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BrothErs with dyLaN sEvEy & thE GENtLEMEN and f hoLy roLLEr hIGh (all ages, $10, 401.729.1005). on fRidaY (the

19th), thE Low aNthEM, ravI shavI, and what chEEr? BrIGadE take over the skating rink downtown for a free show starting around 6 pm; the Trinity beer garden and food trucks will be on site, too. also on fRidaY (the 19th), thrEE Bad Jacks heat up firehouse 13 with thE radIator rattLErs, coNsuELo’s rEvENGE, and thE EvIL strEaks (all ages,$10, 401.270.1801). The fête Lounge is the place to be come SaTURdaY (the 20th) when MIdday rEcords delivers a massive album release party with new material from sExcoFFEE, Bros., thE QuINs, thE swEEt rELEasE, and BrothEr Ghost, plus thE caN’t Nots and the JEssIca Prouty BaNd bookending the event (all ages, doors at 5 pm, 401.383.1112).

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gender benders epic’S compleat female stage beauty Gender confusion has probably been around for as long as gender conflicts. When Ugg was hopping around the cave fire showing how he brought down that mammoth, he was likely concerned that his voice not get too high-pitched. What it means to be a man and be a woman is examined in many more themes and variations than biology would recognize in Jeffrey Hatcher’s Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which is getting a megawatt production by Epic Theatre Company (at Theatre 82 through September 20). Not only are there men dressed as women and women dressed as men, but at one point a man is dressed as a woman dressed as a man. It’s attentively directed by Jill D. Jones, who co-directed Angels in America at Epic last season. As the title suggests, we get some historical perspective. The time is 1661 and the place is Merrie Olde England of the Restoration — under the reign of Charles II (Kyle DeMartino) — recently out from under the thumb of the merriment-quashing Puritans. Until the king changes the rules midway through the play, actresses are still banned from the stage, so female roles have to be performed by men. That’s why we’re following the career of Edward “Ned” Kynaston (Jonathan Fisher), an historical figure whom Samuel Pepys called (in history, though not in the play) “the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life.” Fisher does a good job, especially in the second act when things get more serious, but since he’s not at all androgynous it’s a stretch for us to imagine him as the lovely Desdemona. That role is Kynaston’s specialty here, so convincing that overwhelmed audiences keep interrupting Othello after her death scene, to the annoyance of both him (“I haven’t finished the show in three fucking weeks”) and his Othello and theater

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owner, Thomas Betterton (Kevin Broccoli). Audience member King Charles, who was known as the “Merry Monarch,” is more concerned that the play be “jollier.” Kynaston isn’t just convincing on the stage. After one performance he is taken nearby to a sketchy park by two wealthy women curious to see, literally, which gender he is; Lady Meresvale (Cherylee Sousa Dumas) and Miss Frayne (Stephanie Traversa) are a recurring reminder of how important aristocratic patrons were. In the park, a drunken Sir Charles Sedley (Christine Pavao) comes by and tries to solicit Kynaston as a prostitute. Insults follow, as well as enduring anger by Sedley, which complicates the actor’s life later on. Kynaston’s professional rival at a competing theater is Margaret Hughes (Kerry Giorgi), a Desdemona who has the advantage of actually being a woman. The actor is unimpressed with the notion of a female playing the part: “A woman playing a woman. What’s the trick in that?” Later on Kynaston coaches her about relying on normal human behavior rather than exaggerated gestures in the Othello murder scene, a fascinating discussion. The exposition is so convincing that we wonder why naturalistic acting didn’t catch on earlier in stage history. Gender identity is one thing and sexual identity is another. Kynaston was rumored in his lifetime to be bisexual, and here he is having an ongoing affair with George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (Michael Shallcross). Kynaston’s identity crisis is further complicated when the king forbids male actors to play female parts, at the insistence of Nell Gwynn (Elaine Leitao), his spunky mistress. The unemployed and soon impoverished actor doesn’t know who he is without a stage role. Stripped of all dignity, Kynaston is reduced to performing in a wig, makeup, and dress before rowdy crowds who are singing the bawdy ballad “No Balls At All.” It’s not only actors like Fisher in major roles who can stand out in performances. Here Paige Barry in the minor part of Maria, Kynaston’s seamstress, is an important presence, even in the background. Letaio stays as winsome as a king’s mistress would have to be. And we wish Patrick Keeffe as occasional narrator Pepys had a bigger part. In so many ways, Compleat Female Stage Beauty reminds us that, regarding genders, the more things change, the more they stay the same. ^

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THE ALT [JOHN DOYLE, NUALA KENNEDY, AND EAMON O’LEARY] | 8 pm | Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $16 advance, $20 day of show | 401.725.9272 | rive folk.org ANTJE DUVEKOT | 8 pm | Rose Garden Coffeehouse at the Congregational Church, 17 West St, Mansfield, MA | $18 | 508.699.8122 | rosegardenfolk.com

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ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS | 7 pm | Blackstone River

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NIKKI HILL | 8 pm | Narrows Center

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THE RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA with violinist

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SUNDAY 21

THE PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS “AUREA: NOT ABOUT HEROES, a presentation of the play

by Stephen MacDonald about the World War I poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. The production by the Aurea Ensemble features actors Nigel Gore and Rudy Sanda, with period music of Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith performed live with violist Consuelo Sherba, plus World War I tunes and improvisations performed by harmonica virtuoso Chris Turner | 7:30 pm | Slater Mill, 67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket | Free | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketarts festival.org

FIRSTWORKS PRESENTS THE LEGEND OF THE FAIRY MELUSINE |

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DANCE PARTICIPATORY SATURDAY 20

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE with

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THURSDAY 18

GHOST HUNTERS LIVE! WITH JASON HAWES AND STEVE GONSALVES | 8 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28

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FRIDAY 19

9TH ANNUAL NEWPORT MANSIONS WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL |

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SATURDAY 20

FIRSTWORKS URBAN CARNEVALE, with performances by

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THE PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE ARTS MARKETPLACE, a fine art and contemporary

THE PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL THE XOS EXCHANGE STREET OPEN STUDIOS, with more than

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9TH ANNUAL NEWPORT MANSIONS WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL |

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SUNDAY 21

7TH ANNUAL FALL OUT OF SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL with music

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9TH ANNUAL NEWPORT MANSIONS WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL |

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THE PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE ARTS MARKETPLACE | See listing for Sat THE PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL THE XOS EXCHANGE STREET OPEN STUDIOS | See listing for Sat 41ST ANNUAL HARVEST FAIR | See

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THURSDAY 25

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GREG FLEMMING will discuss and sign his new book, At the Point of Cutlass, which pieces together the story of a man thrust into the violent world of a pirate ship and his daring survival and escape | 6:30 pm | Providence Public Library | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

FRIDAY 19

JOSEPH LUZZI will read from,

discuss, and sign his new memoir, My Two Italies | 5:30 pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence | 401.863.3168 | brown.edu/campuslife/support/bookstore/events

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TUESDAY 23

BRADFORD MORROW AND FANNY HOWE will read from their fiction

WEDNESDAY 24

PAUL A. RUGGIERI, M.D. will read

talk by Charles Waldheim, the John E. Irving professor of landscape architecture and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University | Part of the Landscape Architecture Lecture Series | 7 pm | Weaver Auditorium in the Coastal Institute Building at the University of Rhode Island, Greenhouse Rd, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2983

FRIDAY 19

“THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: INDIA AND CHINA 1949-1962” | A talk

by Nirupama Rao, former Indian Ambassador to the US | 2 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | 401.863.2809 | brown.edu/initiatives/india

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commemorated with a talk by John Dineen, an ACLU volunteer; Living Literature will present “Authors On Censorship,” a 25-minute dramatic presentation using selections from works by Harper Lee, Lemony Snicket, Judy Blume, and J.K. Rowling; and a discussion of why books have been banned or restricted over the years | 6:30 pm | Weaver Library, 41 Grove St, East Providence | Free | 401.434.2453 | eastprovidencelibrary.org/epl JOURNALIST KIM ZETTER will discuss her investigative work on the computer worm that compromised Iran’s nuclear program | Part of the 2014 Honors Colloquium, “Cybersecurity & Privacy” | 7:30 pm | Edwards Hall at the University of Rhode Island, 64 Upper College Rd, Kingston | Free | uri.edu/hc

“A ROUNDTABLE ON THE 2014 BRAZILIAN ELECTIONS,” a panel

discussion with James N. Green, professor of history; Anani Dzidzienyo, professor of Africana studies; Luiz Valente, professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies; and Gabriel Cepaluni, professor of political science | 6 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | watson.brown.edu/brazil/events/2014/ roundtable-2014-brazilian-elections

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“THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF HIGH RATES OF INCARCERATION IN THE UNITED STATES,” a panel discussion with

Josiah Rich, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Warren Alpert Medical School; Jeremy Travis, president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Bruce Western, professor of sociology and criminal justice policy at Harvard University; Richard M. Locke, director of the Watson Institute; and Glenn Loury, professor of economics and social sciences | 4 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | watson.brown.edu/events/2014/ causes-and-consequences-highrates-incarceration-united-states

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from, discuss, and sign his new book, The Cost of Cutting: A Surgeon Reveals the Truth Behind a MultibillionDollar Industry | 5:30 pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence | 401.863.3168 | brown.edu/campuslife/support/bookstore/events

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BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm

| 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” 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 BERT GALLERY | 401.751.2628 | 24 Bridge St, Providence | bertgallery.com | Mon-Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat 12-4 pm | Through Sept 26: “Summer Tides,” paintings celebrating the end of the summer season

BROWN UNIVERSITY’S WATSON INSTITUTE | 111 Thayer St, Providence

| Through Oct 31: photographs of Rio de Janeiro by Cesar Barreto

CHAZAN GALLERY AT WHEELER

| 401.421.9230 | 228 Angell St, Providence | chazangallery.org | Tues-Sat

COURTHOUSE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | 401.782.1018 | 3481 Kingstown

Rd, West Kingston | courthousearts. org | Now showing: “The 2014 Fall Art Exhibit,” with new work by Eileen Lee Singer, Donna Caster, and A.J. Greenwood

DAVID WINTON BELL GALLERY |

401 863.2932 | List Art Center, 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 | Through Sept 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 28: paintings by Richard Whitten and painted wood works by Emi Ozawa GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE | 401.490.2042 | 1 Regency Plaza, Providence | gallerynight.info | Sept 18 5-9 pm: Gallery Night Providence | Tours of 21 galleries, museums, and historic sites | This month’s celebrity guides are collector Linda

Kushner; artist and art educator Kerry Murphy; and Jason Tranchida, graphic design and publisher of Headmaster magazine GRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | grinprovidence.com | Sat 12-5 pm | Through Oct 11: “Making/Unmaking,” new work by Charlie Smith HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery. org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through Oct 11: “New Visions,” works by Iris Donnelly, Connie Greene, Elizabeth Lind, Jill McLaughlin, Mara Trachtenberg, and M.J. Yeager

HOXIE GALLERY AT THE WESTERLY LIBRARY | 401.596.2877 | 44

Broad St, Westerly | westerlylibrary. org | Through Sept 26: “Recent and

Retro Works,” by Suzanne Dickson Albert and Susanne Riette

IMAGO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St,

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 JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestown artcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Oct 17: “Second Home,” works by Alice O’Neill, Colgate Searle, and Dan O’Neill 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

| Through Oct 25: “Third Annual Poster Exhibition,” with works by Ghost-Town, Doe Eyed, Land Land, LeDouxville, and Little Friends of Printmaking

PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE AT THE MILL GALLERY

| 560 Mineral Spring Ave | pawtucketartscollaborative.org | Sept 20: Pop Up in Pawtucket featuring works by Daniel Koterbay, Beck Lane, Carl Dimitri, Christopher DeRosa, Julie McHoul DeRosa, Rafael Cuello, and Christopher Priority PROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providence artclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Sept 26: “New Work: Memories In Glass,” by Alice Benvie Gebhart | “Still Lifes and Panoramas: 2 Realists,” works by Michaell Manni and Peter Michael Miller 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 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 | Through Oct 11: “The Great Art Heist,” a member-donated artwork fundraiser

STUDIO Z/GALLERY Z BUTCHER BLOCK MILL | 401.454.8844 | 25

Eagle St, Providence | galleryzprov. com | Through Oct 11: “Photographic

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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

pm | Through Sept 30: “Fundraising Event” WOODS-GERRY HOUSE | 401.454.6141 | 62 Prospect St, Providence | risd.edu/About/Galleries_ Exhibitions/Woods_Gerry | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Through Sept 21: “Art.Write.Now.Tour,” a selection of works from the 2014 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 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 BRISTOL ART MUSEUM |

401.253.4400 | 10 Wardwell St | bristol artmuseum.org | Wed-Sun 1-4 pm |

Through Oct 19: “Objects For Work, Objects For Play, and Objects To Cherish,” with fine art jewelry by Kelly Jean Conroy, interdisciplinary works by Candis Dixon, pencils by Dalton Ghetti, paintings by Dan Golden, miniature sugar carvings by Judith G. Klausner, photography by Dan McManus, and drawings by David Shapleigh

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION | 401.851.8949 |

492 Bellevue Ave, Newport | american illustration.org | Sat + Sun 11 am-5 pm

[guided tours Fri 3 pm] | Through Oct 30: “Paul Szep: Famous Fames” an exhibit of caricatures 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 Jan 4: “Palate to Plate: Prints & Recipes From Members of the Boston Printmakers” | Through Jan 11: “Solemnities,” works by Claudia Flynn 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 am-1 pm | Sept 19-Jan 4: “What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present,” which “proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image-making from 1960 to the present that has been largely overlooked and undervalued. At the heart of ‘What Nerve!’ are four mini-exhibitions based on crucial shows, spaces, and groups in Chicago (the Hairy Who), San Francisco (Funk), Ann Arbor (Destroy All Monsters), and Providence (Forcefield) — places outside the artistic focal point of New York. These moments are linked together by six influential or intersecting artists: H. C. Westermann, Jack Kirby, William Copley, Christina Ramberg, Gary Panter, and Elizabeth Murray” | | 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 WARWICK MUSEUM OF ART | 401.737.0010 | 3259 Post Rd | warwick museum.org | Tues + Wed + Fri 12-4 pm, Thurs 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Oct 25: “28th Annual RI Open,” a juried exhibit

Sept 20 7:30 pm: “Wild and Precious: A One-Man Multimedia Performance” by Steve Cadwell | The two-act play includes original songs, photographs, stories, poems, and dance, and focuses on the story of a man who was involved in the gay movement during the 1970s and was an AIDS activist in the 1980s | Free BROWN UNIVERSITY THEATRE |

401.863.3283 | brown.edu/academics/ theatre-arts-performance-studies | Leeds Theatre, Lyman Hall, 83 Waterman St, Providence | Sept 25-Oct 5:

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, directed by Curt Columbus, artistic director of Trinity Rep | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 3 pm | $15, $12 seniors, $7 students EPIC THEATRE COMPANY | Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe St, Cranston | Through Sept 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” | Fri + Sat 8 pm | $15, $12 students + seniors 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 18 + 23-25 7 pm + Sept 19 + 20 8 pm + Sept 21 2 + 7 pm | $41 + $49 GRANITE THEATRE | 401.596.2341 | granitetheatre.com | 1 Granite St, Westerly | Through Sept 28: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 2 pm | $20, $17 seniors, $12 under 13 MIXED MAGIC THEATRE | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival.org | At Slater Mill, 67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket | Sept 24-25 7 pm: The Pawtucket Arts Festival presents Mixed Magic Theater performing The Blackstone River Song, the first installment of a four-part series that will use music, poetry, storytelling, and dance to chronicle the lives of the people and the events of the Blackstone River and Blackstone Valley | Free OCEAN STATE THEATRE | 401.921.6800 | oceanstatetheatre.org | 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | Sept 24-Oct 19: My Fair Lady by Lerner & Loewe, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion | This week: Sept 24 7:30 pm + Sept 25 2 + 7:30 pm | $39-$54

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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 working-class 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 | XXX the DroP | 2014 | James Gandolfini, in his last movie role, plays the mobbed-up owner of a Brooklyn workingman’s bar, but the more impressive performance here comes from Tom Hardy as his younger cousin, a guileless soul who tends bar and worries that they’ve gotten themselves in too deep. Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam, making his US debut after the Oscar-nominated Bullhead (2011), reprises the earlier film’s seedy look and murky morality, though this time around he has a much better screenplay, the first by novelist Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island). Lehane’s climactic plot twist is all the more

laudable because it springs directly from complexity of character; you realize the truth has been obscured not through a writer’s trickery but through your own simple reading of the action. With Noomi Rapace, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Ann Dowd. | 106m |

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| 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 |

XXX the noveMBer Man | 2014 | Putin haters will get a bang out of this hard-charging spy thriller, adapted from a novel by Bill Granger. An embittered former CIA agent (Pierce Brosnan) goes rogue to protect a Chechen woman (Olga

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XX the triP to italy | 2014 |

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 restaurant-reviewing 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. | 106m |

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“ Moon’s’ just a word to swear by. “Mutton!”—Now there’s a thing you can lay the hands on, And set the tooth in! Listen, Columbine: I always lied about the moon and you. Food is my only lust.” — Pierrot, “Aria Da Capo” – Edna St. Vincent Millay. 3

A lovely thought for harvest time, and this week’s waning moon brings activities or episodes to a close, including Summer (sob, sniff, sigh). This is the most difficult seasonal transition for many, although workaholics embrace it (so much easier to put nose to grindstone in the fall). More at “Sally Cragin Astrology” on Facebook and I’m reachable at sally@moonsigns.net. 6

thursday september 18 10

Waning moon in cancer, moon void-ofcourse 2:38 pm until 11:10 pm when it moves into Leo. Look beneath the surface or focus on “process”—for example, we know the ingredients, but in what order should they be put into the bowl? Love and affection are hugely important for cancer, Scorpio, pisces, Leo, taurus, Libra, virgo, Gemini, and capricorn. however, aries, Sagittarius, and aquarius could have no energy for emotional complexities. 26

Friday september 19 11

Waning moon in Leo. a super time for socializing, particularly for Gemini, cancer, Leo, virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, and aries who are eager for new companions 27

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with fresh perspectives. taurus, Scorpio, and aquarius—are you bumping heads with others? time to back off. this is a passionate time for all, and excellent for working with kids or enjoying entertainment (comedy vs. melodrama). 9

saturday september 20 12

Waning moon in Leo. from now through Wednesday, the theme is endings. if you think you’re hearing enthusiasm for a project or relationship, listen for wholeheartedness—it may not be there. Scorpio, aquarius, and taurus may force an issue to closure—they’re touchy, so give them space. Gemini, cancer, Leo, virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, aries, and capricorn can get to the heart of a matter quickly. 28

sunday september 21 13

Waning moon in Leo, moon void-ofcourse 12:33 am until 11:54 am when it moves into virgo. toot your own horn, particularly if others wouldn’t. the afternoon is best for tasks requiring meticulousness and precision (which pleases the analretentive folks). Some of you with “hooves” may find you’re a touch clumsy today (Sagittarius, capricorn, aries, and taurus), but it’s a day of truth-telling for cancer, Leo, virgo, Gemini, Libra, aquarius, pisces, and Scorpio. . 29

monday september 22 14

Waning moon in virgo. beware of pissiness versus pithiness. people may think they’re being helpful, but getting the “wrong end of the stick” in a verbal interaction is likely, particularly for Gemini, aquarius, aries, Sagittarius, and pisces who may over-share, or show their hand too soon. cancer, Leo, virgo, Libra, Scorpio, taurus, and capricorn can bow out gracefully today—or have a very frank talk with a loved one. 30

tuesday september 23 16

dark of the moon in virgo (moon voidof-course 8:15 am until 11:59 pm). the moon in virgo heightens everyone’s ability to pick at trifles or get overly involved in minutia. for some, this is a useful time for seeing the fine print, or the details that would otherwise be invisible. at their best: virgo, capricorn, taurus, Libra, Scorpio, Leo, cancer. at their beastliest: pisces, Sagittarius, aquarius, aries, and Gemini.. 32

Wednesday september 24

new moon in Libra, sun in Libra. here’s a fun astrological aside: Uranus (the planet of surprises, electricity, and mass movements) opposes sun, moon and mercury, so i’m suspecting that Libra, cancer, aries, and capricorn will be in a rebellious mood today and tomorrow. enjoy, folks! as for taurus, Gemini, virgo, Leo, Sagittarius, aquarius, and Scorpio: don’t fight the zeitgeist if you don’t have to. 1

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

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