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6 student survival guide _ By victor paul alvarez , ph il ip e il , a n d c hr is co n ti

What you need to get through the second semester, including cheap thrills, vital links to digital Rhode Island, and a list of where the fun is.

18 homegrown product _ By chris con ti

Party starter: ravi shavi kick out the jams.

19 Books _By johne t t e rodrig uez

Local color: hester kaplan’s The Tell is captivating.

20 theater _By Bi ll rodrig uez

The Gamm’s majestic anne Boleyn; and crime and punishment at Trinity Rep

28 film

“Short Takes” on cape spin: an american power struggle, quartet, the last stand, Broken city, and mama.

in every iSSue 6 phillipe & jorge’s 4 cool, cool world

Misfirings | Not-so-jockular | Sound familiar? A visit with Bill | Welcome to the Hall

6 4 the city _By der f 7 5 this just in 10

Paul Geremia joins the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame | Talking zombies with Jonathan Levine

16 dining Uncle Jo Jo’s Pizza & Pasta offers 11 bountiful simplicity.

online exclusives!

F froM creem to pitchfork!

You say you want to start a band?

Take our advice: don’t. If you want to be a rock critic, though, the late Lester Bangs shows you how! Read his timeless advice at thePhoenix. com.

17 8 days a week Swinging Balls (with John Medeski), 12 Wynton Marsalis, Sound City, Derf Backderf, and more.

30 moon signs 30 _ By symB o l in e da i 30 jonesin’ _puzzle By matt jones 30 providence

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phillipe + Jorge’s cool, cool World

Misfirings goofs with guns; the sporting life; catching up with Mr. flanagan Does it get any more ironic than accidental shootings at gun shows in North Carolina, Indiana, and Ohio on national Gun Appreciation Day? Backed by the frothers at the NRA, who engage in the sort of head-scratching counter-logic that even a first-grader could see through, gun advocates are making all the wrong arguments for all the wrong reasons.

No, people asking for stricter gun laws are not coming to pry your weapons from your cold, dead hands. They are making sure the psycho next door who lives in his parents’ basement and dresses up in camouflage outfits to play violent video games all day long can’t get his hands on an assault rifle.

While P&J wouldn’t let even a derringer in Casa Diablo, because we know we’d find a way to blow our noses off, we are friendly with many gun owners. And those we know are more sane and cautious than your average bear.

They respect what a handgun or hunting rifle can do. They are almost all ex-military or ex-law enforcement, after all. Many have been on the wrong end of a gun barrel at some point, so they take the subject very seriously.

Oh, and as far as we know, they take handguns, not Uzis, to target practice.

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Not-so-jockular

And now we go to the toy department . . . sports.

HOW ’BOUT THeM PATs?!? | At Phillipe and Jorge’s health club

the citY _By D er f

Monday morning, all the talk in the locker room was about the Patriots depressing performance in the AFC Championship game the day before. Reaction ranged from disbelief to an acknowledgement that perhaps Tom Brady and the boys weren’t all they were cracked up to be.

If there was an organ by the showers playing funeral music, it would have fit right in.

P&J don’t believe in that kind of overreaction. Our solution is simply to fire that fraud Bill Belichick and trade Brady and his favorite wide receiver, Wes Welker. We have e-mailed this astute advice to Patriots owner Bob Kraft, and are expecting a response any minute now. sTAN THe MAN | If you are of a certain age, and P&J passed it awhile ago, every kid on the block knew who you were talking about when you said “stan the Man.” That would be Mr. Musial, the st.

Louis Cardinals three-time MVP and seven-time National League batting champ who passed away last week. stan the Man had some advantages. For the bulk of his career, the Cardinals were the westernmost team in baseball, and their games were broadcast widely across that section of the country beyond the Mississippi and in the south. That had something to do with his popularity. But it was more than that. Unlike most of today’s athletes (and P&J would love to see how many current major leaguers know who Musial was

— take the under at about five percent) he was about as soft-spoken, dignified, and revered as a smalltown pastor.

Despite his destruction of Phillipe’s beloved Philadelphia Phillies, P. had a Musial figurine in his bedroom. He hoped to be the next incarnation of “The Man.” As you may have guessed, that idea didn’t work out too well. Nor did becoming the new elvis. RIP, stan the Man, there won’t be another.

LANCe THe BOIL | While the media is piling on disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, disgruntled reader D.B. tells P&J that he sees things quite differently. A Tour de France fan who is no great fan of France, our friend believes Armstrong simply thrashed the eurotrash at their own game — doping and getting away with it, at least until now. employing Crocodile Dundee reasoning (“You think that’s a knife? This is a knife!”), he says Armstrong should be considered a hero — the embodiment of cheating at its All-American best.

agement (unlike the lecturers) hadn’t counted on the students at the Phoenix actually acting like journalists and covering stories.

The inaugural edition published a bread and butter piece about the university missing out on millions of pounds of fees after it failed to attract as many new students as it had expected. The young hacks also threw a couple of awkward questions in the direction of the PR department.

“Furious bosses told the students they could face ‘disciplinary action’ if they printed stories that ‘damage (or potentially damage) the university’s reputation.’

“Phoenix editor ellen Coyne said she felt the stories were being regarded as ‘some kind of bizarre treason.’ so much for the claim in the university prospectus that ‘the journalist’s job is to act as the eyes and ears of the public.’ evidently they can watch or listen, so long as they don’t see or hear anything important.”

souNd familiar?

On Monday, Jorge went to Connecticut to see old friend Bill Flanagan. If you’re an old Vo Dilunduh, you’ll remember Bill as one of the music writers at the forerunner of the Providence Phoenix, the NewPaper. If you really know your stuff, you know that his father was the founder of CCRI, for whom the Lincoln campus is named.

If you don’t have deep Rhody roots, perhaps you know Bill’s music essays on CBs’ Sunday Morning. Or maybe you know his work

From the January 13 edition of the British magazine Private Eye, comes word of another “Phoenix” rising at the University of Glamorgan in Wales: “When students at the University of Glamorgan launched an independent newspaper, the Phoenix, the university was happy to champion it on its website, no doubt in the hope of enticing new students to several journalism courses.

“However, the university man-

a Visit with Bill

as editorial director for MTV Networks, where he has created some of the best programming on those channels (read: not Jersey Shore).

In his “spare time,” Bill has worked with his pal elvis Costello on the musician’s sundance Channel show, Spectacle, produced or co-produced a wide range of music specials (i.e., the Concert for New York City after the 9/11 attacks), and written a bunch of books, including three novels. P&J would recommend all of Bill’s books, but we are particularly fond of Written In My Soul (1986), featuring in-depth interviews with some of the world’s best songwriters, and his most recent novel, Evening’s Empire (2010), which was excerpted here in the Phoenix.

All of this, and much more, explains why last Friday Bill was announced as one of the new inductees into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame at a press conference at Hope Artiste Village.

But more on that later.

The visit with Bill had nothing to do with the RIMHOF honors.

Jorge has been working on a series of music shows to be taped at the Met and broadcast on our local PBs station, Channel 36. Bill agreed to appear in a videotaped pitch Jorge and his co-producer, Jonathan Flynn, are preparing to show potential underwriters. And he suggested that the pair film it at his comfortable home.

His many local friends will be happy to hear that Bill is fine and plenty busy. He asked many questions about what his Rhode Island buddies are up to and what is happening in local music circles. It was great to see a Rhode Islander who has made such a huge contribution to American culture, hale and hearty and ready to create more quality work. Jorge and Flynn drove out as the sun was fading, the snow was coming down, and Bill was loading them down with too many donuts and croissants.

welcome to the hall

Now, back to the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame. Last Friday, the Hall announced the new class of inductees: the Cowsills, steve smith and the Nakeds, Paul Geremia (see “This Just In,” page 5), eddie Zack and the Hayloft Jamboree, Bobby Hackett, sissiereta Jones, Jimmie Crane, and George M. Cohan. The Phoenix will have profiles of the honorees the week before the induction ceremony on April 28. Tickets will be available at rhodeislandmusichalloffame. com starting January 26. ^

Send toques and Pulitzer-grade tips to p&j@phx.com.

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“I’ll retire if I’m six feet under.”

_paul geremia

Film Studies

Blue notes

Jonathan Levine returns to Providence, zombies in tow

Paul Geremia joins the rhode island music hall of fame

Director Jonathan direction, a really interestLevine is a genre ing direction. guy. But he’s never told it When our zombie eats straight. brains, he’s doing it to His breakout film, The access the memories of Wackness (2008), is a comingthe person he’s killed. So of-age story, yes. But it foit’s this way for him to be cuses on a young marijuana alive again for a fleeting dealer (Josh Peck) trading moment. It’s almost like weed for the counsel of a a drug. psychiatrist on the brink YOU’VE TALKED ABOUT ZOM(Ben Kingsley). And while BIE AS METAPHOR. WHAT IS 50/50 (2011) is a bromance of THE LARGER POINT YOU’RE sorts, it could just as easily TRYING TO MAKE WITH THIS be called a “cancer comedy.”

MOVIE? The best thing For his latest project, the about Night director is engaged in a bit of the Living Dead is it’s about of fusion — merging zombie the group versus the indiflick and romantic comedy vidual, or it’s about intol(zom-rom-com!) with Warm erance. Basically, zombies Bodies, based on the novel by hold up Isaac Marion about a young, a mirror to us as a society tortured undead who strikes and hopefully let us see up a friendship with the girlthings that we could be dofriend of one of his victims. ing better.

Levine, who graduated The interesting, core from Brown University in allegorical thing in Isaac’s 2000, will be back on cambook that I try to bring pus January 27 for a 6 pm to the movie is two-fold. screening of Warm Bodies at One, it’s about what does it the Granoff Center for the mean to be alive and what Creative Arts, followed by a uNDeaD Nicholas Hoult in does it mean to live in discussion of the film.

Warm Bodies. the moment. Our zombie I caught up with him by lives in an airport, there’s phone in Miami, one of seva scene where it flashes back to the airport as it eral stops on a promotional tour. The interview is was before and everyone is just walking, staring edited and condensed. at their cell phones — they’re not too different SO HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU UTTERED THE from the zombies in the post-apocalyptic world.

PHRASE “ZOM-ROM-COM” IN THE LAST FEW DAYS? The other really cool thing is this protagonist, You know, I don’t really say it. We started testthis main character, this guy — for him, being the movie and people were kind of coining ing a zombie is not that different from being a it themselves and I figured I would leave it to young person who can’t express themselves. He’s other people to feel like they discovered it. I don’t around this beautiful girl and he’s completely inlike to put things in boxes — even if it’s a box of articulate, he thinks he’s a huge loser — I mean, three different things. It always feels reductive or he’s right, he’s a zombie — but those are things whatever. But I’m glad they all rhyme. I hope it you gravitate toward, those are things I can wrap becomes a new genre. I’d love to see Kate Hudson my head around, because I kind of shared that start doing some work in the genre. perspective when I was his age.

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WHAT ZOMBIE RULES DID YOU ADHERE TO AND WHICH ONES DID YOU BREAK? We were very careful.

I knew, no matter what, that getting inside the head of a zombie [for an interior monologue] and all that stuff was going to have zombie purists up in arms. And that’s fine. I’ve steeled myself for that. But I’m a huge fan of zombie movies, I’m a huge fan of slasher films. In fact, at Brown, we did a group independent study about horror films. Basically it was an excuse for us to smoke weed and watch horror movies once a week.

I definitely wanted [my] respect [for the genre] to shine through. I wanted to adhere to as many rules as we could. So we definitely have [George] Romero-type slow-walking zombies [a la Night of the Living Dead], they eat brains, they can only be shot in the head. Most of it fits within the rules.

But then, of course, what the book had done was kind of tweak those rules — push them in a new

ANY THOUGHTS ON COMING BACK TO BROWN, COMING BACK TO PROVIDENCE? It’s always really exciting for

me to do that. I got to come back a few years ago to speak at this Ivy League film festival, that was really, really fun. I got to stay at the Biltmore — that was always this amazing place that I could never stay in, that I would always look at from afar. I’ll go to the [Grad Center Bar]. I’ll do some of the fun things that I did. There’s lots of food that I want to eat. I have nothing but great memories of going to school there and especially about studying artsemiotics there and learning about what it means to be a filmmaker. And so, I’m just so grateful to come back. It’s honestly the highlight of this weird cross-country presser that I’m on — being able to come back and show this movie to people, and be proud of it, and go to Paragon and drink a Bloody Mary.

_David Scharfenberg

“I’ve played in almost every state in this country,” says Paul Geremia. And he’s taken his guitar across the border, too, playing Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Slovenia.

The music that’s sent him halfway around the world? Scan the Johnston native’s discography dating back to the 1960s and you’ll find the songs “Early Mornin’ Blues,” “Shuckin’ Sugar Blues,” “Gamblin’ Woman Blues,” “Bad Dream Blues,” “Stone Sober Blues,” and “Back Door Blues.” Geremia likes to say he was born in the “Providence River Delta.”

He will return to that delta in late April when he — alongside journalist-turnedMTV-exec-turned-novelist Bill Flanagan and the late, great songwriter George M. Cohan of “Over There” and “The Yankee Doodle Boy” fame, among others — will be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

Naturally, the bluesman, 68, was on the road when he heard the news this week and we caught up with him over the phone from south Florida. The interview has been edited and condensed.

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YOUR WEBSITE DOESN’T LIST AN EMAIL ADDRESS. YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE PROMISES THAT COMMENTS WILL BE PASSED ALONG TO YOU. ARE YOU CONSCIOUSLY AVOIDING TECHNOLOGY? I’m still using the telephone and, I figure, if the telephone isn’t good enough,

then don’t call me! [Laughs] There’s also a whole lot of crap on computers that I don’t care to get into. I don’t like commercials on television, so don’t have a television. I just don’t find [in] the computer or the Digital Age anything that appeals to me. I had a girlfriend who I used to try to call at night and when her line would be busy, I’d say the next day, “Gee, I was tryin’ to call for hours, you know?” She said, “Oh, I was online.” And then she up and left me and married this other guy. And I often wondered: it was probably true that when I was trying to reach her on the phone, she was communicating with that guy on the computer, online. So that’s always turned me off about computers. I lost my girlfriend to a computer. [Laughs.]

ARE THE BLUES A WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE PAST? I think it’s a way of communicating with timeless things. The subject of the blues is one of the things that gives it timeless appeal. So, I guess, in a way you could say it helps you communicate with the past in that there are things that always were and always will be; there are things that we can’t outlive.

LIKE WHAT? You know, like Son House said: “The blues is about the relationship between a man and a woman. And that’s all it is. There’s nothing else to it.” He said, “If you’re writing about something else, it’s not the blues.” I tend to agree with him. That’s the crux of the whole issue.

PEOPLE DON’T NECESSARILY THINK OF THE BLUES WHEN THEY THINK OF RHODE ISLAND. HOW DID YOU BECOME A BLUES MUSICIAN, GROWING UP HERE? I picked up the guitar especially

after seeing Mississippi John Hurt play one time at the Newport Folk Festival. One thing led to another and I read Sam Charter’s book on The Country Blues and that gave a thumbnail sketch of a lot of the musicians who played that music and recorded in the ’20s and ’30s. And then I went on to find as much music as I could by those people. I started going to the Salvation Army in Providence to collect 78s [RPM records] and I found some blues records there. The first blues records I had I got from the Salvation Army: 78s of Blind Boy Fuller, Big Bill Broonzy, Tommy McClennan, and people like that.

WILL YOU EVER RETIRE? I’ll retire if I’m

six feet under. I won’t have a choice at that point. I’m perfectly content to be doing [this]. I don’t expect to be a star; I never aspired to that sort of thing. As long as I can make a living and say what’s on my mind — that’s one of the nice things about being in this country, you can say what’s on your mind — then I’ll be a contented puppy. I mean, it’s not an occupation that requires the physical condition of a decathlon athlete.

_Philip Eil

TimeleSS appeal Geremia.

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Student Survival

Guide!

Cheap thrills

The best things in life are free (or at least inexpensive) _By Victo r Paul a lVa r ez Rhode Island has a lot going against it. The state ranks last or close to last in most economic indicators. Taxes are high and jobs are scarce. Our most prominent cultural export may be Pauly D. So why are we here?

Because it is a beautiful place filled with top-shelf art, culture, and people. Our restaurants, bars, and food trucks rival those of the biggest American cities.

And though we may be broke, it’s easy to take in a lot of this great stuff on the cheap.

Start with the following 10 items.

It’s a list geared toward students and other newcomers. So some items may be familiar to long-time Rhode Islanders. But even the locals are sure to make a couple of discoveries.

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1 | Newport Cliff walk

The path, running along the eastern shore of the City by the Sea, provides a stunning view of the ocean on one side and a Peeping Tom’s view, on the other, of the mansions that made the city famous. The first site in New England to be designated a National Recreation Trail, it is 3.5 miles long and about two-thirds of it makes for easy walking. Beware of the rocky parts of the trail, poison ivy and, of course, falling (cliffwalk.com).

2 | people watChiNg oN thayer Street

One of the best ways to observe Rhode Island’s more peculiar denizens is to find a seat at one of Thayer Street’s many outdoor eateries and observe them in their natural habitat.

There are more restaurants, cafes, and bars on this trendy stretch of pavement than ever before. Plenty of them offer outside seating and reasonably priced beverages. Keep an eye out for kids with hundreds of dollars of silver pierced into their heads asking for spare change. Do not give them any.

3 | Seal watChiNg at rome poiNt

By the time Thanksgiving rolls around in North Kingstown, some 20 to 60 seals have usually arrived. The population increases in January, meaning you can expect more than 100 seals barking away from now until May. Weather and tides affect the numbers, but you’ll see plenty unless powerboats or kayaks spook them. Check out romepointseals.org for some expert tips.

4 | Waterfire Providence

A forward-thinking art installation that is open to all, WaterFire is a perfect culmination of the best of Providence. The bonfires on the water, the scent of wood smoke, and the flickering firelight on the city’s bridges mix with music from around the world. It’s pretty amazing and it’s free. Of course, vendors from all over the state offer food and drink.

But if you bring a flask and a little charcuterie in your backpack, no one will notice (waterfire.org).

5 | provideNCe atheNaeum

This stately stone and granite landmark on Benefit Street is more than just a place for books; it is a story in of itself. The Athenaeum, as its web site says, “is neither a public library, nor an academic library, nor a community center, nor a private club — it is a little bit of all these things and it is more.”

Just walking around the institution, founded in 1836, is a treat.

The building is open to the public and all are welcome to peruse the collections while inside. Programming ranges from readings and book clubs to salons and pub-style quizzes (providenceathenaeum.org).

6 | SwaN poiNt Cemetery

It’s a little like New York’s Central Park, with graves.

Yes, Swan Point is what they call a “garden cemetery.” Established in 1846, its 200 acres serve as a final resting place but also a tranquil spot you can visit to be inspired, ride a bike, take a walk, or commune with nature. They give tours, but you’re free to visit on your own.

The property extends from Blackstone Boulevard to the shore of the Seekonk River, and is filled with lawns, forest trees, laurel, flowering shrubs, and deep ravines by the riverside (swanpointcemetery.com).

7 | eCoNomiCal eatS

Here are five cheap places with great food in no particular order: eaSt Side poCketS | You can stuff yourself with authentic Middle Eastern food (vegan friendly and gluten-free options available) late into the night for about five bucks. | 278 Thayer St, Providence | 401.453.1100 | eastsidepocket.com ChilaNgoS taqueria | This is one of the best Mexican spots in town. Unless you’re drinking, it is literally impossible to spend more than $20 here on dinner for two. | 447 Manton Ave, Providence | 401.383.4877 louiS’ reStauraNt | Want to know how cool this place is? They let Guy Fieri film an episode of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives on the premises, but it was obvious they didn’t give a shit. You won’t find a more diverse, inexpensive, or interesting place in town. | 286 Brook St, Providence | 401.861.5225 | louisrestaurant.org iNterNatioNal SteakhouSe | A Kingston favorite of the URI crowd, come to this joint if you want “The Bomb” — a steak and cheese sub topped with pretty much everything else on the menu and served with a mountain of seasoned fries. | 99 Fortin St, Kingston | 401.792.0190 SuShi go | Located in Newport’s historic Brick Marketplace, this restaurant is an

absolute rarity: amazing sushi on the cheap.

Typically cheap sushi is as reliable as a cheap tattoo artist. Not here. | 215 Goddard Row, Newport | 401.849.5155 | sushi-go.com

8 | BiCyCle map to freedom

The best way to get to know a city like Providence is on a bike. And it doesn’t hurt to have a free guide. Pick up “Lay o’ the Land: A Wayfinding Guide for Transportation Cyclists and Urban Explorers” at Legend Bicycle on Brook Street (legendbicycle. com). This map highlights bike paths, bike lanes, and useful cycling roads to help you navigate the labyrinth that is the 18th century road network in Providence and the surrounding metropolitan area.

While you’re at Legend getting the lay of the land, fill up your tires at their selfserve station. In addition to free air, you’ll find basic tools to tune up your bike before heading out onto the streets.

9 | aS220

The heart of free expression in Providence, AS220 is home to rotating galleries, a performance space, recording studio, dance and yoga studio, and an excellent bar and restaurant. The space also hosts film screenings, yoga classes, readings, street funk dance classes, and more from dirt cheap to free of charge. Bookmark the calendar tab on their web site and you’ll have something to do every night of the week (as220.org).

10 | wiNg Night at the aBBey

The Abbey is a popular pub on Admiral Street in Providence known for having a great selection of 92 beers and some of the best burgers in the state. But they don’t come cheap. What is cheap — and excellent — are their wings: 35 cents each on Tuesday nights. The Abbey’s wings are baked, not fried, and come tossed in your choice of sauces (92beers.com). ^

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Vital links and apps for your tablet and phone _By P hi li P E i l The streets overflow with slush.

The sun goes down shortly after lunch. The thermometer hovers around 25 degrees. It’s officially winter and, until you arrive in Acapulco for Spring Break, your main source of Vitamin D will be the warm, glowing screen of your laptop.

But this isn’t such bad news in Rhode Island, where our small state has turned out a cyberspace bigger, richer, and more ambitious than you might imagine. Politics.

Gossip. Drugs. Sports. History. Music. Our local Internet provides a veritable liberal arts education, with DJ Pauly D — the man of nine million Facebook “likes” — as its provost. So, kick off your boots, order a pizza, and charge up that MacBook. This is your guide to Digital Rhode Island.

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Most schools have their own mini blogosphere and Rhode Island’s colleges and universities are no exception. RISD has the inimitable — and highly addictive — “OnLy at RISD” tumBLR, where anonymous contributors post gifs for every conceivable artschool scenario (“COOKING IN THE RISD DORMS” shows Paris Hilton frying a strip of bacon with a clothes iron. “IN THE 9TH HOUR OF CRITIQUE, WHEN PEOPLE JUST CANT STOP TALKING ABOUT THEIR OWN WORK” loops Jersey Shore’s Snooki repeatedly screaming “Shut the fuck up!”).

Providence College has a bevy of blogs devoted to the Friars men’s basketball team: fRIaRBaSketBaLL.cOm, pcBaSketBaLL.wORDpReSS.cOm, and fRIaRBLOG. cOm, home of the “Friarpod,” a 50-minute podcast where guys nicknamed “Mayor” and “Warrior Friar” parse every rebound and new recruit. Back on College Hill, Brown’s BLOG DaILy HeRaLD — the digital arm of the esteemed Brown Daily Herald — sets a high standard for sharp-tongued streaming commentary. Check out their Drunk/Sober/High reviews of “Twilight: Breaking Dawn II” and the Providence Ghost Tour for equal doses of clear-eyed, bleary-eyed, and red-eyed cultural analysis. The Blog Daily Herald even has a 30 Rock-inspired, behind-the-scenes web series called “The Blog,” which takes viewers inside fictional, surprisingly funny editorial meetings at the BDH’s brick headquarters off Thayer Street.

But such campus-centric fare shouldn’t stop you from venturing into postgraduate bloggery. Out there in the “real world,” your first stop should be the pROvIDence DaILy DOSe — SparkNotes for informed, intelligent conversation about the Ocean State. Here you won’t just find comprehensive weekly music listings (when are the Moldy Suitcases appearing at Nick-a-Nee’s?), you’ll also find posts about restaurant openings, plays, protests, film screenings, art exhibitions, and flu shots. The main draw, however, is head editor/writer Beth Comery’s laseretched commentary on political issues — particularly the War on Drugs. “One

recent post about former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy’s opposition to marijuana legalization, “how many years in prison did you spend as a result of your run-ins with airport security, the Coast Guard, and the Capitol police? Or were you given other options?”

Another blog deserving your clicks is the long-running aRt In RuInS. Founded in 2002 — which makes it almost geriatric, in blog years — AIR is dedicated to documenting past, present, and future architecture in Rhode Island. And it does its job well; the site overflows with info and photos about defunct underground bowling alleys and Rhode Island’s next planned glass and steel edifice. But the site is much more than facts and blueprints. Thanks to a carefully curated feedback section (here, they’re “Anecdotes” not “Comments”) each page becomes a trove of memories, ghost stories, and urban legends. “[I] remember my uncle saying there was no water in the water fountains, just gansett!” writes one guest on the page dedicated to the bygone Narragansett Brewery in Cranston.

“It was our playground as kids,” writes another visitor about the shuttered Rocky Point amusement park in Warwick. “[W]e would sneek (sic) in under a fence and scour through all the garbage for thrown away prizes and tickets that were unused . . . . We absolutely loved the clamcakes . . . So many memories. The salt water swimming pool, saw a man drown there once and I never went back.” Poke around Art in Ruins long enough you’ll stumble across an interactive, 360-degree photograph taken from Providence’s iconic Seekonk River train bridge. Fiddling with this feature is, without question, safer than tiptoeing around patches of black ice on the real thing.

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Sure, your student I.D. — not to mention your tuition bill — says that you’re in college, but out there in the social media universe, there’s an old-fashioned high school popularity contest underway. Here in Rhode Island the Twitter Prom King and Queen hail from two oft-mocked Providence suburbs: Johnston and Cranston.

They are, of course, Paul DelVecchio and Olivia Culpo, better known as DJ pauLy D and mISS unIveRSe 2013, respectively.

Don’t dwell on the fact that the combined Twitter following of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation makes up less than half of one percent of @ DJPaulyD’s 4,279,936 followers. Nobody follows Pauly and Olivia (@oliviaculpo and @MissUniverse) for politics; we follow them for life advice. “When In Trouble Just Ask Yourself, ‘What Would Pauly D Do’#WWPDD,” the Jersey Shore star tweeted to the masses earlier this month. “Please help spread the word to #keeponsmiling,” Culpo chirped to 24,787 followers that Continued on p 10

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same day. Suddenly, life doesn’t seem so complicated. Thanks, guys.

If cheery platitudes and never-ending plugs for Pauly D’s debut single “Back to Love” — which sounds roughly how his REMIX line of cocktails must taste — aren’t your thing, there are other options. Take, for example, keep pROvIDence Lame (@lameprov), the anonymous fountain of local vitriol that has been spurting since March 2011, when it announced, “We’re tweeting, bitches” then promptly re-tweeted a Providence Journal story: “Man Arrested in RI Shooting Outside Nonviolence Institute.” Since then, highlights have included: “If you swap just 2 adjacent letters, West Exchange Street becomes Wet Sex Change Street. #justthoughtyoudliketoknow,” “Dear Providence, your ‘trolleys’ are neither quaint, nor useful. Just lame,” “Rabies symptoms: Anxiety, Confusion, Excitation, Hallucinations, Agitation, Hypersalivation. Sounds par for the course at Kennedy Plaza,” and — perhaps in a nod to Pauly D — “I’d like to see a Rhode Island cartogram showing levels of ‘douche’ by city. Johnston would be fucking huge.”

appS

The Rhode Island-specific app landscape is pretty barren for college students. Type “Rhode Island” into the Google Play app store and you’ll find a few rinky-dink “fun fact” apps, a Driver’s Ed app, a reference guide for Rhode Island Criminal Offenses (come to think of it, that might be useful), and a guide to 1500 fishing locations here in the Smallest State. The Apple App Store isn’t much better.

Before despairing, I called Andrew Shedd, creative director at Providence’s mOJOtecH, a local startup that designs apps for everything from music-sharing software to interactive corporate customer service.

Thinking about apps and how they function is Shedd’s job and he quickly ran off three options that, though not specifically designed or targeted for a local audience, are nevertheless helpful for Rhody collegians.

First, he suggested wunDeRLISt 2, a

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to-do list app that synchronizes notes across multiple devices. “It takes the place of jotting something down in a Moleskine,” he says. When your professor mentions a writing assignment, for example, you can use Wunderlist to type it into your phone, set an alarm for its due date, and then jot down ideas for the assignment on your laptop back home. Too many task-management apps nowadays are overloaded with features and doo-dads, Shedd says. Wunderlist is a model of restraint and simplicity.

Then there’s SpLItwISe, nurtured by Providence start-up incubator Betaspring.

The app is designed to help friends split the costs of rent, furniture, travel, and other shared expenses. “No one likes owing money. But you have to have that conversation,” Shedd says. “Splitwise is basically a platform to make that more painless.”

What separates the app from a simple spreadsheet, though, are its “calculator” functions designed to place monetary values on hitherto intangible pros and cons.

On the app’s website there is a “Loud Sex Calculator” which factors moans of pleasure — plus, construction work, talking, dancing, snoring, and other annoying sounds — into a surcharge that the offending noisemaker should pay, in addition to his or her rent, every month.

Finally, there’s BuffeR, a streamlined, centralized way for students to regulate what they publish on Twitter and Facebook.

It’s natural, if you’re stuck on a bus or mired in an endless philosophy lecture, to send out a barrage of links or status updates, Shedd says, but you don’t get the same utility out of tweeting every ten seconds. “In fact, that’s probably pretty annoying.” With Buffer you can help regulate your own output by setting a scheduled queue for what you say and when.

This way you can arrange to tweet “Just finished Moby-Dick. What a book! #bucketlist” in exactly one week, and deliver the tweet whether or not you’ve finished the tome and whether or not you’re passed out on a pool table in a bed of Cap’n Crunch. ^

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Our favorite live spot in for local and national touring artists, the Met (themetri. com, 401.729.1005) in Pawtucket, is the perfect size for luring in quality acts on a regular basis. Make tracks for these killer (and all ages!) shows: this Friday, January 25, it’s NJ indie-punk heroes TITUS ANDRONICUS ($15); for those about to rawk, head there February 1 for local greats THE EMPIRE SHALL FALL with ACARO, SWARM OF EYES, and plenty more; then get right back there February 2 when 95.5 WBRUFM hosts WALK THE MOON with PACIFIC AIR. If your little sister is in town visiting on February 28, she will be super-pumped to know that AARON CARTER will be in town getting his groove on in Le Bucket.

And how about this superb double bill featuring LUCERO and our JOE FLETCHER & THE WRONG REASONS on March 23. If you haven’t hopped aboard the official Joe Fletcher bandwagon by now, I suggest doing so ASAP. They’ll also play the Jamestown Arts Center (jamestownartscenter. org, 401.560.0979) on February 22 with KEITH McCURDY of Vudu Sister.

At the Met’s big brother in downtown PVD, Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (lupos.com, 401.331.5876), the ladies will be swooning

for CITIZEN COPE on January 25 ($30 day of show). And what better way to spend a Wednesday evening (February 6) than rolling your balls off at the BARSTOOL BLACKOUT FOAM PARTY; the Blackout parties always sell out so get tix in advance (18+, $36). Two days later another guaranteed sell-out arrives with GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS on February 8 (all ages, $30 in advance). A trio of national dates worth noting in March: TENACIOUS D goes “Old School Acoustic Style” on March 3; DRIVE BY TRUCKERS pull in on March 8; and CIRCA SURVIVE and MINUS THE BEAR rock out on March 15. All three shows are all ages and onsale now.

WBRU’s annual ROCK HUNT throwdown returns with the semifinals slated for March 15 and 16 and March 22 and 23 (locations TBA). The Rice Cakes, the ’12 champs, injected some much-needed life into the proceedings, and some quality competition along the way made for some great nights at the Ocean Mist, the Spot Underground, and Newport Grand. Check wbru.com for upcoming details.

Attention hip-hop heads — 2013 marks the 10-year anniversary of DJ STERBYROCK’s revered “Warped Wax Wednesdays” show on URI’s 90.3 WRIUFM. Catch Sterby in action spinning the best in throwback and indie hip-hop every Thursday at the new Fire Lounge & Grill in Warwick (401.467.8998), with $3 beers and $5 shots! And you can find turntable maestros like 2012 Best Music Poll winner DJ PRIMITIVE everywhere from the Rhino Bar in Newport to Smoke Lounge on Federal Hill; CR THE BEAST (crthebeast.com) tears up sets at Lot 401 and numerous spots across New England; and DJ DOX

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ROUSING AND ROOTSY spirit Family reunion will be at the Columbus theatre.

ELLIS sets up shop at Provy hotspots Local 121, the Salon, Gavin’s Pub, and Dusk.

Speaking of DUSK (401.714.0444), Ricky Sunderland and Pat Butler have done an outstanding job of establishing one of the city’s busiest live venues along quiet Harris Avenue (tucked behind da Hill), with low-dough action just about every night of the week ranging from rap shows (local rhymer Big Rush recently packed the joint) to the hugely successful Metal Night series held every Wednesday. Plenty of free parking, too.

From vaudeville to hardcore porn, the COLUMBUS THEATRE (columbustheatre. com) has seen it all; it recently underwent a thorough renovation and the results are nothing less than magnificent. Hometown indie-folk-Americana heroes the Low Anthem (and an all-star cast of special guests) held a memorable two-night stand, and used the Theatre’s small loft space to record their forthcoming album (due out later this year). The Columbus’ show schedule is picking up steam, starting with an outstanding triple-dip lined up for February 1 with DIAMOND DOVES (former members of Elvis Perkins In Dearland), LAST GOOD TOOTH, and personal favorite TALLAHASSEE (led by former Pats linemanturned-folk crooner Brian Barthelmes).

The rousing, rootsy SPIRIT FAMILY REUNION (with local support TBD) headlines on February 20, and check out the Providence Poetry Slam in action on February 26.

LET’S GET PHYSICAL!

In dire need of a budget-friendly date night? Head downtown to the BANK OF AMERICA SKATING CENTER (kennedyplaza. org, 401.331.5544). The 14,000-square-foot rink is twice the size of NYC’s Rockefeller Plaza rink, with public skating available daily until 10 pm. Adult admission is just $6 and skate rentals are $4. Even better is the College Skate Night offer, with $3 admission and $3 rentals); it’s valid every Wednesday from 6-10 pm with ID. Hit the pavement and get in on some of the road races offered around the state.

Check out the BRRR-LINGAME TRAIL RACES

in Charlestown on February 10, feel those hamstrings burn while bolting up a zillion stairwells at the annual FIGHT FOR AIR CLIMB on February 23 at One Financial Plaza downtown (with proceeds benefiting the American Lung Association), or go the distance at the OCEAN’S RUN HALF MARATHON in South Kingstown on Sunday, March 10. Check runningintheusa. com for a full list of upcoming races.

Rhode Island’s first indoor trampoline park has arrived courtesy of former Patriots great Ty Law! His LAUNCH TRAMPOLINE PARK (launchri.com, 401.828.5867) in Warwick (behind best Buy) is an instant smash hit. Rent the gigantic park for overnight college parties and fire up a dodgeball tourney!

And DUCKPIN BOWLING is an ideal night out. Duckpin is easier than “big ball” tenpin bowling but no less entertaining (like hucking a bocce ball), especially while pounding a few pitchers of ice-cold brew.

There are only six official duckpin locations remaining in RI; visit ridba.net for locations and money-saving coupons.

SPECTATOR FUN

The men’s hoop team in Kingston ain’t exacting lighting it up this year, but the URI RAMS (gorhody.com, 800.745.3000) boast a devoted fanbase known for rocking the Ryan Center, and hopefully new coach Dan Hurley can get the Rams back to dominant form. Upcoming home games include St. Bonaventure (February 9), Xavier (February 20), and UMass on March 9.

Coach Ed Cooley has the men’s PROVIDENCE COLLEGE FRIARS (friars. com, 401.865.GOPC) on the right track, as Vincent Council and Bryce Cotton look to light up the Dunk and finish strong before entering the Big East tournament.

Home tilts include a big one versus UConn on January 31, Notre Dame will visit on February 16, and Seton Hall will close out the PC home schedule on March 5.

This frigid cold can’t subdue the excitement and anticipation of baseball Continued on p 14

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season, which is right around the corner (well, three months around the corner, but who’s counting), and our PAWTUCKET RED SOX (tickets.pawsox.com, 401.724.7300) happen to have the best minor-league ballpark in the country.

McCoy Stadium will come alive beginning April 11 when the PawSox kick off its home schedule with a four-night stand against the Rochester Red Wings. Single game tickets and group packages are available now, as well as field-level hospitality suites and all-you-can-eat BBQ tents for larger parties. Single game tix are just $12 for box seats, or kick back on the left field berm for $8 per game.

How about those PROVIDENCE BRUINS (providencebruins.com) taking down the Boston Bruins a few weeks back? The “Baby Bs” are poised to make another run at the crown this year; you can get single game or multi-pack tickets, and visit the site for the “$5 Off Fridays” deal as well as a nice “Draft + Dog” combo pack. The Dunk will host the AHL All-Star Game this week (Monday, January 28).

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The COMEDY CONNECTION (ricomedy connection.com, 401.438.8383) hosts some of the best local and national comedians (Norm MacDonald, Charlie Murphy, and Jim Breuer made recent appearances). The Amazing Johnathan storms the stage on January 31, Craig Shoemaker performs on February 15, and the one and only Sinbad returns on March 7.

Looking to get cultured on the cheap?

There’s always something interesting going on at the RISD MUSEUM (risdmuseum. org, 401.454.6500), with discounted $5 admission with valid college ID, and free admission every Sunday from 10 am-5 pm. The NEWPORT ART MUSEUM (newport artmuseum.org, 401.848.8200) just celebrated its 100th anniversary and offers a discounted student membership.

All that scholastic stuff sure does work up a thirst (if you are under the age of 21, stop reading HERE). Did you know the Biggest Little State in the Union is home to 10 breweries? Drink local! We’re pretty

pumped for the inaugural RHODE ISLAND BREW FEST (ribrewfest.com), going down at the Pawtucket Armory on February 2; tix are $45 in advance and they’ll likely sell out soon (VIP passes are already gone).

More than 30 breweries will be on hand pouring suds over two sessions, including local favorites like Sean Larkin’s fantastic Revival line, Grey Sail (Westerly), Ravenous Brewing Company (Woonsocket), Pawtucket’s Bucket Brewery and Foolproof Brewing Company, and Downcity mainstays Union Station and Trinity Brewhouse. The Super Bowl is the next day, so your liver is really going to hate you that weekend. And of course we cannot forget the 7TH ANNUAL GREAT INTERNATIONAL SPRING BEER FESTIVAL, happening on Saturday, April 20 at the Convention Center.

The fest is totally bananas (particularly the night session), so don’t even think about driving and call a cab. Tix for both sessions go on sale February 15.

THE NIGHTCAP

Late-night eats are a quintessential part of the college experience, and Rhode Island is chock-full of good night-owl spots.

As you are well aware by now, around these parts we refer to sub sandwich or hoagies as “grinders,” and WISEGUYS DELI (wiseguysdeli.com, 401.621.8111) is home to the best grinders in town and open late on weekends. The 21 sandwich combinations are each named for an infamous mobster; the “Giuseppe Masseria” is a realdeal Italian grinder with the works, the “Al Capone” is an authentic, sumptuous Chicago-style roast beef, and the “Lucky Luciano” is the best turkey club you will ever encounter.

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Uncle Jo Jo’s Pizza & Pasta Bountiful simplicity _By Bill Rod R igu ez Since there are more Italian restaurants on Federal Hill than potholes on Providence sidestreets, it’s easy for newcomers without favorite spots to just go home and order Chinese delivered.

Considering the distracting profusion, some unassuming places that are worthy of attention may not even be considered — places like Uncle Jo Jo’s Pizza & Pasta.

The name itself is so unpretentious it might as well be called Aw Shucks. But don’t feel sorry for them: YUM! A mound of italian goodness at Jo Jo’s. they immediately follow that up — on awning as well as menu — with “Home of the Brick Oven served with herbed-up olive oil, combining Pizza.” (Take that, Al Forno, with your nicely with the not-too-fat pieces of tripe. fancypants wood grill pizza.)

Our anticipation was fulfilled.

I happened onto and into the place a few The other dish we started with was that months ago with a couple of friends, more panzerotti, two deep-fried lengths of pizza for the conversation than the eats, thereby dough filled with mozzarella and proexpecting the food to fade into the backsciutto and served with a tangy marinara ground like mood music. After chowing sauce. This is the kind of appetizer that down, we were impressed enough to talk you order again when you come again, about coming back with our wives. I didn’t even if there are other temptations. It retake notes, but I recall that the pasta special minded me of the fried calzones, stuffed widened my eyes with its quantity as well with ham and ricotta, that I used to enjoy as its delicate white sauce. The menu deas a boy in New Jersey, but these were far clares “All Pasta Cooked Al Dente.” All dinlighter, the dough rolled very thin before ner items are available for lunch. frying. Wonderful.

Uncle Jo Jo’s isn’t trying to wow us with Among the half-dozen main dishes, I its decor like some overstuffed restaurants chose a pasta to share, the gnocchi gamberi on the Hill. It’s simply neat and clean, e funghi ($16.95). The cream sauce was rich with enough Italian scenery on the walls but not cloying, the potato morsels not overthat you don’t ask for chopsticks. Seating cooked and the mushrooms fresh and some for 28, by my count, all two-tops easily wild variety, not those boring brown crimini gather together for groups. Full of light or white button mushrooms that you usually during the day, with floor-to-ceiling winfind. The shrimp, however, were disappointdows street-side. ing; out of season you have to expect them Signature dishes are a good start here to be frozen, but these, frozen too long, were and an indication of what they take pride rather dry. in. The antipasto della casa ($9.95/$17.95) The pizza we checked out was the alla has marinated vegetables, a good touch, Jo Jo ($13.95). Lightly red-sauced, it sported among the imported Italian cold cuts and red onions and white flaked tuna with the cheeses. There’s the insalata alla Tony mozzarella. Stuart liked the crust and I ($9.95), which has walnuts, avocado, and liked the overall combination — light on radicchio with the tomato and Romaine; ingredients but flavorful. the insalata alla Jo Jo ($10.95) has tuna and Among the specials on this visit was hard-boiled egg supplementing arugula. a Nutella pizza ($8.95/$12.95), but our The fried calamari ($9.95) is the convencuriosity did not overwhelm our full tumtional Rhode Island version, but the hot mies. Looks like there is something else appetizers include panzerotti ($8.95), tempting but untasted that will draw us about which more later. There are nearly here again. ^ 20 pastas, including specials, plus three risottos ($14.95-$19.95), combined with Bill Rodriguez can be reached at billrod.mail@ gmail.com. something as simple as zucchini or mushrooms and Parmesan cheese or as bountiful as five kinds of seafood.

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Swinging ballS and a trip to Sound city _compiled by lou papineau tion an experience that is usually instantaneous.

My paintings remain in the liminal and transient state of becoming visible, becoming identifiable, becoming rational.” Their “New Work” is on display through the 31st| 401.421.9230 | chazan gallery.org

thursDAY 24 in the ring

The Wilbury Group says that Kristoffer Diaz’s The

elaboraTe enTrance of chad deiTy combines “thrilling spectacle, incredible characters, and geopolitical allegory.” It tells the tale of Macedonio “The Mace” Guerra, a pro wrestler who grapples with racial stereotypes and the lure of fame.

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated play gets its Rhode Island premiere at the Butcher Block Mill, 25 Eagle St, Providence, through February 9 | 401.400.7100 | thewilburygroup.org

friDAY 25 KiLLin’ KeYBster

Versatility, thy name is John MeDesKi. The keyboardist for the acclaimed Medeski Martin & Wood triumvirate is an omnivore when it comes to references, textures, and styles. Part of the band’s success is built on the breadth of sounds Medeski integrates into the pliable grooves the group has made famous. He was schooled in Boston, and Medeski will connect with two of Beantown’s best improvisers — under the evocative sobriquet Swinging Balls — for two nights of freeflowing tunes at Fête, 103 Dike St, Providence. Bassist Dave Zinno and drummer Bob Gullotti will bring something special to the party. Be there at 8 pm | $15 | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com

sAturDAY 26 groovin’

tY Jesso calls his sound experience souL Power, and the soul will get turbo-boosted when Boo CitY shares the bill at the Speakeasy @ Local 121, 121 Washington St, Providence. The body-shaking starts ’round 10 pm | 401.274.2121 | local121.com

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sun | wynton MarSaliS & the Jazz at lincoln center orcheStra @ the Vets entire range of the music’s glorious history — from New Orleans to now, from Louis Armstrong to the innovations being made by young boundary-pushers.

Saxophonist/clarinetist Victor Goines recently told the Hartford Courant that “we don’t just play concerts, but we learn about the tradition and the history of the music, which allows us to not only play the music in the style of the tradition, but with the freedom of the present that we have while reflecting the vision of Wynton Marsalis.”

You must know that the trumpeter’s horn is one of jazz’s wonders — rich, seductive and bubbling over with the blues. And each member of his 15-piece ensemble is a killer soloist. FirstWorks will present Marsalis’s crew at the Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence, at 7 pm (and tune into CBS on Sunday, February 3 at 11 am; Wynton will host a one-hour special, New Orleans: Let the Good Times Roll, as part of the Super Bowl pre-game coverage) | $23-$68 | 401.421.4278 | first-works.org

MonDAY 28 true CriMe

We’ve been running Derf BACKDerf’s cartoon, “The

City,” for a dozen or so years.

His strip is always a visual treat, he’s equally adept with a silly or scathing tone, and he has a fondness for sharing true stories. Last year he

shared a particularly gripping one in the graphic novel My Friend Dahmer. Derf went to high school in Ohio with Jeffrey. “I didn’t really know Dahmer the serial killer,” Derf told Phoenix contributor Philip Eil last year. “Our friendship ended right when he started to kill. The Thing that emerged in 1991 was not the kid I knew.” Eil, who is teaching a “True Crime” seminar at RISD, which examines books, documentary films, comics, and more, will host “A Conversation with” Backderf at 8 pm in the Metcalf Auditorium in RISD’s Chace, 20 North Main St, Providence | Free | facebook. com/events/516038401762422/

tuesDAY 29 BeCoMing visiBLe

There’s some deep thinking on display at the Chazan Gallery @ Wheeler, 228 Angell St, Providence. Peter DiePenBroCK says of his welded metal sculpture, “The dichotomy that intrigues me is this use of solid materials to explore notions about the ephemeral nature of the universe: that most everything that surrounds us, is composed of atomic particles with essentially no substance. In this sense my ‘abstractions’ are studies from nature, only a ‘nature’ that cannot easily be seen — only imagined.” JAson fiering creates geometric abstractions.

He writes: “I attempt to capture for extended contempla-

Sound City was a recording studio in the Van Nuys district of LA which opened in 1969. A few years later, after the installation of a rare Neve recording board, the room became a magical place, spawning mega-selling albums by Fleetwood Mac (as well as the hit-making lineup of the band, with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks), Pat Benatar, Rick Springfield (yeah, “Jessie’s Girl” was done there), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ratt, and many more. When digital recording arrived in the ’80s, Sound City fell on hard times. But then Nirvana pulled its van into the lot and recorded Nevermind there.

Sound City was vital again, and soon welcomed Rage Against the Machine, Kyuss, Frank Black, and Johnny Cash. But then ProTools came along, clients became scarce and the studio closed its doors in 2011. Nirvana member/Foo Fighter/drummer to the stars Dave Grohl has directed an engrossing documentary that traces the studio’s storied history, with scores of great anecdotes from musicians and staffers (and a cool riff on defining the essence of “feel”). And there’s a sweet extended coda: Grohl bought the Neve board and installed it in his home 606 Studio, where he’s seen recording new songs with Springfield, Nicks, Trent Reznor, Josh Homme, and Paul McCartney. Grohl says his “intention is to inspire the next generation of kids to fall in love with music as much as I did.” Sound ciTy will be screened at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St, Providence, at 7 pm | $9.25, $7.75 students + children + seniors | 401.272.3970 | cablecarcinema.com

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Expect a packed house at Firehouse 13 this Saturday when Ravi Shavi hosts its CD release party along with a stacked lineup of special guests, including Atlantic Thrills and the Rice Cakes, all for just five bucks at the door (or drop $10 and get a copy of the new disc).

Twenty-two-year old singer/guitarBUZZ BAND rashid (center) and company. ist Rafay Rashid was born in Islamabad, Pakistan and moved to Warwick many standout cuts on Ravi Shavi. “I feel good, just like I with his family when he was eight years old. Around six should,” Rashid howls on “I Feel Good,” and stick around years ago he met an admirer of his infectious onstage perfor “Critters,” which he cites at one of his favorites. sona and songwriting chops — Deer Tick’s John McCauley “I dig the faster cuts that embody the sort of abrasive — while playing in one of his previous bands. underlying spirit of the album,” Rashid said.

“John told me we should open for them sometime The album was recorded in a barn in East Greenwich and we eventually did at this DIY show downtown,” owned by the previous bassist. While the new album recalled Rashid. “We stayed in touch and I became good featured the same lineup as the previous EP, only Rashid friends with [DT guitarist] Ian O’Neil, who also has and drummer Ben Tucker remain. But Rashid is excited provided a lot of positive encouragement and opportuniabout the band’s future with new bandmates Bryan Fieldties for us.” ing (bass) and Nick Politelli (guitar).

O’Neil recently praised Ravi Shavi’s Indecisions EP as “Some of the songs on the new album had been writone of his favorite releases of 2012 on brooklynvegan. ten over the past couple of years that I brought to the com. Ravi Shavi landed a pair of key supporting slots for table, but this new lineup has resulted in a much more Deer Tick last year, playing the Newport Folk Fest aftercollaborative process,” Rashid said, as the foursome prep party (“Things got pretty wild that night”) as well as the brand-new songs for an EP to be recorded later this year, packed, DT-curated DudeSmash festival at the Met last as well as a regional tour of the East Coast in April. summer “Their sound is a mix of new wave, punk, and old“That crowd was really responsive and nice,” said school rock and roll, but with a modern twist” commendRashid. “It was just a great atmosphere of excitement ed Roz Raskin, head honcho of the Rice Cakes. throughout the day and night.”

“We’re so stoked to be playing with the Ravi Shavi Ravi Shavi released the track “Birds” in mid-2011 and boys,” she told me. “They always bring the party and the quartet caught a nice buzz last summer with the I think our followers who haven’t seen Ravi Shavi are three-track Indecisions; that title track also serves as the gonna dig it hard.” leadoff to the new full-length. It’s impossible not to crash Pick up Ravi Shavi’s new disc at the show this weekthe party hard when an album kicks off with a couplet end or download a copy at iTunes and Spotify. ^ like, “You’re out of my league, I’m in my element/Come home with me, just for the hell of it.” “Bloody Opus” and “Hobbies” conjure plenty of those dance floor spazRAVI SHAVI + ATLANTIC THIRLLS + THE RICE CAKES + out moments that Rashid is known for while rocking NAPOLEAN | Saturday, January 26 @ 7:30 pm | Firehouse 13, out onstage. “Accidental Mental” from the Indecisions EP 41 Central St, Providence | $5 | 401.270.1801 | ravishavi. pops up renamed “Mental Breakdown” here, one of the bandcamp.com

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LocaL coLor Hester Kaplan’s The Tell is captivating _BY JoHne t t e ro drigu e z In her first novel in 10 years, The Tell (Harper Perennial), Providence writer and educator Hester Kaplan tackles the familiar territory of marriage and relationships she has previously explored in the award-winning short story collection, The Edge of Marriage (1999), and her novel, Kinship Theory (2001). Kaplan expertly delves into the psychological underpinnings of her characters, and in The Tell her curiosity extends to many other topics: the fleeting nature of celebrity, the addictive pull of slot machines, the intensity and frustrations of inner-city teaching, and the effect of the architectural details in buildings upon those who live and work in them.

The novel is played out among a trio of characters that sometimes becomes a quartet. Owen and Mira live in a rambling East Side Victorian, and they befriend their new neighbor Wilton Deere, a wealthy has-been sitcom actor who has moved to Rhode Island to be closer to his daughter Anya, who is attending medical school at Brown. He hasn’t seen Anya since she was five, but he’s desperate to make amends to her while never revealing why he wouldn’t see her for more than 17 years.

Owen teaches at a public high school that is on the verge of being closed; Mira has set up an art school in the Jewelry District for underprivileged youth and senior citizens. Both she and Owen remember Wilton from his sitcom and its reruns, and they are quickly seduced by his gifts of wine and mail-order steaks but even more by his ability to secure their confidences, one-on-one, and sometimes to use those bits of intimate knowledge to leverage an even tighter connection to one or the other of them.

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Toward the end of the novel, Owen even blames himself for Wilton’s disappearance because of lying to him about telling Anya something that Wilton had confided to him.

Though the reader knows that eventually everyone will have to “come clean” to each other and to themselves, Kaplan makes the reader’s journey to that point worth every page. The Tell is filled with captivating subplots, with well-drawn supporting roles, including Owen’s father and his new girlfriend, Owen’s students and Mira’s assistant, a friend of Owen’s who runs a tutoring business, the high school librarian and her husband, and various “types” who show up at a fundraiser for Mira’s art school.

The buildings become additional characters, as Kaplan describes the nooks and crannies, the fusty furnishings, the looming portraits in Mira’s inherited family home; the bare wood walls with their unframed snapshot pin-ups in Edward’s Cape Cod cottage; the heraldic arches in the decaying high school.

Her language throughout is a cornucopia for the senses, especially scents, aromas, and stenches, not just of almond soap on skin or “mulchy” lentil stew, but smells of disappointment, ambition, or “the best intentions.” Similes and metaphors take unexpected curves; though they are occasionally interruptive, they are mostly spot-on: i.e., the librarian’s Rhode Island accent was like “bright melted plastic.”

Kaplan also hits the mark with her pithy asides about Providence: “a place that was proudly peculiar and proudly backward” and “without pretension but full of self-importance”; her settings in Fox Point, the East Side, and across the Point St. Bridge are evocative.

The Tell is an exceptionally good read for all of the above, plus Kaplan’s skill at creating suspense for each of her main characters; her insightful look at the subtle balance between privacy and sharing in marriage; and her thoughtful examination of unresolved emotions around past tragedies. That she provokes us to ponder the latter two in our own lives is a true mark of the author’s success. ^

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COMPLEX CHARACTER Thorne in Crime and Punishment.

A delightful dervish The Gamm’s majesTic Anne Boleyn _ by bill Ro dR i G ue z Anne Boleyn died in 1536, but we also get a play within a play, featuring the court of King James I, who assumed the throne in 1603, commencing the reign of the House of Stuart. He’s depicted here as a cynical voluptuary, and Tony Estrella clearly enjoys the hell out of the role, as do we, as he struts about with lover-confidant George Villiers (Short), issuing pronounce-

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The Gamm Theatre has pulled off a couple of coups. The first is presenting the American premiere of prestigious British playwright Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn (they report that “less than a house worth of seats are available for the regular run”; the show has been extended through February 24). The second, even more impressive, is to accomplish such a dynamic and thoroughly satisfying production, with Madeleine Lambert as the spirited dervish in the title role.

It is directed by Rachel Walshe with energetic agility, which would also describe Anne, the second wife of Henry VIII (Steve Kidd), whose ordering around those about her — including the king — resulted in such upheavals as England breaking off from the Vatican. As presented here, Anne can be described as a whirlwind or a hurricane, depending on whether she’s tearing through obstacles in a straight line or willy-nilly. At the very beginning we get to appreciate her outsized personality — and Brenton’s wacky narrating style — when her ghost pulls out of a bag both her severed head and a copy of the controversial Bible translated by William Tyndale (Joe Short). Her temperament was such that she was bound to be an adamant protester (as in Protestant) against the authority of the Catholic Church. Her temper was such that she was bound to eventually lose her head over something or other.

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serious royal disapproval. For five years Anne refuses to become Henry’s mistress, declaring that “I would rather lose my life than my honesty.” Whether that was for religious or political reasons is unclear in the play, but becoming queen wasn’t all it was cracked up to be: soon after a miscarriage (it was male), she was executed on trumped-up adultery charges. Anne presenting him with the future Queen Elizabeth I didn’t count for much.

Aided by a superb supporting cast, Lambert’s impassioned portrayal of the passionate Anne Boleyn is modulated, gentling down enough for us to believe her religious convictions are thoughtful as well as emotional. Kidd’s Henry VIII conveys the expected arrogance, but with a constant knowing smile, and we can believe that his love for Anne is sincere, within the restraints and qualifications of a royal ego. Speaking of arrogance, not mentioned above is the role of Henry’s chief minister and adviser, Thomas Cromwell, who has spies everywhere to keep him apprised of court alliances he needs to nip in the bud or cultivate. Jim O’Brien plays him with feral intensity but enough glimpses of intelligence to give him credit for conniving.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre staging the first US production of this play may warrant a slap on the back, but it’s not really surprising, since they also premiered Brenton’s controversial, fundamentalist-offending Paul two years ago.

Most American theater audiences might not be familiar with the lauded British playwright, who was commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe to write Anne Boleyn, but it’s understandable that he would be familiar with the Gamm. ^

That attracts the inspector’s attention.

The playwrights and especially the director skillfully make the action parallel Raskolnikov’s antic thoughts, fragmenting the narrative without confusing us, making the action judder and shift abruptly when appropriate to heighten the emotion of the moment. Designer Lee pulls us out of the period, making most visual cues decidedly un-Russian to emphasize the universality of Raskolnikov’s narcissistic mindset; the stage is cluttered with bric-a-brac, as messy a place as the young man’s skull. The only naturalistic element is a floral stuffed armchair out of your grandmother’s parlor, unless you include the life-sized crucifix, complete with suffering savior. (The back wall being covered with rugs and quilts is a head-scratcher, though.)

Christopher is convincingly sympathetic as Sonia, the character remaining a loyal friend to him because he brought her dying father in from the street. He also gave her family his last kopeck, though he was going hungry himself. Butler beautifully accomplishes his tricky role as the canny police inspector, who needs to convince the wary Raskolnikov of his growing friendship, all the while maintaining the tension of a trap set to spring on the murderer.

Nevertheless, there are occasional mo-

ments of humor to lighten the mood, as when Butler kisses Raskolnikov on both cheeks in greeting, and then concludes with a quick lick — the moment sounds like it should violate the tone of the play, but the mood Butler establishes is relaxed enough elsewhere that it doesn’t. Thorne gives his usual expansive performance when inhabiting a complex character, presenting a man who wants to think he’s superior while trying to quash feelings that he is simply a monster.

What a dark view of the world to regard him as Everyman. How Russian.

Raskolnikov persists in resisting his guilty conscience, a fortunate decision for us since otherwise the play would be a mere 20 minutes. Please forgive my not treating the central conflict with the respect usually due literary classics, but unless you are a Leopold or Loeb, the rich law students who murdered a boy in 1924 in “extraordinary” smugness, the premise might seem a bit of a stretch. This is a fine production, but Dostoyevsky has set things up so that if Raskolnikov hadn’t felt terrible about also killing the innocent sister, we’d have a hardly time identifying with him at all. As a psychological study, especially in a summary, Crime and Punishment is less illuminating than it might have been. ^

FORCE OF NATURE lambert in the title role.

TRiniTy Rep’s Crime And Punishment _by bill Ro dR iG ue z As voluminous Russian novels go, none could be boiled down to a 90minute stage adaptation with unsurprising economy as well as Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, which Trinity Repertory Company is proving with authority and imagination (through February 24).

We enjoyed an excellent production at the Gamm in 2005, the year before Curt Columbus, this version’s co-author with playwright Marilyn Campbell, came aboard as Trinity’s artistic director. This time around it’s getting an even more interesting rendition, as director Brian Mertes and set designer Eugene Lee worked to bring out its psychological dimension.

The tormenting persistence of inner demons is precisely what allows this tale to compress with such exquisite tension. A young man rationalizes committing a horrific crime and is assaulted with uncertainties and guilt as a result. The essence of the story is closer to a haiku than a novel.

In 19th-century St. Petersburg, Rodion

ments through a lilting Scottish burr. We know him today as the man who commissioned the King James Bible, and the play presents him as trying to calm waters still roiling after Anne’s influence: Henry VIII established the Church of England, breaking completely from Rome after the pope refused to grant an annulment so he could marry Anne, and in James’s day the Anglican and Puritan factions are still fighting.

The whole thing about the six eventual wives of Henry VIII is that he demanded a male heir to continue the House of Tudor.

When Cardinal Wolsey (Tom Gleadow) failed to get him that annulment, both he and first wife Catherine of Aragon met

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Raskolnikov (Stephen Thorne) is embittered by his poverty, too poor to even continue his studies at university. To get by he has been pawning his possessions to a greedy old woman, which tempts him with an idea. Why should such a worthless person as she live when killing her and taking her money would allow him to thrive and perhaps do good in the world?

We never even see the old woman, only the kindly sister whom Raskolnikov unfortunately murders as well because she witnessed the crime. She is played by Rachel Christopher, who also plays Sonia, Raskolnikov’s only friend, forced into prostitution to feed her family. Dan Butler plays several incidental characters but mainly portrays Porfiry, a police inspector who comes to suspect Raskolnikov of committing the crime. The young man had written an article that proposed dividing men into ordinary drones and extraordinary worthies, the latter having “an inner right” to “overstep boundaries.”

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THE APARTMENT | Providence | Ants In the Cellar + Resistor AS220 | Providence | Traditional Irish music session THE BEACH HOUSE | Portsmouth | Rock Candy BOVI’S | East Providence | After Dark BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Bristol | Colby James CADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | Neal Vitullo & the Vipers CHAN’S | Woonsocket | 8 pm | with Debra Mann + Dino Govoni + Marty Ballou + Steve Langone + Ernesto Diaz| 86th Birthday Tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim CHIEFTAIN PUB | Plainville | Colm O’Brien CITY SIDE | Woonsocket | The Rock CLUB ROXX | North Kingstown | Uncle Chubby CORINNE’S | Pawtucket | Smokin’ Toads CUBAN REVOLUTION | Providence | Mike Rollins & Company EAST BAY TAVERN | East Providence | DJ Sleazy EFFIN’S LAST RESORT | Smithfield | What Matters?

ELEVEN FORTY-NINE | Warwick | 8 pm | Steve Demers FÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | 8 pm | Swinging Balls featuring John Medeski, Dave Zinno, and Bob Gullotti | 11 pm | Born Casual with #PIZZABOYZ FIREHOUSE 13 | Providence | 9:30 pm | Ravi Shavi + the Rice Cakes + Atlantic Thrills GILLARY’S | Bristol | Felix Brown GREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 8:30 pm | Open mic IRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | Brett & Lisa JAVA MADNESS | Wakefield | 11 am | Kristen Graves

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OAK HILL TAVERN | North Kingstown | Ten Road Ramblers OCEAN MIST | Wakefield | 3:30 pm | The Ocean Mistics OLIVES | Providence | In the Mix ONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Pop Disaster 133 CLUB | East Providence | Here Again THE PARLOUR | Providence | Hurricane Me + Doll Eyes + Galvanize PERRY’S BAR AND GRILLE | Narragansett | Squelch POWERS PUB | Cranston | DJ Dizzy PVD SOCIAL CLUB | Providence | 6 pm | Llama Tsunami + Soundoff + A Guy Named Guy + Sweet Babylon + more RALPH’S DINER | Worcester, MA | Kung Fu Grip + Opening Night + Day One RHUMBLINE | Newport | 6:30 pm | Joe Parillo

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MONDAY 28

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MARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 7 pm | Gil Pope MEDIATOR STAGE | Providence | 7 pm | Open mic hosted by Don Tassone MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 7 pm | Tom Lanigan NEWPORT GRAND | 8 pm | Name That Tune with DJ Robert Black 133 CLUB | East Providence | 8:30 pm | Mac Odom Band THE PARLOUR | Providence | Graveside Service + Psycho POWERS PUB | Cranston | Britney from it Takes Two PVD SOCIAL CLUB | hock! Thursday [moombah, dubstep, electro] RI RA | Providence | Nick Deleo Band THE ROCK JUNCTION | West Greenwich | Candlebox + Human Clay SPEAKEASY @ LOCAL 121 | Providence | 8 pm | Ryan Montbleau + Jason Myles Goss TIPSY TOBOGGAN FIRESIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 6 pm | Chris Richards THE WHISKEY REPUBLIC | Providence | 5 pm | Kyle Nicholas

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CLUB DIRECTORY ALL AMERICAN BAR & GRILLE | 401.294.3649 | 7570 Post Rd, North Kingstown | allamericanbarand grille.com THE APARTMENT | 401.228.7222 | 373 Richmond St, Providence | theapartmentri.com AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence THE BEACH HOUSE | 401.682.2974 | 506 Park Ave, Portsmouth | beachhouseri.com BIKI’S BAR | 401.921.3377 | 2077 West Shore Rd, Warwick BILLY GOODE’S | 401.848.5013 | 23 Marlborough St, Newport BONEYARD BARBECUE & SALOON | 508.761.6854 | 540 Central Ave, Seekonk, MA | boneyardbarbecue. com BOVI’S | 401.434.9670 | 278 Taunton Ave, East Providence BRITISH BEER COMPANY | 401.253.6700 | 29 State St, Bristol | britishbeer. com/local/bristol BROOKLYN COFFEE & TEA HOUSE | 401.575.2284 | 209 Douglas Ave, Providence | brooklyncoffeetea house.com CADY’S TAVERN | 401.568.4102 | 2168 Putnam Pike, Chepachet | cadystavern.com CAROUSEL GRILLE | 401.921.3430 | 859 Oakland Beach Ave, Warwick | thecarouselgrille.com CHAN’S | 401.765.1900 | 267 Main St, Woonsocket | chanseggrollsand jazz.com CHIEFTAIN PUB | 508.643.9031 | 23 Washington St [Rt 1], Plainville, MA | chieftainpub.com CITY SIDE | 401.235.9026 | 74 South Main St, Woonsocket | citysideri.com CLUB ROXX | 401.884.4450 | 6125 Post Rd, North Kingstown | kbowl.com COACH’S PUB | 401.349.5650 | 329 Waterman Ave, Smithfield | facebook.com/pages/Coachs-Pub/ 334119930001164 CORINNE’S | 401.725.4260 | 1593 Newport Ave, Pawtucket | corinnesbanquets.com CUBAN REVOLUTION | 401.932.0649 | 60 Valley St, Olneyville | thecubanrevolution.com DAN’S PLACE | 401.392.3092 | 880 Victory Hwy, West Greenwich | danspizzaplace.com DEVILLE’S CAFE | 401.383.8883 | 345 South Water St, Providence | devillescafe.com

DUSK | 401.714.0444 | 301 Harris Ave, Providence EFFIN’S LAST RESORT | 401.349.3500 | 325 Farnum Pike, Smithfield | effinsri.com ELEVEN FORTY NINE | 401.884.1149 | 1149 Division St, Warwick + 1149 BAR & GRILL | 508.336.1149 | 965 Fall River Ave, Seekonk, MA | eleven fortynine restaurant.com FÊTE | 401.383.1112 | 103 Dike St, Providence | fetemusic.com FIRE LOUNGE & GRILL | 401.467.8998 | 557 Warwick Ave, Warwick | facebook.com/FireLoungeAndGrill FIREHOUSE 13 | 401.270.1801 | 41 Central St, Providence | fh13. com GEORGE’S OF GALILEE | 401.783.2306 | 250 Sand Hill Cove Rd, Narragansett | georgesofgalilee.com GILLARY’S | 401.253.2012 | 198 Thames St, Bristol | gillarys.com GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | 401.315.5556 | 105 White Rock Rd, Westerly GREENWICH HOTEL | 401.884.4200 | 162 Main St, East Greenwich | myspace.com/greenwichhotel INDIGO PIZZA | 401.615.9600 | 599 Tiogue Ave, Coventry IRON WORKS TAVERN | 401.739.5111 | 697 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | theironworkstavern.com JAVA MADNESS | 401.788.0088 | 134 Salt Pond Rd, Wakefield | javamadness.com JOHN’S BLACKSTONE | 93 Clemence St, Providence | johnsblackstone. com JR’S BOURBON STREET ROCK HOUSE | 401.463.3080 | 1500 Oaklawn Ave, Cranston | mardigrasmulticlub.com KATRINA’S COUNTRY KITCHEN | 401.727.1090 | 502 Roosevelt Ave, Central Falls THE KNICKERBOCKER | 401.315.5070 | 35 Railroad Ave, Westerly | theknickerbockercafe.com LADDER 133 | 401.272.RIBS | 133 Douglas Ave, Providence | ladder133.com LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER | 877.82.RIVER | 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | twinriver.com LOCAL 121 | 401.274.2121 | 121 Washington St, Providence | local121.com THE LOCALS | 401.231.2231 | 11 Waterman Ave, North Providence LUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | 401.331.5876 | 79 Washington St, Providence | lupos.com THE MALTED BARLEY | 401.315.2184 |

42 High St, Westerly | themalted barleyri.com MARINER GRILL | 401.284.3282 | 142 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett | marinergrille.com MARLEY’S ON THE BEACH | 401.736.0400 | 885 Oakland Beach Rd, Warwick | marleysotb.com McNEIL’S TAVERN | 401.725.4444 | 888 Charles St, North Providence THE MEDIATOR | 401.461.3683 | 50 Rounds Ave, Providence MERRILL LOUNGE | 401.434.9742 | 535 North Broadway, East Providence THE MET | 401.729.1005 | 1005 Main St, Pawtucket | themetri.com MULHEARN’S | 401.438.9292 | 507 North Broadway, East Providence MURPHY’S LAW | 401.724.5522 | 2 George St, Pawtucket | murphys lawri.com NARRAGANSETT CAFE | 401.423.2150 | 25 Narragansett Ave, Jamestown | narragansettcafe.com/ NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | 401.841.5510 | 286 Thames St | newportblues. com NEWPORT GRAND | 401.849.5000 | 150 Admiral Kalbfus Rd, Newport | newportgrand.com NEWS CAFE | 401.728.6475 | 43 Broad St, Pawtucket NICK-A-NEE’S | 401.861.7290 | 75 South St, Providence NOREY’S | 401.847.4971 | 156 Broadway, Newport | noreys.com THE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | 401.710.7778 | 812 Putnam Pike, Glocester | facebook.com/TheNuttyScotsman OAK HILL TAVERN | 401.294.3282 | 565 Tower Hill Rd, North Kingstown | oakhilltavern.com OCEAN MIST | 401.782.3740 | 895 Matunuck Beach Rd, Matunuck | oceanmist.net OLIVES | 401.751.1200 | 108 North Main St, Providence | olivesrocks.com 133 CLUB | 401.438.1330 | 29 Warren Ave, East Providence ONE PELHAM EAST | 401.847.9460 | 270 Thames St, Newport | thepelham.com O’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | 401.228.7444 | 23 Peck Ln, Warwick | orourkesbarandgrill.com THE PARLOUR | 401.383.5858 | 1119 North Main St, Providence | facebook.com/ParlourRI PATRICK’S PUB | 401.751.1553 | 381 Smith St, Providence | patrickspubri.com PEARL LOUNGE | 401.331.3000 | 393

Charles St, Providence | pearl restaurant ri.com PERKS & CORKS | 401.596.1260 | 48 High St, Westerly | perksand corks.com PERRY’S BAR & GRILLE | 401.284.1544 | 104 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett | perrysbarandgrille.com POWERS PUB | 401.714.0655 | 27 Aborn St, Cranston | powerspub.com PVD SOCIAL CLUB | 71 Richmond St, Providence RALPH’S DINER | 508.753.9543 | 148 Grove St, Worcester, MA | myspace.com/ralphsdiner RHODE ISLAND BILLIARD BAR & BISTRO | 401.232.1331 | 2026 Smith St, North Providence | RIBBB.com RI RA | 401.272.1953 | 50 Exchange Terrace, Providence | rira.com THE ROCK JUNCTION | 401.385.3036 | 731 Centre of New England Blvd, West Greenwich | therock junctionri.com THE ROI | 401.272.2161 | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | theroiprov.com THE ROOTS | 276 Westminster St, Providence | 401.272.7422 | rootscafeprovidence.com THE SALON | 401.865.6330 | 57 Eddy St, Providence | thesalonpvd.com SIDEBAR BISTRO | 401.421.7200 | 127 Dorrance St, Providence | sidebar-bistro.com THE SPOT | 401.383.7133 | 101 Richmond St, Providence | thespotprovidence.com STELLA BLUES | 401.289.0349 | 50 Miller St, Warren | stellabluesri. com 39 WEST | 401.944.7770 | 39 Phenix Ave, Cranston | 39westri.com TINKER’S NEST | 401.245.8875 | 322 Metacom Ave, Warren TIPSY TOBOGGAN FIRESIDE PUB | 508.567.0550 | 75 Ferry St, Fall River, MA | thetipsytoboggan.com VANILLA BEAN CAFE | 860.928.1562 | Rts 44, 169 and 97, Pomfret, CT | thevanillabeancafe.com VINTAGE RESTAURANT | 401.765.1234 | 2 South Main St, Woonsocket | vintageri.com WARD’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 884.7008 | 3854 Post Rd, Warwick | wardspublickhouse.com WHAT CHEER TAVERN | 401.680.7639 | 228 New York Ave, Providence | whatcheertavern.com WHISKEY REPUBLIC | 401.588.5158 | 515 South Water St, Providence | TheWhiskeyRepublic.com

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Listings Continued from p 23 BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | Jan 11

10 pm at 95 Empire, 95 Empire St, Providence + Jan 13 6 pm at the Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd | $5 | bringyourownimprov.com DUELING COMIX PIANOS | 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15-$25 advance BOB MARLEY | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 26

THE COMEDY FACTORY with Larry

Norton + John Perrotta + Jimmy Jack + Mike Babalato + Christina Thomas + Bob Van Dyne + Kenny Nardozza + Derek Moore + Anthony Smith + Bernie Perrotty | 9 pm | Overtime Bar & Grille, 200 Front St, Lincoln | Free | 401.461.7896 | comedyfactoryri.com MEATBALL COMEDY STOP | Carousel Grille, 859 Oakland Beach Ave, Warwick | 401.921.3430 or thecarouselgrille.com IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs BOB MARLEY | See listing for Thurs ORLANDO BAXTER | See listing for Fri MIKE VECCHIONE | See listing for Fri JOE BRONZI + LARRY XL | See listing for Fri THE BIT PLAYERS | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 27

COMEDY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Come-

dy Connection, East Providence | $10 MIKE HANLEY | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $25 advance BRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | See listing for Fri

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Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $35, proceeds benefit Everett: Company, Stage, and School | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org THE JAMMIN’ DIVAS featuring Aoife Clancy, Becky Chace, Kath Buckell, and Hadar Noiberg | 8 pm | Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $15 | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org VANCE GILBERT + Joanne Lurgio | 8 pm | Stone Soup Coffeehouse, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 50 Park Pl, Pawtucket | $18 advance, $20 door | 401.921.5115 | stonesoupcoffeehouse. com SUSAN MCKEOWN | 8 pm | Common Fence Point Community Hall, 933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth | $20 advance, $23 door | 401.683.5085 | commonfencemusic.org

KRISTEN GRAVES, GLENN ROTH, AND LITTLE BLACK HEART, FEATURING KATHERINE QUINN | 7 pm

| Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $10 advance, $12 door [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com

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SUNDAY 27

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Spot, 101 RIchmond St, Providence | 401.383.7133 | thesalonpvd.com

COMEDY OPEN MIC HOSTED BY JAMES CREELMAN | 8:30 pm | The

Friday 1/25: FLASH MOB Saturday 1/26: UNCLE CHUBBY

SATURDAY 26

dium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $26 + $31 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com T.S. MONK SEXTET | 8 pm | Garde Arts Center, 325 State St, New London, CT | $38 + $48 | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org

TUESDAY 29

One of RI’s largest live music venue’s Live Entertainment Every Thursday-Sunday

Justin Levinson | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $42 advance, $45 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org KATHY MATTEA | 8 pm | Garde Arts Center, 325 State St, New London, CT | $38-$48 | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org ROCK STEADY + ROCK THIS WAY | [Bad Company & Aerosmith tributes] | 9 pm | Newport Grand Event Center, 150 Admiral Kalbfus Rd | $10 | 401.849.5000 | newportgrand.com

hosted by Pat Oates with Gary Alexis, Jered Buck, Joe Cook, Kevin DiCristifano, Patty Driscoll Gould, Jeremy Furtado, Rob Greene, Brett Johnson, Zach Livingston, Cezar Ostrowski, Ezra Prior, Jeff Wade, and Nick Yousif | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10 advance

THURSDAY 31

THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN | 8 pm

| Comedy Connection, East Providence | $30 THE COMEDY FACTORY with John Perrotta + Akessandra Grima + more | 8 pm | Sharx/505 Tapas Lounge, 505 Atwood Ave, Cranston | $10 | 401.464.8877 | comedyfactoryri.com CHRISTINA PAZSITZKY | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $20-$40 advance

FUNNIEST COMIC IN NEW ENGLAND CONTEST | See listing for Thurs IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs

WYNTON MARSALIS AND THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA | Part of the FirstWorks

Festival | 7 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $23-$68 | 401.421.4278 | first-works.org

LIVE AT BIRDLAND FEATURING THE BIRDLAND BIG BAND | 7:30

pm | Park Theatre, 848 Park Ave, Cranston | $22 + $27 | 401.467.7275 | parktheatreri.com

THE PROVIDENCE MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA | 3 pm | Lily Pads, 27

North Rd, Peace Dale | $12 | musicat lilypads.org

THURSDAY 31

THE HOT CLUB OF DETROIT | 7:30

pm | Garde Arts Center, 325 State St, New London, CT | $43 | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org JOHN MAYALL | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $45 advance, $50 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org

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film by Nicolas Philibert | 7:30 pm | The Meeting House, 3852 Main Rd, Tiverton | Free | 401.624.2600 | fourcornersarts.org

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THURSDAY 31

OPERA PROVIDENCE | See listing

MONDAY 28

THE WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA | See listing for Sat

DANCE PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 25

REHOBOTH CONTRA DANCE with caller Lisa Greenleaf and music

by Latter Day Lizards | 8 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | $8 | 508.252.5718 | contradancelinks.com/rehboth. html

EVENTS THURSDAY 24SUNDAY 27

FUNDA FEST 15: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK STORYTELLING featur-

ing Eshu Bumpus, Victoria Burnett, Teju Ologboni, Mitch “Gran’daddy Junebug” Capel, Queen Nur, Annawon Weeden, Valerie Tutson, Ramona Bass Kolobe, Rochel Coleman, Len Cabral, Raffini, and RPM Voices | The schedule: Jan 24 6:30 pm at the YWCA of RI, 514 Blackstone St, Woonsocket, a storytelling concert [$1, 401.769.7450] | Jan 25 7-10 pm at the Roots Cultural Center, 276 Westminster St, Providence, the 2nd Annual Liar’s Contest [storytelling and spoken word; $7, 401.272.7422] | Jan 26 at the Southside Cultural Center, 393 Broad St, Providence, FAMILY FUNday with performances, vendors, and a marketplace; free morning storytelling workshops for adults and children [10-11:30 am, free]; an afternoon cultural workshop [12:30-2 pm, free]; an afternoon family storytelling concert [2:30-3:30 pm, $1]; digital stories [4-7 pm; and an evening concert for adults [8 pm, $10] | Jan 27 2 pm at the Martin Luther King Center, 20 Marcus Wheatland Blvd, Newport, a family storytelling concert [donations accepted, 401.846.4828] | Beneficent Church, 300 Weybosset St, Providence | 401.421.RIBS | ribsfest.org

THURSDAY 31

2013 NORTHEAST INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW with cars + trucks

+ sport/utility vehicles + alternative fuel vehicles + more | Jan 31 + Feb 1 12-10 pm + Feb 2 10 am-10 pm + Feb 3 10 am-5 pm | Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin St, Providence | $9, $6 seniors, $5 students, $4 ages 7-12, free under 7 | providenceauto show.com

FILM THURSDAY 24

“CRIME: PULP, ART, AND HOLLYWOOD” | A monthly film series with

OPERA PROVIDENCE present “Opera Lover’s Favorites” | Fri 7 pm; Sun 3 pm | Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum, 101 Ferry Rd, Bristol | $40 | 401.331.6060 | operaprovidence. org

facilitator Ron Hagell | Today: M, the 1931 film directed by Fritz Lang | 6 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org

SATURDAY 26

FRIDAY 25

works by Schumann, Dvorak, and John Musto | 7:30 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | $15, $13 seniors, $6 students + children | 508.252.5718

| 11:45 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

THE BOSTON TRIO performing

THE WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA | The ensemble of young

Arab and Israeli musicians, with conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, will perform Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 on Jan 26, and Symphonies Nos. 1, 8, and 5 on Jan 28 | Sat + Mon 8 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $100 + $50 | 401.421.ARTS | news.

TRASHAREALLA ULTRA VIXEN MIDNIGHT | A film by Rena Riffel

SATURDAY 26

FRANK DIFFICULT PRESENTS some local shorts and a video rock show | 9 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $3 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

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A SCREENING OF TO BE AND TO HAVE [ETRE ET AVOIR], the 2002

“SWINDLERS IN LOVE: A VALENTINE’S FILM SERIES FOR CON MEN AND THEIR MARKS” | This week:

Trouble In Paradise, the 1932 film with Herbert Marshall and Kay Francis | 7 pm | Warwick Public Library, 600 Sandy Ln | Free | 401.739.5440 | warwicklibrary.org

READINGS THURSDAY 24

STUART BLAZER will read from his poetry | 6:30 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | Free | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsfarm.org

FRIDAY 25

DRS. LEANA WEN AND JOSHUA KOSOWSKY will read from their

book, When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | Free | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

MONDAY 28

DERF BACKDERF will discuss and sign his book, My Friend Dahmer | 8 pm | Metcalf Auditorium at the RISD Chace Center, 20 North Main St, Providence | Free | bookstore.brown. edu/events.html

HESTER KAPLAN AND MICHAEL STEIN will read from her new novel,

The Tell, and his book, The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year | 7 pm | Weaver Library, 41 Grove St, East Providence | Free | 401.435.1986 | eplib.org

TUESDAY 29

GOT POETRY LIVE! | 6 pm | Blue

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

THURSDAY 31

CHRYSTIA FREELAND will discuss

her new book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everybody Else, which focuses on the growing gap in income inequality within the past few decades | 5 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | 401.863.2809 | watsoninstitute.org/ events_detail.cfm?id=2005 KATE BERNHEIMER will read from her fiction | 2:30 pm | Brown University McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw

PROVIDENCE YOUTH POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire

St, Providence | Free | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

TALKS SATURDAY 26

“ATTEMPTING THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE: THE LAST GREAT MARITIME ADVENTURE” | A talk by Sprague Theobald, a filmmaker and author of The Other Side of the Ice: One Family’s Treacherous Journey Negotiating the Northwest Passage | 2 pm | Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave | $15, $6 students | 401.848.8200 | newport artmuseum.org

SUNDAY 27

“WOONSOCKET THEN AND NOW” | A talk by Jeff Emidy | 1:30 pm | Museum of Work and Culture, 42 South Main St, Woonsocket | Free | 401.769.9675 | rihs.org “THE CIVIL WAR IN 3D” | 4 pm | A presentation by John Wojtowicz, a member of the Photographic Historical Society of New England and an adjunct professor at Massasoit Community College | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | Free | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com

THURSDAY 31

“CULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF

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OUR GLOBAL FUTURE” | A talk

by Patricia O’Donnell of Heritage Landscapes in Charlotte, VT | 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 | uri.edu/cels/lar/ events.html

ART GALLERIES ALTA LUNA GALLERY |

401.688.0396 | 297 Hope St, Bristol | facebook.com/AltaLunaGallery |

Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through Feb 10: “Mid-Winter Blues,” a juried show and sale

ARTWORKS! DOWNSTAIRS GALLERY | 508.984.1588 | 384 Acushnet Ave, New Bedford, MA | artworksfor you.org | Mon-Sat 9 am-5 pm |

Through Feb 21: “Material Matters: Social Content Through Process and Materials,” with works by Mary Hurwitz, Kat Cope, Christian Kozaki, and Henry Daniel Gatlin AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Jan 26: “My Work Is Your Work, Your Work Is My Work,” by Scott Idermaur | “Make Your Mark,” by John Jacobson | New work by Eric Montgomery, Carlos de la Rosa and Leona Vaimage AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Jan 26: “I’m All In,” new work by Ben Watkins

BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

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

8 pm | Through Jan 24: “ALRI: New Work / New Year,” works by members of Art League Rhode Island BILL KRUL GALLERY | 401.782.1715 | 142 Boon St, Narragansett | billkrul gallery.com | Daily 10 am-8 pm | Through Jan 31: “The Vampire Chronicles,” illustrations by Corinne Adams | “My Way with Women,” photos by Bill Krul CADE TOMPKINS PROJECTS | 401.751.4888 | 198 Hope St, Providence | cadetompkins.com | Sat 10 am-6 pm + by appointment | Through Feb 28: “Double Legacy,” with drawings, prints, sculpture, and painting by artist pairs, including Nancy Friese and Sophiya Khwaja; Daniel Heyman and Stella Ebner; Julia Jacquette and Tedd Nash Pomaski; Dean Snyder and James Foster; and John Udvardy and Huckleberry Starnes CANDITA CLAYTON STUDIO | 401.533.8825 | 999 Main St, Unit 105, Pawtucket | canditaclaytonstudio. com | Wed 6-9 pm + by appointment + chance | Jan 25-Mar 6: “Through Time,” works by Kate Blacklock

CHAZAN GALLERY AT WHEELER

| 401.421.9230 | 228 Angell St, Providence | chazangallery.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 2-4 pm | Through Jan 31: new work by Peter Diepenbrock and Jason Fiering CRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St, Providence | craftland shop.com | Through Jan 30: “11th Annual Holiday Show” 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 Feb 17: “Until the Kingdom Comes,” photographs by Simen Johan DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 138 Bellevue Ave, Newport | deblois gallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Jan 31: “Glass Exhibition” DONOVAN GALLERY | 401.624.4000 | 3895 Main Rd, Tiverton | donovan gallery.com | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through Jan 30: “Holiday Exhibit,” with works by local artists

HOXIE GALLERY AT THE WESTERLY LIBRARY | 401.596.2877 | 44 Broad St | westerlylibrary.org |

Through Jan 30: “A Tapestry of Quilts,” designed and constructed

by Barbara W. Barber JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestownartcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Feb 8: “The First Annual Jamestown Arts Center Design Expo,” with works by DWRI Letterpress, Estes Twombly Architects, Ezra Smith Design, Focal Upright Furniture, groundSwell Designs, Hasbro, JAC Youth Design Studio, Jeff Soderbergh, Katherine Field and Associates, Lakuna Design, MAGUIRE Art Design, Mars Made, OCTO PD, Packaging 2.0, S. Barzin Architect, Studio Dunn, taste, Thames & Kosmos, and Ximedica KRAUSE GALLERY | 401.831.7350 x 174 | In the Jenks Center at Moses

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

8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through Feb 1: “Touch of the Absurd,” works by Lisa Barthelson, Daniel Long, and Lucy Sceery

PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE GALLERY | 175 Main St | pawtucketartscollaborative.org |

Mon-Sat 10 am to 5 pm | Through Feb 22: “Past Present & Future,” with works by Robert W. Easton, Mimo Gordon Riley, Timothy McCarthy, Paul Hitchen, Jules, Eileen McCarney Muldoon, Nancy Gaucher-Thomas, Cindy Horovitz Wilson, John Fazzino, Gretchen Dow Simpson, Mary Ann Rossoni, Ewa Roselli, Paul M. Murray, Charles Morgan, Jean Patiky, Rob Mariani, Karen Rand Anderson, Ian Mohon, Sarah Roche, Marjorie Ball, Reed McLaren, Michele Mennucci, Kristin Street, Marc A. Jaffe, Bonnie Jaffe, Lucy B. Stevens, Mickey Ackerman, Steve Mason, David Kendrick, and Nathan Gurvitch

PORTSMOUTH ARTS GUILD GALLERY | 401.293.5ART | 2679

East Main Rd | portsmouth artsguild. org | Fri-Sun 1-5 pm | Jan 26- Feb 3: “Student Show”

PROVIDENCE ART CLUB |

401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providenceartclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-

4 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Feb 1: “Members’ Exhibition 2013”

REILLY GALLERY AT PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | 401.865.2400 | 549 River

Ave, Providence | providence.edu/art/ reilly | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm | Through

Jan 31: “Describing Volumes,” works by James Watkins

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876

| Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | riws.org | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through Jan 24: works by artists from Flying Shuttles Studio | Jan 27-Feb 21: “New Artist Member 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 Feb 9: “Members’ Invitational”

UMASS DARTMOUTH ART GALLERY | 508.999.8555 | 715 Purchase

St, New Bedford, MA | umassd.edu/ universityartgallery | Daily 9 am-6 pm | Through Jan 27: “Miles and Miles of Things I’ve Never Seen,” photographs by Frank Gohlke

URI FEINSTEN CAMPUS GALLERY

| 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | MonThurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5 pm | Jan 21-Feb 28: “Rhode Island’s African-American Community: From the Colonial Period to the Present,” with fine art, photographs, documents, and artifacts from museums, historical societies, and private collections

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 Jan 27: “Rhode Island Watercolor Society Showcase Show” YELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Provi-dence | yellowperilgallery.com | Through Feb 10: “Vanish,” a collection of multi-media photography, video, and installation by Maralie

MUSEUMS NEWPORT ART MUSEUM |

401.848.8200 | 76 Bellevue Ave | newportartmuseum.org | Tues-Sat 11

am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students + military with ID; free under 6 | Through May 5: “Legacies In Paint: The Mentor Project,” with work from a four-month mentoring project with mid- to late-career Rhode Island painters [Paula Martiesian, David Barnes, Michele Provost, John Riedel, and Ida Schmulowitz] and younger painters [Buck Hastings, Mollie Hosmer-Dillard, Li Jun Lai, Erika Sabel, and Dan Talbot] RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Benefit St, Providence | risdmuseum. org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm [Thurs until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am–1 pm | Through Feb 24: “Everyday Things: Contemporary Works from the Collection” | Through May 19: “Grisgorious Places: Edward Lear’s Travels” | Through June 9: “RISD Business: Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Alejandro Diaz” | Through June 30: “Double-and-Add,” works by Angela Bulloch, Anthony McCall, and Haroon Mirza | Through July 14: “The Festive City,” an exhibit of rarely seen prints and books that provide a glimpse into the festivals of early modern Europe

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Junior High School, Division St, Pawtucket | Through Jan 27: I Hate Ham-

let, by PaulRudnick | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $15, $12 students CONTEMPORARY THEATRE | 327 Main St, Wakefield | Jan 25-Feb 9: “Synonyms For Bizarre: A Night of Short Plays by Davidb Marchetti,” | Fri-Sat 7 pm | $7 GAMM THEATRE | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre.org | 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | Through Feb 24: Anne Boleyn, by Howard Brenton | This week: Jan 24-26 8 pm; Jan 27 2 + 7 pm; Jan 30 7 pm; Jan 31 8 pm | $36 + $45

LITTLE THEATRE OF FALL RIVER AT THE FIREBARN | 508.675.1852

| littletheatre.net | 340 Prospect St, Fall River, MA | Through Jan 27: Dinner with Friends, by Donald Margulies | Thurs 7:30 pm; Fri + Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $16, $14 students + seniors, $10 under 13 95 EMPIRE BLACK BOX | 95 Empire St, Providence | Jan 31-Feb 3 8 pm: Modern Gloom presents Scenes from Scenes From a Marriage | $TBA NEWPORT ART MUSEUM | 401.848.8200 | newportartmuseum. org | 76 Bellevue Ave | Jan 26 5:30 pm: The Marley Bridges Theatre Company presents A Diamond In the Rough, part of “Murder At the Museum,” an interactive theater experience | $25, $13 youth

OCEAN STATE THEATRE COMPANY | 401.921.1777 | oceanstatetheatre. org | 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick

| Through Feb 10: Fools, by Neil Simon | This week: Jan 24 26 + 31 2 + 7:30 pm; Jan 25 + 30 7:30 pm; Jan 27 2 pm | $30-$47 [preview Jan 24 $30] 2ND STORY THEATRE | 401.247.4200 | 2ndstorytheatre.com | 28 Market St, Warren | Through Feb 17: Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer | This week: Jan 24 7 pm; Jan 25 + 26 8 pm; Jan 27 3 + 7 pm; Jan 31 7 pm | $25, $20 under 22

TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY

| 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com | 201 Washington St, Providence | Through Feb 24: Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus | This week: Jan 24-26 + 29 + 31 7:30 pm; Jan 27 + 30 2 + 7:30 pm | $15-$68 THE WILBURY GROUP |

401.400.7100 | thewilburygroup.org | At the Butcher Block Mill, 25 Eagle St, Providence | Through Feb 9: The Elab-

orate Entrance of Chad Deity, by Kirstoffer Diaz | Thurs-Sat [plus Sun Jan 27] 7:30 pm | $25, $20 students + seniors [previews Jan 24-26 $20/$15] YOUR THEATRE | 508.993.0772 | yourtheatre.org | 136 Rivet St, New Bedford, MA | Through Jan 27: Woman In Mind, by Alan Ayckbourn | Thurs-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2:30 pm | $15

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BROKEN CITY | Thurs: 1:15, 4:30, 7:15 9:45 THE LAST STAND | Thurs: 4:45, 7:30, 10 MAMA | Thurs: 1:55, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20 GANGSTER SQUAD | Thurs: 11, 1:30, 4:40, 7:25, 10:25 A HAUNTED HOUSE | Thurs: 10:45, 1:40, 3:40, 5:55, 8, 10:05 ZERO DARK THIRTY | Thurs: 12:15, 1:45, 3:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:30, 9:25, 10:25 THE IMPOSSIBLE | Thurs: 11:10, 1:50, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 TEXAS CHAINSAW | Thurs: 6:05, 8:15 DJANGO UNCHAINED | Thurs: 10:40, 12:50, 4:10, 7:30, 9:55 LES MISÉRABLES | Thurs: 10:35, 12:45, 4, 7:10, 9:50 PARENTAL GUIDANCE | Thurs: 11:05, 1:20, 4:20, 7, JACK REACHER | Thurs: 2, 7:40 THIS IS 40 | Thurs: 4:50, 10:30 THE GUILT TRIP | Thurs: 1:05, 3:50 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY | Thurs: 12:35, 6:30 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | Thurs: 10:50, 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 LINCOLN | Thurs: 12:40, 3:40, 6:45

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THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER | Thurs: 7:10, 9:40 THE GUILT TRIP | Starts Fri: 12:50, 2:55, 5:20, 7:30, 9:35 JACK REACHER | Starts Fri: 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 PROMISED LAND | 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS | 1, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25 SKYFALL | 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 FLIGHT | Thurs: 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 | Fri-Thurs: 6:50, 9:30 WRECK-IT RALPH | 12:30, 2:40, 5, 7:15, 9:25 TAKEN 2 | 7:40, 9:40 HERE COMES THE BOOM | 1:10, 3:20, 5:30 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA | 1:05, 3, 4:55

ENTERTAINMENT CINEMAS

30 Village Square Dr, South Kingstown | 401.792.8008

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY | Thurs: 3, 9 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS | Starts Fri: 12:15, 2:20, 4:25, 7:35, 9:40 MOVIE 43 | Starts Fri: 12:20, 3:45, 7:05, 9:50 BROKEN CITY | 12:45, 3:30, 7, 9:30 THE LAST STAND | 4:10, 9:40 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1, 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 GANGSTER SQUAD | Thurs: 12:50, 3:45, 7:05, 9:50 | Fri-Thurs: 12:40, 7:15 ZERO DARK THIRTY | Thurs: 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:35 | Fri-Thurs: 12, 3:25, 7:25 LES MISÉRABLES | 12:30, 3:55, 7:30 LINCOLN | 12:50, 4:05, 7:20

FAIRY TALE Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.

ISLAND CINEMAS 10 105 Chase Ln, Middletown | 401.847.3456

A HAUNTED HOUSE | Thurs: 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 9:50 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS | Starts Fri: 12:20, 2:20, 4:20, 7:40, 9:50 MOVIE 43 | Starts Fri: 1, 4, 7, 9:20 PARKER | Starts Fri: 12:40, 3:30, 7:20, 9:55 BROKEN CITY | 12:50, 3:40, 7:30 9:55 THE LAST STAND | 4:10, 9:45 MAMA | 1:10, 3:50, 7:25, 9:40 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 GANGSTER SQUAD | 1:10, 7:10 ZERO DARK THIRTY | 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:35 DJANGO UNCHAINED | Thurs: 12:30, 4, 8 | Fri-Thurs: 3:05, 9:25 LES MISÉRABLES | Thurs: 12:20, 3:30, 7 | Fri-Thurs: 12, 6:20 LINCOLN | 12:15, 3:15, 6:35, 9:35

JANE PICKENS THEATER 49 Touro St, Newport | 401.846.5252

MOONRISE KINGDOM | Thurs [1.24]: 4:45, 7 QUARTET | Starts Fri-Sun: 2:30, 4:45, 7 | Mon-Thurs: 4:45, 7 CHARLIE IS MY DARLING | Fri: 9:15 LA BOHEME AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE | Sun: 11 am

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THE IMPOSSIBLE | Thurs: 1:40, 4:35, 7:20, 10:20 LINCOLN | Thurs: 12:55, 4:10, 7:30 TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D | Thurs: 7:40, 10:15 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS 3D | Starts Fri: 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS | Starts Fri: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10 | FriSat late show: 12:15 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45 MOVIE 43 | Starts Fri: 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 PARKER | Starts Fri: 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05 BROKEN CITY | 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 THE LAST STAND | 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 MAMA | 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:35, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 ARGO | Thurs: 12:25, 6:30 | Fri-Thurs: 6:30, 9:15 GANGSTER SQUAD | 12:55, 3:55, 7:10, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 A HAUNTED HOUSE | Thurs: 12:45, 1:15, 2:55, 3:25, 5:05, 5:35, 7:25, 7:55, 9:35, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:25, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40 ZERO DARK THIRTY | 11:45, 3:05, 6:35, 9:55 DJANGO UNCHAINED | 12:40, 4:20, 7:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:25 LES MISÉRABLES | 12:15, 4:05, 7:50 |

Fri-Sat late show: 11:10 PARENTAL GUIDANCE | Thurs: 12:35, 2:50, 5:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 3:50 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1:10, 4, 6:55, 10:05 LIFE OF PI | 12:25, 3:30, 6:20

SHOWCASE CINEMAS SEEKONK ROUTE 6 Seekonk Square, Seekonk, MA | 508.336.6789

A HAUNTED HOUSE | Thurs: 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:30, 10:30 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS 3D | Starts Fri: 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:30, 10:05 MOVIE 43 | Starts Fri: 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:20 THE LAST STAND | Thurs: 1, 3:55, 7:20, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 10:30 pm MAMA | Thurs: 12:25, 2:50, 5:5, 7:40, 10:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 GANGSTER SQUAD | 1:05, 4:05, 7 ZERO DARK THIRTY | 12:25, 3:45, 7:05, 9:40 DJANGO UNCHAINED | 12:50, 4:20, 7:50 LES MISÉRABLES | 1:10, 4:35, 7:55 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY | 12:35, 4:10, 7:45 LINCOLN | 1:15, 4:25, 7:35

SHOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK 1200 Quaker Ln | 401.885.1621

DJANGO UNCHAINED | Thurs: 11:30, 3, 6:35, 10:10 THE GUILT TRIP | Thurs: 11:35, 2, 4:35 JACK REACHER | Thurs: 9:40 THIS IS 40 | Thurs: 9 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS 3D | Starts Fri: 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 5:15, 7, 7:30, 9:15, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:30, 12 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS | Starts Fri: 12:45, 3 MOVIE 43 | Starts Fri: 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:40, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 PARKER | Starts Fri: 1:15, 4:10, 7:35, 10:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 BROKEN CITY | Thurs: 1:25, 4:20, 7:25, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 | FriSat late show: 12:25 THE LAST STAND | Thurs: 1:15, 4:05, 7, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 10:30 MAMA | 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 GANGSTER SQUAD | 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 A HAUNTED HOUSE | Thurs: 2:50, 5, 7:40, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 10:30 pm ZERO DARK THIRTY | Thurs: 12:05, 12:35, 3:25, 3:55, 6:45, 7:15, 10:05, 10:35| Fri-Thurs: 11:30, 12, 3:15, 3:45, 6:45, 7:10, 10:05 LES MISÉRABLES | Thurs: 12, 3:20, 6:50, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 12:30, 3:50, 7:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 11 PARENTAL GUIDANCE | 1:30, 4:05 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY | 11:45, 3:20, 6:55 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 12:55, 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 LINCOLN | 11:50, 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 ARGO | 6:55, 9:40* [*no show Jan 24] | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20

THE GUILT TRIP | Thurs: 4:20, 6:40 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS 3D | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:45, 5, 5:30, 7:30, 8, 10, 10:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS | Starts Fri: 1, 3:15 MOVIE 43 | Starts Fri: 11:50, 2:10, 4:40, 7:45, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 PARKER | Starts Fri: 1:15, 4, 7, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 THE LAST STAND | Thurs: 1:10, 4, 7, 9:35 | Fri-Thurs: 10:10 pm MAMA | Thurs: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:45, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:20, 7:35, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 GANGSTER SQUAD | 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 A HAUNTED HOUSE | 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 6:55* [*Jan 24 only 7:40], 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:50 ZERO DARK THIRTY | Thurs: 12, 3:30, 6:50, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 12:20, 3:55, 7:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45 DJANGO UNCHAINED | Thurs: 11:40, 3:15, 6:45, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 12:40, 4:15, 7:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:30 LES MISÉRABLES | 11:35, 3, 6:30, 9:50 PARENTAL GUIDANCE | 11:45, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 THIS IS 40 | 7:15 MONSTERS, INC. 3D | Thurs: 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 11:30, 2, 4:30 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY | Thurs: 11:50, 3:25, 7:30 | Fri-Thurs: 9:30

SHOWCASE CINEMAS NORTH ATTLEBORO

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DJANGO UNCHAINED | Thurs: 4:25, 7:50 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS 3D | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15 | FriSat late show: 9:30 MOVIE 43 | Starts Fri: 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 10 PARKER | Starts Fri: 1:2, 4:20, 7 | FriSat late show: 9:35 BROKEN CITY | Thurs: 1:10, 4:05, 7 | Fri-Thurs: 1:05, 4:30, 7:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:35 THE LAST STAND | Thurs: 1:30, 4:40, 7:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:30 MAMA | Starts Fri: 1:30, 4:25, 7:30 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | Thurs: 1:35, 4:30, 7:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 4, 6:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:50 GANGSTER SQUAD | 6:55 A HAUNTED HOUSE | 12:50, 3:05, 5:10, 7:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:55 ZERO DARK THIRTY | Thurs: 12:30, 3:50, 7:10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:55, 4:15, 7:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:40 LES MISÉRABLES | 12:45, 4:05, 7:25 PARENTAL GUIDANCE | Thurs: 1:10, 4:30, 7:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:05, 4, 7:25 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY | 12:30, 4, 7:30 LINCOLN | Thurs: 12:35, 3:40, 7 | FriThurs: 1, 4:10, 7:20

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ARGO | Thurs: 6:40, 9:25 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS 3D | Starts Fri: 2, 4, 4:30, 7:30, 9:20, 9:50 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS | Starts Fri: 1:30, 7 MOVIE 43 | Starts Fri: 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 PARKER | Starts Fri: 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY | Starts Fri: 1:10 BROKEN CITY | 1:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35* [*no show Jan 31] THE LAST STAND | Thurs: 1:50, 4:30, 7:20 | Fri-Thurs: 9 MAMA | Thurs: 2, 4:40, 7:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1:55, 4:25, 7:35, 9:55* [*no show Jan 31] SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1:20, 4, 6:50, 9:30 GANGSTER SQUAD | Thurs: 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 4:45, 7:25, 10 A HAUNTED HOUSE | Thurs: 2:15, 4:50, 7:40 | Fri-Thurs: 2:05, 4:35, 7:15, 9:25 ZERO DARK THIRTY | Thurs: 2:05, 5:25, 9 | Fri-Thurs: 1:45, 5:05, 9:05 LES MISÉRABLES | 1:15, 4:50, 8:50 LINCOLN | Thurs: 2:10, 5:35, 9:15 | FriThurs: 1:25, 5

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When you have the Kennedys and the Koch brothers on the same side of an issue, it’s hard to know what to think. That’s just one of the paradoxes of the Cape Wind clean-energy project, a plan proposed in 2001 to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. As related in John Kirby and Robbie Gemmel’s rollicking documentary, two groups battled for 10 years over the proposal, one made up of residents who protested the despoliation of their pristine waterway, the other environmentalists fighting for clean energy sources.

But who were these groups, really: where did they get their money and what were their agendas? The filmmakers employ the usual talking heads but spice it up with snippets of goofy archival footage that sometimes seem more insipid than ironic. Nonetheless, a dizzying look into the deceptive world of political activism, worth it for a glimpse at the making of a Daily Show segment alone. _Peter Keough

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99 minuteS | Jane pickenS At age 75, actor Dustin Hoffman is a graduate at last to directing a film, and he takes it slow and easy with his initial foray behind the camera. Very veteran British actors nibble on the scenery in this pleasant, harmless adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s 1999 middlebrow play set in a retirement home for ex-opera performers. As one can surmise, each character is delightfully eccentric, none more so than the self-absorbed one-time diva (reliable Maggie Smith) whose sudden arrival

at the home causes havoc. Will she, or won’t she, have a rapprochement with the ex-husband (Tom Courtenay) whom she walked out on? Will she, or won¹t she, join the others on stage in a quartet rendition of Verdi? Not to worry: it all unravels splendidly in this teeth-in-a-glass comedic drama. _Gerald Peary

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107 minuteS | cinema world + entertainment + iSland + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 Rather than scapegoat Hollywood for causing gun violence, the NRA should encourage films like this lighthearted bloodbath. Looking more like Reno 911 than Seal Team Six, the FBI gets its ass kicked when ninja commandos break a Mexican drug cartel kingpin out of custody. As the fugitive roars to the border in a Corvette that cruises at 200 MPH, nothing can stop him except Sheriff Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger) of Sommerton Junction, AZ, and his handful of deputies.

Who needs the Feds when you’ve got the Terminator, a crew of local heroes, and a kook gun collector with enough ordinance to fight the Battle of the Bulge? That Second Amendment sure kicks ass. Korean director Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil) here does hackwork — literally, with Owens cutting thugs in two with a 1939 Vickers machine gun. “I’ve seen enough blood and death,” he intones. “I know what’s coming.” So do we: he’s back. _Peter Keough

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BROKEN CITY

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DELIGHTFULLY ECCENTRIC Maggie Smith in Quartet.

To paraphrase Roman Polanski’s masterful noir, it’s not Chinatown. Not for lack of trying, though, as burly gumshoe and disgraced excop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) initiates a creaky, convoluted plot by taking 50 grand from lubricious New York mayor Hostetler (Russell Crowe) to find out who’s shtupping Hizzoner’s wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Before you can say Noah Cross, Billy finds himself drawn into a maelstrom of corruption, shady real estate deals, extortion, murder, and half-baked dialogue. This, plus the ordeal of watching his actress wife get humped in an “indie” movie, drives the recovering alcoholic Taggert back to the Jameson bottle, allowing Wahlberg to stir from his inertia and draw on his explosive physicality. Meanwhile, director Allen Hughes tries to be “indie” himself by pointlessly circling the camera around random scenes. Jeffrey Wright distinguishes himself in the star-heavy cast as the morally ambiguous police commissioner; for his reward he gets the best line in the film. _Peter Keough

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providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 This creepy Guillermo Del Toro-produced horror flick (his hallmarks are all around the smudgy edges) demonstrates convincingly that step-parenting is a real bitch. Especially when a deranged she-demon from beyond the grave has laid all the groundwork. The step-mom is Annabelle (Jessica Chastain, miles away from The Help or Zero Dark Thirty) who couldn’t be less maternal, as she swigs beer straight from the bottle and jams out with her punk rock pals. Alas, motherhood is thrust upon her when her artist boyfriend’s orphaned nieces, long given up for dead, are discovered living alone in the woods like grubby changelings. Annabelle does her best to put up with — and eventually care for — the two girls, but it becomes increasingly obvious that someone . . . or something . . . has gotten there first. First-time director Andrés Muschietti makes the scares in Mama too obvious to be effective, but the quiet in-between times suggest genuine horror, as the hapless Annabelle tries to undo some seriously fucked-up pre-parenting. _Alexandra Cavallo

FAlso Playing BEWARE OF MR. BAKER | 2012 |

From IMDB: “Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.” | 92m |

XXXW DJANGO UNCHAINED

| 2012 | With Inglourious Basterds,

Quentin Tarantino rewrote the end of World War II, going big as he reduced Hitler to something very small. Now, Tarantino reconfigures that classic American genre, the western, setting his new film in the Deep South, creating what he terms a “Southern,” while infusing it with the spaghetti sensibilities of Sergio Leone (director of Tarantino’s favorite film, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly) and, more so, the genre grit of that other Sergio, Corbucci (director of 1966’s Django, naturally). Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz, devouring Tarantino’s dialogue as much as he did in his Oscar-winning turn in Basterds) “purchases” the shackled Django (a whip-scarred Jamie Foxx) with a couple of well-placed blasts from his concealed hand-cannon.

King, a bounty hunter who is as much a dentist as Doc Holliday, takes on Django as his protégé, with a goal of rescuing Django’s long-lost wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), who’s the property of powerful plantation proprietor Calvin Candie

(Leonardo DiCaprio, oozing sleaze).

Things are slow at points. But it doesn’t make the film feel overlong.

Instead, it’s the calm before the shitstorm, when Tarantino takes the chains off, and the real carnage begins. | 165m |

FUNERAL KINGS | 2012 | The win-

ner of the Best Feature award at the 2012 Rhode Island International Film Festival, Funeral Kings was written and directed by Warwick natives Matthew and Kevin McManus and features dozens of local actors and locations. They say it’s “a dark comedy about three booze drinking, cigarette smoking, foulmouthed altar boys, whose irreverent personalities eventually put them in a situation that is too big for them to handle.” | 85m |

XXX GANGSTER SQUAD | 2013 |

In the history of Hollywood violence, Gangster Squad scored a footnote when it was pulled from a September release, after the Aurora shooting for a scene in which gangsters machine-gunned their way through the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre screen.

You can’t help wondering if director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) cried at that snip. That’s the kind of sick joke that gets him going. This is not to say that Gangster Squad stints on violence: we first meet former Bugsy Siegel lieutenant Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) drawing-and-halving

some poor schnook behind the Hollywoodland sign. Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) is out to stop this psychopathic racketeer, and LAPD Chief “Whiskey Bill” Parker (Nick Nolte) has suggested he leave his badge at home and form an off-thebooks team, using his WWII guerrilla training to take down Cohen.

Gangster Squad is no L.A. Confidential, nor is it much of a history lesson, compressing some 15 years into a few months. But it’s a diverting look at police work pre-Miranda Rights. And if Fleischer’s gallows humor feels out of place and his aestheticized bloodbaths distasteful, blame your discomfort on the off-screen debate that has rendered Hollywood no longer untouchable. | 113m |

HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS | 2013 | Jeremy Renner and

Gemma Arterton star as the titular siblings of fairy tale lore. Set 15 years from the infamous gingerbread house incident, the two have grown into vengeful bounty hunters dedicated on exterminating witches.

Tommy Wirkola directs. | 88m |

XXW LES MISÉRABLES | 2012 |

For his adaptation of the kitschfest known as Les Miz, Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) bets heavily on his cast, and mostly wins. His musical strategy is to have the singing done live on set, and to have the camera bore in on the actors, especially

during solos. The singing does indeed have immediacy, and the close-ups give the audience intimacy with the characters. Hugh Jackman, as Jean Valjean, voices big themes of guilt and redemption with the hityou-over-the-head lyrics, but what he personally brings to the role is a restless physicality. Anne Hathaway is raw and touching and sings like an angel as Fantine, the doomed factory girl, and Samantha Barks is terrific as street-smart Éponine. We all lose with Russell Crowe’s constipated performance as Valjean’s pursuer, Javert. But the piece isn’t only about individuals; it’s also about a people’s rebellion played out against a satisfying backdrop of 19th-century Parisian filth. | 158m | XX LINCOLN | 2012 | Shot in sepia tints, with detailed period sets and ornate facial hair, the tableaux vivants that constitute Steven Spielberg’s wry hagiography resemble Mathew Brady daguerreotypes, and are about as lively. Focusing on the passage of the 13th Amendment (which gave former slaves the rights of citizens) and showing how shady means can achieve a noble end, this stolid effort doesn’t draw much vitality from screenwriter Tony Kushner’s florid dialogue. He waxes Shakespearean with his rhetoric, and some scenes, like a row between the President and First Lady (Sally Field), would have played nicely on the Ford Theatre stage in 1865. As

a history lesson, it beats the slide shows of Ken Burns. Having the most Oscar-pandering cast of the year helps — like Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role. But except for some domestic stress, this Lincoln doesn’t develop much beyond being a genial blowhard. Even the conflict of resorting to dubious tactics doesn’t ruffle his sanctity. | 159m |

MOVIE 43 | 2013 | Director Peter

Farrelly handpicked a cast of 12 other directs — including the likes of Elizabeth Banks, Bob Odenkirk, and Brett Ratner — to each direct a different storyline in this over-the-top comedic farce. Notable cast members include Gerard Butler, Kate Winslet, Emma Stone, and Hugh Jackman. | 97m |

PARKER | 2013 |

Jason Statham action vehicle in which he stars as the eponymous professional thief set on getting revenge on his disloyal crew.

Taylor Hackford directs, while Jennifer Lopez and Michael Chiklis also star. | 118m |

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2012 | Zero Dark Thirty begins in terror and ends in despair. The first image is a black screen with the date “September 11, 2001,” and a background sound of panicked, doomed voices on cell phones. The last shot is of one person in tears. In between, director Kathryn Bigelow and screen-

writer Mark Boal depict the failures and successes, the shame and triumph of 10 years in the War on Terror. Densely detailed, superbly shot and acted, illuminating and thrilling, it is the best film of 2012.

Every epic needs a hero, and here Maya (Jessica Chastain), uneasily fills the role. She enters the film as one of the CIA agents watching the interrogation of Ammar (Reda Kateb), a detainee. At first she shows the revulsion that most would feel watching a person being tortured and humiliated. But once she fills a bucket for the waterboarding, she’s implicated. With more experience, her revulsion gives way to routine. That’s a feeling viewers might not share, though perhaps they, too, are implicated. Shot with the handheld, precisely edited immediacy that Bigelow demonstrated in The Hurt Locker, this procedural is exhausting and exciting. And though we know how it ends, do we know what it means? | 156m |

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