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6 the station fire: 10 years after _ david scharfe n b erg

A decade ago, a fire tore through the nightclub in West Warwick — killing 100, injuring 200 more, and singeing the lives of thousands of New Englanders. In a roundtable discussion, four authors reflect on the tragedy.

16 homegrown product _by chris con ti

Naturally complicated: more eccentric wordplay from esh the monolith. Plus, on page 14, get “Off the Couch” and go see the coming weak and torn shorts.

17 art _by chri s cont i

Objects of desire: “love nest” at Craftland and ian cozzens at AS220.

24 film

“Short Takes” on a good day to die hard, escape from planet earth, safe haven, and beautiful creatures.

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

ST EvE WEIg L

The pontiff’s pension ploy | Help from above | A meditation on the Station | Genius time

online exclusives! F Man’s Man! Ron Swanson is the affable curmudgeon on NBc’s Parks and Recreation. Nick Offerman, the man who plays him, is one of the funniest parts of the show, which is saying something since he shares the screen with Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari. Read a Q&A with Nick at thePhoenix.com.

6 4 the city _by der f 7 6 this Just in 10

On climate change, Senator Whitehouse plays the shame game | Mr. Cutler goes to Copenhagen

12 dining Golden Chopstix serves some yummy 11 dim sum in Westerly. 14 8 days a week Mavis Staples, the French Film 12 Festival, “Navigation Paintings,” “Story/Line,” and more.

26 moon signs 30 _ by symb o l in e da i 26 Jonesin’ _puzzle by matt Jones 30 providence

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phillipe + Jorge’s cool, cool World

Pontiff’s Pension Ploy The PoPe cashes ouT; a nod To salTy; The Police bloTTer Phillipe and Jorge have conducted

an extensive investigation into f Pope Benny Andajets’ decision to resign

from his exalted post, and we’ve discovered that the first Catholic pontiff to bail since the 1400s has done so for one reason and one reason only: he has a pisser pension deal he wants to cash in on. Evidently Pope Benny’s pension will pay him a million euros annually, with benefits including Swiss Guard therapeutic massage and red shoe replacement for life. We’ve also learned he’s been shopping for a McMansion in one of Donald Trump’s gated, West Palm Beach retirement communities. But it turns out the Vatican’s financial chief, Gino Raimondonoyouwont, is challenging the pension scam. He accuses Pope Benny of an unholy trinity: His Holiness, it seems, is already collecting a pension from the College of Cardinals (nancyboys.com) and his home parish in Germany, Hitlerputz, both under the alias of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger. “The Vatican is facing tough financial times,” said Raimondonoyouwont. “Do you know how much a mitre costs these days? Plus, the hourly rate for pool and cabana boys just went up by 50 percent, and you can imagine how much that is going to cost us with all these guys we’ve forced out still hanging around in their apartments.” The fiscal watchdog did not name any names, but said, “Bernard Law will know who I am talking about.” The Pope has employed the law firm of Jenu, Flect & Down to defend his right to the pension deal he cut when he took the job. His personal attorney, Neil Down, and Down’s paralegal, Ben Dover, will represent him. Said Down, “There is plenty of precedent in religious circles for this type of pension arrangement. People forget that Jesus himself created the first union pension fund for Apostles #13 Local, and they even paid out to Judas when he retired. And the Son of God’s extended family benefits allowed Mary Magdalene to live out her life in comfort before dying peacefully at Calvary Hill Nursing Home at age 92.” When P&J contacted Pope Benny at the Vatican, he would only say, “I’ll be buggered if I know why they won’t give me the money I was guaranteed.”

Help from above

The best headline of the Blizzard of 2013 comes from the February 12 edition of the Urinal: “Salty brine clears R.I. roads.” We don’t know if a copy editor typed up this header to win a newsroom bet, but P&J loved it. We imagine the late Salty Brine, the radio legend who made “Schools closed, Foster-Glocester!” a classic line, is keeping an eye on The Biggest Little, wherever he is. And he surely appreciated the tip of the hat. Add an “arf” from Jeff as well. And if

you don’t know who Salty Brine and Jeff are, we’re not going to help you. But at least you’ve got some youth on your venerable columnists.

a meDITaTIoN oN THe STaTIoN If you saw Karen Lee Ziner’s gripping and powerful story in Sunday’s BeloJo

THe CITy _by d er F

or the cover of this week’s Phoenix, you know that February 20 marks 10 years since The Station nightclub fire, one of the worst tragedies in recent Rhode Island history. The nature of our community is such that nearly everyone who has lived here for any length of time was touched in

some way — a friend or a family member or someone you went to school with or worked with perished or was horribly burned. On the anniversary, there will be a commemorative event at the First Baptist Church, 75 North Main Street, Providence at 9:30 pm. “Station Nation: A Reflection on the Station Nightclub Fire” will feature “performing artists from throughout the country and Canada,” with “dramatic texts, dance performances and songs.” This event is free and, if you wish to learn more about it and others surrounding the anniversary, go to stationmeditation.tumblr.com.

valeNTINe’S Day

The Phoenix hits the streets on Valentine’s Day. And there are a number of events throughout the Biggest Little that don’t involve the exchange of greeting cards and chocolate. Your superior correspondents are especially intrigued by one featuring fabulous singer and karaoke diva Adrienne West titled “Valentines Day Sucks.” The show is at the LA Cafe (that’s Lower Arctic) in the love capital of the world, West Warwick.

GeNIuS TIme

Yes, February is Genius Time in the Biggest Little. This week, Central Falls genius Chuckie Moreau, the former mayor, was sentenced for his ridiculous and brazen bilking of his poverty-stricken city. Somehow, his no-bid contractor pal and partner in crime, Michael Bouthillette, got no time and, instead, was given a six-figure fine and 2000 hours of community service. Sic semper moronicus. Meanwhile, another member of Rhody’s Mensa Society walked into a Sovereign Bank on North Main Street in Providence, sans disguise, gloves and holdup note. A teller gave him the money but P&J figure it will only be a matter of days (or hours) before this guy is headed for a cell next to Chuckie’s. At least the hapless bank robber didn’t try to pull a trick we heard about years ago from an ACI psychologist. He described a guy who tried to rob a bank with his weapon of choice, a photograph of a German shepherd that he said was out in his car, ready to back him up in case things got tense inside. And finally, Kim Jong-un, the presiding genius in North Korea, decided to conduct a nuclear test in complete violation of international law. Not only did the move piss off Japan and the United States, but it also embarrassed China, North Korea’s only ally. Jong-un, no doubt, would be a perfect fit for the mayor’s office in Central Falls. Perhaps he’ll consider a run. ^

Send a sump pump and Pulitzer-grade tips to p&j@phx.com.

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this Just in

“[Obama’s] legacy will be a failed one if he does not address permanent solutions [to what ails] our planet.”

_sheldon whitehouse

citizen diplomacy

Q&a

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has taken YOU WROTE A LETTER WITH CONGRESSMEN WAXMAN AND MARKEY TO PRESIDENT OBAMA SUGa lead role in one of Washington’s most GESTING HE COULD DO A LOT ON HIS OWN. HAS HE important — and intractable — public policy RESPONDED? AND WHAT CAN HE DO? I did speak fights: reining in climate change. to him about it at the [annual Senate DemoHe makes weekly speeches on the threat. crats] retreat. And he assured me that he would He recently joined with Congressmen Henry not have given this issue the placement, the Waxman (D-California) and Ed Markey (D-Masemphasis that it got in his inaugural speech if sachusetts) to pen a letter to President Obama, he did not intend to be serious about it. laying out actions the executive branch could We still need to work through what the adtake on its own to address the problem. ministration can do, but two obvious ones are And lately, he’s formed a bicameral climate to have [the Environmental Protection Agency] change task force with Waxman that aims to crack down not only on future, but on existing pressure a recalcitrant capital into action. The power plants — let me drop in an asterisk there: Phoenix caught up with Whitehouse for a Q&A, that makes a really big difference for Rhode via telephone. Island; if you look at the way the winds blow Our conversation came a couple of weeks across the United States, we are downwind of after President Obama talked of confronting the biggest and dirtiest [plants] in coal country. climate change in his inaugural address. And The other thing they could do is the US govit came a couple of days before the president GReen Whitehouse. ernment and US military are the biggest buyers fleshed out his ideas in the State of the Union of fuel and carbon in the country, I believe, and speech: endorsing long-stalled cap-and-trade could use their purchasing power. That means everything from legislation and suggesting the administration would take sepagreening their buildings, to hybriding their car fleets, to continurate, unspecified executive action on global warming. ing to invest in alternative fuels — not from their position as reguThe interview is edited and condensed. lators, but from their position as consumers.

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Mr. Cutler goes to Copenhagen

On climate change, it’s Sheldon Whitehouse v.Washington f

YOU’VE ACKNOWLEDGED THERE’S LITTLE CHANCE REPUBLICANS, WHO CONTROL THE HOUSE, WILL SUPPORT CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION. SO WHAT, IN THAT CONTEXT, CAN YOUR TASK FORCE DO? One thing

we can do is to help build [an] environment in which [Republicans] have to engage with us on climate change. [That requires] public engagement. [This is] yet another issue where the Republican extremist wing dragged its party away from the regular American people and their point of view. In the same way the Republican Party has been wrong and they’re trying to recover on gay rights, they’ve been wrong and trying to recover on immigration, they need to someday realize that they are wrong and need to recover on climate change and that the American people will assess a penalty for not paying attention. The second piece is that we want to press the administration to take strong executive action, because when the big polluters are looking at strong, executive action, hopefully they may find that moving over to the legislature and trying to find something that can be done a little more harmoniously will be in their interest. Left alone, they will stonewall. So those are two of the pieces: urge executive action, try to find a way to engage public participation. And then, ultimately, work on legislation that can be a product of that engagement.

YOU HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE OF WHAT YOU CALL A “JERICHO STRATEGY,” INVOKING JOSHUA’S SEVEN-DAY MARCH AROUND THE CITY OF JERICHO BEFORE HE DESTROYED IT. YOU’VE TALKED OF BRINGING LEGISLATION UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND APPLYING HEAVY PUBLIC PRESSURE TO EMBARRASS REPUBLICANS INTO ACTION. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT SOME VERSION OF THAT HERE. BUT YOU HAVEN’T HAD THE BEST OF LUCK WITH THE JERICHO STRATEGY ON TWO OTHER PRIORITIES: THE “BUFFETT RULE” THAT WOULD RAISE TAXES ON THE WEALTHY AND A CAMPAIGN FINANCE MEASURE KNOWN AS THE DISCLOSE ACT. CAN IT WORK HERE? I think it could work in any

area where the Republican opposition is way out of step with the American people. The question is, can we get enough trips around Jericho to make it actually work? Once around isn’t enough and so far I only got once around on DISCLOSE. I think we’ll get another round on the Buffett Rule in the [run up to automatic cuts known as the “sequester”]. It’s a question of raising the issue repeatedly so that it makes an impression with a very busy public: wait a minute, something weird is going in Washington. Why are these politicians denying that climate change exists when I see it everywhere I look?

NOW THAT HE’S BEEN RE-ELECTED, IS THE PRESIDENT POLITICALLY UNCONSTRAINED WHEN IT COMES TO CLIMATE CHANGE? I think that there

are always some constraints on a president, even one who won’t stand for re-election again. [But] I think those constraints are dramatically reduced in the second term. And I think that, to the extent the president had his eye on re-election in the first term, he now has his eye on his legacy. His legacy will be a failed one if he does not address permanent solutions [to what ails] our planet. Forty, 50 years from now, the economic woes that we’re experiencing and the Middle Eastern conflicts that are taking place, things like that, will be history — important parts of history, but history nonetheless. [But] people will be living, then, every single day with the effects of what we’ve done to our atmosphere and oceans.

DO YOU THINK A CARBON TAX IS, ULTIMATELY, THE ANSWER. AND WHAT’S THE VERSION OF THE CARBON TAX YOU’D LIKE TO SEE? I still

think that the cap-and-trade system is the most sensible one. Rhode Island is already in [a regional] one. California is running one. A number of other examples exist around the world. It provides the most flexibility, allowing [industry] to innovate to reach the [pollution reduction] goal. I think it has been [damaged] politically by relentless propaganda from polluters. So I’m open, now, to a variety of ways to put a price on carbon. In effect, fossil fuels are getting an unfair market advantage against their green competitors because we haven’t found a way to build in the cost of carbon fuel. That creates a market failure, that in turn creates an incentive to [overuse] carbon fuel.

A CARBON TAX WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO GET THROUGH A REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED HOUSE. ARE THERE SOME AREAS WHERE YOU SEE A REALISTIC HOPE IN CONGRESS FOR BI-PARTISANSHIP? ENERGY EFFICIENCY? CLIMATE ADAPTATION? I think the most effective pieces of bipartisan action are probably going to be in the area of encouraging efficiency and encouraging financing of efficiency investments that pay themselves back over time. I think there’s a clear market logic for doing that. And industry by industry, there’ll be advocates for it. Commercial real estate interests, I’d think, would be very interested in finding ways to finance upfront investments in boilers, windows, more efficient means of generating the power that their facility needs. Federal guarantees to help prop up that market while it matures are a good idea.

_David Scharfenberg

It was a woman who brought Andy Cutler to

fProvidence 10 years ago.

The relationship didn’t work out. But he quickly grew enamored of the place: the food, the culture, the people, the ideas. Cutler, a communications consultant with a sprawling network of friends and collaborators, authored more than a few of those ideas himself. But his latest, inspired by the city he’s come to love, may be his most ambitious to date. Cutler says he’s devoted the last two years of his life — and all of his retirement savings — to a concept he’s calling Smaller Cities Unite! The notion is to draw smaller municipalities around the world — with populations of 1.5 million or fewer — into a partnership far grander than your standard mayor-of-Toledo, Ohio-and-mayor-of-Toledo, Spain-swap-proclamations arrangement. He imagines a deep sort of learning about how small cities approach public policy, economic development, the arts, entrepreneurship, and education. And he wants to begin by connecting Providence and Copenhagen, Denmark in a trans-Atlantic funnel of people and conversation. Cutler took a six-week trip to Copenhagen in 2001, after a divorce, and he was immediately taken with the place. The city consistently ranks near the top of happiness indexes. The people he met were possessed of a deep and appealing humility. And during the trip, Cutler met the late California Congressman Tom Lantos, who said something that stuck: Denmark, he argued, “is the most civilized nation in the world.” Now, Cutler sees a real affinity between Providence and Copenhagen. Both are entrepreneurial college towns, he says, that have put art and design somewhere near the center of their identities He’s been making calls to civic leaders in the Danish capital. Last month, he secured a letter of introduction from Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, declaring him “well equipped” to “serve as a global ambassador for the City of Providence.” And on February 16, with funding from a series of local business leaders, he will hop on a plane for a two-week trip to Copenhagen. Cutler will stop by the Danish App Lab, visit Copenhagen Business School, and, dash off to the Institute of Happiness Research. He’ll attend a gathering of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and participate in Social Media Week Copenhagen. Cutler says Copenhagen, which is building a bicycle super highway, has plenty to teach Providence about sustainability. And Providence, he says, can teach Copenhagen something about the power of networking and connectivity. But the truth is, Cutler’s not quite sure what shape the partnership might take. “Anyone who goes out exploring, they don’t really know what they’re going to find,” he says, “if they’re being honest about it.”

_David Scharfenberg

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THE AFTERMATH “it was a scene of utter devastation,” says Barylick.

The sTaTIon fIre: 10 years afTer Four writers on the tragedy that disFigured rhode island _ By david s cha rFe n B erg

t’s been 10 years since fire tore through a roadhouse in West Warwick — killing 100, injuring 200 more, and singeing thousands of New Englanders whose mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and friends died inside The Station or never quite figured out how to live outside of it. There are so many individual stories to tell — stories of heroism and suffering and failure. But the Phoenix decided to pull together four Rhode Islanders who could offer up a global view. John Barylick, Gina Russo, Paul Lonardo, and Marilyn Bellemore all wrote books about The Station fire. And together, their work begins to answer some of the larger questions surrounding the club and the tragedy. Bellemore, a former Kent County Daily Times reporter who previewed dozens of shows at The Station, tells us in The Night the Music Ended a little about the history of the club and its place in Rhode Island’s blue-collar soul. Russo, a Station survivor who lost her

fiancée in the fire, offers a glimpse at the horror of that night — and at the power of recovery — in From the Ashes: Surviving the Station Nightclub Fire, A Personal Story of Tragedy and Triumph. Lonardo, a fiction and nonfiction writer, co-authored the book. And Barylick, an attorney who represented fire victims in what would become a $176 million civil settlement, provides the definitive account of the tragedy in Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert — a lawerly prosecution of who, and what, went wrong. The authors gathered in the Phoenix’s offices not long after the deadly club fire in Santa Maria, Brazil that claimed 238 lives. The parallels between the two events were striking — a band ignites pyrotechnics, a blaze grows out of control, overcrowding hastens death. And there was a certain fatalism in the room. Russo said she was sure the Station fire would repeat itself; indeed, it just had. And yet, as we finished our conversation, all of our panelists insisted there are

ways to prevent this sort of disaster from happening again — or at least, to make it a rarer event. We just need to listen. The interview has been edited and condensed. JOHN, YOU START YOUR BOOK AT THE SCENE OF THE STATION FIRE THE MORNING AFTER. WHAT DID IT LOOK LIKE? John Barylick: It was a scene of utter devastation. The entire building had been engulfed within minutes. There were few standing walls. There was a collapsed roof in one section. It was extremely difficult extraction for the first responders. One thing I came to learn was that, in the first responder community, they try to plan carefully how many extractions a given person is exposed to because it’s so traumatic. And in this case it was particularly traumatic because the bodies were so intertwined. Because they underestimated the number of victims originally, they thought they had marshaled enough responders

to expose each team of four to only one recovery. And the routine was to send a team of four in, have them separate out one victim’s remains, bag those remains, remove it, chaplain would say a prayer over the remains, and the first responders would go to a remote area to be debriefed — for their own physical and mental health, to assess them. Some of those teams had to be sent back as many as five times. So it took a toll on first responders that really was not reported too much. There were a lot of victims of this fire that weren’t out at the club that night.

OK. THAT’S WHAT WE WERE LEFT WITH. LET’S REWIND AND LEARN ABOUT THE CLUB. THIS WAS ONCE A RESTAURANT AND THEN A ROADHOUSE. WHAT HAD IT MEANT TO RHODE ISLAND UP UNTIL THIS POINT? Marilyn BelleMore: Since the fire, over the years, I’ve been reading stuff about how West Warwick was a low-income, rundown mill town, the bar was a dive and has-been bands played there.

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If that’s true, which it’s not, what does it say about the people that were there that night? I wrote, as an entertainment writer for several papers, and I went to venues from southern Rhode Island, up to Boston, Worcester, and all of that. And this club just had something different about it. It wasn’t has-been bands that went there. There were bands like 10,000 Maniacs that played there, there were hair bands, there were bands that once played to arenas — Dave Davies from the Kinks. It was just a fun place. You could sit by yourself alone, no one would bother you. You could sit by the bar. You could go in the back. You’d know people there — people from all over. People from Boston came down. It’s unusual. Some people from Rhode Island didn’t even know the club was there. And then, there were people coming in from Connecticut and Boston and New Hampshire.

TELL ME ABOUT THE CROWD THAT GATHERED AT THE STATION IN THOSE DAYS. John: It was the heart of Rhode Island. The demographic was a little older than some of the downtown clubs. It was people who came from all walks of life — from construction to a budding investment banker. They had in common their love of the music. They wanted to see the band. Whether you were going to see a band that was now touring second- or third-tier venues or you were going to see a tribute band, you were going to get your money’s worth. There’s a fellow who fronts the tribute band Believer, it’s a Black Sabbath tribute band and he said, “You know, the average working stiff can’t afford a $100 ticket to Black Sabbath. But for $15 and the price of a couple beers, I can pretty much convince them for a little while. So everybody makes out OK.” The one thing that the group had in common is that all the victims were utterly blameless. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time and several other people’s greed and carelessness cost them their lives or their health.

GINA, YOU SHOWED UP AT THE STATION THAT NIGHT WITH YOUR FIANCE, FRED CRISOSTOMI. TELL ME ABOUT HIM AND WHERE YOU WERE, AS A COUPLE, AT THAT MOMENT. Gina russo: We met on a dating web site nine months before the fire and had been together every day from the moment we met — never separated, never had an argument. Just an incredible man, incredible force of nature. He was a very successful businessman. He owned a painting business, really worked hard to get to the level he was at. He was very proud of what he had achieved. And this guy came into my world after I had been married for 13 years in an abusive marriage — I finally got out of that with my two children, and this man comes along and puts me on a pedestal and treated me like a queen and showed these two little boys that women are treated with respect. And I still believe he, 10 years later, is the reason why I do so well in my life. And my kids are very respectful of everything he taught them in such a short amount of time and they still remember it. We just loved music — we loved rock music. When we were meeting, the first [few] times, he kept saying, “Do you really like this music?” and I’m like, “Yeah, it’s what I grew up with.” I didn’t like disco, I didn’t want to be in the clubs downtown. I wanted to listen to hard rock — the louder the better, and if it was live, even better. Just the month before the fire, we’d gone to the Avalon in Boston and seen the band Tesla. They were with a group of

other [musicians] — Vince Neil, Jackyl, all these crazy bands. Tesla was always our favorite. Now, I’m pretty good friends with the guys from Tesla, all because of this. And all I think is, “God, what’s Fred thinking when I’m hanging out with them.” Losing him was definitely worse than the burns and worse than the lung damage and definitely a harder situation to deal with.

TELL ME ABOUT HIM SHOWING UP AT THE HOUSE THAT NIGHT.

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Gina: I come from a big Italian family and every Thursday was dinner at my mom’s house. And I had taken the day off from work and taken the kids sledding — it was school vacation week. Fred was meeting us there for dinner and his son was home — he wasn’t coming that night. When Fred came from the house, he had just come straight from work, so he was all in his painting clothes. But he was having a snowball fight outside with the boys and just before he’d come into the house — and I found this out five months later — my neighbor had pulled up and they said hello and he said to her, “What a great day to be alive.” And she couldn’t come near me or see me after the fire for months because she only had that in her head and he was dead a few hours later.

SO WHEN GREAT WHITE COMES ON THE STAGE AND SETS OFF THE PYROTECHNICS AND THE FOAM SOUNDPROOFING CATCHES ON FIRE, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO REALIZE WHAT WAS GOING ON? Gina: Honestly, as soon as the pyrotechnics went up. Fred has some pyrotechnic experience. [We were up by the stage and] he saw the [pyrotechnics] sitting right to the side of us and he said to me, “They’re too big for this building,” and then he said, “look at the drummer’s alcove” — the spark was already on the black drape hanging behind the drummer. And he grabbed me. And we put our drinks right at [frontman] Jack Russell’s feet and Jack is singing and doing his thing, and literally — this is all in seconds — walked three steps to a fire exit to our right and encountered a bouncer who didn’t let us out the door. We’re screaming, “There’s a fire.” And he’s screaming, “Club policy — band only.” I’ve tried, over the years, to rationalize what his thinking could have been. Other than stupidity, I’m not really sure. Someone screaming, “There’s a fire,” you might want to look. I’m not saying, “Hey dude, can I get on the tour bus.” I don’t like Great White that much! And I remember Fred saying, “We can’t stand here and argue with this man, we’ve got to go.” Jack is still singing. And Fred and I got to about the middle of the club and that’s when the rest of the crowd realized the ceiling’s on fire, stuff’s happening, and everyone started rushing toward that front main door. And I don’t know if it’s when Fred started to feel sick, but he put his hand on the middle of my back and just shoved me and pushed and screamed “Go!” And I went flying through the crowd and made it to the ticket booth area that was right in front of that main entrance. And I remember looking around for Fred and I couldn’t see him because it was black in there — at that point the lights were shattering and truly the ceiling was melting, what I’ve always called black rain over the years. Seeing people already on fire — their heads on fire. The screaming, the noise from the alarms — that’s what’s in my head, that will always be in my head. And I just remember getting to that point and just praying to God for my kids — let them have a good life and let them Continued on p 10

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20 people who are working up on Federal Hill that don’t even know what the crowd management program is. Why? Why? But yet, I can go up to Massachusetts and the state fire marshal there — I helped fill a crowd management safety training program. And it is being enforced. John: There’s much more consciousness in the Commonwealth [of Massachusetts]. Gina: Yes, there is. It’s sad.

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forgive me for dying in this place. And I hit the hardwood floor. That was my last memory of being in The Station.

GINA REACTED QUICKLY. BUT FOR OTHERS, IT TOOK TIME. JOHN, YOU SUGGESTED IN YOUR BOOK THAT THE DELAYED REACTION MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE PHENOMENON OF “COMMITMENT.” TELL ME ABOUT THAT. John: It’s not my term. It’s the term of a woman named Guylene Proulx, who was a researcher in crowd behavior in Canada and she particularly studied crowd behavior in structure fires. And she described a phenomenon that she called “commitment,” which is really commitment to the entertainment activity. There’s the thought among many people who attend a concert that, even if they’re seeing something unusual that in other circumstances would give them great pause, you’re kind of in denial. You paid good money to see this and perhaps it’s part of the show. So I’m not saying it played an important part in a lot of the loss of life here, but it can cost seconds and as Gina mentioned, all it takes is seconds to make the difference between life and death.

WHY IS THAT?

YOU ALSO WROTE ABOUT HOW, IN THESE SITUATIONS, PEOPLE DIE AS THEY LIVED — IN COMMUNITY AND LOOKING OUT FOR LOVED ONES. John: That’s not my concept either. There’s a fellow who’s written about the sociology of disaster and he did say that in disasters, we tend to die as we live. That is we look for our loved ones, we look for our friends, and we conform our conduct to what our loved ones are doing. We sometimes surrender our individual judgments in those situations.

AND THAT HAPPENED AT THE STATION? John: No doubt. I’m sure there were people that did not want to leave without others or couldn’t immediately locate others. I mention in the book a very haunting picture that was taken inside the club — that of Jeff Rader, a roadie with Tesla [who was visiting his girlfriend in Rhode Island]. He’s about 18 feet from the band exit when that picture’s taken and we’ve backed into it timewise — both on [Great White fan] Matthew Pickett’s audio tape and [on videotape from WPRI-TV cameraman] Brian Butler [who was at The Station shooting footage for a story on club safety] — to determine whether Jeffrey had an opportunity, after that picture was snapped, to escape. And he did. As you look at the picture, you can’t really tell what is keeping him there, whether he’s looking for his girlfriend, Becky Shaw, whether he’s looking at the crowd backed up at the front door, determining that there’s no way I can get through that or whether he simply doesn’t appreciate the peril of the smoke layer coming down almost to his head at that point. One thing I came to learn in researching the book that I didn’t know before is how immediately the knockdown affect can occur, if you get one or two lungfuls of the wrong kind of smoke. And this was the wrong kind of smoke. This was hydrocarbon-based. It had

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toxins in it — namely cyanide — such that one or two lungfuls and the perception, as described to me, is of passing out. Just absolute knockdown.

DID YOU EXPERIENCE ANYTHING LIKE THAT, GINA? Gina: Oh, it was quick. I mean, I could feel it. And I know Fred went very quickly. He was a big guy, he was out of shape, so that took him quickly. And I felt it in my own self. And I was very healthy, very athletic. I was running six miles a day. I was at the gym every day. But my lungs — it was truly like someone was stabbing me, indescribable pain, and every breath I tried to take, it was just worse and worse, and shorter and shorter. My friend, [one of] two girls that were selling the merchandise, remembers packing up the boxes, thinking that the sprinklers were going to go off, thinking, “Oh we don’t want the sprinklers to ruin any CDs.” And then she said, all of a sudden just realizing, wait a minute, the sprinklers aren’t going off. And just said to her friend, “We’ve got to get out of here.” They tried smashing windows, or breaking in windows, and it didn’t work. Finally someone heard them from the outside, kicking at the windows and that’s how they got out — not without being significantly burned. She got out. But she wasn’t going without her friend. She made sure she went right along with

‘No one is taking safety seriously enough. It can’t happen to them. It’s not going to happen on my watch. They all think they’ve got it down. But the reality is they don’t. They don’t.’

her. They were both getting out that window. And they did.

JOHN, YOU WROTE IN YOUR BOOK THAT, IRONICALLY, THE FIRST PRACTICAL SPRINKLER HEAD WAS DEVELOPED UP THE ROAD IN PROVIDENCE IN 1881. THERE WAS NO SPRINKLER SYSTEM AT THE CLUB. WHY NOT? John: It’s the legal phenomenon called “grandfathering,” whereby older buildings that were built before the code required sprinklers don’t have to become sprinklered unless they undergo a “change of use or occupancy.” Somehow, during the evolution of this club — as Marilyn traces from humble restaurant to a concert venue with over 400 people in it — was never considered a sufficient change of use or occupancy to require sprinklering, which is really sad. Fortunately, Rhode Island since the Station fire has tightened its fire code to make it less easy to grandfather old buildings and to require the investment in places of public assembly for more than 300 people — that they be sprinklered.

SO YOU HAD THE FAILURE TO INSTALL A SPRINKLER SYSTEM. WHAT WERE THE OTHER TWO OR THREE CATASTROPHIC MISTAKES THAT LED TO THIS FIRE? John: The perfect storm was: illegal use of inappropriate pyrotechnics indoors, flammable wall coverings, overcrowding, and poorly or completely untrained staff.

YOU MENTIONED SOME CHANGES IN THE LAW AROUND SPRINKLERING. BUT BROADLY SPEAKING, FROM A PUBLIC POLICY PERSPECTIVE, HAS THE STATE RESPONDED ADEQUATELY? Paul lonardo: Ten years later, you can see that some changes were made. But is it enough? Gina: No, not at all. I think crowd management is a big problem. Supposedly [the state of] Rhode Island has [a training requirement] in place. I can tell you 15 or

John: Even a couple of years after the fire code was tightened regarding sprinklers, the business community brought pressure to bear, saying you’re putting small places out of business by requiring the investment in the sprinkler systems. Loosen it up, somewhat. And indeed, they did loosen it up a little bit. In one irony, several years after the fire, in an 11th-hour session — wee hours of the legislative session — they passed a law allowing the general public to buy certain kinds of pyrotechnics now. I’m sorry, there’s gonna be accidents. We’ve already seen some fires. We’ve seen the incidents of personal injuries to children and even adults increase with it. It’s inevitable when you allow the public to buy this stuff. And also the quality of life, even for people not using it, has been diminished around the holidays. It’s a noisy mess. Gina: No one is taking [safety] seriously enough. It can’t happen to them. It’s not going to happen on my watch. They all think they’ve got it down. But the reality is they don’t. They don’t. John: You mentioned the commitment phenomenon. Good crowd management can break the cycle of the commitment phenomenon. If at the first sign of trouble, the entertainment stops and there’s a clear announcement of what the crowd [should] do, that can avoid so many problems. But you have to break the public’s engagement with the entertainment activity.

MARILYN, HAVE YOU SEEN ANY LASTING SHIFTS IN ATTITUDE AMONG CLUB MANAGERS OR CLUBGOERS, OR HAS IT ALL FADED? Marilyn: I don’t think people — I don’t know if they’re thinking about it. John: What changed, more in Massachusetts than here, if you go to a show now — uniformly in Massachusetts, there’s an announcement before the show: where all your available exits are. And in fact, if there are multiple acts, they’ll make the announcement between acts in case people only came for the second or third act on the bill. I’m not sure how consistently that’s honored in the smaller venues in Rhode Island. Certainly at PPAC, Trinity — yes. Gina: Very early on, I started going out after The Station, the local bands would say, “Before we start, pay attention to your exits.” But that didn’t last.

THE DERDERIAN BROTHERS, WHO OWNED THE CLUB, WOUND UP WITH PLEA BARGAINS IN CRIMINAL COURT. THE CIVIL CASES WERE SETTLED. THERE WERE NO TRIALS. WAS THERE A SATISFYING CONCLUSION TO THIS MATTER? COULD THERE EVEN BE SUCH A THING? Gina: No. As a survivor, no. Absolutely not. Jeffrey [Derderian], in my estimation, walked. Served community service. My son has to do community service for his high school. A hundred people died on your watch. You were in the building when this fire happened. Michael [Derderian], OK, you weren’t in the building, but you were knowledgeable about things that were happening. They knew about the foam they put up in that building — they knew about it. They definitely weren’t held accountable like they should have been. Inspectors — it’s definitely a sore subject

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in the Station community, who wasn’t held accountable and why. The inspectors can’t be held accountable because [the law protects public officials acting in “good faith”]. I worked for surgeons at the time of a fire. If I messed up a surgery, I would’ve been fired. What makes their job any more important than mine? That’s how I felt. John: There’s no criminal resolution or civil resolution that can adequately give, to use an unfortunate term, closure, or satisfactorily compensate, or make people whole for broken lives. It just can’t be done. Talk to family who have lost someone, talk to [the badly disfigured] Joe Kinan, who is a remarkable soul, continuing as he does in the face of great difficulty. So the law is a very imperfect tool for making people whole and satisfied.

Gina Russo

THAT SAID, IS THERE ANY COMPARABLE INCIDENT WHERE THERE WAS A BETTER RESOLUTION? John: Barnet Welansky, the owner of the Cocoanut Grove [site of the largest nightclub fire in US history], was held criminally liable, even though he wasn’t even on the premises that night. [Great White tour manager] Dan Biechele, who physically threw the switch and wired the pyro, was charged criminally, pled, and served a prison sentence. But nothing in Great White happened without the say-so of Jack Russell. Where is he to answer for this? It was a less-than-perfect result.

BEYOND THE TECHNICAL ERRORS, WHAT WERE THE ROOT CAUSES OF THE FIRE? GREED?

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John: Money. Gina: It ruled it. John: It all comes down to greed. Gina: Buying the cheap foam. Overselling the club. Everything they did — it just blows my mind that they’re supposed to be educated men. I don’t mean that they woke up that morning and said, “Let’s go ruin hundreds of lives.” I don’t believe that. The only one I believe is remorseful is Dan Biechele. John: That’s right. There are habitual ways of living lives on the cheap and carelessly that sometimes we all fall into. Does anyone who answers their phone when they’re driving think, “I’m going to kill someone today?” No. But perhaps we should think twice before we do that. By the same token, if you run a business — particularly that invites people in — you owe a duty to not make every decision in favor of profit over safety. I think that’s the takeaway.

IF THE ROOT CAUSES ARE GREED, INDIFFERENCE. CAN THOSE THINGS EVER BE REMEDIED? Gina: I think they can be fixed. John: You know, we do something funny regulating places. If you’re overcrowded, we give you a little fine. If the fines approximated the extra money they make by overcrowding their venues, maybe you’d see a difference in behavior. But I don’t think that happens. Paul:: Greed’s not going to go away. That’s human nature. But I mean, the sprinklers are something the state and the towns have to get involved and make sure people are safe. I mean, greed is going to be greed. But there’s interventions that can be made.

YOU CAN TREAT THE SYMPTOMS, IF NOT THE CAUSE. Paul: They’re in business to make money, right? But somebody has to step aside and say “safety first” or, at least, “safety as well.”

AFTER ALL THIS, GINA, YOUR STORY SUGGESTS RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE. TELL ME HOW YOU’VE DONE AND HOW THE LARGER STATION COMMUNITY HAS DONE. Marilyn Bellemore

Gina: I think they’ve done incredible. There’s still some that are stuck. They’re not as vocal as myself and a large number of my friends — we’re not afraid to talk about the fire. We’ve really grown from it. I love this life better than the one before the fire. I love how strong I am. I love what I’ve accomplished. Don’t know that I would have done that before. I just would’ve gone about life. So it’s definitely given me a new chance, a second chance, and I’m going with it. My friends go with it. I’m grateful for the friendships that this fire has brought. I wouldn’t give them up for the world. I cannot imagine my life without the survivors in it. ^

Lonardo is a writer and producer on a series of documentary web videos, “The Station,” set to debut February 20. The series, from Rhode Island filmmaker David Bettencourt, will tell the stories of survivors, victims’ families, first responders, doctors, nurses, lawmakers, and others affected by the fire. The first installment will focus on Russo. Go to thestationmovie.com.

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features multi-leveled works by Bishakh Som, Ellen Crenshaw, Emily Flake, Gabrielle Bell, Karl Stevens, and Kevin Mutch. The show is at Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence, through March 1 | Free | 401.456.9765 | www.ric.edu/bannister

WeDnesDAY 20 Friday | mavis staples @ the Zeiterion Johanson) started drumming in his teens; he toured with Otis Redding in 1966. But three years later he teamed up with Duane and Gregg Allman and became part of rock royalty. Between tours with the Allman Brothers Band, he mixes it up with JAimoe’s JAsssz bAnD. “Why stick yourself in one little hole?” he asks. Get ready for some freewheeling improv when the septet (featuring saxist Kris Jensen and keybist Bruce Katz) pulls into Fête, 103 Dike St, Providence, at 8:30 pm | $20 | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com

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thurSday (the 14th) and get your grind on with boo citY and f the silks; dial 401.383.5858 for details. the show of the weekend goes down on Friday (the 15th) at dusk when torn shorts headlines (new disc Through the Mill is highly recommended) with very special guests route .44 and morris & the eAst coAst; just $5 at the door or $10 for entry plus a copy of the new cd, dial 401.714.0444. and don’t forget the coming WeAk reunion show at Fête (401.383.1112) with vAlencourt and WAr gAmes; and a busy week at the columbus theatre kicks off on Friday in the intimate upstairs lounge with uK singer/songwriter WillY mAson headlining with Penn sultAn (of Last Good tooth), plus solo guitarists AlexAnDer turnquist

of a seven-pointed compass. All seven paintings are intended to be seen as if looking out in different directions as the painter, and now the viewers, orient themselves within a larger synthetic space.” Get your bearings at Yellow Peril Gallery, 60 Valley St #5, Providence, through March 17| 401.861.1535 | yellowperil gallery.com

monDAY 18 Worth the WAit

That little snowstorm messed with a slew of shows, and one of them was JeFF mAgnum’s. But he’ll be circling back to Lupo’s, 79 Washington St, Providence, with the Music Tapes and Tall Firs at 7 pm | $29.50 + $35 | 401.331.5876 | lupos.com

never Forget

The 10th anniversary of the Station tragedy will be commemorated with “stAtion

nAtion: A reFlection on the stAtion nightclub Fire,” featuring dramatic texts, songs and dance, and talks. The event is at the First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main St, Providence, from 9:30 pm-midnight | Free | stationmeditation.tumblr. com

thursDAY 21 vive le cinemA!

Can’t make it to Cannes? Here’s the next best thing: the ProviDence French Film FestivAl will a dozen-plus features and other treats at Cable Car Cinema (204 South Main Street) through March 3 | $9, $7 students, $55 for eight films ($20 for four student admissions) | brown. edu/Project/French_Film_ Festival/

and eric cArbonArA; all-ages and $14 at the door, or bring your post-valentine’s day lover and score a 2 for $20 deal! on Saturday (the 16th), local alt-country crew shAcklehAnDs hit nick-a-nee’s free of charge (21+, 401.861.7290), while just around the corner at the Spot (101 richmond St, 401.383.7133) expect plenty of expert funk courtesy of the goosePimP orchestrA and the Free Funk All-stArs. Start your Sunday (the 17th) at Firehouse 13 (401.270.1801) with nyc’s breAkDoWn leading a hardcore matinee (4 pm) with ruDe AWAkening, loWliFe, the enemY Within, and more. on tueSday (the 19th), the met hosts an all-ages throwdown featuring scAre Don’t FeAr; five bands for just $12 at the door, call 401.729.1005. WedneSday (the 20th) will mark the first bAD motherFucker show in two years as eric baylies & co. return to aS220 (401.831.9327) with Pixels and rAven king. or head to the columbus theatre for sPirit FAmilY reunion; 18+ and $15 at the door.

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What motivated you to leave Rhode island? I just felt stagnant in my life and music. I love Providence — my family is there and some of my best friends live there, but I wanted to try to make a mark where nobody knew me personally. I feel like I’m doing that in Boston, and it’s making me realize I could do it anywhere I choose to. The scene is great — it’s just big enough so that people are less protective of their spot. I felt welcomed with open arms. Providence and Boston have some incredible talent and I’m proud to rep for both cities.

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do you pRefeR (oR is it easieR) to collaboRate as opposed to cReating it all on youR oWn? I have grown

to love working collaboratively — I am way too much of a head case to produce all my own shit again. Doing another self-produced album like A.D.Dventures would probably result in some sort of Howard Hughes pissing into mason jars with six-inch-long fingernails- type of situation. Not a good look. It is really beneficial to have someone else there to draw lines in the sand and/or tell me to get out of my own head.

When collaboRating With a pRoduceR, does the beat guide youR WRiting oR do you come in With a specific plan foR each piece? Most of the time I am inspired by the beat. A beat conjures certain images in my head, and I try my best to describe those images. I am always thinking of rough ideas and song concepts, but the tone of the beat is what brings the words out of me.

youR baRs aRe layeRed With cRazy WoRdplay. do lines jump into youR head as alReady complicated, oR do you go back and plug in moRe complex WoRding afteRWaRds? oR does it just come natuRally? Naturally complicated, I guess. I barely ever rewrite lines. I take awhile to write and I choose my words very carefully. There is no filler in my verses and they are all pretty dense. I’ll just sit there nodding my head for 10 minutes, then like four bars just pour out. Then rinse and repeat. I try to write stuff that you will never fully comprehend on your first listen. My favorite emcees write lines that you could go back to eight years later and just realize what they were talking about. I try to write songs with that in mind. ^

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RI RA | Providence | 10:30 pm | Nick DeLeo Band

THE ROCK JUNCTION | West Greenwich | Straight Line Stitch + Dead

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THE MET | Pawtucket | Dada + Jerad Finck + 7 Horse

MURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 10 pm | DJ Franko

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LIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER

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FRIDAY 15

CRAIG SHOEMAKER | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, 39 Warren Ave, East Providence | $25 | 401.438.8383 | ricomedyconnection.com HARDCORE COMEDY SHOW | 10:30 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $15 COMIC HYPNOTIST FRANK SANTOS JR. | 8 pm + 10:15 pm | Catch A Rising Star at Twin River, Lincoln | $22

TONY BOSWELL + JOSH ACCARDO | Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 pm + 10:15 pm | Comedy Zone at Showcase Warwick, 1200 Quaker Ln | $10 | 401.885.1621 | showcasecinemas.com THE BIT PLAYERS | Fri-Sat 8 pm | Firehouse Theater, 4 Equality Park Pl, Newport | $15 | 401.849.3473 | firehousetheater.org FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE with improvised song + dance + skits + more | 8 pm | Everett, 9 Duncan Ave, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9479 | everettri.org

UNCOMMON THEATRE’S IMPROVSOUP | 7:30 pm | Burrell School, 16 Morse St, Foxborough, MA | $5, $3 students | 508.543.1605 | improvs oup.org EDDIE IZZARD | 9 pm | MGM Grand at Foxwoods, 39 Norwich Westerly Rd, Ledyard, CT | $45-$65 | 866.646.0050 | mgmatfoxwoods. com LAUGH YOUR SCRUBS OFF with Tammy Pescatelli, Andrew Williams, and DJ Mike “MK” Koutrobis | 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15 advance

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SATURDAY 16

SUNDAY 17

COMEDY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Come-

WEDNESDAY 20

WICKED FUNNY SHOWCASE hosted by Brian Beaudoin with Derek Moore, Cory Tenchara, Brian Barganier, Christina Thomas, Chris Reyes, and Tom Stewart | 8 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $10

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STeVe KimoCK Band

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with Graig Murphy, Taylor Ketchum, and host Kevin Fitzgerald | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance

THURSDAY 21

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MAVIS STAPLES + RUTHIE FOSTER | 8 pm | Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA | $35-$40 | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org THE O’JAYS | 8 pm | Twin River Event Center, 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | $40-$90 | 877.82RIVER | twinriver.com

Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $21 + $26 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

SONGWRITER SAMPLER WITH MATT BORRELLO, LARA HERSCOVITCH, JOANNE LURGIO, AND LISA MARTIN | 7 pm | Sandywoods Center

SATURDAY 16

AMY BLACK | 8 pm | Common Fence

chains, corsets, rope, books, whips, cuffs, shoes, paddles, restraints, jewelry, attire, chainmail, dungeon furniture, training gear, uniforms, vibrators, latex clothing, magazines, costumes, safer sex supplies, gloves, and spreader bars, plus the 7th Annual Fetish Fashion Show, workshops, and much more | Feb 15 5-9 pm + Feb 16 8 am-8 pm + Feb 17 9:30 am-3 pm | Providence Omni, 1 West Exchange St | $10 Feb 15, $20 Feb 16 + 17, $30 all three days [additional charges for some events] | nelaonline.org

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SATURDAY 16

CHRIS SMITH CARIBBEAN JAZZ QUINTET | 8 pm | Garde Arts Center,

HANNAH FAIR + IAN FITZGERALD + ERIC LICHTER | 7 pm | Sandywoods

SUNDAY 17

Point Community Hall, 933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth | $20 advance, $23 day of show | 401.683.5085 | commonfencemusic.org 325 State St, New London, CT | $33 | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org

Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $10 | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com HECTOR 3 + FORMAL + OVER | Machines with Magnets, 400 Main St, Pawtucket | 401.475.2655 | machineswithmagnets.com “VIVA LAS VEGAS” | An Elvis tribute show with Leo Days | 8 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $26-$36 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

SUNDAY 17

THE DIXIE DIEHARDS JAZZ BAND |

2 pm | Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $10 in advance, $12 day of show | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE | 8 pm | Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA | $32 + $37 | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org

US GIRLS + SLIM TWIG + TRIP DICKS | Machines with Magnets, 400 Main St, Pawtucket | 401.475.2655 | machineswithmagnets.com

WEDNESDAY 20

STEVE KIMOCK BAND WITH BERNIE WORRELL, ANDY HESS, AND WALLY INGRAM | 8 pm | Narrows

Center For the Arts, Fall River, MA | $25 advance, $28 day of show

THURSDAY 21

ALLYSEN CALLERY + IAN FITZGERALD | 7 pm | Rhode Island Historical

CLASSICAL FRIDAY 15+ SUNDAY 17

DANCE PERFORMANCE SATURDAY 16

LORD OF THE DANCE CREATED BY MICHAEL FLATLEY | 8 pm | Provi-

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EVENTS FRIDAY 15

2013 WINTER FETISH FAIR FLEAMARKET presented by the New England Leather Alliance, with vendors selling boots, floggers,

2013 WINTER FETISH FAIR FLEAMARKET | See listing for Fri

THURSDAY 21

2013 RHODE ISLAND SPRING FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW | Feb

21-23 10 am-8 pm + Feb 24 10 am-6 pm | Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin St, Providence | $19, $16 students + seniors, $7 ages 6-12, free under 6 or | flowershow.com

FILM THURSDAY 14

4TH ANNUAL PROVIDENCE CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL will

present 17 features, plus “The Best of the New York International Children’s Film Festival 2012,” “MIT + K12: Engineering Rules,” and “Your Shorts Are Showin’ 2013 Editions” | At Metcalf Auditorium at the RISD Museum, the RISD Auditorium, and Cable Car Cinema through Feb 19 | Complete film descriptions + more info @ pcffri.org | RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Walkway, Providence | $7.50, $5 children, students + seniors | pcffri.org

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

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

A VALENTINE’S DAY SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY LOVE, MARILYN | 6:30 + 8:45 pm | Jane

Pickens Theater, 49 Touro St, Washington Square, Newport | $12 | 401.846.5252 | newportfilm.com

FRIDAY 15

4TH ANNUAL PROVIDENCE CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 16

THE COMPLETE HARRY POTTER FILM SERIES | This week, Harry Pot-

ter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [10 am] + Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [1 pm] | Warwick Public Library, 600 Sandy Ln | Free | 401.739.5440 | warwick library.org

4TH ANNUAL PROVIDENCE CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL | See

listing for Thurs

SUNDAY 17-TUESDAY 19 4TH ANNUAL PROVIDENCE CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL | See

listing for Thurs

THURSDAY 21

READINGS THURSDAY 14

TUESDAY 19

DR. WALTER A BROWN, clinical

professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, will discuss and sign his book, The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice | 5:30 pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3168 | bookstore.brown.edu GOT POETRY LIVE! | 6 pm | Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer St, Providence | $3 | 401.383.8393 | gotpoetry. com/News/topic=23.html

WEDNESDAY 20

THURSDAY 21

PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

TALKS THURSDAY 14

“A VOICE FOR THE STUDENTS: UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY, EQUITY, AND DIVERSITY” | A talk

by Naomi R. Thompson, URI’s chief diversity officer and associate vice president of community, equity, and diversity | Noon | University of Rhode Island Multicultural Center, 74 Lower College Road, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2851 or uri.edu/mcc

“RITUAL AND LEISURE: MONEY, GENDER, AND CHOICE IN MODERN CHINA” | 5 pm | Brown University’s

Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | 401.863.2809 | watsoninstitute.org/events_detail. cfm?id=2008

FRIDAY 15

“ARTIST/REBEL.DANDY: MEN OF FASHION” | A discussion with

“MISINTERPRETATION OF THE SCIENCE IN FORENSIC SCIENCE BY JUST BEING HUMAN” | A talk

by Susan Ballou, program manager of forensic science at the National Institute for Standards and Technology | Part of the Forensic Science Partnership Seminar Series | 3:30 pm | Pastore Hall at the University of Rhode Island, 51 Lower College Rd, Kingston | Free | chm.uri.edu/ forensics/seminars.php

SATURDAY 16

“HOW CYBERSPACE HAS CHANGED WAR: THE EMERGING STRUGGLE FOR CYBER POWER THROUGH RESILIENCE AND DISRUPTION” | A talk by Chris C. Demchak, a professor in the strategic research department at the Naval War College and co-director of the Center for Cyber Conflict | 2 pm | Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave | $15, $6 students | 401.848.8200 | newportartmuseum.org

TUESDAY 19

MARIA FILOMENA MONICA, a

social sciences professor at the University of Lisbon, will discuss The Dabneys: A Bostonian Family In the Azores

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THURSDAY 21

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 Feb 23: “Practical Tools For Shifting Reality,” new work by Ian Cozzens | “Found Object Paintings,” new works by Lyn Hayden | New photographs by Byron Hocker | New work by Indira Miller AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Feb 23: “Echoes & Shadows,” new work by Stephen Brownell and Sarah Clover

BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

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

8 pm | Through Mar 1: “Story/ Line: Narrative Form in Six Graphic Novel-ists,” works by Gabrielle Bell, Ellen Crenshaw, Emily Flake, Kevin Mutch, Bishakh Som, and Karl Stevens BILL KRUL GALLERY | 401.782.1715 | 142 Boon St, Narragansett | billkrul gallery.com | Daily 10 am-8 pm | Through Feb 28: “Chasing the Light from Sunrise to Sunset,” images by the photographers of the SunriseSunset Workshop 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 | Through 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 Feb 28: “New Impossibilities,” works by Emma Hogarth, Katie Koti, Evan Mann, Agata Michalowska, and Tim Winn and Zehra Khan CRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St, Providence | craftland shop.com | Through March 2: “Love Nest,” a group exhibition of prints, paintings, sculpture, and drawings created for the second annual Valentine show | with works by Jill Colinan, Jen Corace, Jim Frain, Peter Fuller, Leif Goldberg, Corey Grayhorse, Cassi Jacobs, CW Roelle, Erin Rosenthal, Will Schaff, Deth P. Sun, Daria Tessler, Alec Thibodeau, Hilary Treadwell, Matthew Underwood, and Neal Walsh 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;

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

DORRANCE H. HAMILTON GALLERY AT SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY | 401.341.2981 | Antone Aca-

PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORATIVE GALLERY | 175 Main St |

Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | Through Feb 17: “Until the Kingdom Comes,” photographs by Simen Johan

demic Center, Lawrence + Leroy aves, Newport | salve.edu/academics/ departments/art/gallery | Tues +

Thurs 11 am-6 pm; Wed + Fri 11 am5 pm; Sat + Sun 12-4 pm | Through March 20: “Do What You Must Do,” paintings by Sue McNally GALLERY AT CITY HALL | 401.421.7740 | 25 Dorrance St, Providence | Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4 pm | Through March 15: “Masters of the Craft: Gallery of Memory,” a photography exhibi8t commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of Local 1329 of the International Longshoremen’s Association in Providence, the first labor union in New England organized predominantly by Cape Verdeans GALLERY Z | 401.454.8844 | 259 Atwells Ave, Providence | galleryzprov. com | Wed-Sat 12-8 pm + by appointment | Through March 9: “Estate Show: Living and Non-Living Artists Represented and Exhibited with Gallery Z in the Past,” works by Aghassi, Francesco Agresti, Hagop Aprahamian, Hrair Aprahamian, Virginia Arakelian, Marc Awodey, Lara B., Jillian Barber, Anoush Bargamian, Midge Bovino, Colette Brésilla, Erik Bright, Sue Butler,Yevkine De Gréef, Linda Denosky-Smart, Adrienne Der Marderosian, Areg Eibekian, Robert Elibekian, Vagharshak Elibekian, Samuel Gareginyan, Melik Gazarian, Benjamin Giguere, Fran Henry-Meehan, Harutune Hovhanesian, Herbet C. Illium, Nonna Kazanskaya, Ivan Kazanski, Stephen Koharian, Alex Khomski, Janice Lawrence, Marty McCorkle, Stephanie Marzella, Eduard Matevosian, Alan Metnick, Kevork Mourad, Sevan Naccashian, Reuben Nakian, Valentina Nekrash, Karnig Nalbandian, Mathias Opperdorff, Paul Orzech, Nick Paciorek, Regina A. Partridge, Julian Penrose, Jeff Pullen, Ewa Romaszewicz, Piraji Sagara, Simon Samsonian, Donalyn Schofield, Michael Sherman, Mark Sposato, Helena Stockar, Kegham Tazian, and Ben Weiss HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery. org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through Feb 23: “26th Young Adults’ Exhibition,” with work from students from Chariho High School, Exeter West Greenwich, La Salle Academy, The Lincoln School, Moses Brown School, the New Urban Arts Program, North Kingstown High School, Ocean Tides School, South Kingstown High School, and Westerly High School HOPE GALLERY | 401.396.9117 | 435 Hope St, Bristol | hopegalleryfineart finecraft.com | Thurs-Sat 1-5 pm | Through March 1: “The Color Red,” a group exhibit with jewelry, textiles, photography, blown glass, oil, pastels, watercolors, and sculpture IMAGO GALLERY | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imagofoundation 4art.org | Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 128 pm | Through March 3: “Open Community Exhibit” JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestownartcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through March 9: “2013 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition” JUDITH KLEIN ART GALLERY | 508.965.7396 | 98 William St, New Bedford, MA | judithkleinart.com | Mon-Tues + Thurs-Fri 12-5 pm; Sat 10:30 am-2:30 pm | Through Feb 23: “Love,” an invitational group exhibit with works on the theme “language of love”

KNIGHT CAMPUS ART GALLERY AT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND | 401.825.2220 |

400 East Ave, Warwick | ccri.edu/art/ galleries/knight | Tues-Wed + Fri

10 am-4 pm; Thurs 10 am-7 pm | Through Feb 22: “Detritus,” works by Kyle Hittmeier KRAUSE GALLERY | 401.831.7350 x 174 | In the Jenks Center at Moses

8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through March 1: “Diverse Views,” works by Holly Gaboriault and Holly & Eli Minaya

pawtucketartscollaborative.org |

Mon-Sat 10 am to 5 pm | Through Feb 22: “Past Present & Future,” works by Robert W. Easton, Mimo Gordon Riley, Timothy McCarthy, Paul Hitchen, Jules, Eileen McCarney Muldoon, Nancy GaucherThomas, 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 PROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providenceartclub.org | Mon-Fri 124 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Feb 22: “Inside & Out,” with works by Mary Dorsey Brewster and Pamela Neal | “Oil and Water, A Fine Mix,” with works by Sally Ann Martone and Marilyn Saabye

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 |

Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | riws.org | Tues-Sat 10

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown

URI FEINSTEN CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washing-

ton St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5 pm | Through Feb 28: “Rhode Island’s African-American Community: From the Colonial Period to the Present,” with fine art, photographs, documents, and artifacts from the Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit, the Haffenreffer Museum, Providence City Archives, the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, the Rhode Island Historical Society. the Rhode Island College Library Special Collections, Riverzedge, the South County Museum, the URI Library Archive Special Collections, and the private collections of Keith and Theresa Guzman Stokes and Onna Moniz Johns

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 Feb 17: “All Media I,” an open juried show WORLD’S FAIR | 774.991.3206 | At

Machines With Magnets, 400 Main St, Pawtucket | machineswithmagnets. com | Viewings by appoint-

ment | Through Feb 16: “X-TRA ZEUS! New Comics & Drawings,” with works by Joana Avillez, Katrina Silander Clark, Tom Bubul, Brian Chippendale, Cybele Collins, Bryan Dufresne, CF, Alexander West Guerrero, Jeff Leblanc, James Mercer, Zara Messano, Greg Pennisten, Clayton Schiff, Mike Taylor, Quinn Taylor, Thomas Toye, Nathan Tremblay, Willa Van Nostrand, Chloe Wessner, and Mickey Zacchilli YELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Providence | yellowperilgallery.com | Feb 15-March 17: “Navigation Paintings,” by Michael Childress

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] | Through May 12: “Faculty Focus,” with works by Charlene Carpenzano and Dan McManus of the NAM art school | Through May 12: “Shelf Life,”paintings by Gerry Perrino | Through May 19: “Newport Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition” 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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Film

Unless otherwise noted, these listings are for Thurs Feb 14 through Thurs Feb 21. Times can and do change without notice, so please call the theater before heading out.

AVON CINEMA

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QUARTET | 2:15, 4:20, 6:30*, 8:35* [*no shows Wed]

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ENTERTAINMENT CINEMAS

30 Village Square Dr, South Kingstown | 401.792.8008

YIPPEE KI-YAY, ETC. Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney in A Good Day To Die Hard. IDENTITY THIEF | 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 SIDE EFFECTS | 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 WARM BODIES | 1:20*, 4:10, 7:15* [*no shows Feb 21] SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1, 4, 6:45, 9:20 ARGO | 9:20

ISLAND CINEMAS 10 105 Chase Ln, Middletown | 401.847.3456

JANE PICKENS THEATER 49 Touro St, Newport | 401.846.5252

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ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH 3D | Starts Fri: 7:25, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH | Starts Fri: 12:45, 2:55, 5:10 BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | 1:15, 4:05, 7:10, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | 12:30, 1:30, 2:50, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:35 A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE | 12, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05 SAFE HAVEN | 12:50, 1:20, 3:40, 4:10, 6:30, 7, 9:15, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 IDENTITY THIEF | 1:25, 1:55, 4:30, 5, 7:05, 7:35, 9:40, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 SIDE EFFECTS | 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 WARM BODIES | 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:55 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS | 12:55, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 MAMA | 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:35, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30

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LES MISÉRABLES | Thurs: 12:10, 3:50, 7:35 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH 3D

| Starts Fri: 6:55, 9:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:20 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH | Starts Fri: 12:10, 2:10, 4:35 BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | 1, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | 12, 12:30, 2:20, 2:50, 4:45, 5:15, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05, 12:35 SAFE HAVEN | 12:50, 1:20, 3:40, 4:10, 6:30, 7, 9:20, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 IDENTITY THIEF | 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 SIDE EFFECTS | 12:15, 3:45, 7:30, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 WARM BODIES | 12:05, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS | 11:45, 2, 6:50 MAMA | 4:25, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40 ZERO DARK THIRTY | 12:20, 3:55, 7:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45 DJANGO UNCHAINED | 12:40, 4:15, 7:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:30

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A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD

97 minuteS | cinema world + entertainment + iSland + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this fifth iteration of the Die Hard franchise (launched in 1988) has Bruce Willis’s John McClane heading to Moscow to help his son Jack (Jai Courtney) protect an enemy of the state from a corrupt government official. A car chase leads to a standoff in a high-rise and a midnight run to Chernobyl, where a conspiracy to trade enriched uranium comes to light. Along the way there are double-crosses, shootouts and the supposedly touching scene when Jack starts calling his father “dad” instead of “John.” A Good Day To Die Hard is a movie for people who like blowin’ stuff up, evidently a favorite pastime of director John Moore, whose action scenes make about as much sense as his script, which was likely written on a cocktail napkin. Yippee ki-yay? Try yippee ki-nyet, Mother Russia. _Jordan Rief

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH

95 minuteS | cinema world + entertainment + iSland + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 On the distant planet Baab lives a family of aliens who must learn to cherish one another. They are Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser), an arrogant astronaut; his brother,

Gary (Rob Corddry), a nerdy technician; and Gary’s son, Kip (Jonathan Morgan Heit), and wife, Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker). Their story is a family-film cliché from a galaxy not so far, far away. When Scorch bumbles into captivity on Earth, it’s up to Gary to finally grow a pair and step out from behind the keyboard to rescue his brother. Imprisoned in Area 51 by Agent Shanker (William Shatner), Gary is forced to devise an alien weapon that will grant Shanker intergalactic domination. Directed by novice Cal Brunker, Escape references an array of other films, such as Toy Story, Independence Day, and The Artist (of all things), and sometimes mixes wit with its bromides. But thanks to the Weinstein Company’s insistence on low-rent animation, this might please young kids but torment discerning parents. _Jordan Rief

SAFE HAVEN

115 minuteS | cinema world + entertainment + iSland + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 Somewhere along the way Nicholas Sparks went from being just a bestselling author of preachy schmaltz to a full-on franchise (he produces the movies of his books). And he’s got his hooks deep into director Lasse Hallström (My Life As a Dog and The Cider House Rules), who’s on board here for a second tour of duty (after Dear John). One might overlook the low production values, endless plati-

SPELLBOUND Irons, Englert, and Ehrenreich in Beautiful Creatures. tudes, and tired clichés because Sparks does know how to jerk the tears, in a Hallmark kind of way. But after the mysterious Katie (Dancing with the Stars’ Julianne Hough) lands in coastal North Carolina (Sparks’s breadbasket), falls for single-dad Alex (Josh Duhamel), and the details of her dicey past slowly (and manipulatively) come to light (a cop from Boston and a possible murder), the groan-worthy denouement washes Haven out into a sudsy sea of shameless melodrama. _Tom Meek

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124 minuteS | cinema world + entertainment + iSland + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 Throughout his adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s YA novel, Richard Lagravenese drops the names of books that would have provided a more rewarding way of spending a couple of hours than watching this movie. For instance, the adolescent classics Catcher In the Rye, On the Road, To Kill

a Mockingbird, and Slaughterhouse-Five, which Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a small town kid yearning for romance, is reading. No wonder he keeps dreaming about an elusive, beckoning sprite. But then he meets Lena (Kristen Stewart clone Alice Englert), the ostracized new kid in school, and finds the girl of his dreams. What he doesn’t know is that Lena is a pastiche of characters from Harry Potter, Twilight, Interview with the Vampire, Carrie. . . . A “Caster” (i.e., she casts spells), she’s hiding out at the manor of her creepy Uncle Macon (Jeremy Irons, dressed like the Pope on holiday), so her wicked mother can’t find her and convert her to evil. Ethan is an unwelcome distraction — for the viewer too, since Ehrenreich is more like Jethro Clampett than Truman Capote. LaGravanese at times spins striking images — a scene in which Ethan walks into a magical time warp is particularly nightmarish. But he also has a weakness for clichés; I guess he’s been taking lessons from the wrong books. _Peter Keough

FAlso Playing XXW THE IMPOSSIBLE | 2012 |

In J.A. Bayona’s neo-disaster-film, everything but the carnage is cheap. Appropriating a “true story” about a family torn apart by the 2004 Thailand tsunami — the Spanish clan who inspired it have been Anglicized in the form of Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor — he alternates between intense set pieces and subSpielbergian drivel. The tsunami scenes that bookend the picture achieve a visceral splendor; disconcerting sound design and brutal gore effects make them painful to watch. For those few minutes, The Impossible feels like a new type of survivalist movie, one that puts you through the same hell as its characters. But the only thing filling time between those two heart-pounding scenes is faux inspirational melodrama, with every emotional moment — lives being saved, families being reunited — backed by an ingratiating musical score and crass camera movements. The hokum can wear you down worse than the tsunami. | 114m |

XXW MAMA | 2013 | 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 discov-

ered 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. | 106m |

XX QUARTET | 2012 | 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. | 98m |

XXW SIDE EFFECTS | 2013 | This

was the second film I had seen in one day that owed a debt to Hitchcock and featured a presumably psychotic, possibly homicidal female. So maybe I’m overreacting when I see

regression in Hollywood’s attitude toward women. That is, they are demonizing them. Let’s start with Hitchcock. As with Psycho, the studio has forbidden anyone from entering a screening of Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects after the film begins because of its “non-linear nature.” I assume that refers to its extensive, and awkward, use of flashbacks, because the story isn’t so much full of surprises as it is riddled with plot holes. But the proviso does put pressure on critics to reveal as little as possible for fear of spoilers. So,in brief, Emily (Rooney Mara), whose husband (Channing Tatum) has just returned from a prison term for insider trading, is depressed. A shrink (Jude Law) prescribes a new drug and, well, it apparently has side effects. And then there are the ruthless lesbians and. . . . Maybe I’ve said too much. Side Effects looks classy, keeps your interest, and has attractive actors. Soderbergh says that it is his last movie. Ironically, the filmmaker who started his career with sex, lies and videotape, a film boosting female sexuality and empowerment, now ends it with a so-so thriller that resorts to the same old misogyny. | 106m |

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| 2012 | According to some movies, being mentally ill is a great way to find love. As the title suggests, David O. Russell’s adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel looks on the bright side, and it bristles with quirky authenticity. From Spanking the Monkey to The Fighter, Russell observes the troubled soul within the environment that causes most of the damage — the family — which he details down to the dinner table

spats and the ugly wallpaper in the living room. Home is where Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) finds himself once again. He has just been sprung by his mother (Jacki Weaver ) from the psychiatric institution where he spent eight months after nearly beating his wife’s lover to death. In the meantime he has lost his house and job as well as his wife and his mind, and so he moves into the blue collar Philadelphia digs he grew up in. With Robert De Niro playing the volatile Pat Sr., it’s kind of like All In the Family, except the laughs sometimes degenerate into violence. Then Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence) enters Pat’s life. She’s dealing with depression over her husband’s death by sleeping with everyone in the neighborhood. Pat declines her favors at first, but genre expectations decree that opposites attract and that these two should find their psychoses mutually compatible. To his credit, Russell keeps the outcome interesting; he knows that every silver lining has a cloud. | 122m | XW STAND UP GUYS | 2013 | Has Al Pacino ever looked so small? Slouched and sadly more Dunkaccino than Serpico, he plays the career criminal Val in this sentimental hokum directed by Fisher Stevens. Released from prison after 28 years, he’s picked up by best pal Doc (Christopher Walken, pure restraint next to Pacino’s ham), and soon the badhair buddies stage a “comeback.” Or, as Val relates to a priest in the inevitable morning-after confession: “I shot a guy in the kneecap, and another one in the arm; I stole a bunch of prescription drugs and a sweet-ass car. And I fucked a Russian hooker . . . four times.” After suffering Vi-

agra-fueled priapism, Val wonders if he’s going to die. “Not tonight,” says his nurse (Julianna Margulies), who — wouldn’t you know it! — is the daughter of old pal and getaway driver Hirsch (Alan Arkin), who’ll be sprung from a nursing home soon enough. Ah, but Doc’s been ordered to execute Val. Not if Pacino kills his career first. | 100m |

XXW WARM BODIES | 2013 |

The cinema of young-adult-novel adaptations has given us some gonzo plotlines. But can either Twilight or The Hunger Games top Warm Bodies, in which a zombie named R (Nicholas Hoult, who rarely has dialogue, speaking through voiceover for most of the film) eats the brains of dutiful young Perry (Dave Franco) and then creates a hostage situation cum romance with Julie (Teresa Palmer), the girl that Perry left behind? Complete with riffs on Romeo and Juliet and John Malkovich playing the angry dad who needs to lighten up and let his daughter date a zombie? I think not. Sadly, though, the product doesn’t live up to the pitch. Director Jonathan Levine (of The Wackness and 50/50 and who, despite some pleasurable CinemaScope framing here, seems to be in full sellout mode) panders to the teen set with a fervor that would make Stephenie Meyer blush. Warm Bodies may be about zombies, but it’s more of a Frankenstein’s monster. It steals the “brain-dead culture” subtext from George Romero, the idea of rewriting classic romantic fiction for teen audiences from Clueless, and its best jokes from Shaun of the Dead. It’s more like fan fiction than a coherent script. | 97m |

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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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February 15 6 7 8 9 11 Waxing moon in taurus. a fine day10for 3 4 5 6 7 8 being acquisitive (greedy), or loving beauty. even the most tone-deaf will crave melody or harmony. taurus moons 22 23 24 25 26 27 are also 20excellent with 19 21 for dealing 22 23 banking 24 matters — exactly how diligent are you about monitoring your online finances? take the time today. aries, Sagittarius, Libra, Gemini, taurus, capricorn, virgo, cancer, pisces: if you’re dealing with someone needlessly stubborn — move on. Leo, Scorpio, and aquarius: if you’re

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February 16 7 8 9 10 11 12 Waxing moon in taurus. Stubbornness 20 23 24 25 is such a 21pleasure.22 So is buying new clothes, getting some elegant bit of art or 23 craft to decorate or 27dining 28 24 25your home, 26 out in luxury. if you didn’t get some special bon bon, treat yourself. aries, Sagittarius, Libra, Gemini. taurus, capricorn, virgo, cancer, pisces: get what’s yours. Scorpio, Leo, and aquarius: it’s a “clowns to the left of me/jokers to the right” kind of5 day. 6 7 8 9 10

February 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 Waxing moon in Gemini; moon void-ofcourse 1:48 pm until 5:45 am 2.20. differing opinions are fun for some, and16 what seems 13 14 15 so 26important and meaningful now will 27 28 29 30 31 dwindle quickly in significance. aries, Libra, Gemini. taurus, capricorn, cancer, aquarius, 29 31 Scorpio, Leo:30keep it light, but32be sensitive to an audience that could misread flippancy. Sagittarius, pisces, and virgo: you’ll want to tell everyone all about your feelings — don’t.

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February 20 11 12 13 14 Waxing moon in cancer. this moon 15con- 16 cerns loyalty and domesticity — being suNday “at-home,” versus “out in the world.” if February 17 you hear your a siren31song, 32 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 couch singing 16 21 22 23 in taurus; 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 First quarter moon moon you’re in tune with the moon, particularly 11 12 13 14 15 16 void-of-course 3:31 pm until 4:50 pm, for capricorn, aries, and Libra. Gemini, Leo, when it moves into Gemini. a turning cancer, virgo, Scorpio, pisces, aquarius, point for events that happened on28or 24 25 26 27 29 31 32 and 30Sagittarius: being defensive, especially around February 10. another fine day 27 28 29 30 31 32 if you perceive injustice, is not a bad thing. for making costly purchases, or investing in items that are meant to last. taurus moons help us appreciate beauty, wherever we find it; so listen up, aries, Sagittarius, Libra, Gemini. taurus, capricorn, virgo, cancer, pisces. Financial anxiety could afflict Leo, Scorpio, and aquarius.

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13 15 16 February 1814 9 10 11 12 13 Waxing moon in Gemini; sun moves into 14 pisces; Saturn retrogrades; president’s day. Short errands, brief encounters is 28 29 30 31 32 what you want. Writing and editing, 25 26 27 28 29 30 or making putting large projects into a simple sequence of steps is also advised. confrontation could make things spicy for virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius. exaggeration could be an unexpected pleasure for aries, Libra, Gemini. taurus, capricorn, cancer, aquarius, Scorpio, and Leo. 12

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this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities 15 16 will not be at their best. | When the moon is in aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, Leo/aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each 31 32 sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. but it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.

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