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6 a dandy list _by david scharfen b erg

Two shows — “Lists: To-Dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” and “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion” — highlight RISD Museum’s new direction.

12 homegrown product _ by chris con ti

Mega-March madness: meet the first six semi-finalists of the 2013 wbru rock hunt. Plus, “Off the Couch” with cannibal ramblers, the gnomes, and more.

13 art _ by greg cook

The pleasures of patterns: “the conditions were just right” at World’s Fair; plus, Michael Childress’s “navigation paintings” at Yellow Peril Gallery.

24 film

“Short Takes” on barbara and emperor.

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

Show us your hands | Prayer shots | Board games | Glorious food | The return of Stevie Thunder

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Coming to Providence: “The Month of Lovecraft” | In the climate change fight, youth out front

8 bottles & cans 11 Beer on Broadway: taking Newport

online exclusives! F cool new sounds! We weigh in on four new releases: Marnie Stern’s The Chronicles of Marnia, How To Destroy Angels’ Welcome Oblivion, the Mary Onettes’ Hit the Waves, and Empress Of’s “Hat Trick.” Dig in at thePhoenix.com.

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12 8 days a week 12 The Joffrey Ballet, Lori McKenna,

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26 moon signs 30 _ by sym b o l in e da i 26 jonesin’ _puzzle by matt jones 30

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providence | BoSton | portLand vol. xxvi | no. 11

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phillipe + Jorge’s cool, cool World

Show uS your handS What is Linc hiding?; the Big east gets smaLL; BLunders at haLitosis haLL “What’s that you’re holding

behind your back?” fWhether it’s the last cupcake

everyone was supposed to share, a risqué love letter, or a loaded Glock, anytime you conceal something it immediately provokes suspicion. So it is with Linc Chafee’s refusal (as of press time) to reveal the specifics of a state-commissioned report on Medicaid and food stamp fraud, prepared by consultant and former Moderate Party gubernatorial candidate Ken Block. A good rule of thumb for this type of report is that the less information that’s publicly available, the more likely it is rich folks who could be publicly embarrassed — say, doctors and hospital executives — are up to their lying necks in it. Just look at the federal government’s laughable “investigation” of Wall Street malfeasance. Perhaps Governor Chafee is looking for a way to declare Medicaid cheats “too big to fail” before the information is disclosed, either the right way — full disclosure by our Linc — or through strategic leaks to the media. Block is pushing for the release of his report. But unfortunately, he signed a confidentiality agreement that zips his lips. (Call us anyway, Kenny, we’ll do the right thing.) The governor is saying he can’t release the findings because it may hamper ongoing and future investigations of fraud. To which P&J respond, “Give us an effing break, please.” That’s the oldest line in the book for any police department or government official who is dodging the sunlight. While most of the Medicaid fraud seems destined to hit the high and mighty, the food stamp fiasco will not entail perp walks for CEOs. Food stamp cards double as ATM cards for those qualifying for cash assistance. Insert one into a liquor store ATM, and you’re home free with an 18-pack or a few 40s of malt liquor. Then there are the convenience stores, where “We accept EBT cards” stickers have been sprouting like wild flowers in recent months. Trust us, there are more cartons of Marlboros marching out the doors of 7-Elevens then gallons of milk for little Baby Dumpling. And if you think a minimum-wage employee working a 12-hour shift is going to question the legality of your purchase, on anything from fire-

works to condoms, you’re living on a different planet. Of course, the state clearly lacks the staff to track down all these violations. But P&J hope that authorities can at least stop the practice of tapping casino ATMs; at least make an effort to conceal your scams, food stampers

Prayer shots

Phillipe and Jorge mourn the loss of the Big East Conference as we know it; the institution is falling victim to the gods of greed and the gridiron. What gives us a chuckle, however, is the name affixed to the seven institutions of higher learning (cough) that will play basketball under the Big East banner — keeping the brand alive. This group, the so-called “Catholic 7,” include our own Providence College, Georgetown, and St. John’s, early stalwarts of the Big East. But before we imbue the new Big East with a religious aura, maybe we should look at some of the faithful who have played for these schools in the past. Other than PC’s St. Ernie of DeGregorio and acolyte poster boy Billy “The Kid” Donovan — toss in Chris Mullin of St. John’s, whose face looked like the map of Ireland (albeit with a few zits) — we don’t remember many players likely to frequent Mass on Sunday. No, we suspect that Big East legends Marvin Barnes, Patrick

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Ewing, Ed Pinckney, Walter Berry, Alonzo Mourning, and Allen Iverson did not complete their ecclesiastical studies before hitting the hardwood. For years, the few black “students” you could find on the PC campus just happened to play basketball. At least another “religious” (read “cult”) school, Brigham Young, draws its players from its Mormon base — although that base now seems to include seven-foot players from around the globe who evidently found God after BYU missionaries put guns to their heads and handed them airline tickets and four-year scholarships.

Board Games

We imagine that some of you have been following the story about the dumbass legislation recently introduced at Halitosis Hall in the name of the state’s board of elections, which hadn’t actually reviewed the proposals. The board has since asked the General Assembly to disregard the bills. But P&J, like the rest of you, are wondering how such a mighty blunder could have occurred in the first place. Since we were totally unsuccessful at prying any information from our friend Susan “Muffy” Farmer, who serves on the board (we knew we’d be unsuccessful, but it was a good excuse to call her and ask how she was doing), we have to speculate as to what exactly happened. This, as former BeloJo political columnist M.

Charles Bakst always said, is how P&J work best: “You guys just make it up.” What we figure is that, since there are no elections going on, the staff over at the Board of Elections doesn’t have a whole lot to do. So after the third run to Dunkin’ Donuts one day, somebody came up with an excellent idea: why not introduce some really bad legislation and send it over to a Halitosis Hall gang always interested in such things? Although not privy to the minutes of Monday’s closed board meeting on the subject, we imagine the hard word was that the staff will just have to sit around and play board games rather than formulate new legislation.

Glorious Food

Longtime Providence Phoenix restaurant reviewer Bill Rodriguez has created a web site, foodismywife. com, that is, in Bill’s words, “dedicated to the proposition that the experience of food can be as much fun as sex. (And as wholesome, if you’re not a slut about it).” There are quotes from food celebrities, historical tidbits (in case you want to know where buffalo wings or Nutella come from), vintage clips of Julia Child dropping food on her PBS television show and, of course, a link to all of Bill’s Vo Dilun restaurant reviews from the Phoenix (a very useful tool if you’re going out to eat).

Your superior correspondents highly recommend that you take a look at the site. Bon appetit!

the return oF stevie thunder

On March 16, on the One O’Clock radio show from 6 to 9 am on WRIU (90.3 on your FM dial), host Cyber Larsen will have Stevie Thunder on as his special guest. Stevie, a Pawtucket native and URI grad, once hosted his own radio show on WRIU, “The Stevie Thunder Bad Taste and Immaturity Hour.” Stevie was also a founding member of The Fabulous Motels and the owner/operator of the groundbreaking landscaping firm Acme Zen Gardens. He’s been living outside of the Biggest Little for many years, but has lots of great stories about Vo Dilun’s underground art scene of the 1970s. We encourage you to tune in for the prodigal son’s return. Jorge (Rudy Cheeks) will be there, too.

st. Patrick’s day

If you really want to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in style, P&J suggest that on the afternoon of March 17 you head over to the Met, where that mighty leprechaun Mike O’Tanaka will be hosting a blues jam. Perhaps he will play some old TV theme songs (an O’Tanaka specialty). ^

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

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“I think [Lovecraft] was far too modest to be able to withstand the adoring fandom that has built up around him now.”

this Just in

_NiElS HobbS

protest

Letters

A generation’s challenge

H.P. LOvecraft gets His due

I knew the kids weren’t messing around the first time I heard them sing — a low, slow, foot-stomping dirge, part spiritual and part worksong:

crisis, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. They’re fighting for climate justice. I say “kids.” I mean leaders. I mean the young people who are out in front of the They are digging us a hole climate movement, They are digging us a hole showing the way, with Six feet underground their bodies. They’re Where our future will go the vanguard of a genWe will lay down our bodies eration putting itself We will lay down our souls on the line, helping the No we won’t stand by rest of us get our moral and watch bearings. There were 70 While they dig us a hole college students in this Westborough action You may remember — from Brown, Tufts, the “Westborough 8,” Brandeis, and several the student climate activother schools — and at ists who “locked down” least another 18 recent inside the TransCanada grads and twentysomeCorporation’s northeast things, many of them US office in Westborinvolved with fossil-fuel ough, Massachusetts on divestment campaigns January 7, protesting the on their campuses. They DIRGE on the death watch. Keystone XL tar-sands were joined by about a pipeline and demanding dozen fellow activists that President Obama and all of our elected leadover 30, including a group of five older mothers ers get serious about the climate crisis bearing representing their children. down on their generation. Of the 25 who stayed to be arrested after the Well, on Monday morning, their friends and police ordered everyone out, 18 were students allies went back to Westborough — more than — including Brown student Rachel Bishop — 100 of them, with more than 85 of them students and all but three were under 30. (But two were and recent grads, and 25 (including a handful of pushing 70 — Boomers back for another round!) older activists) choosing to be arrested for peaceThey sang as they were led away, first as a group, ful, principled civil disobedience. then one by one. And as they came out of the It was a serious, mournful kind of work the building in handcuffs, and were loaded into kids had come to do, dressed in black, marchpolice vehicles, their young friends and fellow ing and singing their dirge in a mock funeral mourners swelled the chorus: “We will lay down procession — what they called a “Funeral For Our our bodies/We will lay down our souls/No we Future,” complete with fake, life-sized coffin — won’t stand by and watch/While they dig us straight up to the locked glass doors of the Transa hole.” Canada office on the third floor of a nondescript What are we to make of this? What should all building in the Westboro Executive Park. the smart, serious people in Rhode Island think TransCanada is the company building the about a scene like this? Keystone XL — the pipeline that will transport Here’s one thing: the grassroots climate highly toxic, carbon-intensive tar-sands oil movement, led by young people like these all from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries for export, around the country, is getting serious — fast leaving a smattering of permanent jobs (perhaps — and escalating the use of nonviolent direct acas few as 20) in the wake of its construction, tion to make itself heard. And here’s another: while further locking us into fossil-fuel infrathe battle over Keystone, and the larger battle structure at the very moment we need to be over the Alberta tar sands, is shaping up as a leaving carbon in the ground and urgently defining moment. With the State Department’s scaling up clean energy. And yes, it’s the same draft environmental impact assessment under pipeline President Obama delayed last year after heavy fire, and a final decision from Obama still mass civil disobedience at the White House in months away, it’s only going to get hotter as we 2011. head into spring and summer. And TransCanada is a company, along with The action this week in Westborough is part the whole fossil-fuel industry and its political of a national and regional upsurge of grassroots enablers, that those kids (and many others) acactivism on climate and Keystone. More than cuse of deep-sixing their future with a reckless 50,000 people have signed a CREDO Action business model leading straight to catastrophic pledge to resist the Keystone XL with acts of climate change within this century — which is peaceful civil disobedience, and several thousand to say, within their own lifetimes (if you believe of those have said they are willing to travel to the woolly enviros at the International Energy engage in civil disobedience along the pipeline Agency). route. In other words, these kids aren’t just fightPoliticians beware. You wouldn’t want a “Fuing to stop a particular pipeline or to protect “the neral For Our Future” showing up on your doorplanet” — they’re fighting for themselves, and step, now would you? _Wen Stephenson for everyone else on the front lines of the climate liNdSay mEtiv i Er

“I’m generally up to my armpits in the creepiest, slimiest, nastiest kind of critters that the ocean produces,” Niels Hobbs says. We’re discussing Hobbs’s work as a freelance marine biologist who patrols the coastlines of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, studying invasive species. But it’s not much of a leap to his interest in — and fierce advocacy for — Providence’s most famous literary figure: horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. On March 21, Hobbs will lead a Rhode Island Historical Society discussion at the John Brown House Museum titled “H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Gods’: Atheism and the Cthulhu Mythos.” The lecture is the first in a series of 2013 events devoted to the man the New York Review of Books once dubbed “The King of Weird.” On March 23, the RIHS will host a “literary walk” pointing out significant landmarks from Lovecraft stories. On April 7, the H.P. Lovecraft Commemorative Activities Committee will hold its annual tribute service on the lawn of Brown’s Ladd Observatory, followed by a march to Swan Point Cemetery and Lovecraft’s legendary “I AM PROVIDENCE” headstone. Come late August, Providence will play host to hundreds of Lovecraft fans and scholars at NecronomiCon Providence 2013 — Hobbs & Co.’s reboot of the bygone Providence convention of the 1990s. Local venues and restaurants — like Julian’s, where Hobbs and I are having lunch — will hold exhibitions of Lovecraft-inspired artwork. AS220’s black box theater will host theater adaptations of the author’s fiction and life story. The all-stars of the Lovecraft universe — biographer S.T. Joshi, renowned Lovecraftian filmmaker Stuart Gordon — will mingle with hordes of costumed creatures and Lovecraft lookalikes. Hobbs and his newly-christened non-profit, The Lovecraft Arts and Sciences Council, Inc., are dubbing it “The Month of Lovecraft.” And that’s just the beginning. Over lunch, Hobbs excitedly reports that the Athenaeum has just agreed to provide a home for a bronze bust of Lovecraft and that plans are in the works for the rededication of streets and squares in Lovecraft’s honor — and perhaps even an “H.P. Lovecraft Day” in Providence. Our interview is edited and condensed. THE FLYER FOR YOUR RIHS EVENT SAYS THAT LOVECRAFT’S FICTION TRACES BACK TO “A PHILOSOPHY OF COSMICISM.” WHAT IS “COSMICISM,” EXACTLY? For Lovecraft, cosmicism is something that came out of his understanding, of the time, of the cutting edge of astrophysics and astronomy. And it’s something that certainly still stands today as expressed by Neil deGrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan, where you think of the earth as the “pale blue dot” in this vast, unforgiving black gulf. And not only is the universe this vast, cold, dark place which doesn’t really care about us on our little speck of dust, we’re also just a speck of dust among many billions of other specks of dust out there that are also planets that may house life. And who knows what that life actually might be like? WHAT CAME FIRST FOR YOU, MARINE BIOLOGY OR LOVECRAFT? There’s a tandem event going on in my life. I don’t want to overplay it too much, but there is definitely a very strong correlation between why I live in Providence, why I’m a marine biologist, and why this convention is happening. And that really is because of an early interest in his stories and a growing fascination with Providence, with the history of New England, with creepy creatures from the sea — all of these things sort of tie in together. BUT YOU’RE A MAN OF SCIENCE. AND LOVECRAFT’S FICTION, WHILE REALISTICALLY RENDERED, IS STILL FICTION. That’s the thing: he was also a man of science, you could easily argue. He was a prolific devourer of the latest science of the time, for good and bad. Some of that might even explain some of his racism: the fact that the ’20s and ’30s were the height of phrenology. These were all things that he gobbled up, along with the latest advances in physics and astrophysics and geology and such. One of the particular things that I like, coming from a scientist’s point of view, is the fact that he writes this imaginative fiction that includes things that are at least as weird as the stuff we find in our oceans, as opposed to so much of what Hollywood produces these days [which] are essentially [films featuring] the stereotypical guy in the spandex suit. WHAT WOULD LOVECRAFT THINK OF THE NECRONOMICON 2013? He loved exchanging, what, 20,000 letters with all of his friends who were also authors or budding authors. I think the opportunity to actually meet with potentially 100 of them at one place and one time would have been something that he would have relished. And to have them come to his home, essentially, he would have loved. [But] I think he was far too modest to be able to withstand the adoring fandom that has built up around him now. So I think he might have ended up just being cloistered in his hotel room for most of the convention.

_Philip Eil

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SIGNIFICANT SCRIBBLINGS (Clockwise from top) Lists by Janice Lowry, Eero Saarinen, Pablo Picasso, and Arturo Rodriguez.

A dAndy list

Two shows highlighT The RisD MuseuM’s new DiRecTion _By DAVi D sc h AR f e n Be Rg

It’s been a year-and-a-half since John Smith took over as director of the RISD Museum. But it’s only now that his vision for the place is becoming reality. He will soon launch a completely redesigned web site — a sort of digital wing of the museum. And this week, visitors will take in the first traveling show Smith has brought to town — “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.” An oddly compelling haul of artists’ shopping lists and bulleted concerns (see Janice Lowry’s “50 Angry Grievances”), the exhibit was developed during Smith’s tenure at the Archives — a repository of letters, diaries, scrap books, and financial records known as the Fort Knox of the art world. The show, he argues, is a perfect fit for the creative community at RISD and for Rhode Island writ large — an “interesting glimpse into process,” he says, “and how artists and designers think about the world and organize the world, from the quotidian to big ideas.” Indeed, this focus on process — on the intellectual work of producing art and the materials used to execute it — is emerging as an early theme for Smith.

‘Lists’ sings because it grounds boldfaced names in the ordinary without losing sight of their extraordinary talents.

The museum’s next major show, “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion” — in the works before Smith arrived, but shaped in important ways by the new director — will celebrate tweed, tartan, and the crafting of artists’ identities. And “Locally Made,” a summer show featuring Rhode Island work in the museum’s collection, will be accompanied by talks from all kinds of area makers — visual artists, thinkers, farmers, and craftspeople. But if process is a through-line, it’s only that. The first couple of shows at John Smith’s RISD Museum are richer fare.

‘Lists: to-dos, iLLustrated inventories, CoLLeCted thoughts, and other artists’ enumerations from the smithsonian’s arChives of ameriCan art,’ marCh 15-June 16 It’s a small scrap of paper. Not terribly legible. And not, at first glance, all that remarkable: merely a collection of names. But read the accompanying text and it becomes something much more. The scratch, it turns out, is in Pablo Picasso’s hand: a list of European artists he recommended for the first international exhibit of modern art in the United States, the 1913 Armory Show.

On the list — Fernand Lèger, Juan Gris, and Marcel Duchamp, whose “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” caused an uproar. Look closely and you’ll see that Picasso misspelled Duchamp’s name. Just one of the many imperfections that humanize the often superhuman subjects of “Lists.” Indeed, this one-room exhibit sings, in no small part, because it grounds boldfaced names in the ordinary — what could be more ordinary than a list? — without losing sight of their extraordinary talents. Powerhouse art dealer Leo Castelli’s to-do lists remind him to pick up tooth powder at the drug store and consult with “RR” — painter and sculptor Robert Rauschenberg. Painter Philip Evergood’s list of neighborhood services — picture framers, art dealers, a camera shop — is a nifty, gluedand-taped-together collage of business cards and hand-written notes. His evolving resume: newspaper clippings and his own, oft-edited penmanship piled one on top of another until the document wears out. The most affecting lists may come from Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen, who designed the TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

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HIGH FASHION (Clockwise from top left) Guy Hills (by Geordie); Andy Warhol (by Yousuf Karsh); Massimiliano Mocchia Di Coggiola (by Rose Callahan); a suit jacket worn by Richard Merkin; Sebastian Horsley (by Tom Medwell); Merkin wearing a F.L. Dunne suit in Esquire’s December 1972 issue; a 1803 man’s greatcoat tailored by John Weston of Old Bond Street.

One ticks off his wife Aline Bernstein’s finer qualities, one by one, around the time of their wedding. Bernstein, then an art editor and critic at the New York Times, is both “handsome” and “beautiful,” not to mention “perceptive” and “terribly well organized.” A Saarinen to-do list that includes a host of projects, “done” and “half-done” — one of them the renovation of his own home — was written just 16 days before he died. The lists’ emotional register is a reminder that even our most mechanical tools cannot blot out the human impulse. Modernist painter Hans Hoffman ran the Hans Hoffman School of Art in New York City and a summer school in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He was a strong-willed teacher who trained some of the greatest painters of the 20th century: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Mark Rothko among them. But his list, “About the relations of students and teachers,” suggests he could not always bend his students to his will: “1) What a teacher should know from the beginning: there is always an apostle who would deny his master.”

‘artist/rebeL/dandy: men of fashion,’ apriL 28-august 18 Kate Irvin and Laurie Brewer, co-curators

of “Artist/Rebel/Dandy,” say they are not out to rescue the dandy, but to present a fuller picture of him. We’ll take them at their word. But it’s hard not to see something redemptive in their project. The dandy — a self-conscious, welldressed man who first appeared in late 18th-century England — is often dismissed as a shallow and self-absorbed figure of little consequence. And that caricature will be represented in the exhibit; indeed, the curators tell the Phoenix the exaggerated image of the dandy — and the dandy’s reaction to that image — is an integral part of the story. “Is the dandy a real person?” asks Irvin, or “is the dandy more of a fantasy?” Still, if that’s an open question for Irvin and Brewer, the dandy’s significance is not. They see a person of real intelligence and real rebellion — right up to the present-day hipster, who wears his grandfather’s wool, bespoke suit in opposition to our disposable culture. This focus on the actual men who wear the clothes sets “Artist/Rebel/Dandy” apart from other shows on men’s fashion. Here is a banyan the Prince Regent wore before he ascended to the throne as King George IV. Here is a shirt that Oscar Wilde sent out for cleaning just before he died. Here is a suit worn by author Tom Wolfe.

But the two central characters in the show — which will incorporate prints, photographs, and fashion blogs alongside the clothing — are Beau Brummell and Richard Merkin. Brummell, a late-18th-century and early-19th-century figure who was a friend of the future King George IV, was the prototypical dandy — a free spender and arbiter of men’s fashion who claimed to take five hours to dress each day. But Brummell, if lavish in personality, did not dress flamboyantly. He tended, instead, to the reserved and perfectly tailored; his clothing a challenge to our narrow conception of the dandy. Merkin, a painter and illustrator who taught at RISD for 42 years, was much splashier — favoring bowler hats, boutonniéres, and custom-made suits like the striking, orange-hued tweed Irvin and Brewer showed the Phoenix this week. “My sartorial aspirations,” he once told the New York Times, “lie somewhere between the Duke of Windsor and the Duke of Ellington.” But Merkin, whose 1992 and 1999 donations to the RISD Museum were an inspiration for the show, was not simply a clothes-wearing man. He was a complex figure: his drawings extravagant and perplexing, his style bracing and influential.

Little wonder, then, that “Artist/ Rebel/Dandy” presents him as a sort of culmination of the craft and complexity laid out in the rest of the show — as an embodiment of the intricate dance of caricature and substance that defines the dandy. In one of his style columns in GQ magazine, titled “A Toff for All Seasons,” Merkin recalled coming across a Providence student “wearing an ancient black topcoat that brought me to a state of attention bordering on the catatonic.” He approached the young man and found, in the breast coat pocket, the label of an esteemed British tailor. The coat, moreover, had been made for one of his idols, J. Drexel Biddle Jr. — a World War II-era diplomat considered one of the world’s best-dressed men. Merkin borrowed the vintage garment so it could be replicated by his own tailor. But the copy, however fine, was not the same as the original. “The whole affair did teach me a lesson about clothing (and life),” he wrote, “which is simply that even the most adroit of artisans cannot fabricate a dream.” ^

David Scharfenberg can be reached at dscharfenberg@phx.com. Follow him on Twitter @d_scharfenberg.

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The second beer in NaRRagaNSEtt’s Private Stock series is on the shelves. ImpERIal BohEmIaN pIlSNER is a lager on steroids, a beer that draws on ’Gansett’s German roots but amps up the ABV (8.6%) and the flavor. Brewmaster Sean Larkin has knocked another one out of the park. The 22-ounce bombers are $6 or $7 . . . And the Hi-Neighbor! folks want you to know that its flagship Lager is now available in 30-packs. Bulk is good. FoolpRooF’s first specialty beer — REvERy, a Russian Imperial Stout (10.7%) — is in stores. We had a few sips at the brewery and the RI Brew Fest and can vouch for its savorability. There are only 3240 bottles (and 32 draft logs), so grab it when you see it. (Their next limited edition will be a farmhouse ale, slated for a late April release.) And the NEWpoRt StoRm folks drew inspiration from the other side of the country for the latest edition of their Cyclone Series. Named after the brewery’s fourth founder, Will Rafferty (from Spokane, WA), WIll is a massive hop bomb, with seven varieties making for a complex creation. “We added more hops to this tank than any other tank we have ever brewed,” said brewmaster Derek Luke. Will will hit stores next week. And save the date: the 2Nd aNNual NEWpoRt CRaFt BEER FEStIval will be at the Great Friends Meeting House on Saturday, April 27. Last year’s inaugural event was a blast, and we’re sure the sequel will kick it up a notch or three. ^

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Trinity Rep is staging the world premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s social creatures. They say it’s “set in the aftermath of an international pandemic that has decimated humanity.” Artistic director Curt Columbus says, “I knew that Jackie’s interest lay not in creating a traditional zombie thriller — although there will be plenty of blood for those that are hoping for that — but also questioning our true nature, and where the true monsters are found. Plus, the best thing about Jackie [a grad of the Brown MFA playwriting program] is that she can layer all of this social commentary into a play that is wildly funny. What’s not to love?” Social Creatures is at the Dowling Theatre, 201 Washington St, Providence, through April 21 | $28-$68 | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com

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Keri King has transformed AS220’s Reading Room Gallery into a Victorian sitting parlor. A number of “artifacts” (portraits, theatrical posters, newspaper clippings) tell a tale of art and crime in high society. You’ll also encounter rifle-sporting hares, cigar-smoking bears, and bawdy dancing birds. “Spectacles & Spectators” is at Project Space, 93 Mathewson St, Providence, through the 30th | as220.org

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monDAY 18 Keeping it real

Tony Estrella, the artistic director of the Gamm Theatre, doesn’t mince words: “Tom Stoppard is one of the two or three greatest living playwrights. His Rock ’n’ Roll [produced by the Gamm a few seasons ago] was one of the most challenging and powerful artistic experiences I’ve had in my tenure at the Gamm. No writer today can match his wit, erudition, and mastery of theatrical stage craft. the real thing is a play we’ve been looking forward to producing for many seasons.” The 1982 play (which features a play within the play) is about the Big Stuff: love, honesty, and

keeping it real. It opens on the 14th and runs through April 14 | $36 + $45 (previews $26 through today) | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre. org

tuesDAY 19 the rite stuff

Talk about the shock of the new: when the ballet Rite of Spring, choreographed by Vaslav Najinsky with a score by Igor Stravinsky, it inspired rioting in the streets. The Parisians couldn’t wrap their heads around the culture-shaking experience. the JoffreY BAllet’s is commemorating the anniversary with performances of the original work. Artistic director Ashley Wheater has said that “I still think the piece carries some controversy. When people go to see the Joffrey Ballet or the ballet, they have an idea of what they think ballet is . . . You realize that what Nijinsky did was very, very tribal — a very kind of Slavic, tribal dancing.” Wheater also noted that “the music was groundbreaking It’s still very contemporary today.” Rite of Spring will be preceded by two modern works: Age of Innocence, by Edwaard Liang, with music by Philip Glass and Thomas Newman; and Son of Chamber Symphony, by Stanton Welch. FirstWorks presents the Joffrey troupe, making its first-ever appear-

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the rare occaSionS (therareoccasions.com): There’s no

denying the energetic bounce of this Boston-via-Providence quartet (members attend Tufts University), with lead singer Brian McLaughlin and the crew jumping out “Miss Mary Mack.” A handful of demos are streaming online (listen at therareoccasions.bandcamp.com) and a debut EP is in the works. I’d bet the upbeat cuts “Wickenden Kids” and “The Uke Song” will get the joint jumping at JR’s. TRO band members McLaughlin and drummer Luke Imbusch have previous Rock Hunt experience as members of the Valar a few years back.

SateLLiteS FaLL (satellitesfall.com): In terms of audience

support, these guys won the room over at last year’s semifinals at the Ocean Mist (but fell to local URI faves Kingston 530). Vocalist Mark Charron can pen and hit hooks, as heard on the 2012 debut EP Lines On the Road. The first single “Servitude” is a legit alt-pop radio hit. The band reports a new EP is in the works, tentatively titled Pascal’s Wager; the single “Strange New Day” premiered last week.

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Sienna (reverbnation.com/siennarock): Greene, RI, in the building, y’all! This band competed at the 2011 Rock Hunt (at the Spot’s previous location) and started out in ominous fashion, with the guitarist almost landing a clothesline to lead singer Viana Newton as she ran onstage. They had my vote that night (but were bested Last One Out) and could play spoiler this weekend. Pick up the 2011 EP debut, Mark These Words, on iTunes; the quintet is working on an EP; and tune into WBRU to hear the new track “Reason to Stay.”

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the Brother kite (thebrotherkite.com): Full disclosure:

The Brother Kite is arguably the most beloved band in the PVD PHX office, as we impatiently await TBK’s fourth album (tentatively titled Model Rocket) set for release later this year. A guaranteed showstopper will arrive with the whirling and beautiful rush of “Get On, Me,” from the 2006 excellent debut album, Waiting For the Time To Be Right. And 2010’s Isolation is must-hear stuff. The quintet has racked up plenty of miles over the past 10 years, including three SXSW appearances. At first glance the betting money would ride on Patrick Boutwell and the gang dominating the Saturday showdown.

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party, including prime-time bracket-busters like the Brother Kite, Torn Sorts, and Lolita Black, plus previous Rock Hunt finalists Sienna and Satellites Fall among the 12 semifinalists. This year’s Rock Hunt is wide open, and should make for a highly entertaining battle over the next two weekends, with the final four eventually squaring off at the Met on Friday, March 29. More than 80 entries (two songs each) were submitted and eventually narrowed down to the top 11, with an online vote deciding the twelfth semifinalist (congrats to the Bitchin’ Aardvarks). I couldn’t agree more with station manager Wendell Clough when he recognized the 2013 roster as “the best crop of Rock Hunt talent we’ve seen in the last six years,” and commended 2012’s winner, Roz Raskin & the Rice Cakes, for inspiring such a strong turnout of quality bands (the Can’t Nots, Dylan Sevey, and the McGunks missed the final cut). At stake is a sweet prize pack valued at $7500, including video production and studio recording time, as well as gigs and steady airplay (Roz’s “Magma” received about one trillion spins last year). The action kicks off on Friday at JR’s Bourbon Street Rock House (inside Mardi Gras, 1500 Oaklawn Ave, Cranston, 401.463.3080) and the Spot Underground (“where the Keg Room usedta be,” 101 Richmond St, Providence, 401.383.7133). Both shows are $5 at the door and start at 9 pm sharp. Tune into HomeBRU’d weeknights at 9 pm for updates and check back here next week for coverage on the other six semifinalists, slated to square off at Fête in Olneyville and Gillary’s in Bristol. Now onto this weekend’s contenders:

LoLita BLack (lolitablack.bandcamp.com): My ongoing Lolita Black love affair is well-documented here, but I am playing no favorites and anticipate a tight race here, and I cannot wait to witness the reaction from the uninitiated in the crowd. This should be quite a hoot. LB’s second full-length album, 2012’s Flesh, Blood, and Bone is a metal/ punk/goth-tinged rampage, with chainsaw riffs courtesy of local legend Bob Otis (of Dropdead fame) and possessed lead singer Scarlett Delgado, sounding like Grace Slick on meth. The rumbling rhythms provided by bassist Jake Blanchett and goddess-of-thunder drummer Kaleigh Melise on “Suzy” and “Fireheart” are downright vicious, while the unreleased killer cut “Serpentine” (a dancey Lolita number, dare I say?) may win the room over. By the way, I wonder how many people are reading this and thinking, “Holy fucking shit — Bob Otis is in the Rock Hunt? Fucking awesome!”

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cLyde Lawrence (clydelawrence.com): Don’t count

out young buck piano man Clyde Lawrence, a New York native currently attending Brown University. WBRU is spinning “Wake Up,” but “Homesick” and “So Damn Fast” should get the crowd grooving. These are unabashed piano-pop love songs, a formula that worked for previous Rock Hunt victors like Johnny Lingo and Fairhaven. According to the official Clyde Lawrence bio, he has appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America; and this piano guru’s compositions were featured in the movie Miss Congeniality — written when he was six years old. ^

sets ($7 401.383.1113). also on Saturday, the GnoMeS head downtown to jam out at roots café starting around 7 pm ($10, 401.272.7422). and it should be one helluva weekend at Billy Goode’s in newport (one of the best live dives in the state, 401.848.5013) with 75orLess records hometown heroes the diepodS and MedS on Friday, followed by two GuyS and another Guy on Saturday. Y’all be safe out there on St. paddy’s day/SUndaY (the 17th). if partying out in Le Bucket, stop by the Met early and catch the Legends Jam featuring Mike tanaka & FriendS (no cover). Speaking of legends, rooMFuL oF BLueS will be blowing through the ocean Mist all weekend, with nighttime shows on Friday and Saturday, and a Sunday matinee (401.782.3740). next thUrSdaY (the 21st): the parlour (401.383.5858) hosts cactuS attack, while General assembly presents Boston’s riBS at dusk (401.714.0444) with local guests SnowpLowS, aLpha owL, and the attendinG.

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dress of Amherst, Massachusetts. These canvases are part-abstraction, part-stylized realism, part-vectors and diagrams, part-David Hockney, and part-metaphysical third-eye visions. Some just feel hokey — like Dark Phenomena, which looks like a Monet water lily painting that was spun in a blender. But things snap into place in Plane Ascension, a DayGlo camouflage pattern of orange, green, and yellow. Atop floats a geometric design of white lines seeming to diagram an office building or modernist stairwell, but the design keeps turning inside out like an optical illusion and dispersing into just lines. Peak of the Mystic Mountain is a sketchy, sort of lunkhead “expressionist” painting of a starburst or an exploding volcano rendered with Xs and squiggles hovering over red mountains. Rose Window looks like a game board combined with the pyramid from Q*bert combined with some sort of mystical mandala radiating beams of energy. I’m not totally sold on these paintings, but I’m interested in what (I think) Childress is trying to do. It feels like he begins with serious questions— wondering about nature, wondering about the forces that orient the universe — and then begins to play. ^

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BROWN UNIVERSITY JAZZ COMBOS | 8 pm | Grant Recital Hall-

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Rhode Island composers Antonio Muscente, Alfred Zambarano, and George Masso, plus Norman Dello Joio’s Scenes from ‘The Louvre’ | Fri-Fri + Fri 8 pm | Brown University’s Salomon DeCiccio Family Auditorium, Waterman and George sts, Providence | Free | 401.863.3234 | brown. edu/music

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THURSDAY 21

TRIBUTE TO THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - LIVE AT THE FILLMORE | 9 pm | Newport Grand

String Quartet in F Minor, Opus 95 | 7:30 pm | Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | $35 | 401.421.6970 | providenceathenaeum.org

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“WINTER DANCE PARTY: A TRIBUTE TO BUDDY HOLLY, RITCHIE VALENS, AND THE BIG BOPPER” | 8 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $26-$49 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

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CELTIC NIGHTS: JOURNEY OF HOPE | 7:30 pm | Park Theatre, 848 Park

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EVENTS SATURDAY 16

OSTC PLAYERS PRESENT THE FABULOUS FABLE FACTORY | 11:30

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SUNDAY 17

MONDAY 18

“AN EVENING WITH NEV SCHULMAN: BEHIND THE SCENES OF MTV’S CATFISH: THE TV SHOW” |

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THURSDAY 21

GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE featuring 25 galleries, museums, and historic sites, with celebrity guides Mary Larsen, Marilyn Salvatore, and Dolores Rovnack | Gallery Night Providence, 1 Regency Plaza, Providence | 401.490.2042 | gallery night.info

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

SATURDAY 16

WATERFIRE: ARTS & SOUL OF A CITY | A screening of the docu-

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PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM FEATURING SAM SAX + CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH | 8 pm | AS220,

115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org ROBERT A. GEAKE will discuss and sign his book, A History of the Providence River | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | Free | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

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“GUNS IN AMERICA: REDUCING CRIME” | A panel discussion with

Carl Bogus, professor of law at Roger Williams University School of Law; John Lott, scholar and author of More Guns, Less Crime and The Bias Against Guns; and Steven Lippmann, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the University of Louisville | 3:30 pm | Brown University’s MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer St, Starr Auditorium, Providence | Free | news.brown. edu/pressreleases/2013/03/guns

“WARFARE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE IN THE MOCHE WORLD: NEW DISCOVERIES AND CONTINUING DEBATES” | A talk by John Verano,

professor of anthropology at Tulane University | 5:30 pm | Brown University’s List Art Building, 64 College St., Room 120, Providence | Free | brown.edu/Facilities/Haffenreffer/ new/calendar.php

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cussion which addressses the question, “What value does real-time, transitory, face-to-face interaction still have?,” with Thomas Augst, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English at New York University, and Daniel Harkett, assistant professor in the Department of History of Art + Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design, with Christina Bevilacqua, Athenaeum director of programs and public engagement | 5 pm | Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providenceathenaeum. org

“MODERN PREJUDICE: ‘VERNACULAR’ AND ‘UNIVERSAL’ ” | A talk

by Gyanendra Pandey, professor of history and director of colonial and postcolonial studies at Emory

Guire, assistant professor of history at Wayne State University and author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power | 7 pm | Brown University’s Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, Petteruti Lounge, on the College Green, Providence | Free | brown.edu/ campus-life/support/sarah-doylecenter/news/2013-02/womenshistory-month-2013-calendar-events

“DARWIN’S DEVICES: EVOLVING ROBOTS REANIMATE ANCIENT ANIMAL EVOLUTION” | A talk by John

Long, professor and chair of biology at Vassar College, will talk about his work by discussing the history of life and the future of robotics | 7 pm | Brown University’s Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell St, Martinos Auditorium, Providence | Free | brown.edu/ academics/creative-arts-council/ events/upcoming

“A CHANGING CHINA IN A CHANGING WORLD” | A talk by Min Zhu,

deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund | 5:30 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | watsoninstitute.org/events_detail. cfm?id=2052

TUESDAY 19

“JOHN LA FARGE IN PARADISE: THE PAINTER AND HIS MUSE” | A

WEDNESDAY 20

“CYBERPOWER AND NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS” | A talk by

Alexander Klimburgh, fellow and senior adviser at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs | Noon | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | watsoninstitute.org/events_detail. cfm?id=2038

“ORIGINS OF CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES,” a talk

THURSDAY 21

“GUNS IN AMERICA: CULTURAL LEGACY” | A panel discussion with

Ellen Alberding, president of the Joyce Foundation; Cheryl Olson, co-director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media and author of Grand Theft Childhood; and Craig Whitney, a New York Times editor and author of Living With Guns: A Liberal’s Case for the Second Amendment | 4 pm | Brown University’s MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer St, Starr Auditorium, Providence | Free | news.brown.edu/press releases/2013/03/guns

“DESIGNING THE VISITOR’S EXPERIENCE AT THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS” | A talk

“PIRACY AND PIETY IN 18THCENTURY NEWPORT” | A talk

by Cherry Fletcher Bamberg and Michael F. Dwyer | 5:30 pm | Colony House, Washington Sq, Newport | $5 | 401.841.8770 | newporthistory.org “WELL NOTED,” a talk by RISD Museum director John W.Smith about how the everyday list — the

most humble form of documentation — provides a peek into the personal motivations and decision-making processes of celebrated artists, ultimately providing firsthand accounts of our cultural history | 6 pm | RISD Museum, 224 Benefit St, Providence | Free | 401.454.6500 | risdmuseum.org YVETTE HARPS-LOGAN will discuss why people buy certain clothes and how their choices reflect cultural identity | Part of the “Diversity Brown Bag Discussions” series | Noon | University of Rhode Island Multicultural Center, 74 Lower College Road, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2536 | uri.edu/news/ releases/?id=6522

ART GALLERIES AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri

1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Mar 30: New works by Jessica Thurber & Sarah Beck | Paintings by Brian Xavier | New works 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 Mar 30: “Approximately 7,642 Pounds of Art, Stacked and Somewhat Arranged,” an installation by Thomas Morrissey | “Spectacles & Spectators,” artwork by Keri King BANKRI GALLERY | 401.456.5015 x 1330 | 1 Turks Head Pl, Providence | bankri.com | Mon-Wed 8:30 am-3 pm; Thurs-Fri 8:30 am-5 pm | Through Apr 3: “Animal Fantasy,” paintings by Abbot Low — 137 Pitman St, Providence | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through Apr 3: “Moments In Color,” photographs by Stephen Spencer

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

CHAZAN GALLERY AT WHEELER

| 401.421.9230 | 228 Angell St, Providence | chazangallery.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 2-4 pm | Through Apr 3: “Drawing Matters,” works by Luis Alonso, Leslie Bostrom, Dennis Congdon, Wendy Edwards, Nancy Friese, Bunny Harvey, Tayo Heuser, David Kinsey, Susan Lichtman, Jack Massey, Jerry Mischak, Jacqueline Ott,Gwen Strahle, Dan Talbot, Roger Tibbetts, and Michael Yefko CRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St, Providence | craftland shop.com | Mon-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through Apr 6: “Artificial Memories,” photographs by Corey Grayhorse CRANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | 401.943.9080 | cranstonlibrary.org | 140 Sockanosset Cross Rd | Through Mar 29: “The Annual East Greenwich Art Club Artist Members’ Exhibit” 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 Mar 17: “33rd Annual Student Exhibition,” with works by Ana Alvarez, Jennifer Avery, Gianna Badiali, Alessandra Castillo, Sarah Cheung, Eunice Cho, Rachel Haberstroh, Matthew Hill, Alex Hsu, You Bin Kang, Madeline Kau, Daniel Kelley, Elaine Kuckertz, Aimei Kutt, Jane Lee, Kat JK Lee, Kirby Lowenstein, Connor McManus, Angela Mellon, Anna Muselmann, Sofie Ramos, Nina Ruelle, Ben Sadkowski, Robert Sandler, Bridget Sauer, Sarah Schade, Todd Stong, Cally Tomlinson, Hannah Lutz Winkler, Tala Worrell, Diane Zhou, and Ethan Zisson DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 138 Bellevue Ave, Newport | deblois gallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Apr 2: “The Seven Deadly Sins,” a non-juried open show GALLERY AT CITY HALL | 401.421.7740 | 25 Dorrance St, Providence | Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4 pm | Through Mar 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 Apr 27: “The Square Show,” works on three difference size canvases [12”x12”, 16”x16”, 20”x20”] by Christine Ashley, Anoush Bargamian, Maggie Bouchard, Mike Bryce, Bonnie Buck, Dennis Coelho Akervik (and apprentices), Bob Dilworth, Linda DiFrenna, Kim Ellery, Judith Ferrara, Stacey Graham, Jack Kebarian, Eveline Luppi, Alaina Mahoney, Stephanie Marzella, Farnaz Mobbayan, Ian Mohon, Kevork Mourad, Brian O’Malley, Julian Penrose, Sandra Pezzullo, Ewa Romaszewicz, Christian Rubeck, Shari Rubeck, Amy Ryan, Erin Starr, Melissa Thyden, Sirarpi Walzer, Toba Weintraub, C.C. Wolf, and V.F. Wolf

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pm; Sun 12-2 pm | Through Mar 17: Works by Morris Nathanson

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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 | Mar 15-June 16: “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” | Through Mar 17: “2013 RISD Faculty Biennial” | 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-andAdd,” works by Angela Bulloch, Anthony McCall, and Haroon Mirza

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Apr 7: “Town and Country,” a juried exhibit PROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providenceartclub.org | Mon-Fri 124 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Mar 15: “Color & Contrast,” works by Nancy Rapelye Godfray and Brian Larkin | “Of Three Minds,” works by Jim Bush, Vincent J. Castaldi, and S. Chandler Kissell | Mar 17-Apr 5: “All Media Juried Exhibition” | “Steven Weinberg: New Body of Work”

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Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Through Mar 16: “Open Juried Print, Paint & Pastel Annual” | Mar 21-Apr 13: “Open Juried Photography Annual” URI ART GALLERY | 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston | uri.edu/artsci/ art/gallery | Through Mar 28: “Providence Under Pressure,” works by Yarrow Thorne and the “Avenue Concept” Graffiti Street Artist works

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| 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5 pm | Through Mar 29: “Creative Feminisms: Art, Activism, and Everyday Action” | A mixed media exhibit focused on health, wellness, and empowerment of women — finding their voices, speaking their truth, presented in collaboration with the Hive Archive and featuring works by Jennifer Antes, Sharon Armour, Nadine Almada, Deborah Baronas, Kameko Branchaud, Marlene Britto, Margie Butler, Eilinn Byrne, Tiffany Cabral, Jennifer Calhoon, Jill Cook, Elaine Devonis, Tamara Diaz, Jane Dillon, Melanie Ducharme, Susan Fossati, Carolyn Jayne, Eva Jiminez, Iwona Lapczyk, Saberah Malik, Titilola Martins, Bili Mason, Niloufer Moochhala, Kate Oggel, Elena Patino, Betsy Ritz, Hannah Resseger, Kate Salvi, Basma Samira, Rebecca Siemering, Jade, Erin Smithers, Emily Sorlien, Kathleen Sonier, Robyn Thomas, Simone Spruce, Jacqueline Sylvia, Jessica Thurber, Anita Trezvant, Leigh Waldron–Taylor, and Marsha G. Wienck, and Bolivian artists Rosario Moyano Aguirre, Minina Arce, Velia Calvimontes, Susana Castillo, Gladys Corvera-Baker, Joyce Martin, Judith Campos Ordonez, Luz Maria Poma Huanca, Martha Lola Poma Huanca, Victoria Poma Huanca, Kuka Pradel, Dafne-Roberty Art, Telarana Weavers, and Jalq’a Weavers

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Film capsule reviews THE CALL | 2013 | A veteran 911 operator (Halle Berry) receives a call from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) who has just been abducted, reopening a period of her life that she knows she must revisit to help save her. Brad Anderson directs. | 95m | XXX DEAD MAN DOWN | 2013 |

Following the stunning success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev makes his English-language bow with this bleak film noir that values character over tension. Set in lower Manhattan, it stars Colin Farrell as Victor, a gangster working under a sadistic crime boss, Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard). Victor endures the abuse because he seeks revenge for Hoyt’s involvement in the murder of his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, Beatrice (Noomi Rapace), who lives next door, complicates matters, blackmailing Victor into killing the drunk driver responsible for scarring her face. J.H. Wyman’s nuanced screenplay offers complex characters expertly played by Farrell and Rapace, who are well supported by Isabelle Huppert, F. Murray Abraham, Armand Assante, and Dominic Cooper. At times their inner lives bog down the pacing, but Oplev delivers a movie that easily outdoes his wildly overrated Dragon Tattoo and is tonally precise and brimming with humanity. | 118m |

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49 years of Michael Apted’s singular, amazing documentary series, he’s returned every seven years to see what’s happened to the British children first filmed on a single day in the early 1960s: half were poor, blue-collar East Londoners, the other half children of privilege with Oxford and Cambridge probably in their future. At 56, they are often where they were at 49, though a little pudgier, more settled down, and definitely less ambitious. It’s almost always about family, family, family, and how their kids and grandkids are doing, whether those on camera are smugly rich or just getting by. In general, the working-class participants are livelier on-camera presences, perhaps because they still struggle each day to stay solvent. Several of the moneyed males, who have no economic worries, really have turned into boorish and bloodless souls. 56 Up is still moving and philosophic, though not as exciting as earlier episodes, which had more drama. | 144m |

IF I WERE YOU | 2012 | From IMDB: “When a woman [Marcia Gay Harden] tries to outwit her husband’s [Aidan Quinn] sexy young mistress [Leonor Watling], the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production — with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.” | 115m |

THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE | 2013 | Steve Carell stars as

the title magician in this comedy from director Don Scardino. After ruling the Vegas Strip for years, Burt’s title is placed in jeopardy upon the arrival of a new street magician (Jim Carrey), whose cult grows with each outrageous stunt. | 100m |

XW JACK THE GIANT SLAYER | 2013 | Stop me if you’ve heard

this one before: a farm boy dreams of adventure, finds it, and falls

in love with a princess along the way. (For everyone’s sake, let’s just hope she’s not his sister.) Leading our hero on his journey to rescue her royal highness (Eleanor Tomlinson) is Obi-Wan Kenobi — err, Ewan McGregor — in his role as head of the King’s Guard. As for our hero, his name’s Jack (Nicholas Hoult, showing less life than as the zombie he plays in Warm Bodies), and he’s harboring a bag of magic beans with “the power to change the world.” Yes, that Jack. He’s off to slay some giants, first and foremost General Fallon and his lieutenants: Fee, Fye, Foe and Fumm. Fallon’s motioncapture and vocal performance is provided by Bill Nighy (well, for one of his heads), the actor behind Pirates of the Caribbean’s superior Davy Jones, which only serves to accentuate the shoddy effects work on display in 3D in director Bryan Singer’s colossal stumble. | 114m |

XXW OZ THE GREAT AND

POWERFUL | 2013 | Sam Raimi

nearly overcomes the unenviable burden of revisiting a classic by delivering dazzling footage, but not so the performances. Dorothy Gale is yet to be born when carnival magician Oscar Diggs (James Franco) journeys over the rainbow to assume control of Emerald City. Franco stumbles in this role; his contemporary touches are jarring. Mila Kunis bewitches as Theodora, but is out of her depth when her character transforms into the Wicked Witch of the West. Ten years ago, Rachel Weisz would have owned that role, but she’s stuck playing Theodo-

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ra’s older sister Evanora. And if this seems more Tim Burton than Sam Raimi, thank production designer Robert Stromberg (Alice in Wonderland), who melds art deco and art nouveau, and frequent Burton collaborator Danny Elfman, who contributes the incandescent score. Oz the Great and Powerful isn’t great, nor is it powerful, but it is competent and entertaining. | 123m |

THE RABBI’S CAT | 2011 | From IMDB: “Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi’s cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.” | 100m | XX SNITCH | 2013 | Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson idles through this Ric Roman Waugh–directed action thriller as John Matthews, a construction company owner who infiltrates a cartel to persuade the DEA to set free his wrongly imprisoned son. Johnson’s character is more vulnerable than his usual brute — Matthews is mugged, held at gunpoint, forced to do drugs — but his flinty expressions and delivery don’t show it. More versatile is Jon Bernthal as one of his employees, a tense twostriker who’s trying to stay clean but can’t resist introducing his boss to the back alleys when money’s on the table. Though Waugh adeptly raises the stakes as the duo’s schemes snowball, the tension dissipates like a plume of spilled cocaine during the too-brief final shootout. But hey, at least you get to see the Rock blast thugs with a shotgun and maneuver a semi with blown-out tires — at the same time. | 112m |

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BARBARA

GerMan | 105 MinUteS | avon In this brilliant Cold War political drama set in the GDR in 1980, a doctor, Barbara (the extraordinary Nina Hoss), is sent from East Berlin to a provincial town by the Baltic Sea because she has requested to move to the West. Once there, her every move is monitored by the local Stasi, who come into her apartment at will, overturning her furniture and checking her body parts. Her claustrophobic life continues at the local hospital where she is assigned — the handsome doctor (Ronald Zehrfeld) who befriends her and courts her is, very likely, also a Stasi spy. Somehow, in this stirring narrative, Barbara manages to keep hold of her principles, and her humanity and courage, and battles to save a dissident teenage girl whom the Communists are trying to annihilate. Filmmaker Christian Petzold was appropriately awarded Best Director at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival; in a perfect world, Nina Hoss would have been a 2013 Oscar nominee for Best Actress. _Gerald Peary

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106 MinUteS | providence place 16 Donning sunglasses and clamping down on a pipe moments before exiting an American transport plane, General Douglas MacArthur announces, rather redundantly, “Now, let’s show them some good old-fashioned American swagger.” Yes, Tommy Lee Jones plays the “supreme commander” of the US forces in this historical drama from Peter Webber (Girl with a Pearl Earring) that takes place after the Japanese surrender in World War II, and the Oscar winner puts in another towering performance. Alas, instead of putting him front and center, the film demotes him to a supporting role and weaves a threadbare fiction involving MacArthur’s real-life second-incommand, General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox), who must decide whether Emperor Hirohito (Takatarô Kataoka ) should be hanged as a war criminal. The real criminals are the screenwriters, who distract with a dopey, doomed romance for the “Jap lover.” _Brett Michel

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March 16 7 8 9 10 11 Waxing moon in taurus, moon void-ofcourse 7:11 pm until 2:09 am Sunday. Get some beauty into your life — a craving for aesthetic home decor or artistic experienc22 23 24 25 26 27 es is perfectly nature. also, it’s a weekend of acquiring items for some — my money is on taurus, virgo, capricorn, Scorpio, pisces and cancer. too much won’t be enough for you folks. aries, Sagittarius, Leo, Libra, Gemini and aquarius could be impatient with the slowpokes. 6

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March 18 influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | 8 9 10 11 12 Waxing moon in Gemini. another day of 13 When14the moon15is in your 16sun sign, you are beginning socializing and communication. if you a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect don’t hear what you want, move onto the increased insight and emotionality. When the moon into the 31 sun sign opposite yours (see below), next person. take some time for writing or 29 moves 24 25 26 27 28 30 32 expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, updating a diary, and family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities don’t expect others to have a long atten11 12 13 14 15 16 will not be at their best. | When the moon is in aries, tion span. Gemini, Libra, aquarius, aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are Leo, taurus, capricorn, cancer and Scorpio: taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, follow your instincts, no matter how fleetLeo/aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each ing. romantic could be 32 sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon 27 28 misunderstandings 29 30 31 the story for virgo, pisces and Sagittarius. 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 15 Symboline dai’s16sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net. 31

Jonesin’ _by m att J ones F“ThaT’s a Tough oNe” — actually, a tough two. across 1 “Welcome Back, Kotter” star Kaplan 5 Unpleasant atmosphere 11 he hosted a reality show called “i pity the Fool” 14 vows sometimes rushed in comedies 15 “the other ___ Girl” (2008 natalie portman movie) 16 “Star-Spangled Banner” contraction 17 Five on a dude’s foot? 19 clay, later 20 passover dinner 21 “put Your head on My Shoulder” singer paul 22 “Kilroy Was here” band 23 co-star of Morgan and Baldwin 25 chunky milkshake ingredient 27 Words before “fire” or “emergency” 32 BFFs 35 “are we there yet?” answer, maybe 36 time off from the group? 40 Former nhL star robitaille 41 thorny trees 42 co. whose mascot is nipper 43 the right amount to be serendipitous? 45 “Win, Lose or draw” host convy 46 herb that’s also a name 47 old-school fastener at the roller disco 49 hit for ZZ top 52 Bread for a reuben 53 Madcap

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March 15 5 6 7 8 9 10 Waxing moon in aries. the ides of March will be fortunate for some (fire signs). it’s also an excellent day to give up habits, once and for all. or,23perhaps24you feel25like 26 21 22 acting like a child? You’re in tune with the moon, and aries, Leo, Sagittarius, taurus, virgo, Gemini, aquarius, pisces and Scorpio Tuesday may do anything to get their own way. March 19 3 4 cancer 5 and Libra: 6 7 8 9 10 12 capricorn, risk-taking First quarter moon11in Gemini, moon13 void- 14 could backfire. Be conservative in your acof-course from 1:27 pM until 2:55 pm, tions. when it moves into cancer. a turning point 19

for events that began around March 11. is everything moving as it should? if not, 12 13 14 15 evaluate options in the morning, and16make changes in the afternoon. that’s also a fine time for deepening relationships or working on a29project 30with a long comple28 31 32 tion time. doubting their instincts: pisces, aries, Sagittarius, capricorn. Going with the flow: Gemini, cancer, Leo, Libra, virgo, aquarius Scorpio, and taurus.

March 20 10 11 in cancer, 12 13 equinox 14 Waxing moon spring (at LaSt!). can you hear a sigh? that’s the suNday sound of domestic bliss. the moon in cancer March 17 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 prompts feelings of 28conjugal happiness and Waxing moon in Gemini, while Mercury 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 fierce defensiveness. however, aries, caprimoves direct. after three weeks of Mercorn and Libra may “overdo” some aspect of cury retrograde and compromised commu(too defensive, not32clear about nication, everything and 28 interaction 23 24 25 seems26more clear 27 29 30 31 needs). cancer, Scorpio, pisces, Leo, virgo, straightforward. Make a list, check it twice, 10 11 13 14 and get together with12as many folks as you 15 taurus,16Gemini, aquarius and Sagittarius: don’t rush things. You’ll get more (and learn can. Most social: Gemini, Libra, aquarius, more) by letting a process unfold naturally. aries, Leo, taurus, capricorn, cancer and Scorpio. overwhelmed 26 27 28 by too29much busi30 31 32 ness: virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius. 4

March 14 4 5 6 8 Waxing moon in aries, with7 the moon void-of-course until 3:08 pm, when it moves into taurus. a great day to be competitive, or21to begin22projects that finish 20 23 24 quickly. risk-taking may be an appealing activity for aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Libra, Gemini, and aquarius. if capricorn, virgo, taurus, pisces, Scorpio and 2 3 5 6 cancer have been4 procrastinating — today7 and tomorrow may find you dancing on hot coals. 18

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