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6 liberal warrior _ by david scharfen b erg

Sheldon Whitehouse is attacking the obstructionist GOP head-on — taking on the party that so often seems the aggressor. Will it work?

10 homegrown product _ by chris con ti

Showcase showdown: torn shorts triumphs over the Brother Kite, Kid Mountain, and Lolita Black at the WBRU Rock Hunt.

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11 art _ by greg cook

Lust and life: ‘reverse cowgirl’ at Yellow Peril Gallery.

12 theater _by bi ll rodrig uez

Convent-ional wisdom: sister act rattles the rafters at PPAC.

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“Short Takes” on the place beyond the pines, 42, trance and evil dead.

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

Forbes reams Raimondo | Raging with Riley | The Crunchbutton chronicles | Girls gone bye

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Foreclosed dreams | Brown climate change activists win a big victory

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Gina burnt Forbes reams raimondo; raging with riley; chewing out Brown Forbes magazine recently

torched Vo Dilun Treasurer f Gina Raimondo with a blog post

titled, “Rhode Island Public Pension ‘Reform’ Looks More Like Wall Street Feeding Frenzy.” All the more notable considering Forbes is hardly a liberal, kill-theone-percenters magazine. Forbes contributor Ted Siedle smoked Raimondo in the first two sentences: “According to Institutional Investor, Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo is at work solving the nation’s retirement dilemma, showing how tough public pension reforms can pay fiscal and political dividends. Don’t believe a word of it.” This was just the beginning. “A look behind the curtain reveals her changes to the investment portfolio of the $7 billion Employee Retirement System of the State of Rhode Island will inevitably dramatically increase both risk and fees paid to alternative investment managers, such as hedge funds and private equity firms,” wrote Siedle. “There’s no prudent, disciplined investment program at work here — just a blatant Wall Street gorging, while simultaneously pruning state workers’ pension benefits.” Normally P&J would call in Rolling Stone’s Wall Street whiz Matt Taibbi to explain this to us, but Siedle seems up to the job. “What’s happened to date in Rhode Island is unprecedented in public pension history and, given the myriad risks involved, should be setting off alarms: A littleknown money manager hired by the state’s pension to manage a paltry $5 million succeeded in getting herself elected as state Treasurer. That means she’s now responsible for overseeing the entire $7 billion . . . Essentially, there has been a coup — the foxes (money managers) have taken over management of the henhouse (the pension). To make matters worse, she’s an unproven veteran of the ‘alternative’ investment industry — the hallmark of which is a profound lack of transparency.” Ouch! In case Siedle didn’t feel he had bludgeoned Our Gina enough, he wrapped up his piece with this not-exactly-dainty explanation of what the Biggest Little’s pensioners are experiencing now and possibly well into the future: “I’m all for public pension reform — prudent contributing and investing coupled with sustainable benefits. However, when alternative investment managers take control of a state pension and recklessly dump pension

assets into high-cost, high-risk alternative investments, while they slash workers’ benefits, that’s no reform. Call it what it is: a money grab.” Raimondo, of course, disputes all this. But if she is grabbing anything at the moment, we imagine it would be a tall glass filled to the brim with Jack Daniels, a cold compress, and a handful of Valium.

Life of RiLey

P&J’s Monster Raving Looney of the Week Award goes to failed congressional candidate Michael Riley, who got popped for a DUI in Narragansett last week. As a grown man, he should know three things: 1) don’t piss into the wind; 2) don’t ever respond to a woman’s question with, “Well, to be truthful, it does make your ass look fat”; and 3) don’t threaten police officers when they are about to arrest you. Unfortunately, Riley — who got his ass whipped by Congressman Jim Langevin last November — seems to have missed the day they taught Lesson #3. In the wee hours of April 3, he was pulled over by police for allegedly doing some serious swerving on Point Judith Road. Riley lost his rag, reportedly screaming at the officers, “I ran for goddamn Congress! You are fucked!” This while he was being handcuffed, which is a little late to make your case. We’re sure he also managed to get in the traditional “Do you know who I am?,”

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which almost guarantees the cops locking you up. Then again, Riley is a former Wall Streeter, so maybe he thought he was too big to fail.

CRunChbutton ChRoniCLes

Your superior correspondents recently spoke with Judd Rosenblatt, founder of a company called Crunchbutton (crunchbutton. com). Crunchbutton — a 2012 graduate of the local startup accelerator Betaspring — offers “oneclick” ordering for popular dishes from a number of local eateries. Back in December, Crunchbutton was delivering a chicken sandwich, nicknamed the “Spicy With,” from one of Brown University’s cafeterias. Students could pay for the meal with their Brown ID. Crunchbutton typically earns a piece of the restaurant’s profit. But in the case of the “Spicy With” offering — meant to introduce the company to Brown students — the company was not making a dime. According to an attorney for Crunchbutton, “Brown got really bent out of shape and sent these guys a cease and desist letter (C&D) alleging that these guys were ‘trading upon the good name/reputation of Brown University.’ ” Crunchbutton complied with the C&D letter and wrote to the Brown lawyer, relaying that fact. Crunchbutton then began delivering a similar chicken sandwich, which it labeled “Spicy With.” (The “Spicy

With” was never the actual name of the sandwich offered at the Brown cafeteria; it’s just what the students have been calling it for years). Without checking with Crunchbutton, Brown wrongly assumed the sandwich was being sourced, once again, from its cafeteria. The university then wrote to Betaspring, incorrectly stating that Crunchbutton was violating a C&D letter. The school threatened to sue and asked if Betaspring knew where to “serve Crunchbutton or its principals.” So, what have we learned here? That Brown University, supposed champion of technological innovation here in Our Little Towne, is somewhat tone deaf. Rosenblatt told us that Crunchbutton, once based at Yale University, came to Providence because it “is a great college town, a great restaurant town, and Betaspring is there.” This is just the type of company that we want to succeed and flourish here. Wise up, Bruno Uno. Let’s all get behind this effort.

MusiC foR the souL

Your superior correspondents can highly recommend several shows taking place in the Biggest Little this week. On Thursday, April 11 at 8 pm, the Sugar Honey Iced Tea, Ryan Lee Crosby, and the magnificent Allysen Callery will be performing downstairs at Local 121 on Washington Street in Providence. If you haven’t seen Allysen live,

this is a great opportunity. On Friday, April 12 at 8 pm, Joe Silva, back from his travels and shows in the UK, will be at Spicoli’s Bar and Grill in Albion, Rhode Island. The show is a fundraiser for Aydan Nyberg, a young boy who has been fighting cancer. And on Sunday, April 14, you’ll have an opportunity to see and hear the legendary Rizzz, one of Vo Dilun’s most popular bands during the ’70s and ’80s. They will be at the Met in Pawtucket, starting at 4 pm. They packed the place less than two months ago and played magnificently. There is no cover charge for this show, so no excuses for staying home.

GiRLs Gone bye

One was a hot babe, the other a cold woman. Much to our chagrin here at Casa Diablo, former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher both turned up their pedicured toes this week. OK, we’re not exactly broken up about Ronnie Reagan’s biggest admirer passing. But we’re certainly mourning the Beach Blanket Bingo queen. In memoriam, P&J slipped into our old two-piece cabana outfits with matching swimsuits and terrycloth-lined short-sleeves and did the Twist in the sandbox next to our heated outdoor pool. Surf’s up. ^

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this Just in

“I really wanted people to look at this work and put their own thinking, brain, heart, childhood, life experience, etcetera, into the photographs.”

_david h. wElls

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At Yellow Peril Gallery, foreclosed dreams When Providence-based photographer David H. Wells set out to document the American foreclosure crisis, he started by snapping photos of workers as they cleaned repossessed houses in California’s central valley in 2009. As he began shooting, though, he found the objects in the houses more compelling than the workers. Since that first trip, his ever-expanding “Foreclosed Dreams” project — which opens at the Yellow Peril Gallery in Providence April 18 — has focused on items, not people. Sandals. Polaroids. Pacifiers. Bullet casings. Karate trophies. Broken chairs. Birthday cards. A crumpled American flag. A rain-soaked book called Bad Beginnings to Happy Endings. And of course the empty houses, themselves, with plywood-boarded windows and countertops dusted with plaster. “I’m really trying hard to get what I think are the ghosts of the people who used to be in those houses,” Wells says of his excursions into more than 500 homes across 15 states, including Rhode Island. He was speaking from Arizona, where his work on “Dreams” continues. The tech-savvy Wells — who runs a free photo instruction podcast series and blog called “The Wells Point” — responded to my emailed questions by recording webcam videos of himself and summoning photographs onto the screen as he spoke. The interview has been edited and condensed.

And this particular house had been cleaned within an inch of its life. This was one of those important photos to me because a lot of times people think that all the foreclosures are disastrous and dirty and had been vandalized. I’ve seen plenty that are like that, but [in] this one, what was most interesting was [that] you could have eaten your lunch off of the floor of this place. So, whoever had cleaned this place out actually had done a very nice job and left this really beautiful mirror behind. And, of course, [there is] that very typical kind of Providence color palette in the painting of the walls.

YOU INTENTIONALLY LEFT THE INHABITANTS OF THESE HOUSES OUT OF THE PHOTOS. DID YOU EVER COME INTO CONTACT WITH THOSE PEOPLE? If I were to have photographed people actually being evicted, my experience having worked in a newspaper or photojournalism for a long time was that, unfortunately, when [viewers] see an individual undergoing a particular experience they have a very, very nasty tendency to sort of look and say, “Oh, it’s that person’s experience,” and not necessarily make it part of their own. I really wanted people to look at this work and put their own thinking, brain, heart, childhood, life experience, etcetera, into the photographs. By not having people

WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON NEXT? I have just

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REFLECTIONS items left behind at a house on the south side of Providence. in the photographs, I think I made them more open-ended.

HOW DID WHAT YOU SAW IN RHODE ISLAND COMPARE TO WHAT YOU SAW AND SHOT ELSEWHERE? I mostly photographed in Provi-

dence. A little bit in Warwick, a little bit in Woonsocket. I think probably the biggest difference compared to somewhere else — and this is not a great surprise — [was], because the houses generally in Rhode Island are so much older, there’s a lot more history and sort of multiple layers of things that you’d find in some of the houses. I photographed one [house] in Warwick where as the guys who were removing the stuff were going through, they found a box, actually, of old family letters from we guessed the grandfather to somebody — the

grandmother, maybe. And we didn’t want to throw them out, so I actually took them and one of my long-term goals is actually to get them to the Rhode Island Historical Society. Or maybe get them back to the family. Because it’s a waste to just throw them away. And then of course some of the houses were just beautiful houses because of the quality of the workmanship, as compared to some of the houses you’d see out west in the California, Nevada, Arizona places where you had a lot more suburban homes, tract homes, and much newer homes. [Wells brings up a photograph on the screen of a bare room, adorned only by a broom, an old picture frame, and a wall mirror. He describes its backstory.] This is on the South Side, in a house that I accessed through a realtor in Providence.

movements

At Brown, A win for climAte chAnge Activists A key Brown University oversight committee voted unanimously last week to recommend the school divest from coal, delivering a significant victory to student climate change activists. The Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies (ACCRIP) has suggested divestment only three times before: from tobacco companies, from Darfur during the genocide there, and from the HEI hotel chain, accused of mistreating workers and blocking unionization. In all three cases, Brown’s board of trustees followed ACCRIP’s advice.

Student activists say Brown President Christina Paxson has confirmed the issue will be on the board’s agenda at its next meeting in May. “The board of trustees can’t ignore this recommendation,” said Jordan Schultz, a student with the Brown Divest Coal Campaign, in a statement. “It can’t ignore the pressure from Brown’s student body and from students around the world. And it can’t ignore the dictates of science and ethics.” Since September, 2100 undergraduates and hundreds of faculty and alumni have signed petitions demanding the university

divest from the nation’s 15 largest coal companies. The push is part of a national movement that sprouted this fall, aimed at choking off college and university investment in fossil fuel companies. Thus far, five colleges — Unity College, Hampshire College, Sterling College, Santa Fe Art Institute, and College of the Atlantic — have agreed to divest. Brown would be the biggest prize yet. Environmentalist and journalist Bill McKibben, de facto leader of the climate change movement in this country, has argued that the fossil fuel industry’s grip on Washington is so strong, activists can only hope to win

in the last six months started photographing houses that have been cut in half in India. These are houses that are either legally or illegally in the way of roads that are being built in India as the government updates the roads system in the wake of globalization and tries to modernize [the country]. I’m not really passing a judgment on whether I think that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but what has happened is that these houses are marked by something called the National Highway Authority of India, and then contractors come along and they literally demolish the building right up to that point. And so you have people who are still actually living in and around these houses. [For] some of the houses, the people who lived in them were compensated when their houses were cut in half; some of the people were not compensated because they shouldn’t have been on that land. And so this is a new project that’s using some of the same skills and some of the same approaches that I use on the foreclosure project, but obviously it’s also slightly different. [But] it’s still about the idea of home. Yellow Peril Gallery will host an opening reception for “Foreclosed Dreams” on April 18 at 5 pm. (The exhibition will run until May 12.) The following night, April 19 at 5 pm, Wells will take part in a salon at the Providence Athenaeum about the role of art in promoting social change.

_Philip Eil

a lasting victory by going after the industry directly. The divestment campaign is part of that effort, he told the Phoenix during a visit to Brown last fall. Activists will also protest at shareholder meetings, he said. And they’ve got to do all they can to soil the reputation of fossil fuel companies: the message, he said, is that this is the tobacco industry of our time. “It takes movements, that’s what makes things change,” McKibben said at the time. “Nothing else. Power and wealth do not just listen to scientific studies. Power listens to power. We’re not going to outspend the fossil fuel industry, so we’re going to need our own currencies and those are the currencies of movement: passion, spirit, creativity, sometimes we spend our bodies.”

_david scharfenberg

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LiberaL warrior

Sheldon WhitehouSe iS attacking the obStructioniSt goP head-on. Will it Work? _by daVid S cha rf e n b erg

The Republican Party’s disastrous showing in the 2012 election has spawned all manner of blueprints for a GOP reinvention. But the party seems more interested in amendment than overhaul. It’s budging on immigration reform and moving a bit on gay marriage. Elsewhere, though, it appears as immovable as ever. That intransigence — or, if you like, resolve — raises a vital question on the other side of the aisle: faced with a GOP still hostile to the president — and to standard political negotiation — what is a liberal legislator to do? Is there any use, at this point, in trying to work with the Republican Party on the big issues? It is a particularly fraught question in the Senate, which still clings to a dying tradition of comity. But a handful of junior Democrats have surrendered any dream of the old order and acceded to the hyper partisanship of the Age of Obama. Among the most articulate and forceful of this new breed: Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. When it comes to his signature issues — climate change, campaign finance reform, tax fairness — he makes little secret of his approach: marshal the facts, hammer the Republicans, and embarrass them into action. It is, for Whitehouse’s liberal supporters, an effort of undeniable appeal: here is a Democrat going on the offensive, taking it to a GOP that so often seems the aggressor. But is it the best course? The only course? And most important: can it work?

And even in the Congressional ranks, figures like Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, whose seniority place them at or near the top of several key committees, cannot afford to antagonize GOP dealmakers with fiery rhetoric. Whitehouse is keenly aware of this reality. As a new senator with a safe seat, he knows he is uniquely positioned to be a bulldog. To sink his teeth into the public discussion and drag it to the left. The task comes with certain benefits: not least of them a rising public profile. But it’s not clear that Whitehouse will be able to claim a big, tangible success in the near term. That owes something to the issues Whitehouse has chosen to engage. He seems optimistic about joining with Republican Senator John McCain to produce a new round of campaign finance reform. But the push faces sharp opposition in the GOP. And the issue, however important, has never stirred much public passion outside activist circles. Tax fairness has some populist appeal; Whitehouse has pushed for a “Buffett Rule,” which would require the wealthy to pay at the same rate as the middle class. But taxes seem a core issues the GOP is unwilling to surrender, even as it makes accommodations on social issues like gay marriage. And the senator, himself, acknowledges that his push for major climate change legislation is going nowhere for now. He calls his public pronouncements on the issue an attempt to keep up morale on the left and “bring the day, earlier, when things change — and suddenly what was impossible is now possible.”

Short,

EVOLUTION

Whitehouse did not present as an ideologue in his early career as a US Attorney and Attorney General. His job was law enforcement, then, not political duel. But when he ran for the Senate in 2006, partisanship was running hot in this country. Blue states like Rhode Island had come to detest the Bush Administration. And Whitehouse was able to turn that enmity against his popular, moderate opponent: Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee. A vote for Chafee, he argued, was a vote for GOP control of the Senate. In his early days in Washington, Whitehouse was involved in his share of partisan skirmishes. As a former prosecutor, Whitehouse proved a particularly useful critic of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who was embroiled in controversies on warrantless wiretapping and what looked like the politically motivated dismissal of several US Attorneys. But it was the election of President Obama, and the GOP’s response to that election, that launched the senator on his current trajectory. “We began to see this absolutely relentless Republican obstruction that, it became more and more clear, was actually a strategy,” Whitehouse says, a strategy that “was going to be applied to everything the president tried to do, no matter how much he tried to compromise.” The Republican Party’s single-minded pursuit, as Senate Minority Leader Mitch

GAME PLAN Whitehouse looks to marshal the facts, hammer the republicans, and embarrass them into action. McConnell would later acknowledge, was to make Obama a one-term president. Whitehouse says he and some of his Senate colleagues recognized this reality before the Oval Office did. There was a moment, he says, during the Obamacare negotiations “when a considerable number of us in the caucus, mostly newer and younger members,” came to the conclusion that bipartisan talks in the Senate Finance Committee “were essentially a sham and were designed to draw out the process so that the political attack machine on the other side could do its work.” When the discussions dragged on and on, culminating in a party-line vote on the legislation, Whitehouse says, he and the other new Democrats felt vindicated: “That was where . . . a group of us became most mobilized, saying you just can’t take some of this stuff at face value.” On the eve of the Obamacare vote, he took to the Senate floor to excoriate the president’s opponents, saying they drew support from “the birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in rightwing militia and Aryan support groups.” He made reference to mob violence — to Kristallnacht and lynchings. The speech was widely ridiculed on the

right. But when I asked Whitehouse this week if he regretted the oration or considered it prescient, he allowed only “a little bit of both.” What commentators then considered signs that the GOP had gone off the rails, he says, look pretty mild compared to the present bearing of the Tea Party wing of the GOP.

THE STRATEGY

In the face of continued Republican obstructionism, Whitehouse argues, Democrats can only succeed if they make a forceful case for their point of view and visit heavy public pressure on the GOP. It was only public pressure, he says, that forced Republican movement on the fiscal cliff, Hurricane Sandy relief, and the recently passed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The Democratic establishment has, in many respects, come around to this point of view. Since his re-election, President Obama has engaged in an outside-theBeltway, rally-public-opinion approach to a whole host of issues. But the president’s position still requires conciliation on issues that many liberals, including Whitehouse, consider off-limits; his new budget includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

END GAME

Whitehouse’s partisan broadsides, then, which can seem so loud and immediate — so of the moment — are really a longterm play, a slog. Heroic in the eyes of his liberal supporters, perhaps, but of indeterminate value. And if the Republicans do eventually come around, says analyst Jennifer Duffy of the Washington-based Cook Political Report, Whitehouse will face a crucial question: having staked out such strong positions on these core issues, is he willing to compromise? There is reason to believe he is. Rhode Island’s junior senator, for all his partyline advocacy, has found opportunities to work with Republicans on a few issues: cybersecurity, for instance, and a push to protect the oceans. And when I asked him if he’d be willing to compromise on what may be the most important issue on his plate — climate change — he said “yes.” But you’ve got to have your sticking points, he added. Carbon pollution has a real price, he said, and we’ve got to require payment. We’ve got to impose a carbon tax. That’s non-negotiable. It’s hard to see the GOP accepting that as a starting point any time soon. ^

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

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adesso on the hill As sPeciAL As ever _By BiLL ro drig ue z with roasted peppers, sounded Adesso is now “On the like another good choice. Hill,” as opposed to off of Choosing a main dish was Thayer Street, where the mara head-scratcher, with several velous restaurant was located vying to best pique our appeuntil closing in 2005. It’s been tites. Pan-roasted duck breast back for a year, in elegant new ($21) with a sauce of dried cherdigs on the site of the former ries and port? Or baked salmon Acorn Social Club. When it first ($23), with its clever smoked opened in 1986, the place gained salmon and horseradish crust? prompt attention, vanguarding The latter’s sauce alone — “puthe local experience of delicate réed basil, shellfish stock, pine California cuisine. nuts, white wine and cream” It’s an attractive place, with — almost won me over. tall arched windows and warm Johnnie decided first, pickyellow walls. You are even more ing the entrée-sized Caesar impressed when you sit down: salad ($19) topped with grilled the two-tops are extra-wide for sushi-grade tuna. As is often elbow room, the same length as the case at a top-notch restauthe tables for four. ELEGANCE and excellence. rant, an incidental ingredient Thanks to an inordinate numwas the most impressive item: ber of Brown students 1) having the tomato/thyme “salsa,” simply diced tomatoes with celebrity parents and 2) having excellent taste in where to just the right acidic tang. The tuna was described as rare, take them when they visit, the original place had a long but the guest of honor was overcooked, with nary a hint list of familiar names among their appreciative clientele of pink. The friendly manager, who had earlier made the (Steven Spielberg, Itzhak Perlman, Jane Fonda, and so on). rounds as host, was so appalled that a properly prepared All of the original line cooks came back, as well as most of serving soon arrived. You know you’re in good hands the Italian dishes introduced by chef Carmino Micheletti. when the restaurant is even more concerned with your Large portions also returned, in the tradition of Italian resmeal than you are. taurants around here, a welcome variation from the elegant Choosing a pasta to share was another brow-furrower. mini-portions of the original California-ized menu. My tablemate wanted the gnocchi in pink sauce ($15), The brick oven pizzas ($11-$17) are a sensible start. Have kitchen-made that day, but I vetoed that as unchallenga simple one with fresh plum tomatoes and mozzarella ingly simple. Their signature dish, creste di gallo ($19), or a concoction with everything from smoked salmon, was properly complex — fire-roasted red and yellow bell shrimp, and asparagus under a saffron lobster sauce. But peppers and both fresh and sun-dried tomatoes in a Spanwe decided to begin with their antipasto plate ($13), to see ish-inspired sauce with balsamic vinegar and ale — but it how interesting they got with the ingredients. Interesting contained Italian sausage as well as grilled chicken, and indeed, we found, with tart marinated eggplant slices, she’s not a big meat fan. roasted red peppers that were clearly kitchen-made, and We settled on the angel hair pasta with chopped fresh button mushrooms marinated with pieces of onion. There clams ($15) and were not disappointed. Again there was a also were a few slices of thickly cut salami and a couple of pleasant surprise with an incidental ingredient: the parswedges of sharp provolone along with two bundles of proley leaves were a delightful complement to the sweetness sciutto over the greens, and two crossed spears of asparaof the sauce, provided by the San Marzano plum tomatoes gus on top like a blessing. and clam juice. Needless to say, the thin pasta retained For a hot starter we had the sautéed mushrooms ($9). some bite. The scent of garlic wafted up strongly, appetizingly. They End with a sweet smile? Of course. The torte mascarincluded sliced shiitakes with a small portobello cap on pone ($8), whipped with marsala wine and bits of chocotop, and there was a thick slice of Italian bread beneath late and topped with a crumbled amaretto cookie, was as to absorb all the delicious natural juices. Smart addition. good a conclusion as it sounds. ^ Shrimp Biaggio ($13), prosciutto-wrapped shrimp stuffed

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has added three new tanks to its production line — doubling its output, which will expand their reach in the state and, eventually, other markets. huzzah to nick Garrison and crew. And look for their new specialty beer, a farmhouse ale called la Ferme Urbaine (the Urban Farm) brewed with new Urban Farmers of pawtucket, on tap and in bombers soon . . . And GREY SAIL BREWING OF RHODE ISLAND is now distributing in massachusetts (they’ve been in connecticut for awhile). their summer seasonal, hazy day Belgian Wit, should hit taps next week, and tallboy four-packs will hit stores in late April . . . it’s sampling season: the 7TH ANNUAL GREAT INTERNATIONAL SPRING BEER FESTIVAL is at the rhode island convention center on Saturday, April 20, from 1-4:30 pm and 6:30-10 pm ($45;

beerfestamerica.com). And the 2ND ANNUAL NEWPORT CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL will return to the lawn of the Great Friends meeting house, and they’re doubling the fun, with sessions from 12-3 pm and 4-7 pm. there will be 30 breweries, mostly from new england, sharing more than 100 beers, food and music, and that priceless ocean air. tix are $45 and will sell out (about half of the allotment was gone last weekend); head to newportcraftbeerfestival.com . . . Julian’s will host the EAST COAST VS. WEST COAST PUNK ROCK BREW TOUR on tuesday, April 16. the event is a friendly hopped-up face-off between titans from the West (lagunitas, Ballast point, oskar Blues, and Sierra nevada) and sublime suds from the east (Smuttynose, victory, Bronx Brewing, and Sixpoint). You’ll sip and argue for your faves and absorb some beer lore from the reps and soak it all in with punk/hardcore soundtrack. call 401.861.1770 or hit juliansprovidence.com. _Lou Papineau

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Cafe, 276 Westminster St, Providence, is always an eclectic and entertaining event. Today’s edition serves up Hank Sinatra Jr., Denise Moffat’s Cabaret, storyteller Len Cabral, comedian John Kelley, poet Marie Michaelle, and Red Eye Flight. That’s a lot of variety! Showtime is 8 pm | $6 | rootsprovidence.com

frIDAY 12 PourIng It ALL out

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disc topped the Village Voice’s 1979 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll, and sounds as potent and hook-laden and alive as it did lo those many years ago. And the reunited Rumour — guitarists Brinsley Schwarz and Martin Belmont, drummer Steve Goulding, bassist Andrew Bodnar, and Bob Andrews on keyboards — are pretty damn potent too. A few months ago they released Three Chords Good, their first disc in 31 years, appeared in This Is 40, and are back on the road. Parker recently wrote that the band is “giving it all and laying it all down every night of the tour, and in turn getting it all back from the most marvelous audiences we could possibly hope for.” He noted that “a frisson of nerves could be felt before we took the stage on our first gig, but — for me at any rate — that all disappeared from the moment I walked on stage and heard that welcoming roar and the first chord struck of ‘Fool’s Gold,’ which sat there fat as a hog without a hint of nervous speedy up, steady and nailed to the ground like a rock. I felt utterly confident of the band behind me, the strength of the set list, and sure-footed enough to strut around that old wooden stage like a monkey in heat the moment I reached the first song without a guitar strapped around my shoulders. No problem — this was gonna be a blast.” Parker and company will give their all at the Met, 1005 Main St, Pawtucket; don’t miss it, there likely won’t be another opportunity to catch this crew in action. Mike Gent of the Figgs opens

FridAy | graham parKer & the rumour @ the Met at 8 pm | $37.50 advance, $40 day of show | 401.729.1005 | themetri.com

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Brown unIVersItY foLk festIVAL. At Lincoln Field

(Waterman St) from noon to 6 pm, highlights include ARR!!!, a pirate-themed a cappella group (1 pm), Smith & Weeden (3:30 pm), and a singer-songwriter summit with Hayley Reardon, Ian Fitzgerald, Sarah Borrello, and Matt Borrello (4:30 pm). The music moves into Sayles Hall from 6 pm to midnight, with the captivating Sugar Honey Iced Tea, Vudu Sister, Tallahassee, and more | Free | brownfolkfest.org

sunDAY 14 LIVIng LArge

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big on fat jokes (see what we did there?). One of his megaselling DVDs is titled I’m Not Fat . . . I’m Fluffy. But since he’s dropped from a peak of 437 pounds to 350 or so, he’s cut back on the weight jokes. He enjoys riffing on real life, though: “Everything on stage is based on something that really happened,” he has said. “I do embellish. It has to be true to the core. About my kid, my relationships, my crazy friends,

it’s based on reality. Then I put some magic behind it.” Gabriel will work his comedic magic at the Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence, at 8 pm | $29 + $39 | 401.421.ARTS | thevetsri.com

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The rhoDe IsLAnD LegenD JAM at the Met, 1005 Main Street, Pawtucket, has become a real cool thing to do on a Sunday afternoon. This week the gentlemen of rIzzz will be back at helm. The beloved crew made merry with a few hundred people a couple of months ago, and will do it again today from 4 to 8 pm. But we’ll need to drop the word “jam” from this week’s listing; Klem promises “four hours of mega-Rizzz — no open jam.” Real cool! | Free | 401.729.1005 | themetri.com

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WBRU Rock Hunt Finals held last Saturday at the Met. This was by far the best Rock Hunt I have been a part of over the past six years, a supremely stacked final four that fed off the energy of a jam-packed room (which was great to see) throughout the evening. Lolita Black, Kid Mountain, and the Brother Kite absolutely tore it up, but the spirited jams of Torn Shorts (led by budding superstar Josh Grabert) resulted in a narrow victory. The judges panel of eight (a Rock Hunt record, I presume) included 2012 Rock Hunt champs the Rice Cakes, WBRU general manager Wyatt Crowell, reps from Warner Bros. and Mom and Pop Records (Waaves, Sleigh Bells), and some local media folks, including myself. The judging guidelines include six categories (scored 1-10): Songwriting, Musicianship, Vocals, Performance, Radio-Readiness, and Overall, with each band performing a 35-minute set (which started at the top of each hour). Disclaimer: anyone who has even occasionally read this page is well aware of my ongoing obsession with Lolita Black, and I have also been riding shotgun on the Josh Grabert bandwagon for a few years (dating back to his days with Gamblin’ Hands), but truth be told I had all four bands within eight points of each other. And while I went 4-0 in predicting the final showcase showdown, I had no idea which way the judges would lean. The Met was abuzz by 7:45 pm, in what turned out to be a tremendous show of support, with plenty of family and friends of the bands on hand, as well as local club owners (Ricky Sunderland of Dusk was beaming when Torn Shorts started shredding) and fellow musicians (shoutout to Kris Hansen and Heather Rose!). The Brother Kite opened the show at 8 pm sharp. Towering lead singer Patrick Bout-

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KICKING INTO GEAR Torn Shorts. well sported his trademark double-neck guitar and offered a weak introduction: “Hello, we just want to let you know that three of the five of us have bad colds.” Come on, man! In all fairness, Boutwell’s vocals clearly were affected and sounded a bit hoarse on the second song, “Eye to Eye,” but the band’s bulletproof harmonies really got cooking by the third song. My notes included references to Cheap Trick, Death Cab for Cutie, and the Partridge Family when they played “The Scene Is Changing,” and “Get On, Me” is a an alt-pop gem channeling the Cure. TBK’s next (long overdue) album titled Model Rocket arrives later this spring. Torn Shorts followed and, as they did in the semi-finals, got off to a slow start before really kicking into gear. Grabert’s

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Kool-Aid smile lit up the room while he and his mates jammed out on extended versions of “Devil,” “It’s a Feeling,” and “Take My Soul.” The Torn Shorts brand of bluesy beerhall rock may be not be the most “alt-rock radio-ready” fare that ’BRU has spun, but the live show speaks volumes; part of the prize package includes a headlining set at one of this year’s Summer Concert Series shows. In the meantime, catch Torn Shorts at AS220 on April 16 and Machines With Magnets on April 24. Kid Mountain had a tough hill to climb but put forth a solid effort. A few of the songs reminded me of Violent Femmes crossed with Lonesome Crowded West-era Modest Mouse; the “whoohoohoo” chants of “Parashootin’ ” had the crowd dancing

along. These five dudes looked like the youngest guys in the room but were confident and at ease while winning over some new fans. Scanning the roomful of ’BRU faithful, one thing was for certain — the majority in attendance had no idea what was about to hit them. Prior to the show, Lolita Black co-founder and local legend Bob Otis noted the advantages of playing last (bands order was chosen at random). “That works for us,” said Otis prior to the show. And I thought he was joking when he told me he was nervous (“Dude, I think I’m gonna puke!”), which was a surprise coming from a guy who has spent the past 20-plus years playing to sold-out rooms worldwide with crust punk heroes Dropdead. Otis singlehandedly upped the street-cred quotient for the Rock Hunt. The Olneyville-based quartet wanted the win, and wanted to drive a wooden stake through the heart of alt-rock radio in the process. Lead singer Scarlett Delgado owned the room 10 seconds into the opening salvo, “Fireheart.” Lathered-up dudes down in front had no objections to assisting Delgado’s crowd-surfing, and she totally nailed an epic cover of Nirvana’s “Territorial Pissings” (WBRU station manager Wendell Clough was rocking out). Otis churned out chainsaw riffs while surveying a crowd full of Lolita newbies with a steely glare as intense as I’ve seen him. And drummer Kayleigh Melise left jaws agape, crushing her kit while cloaked behind long black hair (the love child of Dave Grohl and Wednesday Addams?). Delgado continually thanked the bands involved, then had a few choice words before departing the stage. “Hey, to the guy in the back with his fingers in his ears — sorry about that, sir,” she said with a kill-them-with-kindness smile. “I hope I was loud enough for you. Bring earplugs next time.” ^

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and the super-shy Sister Mary Robert (Lael Van Keuren). The newly named Sister Mary Clarence lures them out to a sleazy bar, but she and her new friends don’t have much time to relax. She is recognized by the thugs who are searching for her and escapes when a fight breaks out. Deloris proves herself, of course, by shaping up the sisters into a convent choir worthy of singing for the visiting Pope. Campbell proves herself to be an equally formidable force belting out her numbers, just as the other main actors do well strutting their comical stuff. Anyone in the audience who thinks shy Sister Mary Robert won’t eventually grow confident, for example, hasn’t been paying attention. The songs vary in catchiness and ability to propel the story. Early on, “It’s Good To Be a Nun” has some spirit, but it’s not until the convent chorus gets its rafterrattling act together toward the end of Act One and into Act Two that Sister Act really gets going as a musical. The rollicking ensemble version of “Take Me To Heaven” works better than when Deloris solos with it in the first scene. And the gospel-inspired rousers “Raise Your Voice” and “Sunday Morning Fever” pump up the energy. Even Sweaty Eddie gets a song (“I Could Be That Guy”), but only when the tempo rises does it and he come alive. The musical opened in London’s West End in 2009 after two and half years of tryouts, then came to Broadway two years later. Sister Act was quite a consistent alsoran when it came to Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards, losing to Once, The Book of Mormon, and Once again, respectively. Nevertheless, productions have been seen by more than four million in audiences from Brazil to Moscow to Korea, so we’re talking about more than former parochial school students in Rhode Island, the most Catholic state in the union. Sister Act is formulaic and predictable but also fun. Any local hoodlums in the audience, though, are bound to be applauding and hissing at all the wrong times. ^

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dy Connection, East Providence | $10

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WEDNESDAY 17

J-TRAIN COMIX EXPRESS with Jared Fried and Gordon Baker Bone | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance

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SUNDAY 14

THE AMERICAN BAND | 3 pm | Fine

Arts Center Concert Hall at University of Rhode Island, 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston | $10, $5 students | 401.874.2431 | uri.edu/music

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CLASSICAL SATURDAY 13

THE RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC presents an all-Beethoven

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UP CLOSE ON HOPE featuring world premieres by George Birkadze, John Drake, Thomas Vacanti, Alex Lantz, and Vilia Putrius | Fri 8 pm; Sat 7:30 pm | Black Box Theater, 825 Hope St, Providence | $50, includes wine and light snacks | 401.353.1129 | festival ballet.com

SATURDAY 13

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2 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $20-$35 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com “LOCALLY GROWN” | A dance concert presented by Fusionworks, featuring dancers from Fusionworks II, students from Fusionworks Dance Academy, and dancers from Deering Middle School, Edgewood Highlands Elementary School, Jenks Jr. High School, Mount Pleasant High School, the MET School, Woonsocket High School, and the J. M. Walsh Performing Arts High School | Sat 2 + 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | Helen Forman Theatre at the John Nazarian Center For the Performing Arts at Rhode Island College, 600 Mt Pleasant Ave, Providence | $25 | 401.456.8144 | fusionworksdance.org UP CLOSE ON HOPE | See listing for Fri

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THURSDAY 18

THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE perform The Sleeping Beauty

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THE RISD GRADUATE STUDENT ALLIANCE will display work from

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FRIDAY 12

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LISA WILLIAMS: MESSAGES FROM BEYOND | 8 pm | Garde Arts Center,

FRIDAY 12

REHOBOTH CONTRA DANCE with caller Tony Parkes and music by Heyday, with Amy and Jonathan Larkin and George and Shirley White | 8 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | $8 | 508.252.5718 | contradancelinks. com/rehoboth.html

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FILM SATURDAY 13

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Jeffrey M. Smith, narrated by Lisa Oz | 7 pm | Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley St | $5 | 401.560.0979 | jamestownartcenter.org MIDNIGHT MOVIE: VIVA | Directed by Anna Biller [2007] | From imdb. com: “Viva is about a bored housewife in 1972 who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her husband, Barbi is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women’s lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town. Barbi becomes a Red Riding Hood in a sea of wolves, and quickly learns a lot more than she wanted to about nudist camps, the hippie scene, orgies, bisexuality, sadism, drugs, and bohemia. Saturated to the hilt with vibrant color and exquisite period detail, and full of the kind of innocent nude romps you see before censorship codes lifted, Viva looks like a lost film from the late ’60s, and is a tribute to the best of exploitation cinema | 11:45 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

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SATURDAY 13

JENNIFER AND LANCE VACHON will read their children’s book, Bread Over Heels | 11 am | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

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WEDNESDAY 17

BRENDA MARIE OSBEY will read

THURSDAY 18

PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM SEMIFINALS FEATURING MEGAN FALLEY | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

TALKS THURSDAY 11

NANCY CARONIA will discuss how

our fascination with zombie apoca-

lypse tales — an obsession cultivated by the popular TV show The Walking Dead and the film 28 Days Later — reflect race and gender in the 21st century | 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

“RUPTURE IN THE TEMPLE: THE RISE AND FALL OF FREEMASONRY IN COLONIAL RHODE ISLAND, 1849-1772” | A talk by scholar

Samuel Biagetti | 5:30 pm | Colony House, Washington Sq, Newport | $5 | 401.846.0813 x104 | Newport History.org “THE NUANCES OF PASTEL,” a demonstration and discussion by artist Kathy Hodge | 5:30 pm | Bert Gallery, 540 South Water St, Providence | Free | 401.751.2628 | bert gallery.com

FRIDAY 12

“THE INNOVATION WAY OF LIFE: STORIES ABOUT COMMUNITY, CULTURE, AND COMMERCE” | The conclusion of the five-part series with Neil Steinberg, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, and Kipp Bradford, senior design engineer and lecturer at the School of Engineering at Brown University | 5 pm | Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providenceathenaeum.org

“UNDERSTANDING DISASTER PSYCHOLOGY: WHY SOME DIE AND OTHERS DON’T” | A talk by Russ

Webster, federal preparedness coordinator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency | 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

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“IS EUROPE BACK? FROM CRISIS REGION TO TRANSATLANTIC FREE TRADE AREA?” | A panel discus-

sion with Friedrich Löhr, retired consul general of Germany, and URI professors Gordon Dash [business management], Silvia Dorado [entrepreneurial management], Michael Honhart [history], and Richard McIntyre [economics] | 5:30 pm | Lippitt Hall Auditorium at the University of Rhode Island, 5 Lippitt Rd, Kingston | Free | 401.874.4700 | uri.edu/iep/ Events.html

“JUSTICE AND JUDICIAL REFORM IN THE AMERICAS” | A conference

featuring Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile and Professorat-Large, Brown University; Corey Brettschneider, Department of Political Science, Brown University; Brad Brockmann, Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, Brown University; Melissa Nobles, Professor of Political Science, MIT; Jeffrey Pugh, Professor of Political Science, Providence College; Paola Cesarini, Professor of Political Science, Providence College; Jorge Elorza, Professor of Law, Roger Williams University; and Glenn Loury, Department of Economics, Brown University. | 2 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | 401.863.2809 | watsoninstitute.org/events_detail. cfm?id=2069

“P.S. TUNISIA — PERSONAL STORIES FROM A REVOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH,” a talk by Rachel

Dette ‘13, the 2012 Marla Ruzicka International Public Service Fellow | Noon | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | watsoninstitute.org/events_ detail.cfm?id=2059

THURSDAY 18

“THE MYTH OF PROGRESS - THE FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABILITY,” a talk by Tom Wes-

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| 7 pm | Brown University’s Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium, 154 Angell St, Providence | Free | brown. edu/academics/creative-artscouncil/events/upcoming

ART GALLERIES ALTA LUNA GALLERY | 401.688.0396 | 297 Hope St, Bristol | altalunagallery.com | Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm; Sun

— 1140 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown

| Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through July 3: “Animal Fantasy,” paintings by Abbot Low

BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

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

COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND FLANAGAN CAMPUS ART GALLERY | | 1762 Louisquisset Pike, Lincoln | Tues-Fri 11 am-4 pm |

brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton _Bell_Gallery | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm;

Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | Through May 26: “I Am Sorry It Is Difficult To Start,” works by Daniel Heyman | Through May 26: “The Ashes Series,” photographs by Wafaa Bilal

Through Apr 30: “Deep Woods,” works by Robert Sabin and Eleanor Sabin DEDEE SHATTUCK GALLERY | 508.636.4177 | 1 Partners Ln, Westport, MA | dedeeshattuckgallery.com | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through April 28: abstract paintings by Charles Miller and Maria Walker

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

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

Thurs 11 am-6 pm; Wed + Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat + Sun 12-4 pm | Through Apr 24: “Logica,” works by Bob Lukens and Molly Regan DRYDEN GALLERY | 401.421.6196 | 27 Dryden Ln, Providence | providence pictureframe.com | Mon-Sat 8:30 am-6:30 pm | Through Apr 30: “Marinosci and Company,” paintings by Angelo Marinosci, Jr., David Deluca, and Karen McDonnell, and photographs by Charles Lutz, 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”]

GREEN SPACE GALLERY AT THE T.F. GREEN AIRPORT | 2000 Post

8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through Apr 26: “Everyday,” with works by Jessica Brilli, Brenda Cirioni, and Scott Francoeur

KNIGHT CAMPUS ART GALLERY

| 401.825.2220 | At the Community

College of Rhode Island, 400 East Ave, Warwick | ccri.edu/art | Tues

+ Wed + Fri 10 am-4 pm; Thurs 10 am-7 pm | Through Apr 26: “A Life of Looking,” works by Fred Dalkey and Nathan Lewis 186 CARPENTER | 186 Carpenter St, Providence | 186carpenter.tumblr.com | Through May 10: “Walking Distance,” new photographs by Scott Lapham | “faint murmurs,” new paintings by Neal T. Walsh | Hours by appointment [carpenter186@ gmail.com, nealtwalsh@gmail.com]

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pawtucketartscollaborative.org | Mon-

Sat 10 am to 5 pm | Through Apr 5: “Drawing From the Multiple,” a print exhibit with works by Courtney Sennish, Jessica Murray, Chase Taylor, Suruchi Kabra, Pippa Zornoza, Augustina Bello Decurnex, and Simonette Quamina

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Rd, Portsmouth | portsmouthartsguild. org | Fri-Sun 1-5 pm | Apr 12-May 19: “Members’ Non-Juried Show”

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pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Apr 26: “Keys To the Cure,” multi-media artworks by Kelly Milukas REILLY GALLERY | 401.865.2400 |

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At Providence College, 549 River Ave | providence.edu/art | Mon-Fri 11 am4 pm | Through Apr 12: “Memory Tokens,” paintings by Julia Christ

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

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A motorcycle stunt rider (Ryan Gosling) discovers that the woman he loved and left a year earlier (Eva Mendes) has given birth to a son by him, and his half-baked decision to become a better father ends tragically. This naturalistic drama is ambitious to the point of being unwieldy, and after a while it begins trotting out familiar characters (Ray Liotta as a dirty cop) and situations (an execution in the woods, a la Miller’s Crossing). But once the story has advanced from one generation to the next and its thematic sweep has become apparent, these flaws seem much more tolerable. Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine) directed a script he cowrote with Ben Coccio, whose stunning debut feature, Zero Day (2003), deserves a much wider audience. _J.R. Jones

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| 128 minUteS | pG-13 | cinemA world + entertAinment + iSlAnd + providence plAce 16 + ShowcASe + SwAnSeA StAdiUm 12 Like many Hollywood sports movies, this Jackie Robinson biopic seems to be pitched at high schoolers, but writer-director Brian Helgeland still manages a pretty absorbing account of Robinson’s rookie year as the first black player in major league baseball. Chadwick Boseman is appropriately anguished as Robinson, who struggles to control his rage as he absorbs a torrent of abuse from white fans, players, and officials. But ironically, the most valuable player here is Harrison Ford, giving one of the best performances of his career as Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey. At 70, Ford has finally grown into his curmudgeonly persona, and he digs into the role of Rickey, reconciling the deep feeling of Christian brotherhood and naked professional ambition that motivated him to give Robinson a shot. The strong supporting cast includes Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Alan Tudyk, and John C. McGinley (as sportscaster Red Barber). _J.R. Jones

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april 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 Waxing moon in 17taurus. Sometimes 18 19 20 32 spring fever brings that urge to shop ’til you drop (way too much money). With the in taurus, luck getting 18 moon 19 20 good 21 22 23 through the day without buying something. earth sign moons are also superb for dealing with finances, or getting expertise on money matters. Keep moving Moon KeyS projects along that have already started this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the if you’re pisces, Aries, taurus, Gemini, MoNday sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s cancer, virgo, Sagittarius, libra, capricorn. april 15 influence as it moves through the signs of the 16 zodiac. | 1 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 discomfort could2 afflict Scorpio, leo, and5 Waxing moon in Gemini, moon void-ofWhen the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning Aquarius. course 3:41 pm until 10:48 pm when it a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect moves into cancer. venus moves into increased insight and emotionality. When the moon Friday moves into the 29 sun sign opposite yours (see below), taurus. An23afternoon voc 25 moon means 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 26 27 28 30 31 32 expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, april 12 you’ll want to double-proof your com3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 family, or 15authority16figures; social or romantic activities Waxing moon in taurus, pluto retroments, copy, or contracts. it will be easy will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, grades. need to hear some tunes? look at to “misunderestimate” crucial details. it opposes libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are some pretty pictures? or just succumb to (i’m so glad he’s not president anymore, taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, acquisitiveness. Some will 22be high-funcbut i 25did enjoy Willing 19 20 21 23 24 26 W’s neologisms). 27 28 29 30 31 leo/Aquarius, and32virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each tion (taurus, virgo, and capricorn will be to take a chance: Aquarius, Gemini, libra, sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon their usual über-reliable selves). others Aries, Sagittarius, and leo. vacillating vemoves between signs, it will sometimes become “void will be dogmatic for no damn good reason hemently: virgo, taurus, capricorn, pisces, of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider (pisces, cancer, Aries, Sagittarius, libra, cancer, and Scorpio. this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing Gemini). But you folks can find an opdecisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, portunity to admire beauty in someone tuesday visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can or something, while leo, Scorpio, and april 16 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 be reached at sally@moonsigns.net. Aquarius could be a little4 touchy.5 Waxing moon in cancer. A 10 home-centered

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