The Providence Phoenix 04/19/13 by The Phoenix

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aftermath of atrocity waFaa Bilal and daniel heyman at Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bell gallery _by Greg Cook | p 14

hear here

The Cowsills, Steve Smith & the Nakeds, Paul Geremia, and more join the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame | p 8

is what the cluck!? th J t in A game of chicken in Providence | p 6 us

bring all the noise

A week-long local music rager | p 12

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8 hear here: a local symphony _ by p hoenix staff

Meet the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame’s 2013 inductees, including George M. Cohan, Sissieretta Jones, Bobby Hackett, and Bill Flanagan.

12 homegrown product _by chris con ti

Bring all the noise: the artistic explosion music festival will showcase more than two dozen bands at six venues in six days.

Hosted by Idol Star and RI's very own Erika Van Pelt & Van Pelt Entertainment!

14 art _ by greg cook

The aftermath of atrocity: wafaa bilal and daniel heyman at Brown’s Bell Gallery.

16 theater _by bi ll rodriguez

A muddled mystery: curtains gets the ol’ college try at PC.

25 film

There’s too much wonder and not enough story in Terrence Malick’s to the wonder.

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

New kids on the block | Doughboys (and girls) | Movers and shakers | A few words for Boston

4 the city _by d e rf 6 this Just in

The Cluck controversy | Record Store Day | Jukebox heroes

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The Feelies, the Eat Drink RI Festival, Mark Cutler’s fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of RI, Bettye LaVette, the 5th Annual 6 SENE Film, Music & Arts Festival, Epic Theatre Co.’s Betrayal, and more

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26 10 Jonesin’ _puzzle by matt Jones 11

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phillipe + Jorge’s cool, cool World

New kids oN the block Congrats to MarCel and Karen; reading with sheldon; farewell, Jonathan Though he spent a stint as

executive director of the f Rhode Island Economic Develop-

ment Corporation under Governor Lincoln “Missing Linc” Almond, Marcel Valois — the newly named head ramrod of the beleaguered EDC — is hardly a household name in The Biggest Little. (Unless, of course, you live in a household with a lot of people named Marcel or Valois.) But P&J have had the privilege of working with Marcel in the past, and we couldn’t have found a better appointment. He is not only intelligent and pragmatic, but he possesses an extremely rare quality in Vo Dilun politics and economic development: the ability to see things with a longterm perspective. He’s also a hell of a nice guy and one that isn’t going to roll over for any bozos from the State House who want to, let’s say, invest $75 million in a start-up company in a highly volatile market just because the company’s founder played for a local sports team. P&J have great confidence in Governor Chafee’s choice to get the EDC back on its feet. Congrats and thanks to Mr. Valois for taking the job. More kudos and congrats go to Karen Bordeleau, who has just been named senior vice president and executive editor of the Other Paper. Your superior correspondents are big fans of the BeloJo, and local lassie Karen has a good track record in Rhody journalism. We just wish that the Urinal front-page story on her selection hadn’t been tarnished by the supposed need for three full paragraphs at the end giving the paper’s owner, the A.H. Belo Corporation, a print b.j.

Doughboys (anD girls)

If P&J had a nickel for every joke they’ve heard linking cops and doughnuts, they could buy out Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. So we were chuckling along with Jamestown residents who saw a mobile food truck (read: roach wagon) adorned with a huge “Fried Dough” sign parked in the lot of the Jamestown Police Department. We guess all the Dunkin’ Donuts trucks were in use at other PDs around the state. To be fair, rather than ensuring all officers got their minimum daily requirement of sugar and lard, the truck was being used for a Jamestown PD open house — no doubt a goodwill gesture by the local gendarmes who have gained the animosity of the town’s residents for their hard-line tactics and petty fines. Matters had previ-

ously gotten to the point where an unnamed citizen activist printed bumper stickers reading “Free Jamestown” over a photo of a police cruiser’s flashing lights. Could we have a bit more powdered sugar on that, please?

Movers anD shakers

The Rhode Island Progressive Democrats will hold their first “Movers and Shakers” event to honor “Five Fearless Leaders” on May 3 at 7 pm at the Waterplace Restaurant in Providence. The honorees are State Senators Rhoda Perry and Josh Miller, State Representatives Edie Ajello and Maria Cimini, and Planned Parenthood’s Paula Hodges. If you want to honor these individuals and support progressive legislation, here’s a good chance to spend some time with your political allies (tix are $40, $75 couples). Proceeds will support the Progressive Democrats’ “continued efforts to work on getting progressive legislative actions passed and help to elect more likeminded individuals to our General Assembly such as the tireless activists we are honoring this year.”

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The Week, an excellent compilation of news, opinion, entertainment, humor, and occasional TV recommendations, is a routine cover-to-cover read at Casa Diablo. So we were startled to see none other than our own US Senator Sheldon Whitebread in the weekly spot of a famed author high-

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lighting his or her favorite books. (The article was tied to Senator Sherbert’s recently-released book of annotated inspiring quotations, On Virtues. We expect that our signed copies are in the mail.) Whitehouse’s selections were Last Exit to Brooklyn, by Hubert Selby; Howl by Allen Ginsberg (Whitebread is a poetry buff); Memoirs of a Midget, by Walter de la Mare; Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, by Paul Fussell; and Three Stooges FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the EyePoking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping Geniuses, by David J. Hogan. Well, truth be told, those are titles pulled from P&J’s favorites list, not the good senator’s choices, which ranged from high-minded poems and essays to a book of drink and food recipes titled, The Gentleman’s Companion, that Ernest Hemingway reportedly kept in his Cuba home. Unfortunately, P&J can’t say we have read any of the books on our friend’s list, nor do we plan to as long as there are new episodes of Swamp People, Duck Dynasty, and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on TV.

local Tunes

One of Jorge’s favorite bands, South County’s Biscuit City, will be playing at Nick-a-Nee’s in Providence on April 19 starting around 9 pm. There’s a lot to like about Nick’s (no cover charge, for example) and a lot to like about Biscuit City, helmed by Josh Schurman and featuring Paula Clare Ciminero, Mark Vinbury, Bro

Dunn, and Mike “Tex” Tanaka. Biscuit City has a rootsy, country, bluesy sound all its own. They always put on a fun show. In other music news, we heard from our friend Jeffrey Lee, Esq., who reminds us that the Original Southern New England Rock ’n’ Roll Collectors Convention in February was sort of dismal. It took place during one of those pesky winter storms and, according to Dr. Oldie, dealers and customers were “too a-scared” to brave the weather. So they’ve added a show at DiParma’s Italian Table at the Clarion Inn in Seekonk on April 21 from 10 am to 3 pm. The next one won’t be until the end of October, so be there or be square.

Winters’s split-second character changes with accompanying facial and vocal special effects could understand why he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1959. Winters grew up in Springfield, Ohio, not far from the farm country where Phillipe’s mother was raised. P. will always remember his stoic grandmother — the furthest thing from a name-dropper — telling the story of encountering him in Springfield and tut-tutting that a young Winters used to hang out on the street corner making cutting remarks to or about anyone who walked by. “He was a smart-mouth,” she said. And so much smarter than the rest, Jonathan.

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a Few More worDs For bosTon

There were half-mast flags and tears in the cocktail lounge at Casa Diablo last week after the death of Jonathan Winters. Winters was simply a comic genius — a wiseass idol from P&J’s Wonder Years equally capable of cracking up elementary school kids and their parents. He put the “improv” into “improvisation,” and as much as you may enjoy contemporary comedians like Robin Williams and Jim Carrey (who rightly consider Winters an inspiration), neither could come close to him for insane bits. Neither could anyone else. His frequent appearances had a lot to do with the successes of The Steve Allen Show, Tonight Starring Jack Paar, and then Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. Anyone who saw

What could P&J possibly add to the millions of words that have already been written about the horror in Boston on Monday afternoon? (We recommend Phoenix alumnus Charles P. Pierce’s report, “The Marathon,” at grantland.com.) The person or persons responsible must be identified and brought to justice, of course, but P&J tend to focus on those who acted bravely and heroically in their immediate response at the scene of the incident. We want to be on the side of hope. Connect with life, love each other, and know that there is hope even in the darkest moments. ^

Send peace of mind and Pulitzergrade tips to p&j@phx.com.

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This Just In

“I want to help people grow food.”

_drake patten

Urban Agriculture dept.

It’s just after 9 am on Sunday and every on-duty journalist in Providence seems to be gathered at an abandoned gas station on the city’s West Side. The ProJo is here. So is Rhode Island Public Radio. So are WPRI, WJAR, and ABC6. Providence Mayor Angel Taveras is here, as are State Representative John Lombardi and Providence City Councilman Bryan Principe. And then there are the scores of people milling about holding dogs; balloons; babies; coffee cups; free scones and cupcakes (courtesy of the Sin bakery on Allens Ave, a note says); and signs that say, “Vacant Lots are For Building,” “I SMELL A RAT NOT A CHICKEN,” and “WE LIVE HERE, WE WANT CLUCK!” What the cluck is going on? The synopsis: last year, Drake Patten — the longstanding executive director of Olneyville’s hands-on community arts center, The Steel Yard — announced she was leaving the Yard to start an urban gardening supply shop in an unused gas station on Broadway. Her plan was a new urbanist’s dream: a small business that

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would reuse an existing building to pump out mulch and seedlings instead of fossil fuel. After Patten successfully attracted investors, obtaining a zoning variance was her biggest hurdle. This zoning variance was initially granted, then appealed by some of Cluck!’s neighbors. Then on the Friday before last Sunday’s rally, the zoning variance was tossed out in a Providence courtroom due to the fact one of Cluck!’s many abutters (those within 200 feet of the property’s limits) wasn’t properly notified. Some $10,000 in administrative costs later, Patten was back where she had started. The balloon-toting, bike-riding, coffeesipping masses are not pleased about this. Will they revolt? Three Providence Police cruisers sit at the ready across the street, just in case. “I just wanted to open a business,” Patten says, standing in front of the crowd and holding a microphone. “It’s a small business that wants to be part of the evolution of this city . . . This is urban farm supply. I want to help people grow food.” As she talks, spectators walk up to hand her cash for the next step in her legal battle. There are so many donations that a friend eventually runs into the store to grab an orange ceramic planter pot. Patten is followed on the mic by a cavalcade of politicos and small business owners. “I love how the West Side represents, but there’s a little East Side and Pawtucket love here too!” says Jan Dane, the owner of Stock Culinary Goods on Hope Street. Representative Lombardi feigns shyness, then steps up to zealously describe how, for years, the gas station has been a “pall on the neighborhood. “It was the subject of graffiti prostitution, drugs, vandalism,”

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For Cluck!’s sake

SOUndInG OFF Suporters at the Cluck! site. he says. “It was an eyesore.” So why the opposition to Cluck!? Will the rakes and shovels inside the store be used in a hostile takeover of the West End? Will the subversive tracts that line the store’s shelves (What’s Wrong With My Vegetable Garden?, Homegrown Honey Bees) undermine the social order? Should we fear the store’s coin-fed dispenser labeled “SEEDBOMBS. THROW + GROW!”? The answer, apparently, is parking “There’s no place to park,” a spokesman for Sts. Vartanantz, the church across the street, tells WPRI later on Sunday. “So you’re going to see literally dozens of parishioners not be able to come to church today. Our position is, people have a right to come on Sundays and worship their god.” A few days later, Anthony Paolino — another abutter whose family has worked or lived in a house across from Cluck!’s proposed home since 1920 (he has no relation to the “downtown Paolinos,” he says) — offers the Phoenix another perspective.

He worries that Cluck!’s requested zoning change will make the property a perpetual retail spot. First comes Cluck!; next, it might be a pizza place or convenience store. “It’s a ‘What if?’ ” he says. “This zoning acts as an immune system for the historic part of this street, for the people that worked hard to maintain this.” Broadway, he says, is the “jewel of the city.” Meanwhile, Patten has acquired a peddler’s license that will allow her to sell merchandise outdoors in front of the store while she fights for a new zoning resolution. But it’s not the same as a green light for the business, she says. She can only sell certain items and she remains at the mercy of the weather forecast. As of this writing, the “A Few Bucks for Cluck” Indiegogo campaign organized by supporters is at $5125 and rising. You can follow the Cluck! saga on their Facebook page. The fundraising effort continues at indiegogo. com/projects/a-few-bucks-for-cluck.

_Philip Eil

holding the line

Jukebox heroes The sign behind the bar reads: “Nick–A-Nee’s: Best Jukebox, 2012.” At the time it was an honor. Today it’s a relic. The Phoenix dropped the “Best Jukebox” category this year. There just aren’t many true jukeboxes left in the state. You can still find them if you look, but you have to look hard. Ubiquitous Internet jukeboxes are replacing bars’ crafted ambiance with chaos: letting every idiot with half a load on play any song they’ve ever heard. Nick–A-Nee’s stands defiant in the face of this alleged progress. Owner Stephanie Finizia opened the joint in 1996. A photo behind the bar marks the occasion. Mayor Buddy Cianci has the “squirrel” on his dome; she’s smiling in a sundress. Two CD jukeboxes sit along the back wall, next to the wood stove. A long bench offers comfort to patrons deciding which 10 tunes to play for their dollar. “There will never be an Internet jukebox in Nick–A-Nee’s,” Finizia says. She’s an exception, but she’s not alone. “I can’t stand the Internet jukeboxes,” says Hank Whitin, another keeper of the jukebox flame at Pour Judgment in

Newport. “Why would I give people that really should have no say on the ambiance complete control? I don’t ever want to hear Pink in here.” He’s a Generation X guy, loading his machine with many of his own CDs — the Replacements, the Clash, Wilco. Four plays for a dollar. He was inspired by the jukeboxes of his youth, hanging out at Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner in Worcester. He calls his bar “a shit show with great food, great beer, and great friends.” Nick–A-Nee’s fits that bill, right down to the jukebox philosophy. Whitin is the self-proclaimed “monarch” at Pour Judgment. Finizia has no such title, but she knew a jukebox would define the bar. It was her bar after all. Why would you buy a bar to suffer through songs (or patrons) you can’t stand? When one jukebox wasn’t enough so she got another. They are physically unremarkable save for their contents — the Meters, Tom Waits, Leadbelly. From Nirvana to Nashville, it’s been 10 plays for a dollar since she opened. Her vendor is as stubborn about selling her on an Internet

jukebox as she is about saying no. On a recent Thursday night a thin woman with long brown hair leans on her pool cue while choosing songs, the soft glow of the jukebox bathing her face in light. She punches a few numbers and returns to her pool game with the bartender; his shift is almost over. First up is Bob Dylan, followed by Otis Redding, some bluegrass. Frank Sinatra and Marvin Gaye. Then a surprise: “Candy,” a duet by Iggy Pop and Kate Pierson of the B-52s. Released in 1990 on Iggy’s commercial stab, Brick by Brick, the song isn’t likely to be found on the top ten list of any Stooges fan. At Nick–A-Nee’s, where DPW workmen share stools with Davol Square suits fresh from the surrounding office buildings, it has a home. “I had a dream that no one else could see/You gave me love for free,” Pop and Pierson sing. Jukebox dreamers like Finizia and Whitin don’t give the love away for free, but a dollar is a small price to pay to ensure you’ll never hear “The Thong Song” again.

_Victor Paul Alvarez

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Dave Lifrieri’s first record was a seven-inch of Duran Duran’s “New Moon On Monday.” He bought it at a bygone Caldor department store in Connecticut. “No one remembers the day they downloaded [a song],” he says. “But they do remember, like I just proved, the day they got their first record.” We’re sitting in the back of Lifrieri’s Analog Underground record store on Broadway in Providence, surrounded by piles of posters and towers of audio gear. A boxed set marked Never To Be Forgotten: The Flip Side of Stax sits on a shelf behind him. A copy of the Doors’ Morrison Hotel LP peers out from a nearby milk crate. “The computer makes available every piece of recorded music that’s ever been made and that’s a great tool,” Lifrieri continues. “But a lot of things really were meant to be heard on vinyl.” Led Zeppelin, the Beatles – these bands recorded albums on analog equipment to be played on analog equipment. It’s a typical afternoon record store conversation. But it’s timely, too. On Saturday, April 20 many of Lifrieri’s fellow indie music merchants in Providence — and Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles and other towns — will celebrate the sixth annual Record Store Day, a way for artists, fans, and record shop owners to bask in their mutual love through sales and in-store events. This year in Providence the love-fest extends to almost Woodstockian, “3 Days of Peace & Music” proportions. On the Sunday following Record Store Day, the Cable Car Cinema will host screenings of the 2012 British documentary Last Shop Standing at 7 and 9:30 pm. Before and between screenings, attendees can watch performances from local musicians (the Sugar Honey Iced Tea and DJ Sistersquid, among others) and browse booths of wares from local record stores including Lifrieri’s. Throughout the evening, Rocket Fine Street Food will be serving haute cheeseburgers and Deep Space Chocolate Pudding from their truck parked on South Main Street. Last Shop Standing grew out of a 2009 book of the same name by Graham Jones, one of the founders of the British company Proper Music Distribution. The film, like the book, takes viewers into the surviving record shops that dot the UK landscape — places like Honest Jon’s and Intoxica in London and the Diskery in Birmingham. But while the film’s trailer offers an ominous statistic — “In the ’80s there were more than 2200 UK independent record shops . . . By 2009 there were only 269 shops left” — the situation in Rhode Island, mercifully, seems less dire. Lifrieri points to five stores thriving in Rhode Island’s capital city, alone: his store; Armageddon Records, a few blocks down Broadway; Wickenden Street’s Olympic Records and Round Again Records; and What Cheer? on Angell Street. “That says a lot about Providence,” he says. “A lot of people with good taste live here.” “At least locally there’s [been] a proliferation of record shops compared to what there was five years ago,” says Chris Zingg, the owner of In Your Ear on Main Street in Warren and another participant in the Cable Car’s post-Record Store Day celebration. “We’re on the upswing again.” Guitars, T-shirts, amp chords, and record covers line the walls of Zingg’s store, while boxes of cassettes and four-track reel-to-reels teeter upward from the floors. A Yellow Submarine lava lamp sits on the counter near the clipboard where Zingg records his sales with pen and paper. If the filmmakers behind Last Shop Standing ever decide to make an American sequel, Zingg is the kind of guy they would interview. He has stories about the crowds that swarmed his store on the day Nirvana released Nevermind; he fondly remembers the patron who said it was the saddest day of his life when In Your Ear closed its shop on Thayer Street in Providence. And, of course, he’s got recommendations. He plucks a single album from his mental jukebox — Les McCann and Eddie Harris’s Swiss Movement, recorded live at Montreux in 1969 — and starts riffing about how the musicians had barely rehearsed before taking the stage and how you can hear audible explosion of applause on the record from the moment when Ella Fitzgerald entered the room midway through the performance. He clicks a few keys on his laptop and the album starts playing over the store’s sound system. Thrumming bass. Splashes of gospel-tinged piano chords. A wailing saxophone. As if on cue, a woman sifting through a nearby crate of records turns and says, “Who is this? . . . I want one!” Owning a record store has always been about turning people on to music that they might not have discovered otherwise, Zingg says. “If they’re listening to the radio, God help them.” For more information on Record Store Day, go to recordstoreday.com; details of the screening of Last Shop Standing are available at cablecarcinema.com.

_Philip Eil

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Hear Here: a local sympHony The sophomore class: The rhode Island musIc hall of fame’s 2013 InducTees Don’t look to the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame for a sophomore slump. The organization has a second-year roster of inductees that have, among other things, inspired Oscarwinning Hollywood biopics (George M. Cohan), shared stages with Louis Armstrong (Bobby Hackett), sang in Paris and St. Petersburg (Sissieretta Jones), and appeared on TV shows ranging from The Ed Sullivan Show (the Cowsills) to Family Guy (Steve Smith & the Nakeds). Together, they present a glorious symphony of rockabilly, blues, R&B, opera, show tunes, “sunshine pop,” and jazz. And let’s not forget the hall’s first non-musician inductee: Phoenix/NewPaper alum, MTV executive, and man of (musical) letters, Bill Flanagan. You can welcome the Class of 2013 on Sunday, April 28 during a twopart induction extravaganza at the hall’s home in Pawtucket’s Hope Artist Village. There will be an afternoon ceremony at the Met from 2 to 4 pm, and a second ceremony and concert — emceed by the Phoenix’s own Rudy Cheeks (Jorge of Phillipe and Jorge) — at 7 pm. (Tickets for the afternoon event are $10; the evening festivities are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.) You may want to study up before then, though, lest you confuse Eddie Zack with Bobby Hackett or Jimmie Crane with Bill Cowsill. Here’s your cheat sheet.

PaUl GeremIa homeToWn | providence BIo | Geremia jokes that he hails from the “providence river delta,” but there is nothing funny about the man’s gritty, gorgeous, heartscraping blues. the journeyman found early inspiration in true rhody fashion: he saw mississippi John hurt play at the newport Folk Festival and bought records by Blind Boy Fuller and tommy mcclennan at providence’s Salvation Army. From The PHOENIX | in an interview about his induction earlier this year, Geremia quoted delta blues legend Son house: “the blues is about the relationship between a man and a woman. And that’s all it is. there’s nothing else to it.” selecTeD recorDInGs | “crawlin’ King Snake Blues,” “midnight hour Blues,” “early mornin’ Blues,” “drive Away Blues,” “Gamblin’ Woman Blues,” “Bad dream Blues,” “loners’ Blues,” “evil World Blues,” “rising river Blues”

GeorGe m. cohan homeToWn | providence BIo | “i’m just a song and dance man,” cohan (played by James cagney) says near the end of the 1942 biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy. “A man may give his life to his country in many different ways, mr. cohan,” president Franklin d. roosevelt says as he hands cohan a congressional medal of honor. “Your songs were a symbol of the American spirit.” Whether those words were actually uttered by the real Fdr or not, they’re tough to argue with. cohan was a man of prodigious work ethic, penning more than 50 plays and hundreds of songs. he — or one of his advisors — was also a savvy marketer; though he was born on July 3, cohan was forever touted as “born on the 4th of July.” And, damn, the guy knew how to write a hook. over a century later, “You’re a Grand old Flag” is still stuck in our heads. hIT ParaDe | “Give my regards to Broadway,” “over there,” “the Yankee doodle Boy” (aka “i’m a Yankee doodle dandy”) FUn FacT | Wickenden Street regulars will recognize the cohan statue at the top of the hill in the song-and-dance man’s native Fox point. they may be less familiar, though, with a second statue that stands at the center of new York’s times Square bearing the inscription “George m. cohan. 1878–1942. Give my regards to Broadway.”

The coWsIlls Who | Bob, Susan, paul, John, Bill, Barry, and Barbara cowsill BIo | these “sunshine pop” stars got their start playing Beatles covers at Bannister’s Wharf in newport and Brown University frat parties before ultimately conquering the biggest stages in American television (The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, American Bandstand). “the rain, the park & other things” hit no. 2 in 1967; “hair” and “indian lake” also reached the top 10 — the most successful chart run by a rhode island act. FUn FacT | the cowsills were the real-life inspiration for The Partridge Family. they were also spokespeople for the American dairy Association (“the cowsills say, ‘like, it’s beautiful,’ ” a print ad declared).

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sTeve smITh & The nakeDs Who | current lineup [left to right]: mark leGault, thomas “t.J.” Schwartz, chris Schwartz, mike marra, Frank rapone, Steve Smith, ed vallee, Steven decurtis, robert decurtis, Joe Groves BIo | Fans of Family Guy know Smith & the nakeds from “i’m huge (And the Babes Go Wild),” their song that accompanied a slapstick peter Griffin music video on the show’s sixth season dvd (Steve’s younger brother, danny, is an executive producer on the show). Fans of the local music scene, though, know the nakeds as the upbeat, horn-blazing mini-orchestra that has had rhode islanders shaking their asses since 1973 (when they were called naked truth). Go ahead, try listening to Smithfield native Smith sing “i’m huge” without smiling. From The PHOENIX | reviewing the 2000 album Never Say Never (Still Huge), Bob Gulla wrote, “down in new orleans, they had the meters. in memphis, they had Booker t and the mGs. in mobile, they had the muscle Shoals rhythm Section . . . in providence, we’ve got the nakeds.” FUn FacT | more than 60 musicians have been members of the nakeds.

sIssIereTTa Jones BIo | in 1892 — more than 60 years before marian Anderson became the first African American to sing at new York’s metropolitan opera — Jones broke the color barrier at the music hall of new York, later known as carnegie hall. And her golden vocal chords weren’t just a ticket to manhattan’s center stage. they took her from the Baptist church in providence where she sang as a child to concert halls in russia, italy, england, and France. today, a plaque hangs in her honor on pratt Street in providence. FUn FacT | Jones performed for four consecutive US presidents: Benjamin harrison, Grover cleveland, William mcKinley, and teddy roosevelt.

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BIo | Jimmie crane — born loreto domenico Fraieli — was a true providence citizen. Where else would a man run a jewelry business called colonial novelty to maintain a steady income amidst the choppy seas of the music industry? not that things went so badly for crane on the music front. his songs were done by top crooners like Bobby vinton, doris day, and nat “King” cole. And like his fellow 2013 rimhoF inductee, George m. cohan, crane wasn’t afraid to paint his tunes in hues of bright red, white, and blue. one of his first breaks came from a number called “it’s Great to Be an American.” FUn FacT | crane’s tune “hurt” was a hit in three decades: the 1950s (roy hamilton), the 1960s (timi Yuro), and the 1970s (elvis presley). hIT ParaDe | “if i Give my heart to You,” “i need You now”

BIll FlanaGan homeToWn | Warwick BIo | Sketch out a rock journalist’s dream career and it might look something like Bill Flanagan’s. the man has had bylines in Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Spy; interviews with Joni mitchell, van morrison, and Bob dylan (among other immortals); a book project that took him on a world tour with U2; and a side gig writing critically acclaimed novels. Flanagan eventually transitioned from writing music news to making music news when he became an executive for mtv networks in the 1990s, helping steer the legendary programs Storytellers and Crossroads (Bill was the matchmaker for robert plant and Alison Krauss). he is the first non-musician inducted to the rimhoF and, as a writer for the Phoenix’s predecessor, The NewPaper, we’re particularly proud fans. Books | Last of the Moe Haircuts (1986); Written In My Soul: Rock’s Great Songwriters Talk About Creating Their Music (1986), U2: At the End of the World (1996); and the novels A&R (2001), New Bedlam (2008), and Evening’s Empire (2010) From The NEwPaPEr | during a 1986 interview with Keith richards, Flanagan told the guitarslinger that he was from Warwick. “i remember the tank in that town!” richards said, before launching into a tale of getting arrested for accosting a ProJo photographer who woke him with a camera flash after richards had fallen asleep on a fire truck.

homeToWn | providence InsTrUmenTs | trumpet, cornet, guitar BIo | hackett rose from modest origins — he was one of nine children of a blacksmith, his first cornet was purchased for $5 at a pawn shop — to play alongside the royals of 20th-century jazz: tony Bennett, dizzy Gillespie, Glenn miller, Frank Sinatra, louis Armstrong. When he died in 1976, The New Yorker wrote, “his gifts were of an almost unearthly purity. his playing threw angelic shadows . . . his solos were models of clarity and order and grace. each had a molded prefigured design, a Greek revival rightness.” FUn FacT | According to legend, a young hackett once filled in for a missing trumpeter at a cab calloway gig in providence.

eDDIe Zack & The hayloFT JamBoree Who | eddie Zack, cousin richie (richard), Babs (mercedes), maril (marilyn) BIo | Forming a family-based, Armenian-American country music band in rhode island isn’t the most traditional formula for music success. But that didn’t stop eddie (born edward Zackarian) and company from conquering the local airwaves. For decades Zack and the hayloft Jamboree were a multimedia institution in the ocean State, broadcasting their gentle brand of rockabilly during countless tv and radio specials. they were also tireless producers of studio albums for columbia and decca records. one of the secrets of their success? “the strongest thing we drink is coffee,” Zack reportedly once said. We raise our java mugs to salute you, eddie.

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Our erstwhile colleague Annie Zaleski notes: Legendary New Jersey underground rockers the feelies have always existed outside genre boundaries. Their 1980 debut LP, Crazy Rhythms, grafted punk’s jittery riffs and tempos with restless post-punk anxiety. They released three more records, but lapsed into inactivity in the early ’90s. But remarkably, since their reunion in 2008, they picked up right where they left off. The group — guitarists/vocalists Glenn Mercer and Bill Million, bassist Brenda Sauter, and drummer/percussionists Dave Weckerman and Stan Demeski — remain ferocious live performers capable of jaw-dropping speed and precision, as well as sharp, barbed melodies. This innate chemistry translated to the studio, too: when the band came together to write a new album — 2011’s excellent Here Before. “It was something we had talked about right from the beginning: we didn’t want it to be purely nostalgia, just the old stuff,” Mercer said. And what’s the biggest difference between the Feelies then and now? “Probably the fact that we don’t play too often,” Mercer says. “When we do

sAturdAy | the Feelies @ the Met play live, it’s over a weekend; we don’t rehearse that much. We really make the most of it when we do get together, and appreciate it a lot more, too. We don’t take it for granted.” We’re fairly certain that the Feelies haven’t played Rhode Island since a legendary night at the Blue Pelican in Newport in the mid-’80s; we’ve been waiting a long time for their return, and we’re not taking it for granted. They’ll be at the Met, 1005 Main St, Pawtucket, at 9 pm | $16 advance, $20 day of show | 401.729.1005 | themetri.com

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Does mArk Cutler ever sleep? You can catch him with his various combos most weekends; he’s always writing songs (new album due soon!) and taking photos and making paintings; and he is always ready to pitch in for a good cause. Mark has been working on behalf of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Rhode Island; he’s among the L&LS’ 15 Man and Woman of the Year candidates. Mark told us he’s “convinced that a cure will be found within our lifetime. I’ve seen testimonials by parents of children who are alive today because of the research that’s funded by people’s donations.” His latest effort is a fundraiser at Twelve Acres, 445 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, with a dinner, raffles and auctions, and entertainment by comedian Tony Amaral, country singer Kiley Evans, and Mark with the Men of Great Courage. The event runs from 6 to 11 pm; tickets are $35 | 401.692.1211 | carlapoet@ gmail.com

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Decades ago, BettYe lAvette had one national blast and some regional hits in the Detroit area, but quickly became an also-ran in a crowded field. But the sixty-something vocalist broke through in 2005 with I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise, and audiences around the world found out how strong her voice is. LaVette turns your head every time out. See her work some magic at the Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Milton opens at 8 pm | $35 advance, $40 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrows center.org

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behind the Artistic Explosion Music Festival, featuring more than two dozen of Rhode Island’s best musical acts, with proceeds benefiting Girls Rock! RI and the Rhode Island Music Educators Association. Duguay has lined up a doozy of a festival spanning six nights at six different venues with budget-friendMONDAY (the 22nd) at 9 pm ly cover charges, so don’t | The Spot Underground, 101 gimme that “there ain’t Richmond St, Providence | shit to do” nonsense. Get Suggested donation $1-up | out there and catch a show Young-buck blues and rock (or all six) for some great takes over 990WBOB.com’s causes! famed “Mondays On Blast” Duguay was raised in series at the Spot, with Shelton, CT, and moved to Dylan Sevey & the GentleNorth Providence in 2007 men leading the way while studying commu(recently featured here benication/mass media at hind their debut LP Join the Rhode Island College. He Club), plus Northeast Trafis a blogger and DJ for the fic, Rich Ferri & the Wealth award-winning 990WBOB. On the Water, and 2013 com (voted Best Blog in WBRU Rock Hunt semifiour ’12 Readers Poll) and nalist Clyde Lawrence. IN THE MIX passionate mammals (top) and the can’t Nots. cranks out live concert and album reviews for GoLoTUESDAY (the 23rd) at 8 calProv.com. Oh, and he pm | Dusk, 301 Harris Ave, co-founded Moose Proof Records (the Rice Cakes). Dude is Providence | $5 | One of the best additions to RI’s live mua mass media music mogul around here and a fixture at sic circuit, Dusk presents some lo-fi goodness starting just about every live dive around Providence. 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THURSDAY (the 25th) at 8 pm | The Parlour, 1119 North Duguay acknowledged that this ambitious idea would Main St, Providence | $5 | This quintessential corner pub be a major undertaking, corralling such an extensive list (formerly the Penalty Box) will pack ’em in for local of top-shelf talent and coordinating participating venues. duo Nymphidels (check out new EP A Band in Places), the “Some were weary of me trying to put something like this whiskey-soaked folk and blues of the Denver Boot (Wiltogether in just a three-month span when I started conliam Moretti possesses one of the state’s best voices), tacting people about this crazy idea back in January,” he Shotgun, and one of my personal favorites, Northern said. “But as time moved on more people were receptive Lands (any day now with that full-length record, Mr. to it and completely on board.” Cournoyer!). I just pray NL guitarist Pete Hayden leaves That eventual strong showing of support inspired the tie-dye shirt at home for this one. him, and I asked if the AEMF could turn into an annual event. FRIDAY (the 26th) at 9 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence “Definitely,” Duguay replied. “The response so far has | $5 | Time to rock-the-fuck-out with the ladies of Gertrude been incredible and really made me think about potenAtherton (Sleater-Kinney for the stoned masses), Songs, tially having this festival serve as the landmark event to the two-man wrecking crew that is Olneyville Sound Syskick off summer in the Ocean State.” tem, and thrash-metal kings Weak Teeth. Duguay’s constant PR work for the local music community has been reciprocated by a outpouring of support SATURDAY (the 27th) at 7 pm | Firehouse 13, 41 Central St, from a wide variety of local bands and artists. Providence | $5 | The Artistic Explosion Music Festival “I wanted to make it as diverse as possible so it wraps up at FH13 with an astounding array of styles — wouldn’t be exclusive to just one genre, and I wanted artfrom the alt-pop of Huge Face (check out the new self-tiists who were easy to work with and could straight-up tled EP), Littlefoot (featuring Roz Raskin on bass), soulrock a venue on any given night. ful folk crew Consuelo’s Revenge (new album released “It can really touch your soul when a community of last week), Tapestries, the infamous shlock-and-awe wonderful people can get completely behind an idea and collective known as [The Viennagram:], and that aforebe as enthusiastic about it as you are,” said Duguay. mentioned “Super Secret Special Guest.” ^

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along with her shiny-suited co-producer husband, Sidney (Jeff Desisto). (Desisto shows how to keep broad humor on a leash, limiting it to arrogance, a confident walk, and a low-class accent.) They decide that the best bet for a new lead would be the female half of their songwriting duo, divorced but still working with her ex. Georgia (Stacie Krawiecki) gulps but accepts, having beautifully sung the opening number and knowing the show inside out. Another song, “Thinking of Him,” shows us that she is uncertain about breaking up with Aaron (Patrick Mark Saunders). Things come alive when a police homicide detective, Lt. Frank Cioffi (Daniel Caplin), shows up to inform everybody that the star of the show was murdered. The theater exits are all guarded, and no one will be allowed to leave until the killer is found. Actually, he’s less interested in solving a crime then he is delighted in being backstage among all these theater people. He’s a fan and downright giddy about it, and is particularly interested in one of the actors, Niki Harris (Aubrey Dion), not because she is a suspect but because he especially liked her in the show. She sympathizes with his lonely dedication to his job, after he sings “Coffee Shop Nights,” and he becomes even more enchanted. Romance softens the blow of any further, inevitable, killing. The acting talent varies, but fortunately most of the critical roles are done quite well by Cioffi, Krawiecki, Dion, and Pavao. The choreography by Dante A. Sciarra nicely finesses the limits of a nonprofessional ensemble, using shuffles, struts, slides, and other simple movements to give us a satisfying sense of activity. Costume designer Amanda Downing Carney had fun providing plenty of neon colors for the Western floozies. The plot of a murder mystery can be unavoidably complex, so whodunit and how need to be as clear as a finger snap. Not so here. If the method of the opening killing were any more convoluted and implausible, we’d begin suspecting ourselves. A mercy killing of the play itself would have been easier to accept. ^

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EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and Chorus

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THE URI CHAMBER ENSEMBLES featuring a woodwind trio, the Trombone Choir, the Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble, the Flute Studio, the Clarinet Choir, and the Brass Choir | 3 pm | Fine Arts Center Concert Hall at University of Rhode Island, 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2431 | uri. edu/music THE URI OPERA WORKSHOP will explore the theme of “Love and Marriage” from a variety of works | 7 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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Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd, music by Lindsay Adler [6:45 pm] + art documentary short films [7:30; $3] | Apr 24 at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House, 209 Douglas Ave, Providence, music video contest and music by Jefferson Thomas and Matthew Foster-Moore [6:30-10 pm, $10, includes Narragansett Beer, wine, and snacks] | Apr 25 at the Warwick Museum of Art, SENE Limelight Party & Artists’ Reception, with the exhibit “Exploring Digital Arts,” the First Annual SENE Limelight Awards, previews of festival films, hors d’oeuvres by Atomic Catering, and complimentary Narragansett Beer, wine, and dessert [7-10 pm, $20, includes a free ticket to any festival film screening] | Apr 26 at the Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence, the documentary Fambul Tok [2 pm]; international shorts [3:45 pm]; Rhode Island documentaries [5:30 pm]; Comedy Shorts I [6:45 pm]; the feature Everything Went Down [8:30 pm] | Apr 27 at the Columbus Theatre in the Main Auditorium, HS Student Filmmakers [11 am] + Bishop Hendricken student films [11:30 am, $5 for both programs]; animated shorts [1:30 pm]; the feature SAL [3 pm]; film awards [5 pm; free]; Short Films II [5:45 pm]; Comedy Shorts II [7:30 pm]; in the Upstairs Theatre, College Filmmakers [noon]; Short Films I [1:30 pm]; Short Films II [3:15 pm]; LGBT short films [5:45 pm]; the feature 15 North | Apr 28 at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St, Providence, the documentary The Joy of Sox: Weird Science and the Power of Intention [noon]; the feature Rising Star; Short Films IV [3 pm]; the feature Human Nature [5 pm] | Apr 28 at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House, the closing night party [$10, 7 pm] | Screenings admission $10 [$8 students + seniors]; all-access SENE pass $40 [$30 starting Apr 26] | senefest.com

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ROVING EYE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | A collaboration

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A SCREENING OF LAST SHOP STANDING: THE RISE, FALL, AND REBIRTH OF INDEPENDENT RECORD SHOP, a British documentary

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READINGS THURSDAY 18

A CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL POETRY MONTH hosted by Provi-

PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM SEMI-FINALS FEATURING MEGAN FALLEY | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire

St, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

FRIDAY 19

LAURA MOORE will read from,

TUESDAY 23

GOT POETRY LIVE! | 6 pm | Blue

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

WEDNESDAY 24

LINDA ALDRICH will read from her

new poetry collection, March and Mad Women | 6:30 pm | Island Books, 575 East Main Rd, Middletown | 401.849.2665 | islandbooksri.com

THURSDAY 25

MAURICE SCULLY will read from

TALKS THURSDAY 18

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

Wessels, professor of ecology at the Antioch New England Graduate School | 7 pm | Brown University’s Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium, 154 Angell St, Providence | Free | brown.edu/academics/creative-artscouncil/events/upcoming

FRIDAY 19

“STEMming BRAIN DRAIN: WHY WE NEED IMMIGRATION REFORM TO KEEP OUR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENTS WORKING IN THE US” | A panel

discussion [participants TBA] | Noon | Brown University’s Taubman Center, 67 George St, Providence | Free | brown.edu/academics/taubmancenter/events/stemming-braindrain-why-we-need-immigrationreform-keep-our-science-technologyengineering-a

“THINK-TANKS, NGOS AND HUMAN

RIGHTS IN THE AMERICAS: LOOKING BACK AND FORWARD” | The

first part of the conference will be moderated by Richard Snyder, professor of political science at Brown University, and is titled “Human Rights In the Americas Before and After Democratization.” The second part is titled “Strengthening Human Rights In the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities” and will be moderated by César Rodríguez-Garavito of the University of the Andes and Dejusticia | Participants include Ricardo Lagos, former president of Chile and professor-at-large at Brown University; Aurelio Alonso, editor of Cuba’s Casa de las Americas journal; Jorge I. Dominguez, the Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico Comparative at Harvard University; and many more | 1:30 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | watsoninstitute.org/ events_detail.cfm?id=2076

“FIREARM IDENTIFICATION IN THE FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORY” | A talk by Robert Thompson,

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

PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID H. WELLS, | Yellow Peril Gallery curator Robert P. Stack, Community MusicWorks managing director Kimberly Young, and Bert Cooper, executive director of community development organization Community Works RI, will examine the relationship between art and social change, examining “Foreclosed Dreams,” Wells’s photo essay on foreclosed houses, and CMW’s project, “Gather,” an April concert series in a foreclosed house on Providence’s West Side | 5 pm | Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providence athenaeum.org

SATURDAY 20

“PUTTING EDUCATION FIRST: WHO GOES TO COLLEGE” | The con-

ference will focus on class and higher education, and their effects on first-generation and working-class students, with keynote speaker Jane Van Galen and students will participate in the discussion | 9:30 am | Brown University’s Smith Buonanno Hall, 95 Cushing St, Providence | Free | brown.edu/Student_Services/ TWC/index.html

“TOP 10 THINGS EVERY ARTIST SHOULD KNOW,” a talk by Heather

MONDAY 22

“WHEN THE STATE SPEAKS, WHAT SHOULD IT SAY?” | A talk

by Corey Brettschneider, a professor of political science at Brown, about Value Democracy, a theory that states that the state should protect the right to express non-liberal beliefs, but the state should also engage in democratic persuasion by publicly criticizing, and giving reasons to reject, hate-based, or other discriminatory viewpoints | 5:30 pm | Brown University’s Alumnae Hall Auditorium, 194 Meeting St, Providence | Free | brown.edu/Research/ ppw/index.html

“21ST CENTURY URBANISM: INTEGRATING PEOPLE, INFRASTRUCTURE, JOBS, AND ENVIRONMENT” | A panel discussion moderated by Marc Levitt, host of the WGBH program Action Speaks, with Kaid Benfield, director of sustainable communities for the Natural Resources Defense Council and author of People Habitat: 30 Ways To Think About Healthier, Greener Cities; Laura Briggs, visiting professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and chair of the Sustainable Architecture Research program at the New School for Design in New York City; Ruben Fores-Marzan, director of planning and development

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for the City of Providence; and Janet Zweig, a public artist often working in the field of “placemaking,” who teaches at RISD and Brown University | 7 pm | Paff Auditorium at URI Providence, 80 Washington St, Providence | Free | 401.277.5302

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“LEGISLATING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: ALL EYES ON RHODE ISLAND” | A panel discussion with

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“EMERGING LATINO LEADERS PANEL DISCUSSION,” with Ricardo

Lagos, former president of Chile and professor-at-large at Brown University; James Diossa, mayor of Central Falls; Angel Taveras, mayor of Providence; Sandra Cano of the Pawtucket School Committee; Dr. Pablo Rodríguez, associate professor of ostetrics and gynecology at Brown University; and Anna Cano-Morales of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University | Noon | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | watsoninstitute.org/events_detail. cfm?id=2070

“BEYOND WAR: TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN A NEW MIDDLE EAST,” a talk by David

Rohde, former reporter at the New York Times and a columnist for Reuters and The Atlantic Monthly | 5 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | watsoninstitute.org/events_detail. cfm?id=1950

“FROM RAINFOREST TO PARLOR: THE MAHOGANY TRADE IN COLONIAL RHODE ISLAND” | A talk by

author Jennifer Anderson | 5:30 pm | Colony House, Washington Sq, Newport | $5 | 401.841.8770 | newport restoration.org

“THE CURRENT STATE OF HEALTH CARE IN RHODE ISLAND” | A panel

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THURSDAY 25

“GENETIC ENGINEERING: DO THE BENEFITS OUTWEIGH THE COSTS?” | A talk by Nigel Cameron,

president of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, and Gregory Stock, author of Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future | 4 pm | Brown University’s Salomon Center for Teaching, DeCiccio Family Auditorium, on the College Green, Providence | Free | brown. edu/Departments/Political_Theory_ Project/janus/events/lectures/ genetic_engineering_do_the_ benefits_outweigh_the_costs

“DRAGON RISING: THE IMPLICATIONS OF CHINA’S ASCENDANCY FOR INDIA’S SECURITY” | A talk by Ashley Tellis, the author of India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture and coauthor of Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future | 5 pm | Brown University’s Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting St, Room 305, Providence | Free | brown.edu/initiatives/india

“WHEN THE DANCE IS OVER: THE EXOTICIZATION OF THE GARIFUNA OF CENTRAL AMERICA” | A talk by Clarissa Walker about how tourists in Central America on cruises, spring break, and family vacations impact the culture of the Garifuna, descendants from Arawak, Carib, and West African roots | The conclusion 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 ALTA LUNA GALLERY | 401.688.0396

BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

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

| Wed 6-9 pm + by appointment + chance | Through Apr 27: “Emerging,” paintings by Way O’Malley and paintings and drawings by Andy Davis CHABOT FINE ART GALLERY | 401.432.7783 | 379 Atwells Ave, Providence | chabotgallery.com | Wed + Thurs 12-6 pm; Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through May 11: “Beauty & Diversification of Nature,” works by Jim Grabowski and Robin Wessman COLO COLO GALLERY | 508.496.4718 | 25 Centre St, New Bedford, MA | Tues + Thurs 12-5 pm; Wed + Fri 3-6 pm; Sat 12-6 pm | Through Apr 27: “Celestial and Sublime,” works by Patricia Daughton

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

works by Jessica Brilli, Brenda Cirioni, and Scott Francoeur 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]

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

Mon-Sat 10 am to 5 pm | Through May 3: “Pawtucket High School Art Exhibit,” with works by students from Tolman, Shea, J.M. Walsh, St. Ray’s, Bishop Keough, and Blackstone Academy

PORTSMOUTH ARTS GUILD GALLERY | 401.293.5ART | 2679 East Main

Rd, Portsmouth | portsmouthartsguild. org | Fri-Sun 1-5 pm | Through May

4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through Apr 20: “117th Annual Artist Member’s Show

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

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 am5 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

Rd, Warwick | Through Apr 30: “On and Through and In Between,” new work by Deborah Baronas and Graham Heffernan HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery. org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through May 4: “The Garden,” photographs by Alexandra Broches | “Repeat Repeat,” a conceptual installation by Michael Yefko IMAGO GALLERY | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imago foundation4art.org | Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through May 25: works by Lenny Rumpler, John Boland, and David Gonville, plus IFA member artists Eileen Collins, Mary Dondero, Rose Esson-Dawson, Lisa Legato, Pascale Lord, Eileen Mayhew, and Linda Megathlin

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 KRAUSE GALLERY | 401.831.7350 x 174 | In the Jenks Center at Moses

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

8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through Apr 26: “Everyday,” with

19: “Members’ Non-Juried Show”

PROVIDENCE ART CLUB |

401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providenceartclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4

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

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 |

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

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown

Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Through May 18: “Earthworks: Open Juried Clay Annual

URI FEINSTEN CAMPUS GALLERY

| 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5 pm | Through Apr 26: “Our Urban Wildlife,” a mixed media exhibit VAN VESSEM GALLERY | 401.835.6639 | 63 Muse Way, Tiverton | sandywoodsfarm.org/vanvessemgallery.html | Through May 1: works by Desiree Brunton, Harmony Winters, David Seibert, Joan Mann, Penny Jackim, Matthew G. Smith, Meredith Brower, Nancy Walker, Charlie Barmonde, Ben Butler, Ellen Bromgren, Beth Claverie, Craig Crawford, and Marika van Vessem

WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach

MUSEUMS NEWPORT ART MUSEUM |

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

11 am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students + military with ID; free under 6 | Through May 5: “Legacies In Paint: The Mentor Project,” with work from a four-month mentoring project with mid- to late-career Rhode Island painters [Paula Martiesian, David Barnes, Michele Provost, John Riedel, and Ida Schmulowitz] and younger painters [Buck Hastings, Mollie Hosmer-Dillard, Li Jun Lai, Erika Sabel, and Dan Talbot] | Through May 12: “Faculty Focus,” with works by Charlene Carpenzano and Dan McManus of the NAM art school | Through May 12: “Shelf Life,”paintings by Gerry Perrino | Through May 19: “Newport Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition” RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Benefit St, Providence | risdmuseum. org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm [Thurs until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am–1 pm | Through May 19: “Grisgorious Places: Edward Lear’s Travels” | Through June 9: “RISD Business: Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Alejandro Diaz” | Through June 16: “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” | Through June 30: “Double-and-Add,” works by Angela Bulloch, Anthony McCall,

and Haroon Mirza | Through July 14: “The Festive City,” an exhibit of rarely seen prints and books that provide a glimpse into the festivals of early modern Europe

THEATER BROWN UNIVERSITY’S GRANOFF CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS |

brown.edu/academics/creative-artscouncil/events/upcoming | 154 Angell St, Providence | Apr 18 + 19 7 pm:

THE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT

| The Media and Arts Center at Met Public, 325 Public St, Providence | Apr 20 + 21: “MAP TO THE FUTURE: the time travelplays” | The culminating performance of the Playmaking program, a six-week afterschool playwriting class with 10-minute plays written by 10 third-grade kid playwrights | Sat 3 + 7 pm; Sun 3 pm | Free, reservations are encouraged

NEWPORT PLAYHOUSE & CABARET RESTAURANT | 401.848.PLAY |

newportplayhouse.com | 102-104 Connell Hwy | Through May 25: Spreading

It Around, by Londos D’Arrigo | $49.95 dinner + theater + cabaret, $34.95 theater + cabaret | Fri-Sun, doors 6 pm, buffet 6:15 pm, show 8 pm | Matinees Wed + Thurs + Sun [and selected Tues + Sat], doors 11 am, buffet 11:30 am, show 1 pm

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| ric.edu/mtd | At the Auditorium in Roberts Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence

| Through Apr 21: Urinetown, by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann | Apr 18 + 19 7:30 pm + Apr 20 2 + 7:30 pm + Apr 21 2 pm | $20, $16 seniors, $10 students

ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY THEATRE | departments.rwu.edu/

theatre | At the RWU Performing Arts Center, 1 Old Ferry Rd, Bristol | Apr

19-27: Avenue Q, by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty | Apr 19 + 20 + 24 + 26 + 27 7:30 pm + Apr 21 2 pm | $10, $5 students + seniors THE ROOTS | 401.272.7422 | roots cafeprovidence.com | 276 Westminster St, Providence | April 19: Luna’s presents The Vagina Monologues, to benefit Sojourner House | 9 pm — Apr 24 7:30 pm: Word On Wednesdays presents a staged reading of Symbol of Resistance, by Michael Kinnane | $5

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cabin-in-the-woods setting of Sam Raimi’s cult classic The Evil Dead (1981) has been so widely copied that, for this remake, the screenwriters (among them Diablo Cody of Juno fame) have added a character wrinkle: this time the young people are not vacationing but trying to help one of them (Jane Levy) kick heroin. Given all the mayhem that ensues, this idea is quickly dropped, but you have to give them credit for trying. As with most millennial remakes of post-Vietnam horror classics, there isn’t much to do here except turn the gore up to 11; if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to jam a chainsaw into someone’s mouth (and who hasn’t?), this will give you a good working idea. Fede Alvarez directed, and Lou Taylor Pucci is pretty good as the hippie character who always gets it in these movies. | 91m |

XXX 42 | 2013 | 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). | 128m |

XX OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN | 2013 | North Korean terrorists storm the

White House and take the President hostage. This ludicrous actioner strives to be as loud, violent, and patriotic as possible; director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) pulls out all the stops, openly evoking 9/11 and playing on the irrational fears of Tea Partiers and neoconservatives everywhere. Gerard Butler stars as a former Secret Service agent, his reputation tarnished by a tragic accident, who takes the situation in hand, his snappy one-liners and iron resolve fitting right in with the implausible premise. With Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. | 120m |

XXX THE PLACE BEYOND THE

PINES | 2012 | 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. | 140m |

XX SPRING BREAKERS | 2013 |

Indie veteran Harmony Korine learns a valuable lesson: why hang around with disconsolate small-town weirdos (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) when you can film young women shaking their bare breasts? This lively exploitation flick follows four college cuties (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine, the filmmaker’s wife) as they pull off a masked hold-up of a diner and, cash in hand, go roaring off to Florida for the title bacchanal; upon their arrival they get mixed up with drug dealer James Franco (wearing cornrows and grills and channeling Eric Roberts). Korine gestures toward social criticism, but essentially this is just an hour and a half of bongs, beers, tits, and ass, thinly dressed as Natural Born Killers. | 92m |

XX TRANCE | 2013 | Danny Boyle’s

twisty noir thriller (adapted from a 2001 TV movie of the same name) begins with the sort of ludicrous premise that Fritz Lang or Otto Preminger might have tackled in the late 1940s. An art auctioneer (James McAvoy) hides a valuable painting during a heist but gets amnesia and forgets where he put it; improbably the chic gangster (Vincent Cassel) who organized the crime sends him to a hypnotherapist (Rosario Dawson) to recover the memory. An exacting filmmaker like Lang or Preminger might have given weight to the story’s psychological elements, but Boyle’s frantic, hodgepodge approach provides only fleeting pleasures. He seems to regard the project as little more than a stylistic exercise, trying out lots of cinematic devices without establishing a unifying perspective on the material. | 101m |

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his headstrong son in 1950s Texas has been replaced by a ho-hum contemporary story (Malick’s first ever) about an American (Ben Affleck) who falls for a woman (Olga Kurylenko) in picturesque Mont SaintMichel, France, and brings her and her young daughter back to live with him in a cookie-cutter subdivision in Oklahoma. Javier Bardem is on hand as a Catholic priest suffering a crisis of faith, though Malick avoids the overt religiosity of The Tree of Life that annoyed so many people. Rachel McAdams costars. _J.R. Jones

There’s a little too much wonder and not quite enough story in this middling effort from Terrence Malick. Following on the heels of his acclaimed, hotly debated The Tree of Life, it continues much in the same vein, presenting an intimate family drama in a tone of hushed etherealism, with muted colors and fleet, impressionistic editing. Fortunately, there are no dinosaurs running around this time, but unfortunately, the earlier film’s hard tale of a bitter man and

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This period of quarter moon to full moon is the best time to take projects and relationships to the next level. Couple that with spring fever, and if the allergies don’t get you, figure more progress will be made now than at any other time of the month. Since the sun is moving into Taurus, the sign of finance, security and pretty objects, bigger payoffs are in 3 the works. 4 5 6 7 Feel like gardening? Me 8 too. Days for planting include Thursday, Sunday and Monday. But any 6 7 8 9 10 11 day is fine for buying seeds.

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until 8:08 pm when it moves into virgo. An all-day void-of-course moon makes for unexpected company, surprising pleasures, and unasked for gaity. not fun for the anchorites, but excellent for extroverts and Aries, Sagittarius, leo, libra, Aquarius, Gemini, virgo, capricorn, pisces, and cancer. impatience could be a theme for taurus, Aquarius and Scorpio. that, or a crazy haircut. 9

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April 21 13 14 15 16 Waxing moon in 27virgo. Great day29for fam25 26 28 30 ily gatherings, but please watch for being “picky,” particularly if you’re virgo, Aries, pisces, Sagittarius, Gemini31or Aquarius. 28 29 30 32 cleaning is a theme. So is upgrading a 15 program. 16 health or buying a bunch of vitamins you really don’t need. efficiency and order could be a pleasure for libra, leo,31taurus,32capricorn, and virgo. you folks could also have your acquisitive impulses activated. 12

April 18 9 quarter 10 moon 11 12 moon13 14 First in cancer. void-of-course 8:31 am to 11:13 am when it moves into leo. A turning point for decisions made or 27executed28 around29last 30 25 26 Wednesday’s new moon. cancer moons bring a craving for comfort (food, furniture), and leo moons help shine a spotMoNday light. So a confusing time for Aries, taurus, April 22 Aquarius and capricorn, but full of positive 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Waxing moon in virgo, moon void-ofmomentum for Scorpio, cancer, pisces, course 2:02 am until 3:25 am Wednesday. leo, virgo, Sagittarius, libra, and Gemini. earth day. earth sign moons on a monday prompt long-term thinking. So, as you try Friday 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 to recycle that paper earth day coffee cup April 19 10 11 12 14 15 16 a third time, work on projects that will unWaxing moon in leo, moon 13void-of-course fold slowly and deliberately. this is no time 5:06 pm until 8:08 pm Saturday. Sun to rush — you hear me Sagittarius, pisces, moves into taurus. We’re in the middle of cancer, leo, virgo, libra, Scorspring, and27leo moons bring out the30 urge 31 and Gemini? 26 28 29 32 pio, Sagittarius, capricorn, Aquarius, Aries, to party long and hard into the night. or to and taurus: beauty consoles. Be your least act like a child. this should be right in the noodgy and most gracious self. comfort zone for Aries, Sagittarius, leo, libra, Aquarius, Gemini, virgo, capricorn, Tuesday pisces, and cancer. taurus, Aquarius and April 23 Scorpio: look before you leap. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Waxing moon in libra, moon void-ofcourse 12:56 a.m. to 9:06 a.m. Seeing saTurday both sides isn’t easy except when the April 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 moon is in 31libra. it’s a fine day for evaluWaning moon in 26leo, moon void-of-course 24 25 27 28 29 30 32

ating a partnership and finding areas of improvement. capricorn, Aries and cancer could grumble if asked to do something outside of what they understand is their “zone.” much more flexible are leo, virgo, libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius, Gemini, pisces, and taurus.

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