PROVIDENCE

Interview: Alice Bag of Stay at Home Bomb
Once a punk rocker, always a punk rocker - BY DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Review: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

Brad Peyton's sequel
I liked the tiny elephants and the Rock bouncing berries off his pecs, but Brad Peyton's sequel is as bad as the 2008 original.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 07, 2012

Slonk Donkerson, Galvanize, Vertical Twin, and Gut Bucket

Four by four
Looking for new music?

By: CHRIS CONTI | February 08, 2012

Reel-to-reel: A long-lost Malcolm X speech recovered

History Dept.
I was born just two years before Spike Lee's 1992 biopic about Malcolm X and starting in kindergarten, I have faced the question in an almost endless loop: are you named after him?

By: MALCOLM BURNLEY | February 08, 2012

Taking on payday loans

Commerce Dept.
State Representative Frank Ferri, owner of a Johnston bowling alley, has seen how the short-term, high-interest loans available at neighborhood payday loan shops can leave customers on a debt treadmill.

By: JOHN LARRABEE | February 08, 2012

60 bottles and 1 can: Great samplers, and a gloriously sticky beer

Bottles and cans and just clap your hands
In the gift guide a few columns back, I recommended variety packs as an ideal present, a gateway to craft brew exploration, a great deal, and a way to avoid mix-a-six anxiety.

By: LOU PAPINEAU | February 10, 2012

Bowing to Amalur; Karl vs. Clint; Mitt the nitwit; local color

State of the art
OK, P&J have found a solution to that nasty little dispute about whether or not to include "Providence Plantations" in Vo Dilun's formal name — State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | February 08, 2012

Cram it all in!

From Sean Price to Panther Moderns!
For underground hip-hop heads, it gets no bigger than SEAN PRICE (of Boot Camp Clik and Heltah Skeltah legend) hitting up Fête on THURSDAY (the 9th); only $12 at the door, call 401.383.1112 for ticket availability (don't sleep!).

By: PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | February 08, 2012

Review: Mill's Tavern

An elegant prix fixe experience
When a restaurant has survived eight-plus years on the Providence scene, you know it must be doing something (or several things) right.

By: JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | February 08, 2012

‘Valentined’ showcases geek love at Craftland

Heart-felt
These missives don't have the swooning, steamy, bodice-ripping passion of romance novel covers.

By: GREG COOK | February 08, 2012

Review: Soul Calibur V

Soulless
It's time to make some new friends.

By: MADDY MYERS | February 07, 2012

J the S | The Last Days

Same Plate/Greater Good
J the S has been promising The Last Days since he went by Jake the Snake.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | February 07, 2012

The Punch Brothers | Who's Feeling Young Now?

Nonesuch (2012)
For a group full of virtuosos, the Punch Brothers refuse to dole out prodigious string-murdering sessions.

By: ZETH LUNDY | February 07, 2012

Ital | Hive Mind

Planet Mu
If there was a broken-record knock against electronic music in the last decade, it's that it all sounded the same.

By: MICHAEL C. WALSH | February 07, 2012

Tennis | Young & Old

Fat Possum (2012)
Denver's Tennis, the husband/wife duo of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, are back with another slab of dreamy, feather-light pop.

By: RYAN REED | February 07, 2012

Die Antwoord | Ten$ion

Zef Recordz
Moreso than any "controversially-lipped" chanteuse (to borrow from one of Lana Del Rey's many observers), South African rap/rave/meme/satire/knuckleheads Die Antwoord beg the question:"Is that all there is?"

By: DAN WEISS | February 07, 2012

Van Halen | A Different Kind of Truth

Interscope
Who would've thought Eddie Van Halen would still be innovative in his late 50s?

By: MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | February 08, 2012

Crossword: ''I Oh You One''

Or four, actually
Or four, actually.

By: MATT JONES | February 07, 2012

Today's hot careers

Hoopleville
Good money, in demand ...

By: DAVID KISH | February 08, 2012

At the Hardware Hackathon: the Kegerator goes digital

Engineering Dept.
One team turns a glowing tube of epoxy into a prototype for the next generation of lava lamps. Another rewires a Home Depot doorbell to send tweets, rather than ring. A third team wants to use Xbox to create a virtual dance floor.

By: STEPHEN BEALE | February 01, 2012

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