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News at what cost?
Local reporters and community members discuss ABC6's viral woman-attacks-news crew story. Plus, a talk with Melisa Lawrence - BY PHILIP EIL

Slipping and sliding for Pride on Allens Ave

Club sports
Jacqueline DiMera — “Rhode Island’s Drag Sweetheart” — is wearing a red sequined dress and a healthy coat of eye shadow. And, at the moment, she’s strutting the length of the dance floor at Hush, a dimly lit, techno-thumping strip club across from a scrapyard on Allens Ave. in Providence.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 13, 2013

The Philly pilgrimage

Plus, the splendid American Craft Beer Fest
We’re usually all about the local breweries and the locally-available stock in this space, but sometimes we get in the Kia and head for beer adventures across state lines.

By: LOU PAPINEAU | June 12, 2013

In it for the honey

Urban beekeeping
The flavor of the honey produced by Grove St. Apiary, according to its proprietor Peter Lutz, is in part attributable to the linden trees common to the West Side of the Providence. Bees don’t have to travel far to collect a variety of plant pollens in such a concentrated urban environment, Lutz says, so his honey is uniquely dense and flowery.

By: VIKKI WARNER | June 12, 2013

Kafkaesque

Maniacal machinations in Foxboro; facts are stupid things
It was only fitting that when the New England Patriots signed professional God-botherer Tim Tebow on Tuesday, they let go of back-up quarterback Mike Kafka. Tebow’s coming to the Pats was indeed a disorienting metamorphosis moment that old Franz K. and Gregor Samsa would have recognized.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | June 12, 2013

Upstairs, downstairs

Trinity Rep's 'House & Garden' doubles your pleasure
What a clever idea. Use the same cast and adjacent sets, and develop characters and their stories into two plays that stand alone but also offer the bonus of familiarity to audience members who see them both.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | June 12, 2013

The buzz of creativity

RHD-RI's 'Artless'; Gilheeney and Hastings at Candita Clayton
Joe Pastore is a “Juggalo,” according to his brief artist biography for the exhibit “Artless: Rhode Island Outsider Art with RHD-RI” 186 Carpenter St. Gallery in Providence. His bio supports this by including a photo of him in a hoodie professing his allegiance to the horror-hip-hop rap duo Insane Clown Posse.

By: GREG COOK | June 11, 2013

Unsettling slices of life

Anne Pasquale gets under 'BOB''s skin
' BOB: Blessed Be the Dysfunction That Binds ' is about Anne Pasquale’s experiences growing up with a “special needs person” with schizophrenic tendencies, a balancing act of love and trepidation. Bob, you see, could be violent.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | June 11, 2013

Summer Guide: Full steam ahead

These New England alterna-races involve more than running
Are you ready for the Goruck Challenge? Or the Urban Dare??

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: Get comfy on the grass

Outdoor music to get your mellow (and aggro) on
The lazy, the restless, the cheapskates, yuppies, ravers, snobs, and prudes: the magic of the outdoor summer concert ecosystem is that it offers very nearly everyone who doesn't care about exquisite sound quality a reason to get out of their house or state for a day, evening, or weekend.

By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: Action!...and...action!

Mayhem rules the summer box office
When director Steven Soderbergh delivered the keynote address at the San Francisco International Film Festival in April, he identified the culprit behind what he sees as the dismal state of cinema: audiences' thirst for carnage and studios' zeal to quench it.

By: ELIZABETH GREENWOOD | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: The lo-down on froyo

Weighing the existential question of the summer
By the time you finish reading this article, another froyo lounge may have opened in Rhode Island.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: Fairs and festivals

Plus, celebrations, circuses, and other seasonal happenings
From Zoobilee: Feast with the Beasts to the Charlestown Seafood Festival

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: The sound of music

A magnificent menu of awesome audio options
From Boz Scaggs to Gogol Bordello

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 06, 2013

Summer Guide: That's entertainment!

Laughs, leaps, cinema, and thespians galore
From Bill Maher to 'Boeing Boeing'

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: Look at that!

A win-win: Get out of the heat and into the art
Installations, mixed media, and 'The American Muse'

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 05, 2013

A journalism 'giant' sits for an exit interview

As the ' ProJo ' Turns
Robert Whitcomb set a ground rule before our interview about his retirement as longtime ' Providence Journal ' vice president and editorial page editor. He would talk about industry trends, he wrote in an email, but he would "NOT" talk about the paper's internal operations.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 05, 2013

'Street Sights' sends up a distress flare

A vital voice
It's Saturday afternoon at the George Hunt H.E.L.P. Center in downtown Providence, and the staff of ' Street Sights ' is sitting around a conference table, brainstorming ways for the paper to survive.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 05, 2013

Poker faces

Chafee ups the ante; colorful language; road worriers
May 30, when Governor Linc Chafee officially changed his party affiliation from Independent to Democrat, cannot have been a good day for Providence Mayor Angel Taveras or state General Treasurer Gina Raimondo.

By: | June 05, 2013

A whole new world

Allysen Callery's steel strings for starry nights
East Bay singer-songwriter-guitarist Allysen Callery returns with another must-hear gem in ' ' Mumblin' Sue ' (75orLess Records), the follow-up to the companion EPs ' Winter Island ' and ' The Summer Place .'

By: CHRIS CONTI | June 05, 2013

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