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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?
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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 $12 at the door, call 401.383.1112 for ticket availability (don't sleep!).
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PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF
| February 08, 2012
Review: Mill's Tavern
An elegant prix fixe experience
When a restaurant has survived eight-plus years on the Providence scene, you know it must be doing something (or several things) right.
By:
JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ
| February 08, 2012
‘Valentined’ showcases geek love at Craftland
Heart-felt
These missives don't have the swooning, steamy, bodice-ripping passion of romance novel covers.
By:
GREG COOK
| February 08, 2012
Review: Soul Calibur V
Soulless
It's time to make some new friends.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| February 07, 2012
J the S | The Last Days
Same Plate/Greater Good
J the S has been promising The Last Days since he went by Jake the Snake.
By:
CHRIS FARAONE
| February 07, 2012
The Punch Brothers | Who's Feeling Young Now?
Nonesuch (2012)
For a group full of virtuosos, the Punch Brothers refuse to dole out prodigious string-murdering sessions.
By:
ZETH LUNDY
| February 07, 2012
Ital | Hive Mind
Planet Mu
If there was a broken-record knock against electronic music in the last decade, it's that it all sounded the same.
By:
MICHAEL C. WALSH
| February 07, 2012
Tennis | Young & Old
Fat Possum (2012)
Denver's Tennis, the husband/wife duo of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, are back with another slab of dreamy, feather-light pop.
By:
RYAN REED
| February 07, 2012
Die Antwoord | Ten$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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Sweethearts' Night Out
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"Dana Levin: A Classical Realist In the 21st Century," an exhibit of paintings
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Keller II
Not For Nothing
| February 10, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Making the Buffett Rule Law
February 10, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Not Your Father's Newscast
February 09, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Taking on Bill Keller
February 08, 2012 at 2:17 PM
New Republic on Voter ID Law
February 07, 2012 at 10:10 AM
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