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DAVID SCHARFENBERG

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Interview: Oil Can Boyd on playing the game

Baseball ‘takes away a lot of hurt’
This week, I had an hour long chat with Oil Can Boyd.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 23, 2012

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The whistleblower in the ‘American Taliban’ case returns to Brown

Truthtelling
John Walker Lindh, better known as the American Taliban, was in US custody in Afghanistan in December 2001. And counter-terrorism prosecutor John DePue had a question: could he be interrogated without a lawyer present?
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 23, 2012

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A future less dour

Looking Ahead
Neal Stephenson's novels have been called everything from science fiction to postcyberpunk.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 23, 2012

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Who passed voter ID?


Two months ago Hans von Spakovsky of the conservative Heritage Foundation, de facto apologist for a new wave of conservative-inspired voter ID laws, appeared on PBS NewsHour to defend the cause.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 16, 2012

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Photos, sound, and teen pregnancy rendered human

Art Dept.
Thirty-five black-and-white photographs ring the exhibition space at TSETSE Gallery on Empire Street in downtown Providence. Here a man with a bushy goatee sitting on a motorcycle, there a woman covering her face with her hair.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 09, 2012

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On politics, the media, and Providence’s ‘hidden gem’

Week In Review
It was quite the week in local news and here at Chez Phoenix .
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 02, 2012



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Making the RISD Museum sizzle

Can new director John W. Smith polish Providence's hidden gem?
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum is one of New England's — and America's — most underappreciated and underperforming cultural treasures.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 02, 2012

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As May Day approaches, a local labor movement at a crossroads

Protest Dept.
May Day, the international workers day, is just around the corner. But organized labor, here in Rhode Island, is not in a particularly celebratory mood.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  April 25, 2012

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Revolution: Silent film at the library

At the Movies
Last I checked in with Dave Dvorchak — Providence Community Library office manager, film geek, Renaissance Man — he had found a long-forgotten cache of 16-millimeter movies owned by a defunct consortium of Rhode Island libraries.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  April 25, 2012

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The quiet push to decriminalize marijuana possession in Rhode Island

Pot is not a crime
The often frustrating push to get a workable medical marijuana regime up and running in Rhode Island has received plenty of ink in recent years. But the state's pot politics don't end there.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  April 18, 2012

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Get back in the groove

Vinylution
For the casual music fan, the record store might seem an anachronism in the age of the iPod. And in a way, it is. That's no small part of the charm.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  April 20, 2012



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Local heroes of 2012


In this 15th annual edition of the Providence Phoenix 's Best issue, we highlight people and organizations who are doing exceptionally good work — local heroes who often labor behind the scenes, but are changing their communities for the better.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  April 11, 2012

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Robert Ballard on discovering – and preserving – the Titanic

Under the Sea
Robert Ballard, the charismatic professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, has had an illustrious career as a marine explorer. But he is best known for discovering the Titanic on September 1, 1985.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  April 11, 2012

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Can Cicilline’s apology clear the decks?

Mea Culpa
This week, Providence mayor-turned-Congressman David Cicilline appeared on WPRI-TV to apologize.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  April 11, 2012

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At Kennedy Plaza, plans for rebirth

Public Works Dept.
Kennedy Plaza, in the heart of downtown Providence, has long been a problem. Seedy, unwelcoming, it is a troubling — if helpful — reminder of the poverty and addiction that still plague the renaissance city.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  April 04, 2012

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Lenny Clarke comes to Swansea

Giggles
Stand-up comic and actor Lenny Clarke has carved out a career as a Northeastern everyman — a wise-cracking, self-deprecating, heavily-accented jokester with an appealing obnoxious streak.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  March 28, 2012



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Can Anthony Gemma’s feel-good wonkery and pent-up rage beat David Cicilline this time?

Jekyll and Hyde
There is a strange duality to businessman Anthony Gemma's all-but-official Congressional campaign.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  March 21, 2012

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Hummel’s soft play for a more robust RI media

Features Dept.
Michael Healey, best known as the amiable spokesman for former Attorney General Patrick Lynch, has nicknamed independent investigative reporter Jim Hummel's stories the "Hummel Pummel."
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  March 21, 2012

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The ProJo passes on controversial 'Doonesbury' series

As the ProJo Turns
Turn to the comics in this week's Providence Journal and there, near the top of the right-hand column, you'll find cartoonist and provocateur Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" in its usual spot.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  March 14, 2012

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Can manufacturing save the state's economy?

Making It in Rhode Island
As the economy coughs its way toward something resembling recovery, politicians and economists are pointing to a surprising elixir: manufacturing.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  March 22, 2012
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