PROVIDENCE

Calming and exciting
Bartlett Wright catches the wave; Washington's gothic romance - BY GREG COOK

The play's not the thing

Epic's meandering trip to 'Fire Island'
Historian Charles L. Mee is also a playwright with a lengthy list of works to his credit, but he could more accurately be called an anti-playwright. Having declared that “there is no such thing as an original play,” he has proceeded, typically, to assemble and reconstruct theater pieces from found texts.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | June 18, 2013

One day at a time

Mixed Magic's 'The House In Providence'
As someone says toward the end of this intriguing social-study kitchen-sink drama, it’s easy to get along with people you don’t deal with every day, who don’t know you inside out and can make you feel terrible with just a look.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | June 18, 2013

Review: The Bike Stop Cafe

Great pizza and so much more
"Follow your bliss” certainly took hold with the Bike Stop Cafe’s co-owner/culinary head Brendan Roan. He’d cooked all over the state for the last couple decades and loved feeding folks, but his not-so-secret second passion was bicycling.

By: JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | June 18, 2013

News at what cost?

Local reporters and community members discuss ABC6's viral woman-attacks-news crew story. Plus, a talk with Melisa Lawrence
A 16-year-old girl is shot at a graduation party. Days later, after the shooter (also 16) turns himself in, a young TV news reporter heads to the home of the shooting victim’s mother’s in search of a comment.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 13, 2013

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