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Cicilline-Gemma II lands with a thud

Debates
After their raucous, televised debate a week previous, there was an air of expectation surrounding Congressman David Cicilline and businessman Anthony Gemma's recent Democratic primary debate on WPRO radio.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | September 05, 2012

RISD carves up history’s silent witnesses

Wood Shop
Dale Broholm was touring the Civil War battlefields at Gettysburg a few years ago when his friend, a former historian with the National Parks Service, described a landscape project that involved clearing trees.

By: PHILIP EIL | September 05, 2012

Patrick Conley’s fiery turn as historian laureate

Man About Town
Patrick Conley stands in a hallway lined with framed New York Times and Providence Journal articles about his campaign to lure high-end businesses to Providence's industrial waterfront.

By: PHILIP EIL | August 29, 2012

Did Gemma land enough blows on Cicilline?

Debates
Early this week, WPRI-TV released a poll giving Congressman David Cicilline a 12-point lead on his Democratic primary rival, businessman Anthony Gemma.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | August 30, 2012

Gemmapalooza and RI’s strange relationship with the truth

Talking Politics
In the run-up to Congressional candidate Anthony Gemma's highly anticipated press conference this week, unveiling allegations of voter fraud by incumbent Congressman David Cicilline, the chattering class — this observer included — was pretty much unanimous: Gemma had to deliver the goods or he was finished.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | August 22, 2012

StumpChair takes to the streets

Arts and Crafts
StumpChair — the street-art superhero who whimsically glues the tops of wooden chairs to tree stumps — won't tell me his real name.

By: PHILIP EIL | August 22, 2012

Tea, tin men, and Tomasi’s tome

Letters
Libertarians have been labeled many things, but compassionate isn't one of them.

By: STEPHEN BEALE | August 15, 2012

The local cagefighting scene takes off

Combat
"You cannot eye poke. You cannot gouge. You cannot strike to the groin. You cannot knee to the head of a downed opponent."

By: PHILIP EIL | August 08, 2012

In Breakfast with Curtis, art mirrors life

Film Dept.
On a sultry afternoon a visitor parks her old Volvo on a leafy street of lumbering Victorian houses.

By: CHRISTINA BEVILACQUA | August 01, 2012

Images of a highway departed

Picture Show.
There's a lot of talk these days about the 40-acre footprint in the center of Providence left by the old Route 195.

By: PHILIP EIL | August 01, 2012

Fiction for the digital age

Letters
Matthew Derby and Max Winter will have some explaining to do before their reading at the Dirt Palace August 9.

By: PHILIP EIL | August 01, 2012

Summer Sizzle comes to Foster

Steeds
"They come wearing "My Barn, My Rules" T-shirts and cowboy boots.

By: PHILIP EIL | July 25, 2012

Poetic disobedience at AS220

Art Dept.
"We, the artists & intellectuals, famous & unknown. We, mud people, snake people, tar people. We, bohemians walking on millennial thin ice; our bodies pierced, tattooed, martyred, scarred; our skin covered with hieroglyphs & flaming questions."

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | July 25, 2012

Let’s make campaign finance reform sexy

Going Big
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was out on the hustings this week promoting his DISCLOSE Act, which would require the sort of independent political groups playing an outsize role in the presidential election to report on who is bankrolling their operations.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | July 18, 2012

At Providence Provision, lentil soup and clever ideas

Edibles
"How many of you like plants?" Kate Venturini shouts. "Fruits and berries?"

By: PHILIP EIL | July 18, 2012

Brown’s Weinstein on what literature says about our morning, noon, and night

Growing Up
Earlier this week, National Public Radio's "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" spent an hour picking the brain of Brown University's Arnold Weinstein, professor of comparative literature and author of Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books .

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | July 11, 2012