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Review: Miss Bala

Gerardo Naranjo's superb new feature
Gerardo Naranjo's superb new feature, Miss Bala , brilliantly draws on the conflicted personality of a young beauty pageant contestant as a tragically stark emblem of Mexico's all-enveloping drug wars.
By PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN | January 24, 2012

Review: El Tapatio

Transported to the border
Although El Tapatio is a full-fledged Mexican restaurant, with distinct Tex-Mex and Cal-Mex accents, it has certainly adapted to one Rhode Island tradition: bountiful portions.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 03, 2012

Over-the-border inhumanity

Diverse-city
My heart sank when I heard that the Fuentes brothers, who own the Fajita Grill in Westbrook and the Cancun restaurants in Biddeford and Waterville, had been arrested, their restaurants raided by federal agents.
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | October 12, 2011

Magos Herrera's cool moves

The Mexican jazz singer comes to Scullers
We like to say that live performance adds another dimension to music.
By JON GARELICK | September 15, 2011

Review: Taco Trio

In search of Mexillence
The surest formula for greatness is to turn your weakness into a strength.
By BRIAN DUFF | August 31, 2011

Well, this is embarrassing

Idiot Box
From somewhere in Mexico ...
By MATT BORS | August 10, 2011

Painter and sculptor converse at CMCA

An unlikely pairing
Paintings by Elizabeth Cashin McMillen and sculptures by Duane Paluska currently share the main gallery at the Center for Maine Contemporary in Rockport.
By BRITTA KONAU | June 10, 2011

Review: Circo

Gran Circo Mexico
Out there on the dusty back roads of rural Mexico, that's where American documentarian Aaron Schock went to find a bona fide old-time circus, with a roaring lion and tigers and tightrope walkers under an actual big top.
By GERALD PEARY | April 19, 2011

Photos: Don Jose's 11th Anniversary Party

11th Anniversary Party | Don Jose Tequilas | April 6, 2011
Don Jose Tequilas celebrates their 11th Anniversary Party on April 6, 2011.
By CAROLYN BUBEL | April 12, 2011

Gabriel Kuri and Francis Alÿs look at the ordinary

Magical thinking
It feels a bit like the art-world version of some twins-separated-at-birth Disney comedy: one artist born in Mexico who lives in Belgium, and one born in Belgium who lives in Mexico.
By GREG COOK | February 22, 2011

Anti-diversity is bad for business

Letters to the Portland Editor, January 28, 2011
As he has done with environmental leaders, Governor Paul LePage needs a forum to hear from Maine immigrant and civil-rights leaders. This is made all the more urgent when one considers his "kiss my butt" sound-bite refusal to meet with the NAACP because they are a "special interest."
By PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | January 26, 2011

To curb global gluttony

Hoopleville
Consumption outweighs production. What should we do?
By DAVID KISH | January 19, 2011

Manuel at Fajita Grill, December 8

Music seen
It was a cold, blustery trip to Westbrook, and we were to be rewarded by hot Tex-Mex fare and margaritas. We arrived at Fajita Grill for a friend's birthday party and were immediately greeted by a six-foot Christmas tree and the warm sound of "Feliz Navidad" ringing through the restaurant — we had no idea there would be live music.
By AMANDA PLEAU | December 15, 2010

Review: Monsters

Gareth Edwards' low-budget allegory feels familiar
Aliens have crashed in Mexico, and the US government builds a wall to stop them, and the Mexican police are out to destroy them.
By GERALD PEARY | November 03, 2010

Bloodsuckers, magic realism, and caviar Twinkies

The UFOs, Catholic guilt, and voracious appetites behind my horror-ful life
THE UFOS, CATHOLIC GUILT, AND VORACIOUS APPETITES BEHIND MY HORROR-FUL LIFE
By GUILLERMO DEL TORO | October 21, 2010

Savor the local flavor

Hungry? You've come to the right place
In some college towns, you're lucky if you can find two or three good eateries. In Providence, you could get through med school and still not be done exploring — especially if you're willing to venture deep into the city and out across Rhode Island.
By MARION DAVIS | August 31, 2010

White trash heroes

Arab on Radar are back on the attack
It is official — iconic PVD noisemongers Arab on Radar are back on the grid and about to end their eight-year hiatus with a nationwide reunion tour beginning this weekend in Easthampton, Massachusetts, followed by a stop at AS220 on July 3.
By CHRIS CONTI | June 30, 2010

Art in the air conditioning

Local museums keep you cool — and the art's pretty good, too
From Picasso to William "Shrek" Steig's cartoons, and surfer photos to a Twilight Zone toy store, New England offers art worth traveling to this summer. Here we round up the best in the region, no matter the weather or your artistic inclinations.
By GREG COOK | June 16, 2010

Review: Red Dead Redemption

Grand Theft Oater?
The land doesn't care. Not about the storms that blow across its plains. Not about the animals that stalk one another through its grasses. And certainly not about the men who occasionally appear over the horizon and try to build a civilization on its sands.
By MITCH KRPATA | June 21, 2010

As the World Cup kicks off, Guinness and panic at Ri Ra

Goooooooool!
World Cup fever has not, exactly, gripped Providence.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 16, 2010

Stark reality

Your indispensable World Cup update
Steven Stark is known to Phoenix readers for his "Presidential Tote Board" odds-making feature, but it turns out that he and his son, Harrison, are also soccer aficionados, having become fans of London side Fulham FC during stays in the British capital.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 14, 2010

Mexican president flubs it at the Kennedy school

Yo No Tengo Huevos Dept.
Only a day before the Massachusetts Senate showed its true colors by approving a set of anti-immigrant amendments to the state budget — a recent change of heart that would probably not have happened had it not been for the so-called Arizona effect — the Harvard Kennedy School's Class of 2010 hosted Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa as its commencement speaker.
By MARCELA GARCIA | June 04, 2010

Power plays

The Maya and the Kennedys at the Peabody Essex
Some weeks back, I got to listen to Brown University archæology professor Stephen Houston pronounce the throaty, staccato sounds of Maya hieroglyphs carved across a six-foot-wide limestone panel.
By GREG COOK | May 21, 2010

An immigrant song

What we can learn from our neighbors to the south
Arizona has declared war on Mexico. SB1070, the incendiary new immigration bill signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer, has set off national boycotts, lawsuits, protests, and denouncements.
By DAVID KISH | May 17, 2010

Rollin ’n’ tumblin’

Off the Couch
Genre-jumping all week long
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 05, 2010

Notes from a Borderland

What we learn from immigrants
What we learn from immigrants
By DAVID KISH | May 05, 2010

Cheap thrills

The inky delights of Dr. Lakra
They say Dr. Lakra got his pen name from the doctor’s bag he carried around when he first began tattooing, two decades ago. “Lakra” puns on the Spanish word “lacra,” meaning scar or blemish, but it’s also slang for “delinquent” or “scumbag.”
By GREG COOK | April 21, 2010

Tattoo you

Dr. Lakra loves the ink
Dr. Lakra is no more a real doctor than is Dr. Dre or Dr. Demento. The 38-year-old Mexican tattoo artist’s real name is Jerónimo López Ramírez. As for “lakra,” it means “delinquent.” Or so I thought.
By JIM SULLIVAN | April 06, 2010

Sonoma Grille

A lot more than retsina
Sonoma Grille has a lot going for it.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | May 17, 2010

David Byrne and the Termite Towers

Cycling
Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline's second annual Senator Claiborne Pell Lecture on Arts and Humanities wasn't really about the arts. Or the humanities.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | March 10, 2010