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Slideshow: 'Dark Arts' at MassArt

Dark Arts Lecture Series at MassArt's Pozen Center , April 24, 2009
American Memory Project, Coyotel Press, and A Year At the Wheel at Mass Art's Pozen Center
By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | April 30, 2009

White album

Duane Slick's minimalist meditations
The best of the work on view in "Duane Slick and Critical Distance," at Rhode Island College's Bannister Gallery (600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence, through January 8), is what you might call painters' paintings.
By GREG COOK | December 29, 2008

Wagering, or wavering?

When will Deval Patrick play his casino cards?
With the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe quickly moving forward on its plans for a casino in Middleborough, how long can power players continue to hold their cards close to the vest?
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 15, 2007

Land of liberty?

Two volumes offer an important starter course on this history of Native Americans
Two volumes offer an important starter course on this history of Native Americans
By ELLEE DEAN | July 13, 2007

Casino gambling: Yes

The question should not be if , but how. Plus, Cape Wind now.
The debate about casino gambling in Massachusetts has arrived.
By EDITORIAL | May 30, 2007

Appetite vanishes for vetting “editorial mysteries” on casino switch

As the ProJo turns
Although someone on the Providence Journal ’s editorial board wanted to offer a published explanation of the newspaper’s dramatic and unacknowledged recent reversal in endorsing the Harrah’s Entertainment-Narragansett Indian casino, the ensuing editorial never made it into the print version of the ProJo .
By IAN DONNIS | November 08, 2006

A curious editorial switch on the Harrah’s casino

As the ProJo turns
Reporters at the Providence Journal were among those taken by surprise when the paper, in an abrupt and unacknowledged reversal of its long-held position, editorialized on Sunday, October 22, in favor of the proposed Harrah’s Entertainment-Narragansett Indian casino.
By IAN DONNIS | November 01, 2006

Censored artwork hits the road

Supporters take prisoner’s paintings for a walk
The controversial art of Thomas Manning, a man branded a cop killer by his detractors and a political prisoner by his supporters, returned to the USM campus that had sent it packing one week earlier when some seventy supporters gathered there last Friday to stage a rush-hour “moving art show” protest. Widow speaks out: wife of fallen trooper: marchers don't understand. By Jeff Inglis
By RICK WORMWOOD | September 20, 2006