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Immortalizing Irene: dressed up to clean up, tales of survival, and blowhards

Paging Babe the Blue Ox
Phillipe had to endure Irene at Casa Diablo South in Newport. No problems at all, save for a titanic poplar limb, whose size had already led P&J to dub it "Johnny Wadd," falling all the way across the circular driveway and nearly taking down the power lines.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | August 31, 2011

Hello, sailor!

Phillipe celebrated the wonderful weather of a week ago by embarking on a cruise aboard the University of Rhode Island's research vessel, Endeavor.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | December 10, 2008

Crossword: ''Hag in there''

Sounds like you've got a cold
Sounds like you've got a cold
By MATT JONES | June 04, 2008

Gay old time

Ten moments when the mainstream assimilated gay culture and made it its own
Many people take for granted that the divide between gay culture and mainstream culture is as thin as the latex of an expensive condom.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | May 30, 2007

Going on sale: March 30, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Album Leaf, Cocorosie, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Village People, and more
By GOING ON SALE | March 27, 2007

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Presidential toteboard: why the odds favor Obama

Black vote + uncommon charisma = quantifiable advantage
When Barack Obama announced his presidential candidacy, there was some wild speculation that Obama might not receive a large share of the black vote.
By STEVEN STARK | March 14, 2007

Outlaw Island

Home to friends in enemies’ skin
Remove a man from the superstitions, fears, and silly strictures of society, a lot of old Enlightenment philosophers used to say, and his natural inclination will be toward laws that are rational and tolerant.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 18, 2006

Project adventure

Cyrano at Trinity Rep, Heading for Eureka at Centastage
It’s hard to say which is bigger, Cyrano de Bergerac’s nose or his thesaurus.
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 02, 2006

Gorillaz in the midst

Damon Albarn joins Beck in the pan-cultural playground
Remember the great electronica gold rush of ’97, the year Madonna’s Maverick label won a massive bidding war over long-ignored rave mystic Liam Howlett, a/k/a Prodigy, and we all grooved to the electropunk clash of “Smack My Bitch Up”?
By MATT ASHARE | May 17, 2006

April fooled

Channel 10 bites on the bogus ’BRU “sale”
Although your superior correspondents don’t know how many people were sucked in by WBRU’s April Fools’ Day joke, the biggest dupes had to be the newsies at NBC-10.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 07, 2006