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RISD’s hockey team turns the dick joke into high art — OK, low art

Go Nads!
The third period has just begun and the Nads, the Rhode Island School of Design's club hockey team, is losing 2-0 to a squad from Emerson College.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  February 15, 2012
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Reel-to-reel: A long-lost Malcolm X speech recovered

History Dept.
I was born just two years before Spike Lee's 1992 biopic about Malcolm X and starting in kindergarten, I have faced the question in an almost endless loop: are you named after him?
By: MALCOLM BURNLEY  |  February 08, 2012
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Taking on payday loans

Commerce Dept.
State Representative Frank Ferri, owner of a Johnston bowling alley, has seen how the short-term, high-interest loans available at neighborhood payday loan shops can leave customers on a debt treadmill.
By: JOHN LARRABEE  |  February 08, 2012

Bowing to Amalur; Karl vs. Clint; Mitt the nitwit; local color

State of the art
OK, P&J have found a solution to that nasty little dispute about whether or not to include "Providence Plantations" in Vo Dilun's formal name — State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  February 08, 2012
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At the Hardware Hackathon: the Kegerator goes digital

Engineering Dept.
One team turns a glowing tube of epoxy into a prototype for the next generation of lava lamps. Another rewires a Home Depot doorbell to send tweets, rather than ring. A third team wants to use Xbox to create a virtual dance floor.
By: STEPHEN BEALE  |  February 01, 2012
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Mega Up Yours

Your files could be forfeit in the government's attack on Megaupload. Can the Entertainment industry take down cyberlockers entirely?
This week, some 50 million users may begin to permanently lose whatever it is that they stored on Megaupload.
By: WAYNE MARSHALL  |  February 01, 2012
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The Providence Postcard Project: Love letters to a city

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The Big Blue Bug is here.
By: PHILIP EIL  |  February 01, 2012
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Farewell, Governor Garrahy; film follies; Soopah hype; culinary arts in the Bucket

Wotta guy
The flags are at half-mast at Casa Diablo on the passing of the wonderful former Vo Dilun governor, J. Joseph Garrahy.
By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  February 01, 2012
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What physics can teach us about Wall Street

Speakers
Lisa Randall is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  January 25, 2012
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At StyleWeek: Mops, Marie Claire, and the Mayor

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Techno music is thumping through L'Apogee, the bar at the top of the Providence Biltmore.
By: PHILIP EIL  |  January 25, 2012

A modest proposal; farewell, Johnny and Etta; leave Jessica alone!

Share the pain?
If, as suggested by Governor Linc, state agencies are facing the chop in all areas of government, may Phillipe and Jorge offer a solution to at least minimize the bleeding, and perhaps build a little "all for one, one for all" spirit as well?
By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  January 25, 2012
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The battle over internet piracy

Rhode Island's congresional delegation splits over the issue burning up the netroots
The Internet is angry. Perhaps you've heard.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  January 18, 2012
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A throwback to the bombshell

Pretty Pictures
"Is this really my life?" LuLu Locks asks. "I'm waking up this morning to go play Barbie dress-up with grown women?"
By: PHILIP EIL  |  January 18, 2012
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Smell and the evolution of disgust

The Senses
"Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will," Peter Süskind writes in his psychological thriller, Perfume (1985).
By: MAGGIE LANGE  |  January 18, 2012

Musings from the Boom Boom Room; Loughlin’s next move; Tebow fatigue

The cringe capades
To twist an old St. Patrick's Day joke a bit, "What's one-mile long with an IQ of 50? A Hollywood red carpet walk."
By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  January 18, 2012
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Medical marijuana 2.0

In a tough political environment, the movement weighs a tricky reinvention
The medical marijuana movement has always had to be nimble.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  January 11, 2012

High rolling at Quonset Point; faux news; Rhody’s reelin’ and rockin’

No free drinks
Boisterous GOP state Representative Joe Trillo has found a new cause to bloviate about: the "world-class casino" he is promoting, not very successfully, for Quonset Point.
By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  February 01, 2012
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Local heroes at the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame

Honor Roll
Rick Bellaire, one of the chief organizers of the new Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame, had an early feel for the state's gifts to the national culture.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  January 11, 2012
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Staring down Whitey Bulger

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Jon Land's latest thriller begins in a South Boston basement where a man named John McIntyre has been handcuffed to a chair, slammed in the head with a chair leg, and strangled with a length of sailing rope.
By: PHILIP EIL  |  January 11, 2012

Roger Williams gets his due

Founders
Roger Williams — the iconoclast who founded Rhode Island nearly 400 years ago with a radical call for religious tolerance — is held in high regard in these parts. But he is a little-known figure nationwide.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  January 04, 2012
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