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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

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

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

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

What's next for Occupy Providence?

After the park, a search for phase II
It was only a week ago that members of Occupy Providence huddled in a pedestrian tunnel on a rainy afternoon and voted 36 to 11 to leave Burnside Park, if and when the city opens a daytime shelter for the homeless.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | December 28, 2011

Rhode Island goes red

Progressives look back on a string of bitter defeats
For Rhode Island progressives, the new year arrived with an air of anticipation.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | December 21, 2011

Cicilline and Langevin go to war over the redistricting plan

Armageddon
There are rivalries within any state's Congressional delegation. The competition for influence and the back-and-forth over who gets credit for what can get snippy.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | February 02, 2012

The 100 Unsexiest Men of 2011

The Phoenix presents its annual survey of the year’s least appealing dudes
We finally pull back the curtain on the most loathsome, wretched, and unhumpable men of the year — from Ashton Kutcher to Anthony Weiner.

By: OUR FAR TOO SEXY PHOENIX STAFF | December 08, 2011

From Seattle to Oakland, Occupy efforts are fighting back at establishment brutality

Wild Wild West Coast
Whether true or not, it's always been my vague impression that West Coasters take as much pride in relaxation as East Coasters do in being assholes.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | November 23, 2011

Turkey time

Injustice, deception, and simple boneheadedness: the Phoenix presents its third annual dishonor role
It's time for the Phoenix 's third annual turkeys issue, wherein we call out Rhode Islanders for acts most fowl.

By: PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | November 22, 2011

The future of contraception

Men's birth-control role may increase; women will get more options
Whether your interest is personal — Get me off these hormones! — or policy-related — Global population is growing too fast! — the matters discussed at last month's Future of Contraception Initiative conference in Seattle matter to you.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 09, 2011

On the rebound

Months after his political career seemed doomed, Congressman David Cicilline has made a slow, steady comeback. Will it hold?
Nine months ago, first-term Congressman David Cicilline's Washington career seemed over before it had begun.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | November 02, 2011

Conservative donors eagerly fund Brown University's Political Theory Project

Ideological tug-of-war
Last month on a bright fall day, hundreds of Brown University students spurned sun and Frisbee for a debate on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care reform law.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | October 12, 2011

Dark side of the future

Utopia or the end of humankind? A URI forum explores “the Singularity”
When the University of Rhode Island kicked off its invigorating "Are You Ready For the Future?" speakers series a few weeks back, there was only one man for the job: inventor and provocateur Ray Kurzweil.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | September 28, 2011

URI’s ''Are You Ready For the Future?'' colloquium in brief

Robots and lab-grown bladders
The future is about more than the singularity, of course. It's about robots, lab-grown organs, and watching hopelessly as the Chinese pilfer our military secrets.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | September 28, 2011

Organized labor's big moment

How much clout do Rhode Island's unions wield, circa 2011? We're about to find out
The public discussion around organized labor's influence on Rhode Island politics is a crude business.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | September 15, 2011

A decade of turmoil

Rhode Island’s brightest minds on where we are now
9/11 has become such a given — such a fixed star in American culture and politics — that as the tenth anniversary approached, it was easy to imagine we had somehow come to terms with the attacks.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | September 07, 2011

The day before the morning after

Looking back on September 10, 2001
On September 10, 2001, Hurricane Erin was spiraling up the Eastern Seaboard.

By: CHRIS WRIGHT | September 12, 2011

Teaching 9/11

Textbook Tragedy
"What do you know about 9/11?"

By: THOMAS PAGE MCBEE | September 12, 2011

From top cop to capitol hill?

Former State Police superintendent Brendan Doherty could mount a serious challenge to Congressman David Cicilline. But first he has to tame his restive GOP
It is hard to imagine a better Republican candidate for Rhode Island's First Congressional District than Colonel Brendan Doherty, the retired superintendent of state police.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | August 17, 2011