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Phillipe And Jorge

Breaking down the cost of Brown; birth control mirth; business as usual

Hill hiking
Mayor Angel Taveras and Brown University are locked in a nasty fight over upping the school's payments to the city. And the university's governing board has announced it will hike tuition and fees by 3.5 percent next year.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | February 15, 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

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

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

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

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

The GOP’s pride is showing; Chafee’s new chief; blame Iran!

A degrading scenario
Professional white man Mittens Romney edged out Rick Santorum by only eight votes in Iowa this week, with America's most prominent homophobe falling just short after a busload of his supporters got lost in a corn maze they visited en route to their farmhouse caucus.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | January 04, 2012

2012 will be all shook up; The pope, aka His Clotheshorse; a few final farewells

Crystal balls at the State House
As the New Year blooms, Phillipe and Jorge gaze into our big crystal ball.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | December 29, 2011

The Asian Dubya

Let’s hear it for the boy; Gina hits Fountain Street; hometown rockers
Well, you can bet they're sleeping with one eye open in South Korea these days, now that the recently deceased porn fan and Oriental Fatty Arbuckle impersonator Kim Jong Il appears to have passed his role as Great Oppressor to the Great Successor, his son Kim Jong Un.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | December 21, 2011

Speak English!

(sic) ’em; nit-twits; taking sides; let’s call it ‘Tommy the tree’
P&J's Jingoistic Chuckle of the Week award goes to Tracy "My, She Looks Good on Horseback" Breton in her December 13 Urinal front page story on the recent overturning of Jamestowner David Swain's murder conviction in Tortola by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | December 14, 2011

Oh No, Tannenbaum

Ho-ho . . . No; adios, Ken McKay; talking baseball; remembering a guitar giant
P&J used to think that when it came time to cull the herd in America, those folks who waited two days outside Walmart or Best Buy to take advantage of discounted shopping on Thanksgiving night or early Black Friday morning should be at the top of the list.

By: | December 07, 2011

Come on down!

Notes from Palm Beach; the grapplin’ GOP; the king of cinematic bombast
Time for P&J's annual sojourn to Casa Diablo South in Palm Beach, where we hustle PGA Tour wannabes on the golf course for Pernod and Cuban cigar money.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 30, 2011

Journalism MIA

ProJo Medical report; the wild ones
Phillipe and Jorge are wishing a speedy recovery to our old friend, Bob Whitcomb, editor of the Urinal's editorial pages.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 21, 2011

Real pension reform? No thanks; Smokin’ Joe; a call for winter coats

Last-minute shopping
As Phillipe and Jorge go to press, we noted that more than 30 amendments were being proposed for the pension reform bill at the State House.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 16, 2011

Seven mini-musings; say it with plates; a tribute to Les

Lightning round
WHY GRAMMAR MATTERS This from the Urinal on the Justin Bieber paternity suit: "She said she gave birth to the boy because there were no other possible men she had sex with at the time."

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 09, 2011

Memo to Jack Reed: Cut the bull on Afghanistan; iPad iLliteracy; hazing Cain

Lipstick on a pig
Phillipe and Jorge love Senator Jack Reed, but there comes a time when you just have to say, "Don't try to bullshit two bullshitters."

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 02, 2011

In the Occupation Zone

A true grassroots effort; making moves at ’JAR; talkin’ baseball
"We, the people of Occupy Providence, would like to express our gratitude and appreciation for the continued respect shown to our just and legal gathering."

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | October 26, 2011

State to workers: just die, already; a variety of occupations

Pension pains
As Governor Lincoln Chafee, Treasurer Gina Raimondo, and state legislators who have been forced to get out of bed earlier than usual — poor dears — buckle up and take on the job of reforming the state's mutilated pension system, Phillipe and Jorge know our minds are on the same subject as that of the bulk of Vo Dilunduhs: Are Ashton and Demi splitting up?

By: | October 19, 2011

Occupy Everywhere

Altering the American way; fuming in North Providence; the sporting life
P&J must say that the Occupy Wall Street folks (whose enterprise is now spreading like wildfire) pretty much have "the big idea" covered: 1 percent have an incredibly large slice of the money and the other 99 percent of us suffer. Why is this?

By: | October 12, 2011

Paging Chicken Little

City motivated to panic; Making things better; close encounter of the weird kind
Behaving with all the coolheaded aplomb of Prissy — the young maid in Gone With the Wind — Providence school honchos and the city's emergency management agency managed to make a king-size balls-up of the arrival of the "Get Motivated" speakers seminar at the Dunkin' Donuts Center.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | October 05, 2011