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A spoon-bending mentalist takes on the Gaspee affair
History Dept.
Plaques and parades are nice, but the real story of the HMS Gaspee — the British customs schooner looted and burned off the coast of Rhode Island in the run-up to the Revolutionary War — is not rated "G."
By:
PHILIP EIL
| May 23, 2012
The whistleblower in the ‘American Taliban’ case returns to Brown
Truthtelling
John Walker Lindh, better known as the American Taliban, was in US custody in Afghanistan in December 2001. And counter-terrorism prosecutor John DePue had a question: could he be interrogated without a lawyer present?
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| May 23, 2012
A future less dour
Looking Ahead
Neal Stephenson's novels have been called everything from science fiction to postcyberpunk.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| May 23, 2012
OBEY THE GIANT debuts
Film Dept.
A black Lincoln Town Car drives through the darkened streets of Providence.
By:
PHILIP EIL
| May 16, 2012
Photos, sound, and teen pregnancy rendered human
Art Dept.
Thirty-five black-and-white photographs ring the exhibition space at TSETSE Gallery on Empire Street in downtown Providence. Here a man with a bushy goatee sitting on a motorcycle, there a woman covering her face with her hair.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| May 09, 2012
When the hipster label hurts
Religious Studies
Don't call it a "cool church," pastor Andrew Mook says.
By:
PHILIP EIL
| May 09, 2012
The launch of PVD Pudding Pops
Sweets.
Valeria Khislavsky woke up in the middle of the night last summer with an idea: she was going to sell pudding. It was a mysterious vision, she says. She didn't have any particular attachment to pudding as a child; she isn't obsessed with pudding pop pitchman Bill Cosby. But it was, in a way, perfectly logical.
By:
PHILIP EIL
| May 15, 2012
On politics, the media, and Providence’s ‘hidden gem’
Week In Review
It was quite the week in local news and here at Chez Phoenix .
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| May 02, 2012
Revolution: Silent film at the library
At the Movies
Last I checked in with Dave Dvorchak — Providence Community Library office manager, film geek, Renaissance Man — he had found a long-forgotten cache of 16-millimeter movies owned by a defunct consortium of Rhode Island libraries.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| April 25, 2012
As May Day approaches, a local labor movement at a crossroads
Protest Dept.
May Day, the international workers day, is just around the corner. But organized labor, here in Rhode Island, is not in a particularly celebratory mood.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| April 25, 2012
Get back in the groove
Vinylution
For the casual music fan, the record store might seem an anachronism in the age of the iPod. And in a way, it is. That's no small part of the charm.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| April 20, 2012
Concert tickets: how the public got scalped
Marketplace
As the founder of jambands.com, the author of The Phishing Manual: Compendium to the Music of Phish (1996), and an editor of Relix magazine, Dean Budnick knows how live music works.
By:
PHILIP EIL
| April 18, 2012
Robert Ballard on discovering – and preserving – the Titanic
Under the Sea
Robert Ballard, the charismatic professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, has had an illustrious career as a marine explorer. But he is best known for discovering the Titanic on September 1, 1985.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| April 11, 2012
Can Cicilline’s apology clear the decks?
Mea Culpa
This week, Providence mayor-turned-Congressman David Cicilline appeared on WPRI-TV to apologize.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| April 11, 2012
Coffee with Brown University’s Puzzlemaster
Games
In September of 2010, the New York Times published a week's worth of crossword puzzles created by Brown University students
By:
PHILIP EIL
| April 11, 2012
ULTRA takes in the Pauly D Project
Nightclubbing
It was just after 10:30 at the ULTRA nightclub in Providence last Thursday night and general manager Garry Williams was sitting in the office, watching one of the club's former bouncers, "Big Jerry" Gialanella, on television say, "You got the fog goin'. You got the music bumpin'. The lights are strobin'."
By:
PHILIP EIL
| April 04, 2012
At Kennedy Plaza, plans for rebirth
Public Works Dept.
Kennedy Plaza, in the heart of downtown Providence, has long been a problem. Seedy, unwelcoming, it is a troubling — if helpful — reminder of the poverty and addiction that still plague the renaissance city.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| April 04, 2012
Chafee, fighting the death penalty, takes a most conservative course
Irony Dept.
Governor Lincoln Chafee has won plaudits from liberals for refusing to hand over accused bank robber and killer Jason Pleau to federal authorities, because a conviction could lead to the death penalty.
By:
STEPHEN BEALE
| March 28, 2012
Lenny Clarke comes to Swansea
Giggles
Stand-up comic and actor Lenny Clarke has carved out a career as a Northeastern everyman — a wise-cracking, self-deprecating, heavily-accented jokester with an appealing obnoxious streak.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| March 28, 2012
Meditations on 'My Friend Dahmer'
Comics Dept.
It's possible that you already know how the cartoonist, Derf Backderf's, latest graphic novel ends.
By:
PHILIP EIL
| March 21, 2012
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Chafee's Responsibility
Not For Nothing
| May 29, 2012 at 5:59 PM
38 Studios, the ProJo, and the Future of Journalism
May 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Whitehouse: Justices' Lack of Political Experience Helps Explain Citizens United
May 23, 2012 at 5:28 PM
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May 23, 2012 at 4:25 PM
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