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C.J. Chivers's real journalism

Plus, it's time for same-sex marriage, the PPL on the brink, and some unusual tomes
Phillipe and Jorge were absolutely stunned by the astounding and chilling story on the front page of the April 20 Urinal
By PHILLIPE and JORGE | April 22, 2009

Review: In The Loop

A Doctor Strangelove for the Iraq War
Six years ago, Armando Iannucci's slick and merciless satire might have drawn more blood, but even now it blows away the recent competition with its sharp, sardonic dialogue and uncompromising cynicism.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 15, 2009

AIC crosses cultural divide

Fun with Islam
Dina Abkairova is a Muslim whose high heels and long flowing hair reveal her secular preference.
By PETER PIATETSKY | March 19, 2009

Culture wars

The Army's controversial anthropology program
American anthropologist Paula Loyd was in Afghanistan, discussing living costs with a local man when suddenly he doused her with fuel from a jug he was carrying and set her on fire.
By PETER PIATETSKY | March 16, 2009

Soldiers committing suicide

US troops are killing themselves in record numbers
On July 22, 2004, unable to handle the intensity anymore — the daily vomiting, the feeling that he was a murderer — Lucey wrapped a garden hose around his neck and hanged himself.
By JASON NOTTE | March 17, 2009

We could be heroes . . .

Superlative sobriquet overused as blanket term for all military members
With all due respect to David Bowie's lyrics — and certainly to all the men and women in the military at all levels — the concept of "hero" as it pertains to the media's use of the term has sadly become overblown.
By PHILLIPPE AND JORGE | February 11, 2009

Review: Lark and Termite

Total immersion
"Language Immersion" is the name of a program set up by the US Army in Korea just prior to the North's invasion of the South.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 2009

White album

Duane Slick's minimalist meditations
The best of the work on view in "Duane Slick and Critical Distance," at Rhode Island College's Bannister Gallery (600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence, through January 8), is what you might call painters' paintings.
By GREG COOK | December 29, 2008

Here come the bugs

Politics and other mistakes
I'm not one of those people who assumes that just because somebody casually mentions they're thinking about running for governor of Maine in 2010, that they should be restrained, subjected to electro-shock therapy, and deported to someplace where they can't do any harm.
By AL DIAMON | November 19, 2008

In harm's way

The tragedy of Rakan Hassan and the impossibility of a Hippocratic Oath for journalists
Most of the job-related fears that keep journalists up at night are relatively mundane, but on rare occasions, a more ominous scenario presents itself.
By ADAM REILLY | August 06, 2008

Bigger! Better!!

The 12th Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival
This year the festival will host 58 world premieres and 41 North American premieres.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | July 30, 2008

Frill rides

Getting an Indy history lesson on DVD
Looking back on a time when action sequences unfolded without the currently fashionable veil of rapid editing and CGI.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 22, 2008

Local heroes 2008

Ramon Martinez, Bill Harley, Ren Whitaker, and Bob Fusaro
In this, the eleventh annual edition of the Providence Phoenix’s “Best” issue, we highlight people and organizations who are doing exceptionally good work.
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | April 17, 2008

Body of War

Poetic Americana
Tomas Young volunteered for the US Army right after 9/11, hoping to be sent to Afghanistan and chase down Osama bin Laden.
By GERALD PEARY | April 09, 2008

The outsiders

None of Maine’s indy candidates can win a seat in the US Senate, but they will have a say in who does
Just a few months ago, the story-line of Maine’s 2008 US Senate race seemed inevitable.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 05, 2008

Who killed Edward Okeny?

Portland police ignore a stone-cold mystery
When members of Portland’s Sudanese community gathered at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on November 16 to lay to rest 26-year-old Edward Okeny, the church was filled with more than just their collective grief.
By RICK WORMWOOD | December 05, 2007

The anti-Ozu

Shohei Imamura at the HFA
You can draw the time line of the Japanese new wave in scores of different ways.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | November 27, 2007

Dragon Wars: D-War

Monumental clunk
I’ll take weird, surprising crap over slick any day.
By CHRIS BRAIOTTA | September 19, 2007

Crossword: 'Ghost of a chance'

What's the common link?
What's the common link?
By MATT JONES | May 23, 2007

Candyland

The US Army wants you . . . to take on-screen violence seriously
“Hey! Do you like fake violence? Do you think you might like real violence even more? Good! Here’s a .50-caliber machine gun and some money for college.”
By BEN RICHARDSON | May 02, 2007

Return of the Bud-I

Cherry Arnold’s Buddy hits the big screens
We guarantee that you will be entertained.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 25, 2007

It came from the sink

Bong Joon-ho stirs up the muck in The Host
Drainage spawns a genetic mutation — part salamander, part fish, part . . . vagina dentata? — that emerges from the Han’s banks.
By BRETT MICHEL | March 09, 2007

Menace and wit

Of entertainment and evil
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, though certainly not in that order.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 31, 2007

Iraq + surge = ???

Activists call for heightened anti-war effort
Certain that the newly elected Democratic Congress will not end American involvement in the Iraq War, Rhode Island peace movement leaders are calling for additional demonstrations to bring US troops home.
By STEVEN STYCOS | January 24, 2007

The Host

A monster movie with a splash of muckraking
Running a rubber-gloved finger across gallons of dust-covered bottles of formaldehyde, a US military official orders a Korean morgue attendant at a US Army base in Seoul to “empty every bottle to the very last drop.
By BRETT MICHEL | January 17, 2007

Trouble in paradise

An emerging art group fights bureaucracy in the supposed renaissance city
While our capital city continues to promote itself as a prime booster and center for the arts, we continue to wonder about the strength of that commitment.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | November 21, 2006

Key moments in Memogate

By ADAM REILLY | November 09, 2006

Fall back

This season, Hollywood lives in the past
If you cannot remember the past, so Santayana said, you’re condemned to repeat it. Watch trailers for this fall's new releases.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 13, 2006

Criminalizing the war

A young soldier goes to military court and puts the Iraq war on trial
Lieutenant Ehren Watada seems to know his chances are slim.
By ELI SANDERS | August 30, 2006

Breeding injustice

In the face of recent setbacks in the courts, advocates of same-sex marriage should take a look at old-fashioned efforts to prevent the disabled from marrying
How “fit” is your family? Bloody July: In just one month, six different State Supreme Courts have ruled against gay marriage. By Michael J. Amico
By MICHAEL J. AMICO | August 10, 2006

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