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8 what should we do with the superman building? _by philip eil

Observation deck? Sure. A high-roller casino? Why not? A petting zoo for artists? It could work. We have some feasible — and fanciful — visions for the landmark.

12 homegrown product _by chris conti

Catching up with the rice cakes — Roz, Casey, and Justin continue their epic musical quest. Plus, “Off the Couch.”

14 art _by greg cook

Merry pranksters: the bruce high quality foundation at Brown.

16 theater _by bill rodriguez

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fWe recently heard about the book-ing of Worcester Bishop Robert Mc-

Manus for a DUI and hit-and-run on the night of May 4 in Narragansett, where the good Bish has a vacation home in Bonnet Shores. Hey, as P&J always say in horrible French accents, “Honi soit qui mal y pense,” which essentially means, “Give people an effing break on your initial assessment, fer Chrissakes, maybe it wasn’t so bad.”

Following the incident, Bishop McManus, who served as auxiliary bishop in Providence for five years before becoming head Catholic ramrod in Worcester in 2004, quickly issued what P&J believed was a heartfelt and contrite statement: “On Saturday evening, May 4, I made a terrible error in judgment by driving after having consumed alcohol with dinner. There is no excuse for the mistake I made, only a commitment to make amends and ac-cept the consequences of my action.”

But then on May 7 he pleaded not guilty in court. Huh?

Forgive us, Father, but the Bish’s com-ment about “accepting the consequences of my action” seemed to be about as close to a confession — both religious and/or le-gal — as we could imagine. If he is indeed true to his word, why not go for a guilty verdict, stop taking up the court’s time, and publicly fall on his sword?

But the Lord evidently works in mys-terious ways when it comes to one of his anointed getting popped. The prosecutor in the case doesn’t have to be Perry Mason to convince anyone that McManus com-mitted these infractions by using his own words against him. But, then again, in The Biggest Little you can never tell. We suspect our old pal former Rhode Island Speaker of the House Bill Murphy could get a few angels to serve as defense wit-nesses, saying they distracted McManus by whispering in his ear while he was driving or turned water into wine in his blood-stream. But even that is a long shot.

Should the Bish be found guilty, P&J suggest a fitting punishment: serving a bunch of hours of community service in his adopted state by regularly working the litter patrol at the infamous Bishop Jello-mold rest area on Route 195 in Seekonk. (If you don’t know what we’re talking about, you’re missing a legendary Vo Dilun story about what happens when the churchman meets the lawman. Hello, selah.)

Wild West Kingston?The recent controversy over arming the police at the University of Rhode Island has begged a number of questions at Casa Diablo.

In years gone by, it would be a foregone conclusion that P&J wouldn’t want secu-rity guards packing on campus. The fewer the guns, the less chance someone has of getting blown away during a campus patrolman’s overzealous response to kids who make Justin Bieber look mature.

But times have changed. From Virginia Tech to Sandy Hook Elementary School, the ante has been upped severely and P&J’s viewpoints have evolved accordingly. And the stink URI made about how long it took for South Kingstown and state troopers to respond to the recent (bogus) scare about a

shooter on campus is at the crux of it.Personally, P&J would rather have had

any amateur security force wait for the real deal to show up before wading into what could have been a deadly mess. And at URI, P&J have a particular interest in the outcome of the debate. Jorge is a for-mer URI student who received an Alumni Excellence Award for Public Service a few years back, and Phillipe has been working

on both the Kingston and Narragansett Bay campuses for 15-plus years.

In our hastily-assembled focus group of former state troopers and ex-military folks who have seen all sides of the issue in real life, a key point was repeatedly raised: campus personnel should never be given a gun unless they have had full Rhode Island police academy training — including a psy-chiatric profile. As is the case in the acad-

emy, if you don’t pass that brain-game litmus test, you are never, ever going to be using a gun on behalf of State U.

If URI could give that kind of assurance to its students, staff, faculty, and the general public, P&J doubt there would be much protest. But that guarantee better be ironclad and fully vetted or they are open-ing the door to disaster.

ladd school lessonsIndie films have been made for decades in The Biggest Little; they’re part of the great artistic landscape here. And among the more prominent local independent filmmakers to emerge from that earlier film/video scene is Jim Wolpaw, best known for his 1992 feature, Complex World. Jim was also nominated for an Academy Award in 1985 for his documentary Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date. It was, of course, a very good thing that Jim took up filmmaking since, prior to that, he was known as the worst bartender in the history of the earliest incarnation of Lupo’s.

His latest project is a feature-length documentary called Best Judgment: Ladd School Lessons, produced in association with Advo-cates in Action Rhode Island, a self-advoca-cy organization for individuals with devel-opmental disabilities. (Jorge had a chance to work with Jimmy Isom, along with Joe Potenza, John Juxo, and a few others, to provide some of the film’s music.)

“This film brings a unique perspective as it examines the history of the Joseph H. Ladd Center through the eyes of its former residents,” the film’s website explains. Jim’s co-director is Bob Macaux, a young man with Down syndrome, and most of the crew on the film are also former Ladd School residents.

As with many challenging and adven-turous projects, the film is still a “work in progress,” in need of further financial support. In 2010, the filmmakers received a grant from the Rhode Island Council on the Humanities. They are currently apply-ing for several other grants and looking for other funding opportunities.

But you have an opportunity take a look at what has been assembled so far at screenings and panel presentations on May 15 from 6:30-8 pm at the Harris Public Library in Woonsocket and May 23 at the Barrington Public Library, also at 6:30 pm.

The web site for Best Judgment is laddfilm.com and if you’re interested in sponsoring their work or have any questions or com-ments, the filmmakers ask that you send them an email. Or, if you or someone you know has a connection with the Ladd Cen-ter, they’d also love to hear from you.

the Road to high stReetHere’s a plug for Casa Diablo fave, story-teller and musician Andrew Potter. If you missed his show, “The Road to High Street: A Busker’s Digital Rock & Roll Sto-ry,” at the Roots Cultural Center, he’ll per-form it again on May 19 at 1:30 pm at San-dywoods Center for the Arts in Tiverton. Andrew is an old circus guy whom we first met about 30 years ago. He disappeared and then came back to the Biggest Little with a pretty darned good story to tell. ^

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Peering into a 40-acre crystal ball at URI’s “Urbanscape” fThe vacant spaces in downtown Provi-

dence — the Industrial Trust Building and Davol Square’s “Dynamo House,” among others — are like ink blots. Some see them as stages for the city’s next crooked, cash-dis-solving deal. Others see them as slingshots to launch Providence into a Renaissance 2.0. And then there are the literalists who see something like, say, the footprint of the for-mer route I-195 for exactly what it is: a string of irregularly-shaped grass patches littered with duck shit.

Just what will happen with those particu-lar 40 acres is the subject of a panel discussion in Providence on May 14 at the University of Rhode Island’s Paff Auditorium. The event — part of the URI’s “Urbanscape” series of lec-tures and forums — is titled “Where 195 Used To Be: A Community Exploration.” Hosted by veteran AS220 “Action Speaks!” moderator Marc Levitt, the discussion will feature pro-fessors, arts-organization leaders, developers, city planners, and two members (including the chairman) of Rhode Island’s governor-ap-pointed commission delegated to oversee the former highway land’s development.

I got a chance to speak with some of them this week about what exactly the city’s grassy, crescent-shaped ink blot signifies to them.

Note that the interviews have been edited and condensed and that the interviewees are responding individually to me, not each other. You’ll have to go the panel to see them all on stage at once.

BONNIE NICKERSON, DIRECTOR OF LONG RANGE PLANNING FOR THE CITY OF PROVIDENCEYou have, I think, three really important things that make this chunk of land very unique and appealing for development. One . . . there are only a few other examples of where you have acres and acres of developable land right in the heart of a city. [Second,] it is the heart of where our institutional growth is happening. If you look on a map of where this district is, it’s really between College Hill and the hospital district. So it’s a natural place to encourage the growth and . . . spinoffs from those institutions to land. And the other thing that’s unique about it is that it’s a wa-terfront area.

MIKE MCCORMICK, ASSISTANT VP OF PLANNING, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTION AT BROWN UNIVERSITYObviously Brown has been investing in the Jewelry District — especially [the area] liter-ally adjacent to the 195 land — for about 10 years now. We have over 1000 people in the Jewelry District right. We’ve invested some-thing like $200 million in that area.

Hopefully it develops into a really vital, mixed-use area that is complementing the work we’re doing . . . [and that] really starts to connect [the city] so that we don’t think of the Jewelry District and Downcity so sepa-rately. They’ve had this wall in between them for decades now and now that wall’s gone, right? So, now it’s just matter of knit-ting it back together.

When I say “mixed use,” I’m imagining the same kinds of mixes of use that you see up in Kendall Square [in Cambridge]. There’s research happening there, there’s lot of busi-nesses following along with it, there’s devel-

oping, there’s incubation, there’s developing private industry coming along. And then, of course, because that’s a lot of people, there’s a really vital retail area.

MARSHALL FELDMAN, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR URBAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH AT URIBe suspicious of “models.” For a city to copy another city as a model, is a bit like saying, “Let’s look at how many left-handed pitchers were on the team that won the World Series last year. Now if everybody has the same number of left-handed pitchers on their team this year, then all teams will win the World Series this year.”

There’s [also] an underlying assumption here that there are what we call “agglomera-tion economies”: by having certain kinds of

businesses located near each other the whole is more economically competitive than the sum of its parts. While this is certainly true for some kinds of businesses, it is not clear that it’s particularly true for the kinds of businesses that are being anticipated for the district. It’s also not clear if the small scale implicit in the 195 relocation has any agglomeration economies. I think the area known as “Silicon Valley” is actually bigger than the entire State of Rhode Island.

MICHAEL VAN LEESTEN, PRESIDENT OF THE VAN LEESTEN GROUP AND MEMBER OF 195 REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONWe want to create jobs that not only will be for people with white laboratory garb but, also, we want to create blue-collar jobs and

employment opportunities to help to provide opportunity to the residents in the city of Providence. In Providence, as you well know, the unemployment rate in certain of our neighborhoods is in excess of 25 and 30 per-cent. And yet we have some wonderful tal-ent within those neighborhoods that, to the extent that we blend training with the kind of blue-collar jobs that could emerge, I think that would really be an important part of the planning process.

COLIN KANE, PRINCIPAL OF PEREGRINE GROUP AND CHAIRMAN OF 195 REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONWe’re very much a proponent of mixed use. People have this sort of [attitude], you know, “It’s ‘meds and eds.’ ” Well, the truth is, it’s a linear mile of property. And we have par-cels that are so small that they probably sup-port two town homes. We have other parcels that are so large that they could support half a million square feet of laboratory space or office space or hotel space. So, it’s not a “one size fits all.” Just think about drawing a line through any city in America. If you drew a one-mile line through any city in America, you’re gonna have a whole bunch of differ-ent uses along that line. And that’s what we would anticipate here.

Right now we have a couple of years of road construction and park construction. We’re focusing on getting the infrastructure in place. You can’t build a building until we can plug you into a sewer.

“Where 195 Used To Be: A Community Exploration” will take place on Tuesday, May 14 at 7 pm at URI’s Feinstein Providence Campus (80 Washington St).

_Philip Eil

In a corner of the spray-painted mural on Westminster Street’s Route 6/10 overpass in Providence — you know, the one with eyeballs sprout-ing from radio towers, green creatures riding space shuttles through fuchsia galaxies, and winged surveillance cameras popping out of cuckoo clocks — there are two mysterious words: “AVENUE CONCEPT.”

What do they mean?The answer became clearer this Saturday at a small cinder-block

building about a mile from the overpass on Lockwood Street. The Av-enue Concept, as its founder Yarrow Thorne explains, is the organiza-tion that negotiated for years with Providence’s office of Art, Culture, and Tourism so that the eyeball mural (and the accompanying murals of B-Boys frozen in various mid-dancing poses across the street) could be installed. Though he didn’t paint the walls, himself, Thorne co-ordinated the project as he often does with property owners who are sick of their walls being tagged with graffiti. Once a mural goes up, the tagging tends to stop.

We’re standing inside Avenue Concept headquarters — a space known as “The Bin” — during their “soft opening” celebration. (They officially open later in May.) Thorne is placing price tags on pieces from the Bin’s debut gallery exhibition: a series of neon portraits of anthropomorphic fish painted on scrap wood by Pawtucket native Ray Alstrom. Outside, street artists wearing black rubber gloves are painting the side of the building in bright, jagged letters. We can hear the distinctive pffffft pfffffft of aerosol and rattle of balls in met-als cans. A nearby trailer is piled high with the wooden skate ramp pieces that will be hauled to downtown’s skating rink this summer for bi-weekly “Sandwich” skate sessions DJed by local kids who have learned to scratch at the Avenue Concept’s after-school DJ academy. A few minutes after my conversation with Thorne, a marching band with tubas, trumpets, and cymbals arrives. As they blast away, a

circle of young break dancers forms, kicking and shimmying on the building’s gravel yard.

“We’re really dealing with the subcultures of Providence,” Thorne says. “Most people think of graffiti artists, DJs, skateboarders, break dancers as kind of the trash of the city. They see them as vandals, [people] that are destroying property.” But whenever the Avenue Concept puts on a public event or paints a mural, he says, the reviews are exuberant. The key is providing the space, encouragement, and resources for these stigmatized activities to thrive, he says.

Thorne — a native of Northampton, MA — has no problem talking about the 15 years he took to complete an undergraduate Industrial Design degree at RISD. (He took 10 years off in the middle to start a car-outfitting business called Yarrowsport, for which he traveled through Europe customizing Audis and Porsches.) And now, thanks to a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation seed grant the Avenue Concept received last November, he’ll continue his quest to challenge Provi-dence to live up to its self-appointed title.

“If you’re really going to promote yourself as the ‘Creative Capital’ then let’s work together as a whole to . . . activate all these artists that are sitting in Providence that have no jobs and nothing to do,” he says.

“Why isn’t there more public art? Why aren’t there more legal walls [to paint]?”

He is currently in talks to coordinate murals on various walls around the city, he says. Whenever the red tape clears, he’ll be ready.

The Bin doubles as a spray-paint clearing house, with stacks of Montana Gold cans lining the room’s back wall. If you’re 18 or over, $7.55 will buy a can of Banana, Dolphins, Reef, Cappuccino, Iron Cur-tain, Powder Pink, Blue Velvet, Brain, Shock Yellow, or Mt. Fuji. Three cans buys you access to paint on one of the building’s walls.

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fThe building is ours. When we crest a hill on Route 146 or round a curve

on I-95, the Industrial Trust Building tells us we’re home. When we stamp the building’s silhouette on our web-sites, T-shirts, and corporate logos, we offer no descrip-tion; the silhouette speaks for itself. When we find no historical ties whatsoever between the building and the Superman TV show, we still defiantly call it the “Superman Building.” Why? The building is ours.

Except it isn’t. It’s owned by a company named High Rock Development from Newton, Massachusetts. And in late April, along with Providence-based developers Cornish Associates and a team of out-of-state consul-tants, the company released plans to develop the sky-scraper into apartments marketed to “young profession-als; older single professionals; older professional couples without children; empty nesters; Boston commuters; and students,” with restaurants and retail to be installed on the lower levels.

The reports are the latest chapter in a freewheeling debate in which even demolition has been floated as a possibility. And as we sifted through the paperwork — the 47-page “Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Proposed Conversion of 111 Westminster into Residential Use,” the 90-page “Market Study [for] Proposed Redevelopment of 111 Westminster Street,” the 10-page summary of those two reports — our minds began to drift to pure, unen-cumbered fantasies.

What if demographic data and market analyses were tossed aside? What if we simply imagined what this glo-rious 26-story, 85-year-old, 441,000-gross-square-foot ves-sel could contain?

This isn’t just daydreaming. As the state’s most potent architectural symbol, no building makes us feel worse when it goes dark and vacant. And no building could be more galvanizing if put to productive, forward-thinking use.

So we at the Phoenix have compiled a few ideas — pad-ded by conversations in the weeks before High Rock’s data dump — into a report for you, our fellow emotional shareholders in Rhode Island’s most iconic address. We call it our “non-feasibility study.”

With stakes this high, did you really think we’d keep our thoughts to ourselves?

A GRAND ENTRANCEFew people describe the Industrial Trust’s grand Art Deco lobby better than Mack Woodward, chief architectural historian at Rhode Island’s Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission.

“You have to approach it in the right way,” the author of the PPA/AIAri Guide to Providence Architecture says, as he tells us to envision following him into the building from the North (Kennedy Plaza) or South (Westminster Street) entrance, not the side entrance from the former Fleet Center next door.

“The sequence of space is so wonderful,” he says. You walk into a small vestibule, climb a set of stairs, open the door, “and then suddenly you’re in this huge soaring space . . . surrounded by these wonderful columns . . . It’s really one of the great spaces in Providence”

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TOWER OF POWER the industrial trust building is the most distinctive part of the city’s modest skyline.

Crenca, artistic director and co-founder of AS200. Crenca has “very, very, incredibly, extremely radical” ideas for the building, which include installing a high-roller casino and hotel on the upper floors and blanketing the building’s walls with graf-fiti as a massive public art project. But his plans start at the ground level.

“We’re not capitalizing on these incred-ibly skilled people making these amazing things [in Rhode Island],” he says. With galleries displaying ceramics, glassware, and the work of local artisans in one sec-tion of the space and live-action studios in another corner, this lobby could change that.

John Caserta has an even more demo-cratic vision: a Grand Central Terminal-style public transportation hub dotted with kiosks, coffee shops, and pop-up markets. Caserta — an assistant professor of graphic design at RISD — has experience converting historic spaces for new uses. He changed a former corporate office space on the second floor of 204 Westminster Street into a sleek, quiet, drop-in rentable work space he calls the “Design Office.”

“It’s the experience of the citizen . . . the experience of the visitor that you need to think about,” Caserta says of the Industrial Trust lobby, “and right now if you want to wait on a bus, you’re going into that dinky little, somewhat unsafe terminal, looking at a TV monitor telling you if your bus is 12 minutes late.”

Converting the lobby would not only add grandeur to daily rituals like buying a morn-ing coffee, Caserta says. It might provide the requisite traffic and energy to spark activity on the building’s upper floors.

ThE viEw fRom ThE ToPHave you ever been to the top of the Indus-trial Trust Building? We haven’t.

Providence is a town that hoards its aerial views. If you’re looking out a window hundreds of feet above over the city right now, you’re likely living in a penthouse of the Westin, wearing a silk suit in corporate office, or schmoozing a high-priced fundraiser in the Biltmore ballroom.

But what if we turned the top of the Industrial Trust Building into an Empire State Building-style observation deck? Guests would pay a modest admission fee for an elevator ride to the top, then walk around the building’s top floor — or perhaps a fenced-in area around its iconic lantern — where they plunk coins into binoculars to peer out over the domes of College Hill and the sparkling waters of Narragansett Bay.

Given the hoards of schoolchildren that would flock there for field trips, this would also be the logical place for the com-prehensive Providence history museum that doesn’t currently exist. Assemble a committee; knock on doors at the Rhode Island Historical Society, the city and state archives, the city’s universities; scrape together some of the leftovers for the planned Heritage Harbor Museum. And who says we can’t come up with the defini-tive, badass collection of Providence arti-facts? It could be home to Roger Williams’s original deed for the purchase of proto-Providence, a display of precision tools man-ufactured by Brown & Sharpe, one of Buddy Cianci’s toupees . . . the list is endless.

There would also be rotating exhibi-tions, of course — the first being a history of the Industrial Trust Building itself, complete with blueprints, a gallery of artwork inspired by the building, and a detailed debunking of why the building was never designed to dock dirigibles. (That cabin-like structure tacked on to the top of the building was likely a boozy club-house for the Industrial Trust’s president, Mack Woodward says.)

Of course, when visitors finish up at the museum, they’re going to be hun-gry. So why not set aside a couple of the building’s top floors for food and drink? One spot could be a high-end oyster and champagne joint where dudes go to pro-pose to their girlfriends; another, a café dedicated to Providence’s best Liberian, Laotian, Cambodian, Dominican, Italian, and Portuguese dishes; another, a low-key coffee shop with views to make you almost choke on your croissant.

UsE yoUR imAGiNATioNPossibilities get a bit wild when you’re talking about 300,000-some-odd square feet of empty office space in the middle of a city. Turkish baths. Indoor dog parks. A laser tag facility. We’ve heard them all. And owners of the Industrial Trust could hear them all, too, if they take a cue from New York City MoMa’s PS1 museum in Queens, which holds an annual “Young Architects Program” competition where hungry designers submit proposals for struc-tures to be built in the com-plex’s outdoor spaces. The winners’ visions of com-munity hammocks, “kalei-doscopic patterns of color created by sunlight filtering through an array of trans-lucent, tinted Mylar petals that resemble blossoming flowers of stained glass,” structures made from un-dulating PVC tubing, and walls made of spinning electric fans have all come to life on museum grounds in recent years. Summer 2013’s winner — “Party Wall” — is a porous creation made from wood, steel, and polyester pouches of wa-ter. With a little funding, the Industrial Trust could make one of its floors a similar revolving spatial laboratory.

Aside from that, we’re not opposed to a few lofts and apartments on certain floors of the building. But shouldn’t we figure out where people are going to work before we give them a place to live?

This is the kind of urban development

chicken-or-egg query that could be bat-ted around a classroom if any — or every — one of Providence’s colleges was given a floor in the Industrial Trust. The pros-pect of thousands of Brown, RIC, RISD, PC, Johnson & Wales, URI, and Roger Williams students bouncing off of each other — a veritable mosh pit of intellectual capital — might be just the kind of thing to lure deep-pocketed clients like Facebook or Google into the building’s other floors.

Brian McGuirk, a sales manager at the local financial services startup Andera, helps us picture the scene.

“Imagine if [the local startup accel-erator] Betaspring’s offices and alumni companies were in the same building as a RISD Industrial Design lab, a Brown nano-

tech research lab . . . and researchers from Brown Med School,” he writes, via email. “Imagine people from all those groups eat-ing in a cafeteria run by Johnson & Wales culinary students and professionals, eating food sourced from Farm Fresh RI.”

The founders of the PVD Lady Project would also eye an Industrial Trust suite for their currently non-existent headquarters. A chunk of office space down-town would give them a permanent space for their bimonthly summits where local CEOs tell their stories and young women entrepreneurs swap ideas, they say. With a bit more space, they could also offer low-rent open office spaces to help get some of those businesswomen rolling.

Oh, and could we arrange for a rooftop pool?

ThE ENGiNEIt isn’t just the observation deck we could borrow from the Empire State Building, it’s the building’s multi-million dollar sustainability retrofit program — one of its highest-profile projects since construc-tion of the building itself. We wouldn’t be stealing the idea. The folks at the ESB want to share their project so badly that they’ve

freely published online hundreds of pages of plans, presentations, and slideshows detailing how they overhauled windows, rearranged offices to increase natural light, installed insulation behind radiators to lock in heat, and other measures. “If the only place we succeed is the Empire State Build-ing, we’ve failed,” Dana Schneider, VP of the firm that managed the retrofit — NYC’s Jones Lang LaSalle — tells us.

An Industrial Trust sustainability ret-rofit wouldn’t please the planet, and it wouldn’t just create the PR boon of the decade (the Empire State’s retrofit has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on MSNBC and CNN). It also makes good business sense.

“If there’s [air conditioning] chillers in this building that are 30 years old and they’re breaking and there’s a $4 million budget to replace them,” Schneider says, “we could spend $4.4 million and replace them with a much more efficient system that saves $100,000 a year.” This particu-lar sustainable investment pays for itself in four years, she says.

But why stop at a retrofit? One of the more radical folks we spoke to — Greg Gerritt, founder of ProsperityforRI.com and a self-described “full-time troublemaker” — describes a full-on green overhaul.

First, we sheath the building in light-weight photovoltaic solar panels, then we use the power to run a fully integrated ver-tical farm inside the building, he says.

“Cities are going to have to grow much more of their own food,” he says. So why not harvest lettuce, spinach, and toma-toes right in the heart of Downcity? While we’re at it, let’s toss in a few mega-tanks to hold an urban tilapia farm.

If there’s any room left over, Gerritt says, feel free to fling the building’s doors open to squatters

This, he says, would be the most hon-est and self-effacing use available.

“Let’s admit that we are a post-indus-trial society of great inequality and make it easier for people to live downtown who don’t have a lot of resources,” he says. “I’ve been in places like Chicago where people are squatting in abandoned factories. Why not abandoned office buildings?”

The building could be theirs, too. ^ Got ideas? Share them with me at peil@phx.com. And find me on Twitter @phileil.

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Bottles and cans and Just clap your hands

thing — a force for good and for positive change in our country. I pledge to support this glorious group with my time, effort, and genuine good will.” I’ll drink to that! (You can download the manifesto — and sign it, “in beer” — at craftbeer.com.)

There will be a slew of events statewide. Some highlights: you should follow Sean Larkin all week. The Revival brewmaster will host meet-and-greets at Doherty’s (5.14), What Cheer (5.15), Brown’s CGB and

the Avery on the 16th, and Malt in Newport (5.17), and he’ll be bringing Revival’s new Zep-pelin, an unfiltered Hefeweizen ale (a wheat beer), with him. There are also tap takeovers (the Goose Island event at Norey’s on 5.15 will be epic), pint nights, and beer dinners (flip a coin on 5.16, with Goose Island at 84 High Street in Westerly and Weyerbacher at Christie’s in New-port). And wher-ever you celebrate on the 16th at 8 pm, raise a glass for the

Coast To Coast Toast (which has its own poem, also at craftbeer.com). For a list of local ACBWness events we’ve been able to scare up, head to providence.thephoenix.com.

Mix it upA few more suggestions for ACBW: enjoy a wide range of styles. If you’ve never mixed a six before, do it now. Start light and work your way up the beer ladder as the week goes on. Grab some cans: meander from Narragansett’s Summer Ale (in tallboys and 12-ounce 12-packs this year) to Grey Sail’s Hazy Day Belgian Wit to Sixpoint’s sparkling Apollo. Dip into Founders’ All Day IPA, a 4.7% self-proclaimed “session ale” which packs a ton of flavor. Try a Mountain Ale (“a rugged brown ale”) from the Shed. Make the considerable leap to Sierra Nevada’s Hoptimum and Founders’ Double Trouble, venerated seasonal imperial IPAs which just hit the shelves. And then dig deeper into the thousands of artistic, innovative creations. Happy exploring!

Beer By the BayA quick save-the-date — Saturday, June 15 from 12-4 pm — for the first East Bay Beer Festival, presented by Brickyard Wine & Spirits of Barrington and the East Bay Home Brew Club. It’s all local: Foolproof, Revival, ’Gansett, Grey Sail, Ravenous, the Bucket, and Newport Storm, on the waterfront near the Blount Clam Shack in Warren. Get tickets at eventbrite.com/event/6560098431/efbnen. ^

fWow, the time, it flies! American Craft Beer Week (ACBW) is rolling

around again, from May 13-19. It’s the eighth annual self-toasting by the Brewers Association, the alliance of small and independent (debatable/relative terms, but that’s a discussion for another day) beer makers, marketers, distributors, and peripheral biz peeps. This year’s motto is “Big Week, Small Breweries.” Julia Herz, the Brewers Association’s program direc-tor, says that the event “is about uniting for a com-mon cause: support and celebration of our nation’s small and independent brewers and the millions of beer lovers who have helped evolve an industry and put the US on the brew-ing map.”

The growth of better beer got ever-more-bubbly in 2012: there are now more than 2400 crafters (up 400 from ’12, an almost-even split of brewpubs and breweries), which accounted for a 15 percent rise in volume and a 17 percent boost in dollar growth. But the requisite perspec-tive: 93.5 out of 100 beers consumed in the US is a mass-market offering.

Locally, there has been much to cel-ebrate since last year’s ACBW: the arrival of new brewers Foolproof, the Bucket, and Ravenous, and the steady growth of last year’s new kids, Revival and Grey Sail; new beer-centric bars (the What Cheer Tav-ern) and the welcome proliferation of craft offerings statewide; the Rhode Island Brew Fest had a successful debut at the Pawtuck-et Armory in February, and the Newport Craft Beer Festival expanded to two sold-out sessions last month; and exemplary beers from Uinta, Maine Beer Company, Mission, Element, and Weyerbacher en-tered (or reentered) our market.

Last year the ACBW folks posted a “Dec-laration of Beer Independence.” This year’s fervent call to arms (or elbow bending) is deemed a manifesto. Here are some choice passages: “American craft beer is an artistic creation made by passionate innovators. I declare myself to be a devoted acolyte, enthu-siast and fanatic, and that setting high stan-dards for quality and character in the beers I drink is not snobbery, but good taste . . . We have thrown off the chains of low expecta-tions, and now taste sweet freedom in every glass of American craft beer . . . Craft brewers represent the purest form of the American spirit and are dedicated to nurturing and enriching their communities. I declare this community of American craft brewers and beer enthusiasts to be a rare and beautiful

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thursDAY 9

get recklessThe alt-rock throwbacks silversun PickuPs are keep-ing the mid-’90s flame, if not eternal, then at least at a reliable glow. And they have more than a few songs that inspire reckless abandon (“Well Thought Out Twinkles,” “Panic Switch,” “Bloody Mary [Nerve Endings],” “Lazy Eye”). Surge along at Lupo’s, 79 Washington St, Providence. Bad Books open at 7 pm | $27.50 advance, $30 day of show, $35 reserved | 401.331.5876 | lupos.com

friDAY 10

tAttoo YouThe declaration on the web page for the rhoDe islAnD tAttoo exPo is plain and simple: “Get Some Ink.” If you’re still ink-free, the mega-event will offer plenty of inspiration, with its array of high-profile celeb artists (including the crew from Spike TV’s Tattoo Nightmares), displays, vendors, and all of that jaw-dropping body art strutting around the hall. Other diversions: tricked-out cars and big bikes and bands and DJs and the Ms. Rhode Island Tattoo Pageant and tattoo cinema and tattoo contests and music (Death Before Dishonor, B. Dolan, Reason To Fight) and the al-luring Bettysioux Taylor and Providence Roller Derbyers and and and MORE. And of course you can get inked and/or pierced. The expo is open today from 5 to 11 pm, on Saturday from noon to 11 pm, and on Sunday from noon to 6 pm | $17.50 advance/$25 per day, $36 advance/$50 week-end pass | rhodeislandtattoo expo.com

sAturDAY 11

WorD uPThe ArchiPelAgo PoetrY Project proclaims itself “a radical arts troupe which believes in the practice of con-temporary performance po-etry as one of the most power-ful and necessary incarnates of the Oral Tradition.” Master word-slingers, tale-tellers, and rabble-rousers Jared Paul (two-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist), Franny Choi (finalist at the National Poetry Slam and the World

Poetry Slam in 2011), and Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie (the 2010 Providence Poetry Slam champ) will rev it up at Lily Pads, 27 North Rd, Peace Dale, at 7:30 pm | $10 | musicatlilypads.org

locAl colorEven if you’ve lived in these parts all of your life, chances are there’s at least a cor-ner or three of the Biggest Little and neighboring environs that you haven’t explored. The southern neW englAnD DiscoverY tours can help you with said exploration, offering 14 very diverse themed events. Some are active: “Kayaks On the Blackstone,” “Behind the Scenes Leisurely Bicycle Tour: Villages to Wetlands Wilderness.” Some are edu-cational: “Voices Echoing Throughout the Blackstone Valley,” “A Revolutionary History Hunt.” And one is just plain freakin’ sweet: “The Family Guy” (back by popular demand), with visits to more than a dozen sites that have been featured on the Fox series. Check-in is at the Twin River Casino park-ing lot at 8 am; prices range from $38 to $49 (most include lunch). Complete details and reservations at 401.724.2200 and toursne.com

sunDAY 12

big beAch bAshThe MisquAMicut sPring fest wraps up today, but it’s been in full swing since

Friday. It’s the first big bash of the season, with all the prerequisite fun: rides, fire-works (on the 10th at 9 pm), an animal farm, a Blues, BBQ, and Beer Tent, a reptile show, fire juggling, stunt bike shows, and lots of music (including John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band on the 10th at 9 pm; on the 11th, Coco Montoya at 7 and Marty Balin at 9:15). Head to Misquamicut State Beach on Friday from 5-11 pm, on Saturday from 11 am-11 pm, and today from 11 am-5 pm | $7, free under 4, free parking | misquamicutfestival.org

MonDAY 13

over the toPthe DArkness do everything to excess: the flamboyance, the riffs, the album covers, and, most vitally, the hooks. (Singer/guitarist Justin Hawkins also did drugs to excess, which led to a rehab-mandated hiatus, which is why they’ve released an any-thing-but-excessive three al-bums in 10 years.) We have a Pavlovian response every time “I Believe In a Thing Called Love” hits the shuffle: manic air-guitaring, ear-straining attempts to match Hawkins’s stratospheric falsetto. There are other gems in their rep-ertoire (“Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us,” “Love Is Only a Feeling”), but that decade-old hit will get the fists pumping and every cellphone’s record button pushed at Lupo’s, 79 Washington St, Providence.

Free Energy open at 9 pm | $25 advance, $28 day of show | 401.331.5876 | lupos.com

tuesDAY 14

Picture thisThe mission statement of risD’s filM/AniMAtion/viDeo DePArtMent (aka FAV) is pretty straightforward: “to explore the time-based art of the moving image by making live action or animated films — or a hybrid of the two.” In May, the students share their visions with you. The FAV Fest will premiere works by 49 seniors at the RISD Auditorium, 1 Market Sq, Providence, today through the 18th at 7 pm and on the 19th at 2 pm. Screenings are $5, $3 with a student ID (the celebration gets started on the 13th at 7 pm with an exhibit of interdisciplinary works at 77 Eddy St, third floor; admission is free) | 401.454.6233 | risd.edu/FAV

WeDnesDAY 15

excitAble songs“voices unDer cover,” a new series showcasing great songwriters, debuts tonight with the works of Warren Zevon. Marc Douglas Berardo, Heather Rose, Kala Farnham, Louis Leeman, and John Fuzek will perform in the round. Who gets to do “Accidentally Like a Martyr”? Park your ride at the Met, 1005 Main St, Pawtucket, at 9 pm | $8 | 401.729.1005 | themetri.com

thursDAY 16

siDe bY eAchHere’s a clever way to sell more tickets: Trinity Rep, 201 Washington St, Providence, is staging Alan Ayckbourn’s House & Garden: “a pair of interlock-ing comedies that take place simultaneously, with one cast performing both shows in two different theaters at the same time.” But audiences stay in one theater at a time, so you need to attend both shows to get the Big Picture; there are 20 characters in the midst of planning an annual neighbor-hood garden party. House pre-views start tonight; Garden gets going on the 26th; the syn-chronicity launches on June 4. Hit the website to sort out the complications and see details on package discounts | $28-$68 | 401.351.242 | trinityrep.com

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CatChing up with the RiCe Cakes

fThere’s no denying the work ethic of local trio the Rice Cakes, as Roz Raskin, drummer

Casey Belisle, and bassist Justin Foster enjoy a breakout stretch while building a fan base via DIY tours from here to Austin. The 2012 WBRU Rock Hunt champs received about 1 trillion spins for the highly addictive “Magma” (with that follow-the-bouncing-ball hook of “Da-da, da-da, da-dum, da-dum . . .”) from the 2011 EP Monster Man. The trio return with two new songs on a seven-inch plat-ter, “Floor Boards” b/w “Halloweenie” (on vinyl, disc, or download at thericecakes.bigcartel.com). They have a busy spring and summer lined up (in-cluding studio time for a new full-length album); you can catch ’em in action next Saturday (free of charge!) at the Hope Street Spring Block Party.

It’s hard not to root for my black-and-blue-haired buddy Raskin and the guys just as much as it is difficult to pin down their sound, which incorporates uber-catchy hooks with extended jams (particularly onstage) constructed around jazzy rhythms and Raskin’s stellar vocals; they cite Radiohead (look up their cover of “There There”) and the Mars Volta as major influences. The Rice Cakes sound better than ever on “Floor Boards.” And while they’ve been known to play musical chairs onstage, Belisle holds his own while ac-companying Raskin on vocals on both of the new tracks. Though the music is often energetic and playful, Raskin’s songwriting is laced with darker themes and imagery, dat-ing back to “We Search for Violent Hills,” “The Beating,” and “Like Ass” from the 2009 full-length debut The Friend Ship (which helped land Best Local Act honors in our 2010 Best Music Poll). Raskin said the band may be working with the Low Anthem’s Jeff Prystowsky, Ben Knox-Miller, and the Columbus Recording Company crew later this year (TLA in-vited them to play the “Newport Homegrown” stage at the 2013 Newport Folk Festival); I can’t wait to hear the results.

I caught up with Raskin and Belisle earlier this week via email.

How was tHe Rock Hunt expeRience oveRall? and did it Help gaRneR exposuRe outside tHe Region as well? CASEY: It definitely helped with exposure in all sorts of places. On a personal note, having a song played for a full year on a station we grew up listening to is still a feeling that’s hard to describe. One of my older co-workers who didn’t know what band I played in came up to me and sang, “Da dum da da da dum,” then said, ‘I love that song, have you heard it yet on ’BRU?’ and I was like, ‘Whaaaaaaat? ’ ”

tHe Rice cakes diY touR moRe tHan pRobablY anY otHeR band in town, tHougH i imagine it gets easieR wHen You continuallY develop RelationsHips in vaRious towns.

ROZ: Building relationships in other towns is the only way we have thrived on the road. We have stumbled upon some of the most properly functioning DIY houses that care about touring bands and guarantee a payment so that we can get gas and food for the next day. It’s not only DIY spaces but also the promoters in the cities and towns we play in that make a profit happen. We have gone back to places seven or eight times now because people genuinely give a shit about helping us.

How did tHe dual-vocal concept on “FlooR boaRds” come about? ROZ: We wanted to try a back and forth between both of us playing on melody and echoing lyrical content. The melody and bass line are a bit on the haunting side and the lyrics are pretty eerie as well (“A taste for blood, I think I’ll settle for bile”). But with all the rhythm and mel-ody underneath that, it’s hard to really pick the darkness out of it, or at least I hope so. I like to think that the words are a bit hidden by the overall catchiness of the tune.

How FaR in advance aRe tHings planned out FoR tHe Rice cakes? ROZ: We map things out far in advance, but then experiences and chances come upon us like winning the Rock Hunt or being asked to play the Newport Folk Festival. I mean, holy shit, how do you plan for those things? We are extremely fortunate to have these opportunities; they al-low us to flourish and aid us in our epic musical quest. ^

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fFor those of us who slept on the sold-out Breeders/parquet courts show in Boston, fear not because there are two stellar

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Granoff Center on a recent sunny morning were one of those 15-foot-tall inflatable rats that unions in-stall in front of businesses they’re protesting and a limousine sloppily painted to resemble a yellow and black school bus.

They were the work of an anony-mous gang of Brooklyn art prank-sters, formed in 2001, who go by the name Bruce High Quality Founda-tion. Their motto: “Professional problems. Amateur solutions.”

The Bruces, as they’re known, occupy the curious position of both art critics and art world darlings. The rat and the limo are part of their wiseass but sharp critique of the art world and economics — which has been wholly embraced by the art world.

“Freedom,” their amusing ex-hibit in the Cohen Gallery at the Granoff (154 Angell St, Providence, through June 3), arrives in advance of a retrospective titled “Ode to Joy, 2001-2013” that is scheduled to open at the Brooklyn Museum in June.

Varying from two to eight or so guys, the Bruces met while study-ing art at New York’s Cooper Union (which then had free tuition; it’s going to begin charging in fall 2014). In 2005, when a tugboat towed a barge of parkland around Man-hattan to posthumously realize a Robert Smithson land art proposal, they chased behind it in a boat carrying a model of one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gates, which filled Central Park that year.

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drawing, surveillance, art criticism, collaboration, and finding inspira-tion in math and science.

Inside Brown’s gallery, the Bruces offer witty, purposefully sophomoric pranks. A life-sized statue of Humphrey Bogart listens via headphones to the audio book of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. A backyard sculpture of the Virgin Mary and child stands with ciga-rettes stuffed in their mouths. Andy Warhol-style screenprints recreate Picasso’s iconic 1907 cubist painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon with photos of nude dudes.

The school bus-limo comes from their Teach 4 Amerika cross-country road trip, which began in 2011. It’s in the ’60s Yippie tradition of lampoon-ing the world, while also seriously mulling how to fix it. “The $200,000 debt model of art education is simply untenable,” they’ve said.

At Brown, that reads like an at-tack on the expense and privilege of the Ivy League school. But head-phones along the exterior play re-corded quotes on economics and art by John Cage, Martin Luther, and Adam Smith, as well as factoids like Leonard Bernstein supposedly lost

three pounds while conducting Mahler and Beethoven symphonies. Perhaps it’s just an absurd cartoon.

The face of the inflatable rat is face painted like a clown. It’s funny but also kind of sad. The Bruces seem to be acknowledging — embracing? — how easily their eco-nomic critique is laughed off by the powers that be.

fC.W. Roelle is one of those artists who hit on one great thing and just keep slowly and steadily plug-

ging away. In this Foster artist’s case, it was bending miles of wire into precise 3D line drawings that float in the air. In his new show at AS220’s Project Space (93 Mathewson St, Providence, through May 25), there’s an old-timey feel to his realist rendering style and his sub-jects — a sailing ship, disheveled living rooms, a Victo-rian woman standing on a porch watering a plant, even a guy mowing the lawn. Roelle’s pieces continue to be mar-vels, the bigger and more elaborate the better. It’s not just the illusionism of his drawing, but the way the depth of his dioramas allows things to shift in space as you move around them, like holograms.

In AS220’s Main Gallery (115 Empire St), Hannah Antal-ek shows splashy pink paintings about girlhood, from her own six-year-old princess birthday party to Girl Scouting to her high school cheerleader sister. Antalek’s exuberant style recalls Kerry James Marshall in her mix of social real-ism with drips, layering, and other brushwork pyrotech-nics. Some choices feel strange — like leaving parts of fac-es unpainted for a masklike effect — but mostly Antalek’s moves are right on.

Also in the Main Gallery, Maria DiFranco offers pencil drawings on wood panels of a donkey running from a tornado and toward a windmill; a bull and lamb between high-tension wires and oil derricks; and a steer and wild dog between houses and a zeppelin. DiFranco’s symbol-ism is muddy, but her vividly dark realist draftsmanship radiates an ominous mood. ^

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Overly is remarkable in how she keeps us fascinated. After all, we are seeing a mean old woman we could label and dismiss as a hissing dragon hunched over her treasure of enmity, not worth paying further attention to. She does so by making us watch for ev-ery tiny cruelty bubbling up from her black heart, revealing themselves in her squinting eyes and smiles of dark revelation.

It’s not as though Maureen is a brow-beaten servant. “You’re old, you’re stupid, and you don’t know what you’re talking about” is her typical observation. So we wonder why she lets herself be ordered around. Some token vestige of maternal fealty? Catholic penance? Guilt? Kane fine-tunes Maureen’s responses, so we see which are reflexive and which intended.

The only visitor they usually get is Ray Dooley, played by Joe Short as boyishly an-tic, ping-ponging about the room and not able to sit without wiggling his feet. He comes there only when there is some mes-sage to give them. After 10 years, he is still angry with Maureen for having confiscat-ed a tetherball that he and some other boys accidentally batted onto her property. (In this understated way, we are informed of the dire poverty of the village — they could never afford to replace it.)

His brother Pato Dooley (Steve Kidd) provides the possibility of a changed life for Maureen. He calls her the Beauty Queen of Leenane, flirting with her when he brings her back after a rare get-together she attended. Maureen, who has only been kissed twice in the last 20 years, under-standably hopes for romance. Kidd plays Pato as kindly and thoroughly sincere, so we’re not afraid she’ll be taken advantage of. No, the danger is in her inflating her hopes out of reasonable proportion.

So you see how many sources of tension overlay the story. Will love rescue Maureen from a life of resentful obedience? Will the festering mass of bitterness within Mag grow or subside? Will Maureen stir her own cauldron of toil and trouble to the boiling point? There is a twist or two in store for the conclusion, and they are as plausible as they are surprising. ^

fSome people are brittle and dry as tinder, but they don’t have the sense

to not play with matches. The two women at the dangerous center of Martin Mc-Donagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane could blaze up at any moment, and we know that one or both will by the end. Each is filled with so much pent-up hatred that spontaneous combustion seems a distinct possibility.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre is staging it through June 2, directed with smart pacing and finesse by Judith Swift.

This is the first play of McDonough’s two trilogies set in County Galway where, judging by these stories, the predominant pastimes are violence and dark humor. So the two women in Beauty Queen can be thought of as psychological templates for the playwright’s ensuing examinations.

Mag Folan (Wendy Overly) is a sour old woman, a queen in her own right, judging from the way she orders around her daugh-ter from her rocking chair throne. Maureen Folan (Jeanine Kane) is 40 years old and poised for a spinsterhood equally grim.

Despite the dark cloud hanging over ev-eryone, there is plenty of leavening humor. Incidental stuff, on the order of every recur-ring reference to a Father Welsh starting out with his being called Father Walsh.

The one-room set is dense with char-acterizing detail. Above the fireplace is a nearly empty bottle of whiskey; no family photos, but one of JFK. There’s an embroi-dery oval with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and a white enamel sink into which Mag pours her night’s pee, despite her daugh-ter’s persistent objections.

That last detail demonstrates their twist-ed dynamic: resentful tolerance punctuated by petty intentional annoyances. Maureen can leave the lumps in or not when she stirs her mother’s porridge; Mag can time her incessant requests for maximum inconve-nience. The first 10 minutes or so of the play have Maureen not able to sit down to her True Detective magazine for more than sec-onds at a time before her mother asks her to turn on the radio, or turn it down, or make her some tea, or whatever.

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she hears termites. But mostly Serafina’s concern is with what’s going on inside her tormented self. “My heart doesn’t say tick-tick, it says love-love,” she declares.

Despite her self-imposed exile from flesh-and-blood romance, Serafina’s at-titude does a 180 when a handsome young truck driver, Alvaro (Ara Boghigian), shows up on her porch with, as she puts it, the head of a clown on the body of her hus-band. He is smitten. Eventually, to prove his fidelity, he gets a rose tattooed on his chest, like the one she swears blossomed on her left breast, then faded, the night her daughter was conceived.

There’s a very funny seduction scene, the most entertaining back-and-forth of the play, as Mancini and Alvaro work deftly to get Serafina what she wants but won’t admit to. “Is that a piece of poetry that you dropped out of your pocket?” she asks, referring to a condom. (That was a risky inclusion by Williams, what with prudish audiences and authori-ties back in 1951. The naughty bit of stage business got the play shut down in Ireland.)

Fidelity is a big issue here, since every-one in the neighborhood except Serafina knew for years that her late husband was carrying on with a bar waitress named Es-telle (Laura Sorensen). Even when Serafina is told about his “putting goat horns on me,” she refuses to believe.

Williams received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1951, when such a bawdy sub-ject and presentation was the exception, even on Broadway. It’s not often per-formed today, since it no longer packs such a scandalous punch and is overshad-owed by the playwright’s grander works, such as The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire.

But 2nd Story Theatre, by expertly min-ing heart and humor, shows that The Rose Tattoo will be relevant for as long as audi-ences are capable of falling in love and making fools of themselves. ^

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Louisiana Gulf Coast, Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo is steamy in more than one way, as human passions boil off repressed emotions.

Directed by Ed Shea, 2nd Story Theatre gives us an energetic staging (through May 26) powered by highly charged relation-ships but also quite humorous ones, as human folly often provides.

Hot-blooded Serafina Delle Rose (Rae Mancini) brags about hav-ing made love with her husband every night of their marriage. In the second scene, he dies driving his banana truck, smuggling contraband for the mob. A wee bit self-centered, Serafina is not upset that he was shot rather than simply killed in a crash. Her loss is the more important thing.

Three years pass and she is as passion-ate mourning him as she was with him. By this time, she’s not leaving the house, not getting dressed, just scuffing about in her slip, a fate she wants her daughter to imitate. But 15-year-old Rosa (Valerie Westgate) has a different way of express-ing the romantic temperament she shares with her mother.

At a dance she meets a young sailor named Jack (Andrew Iacovelli) with whom she can exercise it. Serafina, knowing she’s beat unless she keeps Rosa under lock and key, has Jack kneel before her statue of the Virgin Mary and swear that he will “respect the innocence” of her daughter. He seems callow enough to mean it. (A handsome young sailor was an iconic fantasy figure for the gay playwright, so he had fun: Jack says that every time his thoughts turned carnal, he asks himself whether his mother would approve.) In a funny allusion to Ro-meo and Juliet, Jack says it’s so late that the roosters are crowing, but Rosa responds, “They’re fools, they’re fools, it’s early!”

Williams has this all take place in a Si-cilian-American community, to maximize the emotional volatility and also the tsk-tsking discouragement of the neighbor-hood biddies.

If the symbol of a rose, which comes up a lot, weren’t enough to keep love and pas-sion in sight, the goat that belongs to the local witch (Liz Hallenbeck) keeps straying across her yard.

With a Gulfport billboard on our left, the turntable stage takes us from the porch outside to the arguments inside, which range from angry, through loving, to comical. When someone looks up and says she hears the stars, Serafina says that

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SATURDAY 11See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.AS220 | Providence | 4 pm | Irish traditional music | 9 pm | The Kickback, celebrating hip-hop culture and community with Jaz + Buck Nasty + Tone + F.P.M.F.P [Funny People Making Funna People] + Juan Grae & the Loud Pack + Chris GillzTHE BEACH HOUSE | Portsmouth | CovergirlBOVI’S | East Providence | Zink AlloyBRITISH BEER COMPANY | Bristol | D & D LiveCADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | Killborn Alley BluesCHAN’S | Woonsocket | 8 pm | Mickey Freeman’s & the All-Star BandCHIEFTAIN PUB | Plainville | Celtic ClanCITY SIDE | Woonsocket | Batteries Not IncludedCLUB ROXX | North Kingstown | Scarab [Journey tribute]CORINNE’S | Pawtucket | Run For CoversCUBAN REVOLUTION | Providence | Camelia Latin Jazz BandDAN’S PLACE | West Greenwich | Brass AttackEAST BAY TAVERN | East Providence | DJ SleazyELEVEN FORTY-NINE | Warwick | 8:30 pm | Steve DemersFÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | 6:30 pm | Sienna + Trophy Wives + Carousel Kings + Animal Empire + Spelling Out Disaster + Colin Burke | 11 pm | Casual Saturday with Born CasualGREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 7 pm | Open micINDIGO PIZZA | Coventry | JuryJAVA MADNESS | Wakefield | 11 am | Tom Burgess | 2 pm | Open micJR’S BOURBON STREET ROCK HOUSE | Cranston | Felix Brown + the Telling TreeKATRINA’S COUNTRY KITCHEN | Central Falls | Rock-a-BluesKNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Sugar Ray & the BluetonesLIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER | Lincoln | 8 pm | D5 & After EffectLOCAL 121 | Providence | DoxTHE LOCALS | North Providence | Heather RoseLUXURY BOX SPORTS BAR & GRILL | Seekonk, MA | What Matters?THE MALTED BARLEY | Westerly | Sol MusicMARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 7:30 pm | Ray KenyonTHE MET | Pawtucket | Ghostface Killah + Adrian Younge’s Venice DawnMURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 6:30 pm | Jess Lewis | 9 pm | DJ FrankoNARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown | Deluxe EditionNEWPORT BLUES CAFE | MullettNEWPORT GRAND | Swerving CadillacsNEWS CAFE | Pawtucket | A Guy Named Guy + the Waffle StompersTHE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | Chepachet | Karaoke with SergioOAK HILL TAVERN | North Kingstown | Bill & GabbyOCEAN MIST | Wakefield | 3:30 pm | The Ocean MisticsOLIVES | Providence | Dream RydeONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | The Wild Ones133 CLUB | East Providence | Outta the Blue

ListingsO’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | Gary GromoliniTHE PARLOUR | Providence | Dirty Fences + Neon Bitches + the Revilers + Nothing But EnemiesPOWERS PUB | Cranston | Chicago RobberyRALPH’S DINER | Worcester, MA | Numbskulls + Time Beings + MusclecahRHODE ISLAND BILLIARD BAR & BISTRO | North Providence | SuperbadRI RA | Providence | The ComplaintsTHE ROI | Providence | Torn Shorts | 7 pm | Gino Rosati Quartet | 10:30 pm | Torn ShortsTHE ROOTS | Providence | 8 pm | Leatta Barrett with the Who Dat BandTHE SALON | Providence | Upstairs | Isn’t Nuthin’ with DJs Way O’Malley & Anthony Ferreira | Downstairs | The Sweatshop [Dirty Little Under-ground Dance Party]SIDEBAR BISTRO | Providence | 7 pm | Duke RobillardTHE SKYLINE LOUNGE AT LANG’S BOWLARAMA | Cranston | The Al Keith CollectiveSONOMA GRILLE | North Kingstown | 8:30 pm | Second AvenueTHE SPOT | Providence | Daddie Long Legs + Trails + Resin ED39 WEST | Cranston | Brand New FlavaTIPSY TOBOGGAN FIRESIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7:30 pm | Gary FariasVANILLA BEAN CAFE | Pomfret, CT | 8 pm | Joel CageTHE WHISKEY REPUBLIC | Provi-dence | Them Apples + DJ Obie

SUNDAY 12See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.AS220 | Providence | 6 pm | Rhode Island Songwriters’ Association Songwriters In the Round with Steve Allain + Katherine Quinn + Dan Cloutier + host Steve Allain | 9 pm | Vudu Sister + Bird Courage + Dan Blakeslee + Bill BartholomewCADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | Open mic blues jam hosted by the Rick Harrington BandELEVEN FORTY-NINE | Warwick | 9 am | Milt Javery | 3 pm | Tom PasquarelliGEORGE’S OF GALILEE | Narragan-sett | 2 pm | Second AvenueGILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Steve ChrisitanJAVA MADNESS | Wakefield | 11 am | Bill BartholomewLIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER | Lincoln | 2 pm | Niki Luparelli & the Gold DiggersTHE LOCALS | North Providence | 10 am | Jacob Haller + Marilynn ManfraLUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | Providence | 8 pm | Curren$y + Styles P + M3 + Cesar Luciano + Zumo KollieMARINER GRILLE | Narragansett | 4:30 pm | Brian ScottTHE MET | Pawtucket | 7 pm | Project Object performing the music of Frank ZappaMURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 9 pm | Sunday Night Blues JamNARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown | 1 pm | George Gritzbach BandNICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | 3 pm | Acoustic jam with Vic FoleyOAK HILL TAVERN | North Kingstown | 4 pm | Paul CaraherONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | 7 pm | Honky-Tonk Knights | 10 pm | Keith Manville133 CLUB | East Providence | 7:30 pm | Brother to BrotherO’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | 5:30 pm | Tom LaniganRI RA | Providence | 9:30 pm | Karaoke contest with Big BillTHE ROI | Providence | Karaoke with AJTHE ROOTS | Providence | 7 pm |

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Bluegrass Throedown with Tony Watt & Southeast ExpresswayNOREY’S | Newport | Tricky BritchesTHE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | Chepachet | Karaoke with SergioONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Steve Demers133 CLUB | East Providence | Karaoke with Big BillO’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | Warwick | Boudreau & MacyPOWERS PUB | Cranston | Mike & Mark of Raised on RadioTHE ROCK JUNCTION | West Greenwich | 7:30 pm | NonpointTHE SPOT | Providence | Great DivideTIPSY TOBOGGAN FIRESIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7:30 pm | Chris Richards

THURSDAY 16See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.THE BEACH HOUSE | Portsmouth | Karaoke with Johny AngelBILLY GOODE’S | Newport | Open micBRITISH BEER COMPANY | Bristol | Fil PacinoCITY SIDE | Woonsocket | Them ApplesEAST BAY TAVERN | East Providence | DJ MidnightGILLARY’S | Bristol | DJ Scotty P.GILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Open mic hosted by Bob LavalleyGREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | Hotel Songwriter SessionsGREENWOOD INN | Warwick | 8 pm | Second AvenueIRON WORKS TAVERN | Warwick | 8 pm | Betsy ListenfeltJR’S BOURBON STREET ROCK HOUSE | Cranston | Midnight Mob

Blues/jazz jam with Sweet P. & the Who Dat BandTHE SPOT | Providence | Justin MarraTIPSY TOBOGGAN FIRESIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 3 pm | Matt SilvaTHE WHISKEY REPUBLIC | Provi-dence | Rock Star Karaoke with Van Pelt Entertainment

MONDAY 13See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.BOVI’S | East Providence | John All-mark’s Jazz OrchestraGREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 7 pm | Hotel Jam NightLUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | Providence | The Darkness + Free EnergyNICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The House ComboTHE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | Chepachet | Open mic jam with Rat RuckusTHE PARLOUR | Providence | Reggae Night with Rogue Island Dub Foun-dation + Upsetta InternationalPERKS & CORKS | Westerly | 8:30 pm | Songwriters’ open micTIPSY TOBOGGAN FIRESIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7:30 pm | Brian Twohey

TUESDAY 14See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.AS220 | Providence | 9:30 pm | April’s Fury + Hollow Turtle + DriftwoodTHE BEACH HOUSE | Portsmouth | Karaoke with Johny AngelGREENWICH HOTEL | East Greenwich | 7 pm | Open micLOCAL 121 | Providence | DJ NookTHE MALTED BARLEY | Westerly | Reggae Tuesday with DJ Don Dada

OCEAN MIST | Wakefield | DJ Blade MonONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Stu Sinclair from Never In VegasTHE PARLOUR | Providence | North Main St. Breakdown with the ColonelTHE ROOTS | Providence | 7 pm | Strictly Jazz Jam with the Mango TrioTHE SALON | Providence | 8:30 pm | Kimi’s Movie NightTHE SPOT | Providence | 7 pm | Cre-ation Tuesday hosted by Matt Mar-tin & Friends

WEDNESDAY 15See Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.AS220 | Providence | Fucking Invin-cible + Tinsel Teeth + Curmudgeon + Holy NightBRITISH BEER COMPANY | Bristol | Open mic nightCADY’S TAVERN | Chepachet | Lindsay Lou & the FlatbellysDUSK | Providence | Metal NightEAST BAY TAVERN | East Providence | DJ MidnightFÊTE LOUNGE | Providence | 8:30 pm | The Funky AutocratsGILLIGAN’S ISLAND | Westerly | Karaoke with DJ DeelishKNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | The Superchief TrioLOCAL 121 | Providence | Blade Mon & RootsTHE MET | Pawtucket | Voices Un-der Cover performing the music of Warren Zevon with Marc Douglas Berardo + Louis Leeman + Heather Rose + Kayla Farnham + hosted by John Fuzek NICK-A-NEE’S | Providence | The

KNICKERBOCKER CAFE | Westerly | 8 pm | Open micLOCAL 121 | Providence | I Hear Dead People with Way & PeteTHE LOCALS | North Providence | 7 pm | Gin Mill Jane Duo + Earl FariaLUXURY BOX SPORTS BAR & GRILL | Seekonk, MA | Chris from What Matters?THE MALTED BARLEY | Westerly | Green TeaMEDIATOR STAGE | Providence | 7 pm | Open mic hosted by Don TassoneMURPHY’S LAW | Pawtucket | 7:30 pm | The McMurphysNARRAGANSETT CAFE | Jamestown | 8 pm | Ken Vario Jazz QuartetNEWPORT BLUES CAFE | Newport | Felix BrownTHE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | Chepachet | Country-oke with TimayOCEAN MIST | Wakefield | The Natural MisticsONE PELHAM EAST | Newport | Keith Manville133 CLUB | East Providence | 8:30 pm | Mac Odom BandTHE PARLOUR | Providence | The ‘Mericans + Detroit Rebellion + Daniel ChasePOWERS PUB | Cranston | Chicago RobberyTHE ROCK JUNCTION | West Greenwich | 7:30 pm | 3 Years Hollow + Another Lost YearTHE ROI | Providence | Kris Hansen + Jon TierneyTHE SALON | Providence | Upstairs | DJ The Count | Downstairs | Soundscape 005TIPSY TOBOGGAN FIRESIDE PUB | Fall River, MA | 7:30 pm | Joe Macey

THE APARTMENT | 401.228.7222 | 373 Richmond St, Providence | theapartmentri.comTHE ARENA BAR & GRILL | 401.369.7100 | 641 Atwood Ave, Cranston | the arenari.comAS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, ProvidenceTHE BEACH HOUSE | 401.682.2974 | 506 Park Ave, Portsmouth | beachhouseri.comBIKI’S BAR | 401.921.3377 | 2077 West Shore Rd, WarwickBILLY GOODE’S | 401.848.5013 | 23 Marlborough St, NewportBOVI’S | 401.434.9670 | 278 Taunton Ave, East ProvidenceBRITISH BEER COMPANY | 401.253.6700 | 29 State St, Bristol | britishbeer.com/local/bristolBROOKLYN COFFEE & TEA HOUSE | 401.575.2284 | 209 Douglas Ave, Providence | brooklyncoffeetea house.comCADY’S TAVERN | 401.568.4102 | 2168 Putnam Pike, Chepachet | cadystavern.comCAROUSEL GRILLE | 401.921.3430 | 859 Oakland Beach Ave, Warwick | thecarouselgrille.comCHAN’S | 401.765.1900 | 267 Main St, Woonsocket | chanseggrollsand jazz.comCHIEFTAIN PUB | 508.643.9031 | 23 Washington St [Rt 1], Plainville, MA | chieftainpub.comCITY SIDE | 401.235.9026 | 74 South Main St, Woonsocket | citysideri.comCLUB ROXX | 401.884.4450 | 6125 Post Rd, North Kingstown | kbowl.comCORINNE’S | 401.542.0038 | 1593 Newport Ave, Pawtucket | corinnesbanquets.comCUBAN REVOLUTION | 401.932.0649 | 60 Valley St, Olneyville | thecubanrevolution.comDAN’S PLACE | 401.392.3092 | 880 Victory Hwy, West Greenwich | danspizzaplace.comDEVILLE’S CAFE | 401.383.8883 | 345 South Water St, Providence | devillescafe.comDUSK | 401.714.0444 | 301 Harris Ave, Providence | dusksprovidence.comEAST PROVIDENCE YACHT CLUB | 401.434.0161 | 9 Pier Rd, East Providence1150 OAK BAR & GRILL | 401.654.4466 1150 Oaklawn Ave, Cranston |

facebook.com/1150OakELEVEN FORTY NINE | 401.884.1149 | 1149 Division St, Warwick + 1149 BAR & GRILL | 508.336.1149 | 965 Fall River Ave, Seekonk, MA | eleven fortynine restaurant.comFÊTE | 401.383.1112 | 103 Dike St, Providence | fetemusic.comFIREHOUSE 13 | 401.270.1801 | 41 Central St, Providence | fh13.comGAME 7 SPORTS BAR & GRILL | 508.643.2700 | 60 Man Mar Dr, Plainville, MA | game7sportsbar andgrill.comGEORGE’S OF GALILEE | 401.783.2306 | 250 Sand Hill Cove Rd, Narragansett | georgesofgalilee.comGILLARY’S | 401.253.2012 | 198 Thames St, Bristol | gillarys.comGILLIGAN’S ISLAND | 401.315.5556 | 105 White Rock Rd, WesterlyGREENWICH HOTEL | 401.884.4200 | 162 Main St, East Greenwich | myspace.com/greenwichhotelHALF WAY TREE | 401.419.6358 | 44 Hospital St, Providence | facebook.com/halfwaytreeriINDIGO PIZZA | 401.615.9600 | 599 Tiogue Ave, CoventryIRON WORKS TAVERN | 401.739.5111 | 697 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | theironworkstavern.comJAVA MADNESS | 401.788.0088 | 134 Salt Pond Rd, Wakefield | javamadness.comJR’S BOURBON STREET ROCK HOUSE | 401.463.3080 | 1500 Oaklawn Ave, Cranston | mardigrasmulti club.comTHE KNICKERBOCKER | 401.315.5070 | 35 Railroad Ave, Westerly | theknickerbockercafe.comLADDER 133 | 401.272.RIBS | 133 Douglas Ave, Providence | ladder133.comLIGHTHOUSE BAR AT TWIN RIVER | 877.82.RIVER | 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | twinriver.comLOCAL 121 | 401.274.2121 | 121 Washington St, Providence | local121.comTHE LOCALS | 401.231.2231 | 11 Waterman Ave, North ProvidenceLUPO’S HEARTBREAK HOTEL | 401.331.5876 | 79 Washington St, Providence | lupos.comMACHINES WITH MAGNETS | 401.261.4938 | 400 Main St, Paw-tucket | machineswithmagnets.comTHE MALTED BARLEY | 401.315.2184 |

42 High St, Westerly | themalted barleyri.com MARINER GRILL | 401.284.3282 | 142 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett | marinergrille.comMcNEIL’S TAVERN | 401.725.4444 | 888 Charles St, North ProvidenceTHE MEDIATOR | 401.461.3683 | 50 Rounds Ave, ProvidenceMERRILL LOUNGE | 401.434.9742 | 535 North Broadway, East ProvidenceTHE MET | 401.729.1005 | 1005 Main St, Pawtucket | themetri.comMOZZARELLA’S | 401.305.3112 | 1021 Mineral Spring Ave, North Provi-dence | mozzarellas grill.comMULHEARN’S | 401.48.9292 | 507 North Broadway, East ProvidenceMURPHY’S LAW | 401.724.5522 | 2 George St, Pawtucket | murphys lawri.comNARRAGANSETT CAFE | 401.423.2150 | 25 Narragansett Ave, Jamestown | narragansettcafe.com/NEWPORT BLUES CAFE | 401.841.5510 | 286 Thames St | newportblues.comNEWPORT GRAND | 401.849.5000 | 150 Admiral Kalbfus Rd, Newport | newportgrand.comNEWS CAFE | 401.728.6475 | 43 Broad St, PawtucketNICK-A-NEE’S | 401.861.7290 | 75 South St, ProvidenceNOREY’S | 401.847.4971 | 156 Broad-way, Newport | noreys.comTHE NUTTY SCOTSMAN | 401.710.7778 | 812 Putnam Pike, Glocester | facebook.com/TheNuttyScotsmanOAK HILL TAVERN | 401.294.3282 | 565 Tower Hill Rd, North Kingstown | oakhilltavern.comOCEAN MIST | 401.782.3740 | 895 Matunuck Beach Rd, Matunuck | oceanmist.netOLIVES | 401.751.1200 | 108 North Main St, Providence | olivesrocks.com133 CLUB | 401.438.1330 | 29 Warren Ave, East ProvidenceONE PELHAM EAST | 401.847.9460 | 270 Thames St, Newport | thepelham.comO’ROURKE’S BAR & GRILL | 401.228.7444 | 23 Peck Ln, War-wick | orourkesbarandgrill.comTHE PARLOUR | 401.383.5858 | 1119 North Main St, Providence | facebook.com/ParlourRIPATRICK’S PUB | 401.751.1553 | 381 Smith St, Providence | patrickspubri.com

CLUB DIRECTORYPEARL LOUNGE | 401.331.3000 | 393 Charles St, Providence | pearlrestaurant ri.comPERKS & CORKS | 401.596.1260 | 48 High St, Westerly | perksand corks.comPERRY’S BAR & GRILLE | 401.284.1544 | 104 Point Judith Rd, Narragan-sett | perrysbarandgrille.comPOWERS PUB | 401.714.0655 | 27 Aborn St, Cranston | powerspub.comRALPH’S DINER | 508.753.9543 | 148 Grove St, Worcester, MA | myspace.com/ralphsdinerRHODE ISLAND BILLIARD BAR & BIS-TRO | 401.232.1331 | 2026 Smith St, North Providence | RIBBB.comRI RA | 401.272.1953 | 50 Exchange Terrace, Providence | rira.comTHE ROCK JUNCTION | 401.385.3036 | 731 Centre of New England Blvd, West Greenwich | therockjunctionri.com THE ROI | 401.272.2161 | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | theroiprov.comTHE ROOTS | 276 Westminster St, Providence | 401.272.7422 | rootscafeprovidence.comTHE SALON | 401.865.6330 | 57 Eddy St, Providence | thesalonpvd.comSIDEBAR BISTRO | 401.421.7200 | 127 Dorrance St, Providence | sidebar-bistro.comTHE SKYLINE LOUNGE AT LANG’S BOWLARAMA | 401.944.0500 | 225 Niantic Ave, Cranston | langs bowlarama.comTHE SPOT | 401.383.7133 | 101 Richmond St, Providence | thespotprovidence.comSTELLA BLUES | 401.289.0349 | 50 Miller St, Warren | stellabluesri.com39 WEST | 401.944.7770 | 39 Phenix Ave, Cranston | 39westri.comTINKER’S NEST | 401.245.8875 | 322 Metacom Ave, WarrenVANILLA BEAN CAFE | 860.928.1562 | Rts 44, 169 and 97, Pomfret, CT | thevanillabeancafe.comVANITY | 401.649.4667 | 566 South Main St, Providence | vanityri.comVINTAGE RESTAURANT | 401.765.1234 | 2 South Main St, Woonsocket | vintageri.comWHISKEY REPUBLIC | 401.588.5158 | 515 South Water St, Providence | TheWhiskeyRepublic.com

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COMEDY

THURSDAY 9FUNNY FOR HIRE COMEDY SHOW-CASE | 7:30 pm | Catch A Rising Star at Twin River, 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | $15 | 877.82RIVER | twinriver.comIMPROV JONES | Thurs + Sat 10 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence | $5 | improvjones.comDONNELL RAWLINGS | Thurs-Sat Thurs-Sat 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $20-$40 advance | 860.312.6649 | foxwoods.com

FRIDAY 10KEVIN MCDONALD FROM KIDS IN THE HALL & FRIENDS | Fri 8 pm; Sat 9 pm | Comedy Connection, 39 Warren Ave, East Providence | $24 | 401.438.8383 | ricomedyconnection.comHARDCORE COMEDY SHOW | 10:30 pm | Comedy Connection, East Providence | $15 YAMANEIKA SAUNDERS | Fri-Sat 8 pm | Catch A Rising Star at Twin River, Lincoln | $22COMIC HYPNOTIST FRANK SAN-TOS JR. | 10:15 pm | Catch A Rising Star at Twin River, Lincoln | $22SHAUN JONES + JOHN BURTON | Fri 8 pm; Sat 8 pm + 10:15 pm | Comedy Zone at Showcase Warwick, 1200 Quaker Ln | $10 | 401.885.1621 | showcasecinemas.comGIRLS’ NIGHT OUT COMEDY with Kerri Louise + Mary Ellen Rinaldo + host Carolyn Plummer | 8 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $16 + $21 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.comTHE BIT PLAYERS | Fri-Sat 8 pm | Firehouse Theater, 4 Equality Park Pl, Newport | $15 | 401.849.3473 | firehousetheater.orgBRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | May 10 10 pm at Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe St, Cranston + May 12 6 pm at the War-wick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Rd | $5 | bringyourownimprov.comCEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER | 9 pm | MGM Grand at Foxwoods, 39 Norwich Westerly Rd, Ledyard, CT | $35-$65 | 866.646.0050 | mgmat foxwoods.comFRIDAY NIGHT LIVE with impro-vised song + dance + skits + more | 8 pm | Everett, 9 Duncan Ave, Providence | $5 | 401.831.9479 | everettri.orgPROVIDECE IMPROV GUILD with Smart Roger [Keith Munslow and Eric Fulford], Short Stack, Aero-puerto, and Alana Sousa | 8 pm | Providence Improv Guild, 393 Broad St, Providence | $5 | facebook.com/improvpigDONNELL RAWLINGS | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 11KEVIN MCDONALD FROM KIDS IN THE HALL & FRIENDS | See listing for FriSHAUN JONES + JOHN BURTON | See listing for FriYAMANEIKA SAUNDERS | See list-ing for FriNASTY SHOW WITH DONNELL RAWLINGS | 10:30 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $20-$40 advance

IMPROV JONES | See listing for ThursTHE BIT PLAYERS | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 12COMEDY SHOWCASE | 8 pm | Come-dy Connection, East Providence | $10 JOSH RABINOWITZ | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $15-$25 advanceBRING YOUR OWN IMPROV | See listing for Fri

MONDAY 13THE COMEDY FACTORY with John Perrotta, Mike Casey, and friends | 8 pm | Legion Pub, 661 Park Ave, Cran-ston | Free | 401.461.7896 | comedyfactoryri.com

WEDNESDAY 15NEW ENGLAND’S ALL-STAR COMIX with James Goff, Derek Furtado, and Marty Caproni | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $10-$20 advance

THURSDAY 16SOMMORE | 8 pm | Comedy Connec-tion, East Providence | $25LOL THURSDAY hosted by Frank O’Donnell | 7:30 pm | Catch A Rising Star at Twin River, Lincoln | $10JOE MATARESE | 8 pm | Comix at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $20-$40 advance IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs

CONCERTS

POPULAR

THURSDAY 9COCO MONTOYA | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | $25 advance, $28 day of show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter.orgBELA FLECK AND MARCUS ROB-ERTS TRIO | 7:30 pm | Garde Arts Center, 325 State St, New London, CT | $44 + $54 | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org

FRIDAY 10BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-RITE BOYS | + Girls, Guns & Glory | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, Fall River, MA | $20 advance, $23 day of show FLYNN COHEN & THE DEADSTRING ENSEMBLE | 8 pm | Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $12 | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org

SATURDAY 11THE BOHEMIAN QUARTET | 8 pm | Blackstone River Theatre, Cumber-land | $15ELIZA GILKYSON | 8 pm | Common Fence Point Community Hall, 933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth | $25 advance, $28 door | 401.683.5085 | commonfencemusic.orgJOANNE LURGIO + MARY ANN ROSSONI | 8 pm | Church Street Coffeehouse, 25 Church St, Warren | $12 | 401.245.8474 | churchstreetcoffeehouse.comRONNIE EARL | 8 pm | Narrows Cen-ter For the Arts, Fall River, MA | $25 advance, $28 day of showENDANGERED SPEECHES | 9 pm | Newport Grand Event Center, 150 Admiral Kalbfus Rd | Free | 401.849.5000 | newportgrand.com

SUNDAY 12COOL WORLD + JERRY PAPER | 9 pm | 95 Empire Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence

THURSDAY 16TINSLEY ELLIS | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, Fall River, MA | $25 advance, $28 day of show

CLASSICAL

THURSDAY 9JACKIE EVANCHO WITH THE RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHES-TRA perform “Songs From the Silver Screen” | 7:30 pm | Providence Per-forming Arts Center, 220 Weybosset St | $40-$125 | 401.421.ARTS | ppacri.org

FRIDAY 10THE URI DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, present “Melodies Eternally New,” featuring vocal and instrumental performances by alumni, faculty, and music honor students | 7:30 pm | Fine Arts Center Concert Hall at University of Rhode Island, 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston | $10, $5 students | 401.874.2431 | uri.edu/music

SATURDAY 11THE RHODE ISLAND CIVIC CHORALE & ORCHESTRA performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major and Mass In C Major, with so-loists Patrice Tiedemann [soprano], Hillary Nicholson [mezzo-soprano], Martin Kelly [tenor], and René de la Garza [baritone] | 8 pm | At the Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul, 30 Fenner St, Providence | $25, $20 seniors, $7 students | 401.521.5670 | ricco.orgNEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA with pianist Alexander Schimpf performing Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, and Symphony No. 3, Eroica | 8 pm | Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA | $20-$55 | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org

SUNDAY 12MUSICA DOLCE performing works by Mozart, Schumann, and Beethoven | 2 pm | The Towers, 35 Ocean Rd, Narragansett | $20 | 401.782.2597 | thetowersri.comTHE URI ALUMNI WIND EN-SEMBLE performing works by Barber, Respighi, Copland, Ticheli, and Woolfenden | 3 pm | Fine Arts Center Concert Hall at University of Rhode Island, 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2431 | uri.edu/music

DANCE

PERFORMANCE

FRIDAY 10-SUNDAY 12FESTIVAL BALLET PROVIDENCE PRESENTS SLEEPING BEAUTY | Fri 8 pm; Sat-Sun 2 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $20-$65 | 401.421.ARTS | festival ballet.com

SATURDAY 11ISLAND MOVING CO. presents “Dances, Drinks & Dinner,” with the premiere of three new works by Spencer Hering, Miki Ohlsen, and Shane Farrell, plus works by Mark Harootian, Glen Lewis, and Danielle Genest, preceded by a cocktail reception at 6:30 pm and an optional prie fixe dinner after the performance | $25 perfor-mance only, $50 performance and cocktails, $100 all-inclusive | 7:30 pm | Casino Theater, 9 Freebody St, Newport | 401.847.4470 | islandmovingco.org

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FRIDAY 10REHOBOTH CONTRA DANCE with caller Lisa Greenleaf and music by Anadama | 8 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | 508.252.5718 | contradancelinks.com/rehoboth.html

SUNDAY 12COMMUNITY DANCE with music by the Sunday Night Jammers | 7 pm | Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA | 508.669.5656 | contradancelinks.com/jammers.html

EVENTS

THURSDAY 9MICRO-MEMOIR! | Write and read aloud short (200-word) memoirs based on an object/con-cept to be presented by workshop facilitator Karen Donovan | 5 pm |

Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | 401.421.6970 | providence athenaeum.org

FRIDAY 10RHODE ISLAND TATTOO EXPO with celebrity tattoo artists + live tattooing and piercing + a fine art gallery + music and entertain-ment + custom and vintage chop-pers and hot rods + tattoo cinema + contests and awards + a fashion show + the Ms. Rhode Island Tattoo Pageant + a kids’ area + vendors + more | May 10 5-11 pm, May 11 12-11 pm, May 12 12-6 pm | Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin St, Providence | Single day $17.50 advance, $25 door; three-day, $36 advance, $50 door | rhodeislandtattooexpo.com2013 MISQUAMICUT SPRING FEST with rides + fireworks [May 10 9 pm] + food + stage shows + music, including John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band [May 10 9 pm] + Coco Montoya [May 11 7 pm] + Marty Balin [May 11 9:15 pm] | May 10 5-11 pm, May 11 11 am-11 pm, May 12 11 am-5 pm | See website for com-plete details | Misquamicut State Beach, 257 Atlantic Ave, Westerly | $7, under 4 free | 401.596.9097 | misquamicufestival.org

SATURDAY 1112TH ANNUAL EAST FARM SPRING FESTIVAL with “green” exhibitors, + workshops + entertainment + food + plants grown by URI’s master gardeners + more | 9 am-2 pm | URI East Farm, 1 East Farm Rd, Kings-ton | Free | 401.874.4453 | uri.edu/cels/ceoc6TH ANNUAL OUR HEROES AN-NUAL SURVIVOR FASHION SHOW | “Come celebrate the unique spirit and beauty of people living with breast cancer, as they stroll down the catwalk modeling gorgeous clothing from some of Rhode Island’s premiere boutiques and clothiers” | 5 pm | Rhodes-On-the-Pawtuxet, 60 Rhodes Pl, Cranston | $45, includes dinner | 401.861.4376 | gloriagemma.org“BOOKS AND THE BOTTOMLESS BOWL: AN EVENING WITH LO-CAL AUTHORS,” | featuring Steven R.Porter, Dee Eaton, Ray Wolf, Erin T. Whalen, Cris Pfeil, Carol Desforges, Jo-Anne DeGiacomo- Petrie, and more | 6 pm | South Foster Fire Station, Mt Hygeia Rd, Foster | $10 [includes all-you-can- eat soup, bread, and dessert] | fosteringarts.orgSOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND DIS-COVERY TOURS | Fourteen regional events highlighting the region’s heritage, culture, and recreational attractions: “Providence — A Capitol Place!”; “Providence’s Independent Trail”; “A Blackstone Valley Sampler — Treasured Highlights”; “Kayaks On the Blackstone”; “Rediscover Rhode Island’s North Country”; “The Family Guy”; “A Revolutionary History Hunt”; “Metro West — Cul-ture In Bloom”; “Bold Knights, Big Cats — Arts & Americana”; “Voices Echoing Throughout the Blackstone Valley”; “Worcester and Its Vibrant Canal District”; “A Westerly Wel-come — A Mystic Salute”; “Curiosi-ties In the ‘Quiet Corner’ — A Search for the Paranormal”; “Behind the Scenes Leisurely Bicycle Tour — Vil-lages to Wetlands Wilderness” | See the website for complete details and reservations | Twin River Ca-sino, Lincoln | $49, includes lunch | 401.724.2200 | toursne.comSTORYTELLING WITH MARC KOHLER | 11 am | Crescent Park Carousel, Bullock’s Point Ave, Riverside | Free | 401.433.2828 | eastprovidence ri.net/content/668 /830/834/RHODE ISLAND TATTOO EXPO | See listing for Fri2013 MISQUAMICUT SPRING FEST | See listing for Fri

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THURSDAY 16GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE, | featuring 26 galleries, museums,

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and historic sites | Theme-dedicated bus tours leave at 5:20, 5:40, 6, 6:20, 6:40, and 7 pm; tours stop at approximately four galleries each and run about two hours | This month’s celebrity guides: Karen Baxter, managing dircetor of Afri-cana studies at Brown University; filmmaker Michele Le Brun; and Rebecca Leuchak, director of the art and art history program at Roger Williams University | 5-9 pm | Gal-lery Night Providence, 1 Regency Plaza, Providence | 401.490.2042 | gallerynight.info

FILM

MONDAY 13“AMERICA’S MUSIC” | A six-week program featuring contemporary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of 20th-century Ameri-can popular music | This week, a screening of The Blues and Gospel Music | 6 pm | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org/americas-music-film-concert-series

TUESDAY 14-SUNDAY 19THE RISD FILM/ANIMATION/VIDEO FESTIVAL will present the work of 49 seniors | Program A, May 14 + May 17 @ 7 pm; Program B, May 15 + May 18 @ 7 pm | Program C, May 16 7 pm + May 19 2 pm | RISD Audito-rium, 17 Canal Walkway, Providence | $5, $3 students | 401.454.6233 | risd.edu/Academics/ FAV

READINGS

THURSDAY 9ANN HOOD AND ADAM BRAVER, authors of The Obituary Writer and Misfit, respectively, will discuss writing historical fiction, publish-ing in the new reality of e-books, and life in general | 7 pm | Provi-dence Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.orgTHERON HUMPHREY will read from, discuss, and sign his book, Maddie On Things, about a coonhound who loves to stand on things | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | Free | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

FRIDAY 10DAVID BLISTEIN will discuss and sign his book, David’s Inferno, about his harrowing two-year nervous breakdown and surviving its crip-pling depression | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Provi-dence | Free | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

SATURDAY 11ARCHIPELAGO POETRY PROJECT, a program of poems, stories, and more with Jared Paul, Franny Choi, and Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie | 7:30 pm | Lily Pads, 27 North Rd, Peace Dale | $10 | musicatlilypads.orgA CELEBRATION OF THE RELEASE OF JOURNEYS, a collection of art and writing by students of E-Cubed Academy | 1 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

TUESDAY 14GOT POETRY LIVE! | 6 pm | Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer St, Provi-dence | $3 | 401.383.8393 | gotpoetry.com/News/topic=23.html

THURSDAY 16AMY MCNAMARA will read from, discuss, and sign her novel, Lovely, Dark and Deep | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | Free | 401.331.9097 | booksq.comPROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

TALKS

THURSDAY 9“ ‘A TOLERABLY DULL PLACE OF

SOJOURNMENT’: NEWPORT IN THE 1840S,” | A talk about New-port’s transition from trade to tour-ism by Matthew Keagle, the adjunct curator at the Newport Historical Society | 5:30 pm | Colony House, Washington Sq, Newport | $5 | 401.841.8770 | newporthistorical.org

FRIDAY 10“THE SLAVE: FREEDOM ON MY MIND/KNOWLEDGE/ MEMORY AND THE ARTS OF THE ENSLAVED” | Scholars from different parts of the world will come together to discuss how the enslaved created different commu-nities and how scholars understand them today. Anthony Bogues, professor of Africana studies and director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, will deliver the opening remarks on May 10 at 9 am | Go the website for the full schedule for May 10 + 11: brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/symposium-slave-freedom-my-mind-knowledge-memory-and-arts-enslaved“SIR MAX BEERBOHM, MUSE,” a talk by collector, bibiographer, typographer, special collections curator, and practicing dandy Mark Samuels Lasner | Part four of the “Artist/Rebel/Dancy: Men of Fash-ion” lecture series, presented in conjunction with the RISD exhibit | 5 pm | Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providenceathenaeum.org

MONDAY 13EDWARD ACHORN, the editorial page editor of The Providence Journal, will give a slide show of his latest work, The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Im-migrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game | 7 pm | Weaver Library, 41 Grove St, East Providence | Free | 401.435.1986 | eplib.org

TUESDAY 14“WHERE 195 USED TO BE: A COMMUNITY EXPLORATION,” a forum with Umberto Crenca, co-founder and artistic director of AS220; Marshall Feldman, direc-tor of research and academic af-fairs at the URI Center for Urban Studies and Research; Colin Kane, chairman of the Route 195 Rede-velopment Commission; Michael McCormick, assistant vice president for planning, design, and construc-tion at Brown University; Bonnie Nickerson, director of long-range planning for the City of Providence; and Michael Van Leesten, president of the Van Leesten Group; moder-ated by Marc Levitt | A pre-forum talk, “Entrepreneurial Universities and Urban Economic Development: Hype or Hope?,” will be presented by Marc Levine, professor of his-tory, economic development, and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 7 pm | URI Providence Campus, 80 Washington St, Providence | Free | 401.277.5302 | events.uri.edu/event/where_ 195_used_to_be_a_community_exploration

THURSDAY 16“A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY OF FINDING A VOICE” | A talk by Chris Alvanas | 7 pm | Imago Gal-lery, 36 Market St, Warren | Free | 401.245.0173 | imagofoundation4art.org

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GALLERIESAS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appoint-ment | Through May 25: new work by Maria DiFranco, Hannah Antalek, Shawn Patrick Duff, and D-RexAS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through May 25: “Down,” new work by C.W. Roelle | “Narrative & Nest,” new work by Danielle Vogel

BANKRI GALLERY | 401.456.5015 x 1330 | 1 Turks Head Pl, Providence | bankri.com | Mon-Wed 8:30 am-3 pm; Thurs-Fri 8:30 am-5 pm | Through June 5: “Collected Fragments,” col-lages by John deMelim— 137 Pitman St, Providence | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through June 5: “Journey,” paintings by Manette Jungels— 1140 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through July 3: “Animal Fantasy,” paintings by Abbot LowBANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 | 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | www.ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm | Through May 18: “Annual Student Exhibitions”BILL KRUL GALLERY | 401.782.1715 | 142 Boon St, Narragansett | billkrul gallery.com | Daily 10 am-8 pm | Through May 31: “Art On the Edge,” paintings by Art Stenberg and Joan EdgeCADE TOMPKINS PROJECTS | 401.751.4888 | 198 Hope St, Provi-dence | cadetompkins.com | Sat 10 am-6 pm + by appointment | May 10-July 26: “John Udvardy: Iron and Wood 2012-2013”CHABOT FINE ART GALLERY | 401.432.7783 | 379 Atwells Ave, Provi-dence | chabotgallery.com | Wed + Thurs 12-6 pm; Fri + Sat 12- 8 pm | Through May 11: “Beauty & Diversification of Nature,” works by Jim Grabowski and Robin WessmanCOHEN GALLERY | 401.863.9720 | At Brown University’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell St, Providence | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun 1-4 pm | Through June 3: “Freedom,” two- and three- dimensional and mixed media works by the Bruce High Quality FoundationCRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St, Providence | craftland shop.com | Mon-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through May 11: new works by Joseph Aaron Segal | May 16-June 15: “Peaked,” explora-tions in paper forms by Matthew Shlian, Doris Häusler, Esther Ramirez, and Rebecca SiemeringDAVID WINTON BELL GALLERY | 401 863.2932 | List Art Center, Brown University, 64 College St, Providence | brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton _Bell_Gallery | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | Through May 26: “I Am Sorry It Is Difficult To Start,” works by Daniel Heyman | Through May 26: “The Ashes Series,” photographs by Wafaa BilalDEDEE SHATTUCK GALLERY | 508.636.4177 | 1 Partners Ln, West-port, MA | dedeeshattuckgallery.com | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through May 28: works by Huguette May, Sandra Allen, and Zaria FormanDONOVAN GALLERY | 401.624.4000 | 3895 Main Rd, Tiverton | donovan gallery.com | Wed-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat 11 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through June 11: “Changing Light,” with new works by Jessica Pisano, Arthur Moniz, Bill Massey, Peter Campbell, Alex Dunwoodie, Carol FitzSimonds, David Witbeck, Cindy Wilson, Richard Harrington, Deborah Quinn-Munson, Cristina Martucelli, Del-Bourree Bach, Sarah Stifler-Lucas, Cindy Baron, David Witbeck, Christine Bean, Judith Perry, Jonathan McPhillips, Jeanne Tangney, Marieluise Hutchinson, Kris Donovan, Al Albrektson, Kathleen Weber, Tom Deininger, Patricia Walsh, Mark Fernandez, and Matthew SmithDORRANCE H. HAMILTON GALLERY AT SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY | 401.341.2981 | Antone Academic Center, Lawrence + Leroy Aves, Newport | salve.edu/academics/departments/art/gallery | Tues + Thurs 11 am-6 pm; Wed + Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat + Sun 12-4 pm | Through May 19: “Senior Show,” with works by Dawn Armstrong, Bethany Lopes, Jillian Bartolini, Elizabeth Miniet, Beth Blycker-Koll, Molly Monarchio, Jenna Campbell, Brianna Occhialini, Megan Cassello, Lauren Napolitano,

Emilie Rose Clauson, Alicia Purden, Sarah Dupont, Alexandra Rocci, Tanya Hovnanian, and Angela SchneiderGALLERY Z | 401.454.8844 | 259 Atwells Ave, Providence | galleryzprov.com | Wed-Sat 12-8 pm + by appoint-ment | Through June 1: works by Sharon Cutts, Valorie Sheehan, and Sue Butler HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | May 11-June 8: “In Cuba with Witness For Peace,” photographs by Iris Donnelly, Michael Hyatt, and Eliud MartinezIMAGO GALLERY | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imago foundation4art.org | Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through May 25: works by Lenny Rumpler, John Boland, and David Gonville, plus IFA member artists Eileen Collins, Mary Dondero, Rose Esson-Dawson, Lisa Legato, Pascale Lord, Eileen Mayhew, and Linda Mega-thlinJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestownartcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through June 7: “The Ceramic Spectrum: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics” with works by Chris Archer, Charlie Barmonde, Hayne Bayless, Kate Blacklock, Holly Curcio, Rose Esson Dawson, Tyler Gulden, Chris Gustin, Elizabeth Kendall, Jay Lacouture, Jim Lawton, Chloe Marr-Fuller, Maureen Mills, Hilal Minda, Steve Murphy, Allison Newsome, Matt Nolen, Seth Rainville, and Zach ShawKRAUSE GALLERY | 401.831.7350 x 174 | In the Jenks Center at Moses Brown School, 250 Lloyd Ave, Providence | mosesbrown.org | Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm + by appointment | 8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through May 24: “MB Alumni Exhibit”MAD DOG GALLERY | 401.722.7800 | 65 Blackstone Ave, Pawtucket | maddogartiststudios.com | Mon- Wed + Fri-Sat 12-4 pm; Thurs 12-8:30 pm | Through May 17: glass sculpture by Adam Waimon and works on paper and panel by Deborah Weiss186 CARPENTER | 186 Carpenter St, Providence | 186carpenter.tumblr.com | Through May 10: “Walking Distance,” new photographs by Scott Lapham | “faint murmurs,” new paintings by Neal T. Walsh | Hours by appointment [carpenter 186@gmail.com, nealtwalsh@gmail.com]PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORA-TIVE GALLERY | 175 Main St | pawtucketartscollaborative.org | Thurs-Fri 3-7 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through June 21: “6th Annual Pawtucket Foundation Juried Exhibit”PORTSMOUTH ARTS GUILD GALLERY | 401.293.5ART | 2679 East Main Rd, Portsmouth | portsmouth artsguild.org | Fri-Sun 1- 5 pm | Through May 19: “Members’ Non-Juried Show”PRESERVATION FRAMER GAL-LERY | 508.809.3224 | 16 North Washington St, North Attleboro, MA | preservationframer.com | Mon-Sat 10 am-8 pm | Through May 31: “Artists of The Preservation Framer Gallery,” with works by Anatoly Dverin , Ria Hills, Shelly Eager, Kim Weineck, Lindsay Nygaard, Colleen Vandeventer, Karole Nicholson, Donna MacLure, Christina Beecher, Christopher Flanagan, Robin Wessman, Carol Wontkowski, Don Swavely, Galen Cheney, and Krzysztof MathewsRHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 | Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | riws.org | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through May 16: “Volunteer Committee Show” | Works by Susan Klas Wright and Kris OcchinoSOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIA-TION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Through May 18: “Earthworks: Open Juried Clay AnnualContinued on p 22

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Continued from p 21URI FEINSTEN CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5 pm | Through May 31: “The 7th Annual Richard W. and Ronald S. Buteau Memorial PS2013 and the Gift of Art to the State of Rhode Island Exhibit”WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach St, North Kingstown | wickfordart.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm; Sun 12-3 pm | Through May 12: “Mixed Media, Acrylic, Collage, and Sculpture,” an open juried showYELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Provi-dence | yellowperilgallery.com | Through May 12: “Foreclosed Dreams,” a photo essay by David H. Wells

MUSEUMSMUSEUM OF NEWPORT HISTORY | 401.841.8770 | 127 Thames St, New-port | newporthistory.org | Through May 31: “Hearth In Home: Keeping Warm In Early Newport”NEWPORT ART MUSEUM | 401.848.8200 | 76 Bellevue Ave | newportartmuseum.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students + military with ID; free under 6 | Through May 12: “Faculty Focus,” with works by Charlene Carpenzano and Dan McManus of the NAM art school | Through May 12: “Shelf Life,”paintings by Gerry Perrino | Through May 19: “New-port Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition”RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Benefit St, Providence | risdmuseum.org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm [Thurs until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am–1 pm | Through May 19: “Grisgorious Places: Edward Lear’s Travels” | Through June 9: “RISD Business: Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Alejandro Diaz” | Through June 16: “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” | Through June 30: “Double-and-Add,” works by Angela Bulloch, Anthony Mc-Call, and Haroon Mirza | Through July 14: “The Festive City,” an exhibit of rarely seen prints and books that provide a glimpse into the festivals of early modern Europe | Through Aug 18: “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion,” an exhibit drawn from the RISD collection and loans from other national and international organi-zations and private individuals that celebrates the dandy, tracing the variety of ways in which this personality has blazed through two centuries and investigating where he resides today | Ongoing: “Subject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century” + Ancient and Medieval Galleries + Impressionist Galleries + Pendleton House + “A Grand Gallery: European Paintings from the Permanent Collection” + American Art from the Permanent Collection + “Exine” by Paul Morrison + works by Jonathan BonnerWARWICK MUSEUM OF ART | 401.737.0010 | 3259 Post Rd | warwickmuseum.org | Tues + Wed + Fri 12-4 pm, Thurs 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through June 29: “Light Sho,” with works by Bryson Dean-Gauthier, Brooke Hammerle, Deenie Pacik, and Shawn Towne

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CABLE CAR CINEMA204 South Main St, Providence | 401.272.3970TABU | Starts Fri: 7 | Sat-Sun: 6 | Mon: 9 | Tues-Thurs: 8:30THE ANGELS’ SHARE | Thurs: 4:30 | Fri: 5, 9:30 | Sat: 3:30, 8:30 | Sun: 12, 2, 4, 8:30 | Mon: 5 | Tues-Thurs: 4:30, 6:30GATHR PREVIEW SCREENING: AIN’T IN IT FOR MY HEALTH | Mon: 7

CINEMA WORLD622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln | 401.333.8676G.I. JOE: RETALIATION | Thurs: 1:40, 7:10JURASSIC PARK 3D | Thurs: 6:30THE GREAT GATSBY 3D | Starts Fri: 11:15, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15THE GREAT GATSBY | Starts Fri: 10:15* [*no show on Mon], 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15PEEPLES | Starts Fri: 11:20, 1:555, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10IRON MAN 3 3D | 10:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9IRON MAN 3 | Thurs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5:45, 7, 8, 8:45, 9:45 | Fri-Wed: 11, 11:30, 12, 1, 2, 2:20, 3, 4, 5, 5:45, 6:15, 7, 8, 8:45, 9:30, 10, 10:45* [*no shows May 9 + 15]THE BIG WEDDING | Thurs: 11:05, 12:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 | Fri-Wed: 11:05, 1:35, 4:35, 7:10, 9:20PAIN & GAIN | 10:45, 1:45, 4:40, 7:45, 10:05* [*no show May 9]OBLIVION | 10:50, 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES | 1:05, 4, 742 | 10:35, 12:05, 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50SCARY MOVIE V | 7:20, 9:25EVIL DEAD | 7:40, 10:10THE CROODS | Thurs-Tues: 10:55, 1:10, 4:25, 6:45 | Wed: 1:10, 4:25OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | 1:25, 4:05

EAST PROVIDENCE 1060 Newport Ave, East Providence | 401.438.1100ADMISSION | Thurs: 3:15, 7:35SPRING BREAKERS | Thurs: 5:30, 9:55WARM BODIES | Thurs: 7, 9G.I. JOE: RETALIATION | Starts Fri: 12:30, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:35THE HOST | Starts Fri: 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10SIDE EFFECTS | 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:40JACK THE GIANT SLAYER | 12:35, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 8:55SNITCH | 1:20, 3:45, 6:50, 9:30THE CALL | 12:55, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45, 9:50A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | Thurs: 12:30, 2:35, 4:40, 6:40, 8:45 | Fri-Thurs: 7, 9:05THE INCREDIBLE BURT WUNDER-STONE | 1, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH | 12:50, 3:05, 5IDENTITY THIEF | 12:40, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45

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ISLAND CINEMAS 10105 Chase Ln, Middletown | 401.847.3456THE CROODS | Thurs: 1, 3:20OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN | Thurs: 12:40, 3:45, 7:10, 9:45SCARY MOVIE V | Thurs: 7:40, 9:40THE GREAT GATSBY 3D | Starts Fri: 11:45, 2:45, 6:20, 9:15THE GREAT GATSBY | Starts Fri: 12:45, 3:45, 7, 9:50PEEPLES | Starts Fri: 1:20, 4, 7:30, 9:55IRON MAN 3 3D | 1:15, 4, 6:40, 9:20IRON MAN 3 | 11:20, 12:15, 2, 3, 4:40, 5:40, 7:20, 8:30, 10THE BIG WEDDING | 1:30, 3:40, 7:15, 9:20PAIN & GAIN | 3:45, 9:30OBLIVION | 12:30, 3:30, 6:30*, 9:30* [*no shows Wed]42 | 1:15, 7,OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL 3D | 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20* [*no show Wed]

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PROVIDENCE PLACE CINEMAS 16Providence Place | 401.270.4646THE CROODS | Thurs: 11:35, 2, 4:35FEO DE DIA, LINDO DE NOCHE | Thurs: 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25G.I. JOE: RETALIATION | Thurs: 11:40, 2:10, 6:55MUD | Thurs: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES | Thurs: 11:50, 3:40, 7:10, 10:20SCARY MOVIE V | Thurs: 4:40, 9:40THE GREAT GATSBY 3D | Starts Fri: 12:10, 1:10, 3:20, 4:20, 6:30, 7:30, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:05THE GREAT GATSBY | Starts Fri: 12:40, 3:50, 7, 10:10NO ONE LIVES | Starts Fri: 12:50, 3:05, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12PEEPLES | Starts Fri: 12:05, 12:35, 2:30, 3, 4:50, 5:20, 7:20, 7:50, 9:45, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05, 12:35THE COMPANY YOU KEEP | Starts Fri: 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 10IRON MAN 3 3D | Thurs: 11:30, 1, 1:15, 2:15, 4, 4:15, 5:15, 7, 7:15, 8:15, 10, 10:15

| Fri-Wed: 11:30, 12:15, 2:20, 3:15, 5:10, 6:15, 8, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:15, 12:15IRON MAN 3 | Thurs: 1:45, 4:30, 4:45, 7:30, 7:45, 10:30 | Fri-Wed: 12, 1:15, 1:45, 2:50, 4:15, 4:45, 5:40, 7:15, 7:45, 8:30, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:45, 11:45IRON MAN 3: AN IMAX 3D EXPERI-ENCE | 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45THE BIG WEDDING | Thurs: 11:10, 1:25, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 | Fri-Wed: 1, 9:30PAIN & GAIN | Thurs: 12:20, 12:50, 3:35, 4:05, 6:35, 7:05, 9:30, 10:05 | Fri-Wed: 1:05, 4, 7:10, 10:05OBLIVION | 12:20, 3:10, 6:35, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:2042 | Thurs: 12:40, 3:30, 6:25, 9:35 | Fri-Wed: 3:25, 6:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:50JURASSIC PARK 3D | Thurs: 12, 3, 6:05, 9 | Fri-Wed: 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:25

SHOWCASE CINEMAS SEEKONK ROUTE 6Seekonk Square, Seekonk, MA | 508.336.6789THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES | Thurs: 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 10THE GREAT GATSBY 3D | Starts Fri: 12:30, 3:35, 7, 10:05THE GREAT GATSBY | Starts Fri: 1, 4:05, 7:30, 10:35PEEPLES | Starts Fri: 1,2:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 10:20IRON MAN 3 3D | 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15IRON MAN 3 | 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15THE BIG WEDDING | 3:05, 5:20, 7:40PAIN & GAIN | 1:05, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10OBLIVION | Thurs: 1, 4, 7, 9:50 | Fri-Wed: 12:10, 9:5542 | 3:30, 7:05, 9:55THE CROODS | 12:35

SHOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK1200 Quaker Ln | 401.885.1621G.I. JOE: RETALIATION | Thurs: 6:30THE GREAT GATSBY 3D | Starts Fri: 12:10, 3:15, 6:30, 9:35THE GREAT GATSBY | Starts Fri: 12:40, 3:55, 7, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05IRON MAN 3 3D | 11, 12:15, 1:45, 3:10, 4:45, 6:15, 7:45, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:45IRON MAN 3 | Thurs: 11:30, 1:15, 2:15, 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:15, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 11:30, 12:45, 1:15, 2:15, 3:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:15, 12:15MUD | 12:55, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15THE BIG WEDDING | 12:05, 2:25, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20THE COMPANY YOU KEEP | 12:20, 3:30, 6:35, 9:25PAIN & GAIN | 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES | 12:35, 6:55OBLIVION | Thurs: 1, 4, 7, 9:50 | Fri-Thurs: 6:30, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 1242 | 12:30, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25THE CROODS | 11:15, 1:40, 4:05

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SHOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK MALL400 Bald Hill Rd | 401.736.5454G.I. JOE: RETALIATION | Thurs: 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:40THE GREAT GATSBY 3D | Starts Fri: 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:35THE GREAT GATSBY | Starts Fri: 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12PEEPLES | Starts Fri: 11:45, 2:30, 4:50, 7:30, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20IRON MAN 3 3D | Thurs: 11, 12:45, 1:50, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45 | Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45IRON MAN 3 | Thurs: 11:30, 1:15, 2:20, 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:15, 10:15 | Fri-Wed: 11:30, 1:15, 1:45, 2:25, 4:15, 4:45, 5:20, 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:45, 11:15, 11:45PAIN & GAIN | 12:55, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05OBLIVION | 12:40, 3:40, 6:55, 9:5542 | Thurs: 12:30, 3:50, 6:40, 10:10 | Fri-Wed: 6:20, 9:10SCARY MOVIE 5 | 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7:40, 9:50THE CROODS | Thurs: 11:20, 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 | Fri-Wed: 1, 3:50

SHOWCASE CINEMAS NORTH ATTLEBORO640 South Washington St, North Attleboro, MA | 508.643.3900G.I. JOE: RETALIATION | Thurs: 1:20, 7OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN | Thurs: 3:50, 9:50THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES | Thurs: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10SCARY MOVIE 5 | Thurs: 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50, 9:30THE GREAT GATSBY 3D | Starts Fri: 12:30, 3:35, 7, 10:05THE GREAT GATSBY | Starts Fri: 1, 4:05, 7:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:35PEEPLES | Starts Fri: 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10IRON MAN 3 3D | 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45IRON MAN 3 | Thurs: 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:15 | Fri-Wed: 12:15, 1:15, 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 4:45, 6:15, 7:15, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:45THE BIG WEDDING | Thurs: 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 | Fri-Wed: 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10PAIN & GAIN | 12:55, 4:10, 7:35, 10:25OBLIVION | 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:2042 | 1:05, 4, 7:05, 9:55THE CROODS | 12:20, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:40

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XXXW THE ANGELS’ SHARE | 2012 | Four Glasgow losers sen-tenced to community service are introduced to the world of whiskey tasting by their crew supervisor, and the most intelligent and intrepid of them, an expectant father trying to escape the working-class cycle of poverty and violence, hatches a scheme to steal some rare scotch from a distillery before it’s auctioned for a million pounds or more. Pro-letarian filmmaker Ken Loach has tried his hand at comedy before (Looking for Eric), with less than stel-lar results, but this time he and his longtime screenwriter, Paul Laverty, find a good balance between drama and wacky character moments; the heist comedy is nicely underplayed, though thematically it’s fairly con-sistent with Loach’s other work, sug-gesting that the only way to triumph over the thieving rich is to beat them at their own game. | 101m |

XX THE COMPANY YOU KEEP | 2013 | Robert Redford directed and stars in this boomer drama about the Weather Underground, impres-sive for its cast of aging talents (Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Richard Jenkins, Brendan Gleeson). The story hardly seems worth all the fire-power: Redford is a former Weather-man, thought to have killed a guard during an early-’80s bank robbery in Michigan, who goes on the run after his cover in Albany, New York, is blown by dogged reporter Shia LaBeouf. There’s the usual hand-wringing about whether the ends

justified the means, tarted up with a little Occupy Wall Street rhetoric; the high celebrity quotient tends to work against the drama, reminding us what a privileged generation this was and how its endless examina-tion of itself in popular culture was part of that privilege. Terrence How-ard, Stanley Tucci, and Anna Kend-rick round out the cast. | 125m |

XXW IRON MAN 3 | 2013 | None of the Iron Man movies has been as good as The Dark Knight (2008), but their mix of spectacle and droll comedy goes down a lot easier than the other franchise’s thumping Sturm und Drang. One might even argue that their obsession with weapons manufacturing offers as interesting a cultural critique as the surveillance element of The Dark Knight, though the filmmakers have generally backed away from this idea as if it were a live grenade. This installment actually flirts with sat-ire, sending its hero-in-a-can(Robert Downey Jr.) on a vengeful mission against a mad, bearded jihadist (Ben Kingsley) before yanking the rug out from under the neocon story line. There are some good laughs as well, most of them involving Downey’s brutal put-downs of cute little kids. Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) directed; with Gwyneth Paltrow, Rebecca Hall, Guy Pearce, and Don Cheadle. | 130m |

XW OBLIVION | 2013 | In the late 21st century, after space invaders have forced mankind to push the button, a lonely security guard (Tom Cruise)

patrols an evacuated earth in a whiz-bang spacecraft that can do backflips in mid-air; when he recovers a space coffin containing a woman in sus-pended animation (Olga Kurylenko), he learns more about his mission than he’d like to know. The story eventually devolves into a grab bag of sci-fi tropes — time travel, doppel-gangers, government perfidy, roving bands of human survivalists — but, as with so many other Cruise produc-tions, the sheer scale of everything is so mind-numbing that you may not notice. Joseph Kosinski directed; with Andrea Riseborough and iconic-pres-ence-for-hire appearances by Morgan Freeman and Melissa Leo. | 126m |

XXW PAIN & GAIN | 2013 | Mi-chael Bay tries his hand at satire, tar-geting the sort of hollow excess most of his movies epitomize. Based on true events, it tells the story of three moronic Miami bodybuilders who kidnap a millionaire, torture him for weeks, steal his fortune, and proceed to blow the money on drugs and shop-ping sprees. Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie are impressive as the criminals; their fo-cused, deadpan performances balance out the hyperactive direction, making it tolerable for once. They also convey a sense of pathetic insecurity behind the characters’ cartoonish machismo, with its rampant sexism, sadism, and homophobia. Bay is no Paul Verhoeven, but he’s coming from a similar place here, purposely amplify-ing the ugliest qualities of American culture. With Ed Harris and Tony Shalhoub. | 129m |

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X THE GREAT GATSBY142 minUteS | pG-13 | cinema world + entertainment + iSland + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12The Great Gatsby will always be an unfilmable novel, because most of its drama resides in the space between the characters’ snappy dialogue and their unspoken feelings of en-nui, disappointment, and despair. This may explain why, transposed to the screen, Gatsby tends to become the very thing it abhors: a wild, loud party. The hyperbolic Australian director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) is

exactly the wrong person to adapt such a delicately rendered story, and his feature plays like a ghastly Roaring ’20s blowout at a sorority house. Leonardo DiCaprio is typically fine in the title role, grasping the deep insecurity that forces Gatsby to worship his lost love, Daisy, from a mansion across Long Island Sound, but Tobey Maguire is too ingratiating to play Nick Carraway, the story’s actual protagonist, who’s enticed by the endless carousing at Gatsby’s man-sion but still rooted in the midwestern values the other characters have abandoned as hopelessly passe. With Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton.

_J.R. JonesXXW RENOIRFrench | 111 minUteS | r | avon + jane pickenSIf you love the paintings of Auguste Renoir or the films of his son Jean, there’s a good chance you’ll sit through this slow-moving prestige item about their common infatuation with Catherine Hessling, who began as Auguste’s nude model and wound up as Jean’s wife and lead actress. It’s rather depressing, given Renoir pere’s history of turning his models into lovers and/or maids and Hessling’s private life of kinky sex and fin de siecle night spots. Jean has just returned from fighting in World War I, and the scenes about his battlefront trauma are by far the most inter-esting, especially in relation to his classic war film Grand Illusion (there’s even a maimed officer with a monocle in one scene). Gilles Bourdos directed his own script, adapting a memoir by Jean’s nephew Jacques Renoir; with Vincent Rottiers, Christa Theret, and Michel Bouquet (How I Killed My Father) as Auguste.

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The moon is new and waxing this week. You may find that matters that once seemed minor loom larger. Or, if last week brought crisis and chaos, resolu-tion comes quickly. As for the holiday? Easily handled. For Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo: don’t spare the expense. Gem-ini, Aquarius and Libra: creative gestures are appreciated. Aries, Leo and Sagit-tarius: she’ll be thrilled you remember. Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces: no need to rehash the dismal parts of your growing up. As for mom: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius moms would enjoy flowers, earth sign moms would like chocolate, gardening stuff, or wine; air sign moms want to hear every last detail of your life (even if they’re not really listening). Water sign moms yearn for a sentimental card.

ThursdayMay 9

new moon in taurus, moon void-of-course 8:28 pm until 5:21 pm Friday, solar eclipse (visible in australia and points east), venus moves into Gemini. taurus moons prompt longing for beauty, music, and solvency. pi-sces, aries, taurus, Gemini, and cancer: stay close to folks who bring a touch of class to your life. virgo, capricorn, Libra, and Sagit-tarius: review investments (do you have any?). Scorpio, Leo ,and aquarius: expect irritability with folks who look at all the spring mud and decide to be a stick in it.

FridayMay 10

Waxing moon in taurus, moon void-of-course 8:28 pm until 5:21 pm when it moves into Gemini. an excellent day for going over accounts, or doing solitary work. But the evening is all about socializing. a good day for gossip if you’re a taurus, Gemini, capricorn, cancer, or Libra. exag-geration comes easily for Sagittarius, pi-sces, virgo, and Scorpio. aquarius and Leo: perfectionism is your enemy.

across1 held on to5 Letter sequence in the air8 panhandling person14 cat, in cancun15 “v for vendetta” actor16 player at camden yards17 *Gossiping sort19 put in storage, like coal20 *infamous hollywood institution22 he went through a Blue period25 chapter of history26 Boxing ref’s call27 epps or Khayyam28 Saturn SUv29 abbr. in many job titles30 dwight and Stanley’s coworker31 it shows shows35 *retailing buzzword38 involved39 company that created Watson and deep Blue42 prepare potatoes, perhaps45 “heidi” peak46 poet angelou47 rattler relative48 55149 Wall-to-wall alternative52 *company follower?55 asian capital56 *Mr. hyde, for dr. Jekyll60 Beating by a little bit61 prefix for classical or conservative

62 “i ___ the opinion...”63 try the bar code again64 Kazakhstan, once: abbr.65 it follows the last word of each starred entry

doWN1 cia foe, once2 Seine stuff3 arcade game amts.4 Matchbox product5 rap duo Kris ___ (r.i.p. chris Kelly)6 Followed logically7 Question of permission8 oprah’s longtime personal trainer9 “Fear of Flying” author Jong10 “i Just Wanna Stop” singer ___ vannelli11 Flip out12 Smart ___13 very popular18 ___-relief21 of a certain bodily system22 Bubble wrap sound23 “thank God ___ country Boy”24 hunter’s clothing, for short28 content blocker29 Suffix after meth-31 its middle letter stands for a city in tennessee32 pulse rate or temperature33 colleague of roberts and Breyer

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saTurdayMay 11

Waxing moon in Gemini. When the moon is in the sign of the twins, figure “a frank exchange of ideas” is a theme for the day. For some folks, that adds up to arguing, so virgo, pisces and Sagittarius: tread lightly. Gemini, Libra, aries, Leo, and aquarius: indulge your appetite for knowledge. capri-corn, taurus, Scorpio, and cancer: if you’ve been wanting a heart-to-heart, this is a fine day for it. Gemini moons are also ex-cellent for buying items that come in pairs.

suNdayMay 12

Waxing moon in Gemini, moon void-of-course 9:32 am until 5:57 am Monday. excel-lent day for multi-tasking, but don’t forget Mom. a good day for making purchases you won’t have for long. also, a fine day for reviewing relationships. discretion will be difficult for virgo, pisces, capricorn, and Sagittarius, and flightiness could be the story for Gemini, Libra, and aquarius. aries, Leo, cancer, and taurus: the craziest story could seem true — but watch your gullibility.

MoNdayMay 13

Waxing moon in cancer. the sign of the crab can make folks defensive without quite realizing what they’re doing. try to avoid “persuading” someone out of a point of view — especially if they’re a capricorn, Libra, or aries. But this is a lovely day for deepening a relationship, so cancer, pisces, Scorpio, taurus, and virgo should make the grand gesture. Sagittarius, Leo, aquarius and Gemini: if you want to accelerate a project, you may be on your own.

TuesdayMay 14

Waxing moon in cancer. this moon brings out the “homebody” desire, and baked

goods and comfort food could be a con-solation for cancer, taurus, virgo, Scorpio, and pisces. capricorn, Libra, and aries: tread lightly around emotionally fragile folks you know. aquarius, Gemini, Leo and Sagittarius: it’s a good day to talk about your “issues,” especially if you’re feeling spring fever. (“tissues” if it’s hay fever).

WedNesdayMay 15

Waxing moon in cancer, moon void-of-course 8:14 am until 6:38 pm when it moves into Leo. Mercury moves into Gemini. paradoxical astrological transits. voc moon says communication (including email and rumors) is FUBar. yet Mercury in Gemini suggests words are the answer. you just may need to say something in more than one way, especially Gemini, can-cer, Leo, pisces, and aquarius. aries, capri-corn, Libra — you’re betwixt and between. Sagittarius, virgo, taurus, and Scorpio: romance and coziness unite for you.

Moon KeyS this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, Leo/aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.

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