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Lectures at Brown this week
8AM ON 22/09/2008
This Weds, Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron will provide “A libertarian viewpoint on the drug war.” 7pm in the List Art…
Troy Anthony Davis is going to die this week
7AM ON 20/09/2008
When you oppose the death penalty, it’s awkward to particularly illuminate those cases wherein people are clearly innocent: Certainly, such…
Veggie Vigilante: Fritter-ific!
5PM ON 19/09/2008
I can’t answer one of my most frequently asked questions: What is the best vegetarian-friendly Indian restaurant in Providence? I…
‘Social Justice Quiz, 2008′
12PM ON 18/09/2008
I don’t think that these stats will shock our general audience, but the format makes for powerful juxtapositions of circumstances…
Dr. Downtown returns
7AM ON 18/09/2008
And is right, in that the super-bougie version (let’s call it the ‘Stanley Weiss’ vision) of downtown isn’t the right…
Andres on the Today Show
1PM ON 12/09/2008
Friend-of-blog, recent Brown Grad, bad-ass activist, Andres Idarraga. Andres is now a 1L at Yale Law. Here’s MSNBC’s lede:
Prison…
Tonight: GGB @ Viva
8AM ON 12/09/2008
Viva Monkeys! It’s been five weeks since our first Guerrilla Bar and as school heads back into session we’re taking…
Veggie Vigilante: ESP ‘n’ Me
6AM ON 12/09/2008
Veggie Vigilante: ESP ‘n’ Me Last Friday night, I was patiently waiting for my friend to come home from his…
Come mourn the death of journalism
12PM ON 11/09/2008
…or celebrate the death throes of the BeloJo:
The parting salute to Scott MacKay, Charlie Bakst, Mark Arsenault, and others…
Tonight’s ‘Move on the Block’: Star Wars (one of the good ones)
1PM ON 04/09/2008
Star Wars IV: A New Hope, we mean.
Movies will begin at dusk. Bring your friends and family to watch…
Hot For Hookah
11AM ON 04/09/2008
By Annie Messier
Judging by the six-thick crowded sidewalks on Thayer just now, Brown is back in full swing. Just…
Veggie Vigilante: Mooring = Boring
7AM ON 04/09/2008
This weekend, after a beautiful afternoon watching folks fly kites at Breton Point, I, the Veggie Vigilante, decided to have…
The Phoenix endorses…
3PM ON 03/09/2008
The Phoenix’s endorsements for General Assembly elections are out, and include a few friends-of-the-blog:
House District 39 offers one of…
Not to be understood as gender-specific
8AM ON 02/09/2008
But, otherwise, oh-so dead-on:
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Tour the civic center
6AM ON 30/08/2008
Before the place gets overrun by teenie-boppers and loses that ‘new Dunk’ smell:
Ceremonies Friday afternoon will mark the reopening…
RIC gets hip
7AM ON 28/08/2008
On display starting next year:
PROVIDENCE — A collection of photographs by the late Andy Warhol, he of the Campbell’s…
12:02AM 12/02/2008
Annie Messier said:
Good questions, Beth. I think royalties should be due songwriters/performers when their own (recorded) song is played--without exception--and when...
about The $17,000 Candy Bar or… Irish Guys Like Reggae?