Providence’s only outdoor movie screen opens for its second season. Every Thursday through September, movies will be screened at dusk on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances. Bring your friends and family down for a drink, some eats, and a free film. Movies start at Dusk, blankets welcome!!!

Every Thursday through September, movies will be screened at dusk on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St.

As always, introducing the show are International shorts presented by the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances. Bring your friends and family down for a drink, some eats, and a free film. Movies start at Dusk, blankets welcome!!!

GET READY FOR THE 4TH OF JULY!!!! Come to Movies on the Block this Thursday.

Providence’s only outdoor movie screen opens for its second season. Every Thursday through September, movies will be screened on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St. As always, introducing the show are International shorts presented by the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances. Bring your friends and family down for a drink, some eats, and a free film. Movies start at Dusk, blankets welcome!!!

This week we’re showing FLETCH.

Chevy Chase anyone?

(And that’s THURSDAY, yo.)

Come downtown for another 80s classic. This Thursday at dusk.

Where: Westminster St., Downcity

When: Saturday 12pm-6pm

What: Over 40 vendors on Westminster St. in Downcity Providence. Lots of fun and food. Providence’s only open-air market with tons of good finds all made locally by a select group of artists and crafters. Plenty of yummy treats too!!

For those who have been clamoring for an immediate HRC exit, a counter-proposal, from someone who has been wishing she’d drop out since February: Hillary should stay in.

Not only does she have the right to stay in, but she should. It serves the interest of all Democrats and indeed America itself for her to stay in the race and champion her cause, at least for now. Sure, there are caveats: she should not stay in until the convention, she should run a positive campaign, and avoid reopening the wounds of Florida and Michigan that are just beginning to mend themselves. Basically, she should run, and is perhaps even now running, with the implicit understanding that she cannot and will not win. But for now, maybe for the next month or so, she should stay in.

Why?

1. Money. Hillary needs it. Still. Always. Forever. In West Virginia, a kid sold his bike and video games to raise money for her campaign and, as Jon Stewart said, she took it. Sure, staying in might give her the leverage to get Obama to help cut her debt, but that’s a contingency plan - and not one that serves the interest of the Dems in 2008. (more…)

Does it count as shameless self-promotion to promote my promotion of a friend’s event? Hopefully not. Scope my piece in this week’s Phoenix on the upcoming criminal justice reform festival, Justice or Just Us?, taking place at AS220 real soon.

The Manton Avenue Project’s annual benefit, Big Top - A Three Ring Musicale will take place on Monday May 19th from 6-8pm at the Pell Chafee Performance Center!

These eight tiny circus themed plays, each with an even tinier song, will be written by project kids in conjunction with special guest writers, Donald W. King, executive artistic director for Providence Black Repertory Company, Michelle Muscatello, WPRI Meteorologist, Lynne McCormack, Director of the Department of Art, Culture and Tourism, Councilman Cliff Wood, Ward 2 (College Hill), City of Providence and performed by professional actors from Perishable, Trinity Repertory Company, Providence Black Repertory Company, The Gamm, and 2nd Story Theatre. It will be directed by Peter Sampieri.

Tickets are $100. Call 401.331.7007 or visit www.mantonavenueproject.org

This coming Sunday — spend your tax return and stimulate the economy!

AS220/115 Empire Street

If the idea of a bunch of dominatrices and leather daddies running around Providence for the Fetish Flea Market tomorrow leaves you anxious to go somewhere a little more puritanical–Boston, say–then you might want to think again. Because if the folks from Improv Everywhere get their way, then tomorrow in Beantown you’ll be seeing a whole lot of leg and maybe more.

Saturday marks the seventh annual No Pants Day, a worldwide event happening in cities like New York, Baltimore, and Portland, not to mention Adelaide, Australia and even Salt Lake City. (Apocalypse watchers might want to start their Doomsday Countdown Clocks now.) The idea is for as many people as possible to ride public transportation in their skivvies. At least 233 people in Boston alone are planning to show up.

It’s all in good fun, brought to you by the same folks who convinced over a hundred New Yorkers to walk around Abercrombie & Fitch with their shirts off. If you long for the glory days of flash mobs but don’t like zombie makeup and Santa hats, this is the event for you!

(PS–No word yet on whether anyone’s planning on showing some thigh on RIPTA. Anyone up for a pantsless January ride on the Newport ferry?)

Contrary to the popular belief that all fun things take place in NYC, Providence is delightful in its own right, and I plan to stay put in lil’ Rhody as we meet 2008. If you, too, are staying in PVD for NYE ‘08, what are you doing? Comment, and let us know. Otherwise, check out the following:

• Bright Night 2008
• nightclubs, etc.
• New Year’s press release from Cicilline

God bless the internet for bringing this all right to my lap:

• Senate confirms ICE director Julie Meyers despite that pesky blackface incident. [ ColorLines, AP]
• Vlad Putin kickin’ it with Japanese Judo Champ [ Wonkette]
• Mike Huckabee comments on Britney Spears’ barefoot-n-preggers lil’ sister. [ Political Punch]
• Top 10 Hottest Videos of 2007. [ Alternet]
• The Committee to Elect Friedrich Nietzsche brings you Immanuel Kant: Wrong for America:

It is commonplace to spend the month of December reflecting on the year that has passed. This year (at least when it comes to reflecting on the liberal/independent media) Alternet has done that reflection for you. Check out their Top 10 Best Environment Stories, Top 10 Rights & Liberties Stories, Top 10 Sex & Relationship Stories, and Top 10 Reasons Why I broke up with God of 2007.

More after the jump.

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This Tuesday (today!) our very own glittering Jewelry District will be holding an open house on the future development of the district as well as the old harbor area, at the Providence Children’s Museum, 100 South Street. At 7pm the Cecil group will be giving a short presentation but anyone is welcome to stop by at anytime between 4 and 9pm to talk to members of the Jewelry District Association and The Providence Foundation.

So if you want a say in the future of our sickeningly underused waterfront area, please show up and make your voice heard.

[Update: Corrected information about this event which is not actually the jewelry district annual meeting. Sadly there will be no live blues or cash bar.]

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