Providence Daily Dose

Big Sale At What Cheer? Antiques

Daily Dose — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:47:13 +0000

Well these will have to come down. Bad news for Wayland Square . . . the beloved What Cheer? Antiques is moving to new digs on Thayer Street on June 1st. In anticipation of what will be the mother of all moves they are having a humongous sale now at the Wayland Square location. From the Facebook page,

What Cheer? is Moving to Thayer Street for June 1st and we need to lighten our load a lot for the big move, so everything is 50% off until the End of the Month! No exceptions! Come and get it! Hole in the Head prices!

They must be crazy! Jewelry, Vinyl, Fabric, Vinyl, Postcards, Vinyl, Maps, Vinyl, Memorabilia, Ephemera, Vinyl, Apparel, Vinyl, Tchotchkes, Thingamabobs, Vinyl!!!

What Cheer? Antiques and Vintage, 7 South Angell Street

Food Revolution Day!

philip — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:55:36 +0000

Celebe Food Revolution Day on May19!

Urban Greens and CrossFit Providence collaborate to promote real food and healthy living!

Saturday, May 19, 10:30am-Noon, join the Providence Food and Fitness Revolution in accordance with Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day and in partnership with Urban Greens Food Co -Op @ CrossFit Providence!

Learn Exercises you can do at home, in a 30-minute Lecture in Motion on the fundamentals of CrossFit training by certified CrossFit coaches.
Appropriate for all fitness levels!
Learn about Healthy Food Choices by Joining our 30 minute Nutrition Discussion!
Try some healthy and tasty snacks from local food producers!
Free Kids Activities during the workshop so parents can take part!

Gallery Night Providence

roxierose — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:43:27 +0000

The bike tours are back! Gallery Night Providence launches the 2012 bike tours with photographer and avid cyclist Peter Goldberg and artist Lani Stark. The tour starts at 5:30 and leaves from Two Regency Plaza on Washington Street in downtown Providence. They will visit several galleries including the Krause Gallery and the Bell Gallery. Bring your helmets! Don’t want to bike? Regular Gallery Night tours run all evening starting at 5:30 pm. For more, check out gallerynight.info or call us at 401 490-2042.

Peregrine Update — Banding Day!

Beth Comery — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:37:09 +0000

Last Friday was banding day for the four peregrine chicks atop the Superman building, and for the fourth year in a row Providence wildlife photographer Peter Green went along with the experts from the Audubon Society to document the event. The photographs are amazing (go to Providence Raptors) but this one best hints at the insanity of the venture. Joe Zbyrowski (in the blue helmet) heads toward one squawking chick while fending off the dive-bombing parents with a broom. (One of them got him on the arm.)

Mr. Green, who calls this his “favorite day of the year” says the whole operation took a little over 30 minutes. Green also wore a helmet saying “it can get scary with two birds screaming and attacking from different directions. They also know to stay between us and the sun, so it’s more difficult for us to see them. We try to stay against the walls; the birds won’t fly too close to the wall at high speeds.” According to the Audubon website these birds can clock 175 miles/hour.

And check out the video of ‘Banding Day 2008′ after the jump.

E&O Tap Spring Riot — Thursday Night

Daily Dose — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:05:17 +0000

The E&O Tap and Owls to Athens present the Spring Night Riot this Thursday.

*Revival Brewing, Group Art Exhibition and Raffle, DJ Tank Jones, DJ 11:11*

Full poster after the jump.

7pm to Midnight, Thursday, May 17, E&O Tap, 289 Knight Street (fb)

DIY Musical Instruments — Loop ( ) At Brown Thursday

Beth Comery — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:31:56 +0000

This show will probably be nothing like Jack White entertaining his cow, but I bet he would like it . . . could be kind of a wacky funtime. The talented students in the Brown Department of Music + MEME: Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments present “loop ( )” a concert of new music for new instruments featuring custom-made electronic instruments designed by students taking “Music 2220: Designing and Playing Alternate Controllers.”

Instruments and performances by: Zach Alterman, Peter Bussigel, Elliot Creager, Jonah David, Akiko Hatakeyama, Tyler Parker, Dan Rome, Mike Shuster, Parker Silzer, Matt Weisberg, and Kristina Wolfe.

(The above clip is from the 2008 documentary “It Might Get Loud.”)

Free and open to the public, 9pm to 10:20pm, Thursday, May 17, Granoff Center, Studio 1, 154 Angell Street

Shilling For Schilling

Beth Comery — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:21:28 +0000

The next time someone suggests that a man will make a great governor (or president) because of his business background, just remind them of the “Reckoning” that Governor Donald Carcieri (Republican) has left behind for the taxpayers of Rhode Island. The news that Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios has missed a payment on the $75-million loan, for which we are all on the hook, is sickening. Everyone is certainly hoping that the company will survive this, but that will never change the fact that Carcieri — who took this huge gamble with your money — is, and always was, a dangerously stupid buffoon. Channel 10 reports,

The video game company owned by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and lured to Rhode Island after the state offered it a $75-million loan guarantee is late with a loan payment of $1.125 million, House Speaker Gordon Fox said Tuesday.

An emergency meeting of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp. is scheduled for Wednesday to discuss Providence-based 38 Studios.

According the Providence Journal “Company executives turned to the City of Providence either Thursday or Friday seeking some assistance . . .” Nice to know Mr. Schilling (Republican) is keeping up with local news.

Music At Blood Drive Co-op

Daily Dose — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:25:34 +0000

(5.15) Live music tonight at Blood Drive Co-op:

A Troop of Echoes, Scylla, Psychic Paramount, Cosmic Factory, Jet Pilot, Those Along, War Tortoise

$10, 7pm, Tuesday, May 15, Blood Drive Co-op, 745 Branch Avenue, all ages

Lobby For Tax Fairness At State House

Daily Dose — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:55:54 +0000

(5.15) Online petitions are all well and good, but you can really get the attention of your legislators by showing up in person and getting noisy. Head down to the State House rotunda and join Ocean State Action at ‘Tax Fairness Lobby Day.’

When the Carcieri tax breaks for the wealthy were instituted in 2006, it set into motion a chain of events that has left our state broken. The majority of Rhode Islanders struggle to make basic ends meet all the while paying for these taxes breaks for the wealthiest year after year. We need tax justice now!

3:30pm, Tuesday, May 15, State House rotunda, Smith Street (directions)

Ship Street Tuesday Farmers Market Continues

H.L. Parker — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:47:43 +0000

Farm Fresh Rhode Island reports that the Ship Street Farmers Market will continue through the summer. There are three food trucks there: Mijos Tacos, Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ, and another one I can’t remember. Also Olga’s Cup and Saucer, the Coffee Guy, Hill Orchards. And peanut butter.

This location is kind of cool . . . nice decking.

11:30am to 2pm, Tuesdays, Ship at Richmond Street

Steel Yard — Camp Metalhead Applications/Open House

Beth Comery — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:29:45 +0000

The application deadline for Camp Metalhead at the Steel Yard is June 11. Camp Metalhead is a

. . . two-week intensive introduction to creative metal fabrication. Each morning offers a unique behind-the-scenes experience at a local manufacturing business or artist’s studio. The rest of the day is spent in the Steel Yard studio learning how to weld!

This program covers the basics of shop safety as well as various metal fabrication techniques including MIG welding and oxygen-acetylene torch cutting. Metalheads will first practice their skills on their own individual project to take home. Then, as part of the program, they will move on to design and fabricate a piece of functional public art for a local neighborhood.

Applicants must be between the ages of 14 and 18. The camp runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm, from July 16 through July 27. “Students in metalworking courses must wear clothes made from either cotton or wool — synthetic fabrics like fleece and polyester are not safe near an open flame.” Always a good rule really. And no flip flops.

Also — the Steel Yard is having an Open House for anyone interested in taking courses or maybe you’re just curious about what the hell goes on in that place. Friday, May 18, 5:30pm to 8pm. Free admission.

RISD Film/Animation/Video Senior Show

Beth Comery — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:43:04 +0000

The Rhode Island School of Design will present its Film/Animation/Video Festival from May 16 through May 19 (opening reception on Tuesday, May 15). This year’s festival premieres the work of thirty RISD seniors.

The festival kicks off with a gallery exhibition with live performances at 204 Westminster, 3rd floor, on Tuesday, May 15 at 6:30pm. Admission to this event is free.

The film screenings will be presented at the RISD Main Auditorium from May 16-19 at 7pm, with one series of films to be screened on Wednesday and repeated on Friday, the second series to be screened on Thursday and repeated on Saturday. Tickets to the screenings are $5 for the general public or $3 with a student ID.

According to Ian Donnis over at WRNI, RISD student Julian Marshall will be presenting the debut of his narrative film Obey the Giant — the origin story of Shepard Fairey’s ‘Obey Giant’ campaign, set in 1990 when Shepard was a student at RISD — on Wednesday, May 16 and again on Friday, May 18.

FAV Festival, May 16 to May 19, RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Street, for advance ticket orders, email rpaiva@risd.edu or call 401.454.6233, tickets are to be picked up and paid for at the door.

Call Mother

Daily Dose — Sun, 13 May 2012 08:06:52 +0000

Pub Quiz

Daily Dose — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:48:00 +0000

(5.13) According to the Wild Colonial website there is a Pub Quiz Sunday. Compete for cool prizes and cover yourself with glory. Categories might include current events, local stuff, weather, the Age of Aquarius, marine biology, the Enlightenment, television mothers, the Farrelly Brothers. You never know. It’s different every week, but it always ends in a 12-question audio music category. The rules are explained as you go along, so form a team of one to four people and just show up. Swell prizes for win, place and show.

(Caps and assorted t-shirts are for sale behind the bar.)

8pm, Sunday, May 13, Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of parking, wheelchair accessible

Yellow Submarine — Cable Car Cinema

H.L. Parker — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:30:14 +0000

(5.12) Ever see Yellow Submarine in a movie theater?

The music-loving inhabitants of Pepperland are under siege by the Blue Meanies, a nasty group of music-hating creatures. The Lord Mayor of Pepperland dispatches sailor Old Fred to Liverpool, England, where he is to recruit the help of the Beatles. The sympathetic Beatles ride a yellow submarine to the occupied Pepperland, where the Blue Meanies have no chance against the Fab Four’s groovy tunes.

Graphic artist and illustrator Heinz Edelmann was responsible for the unique psychedelic look of the film. Check out his New York Times obit for a cool story about getting Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein to okay the project.

Rated G, running time 85 minutes, brownies for sale in the lobby.

8pm, Saturday, May 12, Yellow Submarine, Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street, 272.3970