From the Lots Of Noise listings, this baffling-yet-awesome sounding show at the Stairwell Gallery, their description in full:

Join us for an evening of far-reaching, 3D mind music from the worm pit to the electric chair. Math Balance Volumes comes all the way from the UK (Chocolate Monk men) and Weyes Bluhd from Philadelphia. The local action on here will be equally blinding in the tradition of white hot explosions. Come early for a free screening of the cult classic film, “Street Trash”. Then stay for the live music

Sold! 7pm, $5

Throw a better pool party!!!! We could’ve had a more fun time at Mirabar on any random Tuesday night. In fact, we did — this week.

And is music too much to ask for? Even some ABBA would’ve sufficed — certainly better than the argon buzz of the GTECH logo that loomed over the ‘festivities.’

BAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Max keeps tearing it up, and is now a published poet. Too bad we don’t care much for poetry, or Little Compton.

This is out of a Steel Yard press release that I should’ve posted a few days ago:

The Steel Yard’s Olneyville Trash Cans find a Home

The Steel Yard announced today that artist Lu Heintz’s sculptural trash cans will be installed in Olneyville, the neighborhood for which they were initially intended.

The industrial arts-focused non-profit spent many months negotiating a new location for the cans after the original clients were unwilling to accept the cans due to differences between the design concept they approved and the final product. Public input helped the Steel Yard create a short list of possible locations that were considered based on criteria including public accessibility and the potential for stewardship….

The cans will be installed on Aleppo Street, a road that runs between Riverside Park, a reclaimed brownfield, and Riverside Townhomes affordable housing for Olneyville residents.

I finally made it by for last month’s MF. It was okay — I think I’ll give it another go this week, but it was a bit — how to say this tactfully… stuffier than I’d hoped for.

Music Friday

6:15pm
The second Friday of every month the Museum’s Main Gallery transforms into a funky lounge for an after-work alternative that features cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, art and music. Socialize with old friends and meet new ones. Enjoy special signature cocktails and door prizes. Museum members: $5; non-members: $8. Age 21 and over. PWCVB members and RISD|CE students receive the Museum member rate.

Warm up to the sounds of Superchief Trio, featuring the two-fisted piano of Keith Munslow, the red-hot trombone of Pam Murray, and the frenzied percussion of Johnny Cote as they sing and play a mixture of original music and classic Swing/New Orleans R&B/Boogie Woogie. This band was the winner of Providence Phoenix’s Best Local Jazz Act in 2005.

Stolen from Matt:

Rhode Island hip-hop artist Chachi Carvalho will be performing live on BET’s 106 & Park this Wednesday at 6:00pm. Watch and vote!!

Chachi was recently voted one of the “Top 51 MYSPACE RAPPERS” of 2007 by VIBE MAGAZINE. You can regularly check him out emceeing the open mic sessions on Monday nights at the Black Rep.

Dale Chihuly, he of the crazy glass sculptures, will be opening up the new RISD Museum in September.

Renowned artist Dale Chihuly [RISD MFA ’68, Ceramics] will create a special site-specific installation as the inaugural exhibition for the new special exhibition gallery in the Chace Center. Chihuly at RISD will be complemented by an exhibition of work from other glass artists who were students during or after Chihuly’s time at RISD.

I’m pretty sure that his nearest-by large-scale piece is at Mohegan Sun.

Friday, December 7th – Providence City Arts 10th Annual All That Glitters Gala 10th Anniversary Celebration and Online Auction! Music by Eight to the Bar…Fine Foods by Freakin’ Nana’s…..Silent and Live Auction…Entertainment Galore with Ten 31 Productions and Big Nazo!!! Held at the American Locomotive Works 555 Valley St. Join the auction fun and online here. For more information, please call Jeanne at (401) 831-7323 ext. 19.

Providence Art Windows is pleased to announce the opening of nine new art installations in windows downtown.

The opening is at Design With Reach, 210 Westminster Street, on Saturday, December 8th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. The installations are free, open to the public and on view 24 hours a day through March 14, 2008.

Other downtown events that day include the Providence Preservation Society¹s annual Benefit Street Stroll, which will cross the water and head down Westminster Street beginning at around 4:30, and the Mayor’s tree lighting at City Hall at 6:00 pm. Please join us for a glass of something nice, pick up a copy of our art map, and walk the six block loop to see work by Eric Hovermale, Scott Indermaur, Lee Bergwall Hanks, James Mercer, Christine Serchia & Julie Epstein, Anna Shapiro, Caleb Portfolio, Andrew Sloan and School One.

Providence Art Windows is sponsored by the Providence Foundation, Fidelity Investments, Verizon, the Providence Tourism Council, and the Rhode Island State Council On the Arts. Windows are donated by Trinity Repertory ompany, University of Rhode Island¹s Providence Campus, Rhode Island Housing, Cornish Associates, Jim Winokur and Newbury Management.

This is Beth Comery’s first go at it, in blog form. But she’s known and loved by the legions of loyal readers of her weekly screeds in the “Scrabble Club Newsletter.”

Fans of ‘Village of the Damned’, or anyone who thinks children are generally creepy and may mean us harm, should head over to the Bell Gallery on College Street. The show, featuring 3 photographers, is called ‘Kids’ and should be seen by any couple contemplating starting a family. Perhaps the best known of the artists is Jill Greenberg who explains that she gets her subjects to scream and cry by taking their candy away — a trick she totally stole from my dad (who was not a photographer).

These pictures are very large and it costs nothing to get in, so this is a great value. The show is scheduled to end on December 21st.

Full Moon Emporium presents Santa Claus at The Grant Building, 250 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI, Saturdays from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in December. Join us as he takes requests from the kids. Bring them for a special holiday celebration on December 15th with presents, live music, the models of Hydrogen2Foxygen, and storytelling. Grab a hot cocoa at Kafe Lila and get your holiday shopping done at the many shops at The Grant Building.

The Grant at a glance: 7 offices, 3 retail stores, an art gallery, a cafe, a recording studio and a large silkscreen studio, all in an historic circa 1906 department store. A place for designers and creative people to work together, share ideas and resources, and for the general public to do a little shopping, grab a coffee, and check their email on our WiFi. more »

  Just a reminder that the best thing to do with oneself tonight is probably to go to the opening of Craftland, 5-9, at 235 Westminster:

Craftland 2007 features an eclectic assortment of fine craft and handmade kitsch by more than 150 artists and craftspeople from Providence and beyond. Discover fresh and funky gifts for the home, your uncle, the wardrobe, the kids, and even yourself! New treats like holiday ornaments, felted jewelry, handmade neckties, cozy knit wear, silk screened stationery, one of a kind wearables, ceramic dishware, original prints & paintings, pet toys, fresh comic books, DIY kits, unique stuffed animals, oodles of stocking stuffers, and so very much more. Stop by and be surprised!

Can be assured of lots of food, and holiday cheer in liquid form.

DECEMBER 2007!!! The brutal month before JANUARY 2008, horrifying!!!!! The print shop still breathes, heavy, thirsting for new friends and classmates. Clawing through the ink-soaked rags of downtown Providence, drooling education and reeking of a strange allure, a distorted, musky scent, familiar and yet distant, the indescribable waft of learning and fun, disgusting yet delicious. What fate will the print shop hold?? What crusty tears have dried on thine eyes of lead?
Located at 95 Mathewson street, two floors above the darkened hallows of Local 121 in the castle Dreyfus, the print shop lays in patient wait. Wait for what? For WHOM? Only time will tell. more »

Craftland used to be a new phenom, but now it’s an institution. And that speaks pretty well for it.It re-starts on Monday, at 235 Westminster St. Here’s what you can expect to find:

Craftland 2007 features an eclectic assortment of fine craft and handmade kitsch by more than 150 artists and craftspeople from Providence and beyond. Discover fresh and funky gifts for the home, your uncle, the wardrobe, the kids, and even yourself! New treats like holiday ornaments, felted jewelry, handmade neckties, cozy knit wear, silk screened stationery, one of a kind wearables, ceramic dishware, original prints & paintings, pet toys, fresh comic books, DIY kits, unique stuffed animals, oodles of stocking stuffers, and so very much more. Stop by and be surprised!

Opening party on Friday, 5-9

You should come to AS220 Community Print Shop’s FIRST annual HOLIDAY CRAFT PRINT AFTERNOON WEEKEND PARTY PARTY!!!!!!!

It’s this SATURDAY November 17th, 1-5pm at the DREYFUS Building (95 Mathewson St. #210, Providence, RI 02903). There’s a $5 cover/donation (baby, we’re a non-profit), but it’s WICKED well worth it ’cause you MIGHT JUST LEARN SOMETHING! Like, simple silkscreen and linoleum techniques!!! Not to mention, HELLO, making friends (which is the print shop’s SECOND favorite thing to do) while making ridiculous holiday presents and cards using pom poms and glitter and elmer’s glue so you won’t have to deal with doing it later (glitter can be a last-minute disaster)!!!

C’mon, people!!! “F” ART LETS GET CRAFTY!!!!!!!!!!! BYOS (bring your own supplies!) . We will provide AWESOME food and drink and MAYBE STEAM SOME CIDER!!! ALSO we have an IPOD!!! AND we refuse to play holiday music!!!! WHAT COULD BE BETTER????

P.S. don’t miss it! cause you’ll feel REALLY SAD when you see the party photos on our flickr and you’re not in ANY of them!

November 2nd through January 1st , 2007
Opening reception: November 2nd, 5-8 PM

5 Traverse is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Providence-based artist Jacqueline Ott. Her dynamic works on paper twist simple combinations of pattern into charged pearls. Ott’s mechanical process gives way to the human hand as her colors tender theory. Ott has put together a body of work that is as minimal as it is expansive.

Jacqueline Ott received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She has exhibited extensively across New England, receiving acclaim in the press and grants from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Ms. Ott has works in corporate, private,and museum collections.

5 Traverse is open Wednesday-Sunday 12-6 and by appointment. For additional information or visuals, please contact the gallery at 401.278.4968.