Yesterday I wrote a rather long piece about Homeland Security and the growth of domestic counter-terrorism organizations throughout the country. I had recently watched the excellent Frontline report “Top Secret America” on PBS and was hoping to make more people aware of it. At some point during the last 24 hours the post was mysteriously […]
Because somebody’s got to do it. On May 5, 1862 the Mexican army prevailed in an unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla. This made Americans thirsty. Thus we have Cinco de Mayo. Head downtown today for the In Downcity Cinco de Mayo block party. There will be food trucks including Poco
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(12.9) Head over to What Cheer Antiques and Vintage on Sunday for their 13th annual Christmas Party. What Cheer’s having a Party to Celebrate the Holidays and 13 Years in Business! we’ll have Snacks + Ice Cold ‘Gansett Tall-Boys on hand + a Special Sale to Bring you Good Cheer. all Used Stuff will be
Join AS220, Ada Books and Drawn & Quarterly for the Providence launch of “New York Drawings” with cartoonist Adrian Tomine. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and illustration that the acclaimed cartoonist as produced for The New Yorker to date, along with an assortment of other rare and uncollected illustrations and sketches
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The topic for this Wednesday’s installment of Action Speaks! at AS220 is the 1973 PBS show ‘An American Family’ often cited as television’s first reality show. Pat and Bill Loud were living in affluent Santa Barbara, California with their five teenagers when they agreed to let cameras document their lives for seven months. This was
U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in a firefight north of Islamabad on Sunday. U.S. helicopters ferried troops from Navy SEAL Team Six, a top military counter-terrorism unit, into the compound identified by the CIA as bin Laden’s hideout – and back out again in less than 40 minutes. Bin Laden was shot in the
Everything looks like a nail. Nicholas Kristof has a great piece in The New York Times regarding the bloated and often counter-productive investments we continue to make in the military, when spending in other areas could make us safer. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has
Yay, let’s talk about Joan’s boobs. . . I mean, let’s explore “how Mad Men’s multiple media positions intersect with the program’s treatment of various social positions of race, gender and sexuality. . . and issues of media, identity and consumer culture.” The annual Gender and Sexuality Studies lecture — Media Madness: Multiple Identity (Dis)orders
Join the MoveOn and Ocean State Action team for a rally to protest corruption in Washington. Help make Washington work for the 98% of us who can’t afford a lobbyist. We need a massive groundswell to rid our democracy of corporate corruption. Featured speakers include Professor Corey Brettschneider, associate professor of political science at Brown
Roger Williams National Memorial Park will host the New England Native American Culture Week Powwow. This will be a traditional gathering of native peoples including the Narragansett Indian Tribe, with a grand entry at noon. 10am to 5pm, Saturday, Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street
As noted yesterday by a friend of a friend, from Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History: All that we can be absolutely certain of about Jefferson’s activities on the Fourth of July 1776 is that he recorded the temperature at 6A.M. as 68 degrees Farenheit, that he purchased a thermometer, and recorded the highest temperature of
This Friday marks the 15th anniversary of the original airing of the “Lisa’s Wedding” episode of The Simpsons. This anniversary is notable as the episode takes place 15 years in the future — in 2010. For me, it doesn’t seem nearly so long ago that the episode aired, but it’s funny to look back now
If you answered, “Must Be Santa” give yourself a star (we also would have accepted Hunter Thompson as a correct answer). And then be sure to check out this new straight-up weird Bob Dylan music video for his Christmas song of the same name. It’s quite hard to say at first what to make of
Meet Jennifer Gonsalves, site manager of the Roger Williams National Memorial on North Main Street. She has posted a notice on the side blog that I feel merits greater attention. It reads in part, . . . we have just completed the final draft of a Cultural Landscape Report for the site. The Cultural Landscape
To (almost) quote Emma Goldman, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your [health care reform].” Dance you will this Friday at The 201. Providence’s dearly departed DJ duo Certified Bananas (Sammy Bananas now resides in Brooklyn, Certified Max in Boston – catch them while you can) will be on