In a scene straight out of Animal Farm, a pig belonging to Pamela Hood of Foster used its snout to lift a gate off its hinges, freeing itself and a family of emus. The mama and baby emus returned, but papa Emer must be a rollin’ stone, and has been running wild for three weeks […]
Rumors are swirling about the recent hospitalization of former first lady Barbara Bush. The official story is that she had a perforated ulcer, but some completely unsubstantiated reports indicate that she went in for a tubal ligation. Apparently the thought of another Thanksgiving sitting around the table with her mentally challenged and morally corrupt progeny
When the latest of Governor Carcieri’s ethical problems (giving his niece a state job) started gaining traction last summer, he took to calling the lovely lady in question his niece-in-law. I remember asking myself — who says that? We now have our answer — slimy, guilty, obfuscating weasels say that. Today the Governor admitted to
The gals over at the Liberty Elm Diner spent Sunday cleaning up after vandals broke in and made a huge mess. Eggs and batter were thrown all around and the creeps busted open the old fortune-teller machine. In addition to the revenue lost on what would have been their busiest day of the week, the
Tina Fey on ’30 Rock’ will do just fine. Television dollars are slowly destroying professional baseball, why should football be any different? First of all, these night games run too late for working stiffs and kids to watch anyway, and now this NFL Network once again fails to see that the Patriots’ market is/was more
Are we cool with this? I am always suspicious when Brown University starts making alterations to the landscape. Why are they cutting down perfectly healthy trees on Arlington Avenue? Is this to give residents a better view of the eye-poaching Kleig lights that go nova for sporting events? Do they have evil designs on this
Even during the pie-ing episode of a few months ago, little attention was paid to Thomas Friedman’s most important connection to Providence. Not a huge surprise, as he rarely, if ever, discusses his own economic status (and some might say, conflict of interest): He is a billionaire, through his wife, as her family owns General
Has this one hit the mainstream yet? Twistings of truth and outright lies — exaggerated promises of benefits, downplayed odds of seeing combat — are sadly not uncommon military recruitment tactics. (Neither is parking outside of a high school in a tricked-out Hummer with an awesome sound system, and flat screens on which you can
Economies based on tourism and luxury condos are always going to suffer first when there’s an economic contraction… WEST WARWICK — The $150-million resort and indoor water park slated for the West Warwick Business Park is on hold at least until the spring as developers search for money to build it. Work on the project
Ada Books, which recently moved from Dean Street (around the corner from White Electric) to Westminster (a couple of doors over from White Electric), hosts a weekly-ish poetry series organized by the great Kate Schapira. It’s called Publicly Complex and it does wonders to patch the massive black hole in Providence where readings ought to
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(In other words — I tried, but I couldn’t come up with anything.) Need to decompress? Head over to PPAC for a free performance on the 1927 mighty Wurlitzer. The Wonders of the Wurlitzer concerts are held at lunchtime on specific Mondays and Wednesdays in the spring and fall. All concerts are free and open
“Hi, we’re from National Grid and we’re here to help you.” That’s your cue to start taking names and threatening legal action. Read the editorial in today’s ProJo “Those new gas meters”. (I know, I know, these aren’t gas meters, but they got slapped onto the front of my apartment bulding nonetheless. Grr.) While National
If you need more evidence that words no longer mean things: Here’s Joe Biden — who, for instance, famously helped ram through the 2005 bill that made it a hell of a lot harder to file bankruptcy, and has spent 30 years repping the state that’s owned by the credit card industry — having to
“We have a good deal of comfort about the capital cushions at these firms at the moment.” — Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, March 11, 2008. You would think that a man as careless as George Bush would have appointed at least one competent or honest person in eight years, if
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (former CEO of Goldman Sachs) just wants us to trust him with this $700 billion that we are going to borrow from someone somewhere… or just print up. According to The Washington Post, the Bush administration is resisting all oversight in the bailout plan being hammered out, including a provision being
A while ago fellow Doser, Eric, brought to my attention a website that never fails to bring a smile to my face — Hot Chicks with Douchebags — featuring “Pictures of hot chicks with total and complete douchebags. With commentary.” In a rare political selection, they have chosen as Honorary HCwDB of the Month a