Our governor is becoming quite the cultural icon. In a melding of the famous OBEY image with the equally famous Obama HOPE poster — both by RISD grad Shep Fairey — an anonymous designer has come up with these free Obey Gina stickers. (I have no idea how the copyright issues play out here.) There …
As of Friday, February 26, at 10am. According to the Providence Journal, Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 26, at 10 a.m. Tickets, $32 to $62 will be sold at the PPAC box office, 220 Weybosset St. in Providence; online at www.ppacri.org; or by phone at 421-2787. The Weird Al Yankovic “Mandatory World Tour” arrives …
(6.18) Pretty much the perfect movie. Every single minute of ‘Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure’ is a feast. Co-written by Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman, this is 91 solid minutes of goofy joy — no padding. The cartoonish and childish character Pee Wee Herman goes on a big adventure for the first time ever when his beloved …
(12.6) Comedian Kamau Bell brings his ‘Oh, Everything!’ comedy tour to the Fête Lounge tonight. Kamau’s Oh, Everything! Comedy Tour promises to be a comedic attack on everything he can’t stop thinking about, including but not limited to homophobia, the ‘N” word, gentrification, his mixed race kids, your “friends”, your “followers”, why he could never …
(12.5) You can’t not like this guy. Demetri Martin brings his “Persistence of Jokes” tour to The Vets on Friday. From ProJo. Martin was a writer for “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and a contributor to “The Daily Show,” where he appeared as “Senior Youth Correspondent.” In 2009 he hosted and starred in his own …
Jews are funny . . . who knew? “Shmattes” an exhibition that explores the issue of cultural Jewish identity through t-shirts is up now through September 28th. Certainly a great way to greet the incoming students, but locals are welcome as well. These t-shirts have been acquired from all over the contemporary Jewish world– eBay …
(3.24) Some years ago I was sitting on my couch watching a Lewis Black comedy special. At one point, he took to task the Baby Boomers as a cohort so feckless that they had failed to do the one thing expected of them — legalize marijuana. And I knew he was right. I felt shame …
Look: I like the ProJo. I agree with many (not all) of the editorials and like most (not all) of the writers. I’d love to see more ProJo writers cover local stories, as they’re good at what they do. It’s a decent publication. But it’s driving me nuts. We recently received a “guess what!” postcard …
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 …
Director of Ocean State Action, Peter Asen, brings this to our attention. Director Ron Howard and the Funny or Die people have brought together the old SNL crew of presidential impersonators to bring attention to some urgently needed legislation. Hollywood isn’t generally known for precisely timed or well-defined campaigns aimed at specific legislative language as …
Attention nerds, geeks, and sci-fi freaks; this one’s for you! Tickets always go fast for this annual production, a fundraising event to benefit Perishable Theatre Arts School. This year’s theme — A Space Odyssey — promises “holiday cheer from across the Milky Way and beyond!” How about an homage to Barbarella performed by Miss BettySioux …
Arr, and if it don’t be the Nineteenth of September, the end of the season of gales, arrr. What be the relevance of this date, say ye? Why, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, of course, ye lilly-livered landlubber, ye. Why, I’s t’ crack open yer noggin t’ be askin’ sitch foolishness, not …
Yes, there are Italians in Federal Hill, with good food and festivals. Yet when they lack something—like, say, drunk men in costume running across an axle-greased telephone pole above the ocean in order to win glory by grabbing a flag–then I’m forced to travel up to Massachusetts for my fix. I don’t expect many Rhode …
Tonight at AS220 catch ‘Terms of Psychic Warfare’ described as “a screening of bizarre advertisements, educational films and home movies all projected on glorious 16mm and 8mm film.” Given the format, I’m assuming this is old stuff from the 50’s. Old television ads are wild, and maybe there will be one of those mental hygiene …
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