Starting today, filmmakers from Jamaica, Ghana, Cameroon and Cuba will arrive on Brown’s campus to discuss their films and life’s work with Providence audiences. The 2010 Africana Film Festival features a retrospective of work by The Black Audio Film Collective. John Akomfrah (Ghana/UK) and Lina Gopaul (Jamaica/UK), founding members of the collective and current members …
Hey, we’re famous. Andrew Ruben, founder of Blue State Coffee, has a piece over at HuffPo about doing business with coffee suppliers whose practices comport with the progressive values espoused by the company. He opens with a discussion of the potted coffee plant kept on the counter in the Thayer Street shop, a plant I …
The voting deadline for The Providence Phoenix ‘The Best 2010’ poll has been extended until March 18th. Pick your favorites in the various and sundry food, drink, entertainment and arts categories. (The fragmentation within these categories is getting a little ridicolous — wiener joint and wiener/hot dog joint?) Having said that, under ‘City Life’ you …
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COUP D’ETAT. Providence city councilman Miguel Luna and ISO member Shaun Joseph recently returned from a week long delegation to Honduras in support of the National Front of Popular Resistance fighting the golpistas. Come listen to their first-hand accounts and participate in a discussion about the implications of the coup for the rest of Latin …