(3.12) Tickets still available for Lewis Black’s Off the Rails tour, Saturday at The Vets. Known as the King of Rant, Lewis Black uses his trademark style of comedic yelling and finger pointing to expose the absurdities of life. His comedic brilliance makes people laugh at life’s hypocrisies and the insanity he sees in the …
Announcing the 10th Pecha Kucha night in Providence! (And the first PK night of 2010.) The theme, courtesy of Shae Ramirez, is: nothing is impossible. Pecha Kucha is a monthly format for sharing ideas, in which presenters are allotted 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide. Put simply: 6 minutes and 40 seconds of adult-style …
Blue State’s new Thursday lecture series starts tomorrow (competing with transit advocates’ celebration of the new funding RIPTA is going to get), returns next week, competing with Green Drinks, and will continue to conflict with other environmentally-concerned happenings all summer long. Seriously, environmentalists, we’ve talked about this before: Pull it together already and stop holding …
Yes, they still exist. But I think it’s only a matter of time. I will try to be brief and fair regarding my recent phone problem. My phone first went out on Tuesday July 2nd, but I didn’t think to act on it because the message callers were getting was “. . . phone service …
The second edition of Providence Pecha Kucha arrives tomorrow: Announcing the 2nd Pecha Kucha night in Providence! April 22nd is Earth Day. The theme (fittingly) is green, and the venue (also fittingly) is the sustainably designed 28 Wolcott Space. Shmoozing at 7p, presentations at 8p, and shmoozing throughout. And what the hell is this all …
Bitching about Rhode Island drivers is nothing new. If I let every infraction bother me, I’d have higher blood pressure than a bomb defuser with chronic hiccups. But the blocking of intersections digs at me. Yes, I get that you should be able to drive when your light is green. Unfortunately, that’s not always possible. …
Citing as inspiration the ravings of aggrieved hedge fund veep, tv “journalist,” and self-proclaimed everyman Rick Santelli, a bunch of Republico-“populist” types are going to be rallying at the State House on Tax Day. These jokers are claiming the mantle of the silent majority, as they oppose a stimulus plan that a large majority of …
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The people of Portland aren’t really paying attention to the inauguration, because their dreamy new mayor admitted to having sex with an eighteen-year old in 2005. That’s right, a fully consenting adult male agreed to have sex with another fully consenting adult male four years ago (!!!!), and now people are calling for the mayor …
Sure, there was some mention of a shiny ball dropping a few miles away, but the real story last night was the ‘mericans* and The Figgs ringing in the new year in Brooklyn, NY. The Trash Bar (named for the trash can displayed at the front of the stage?) featured a friendly bear of a …
Now that the holidays are over and the weather is frightful, or at least blah, I’m reading again. And it was hard not to pick up a book tagged, “What did Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, and my sister have in common? They were all my friends, and they died” paired with the synopsis, “This story of …
A brief acknowledgment thereof, in honor of our psychotic and numbers-obsessed friend Howard, who’s in a room somewhere with 10 other people, eating 11 donuts, reading the Treaty of Versailles right about now…
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