Sorry but I have to call bullshit on the RISD Museum. Seen here is a piece from the new exhibition, Martin Boyce: When Now is Night, by Scottish sculptor and installation artist . . . well, Martin Boyce. I was already underwhelmed with the random assemblage of windows and mobiles and whatnot in the first …
Mini-mystery of the week: the trailer truck that’s been blocking up the west end of Mathewson Street for the past couple of days. At first I figured it may have been disabled, hence the barricade, but it has been making a humming noise night and day as if the engine–or some other machinery–is running. It’s …
And what’s wrong over at abc6 News? Aarrghh! Thanks to Dose pal, Kim Ahern, who nearly choked on a pretzel while watching the news last night. Not only is this not a picture of David Segal, it is in fact an image of political shape-shifter Richard Rodi. Of all people! Rodi ran as a democrat …
Kudos to ABC News who broke the story of Trijicon, the Michigan arms contractor who has been selling rifle scopes to the United States Army that have bible citations added onto the ends of the serial numbers. The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and …
A DC cop pulls a gun on snowball fight: [youtube]0RhossH1bm4[/youtube]
Wet? Yes. But drowning? Really? Not to take anything away from the heroic actions of the bystanders who selflessly rushed to aid the gentleman struggling in the Waterplace Park basin Tuesday night — anyone willing to touch the Woonasquatucket is a hero in my book — but exactly how deep is the water there? Was …
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 …
UPDATE: The Colbert footage is now posted, here. ORIGINAL: During last night’s Word, over the funeral rights bill. We’ll post the footage when it goes up on their website. For now, here’s Cypress Hill’s new song, written in response to the Don’s recent doings. Sad as it’s been, it’s encouraging to see people across the …
Just so we are all clear on this — Pan’s Labyrinth is not a children’s movie. Not even close. The Providence Public Library is holding an open house today from 1pm to 4pm. Almost every event described at the library website is for children — cartoonagrams, children’s songs — but then at 2pm they are …
The movie ’10’ was tagged “a comedy for adults who can count”. Yeah, we could use more of those. From the Money & Markets column in yesterday’s Providence Journal, a Thomson Reuters item starts, “We have just four months left until the end of the decade.” Say what? The last year of a ten-year period …
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This post obviously calls for a lyric or song title as headline. I have a thing for John Wesley Harding — Apologies if the song is too obscure for a hackneyed headline-pun. Music below. The story is just ridiculous in too many ways to enumerate. To our former cop, Beth — standard procedure to ask …
For many of us, the Governor Sanford debacle was the first we heard mention of C Street, the Christian fellowship house on C Street in Washington D. C. It was where he turned to find ‘support’ and where he undoubtedly found it. For an organization that holds Hitler and Pol Pot in high esteem, a …
Can I report a statue to the SPCA? It’s bad enough that this poor guy is wearing a collar like those wretched Russian circus bears, but he is clearly quite ill. The statue was donated to Brown University by Theodore Francis Green and is tucked away on Magee Street for fairly obvious reasons.
Attention Cox: my phone service went out on Thursday. Happily, my computer is still up and running so I thought it would be a very simple matter of going online to your website and clicking on ‘report a problem’ somewhere. If such a page/link exists I cannot find it. There is also no useful help …
Swansea parents might want to think again next time they try to attend a town meeting with kids in tow: the South Coast Herald reports that they won’t be allowed inside. April Sousa wasn’t allowed inside a special town meeting on Monday, because she couldn’t find a sitter and made the grievous error of bringing …