Providence Business News informs us of Expedia’s praise for the Hotel Providence. PROVIDENCE – Hotel Providence has been ranked among the world’s 100 best hotels and resorts in the Expedia.com 2007 Insiders’ Select List. The list – developed each year by a method that combines overall value, traveler opinions and Expedia Hotel Expert input …
“The pot will be a-wafting/ out on the streets tonight”, Bruce Springsteen so eloquently sang (in my mind) and he could have easily been singing about tonight’s QOTSA smokout at Lupo’s. Seriously kids, don’t get so incredibly blazed that you can’t remember the heaviosity come tomorrow. Queens Of The Stone(d) Age, Retisonic. Lupos, $35, 18+
Tonight at AS220, strum-and-sigh duo Black Forest/Black Sea bring their beautiful and intimate instrumentals along with England’s James Blackshaw, who Pitchfork fucking loves. AS220, $4
From the webs… Why shouldn’t the gays be as miserable as everyone else? It’s fun to stay at the YMCA, unless you’re extremely poor. (Projo) Nixon on Fred Thompson: “He’s dumb as hell.” SNAP! (ABCNews) Wait, you can snort vodka? (NewsOfTheWorld) Noel Gallagher: 4th worst lyricist of all time. Aw, C’mon! (Reuters. yes, really.)
So when Dan returned from the September anti-war mobilization in DC, he was all ranty and ravy about about these insect-seeming things that were hovering above the crowd. Both of us having grown up in metro DC, we’re familiar with the sight of late-summer dragonflies. These were not they, he insisted, but likely some new …
Turns out Dan’s not crazy after all, but this is. Read More »
Contact: Representative David Segal, 499-5991, davidadamsegal@hotmail.com; Representative Art Handy, 339-0177 RHODE ISLAND REPRESENTATIVES URGE RECONVENING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROVIDENCE — Members of the Progressive Caucus of the Rhode Island House of Representatives last week delivered a letter to Speaker William Murphy, urging him to reconvene the House of Representatives. In particular, members requested that the …
Excellent show tonight at Jake’s Bar and Grille, in which Deer Tick takes the stage with The Shivers. Deer Tick began as the songwriting project of John McCauley, in Providence and his live show comes highly recommended by Joe Fletcher, who knows his country/roots shit. Sharing the stage is The Shivers, from New York, whose …
Celebrate Columbus day the way he would have wanted you to: psychedelic spaz-jazz freakouts and hallucinatory noise meanderings at AS220 tonight with Brian Gibson’s Wizzardz, Xerxes, A Troop Of Echoes and Ugh God. Your mind will simultaneously be blown and sucked through some magick neon paper towel roll/funnel/jazz-tube, thing. AS220, 9pm $5
It’s nice to see that soap box racing finally seems to have recovered from its Watergate-era nadir: the infamous Jimmy Gronen scandal of 1973. That’s when 14 year-old Jimmy and his uncle were caught having stuck a magnet in the front of Jimmy’s car — The metallic starting gate would pull the car forward when …
Has anybody else noticed that our local craft school’s museum is cribbing the party-as-bait model popularized most recently by MOMA and San Francisco’s Yerba Buena? The Phoenix has been awash with a graphtastic ad for the generic-sounding “Music Friday” for a couple of weeks. The full-page four-color depicts posterized 20-somethings in leggings and tunics swilling …
Nick Cave, of art fame, brings playful wearables to transitioning RISD museum Read More »
Off of Fort Thunder: Ok. so blind melon got back together with a new singer, who gives a shit… BUT Dusty Rhodes and the Riverband are amazing! Seriously. Best epic indie rock blues bluegrass whatever band ever. Seriously. They put on one of the best show I’ve ever seen. And they are driving all the …
TONIGHT! Dusty Rhodes and the Riverband with BLIND MELON Read More »
Proud to introduce a new regular column by anarcho-comic book obsessive Will Emmons: This Week in the Multiverse. On Wednesdays Will goes to Newbury Comics to check out the new releases. On Saturdays he’ll let us know what gems he’s found. In 30 years, he’ll cry to his kids about how his mom threw them …
On the first Sunday of every month AS220 presents the Empire Revue. Hosted by Keith Munslow, the Revue is a vaudville style mixup of music, sketch comedy, burlesque and improv. Tonight will feature preformances by Superchief Trio and the “comedy mayhem” of The Sparkling Beatniks. Read a little more about it on the Empire Revue’s …
Though Animal was modeled after The Who’s Keith Moon, he credits Gene Krupa, and the great Buddy Rich, with having influenced him most deeply. Rich kicks Animal’s butt in this drum-off. But Animal gets him back — proving he’s picked up Rich’s legendary temper, and not just his drumming prowess: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t7G3TKdKeM]
Local 121 and Scotty Duhamel are kicking off their new film series this week, with a showing of Kiss Me Deadly. October 10th Kiss Me Deadly (1955). Director Robert Aldrich kicks this 1950’s noir classic into total vroom-vroom overdrive in this brutally streamlined version of a Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer book, with deadpan hunk-of-beef Ralph …
The Associated Press has a legitimately scathing story, “R.I. Grapples With Faulty Teen Jail Bill.” It’s right on the money. George is one of about 40 teenagers who have been jailed in the state prison under a new law that treats 17-year-olds as adults in the court system. Billed as a way to save …