PROVIDENCE
The price and quality are right
Although its namesake founder no longer runs the place, Pat Orlando’s Restaurant has kept up the standards that earned it a loyal local following.
Dear Dr. Lovemonkey, I work in an office and we have a petty cash box.
Channel 10 bites on the bogus ’BRU “sale”
Although your superior correspondents don’t know how many people were sucked in by WBRU’s April Fools’ Day joke, the biggest dupes had to be the newsies at NBC-10.
PC gives Carousel a spin
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel is a period piece, but the current Providence College Theatre “staged concert presentation” (through April 9) certainly doesn’t come across as a museum piece.
Mixed Media channels Ms. Smith
Waiting for Bessie Smith, written and directed by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, is a generous as well as enjoyable performance.
No Wave is new all over again
No musical movement, not even CBGB’s-era first-wave punk, captured the push-and-pull of love/hate about modern city living like No Wave did.
Johnny Juxo rocks and rolls and swings and . . .
You may have seen him recently sitting in with Black Honey, but didn’t realize it.
Dear Dr. Lovemonkey, I am a 23-year-old man and have been lusting after my sister.
Weldon boogies at Scorsese’s Upper East Side pad
Phillipe & Jorge were lolling in the hot tub the other day, frozen Pernod and grapefruits in hand, perusing the March 27 issue of The New Yorker , when P. suddenly let out a scream.
Local encyclopedists challenge Brittanica to a duel
Whereas Encyclopedia Brittanica tells us that fiction is “literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact,” the Providence encyclopedists behind the Encyclopedia Project ask, "What occurs under the sign of fiction?"
Rather than doing a better job of managing nightlife, Providence tries to squelch it
When the Congress for the New Urbanism stages a national conference in downtown Providence in June, the offerings ought to include a discussion session titled, “The Renaissance City: A Case Study in How to Not Handle Nightlife.”
Gop’s ‘Angry Hillary’ trope is a taste of things to come
In the aftermath of President Bush’s most recent State of the Union address, talk-radio pundits focused not on the deteriorating situation Iraq, the challenges facing working Americans, or any number of other important topics.
Talking Politics
After making two credible challenges to state Senator Frank Caprio, Jeff Toste of the Green Party has developed his name recognition among the voters of Providence’s District 5, which encompasses much of the West Side.
Fusionworks unwrap their latest moves
Fusionworks director Deb Meunier first got the idea for her “Unwrapped” talks from a parent chaperoning schoolchildren to a dance concert.
The Gamm’s splendid Top Girls
The more things change, the more that people and their flaws can be seen to stay the same.
A place to bask for brunch
The idea of a Sunday brunch summons visions of leisurely indulgence.
“Raids” prove overstated, but concerns remain
Starting in January, a buzz about a supposed upsurge in federal immigration raids kept undocumented immigrants away from work, classes, and errands in Providence.
City watch
In the first of what promises to be a lengthy and sometimes contentious series of hearings, lawyers representing Club Diesel squared off at City Hall on March 15 against counterparts speaking for the Providence Police Department.
The Donald’s minions talk smooth in Johnston
How exciting that Johnston got a taste of the “Trump Magic” Monday night as the mighty capitalist icon with the ludicrous hairdo sent his management team into deepest Vo Dilun, trying to convince the folks there that what they need is a “major destination casino.”
Dear Dr. Lovemonkey, I’m wondering if she really was a virgin. Is there a way to know?
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