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While Phillipe and Jorge are bona fide “In the streets, homes and businesses this day. They gave out gift cards for food, tenza, Alex Chapman, and Art Manchester), fyucks-a-minute geniuses, we must [of] the Rockaways, there was...6’-11” of Home Depot, and helped more people than John Fuzek, Mark Cutler, Dennis McCarthy, occasionally draw on other sources for the ocean water, sewage, sand, oil from dis- one would be able to list.” the Bob Kendall Band, Psychedelic Clown boffo humor our readers deserve. lodged tanks, wet asbestos, fiberglass in- Stephanie has put together a fundraiser Car, Tai Funmilayo Awolaju from Boo City, So we offer up two recent bits from the sulation, boardwalk and all sorts of things to support the Graybeards. It takes place and Big Nazo. A very worthwhile and fun English magazine, Private Eye, the best floating around. The day after, a local all March 3 from 1 to 10 pm at Fête in Ol- event to aid our friends in the Rockaways. alternative news source in the UK. Both volunteer group [the Graybeards] . . . went neyville. There will be children’s activities, a concern Pope Benny Andajets. into action. They pumped out, mucked out, raffle, and performances by (among others) local color The first: a picture of Herr Pop Ratzing- cleaned out homes and have not stopped to Tish Adams (with Willie Myette, Joe Po- On March 4, RI-PBS (aka Channel 36) will er with the caption, “Like all good Catho- be presenting an evening of music in sup- lics, I pulled out early.” port of a proposed new television show, The second was in the magazine’s “Po- Meet Me At the Met. There will live music _BY DeRF etry Corner,” which normally focuses on tHe citY by Rhode Island artists including Mark the recently deceased and mentions his or Cutler, Allysen Callery, Nolan Leite, and her signature catchphrase. others. There will also be screenings of two music documentaries. One features Stevie In Memoriam Pope Benedict XVI Ray Vaughan and Albert King; the other, So. Farewell The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, captures Then, a show organized by the Stones in 1968 Pope Benedict XVI. with acts like John Lennon and the Who. Meet Me At the Met You have decided , produced by Jonathan to take early “Nate” Flynn and Rudy Cheeks (aka Jorge), Retirement. would present live performances from the “In nomine Patris, et Met, with an emphasis on Rhode Island- Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.” based artists and their original music. The That was your catchphrase. hope is that the show will inspire viewers to get out to local music venues to take in the “Seig Heil.” state’s rich and varied assortment of talent. That was another One from Brainstorming tHe arts An earlier time. Casa Diablo regular Herb Weiss, the city of But we don’t much Pawtucket’s point man for the arts, tells Mention that your superior correspondents that on Febru- Now. ary 11 there was an arts charrette at Fidelity Investments’ Smithfield headquarters that Word games drew 110 people, including state senators, We’ve seen plenty of bullshit linguistics out members of the business community, aca- of Congress — aided and abetted by the me- demics, and nonprofit types. The mission, dia. Think “Operation Desert Storm,” Herb writes: to “tell top State elected offi- “Operation Enduring Freedom” and “shock cials how art and creativity can rev up Rhode and awe.” But we’ve reached a new low Island’s sputtering economic engine.” with “sequestration,” bland code for kick- Fidelity was a logical place to convene. in-the-nuts spending cuts that will go into The company’s art curator Carol Warner effect if no deficit reduction deal is struck by says the firm has purchased more than March 1. 1200 pieces of art from 433 Vo Dilun artists. “Sequestration” may even be worse The collection is showcased throughout than the “prosecution” of the war in Af- the campus. ghanistan. Sounds so Law and Order, doesn’t And the potential for arts-as-economic- it? This is no slick NBC production. What engine is real. Just last year, Washington- we’re actually doing is fighting a war in a based Americans for the Arts pegged Rhode godforsaken hellhole run by opium dealers Island arts employment, in the private and and crooks half a world away. nonprofit arts sectors, at 12,000 jobs. Another favorite is “extraordinary ren- Is the Biggest Little “The State of the dition,” the euphemism for the US taking Arts” yet? Maybe not, but we’re off to a unindicted, lawyer-less terrorists to tor- good start. ture chambers in foreign countries where battery cables tied to the groin and regular sWinging in sWansea beatings are S.O.P. The Venus de Milo played host recently to Or what about the use of “quantita- the annual Newspaper Guild Follies, the tive easing” to boost the economy? That, mega-cocktail party featuring musical boys and girls, is essentially printing more parodies of some of the most ridiculous money, devaluing the five bucks you have news events of 2012. We say “some” of the in your pocket for a Big Mac and Coke. news events because there is far too much Next time you hear anyone use these foolishness going on in the Biggest Little phrases, give him a sharp slap upside the to fit into one night. head. And make it two if they babble on The show was, as usual, scathing and about a “paradigm shift.” fun. The “mystery guest,” Congressman Jim Langevin, gave his version of “stand- Helping Hands up” comedy (no “wheelies,” but he came As many of you know, Hurricane Sandy pretty close). And the highlight for your su- had a particularly devastating effect on the perior correspondents was “Chafee (Gang- Rockaways in New York. Stephanie Pen- nam) Style,” a fine dance performance by zell, a native of the Rockaways who lives Chafee impersonator Jim Brown. ^ in Rhode Island, wrote this in a Facebook appeal for help: Send l-u-v and Pulitzer-grade tips to [email protected]. providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | march 1, 2013 5

“Right now, there’s such a fear of anyone who’s labeled a hacker in the halls of power.” this Just in _DaviD SEgal

aftermath the Waterfront On the PrOvidence river: Weeks after Aaron Swartz’s Oysters, slaves, and death, a friend takes action the ‘MOses Plan’ Providence State role in the remarkable Robert Geake remembers the smell. fRepresentative David on-line uprising that f “It wasn’t exactly like a sewer,” he says, “but there were days that you Segal’s 2010 Congressio- killed two anti-piracy would come in, especially the hot days and at low tide, and . . . all the fetid nal campaign was a shoe- bills, known as SOPA and odors that you could imagine were just coming up, rising up from the banks.” string affair. It would not PIPA, in January 2012. Geake is walking along the river that he chronicles in his new book, A prevail. But Swartz, who had History of the Providence River: With the Moshassuck, Woonasquatucket & Seekonk Tribu- But for a certain breed long struggled with mood taries. Today, though, the foul-smelling river of his childhood is almost of progressive — young, swings, was in a bad spot. unrecognizable. It has been moved, uncovered, flushed of many of its pol- tech savvy, uncompro- In July 2011 came news lutants, stripped of its wharves, and transformed from one of the city’s mising — his bid had an that a federal grand jury most glaring embarrassments to one of its marquee attractions. In fact, on undeniable allure. And had indicted him for en- summer nights, people actually come to the river to inhale the sweet wood among those drawn to the tering a computer wiring smoke that wafts up from WaterFire’s crackling braziers. cause was digital prodigy closet at MIT and down- Geake’s tome is bookended by two men who floated up the river with Aaron Swartz. loading millions of articles big ideas: Rhode Island founder Roger Williams, who paddled around Fox Swartz committed from JSTOR, an archive of Point with visions of establishing a religious haven on its shores in the suicide in January. And academic papers. 1630s, and former Providence mayor Buddy Cianci, who buzzed upstream his death has inspired The pressure mounted. in a motorized dinghy some 360 years later to officially dedicate a new park urgent questions about Swartz resisted a plea deal called “Waterplace,” whose design echoed the city’s old saltwater cove. prosecutorial overreach; that would still brand But it is the interim decades where Geake — an events coordinator for the US Attorney Carmen Ortiz him a felon. In January, Brown Bookstore, by day — spends most of his time. The Providence River sto- was aggressively pros- his girlfriend found him ry is a tale of commerce, he says, as we walk south toward the I-Way bridge, ecuting him, at the time, hanging in his bedroom. the Hurricane Barrier, and Narragansett Electric’s South Street Power Sta- for downloading millions There was intense tion — all of which have a time in the book’s spotlight. In the 1700s, the river of academic articles with sorrow for his friends was the city’s gateway to far-flung ports in Russia, China, the Netherlands, plans to distribute them and family, but also an- and India. It was also the setting of one of the city’s darkest chapters — Provi- freely on the web. ger. Whatever Swartz’s dence, Geake reminds readers in A History, was a bustling slave trading port But the case has also struggles, Segal suggests, that briefly topped Newport as the busiest in Rhode Island. touched off a broader de- Ortiz’s aggressive prosecu- Hard as it may be to imagine bate about cyberspace and tion — and the law that now, the river was also a prime the law, with an immedi- made it possible — had source of food production. Fish ate focus on the Computer pushed the hacker over markets lined the river’s banks Fraud and Abuse Act the edge. up until the early 20th century. (CFAA). The government PUSHED OVER THE EDGE Swartz. Swartz “was chiefly And in the previous century, oys- charged Swartz with 11 friends with activists,” ters plucked from Narragansett violations of the statute Segal says. “He dated an Bay were harvested, packed, and and two counts of wire fraud. Maximum penalties: activist. Even his parents have an activist instinct. So shipped by the tens of thousands 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines I think there was immediately a sense that we had to here. “At the foot of Washington Swartz’s friends and allies say CFAA is a blunt rel- do something — make something positive happen in Bridge, on either side, there were ic of the pre-Internet era that threatened the hacker light of what had befallen all of us.” oyster plants,” Geake says as we with disproportionate punishment and helped push There are several critiques of the Computer Fraud walk. “There was another one at him to his death. And now Segal, who forged a part- and Abuse Act. Courts have interpreted CFAA such the foot of Gano Street.” In his nership with Swartz that outlasted the Congressional that a violation of a product or service’s terms of book, he describes an “oyster sa- campaign, finds himself near the center of an effort service can trigger criminal penalties. The law also loon” in Providence where patrons to overhaul the law. allows prosecution for the sort of small-bore techni- could enjoy what a guidebook Swartz helped start the Progressive Change Cam- cal workarounds — altering how a program is used from the time described as “deli- paign Committee, which launched in the run-up to for instance — that is standard fare for hackers. And cious bivalves, served in every the 2010 election. And when the political action com- it focuses too heavily on felony penalties, critics say, style desired.” mittee endorsed Segal, Swartz began traveling down with little room for misdemeanors. If there is a hero to Geake’s from Boston to help out with the campaign. It’s unclear if a revision, known as “Aaron’s law,” story, it isn’t Cianci or Williams or He hung out at Segal’s small, East Side headquar- will make it through Congress. Activists are trying to even the sailors and oyster shuck- ters, worked on strategy, and developed cheap tools cobble together a progressive left-libertarian right co- ers who went home from their — robo calls and robo polling — that kept the low- alition that may not hold. But Segal hopes the push jobs on the river with sore muscles budget operation in the hunt. can, at least, shift the dialogue in Washington. and bleeding hands (if they came After the election, Swartz split off from PCCC and “Right now, there’s such a fear of anyone who’s home at all; many mariners left for sea on the Providence River and never joined with Segal to form advocacy group Demand labeled a hacker in the halls of power,” Segal says. returned). It is the legendary architect William Warner, who passed away Progress. The pair envisioned a broad, progressive “There is, I think, a complete conflation between last August. It was Warner, Geake writes, who in response to plans in the program; Segal says the press has too narrowly cast some guy in China who’s hacking on behalf of the 1980s to pave still more of the Providence River, instead sketched a plan for Swartz, since his death, as an open information ac- state and somebody like Aaron, who’s tinkering to moving the river 100 yards east and re-opening it with small, arched bridg- tivist. try to make the world a better place.” es. At the time, citizens and city officials sneered at this “Moses Plan.” And But it was an Internet freedom campaign — ral- But the activism that comes out of Swartz’s death yet the man persisted. lying opposition to the Combating Online Infringe- will not be limited to issues of Internet freedom, Today his vision is simply an established feature of the capital city. The ment and Counterfeits Act — that launched the Segal says. Ultimately, friends hope to establish an infamous intersection known as “Suicide Circle” is no more. The river is group. “It’s really difficult to predict whether some- organization in his name that will push for reform in lined with walkways and restaurants. And Warner’s aesthetic fingerprints thing is going to go viral,” Segal says, “and we were cyberspace, in criminal justice, and in other areas of remain on a key architectural feature Geake lovingly describes in his book’s quite astonished that this one did.” concern to progressives. final chapter: “His elegant bow-like construction at the confluence of the In two to three weeks, 300,000 people signed on The net, alone, did not bring Swartz to Providence Woonasquatucket and Moshassuck points outward as a reminder of how to the effort. And Swartz and Segal decided to stay — three years ago. The net, alone, did not drive him. ships of old once faced open water.” for the time being, at least — in the Internet activism And the net, alone, does not drive those he left be- The Brown Bookstore will host a reading and book signing for Robert Gaeke’s A History space. hind. of the Providence River at 5:30 p.m. on March 5. 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Arts Center, 220 Weybosset thursDAY 28 St, today at 7:30 pm, on tuesDAY 5 Saturday at 2 and 9 pm, and on Sunday at 1 and 6:30 pm | the reAl DeAl $38 -$65 | 401.421.ARTS | hitsVille, usA We caught VintAge trouble ppacri.org It started with Standing In the on Letterman a while ago Shadows of Motown: The Life & and immediately headed to Music of Legendary Bassist James Google to find out about the sAturDAY 2 Jamerson, a 1989 book by Allan rockin’ soulful quartet. The Slutsky. In 2002, there was a facts: they formed three documentary about the Funk years ago in LA, and have blinDeD bY the buzz Brothers, the Motown back- been making jaws drop ever Wire, Pavement, and Gang ing band. Now a show titled since. Their 2011 album, The of Four are just a few of stAnDing in the shADows of Bomb Shelter Sessions, merely the big names critics have Motown liVe! is hitting the hints at the manic energy strewn about while saluting road. Singers Peabo Bryson and fierce grooves they bring the Brooklyn, NYC quartet and Leela James and bass- to the stage. and The legend- PArquet courts. The 2012 ist James Jamerson Jr. lead ary Booker T. Jones recently full-length debut Light Up the ensemble, which will sat in with them and said, Gold twitches and crackles power through two dozen “The only thing troubling with energy; the two-chord Motown classics, laced with about Vintage Trouble is gem “Stoned and Starving” anecdotes and scenes from how authentic they are so is equal parts ridiculous the movie. Showtime is 7:30 early in the game.” They and fucking awesome, pm | $30 advance, $35 day opened for the Who at the “Donuts Only” rumbles in a of, $40 gold circle + mezza- Dunk on Tuesday; today la “Conduit For Sale!,” while nine + $25 student advance |

they will get in your face at cervantes julieta “Yr No Stoner” and “Career 401.331.5876 | lupos.com the Fête Lounge, 103 Dike In Combat” should spark the St, Providence. Leogun and wednesday | trisha Brown danCe ComPany @ crowd when Parquet Courts DJ Keith Shocklee warm hit AS220, 115 Empire St, weDnesDAY 6 things up at 9 pm | $12 Rhode Island College’s Roberts Hall Auditorium Providence, with high-energy advance, $14 day of show | locals Party Pig and Gavage 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com opening the show at 9 pm | $7 MoDern MAster between his dreams and to celebrate the release of year before, Everyday Sunshine: | 401.831.9327 | parquetcourts. trishA brown DAnce those of his family, while the album than the Comedy The Story of Fishbone, which was wordpress.com coMPAnY formed in 1970, friDAY 1 enduring injustice and rac- Connection [39 Warren Ave, even narrated by Laurence 10 years after the namesake ism as a black American. A East Providence], which is Fishburne. Get into the choreographer moved to New truly heart-wrenching play, like home to me,” he says. mosh. The Alan Evans Trio sunDAY 3 York City, which she de- the life of troY Fences will be presented at Harrington (and Pat Oates) and Boo City share the bill scribed as a “hot-bed of dance Ricardo Pitts-Wiley’s his- the Hope Artiste Village, 999 will crack wise tonight at at Fête at 8 pm | $15 advance, revolution.” Throughout her tory with August Wilson’s Main St, Pawtucket, through 8 pm and on Saturday at 8 $20 day of show | 401.383.1112 fAce-Melting Duo career she has collaborated 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning March 17 (Fri + Sat 7:30 pm, and 10:15 | $15 | 401.438.8383 | | fetemusic.com tenAcious D are rocking out with other notable revolution- Fences began with a ’92 Sun 3 pm) | $25, $22 seniors | ricomedyconnection.com “old school acoustic style” aries: Robert Rauschenberg, production at Trinity Rep, 401.305.7333 | mmtri.com kinD of blue on their current tour. “As Laurie Anderson, Bill T. continued at New Repertory still ’boning The blue MAn grouP troupes good as our band is, there Jones, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Theatre in Watertown, MA, rAY of hoPe It’s crazy to think we’re can be seen year-round in is a magic to just me and and Lina Wertmüller. Brown and picks up again with a Comedian rAY hArrington approaching 30 years of Boston, Chicago, LA, Vegas, Kage [Kyle Gass],” Jack Black recently announced her re- production at Mixed Magic is a Rhody native, so let’s fishbone, but the massively NYC, Orlando, and Berlin. told Rolling Stone. “When me tirement; the company is Theatre, directed by his hope that the title of his influential Los Angeles ska- But there are also trios of and Kage melt your faces off committed to continue to son Jonathan. Pitts-Wiley new live album — The Worst punk-funk collective are rhythmic, robotic bald men without any electric guitars honor “Trisha’s spirit, her takes on the role of Troy, Is Over — applies to his home showing no signs of slowing that roam the world, bring- and no drums, it’s almost, playfulness, her continual the talkative former baseball state. Either way, he’s look- down. An EP in 2011, Crazy ing their witty and inventive like, more impressive?” rethinking of her work, her player-turned-garbage collec- ing forward to his headlin- Glue, was augmented by a multimedia assault to more The dynamic duo will bring stature as a visual artist.” tor in 1950s Pittsburgh, who ing gig this weekend: “I critically-acclaimed docu- modest burgs. BMG will be their self-described “passion The program to be presented must deal with the conflicts can’t think of a better place mentary on the ’Bone the at the Providence Performing and mirth” to Lupo’s, 79 at the Auditorium at Roberts Washington St, Providence. Hall at Rhode Island College, Sasquatch opens at 7:30 pm 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, brAss bAnD and our supremely badass extrAorDinArY | $39.50 advance, $42 day of, Providence, will include the renDition bAnD! $25 at the door and a guaranteed sell-out. $45 reserved | 401.331.5876 | final works of Brown’s career, Forward, March start off your sUnday (the 3rd) at Firehouse 13 (401.270.1801) lupos.com Les Yeux et l’âme and Rogues. FroM detroit reBeLLion to ed o.G.! for another 4 pm hardcore matinee, with five bands for just five Showtime is 7:30 pm | $35, bucks, including Anti VenoM, olD wounDs, and locals bAr- $30 seniors | 401.456.8144 | Last call for a double-stacked thUrsday (the 28th), with she ber coP. then head over to the parlour and catch sAMAnthA ric.edu/pfa f riDes, blooDPheAsAnt, and PArtY Pigs tearing up Local 121 crAin, along with quality providence acts bArn burning and MonDAY 4 (401.274.2121) while go-to hotspot dusk hosts another killer combo led DAniel chAse; 21+ and $8 at the door, call 401.383.5858. on by newport’s skinnY MillionAires, Detroit tUesday (the 5th), there are a slew of lo- inDiA cAlling thursDAY 7 rebellion (debut disc on the way), and us ’n’ cal rappers opening up for the mighty (and Take a literary passage to Y’All; just $4 at the door, call 401.714.0444. forever underrated) Masta Killa of wu-tang India, when writers/edi- ahead to a variety-filled Friday (the 1st): Billy off the couch clan fame at the pvd social club ($15 at the tors Sharmistha Mohanty worD uP Goode’s in newport (401.848.5013) presents door, 401.454.7177). and take your pick next and Vivek Narayanan pres- The ProViDence PoetrY MeDs (75orLess records) with the louD ones, thUrsday (the 7th): MAth the bAnD will ent a reading and discus- slAM is always a blast. Vicious circle, and the f.u.s; hit as220 for obuAMAh lAuD headline at dusk with beArstronAut and many more ($7), sion titled “AlMost islAnD: And tonight there’s even ADDY and the As220 criss cross orchestrA ($6, 401.831.9327); torn shorts and gill Moss support cActus AttAck at inDiAn writing now.” It’s at more kablam than usual and the Met delivers Golden era rap greats eD o.g. and Juice crew the Met; and the revamped columbus theatre presents chris Brown University’s Granoff — acclaimed word-slinger alum crAig g; all-ages and $15 day of show, dial 401.729.1005 for trAPPer (formerly of ’90s alt band the push stars) with the Center for the Creative Art, JAreD singer will make more. on satUrday (the 2nd), the spot Underground (401.383.7133) soulful Young PAnDAs opening. 154 Angell St, Providence, an appearance. 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homegrown product ’12 2026 Smith Street North ProvideNce ri 401.232.1330 Like uS oN Facebook For www.ribbb.com a Free hour oF PooL! THR33 is THe magic numbeR Facebook.com/ribbb Thr33 pIEcE SuIT FINDS ThE pErFEcT FIT ON Brand new Vintage ri biLLiardS Never chargeS a cover! _By chrIS cONTI FRI 3/1 Last year, Rhode Island rhyme vets Chachi fCarvalho and Swann Notty teamed up with noRTH eaST producer/beat composer J. DePina to form THR33 Piece Suit. Their full-length debut platter titled GRoove Brand New Vintage is just that — a flavorful combo of NO COvER jazzy, throwback beats adorned with some serious cuts and, of course, countless quotable bars. THR33 Piece Suit may have coined a new rap genre via SAt 3/2 the album title: there is nothing dated, stale, nor Black formulaic about the presentation, but the record is just that — a brand new spin on a classic sound. & WHiTe The first 100 people through the door at Fête next Friday (and/or those purchasing advance tickets) Band WiTH will receive an autographed “bootleg” copy of the GaRy “GUiTaR” album, and it will be available free-of-charge for a limited time beginning March 14 before officially GRaMolini hitting the shelves and iTunes in April. NO COvER On a blustery Wednesday afternoon in “down- town” Pawtucket, all three members have con- vened at Carvalho’s Beatbox Studio inside the FRI Grant Building. This is my first time meeting Dar- GReG Hodde and ryl Jordan, aka Swann Notty, his slim frame hid- 3/8 den behind a XXXL Beatbox Studios hoodie, as well THe BlUe ReiGn as Joel DePina, who strolls in a few minutes later, NO COvER while Charles “Chachi” Carvalho sits by his desk cueing up the album and reminiscing over a recent trip to Cape Verde. Check the pedigree — both lyricists jumped onto the music scene nearly 15 years ago as charter members of the CNJ Records camp; Swann’s debut single, “4 Steps” remains a coveted homegrown classic, and he later released two outstanding solo A REALLY COOL RIDE Notty, Depina, and carvalho (in the booth). records in Classic Material and Right and Exact. Carval- ho’s skills have been on display long before he tore it up in front of a national audience on BET’s 106 & Park “This album was inspired by the beat,” Carvalho ex- five years ago. He is highly active working with youth, plains. “The beat can inspire a hook, or a concept or idea. both as a mentor at the Met School and serving as a proud When we started we all said, ‘Let’s not think about it too SAt SMall aMBiTion pee-wee football coach. And business is picking up at his much, we’ll just let it rip.’ ” NO COvER Beatbox Studios (visit Beatbox on Facebook for rates and DePina is a dual threat, pulling a Pete Rock and hop- 3/9 contact info), with local heavy hitters like Big Rush re- ping on the mic for standout track “THR33 Reasons,” cently recording here. where he closes out his verse with, “Word to my son, “The three-piece suit has always been a symbol of daughter and nieces, and nephew — we the wrong ones respect, class, and dignity amongst men,” goes the to step to.” sampled intro, and all three men are already nodding in “Think Before You Move” is a personal favorite; and unison. Swann is a laidback cat, to say the least, while see how many Swann/Chachi song and album titles you Chachi’s Cheshire cat grin grows when the beat drops on can cull from the clever concept of “Track Listing” (see: “Can I Do My Thing?,” where Swann raps, “The chem- Master Ace’s “Maybe Next Time”). The guys initially ad- istry is magic,” accompanied by DJ Mekalek’s slicing up dress the ladies on “Women,” but eventually vent about Slick Rick and Greg Nice in the closing moments. “I Wish pretty-boy dudes sporting skinny jeans as Chachi sneers, We Were There” follows, and is on a par with De La Soul’s “What the fuck? You got umbrellas in your cup full of “Much More.” Looking through my notes, I had scribbled pink stuff lookin’ tough but you sippin’ like women.” down comparisons to Golden Era classics like Breaking At- The hook on “Head Nod” is tailor-made for summertime Monday oms, Mecca and the Soul Brother, and The Low End Theory. cruising; the interweaving bars and booming horns on 8 On the get-your-hands-up anthem “Outloud,” Swann the killer title track had me doing the Kid ’n Play Kick uNLimited PooL suavely delivers another memorable verse: “It’s so natu- Step with my desk chair. And Chachi’s opening verse on ral the feeling is beautiful/This is my 9-to-5, I don’t chill “Grand Finale” should go down as one of his best yet: FOR JUST $9 FROM 6PM-CLOSE • in a cubicle . . . the crowd shows love and the feeling is “Thirty some-odd years in life I made friends and enemies oPeN 8 baLL tourNameNt at 7Pm mutual,” while Chachi declares, “Hey young world, I just an’ frenemies that pretend to be a friend of me/Now they wanna be your motivation, your daily inspiration/It’s just a memory, the problem is the pain that I gain when I $15 eNtry & caSh PriZeS a helluva sensation when they give congratulations.” take trips down memory lane.” And on “Take Your Time” Swann opens up with, “I was The trio has a slew of respected local rap artists in their THURSday raised to believe in myself and keep an open mind/Dance corner, from CR the Beast handling A&R duties, DJ Me- Open Mic Singer to my own tune and follow no design.” While there are kalek and DJ Therion on the cuts, and longtime friend, SOng Writer night plenty of positive-vibe rhymes on the album (“You feelin’ producer, and Beatbox co-owner Vertygo served as studio Hosted by: Dino Larson good and love the vibe/Then come along, enjoy the ride,” engineer on the album. Sign up begins at 7pm. Swann raps on “Best Time Ever”), Brand New Vintage is no Chachi, DePina, and Swann anticipate big things on Come share your talent! afterschool special. Swann and Chachi can kill with kind- tap in 2013. Just this week they opened for Talib Kweli for ness on the mic. a second time, and casual conversation eventually turns COLLEGE “The braggadocio is there, and we’re plenty boastful,” to plans for an overseas tour. But it is clear the trio will NIGHT! Swann says, “but we’re not . . .” take their time and plot accordingly. Ladies pLay pooL FRee Chachi chimes in, “We ain’t angry rappers, ya know? “It’s been a really cool ride so far,” DePina says, “but ^ FRom 8pm-cLose FREE POOL W/ We’re not walking around scowling and screw-facing,” the journey has just begun.” $3.99 16oz sangRia COLLEGE ID! he said. “There’s no need for that.” J. DePina’s beats boom and crackle throughout Brand THR33 PIECE SUIT | Friday, March 8 @ 11 pm | Fête Lounge, 101 $2 weLL Rum dRinks FRom 6pm-11pm Ask your bartender New Vintage, and guided the recording process. Dike St, Providence | $10 | 401.383.1112 | chachihiphop.com about drink specials! 10 March 1, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.coM

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A curious blend The ‘2013 RISCA FellowShIp exhIbITIon’ _by GR eG CooK

“2013 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition,” fthe Rhode Island State Council on the Arts’ annual roundup of winners of the agency’s $5000 and $1000 grants, is a curious experience. At the Jamestown Art Center (18 Valley St, through March 19), it serves as a sampler of what’s percolating in the state but, with a handful of works from each of the 14 visual artists — plus videos featuring choreography — everything kind of blends together. A few pieces stand out. Providence Purchase sculptor Jill Colinan, who is now a multi- Tickets time state grant winner, is known for Online! stitching together creepy, funny, patch- work lady dolls. Her Baby Doll is a lumpy fabric figure laying sprawled, naked, on her back on an overstuffed little bed A VISCERAL JOLT Colinan’s Baby Doll. perched atop four-foot-tall spindly legs. One eye is closed, the other half-open; her lips are parted to reveal creepy bead teeth. Three zip- ing and collage, realist sculpture, and various sorts of sur- pers run down her body, like the surgical scars from some realism or goth, like Colinan’s soft sculptures. Also at the Dr. Frankenstein. One zipper along the middle of her goth-surreal end is Providence sculptor Jesse Thompson’s chest is pulled down a bit and white stuffing spills out for mini-tableau Pry. It depicts a gray, smooth-skinned baby- a visceral jolt. man wearing just a diaper and socks. He sits on a chair in The photograph Lori by Maria Scaglione of Westerly a desolate muddy landscape, next to a rotted tree trunk. depicts a woman with red curly hair kissing her reflection He uses a long branch to poke at the desiccated corpse of a in a window. The twinning makes the photo feel kaleido- bird. Thompson has impressive realist technique, but his OPEN MIKE NIGHT scopic. Her reflection is like an apparition emerging from imagery feels affected. Sun, March 10 • 8pm • $35 EVERY THURSDAY the lush green foliage of the garden and alluring blue Esteemed Riverside photographer Denny Moers’s im- Doors, 7 p • 8pm • NO COVER Rusted Root w/opening acts Joel Plasket, Adam Ezra Duo pool outside. Scaglione’s other photos here are just okay, ages of bare trees standing in a flooded lake or the ruins of Play on the legendary backline. straight-ahead portraits of folks whom she describes as a cabin in the woods are printed expressionistically. The (Adam...... & Turtle). Doors 6:30p 3 song sign up list & Free CD “separated from a ‘normal’ social environment by their results feel scratched and weathered, as if the images are recording of performance. Sat. March 16 • 8pm • $15 Lori Sugar Ray & The Bluetones grandiose and difficult personalities.” But is in an- antiques that have survived burning and rust. At times Interested in being a host band? Award Winning Blues - w/guest 9 yr old other register. It vibrates like a hallucination. Moers’s technique feels mannered, but when it works it E: [email protected] Nolan Leite on guitar, who rocked the Carolina ceramics artist Jay Lacouture’s soda vapor has the feeling of a dark dream...... house at Blues for the Beach glazed porcelain technique makes his elegant Fire and Ice As for abstraction, Michelle Benoit of West Warwick Fri. March. 1 • 8pm • $10 ...... Fri. March 22 • 9pm • $10 Bottle with Platter resemble shards from two or three differ- slathers stacks of flat bars of hand-cut, reclaimed acrylic Johnny & The East Coast Sugar - Swing, Pop, Disco, Funk Rockers Blues/Swing/Jazz//R&B ...... ent vases and plates excavated by an archaeologist and resin with paint so they seem to radiate color or glower ...... Fri. March 29 • 8pm • $10 then carefully jigsaw puzzled back together. The impres- with frost. Pawtucket artist Leslie Hirst’s L O N E spells out Sat. March 2 • 8pm • $10 Rock N’ Soul Revue -Motown, Swing, Pop & a little rock sion of age and the alternation between a red feather pat- the title in wildstyle graffiti letters, cut out and floating Rick Russell & The ...... tern and an intricate Asian-style blue flower, shell, and out from the wall, which is significantly more dynamic Sat. March 30 • 8pm • $15 Cadillac Horns - Blues butterfly design combine to handsome effect. than her usual drawings. The twist — both cool and per- ...... Al Copley Quintet Blues Piano ...... The “Fellowship Exhibition” highlights abstract paint- haps too pat — is that her letters are collages of antique Fri. March 8 • 8pm • $10 LET’S DANCE WEDNESDAYS Eight To The Bar - Swing, R &B, Doors, 6:30 p $10 • Music 8-10 p hand-written notes Boogie Woogie, Soul & Motown FREE DANCE LESSONS! edged with lace...... Weds. March 6 • Mystic Horns Providence painter Golf Shirt Sat. Mar. 9 • 9pm • $17.50a/$20d Weds. 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by. Passersby exclaim as one: “Well, of all satisfied just to clarify how people should Following the herd things!” Berenger tries to make sense of rephrase the question. the sight, a problematic tendency he has, As for the concerned witnesses, the only Brown/TriniTy rEP MFA’s RhinoceRos suggesting: “Perhaps it’s been hiding . . . question they get stirred up over is whether in a surrounding swamp.” The vague fear- that rhinoceros had one horn or two, and _By Bill rodriguEz fulness he’d said was behind his drinking whether that meant it was African or to comfort himself is now tangible. Asian. But the beasts start multiplying and Ever have days when you’re just not a contrast: brightly energetic, bursting But there are straws to grab at. The soon are as populous, and apparently harm- f yourself? Eugène Ionesco’s brilliantly with joie de vivre and optimism, formally Logician (Ben Chase), ridiculous in a red less, as pigeons. Office mate Botard (Matt conceived Rhinoceros extends that notion to well-dressed. His way of pulling Berenger fez and pretentious manner, offers help. E. Russell) appears as a character type as the snapping point of ridiculousness, and together is to run a comb through his hair A typical syllogism of his: a), all cats are opinionated as the Logician, as he refuses it’s getting a delightful rendition by the and dress him up with an extra tie he hap- mortal; b), Socrates was mortal; c), there- to believe in French rhinoceroses, despite Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA theater pens to have in his suit pocket. fore, Socrates was a cat. He doesn’t actual- adamant eyewitness testimony by others at programs at the Pell Chafee Performance Suddenly, unseen to us, their eyes fol- ly solve the problem of the rhinoceroses or work. Berenger eventually gets some com- Center (through March 9). low an outlandish surprise thundering why they appeared, instead he is smugly fort, in the form of the opposite sex, but The price of conformity was never so Daisy (Sylvia Kates) proves worrisome. expensive, the world learns when people The last act of this 2-1/2-hour evening start turning into rhinoceroses. But then drags dreadfully, thanks to excessive con- again, much of the advantage of any herd cerns of the playwright to explicate his instinct is collective comfort, so maybe subtext. Ionesco couldn’t leave absurd they feel it’s a bargain after all. enough alone; he had to have his char- A little context. Theatre of the Absurd, acters go on and on after the climax that which a critic named the movement the ends Act II. Why settle for bon mots when year after this 1959 play, was a creative beaucoup can do? expression of Existentialism, the philo- There are good performances, for the sophical reaction to such absurd human most part. I especially enjoyed the self-de- interactions as war. Exemplars of the style lusive enthusiasm of Moller’s Jean. Carisa included Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet, Anik Platt is a sure crowd-pleaser as the an- and Rhinoceros pokes gentle fun at the latter, guished Housewife distraught over her flat- having a cat of that name become the sole tened cat — her hysteria is hysterical. Elise victim of the clumsy beasts. Ionesco doesn’t LeBreton has a couple of small roles, but stop there — in a lighthearted digression, she really shines in some inventive stage he has characters briefly praise his own business, sitting mutely while the main ac- plays like a trio of theatergoers at tea. tion goes on across the stage. We start out with antihero Berenger Ionesco chose an excellent animal (Greg Fallick) hung over one Sunday morn- k Short, stand-in for such a transformation of hu- ur E

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tedious that he overdoes it every weekend, rk sighted, lumbering creatures who can be though he insists he’s not an alcoholic. MA harmless enough just wandering around A friend shows up, Jean (Ted Moller), ONE HORN OR TWO? ionesco’s play examines our existential plight. but are potentially quite dangerous. That’s ^ an office mate who couldn’t be more of our real existential plight.

Another lesser-known of the myths is The Phaeton/Apollo story is thoroughly Changing oF the gods that of Erysichthon (Benjamin Hill) who modernized, told to a “therapist” (Katerine is punished by Ceres (Julia Bartoletti) for Riley), with Phaeton asking his dad for uri ThEATrE’s MetaMoRphoses chopping down a sacred tree; she sends the “keys to the car” — the chariot which the frightening figure of Hunger (Cath- he drives too close to the sun. This se- _By JohnETTE rodriguEz erine Poirier) to goad him to his death. quence suffered (as did some others) from The most well-known myth — Orpheus indistinct or weak projection; the serious Mary Zimmerman’s wonderfully love theme threaded through Ovid’s tales. (Miller) and Eurydice (Christine O’Connell) pronouncements by the shrink were not f inventive 2002 play, Metamorphoses, The laundresses and some of the other 11 — is presented in two variations, each audible enough to make their satiric im- based on 10 of Ovid’s tales of the Greek cast members take turns narrating the incredibly evocative and soul-stirring. pression. myths, is being given a spirited and hip tales, though the characters in the stories The first features the wedding, the mor- A brief mimed Narcissus episode fea- production at the URI Theatre (through often assume their own voices. tal snakebite and Orpheus’s request of tured Bartoletti staring into a video camera March 3). Based on David R. Slavitt’s 1994 First up is the tale of Midas, with his Hades (Gailliard), with the condition set (video projection was used instead of back- translation of Ovid and even quoting from own up-tempo entrance tune, to which of not looking back at Eurydice, as they drops, with mixed effectiveness); another Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Rainer Brandon Gailliard performs some fancy ascend from the Underworld, with Hermes wordless snippet was that of Pandora (Wag- Maria Rilke’s poem “Orpheus. Eurydice. dance steps and generally struts his stuff. (Americo Lanni) as their guide. The second ner), the consequences of her actions most Hermes,” Zimmerman’s version is respect- A bit later, he also gets across Midas’s an- relives the trio’s fateful steps upward. And vividly visual on the large upstage screen. ful of its sources in tone and language but guish when his daughter (Laine Wagner) the narrator asks whether this is a story The last two sections are tender happy- allows plenty of room for broad humor and is turned to gold. about love and loss, about time’s progres- ending love stories, that of Psyche and contemporary interpretations. The tender love story of Alcyone and sion, or about an artist’s impatience? Eros — “wherever our love goes, there we The URI ensemble, under the direction Ceyx begins with a beautiful dance se- This sad tale is followed by an amusing find our soul” — and Baucis and Philemon, of Steven Raider-Ginsburg, takes that and quence (Daraja Hinds and Benjamin Mill- one — Pomona (a sprightly Hinds) and Ver- who ask of Zeus and Bacchus that they die runs with it. Costumes by David T. How- er), as the narrator describes their “monot- tumnus (Marc Tiberiis II, in one of several at the same moment — “let me not outlive ard and sound design by Michael Hyde are ony of happiness.” Alas, Ceyx sets out to well-wrought comic roles) — though it actu- my own capacity to love.” particularly noteworthy, adding much to sea and is drowned (kudos to Patrick Lynch ally has a tragic story in the middle of it — Thus, through Zimmerman’s elegant the characters and the scene-setting. for the storm and shipwreck) and the Myrrha (Wagner) angers Aphrodite (Poirier) and thought-provoking re-workings of For example, the young women who grieving Alcyone and her dead husband are by not falling in love with any of her many Ovid’s tales, and through URI’s steady-on portray old-fashioned laundresses by a turned to birds, with a lovely representa- suitors, and is thus visited with a passion for production, it becomes evident how time- pond open the show with Dylan’s “Girl tion of their flight together: colorful rib- . . . her father (Hill). This telling does release less these stories of personal metamorpho- from the North Country.” It’s a reminder bons waving atop a long pole held by each Pomona from her apathy, and she gives in to sis are and, once again, what we can learn ^ of modern mythmaking and also of the of the actors as they circle the stage. Vertumnus’s pleas. from them. SUNDAY, APRIL 14 • 8 PM • THE VETS TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT WWW.THEVETSRI.COM, WWW.PPACRI.ORG, BY CALLING 401-421-ARTS & THE PPAC BOX OFFICE BILL BLUEMENREICH PRESENTS 14 March 1, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.coM

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RET RESTAURANT | 401.848.PLAY Butterworth | newportplayhouse.com | 102-104 YELLOW PERIL GALLERY Connell Hwy, Newport | | Through Mar Twenty minutes from Providence 16 Anawan 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, 24: Greetings, by Tom Dudzick | $49.95 St, Fall River MA (near Battleship Cove) Provi-dence yellowperilgallery.com (508) 324-1926 • Doors open @ 7pm, show | | dinner + theater + cabaret, $34.95 starts 8pm unless otherwise noted. Through Mar 17: “Navigation Paint- theater + cabaret | Fri-Sun, doors ings,” by Michael Childress 6 pm, buffet 6:15 pm, show 8 pm | Nominated Providence Phoenix Best Venue for Folk 2013! Matinees Wed + Thurs + Sun [and MUSEUMS selected Tues + Sat], doors 11 am, buffet 11:30 am, show 1 pm NEWPORT ART MUSEUM | 95 EMPIRE | as220.org | 95 Empire St, 401.848.8200 | 76 Bellevue Ave | Providence | Through Mar 3: Fri. 3/1: newportartmuseum.org | Tues-Sat New Weird America, a “devised move- 11 am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission ment play” by director Ari Rodriguez $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students and the Folk Mantra Collective JoNathaN + military with ID; free under 6 | “centering around Chilean folk Through May 5: “Legacies In Paint: music by Violeta Parra and a Chilean The Mentor Project,” with work folk dance form called the Cueca, edwards from a four-month mentoring a couples’ dance about flirtation” | project with mid- to late-career Mar 2 8 pm; Mar 3 3 pm | $10 Rhode Island painters [Paula OCEAN STATE THEATRE COMPANY Martiesian, David Barnes, Michele | 401.921.1777 | oceanstatetheatre. Rhode Island Hospital is conducting a research study to Provost, John Riedel, and Ida org | 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick | determine if an injectable opiate-blocking medication called Schmulowitz] and younger painters Through Mar 9: Rent, by Jonathan Naltrexone helps opioid dependent persons who are involved Sat. 3/2: Singer and songwriter for Live [Buck Hastings, Mollie Hosmer- Larson | Wed + Fri 7:30 pm; Thurs with the criminal justice system remain drug-free. Dillard, Li Jun Lai, Erika Sabel, + Sat 2 + 7:30 pm | $39-$54 [$25 stu- and Dan Talbot] | Through May dent rush tickets one hour prior to Because of Naltrexone’s complete blocking action, it does ed 12: “Faculty Focus,” with works curtain] not cause euphoria or mood alteration and if you stop taking by Charlene Carpenzano and ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY | it you do not have to go through withdrawal symptoms. Dan McManus of the NAM art 401.253.1040 | rwu.edu | 1 Old Ferry KowalCZCK school | Through May 12: “Shelf Rd, Bristol | March 1-6: The Laramie Life,”paintings by Gerry Perrino | Project: Ten Years Later, by Moises To be eligible you must: Through May 19: “Newport Annual Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, • Be 18 to 60 years old Members’ Juried Exhibition” Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris, and RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Stephen Belber | Fri-Sat + Mon- • Have a history of opiate addiction or current Fri. 3/8 & Sat. 3/9: Two Shows! Benefit St, Providence | risdmuseum. Wed 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $10, $5 dependence. org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm [Thurs students + seniors • Have a history of criminal justice involvement until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY | ForeVer youNG seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com ( jail, probation, parole etc.) 5-18; free every Sun 10 am–1 pm | | At the Stadium Theatre, 28 Monu- a triBute to Neil youNG ment Sq, Woonsocket A Through Mar 17: “2013 RISD Faculty | Mar 1 8 pm: Participation is voluntary and confidential. You will be Midsummer Night Dream Biennial” | Through May 19: “Gris- | $19 compensated for your time and transportation is provided. gorious Places: Edward Lear’s URI THEATRE | 401.874.5921 | uri. 3/13: Charlie Musselwhite edu/theatre Robert E. Will Theater Travels” | Through June 9: “RISD | 3/15: Mary Gauthier Business: Sassy Signs and Sculp- at the University of Rhode Island Fine If you are interested or have questions please call Arts Center, Upper College Rd, Kings- 3/16: CoMedy NiGht! Brad MastraNGelo tures by Alejandro Diaz” | Through aNd artie JaNuario June 30: “Double-and-Add,” works ton | Through Mar 3: Metamorphoses, (401) 444-6427 by Angela Bulloch, Anthony by Mary Zimmerman | Thurs-Sat 3/17: dr. JohN (sold out) This project is being funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and 3/21: JoaN osBourNe McCall, and Haroon Mirza | 7:30 pm; Sun 3 pm | $20, $15 seniors, approved by the Miriam Hospital IRB. Through July 14: “The Festive $12 students 3/23: aMy helM City,” an exhibit of rarely seen 20 March 1, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.coM

Unless otherwise noted, these listings are for Thurs Feb 28 through Thurs Mar 7. Times can and do change without notice, so please call the theater before Film heading out.

AVON CINEMA ENTERTAINMENT ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:25, ShOWCASE CINEMAS CINEMAS 2:40, 4:55, 7:10 WARWICK MALL 260 Thayer St, Providence | A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 12:30, 401.421.3315 30 Village Square Dr, South 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late 400 Bald Hill Rd | 401.736.5454 QUARTET | Thurs: 2:15, 4:20, 6:30, 8:35 Kingstown | 401.792.8008 JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts AMOUR | Starts Fri: 1, 3:35, 6:20, 8:50 BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 1:25, show: 12:25 Fri: 12:55, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40, 10:10 | Fri- 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 SAFE hAVEN | Thurs: 12:50, 1:20, 3:40, Sat late show: 12:20 CABLE CAR CINEMA ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh 3D | 4:10, 6:30, 7, 9:10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:15, 4, JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 204 South Main St, Providence | Thurs: 4, 9 6:40, 9:25 1:25, 4:10, 7:10 401.272.3970 JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts IDENTITY ThIEF | Thurs: 4:30, 5, 7:05, ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts 2013 PROVIDENCE FRENCh FILM Fri: 1:40, 7 7:35, 9:40, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 1:25, 4:10, Fri: 12, 2:15, 4:40, 7, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late FESTIVAL | Through Mar 3 | Details JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 6:50, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 show: 11:50 @ brown.edu/Project/French_Film_ 4:25, 9:30 SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 12:25, 2:45, The Best in Independent Cinema Festival 21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 1:10, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 4:40, 10:20 5, 7:40, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 2013 OSCAR-NOMINATED ShORT 7:20, 9:40 WARM BODIES | 11:50, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, DARK SKIES | 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, FILMS: ANIMATION | Mon-Tues + DJANGO UNChAINED | Starts Fri: 8:45 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 Thurs: 4:30 | Wed: 5 SNITCh | 4:10, 9:35 MAMA | Thurs: 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:15 | Fri-Sat SNITCh | 1:15, 4, 7:15, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late OSCAR NOMINATED 2013 OSCAR-NOMINATED ShORT ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | late show: 12:05 show: 12:30 Providence FILMS: ALIVE ACTION | Mon-Tues + ARGO | Thurs: 12, 6:20 | Fri-Thurs: 6:55 SHORT FILMS Thurs: 1:20, 7 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 4, 6:30 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:10, French Film Thurs: 6:30 A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 1:45, 4:30, DJANGO UNChAINED | Thurs: 2:45, 2:20, 4:35, 6:45 3/4 -3/5 ThE JEFFREY DAhMER FILES | Mon- 7:25, 9:30 9:05 | Fri-Thurs: 9:20 A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 12:15, 2:35, Tues + Thurs: 9 | Wed: 9:30 Festival Animation 4:30 SAFE hAVEN | 1:05, 4:20, 7, 9:25 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | Thurs: 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05 February 21- March 3 IDENTITY ThIEF | 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:35 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:40, SAFE hAVEN | 12:50, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 | 2013 Live Action 6:30 CINEMA WORLD SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 Fri-Sat late show: 12 3/6 622 George Washington Hwy, 9:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 7:15 LIFE OF PI | Thurs: 12:25, 6:35 | Fri- IDENTITY ThIEF | 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10 | For information on Animation 5:00 Lincoln | 401.333.8676 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1, 4, Thurs: 1:40, 7:25 Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 lms, showtimes and BROKEN CITY | Thurs: 10:35, 7:20 6:45, 9:20 SIDE EFFECTS | 1:10, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 | to purchase tickets 3/7 MAMA | Thurs: 2:30, 5:25, 10:20 ShOWCASE CINEMAS Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 please visit Animation 4:30 STAND UP GUYS | Thurs: 1:20, 4:35 ISLAND CINEMAS 10 SEEKONK ROUTE 6 WARM BODIES | 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts cablecarcinema.com Live Action 6:30 105 Chase Ln, Middletown | Seekonk Square, Seekonk, MA | 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 Fri: 5, 10:15 401.847.3456 508.336.6789 DJANGO UNChAINED | Thurs: 12, 3:30, JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 12:50, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 7 | Fri-Thurs: 9 THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES 10:30, 11:30, 1:15, 2:15, 4:15, 7:25, 9:45 3:50, 7, 9:40 12:40, 4:15, 7, 9:45 3/4 - 3/5 - 9:00 ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | Thurs: ShOWCASE CINEMAS Fri: 11:35, 1:55, 5:30, 7:45, 10 9:55 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10, 10:20 NORTh ATTLEBORO 3/6 - 9:30 PhANTOM | Starts Fri: 10:45, 1:05, 4, WARM BODIES | Thurs: 1:20, 7:15 SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 12:45, 3:55, 640 South Washington St, North 3/7 - 9:00 7:20*, 9:35* [*no shows Mar 7] JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts 7:15, 10:15 Attleboro, MA | 508.643.3900 21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 11:20, 1:35, Fri: 4:10, 9:30 JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts 204 S. MAIN ST. PROVIDENCE RI 02903 5:10, 8, 10:10 CABLECARCINEMA.COM JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: Fri: 7, 9:45 Fri: 1:15, 4:10, 7 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:45 QUARTET | Starts Fri: 10:45, 1, 4:25, 1:10, 7 JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 7, 9:20 ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts 1, 3:55 1:45, 4:40, 7:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 910:15 DARK SKIES | 11:15, 1:45, 5:15, 7:45, Fri: 1:30, 4:10, 7:40, 9:55 ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts 10:15 21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 1:20, 3:50, Fri: 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 10:15 Fri: 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 | Fri-Sat late SNITCh | 11, 1:30, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 7:30, 9:50 21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 12:40, 3:05, show: 10:10 Upscale Mexican Cuisine ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | DARK SKIES | 1:40, 4:20, 7:40, 9:50 5:25, 7:40, 10 21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 12:50, 3:05, EXCELLENT SELECTION OF TEQUILA Thurs: 10:30, 11:10, 12:10, 1:10, 2:10, SNITCh | 1:10, 3:45, 7:20, 9:45 DARK SKIES | 12:20, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 5:20, 7:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:55 4:10, 6:45 | Fri-Thurs: 10:35, 1:10, 4, ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh 3D | 9:55 DARK SKIES | 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15 | 6:45, 10:25 4:30, 8:50 SNITCh | 1:05, 3:45, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat late show: 9:30 NOW SErvINg BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:10, ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:25, SNITCh | 1:25, 4:15, 6:55 | Fri-Sat late TABlESIDE 10:45, 1:35, 4:40, 7:25 | Fri-Thurs: 10:30, 2:20, 6:45 2:35, 4:45, 7:25, 9:35 show: 9:40 guACAMOlE! THANkS FOr 4:30 A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 6:30, 8:45 SAFE hAVEN | 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:35, NOMINATINg uS FOr A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | Thurs: SAFE hAVEN | 12:40, 3:30, 7:10, 9:35 IDENTITY ThIEF | 12:55, 4:05, 6:55 10:05 2:50, 5:05, 7:20 Try Our BEST MExICAN 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:15 IDENTITY ThIEF | 1, 4, 7:10, 9:45 ZERO DARK ThIRTY | Thurs: 12:35, A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 12:30, 2:50, TEQuIlA rESTAurANT | Fri-Thurs: 10:40, 1:25, 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 12:50, 3:50, 7:05 | Fri-Thurs: 12:45, 4, 7:30 5:15, 7:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:05 FlIgHTS! 2013! SAFE hAVEN | 11:05, 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1:10, SAFE hAVEN | 1, 3:40, 6:30 | Fri-Sat vOTE DAIly! 9:50 ARGO | 12:45, 3:40 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 late show: 9:10 IDENTITY ThIEF | 11:10, 1:50, 4:55, IDENTITY ThIEF | 1:40, 4:35, 7:25 | Fri- 7:35, 10:10 JANE PICKENS ThEATER ShOWCASE CINEMAS Sat late show: 10 SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 4:25, 7:40, 10:05 49 Touro St, Newport | 401.846.5252 WARWICK SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1:20, BEST MExICAN | Fri-Thurs: 4:10, 9:15* [*no show Mar 7] QUARTET | Thurs: 3:30 1200 Quaker Ln | 401.885.1621 4:05, 6:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:35 rESTAurANT 2011 BEST MArgArITA WARM BODIES | Thurs: 11:45, 2, 5:20, AMOUR | Starts Fri: 3:30, 6:15 | Sat- BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 1:30, LINCOLN | 12:40, 3:55, 7:05 2010 7:35 | Fri-Thurs: 11:45* [*no show Sat], Sun: 1, 4, 7 | Tues-Thurs: 4, 7 4:30, 7:20, 10:25 3 Course Meals Only $19.95 Sun-Thurs! 2, 5:55, 8:10, 10:20 ThE GOONIES | Fri: 9:15 SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 4:50, 7:30, 10:30 SWANSEA STADIUM 12 hANSEL & GRETEL: WITCh hUNTERS WARM BODIES | Thurs: 2:30, 10:15 207 Swansea Mall Dr, Swansea, MA | In the heart of Federal Hill, 351 Atwells Ave., Providence | Thurs: 6:10 | Fri-Thurs: 11:40, 5:05 PROVIDENCE PLACE JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts 508.674.6700 ZERO DARK ThIRTY | Thurs: 1:15, 4:25, CINEMAS 16 Fri: 1:15, 4, 7:05, 9:45, 10:15 | Fri-Sat JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts (401) 454-8951 • WWW.DONJOSETEQ.COM 7:50 | Fri-Thurs: 1:50, 7:10 Providence Place | 401.270.4646 late show: 12:20 Fri: 1:30, 2, 4:40, 6:55, 7:25, 10:05 | Sat: OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK•10% DISCOUNT W/COLLEGE ID OR THIS AD, NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER PROMOTIONS OR OFFERS LES MISÉRABLES | 12:45, 4, 7:10 | Fri- BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 12:35, JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 1:30, 6:55, 7:25, 10:05 | Sun-Wed: 1:30, Thurs: 1:10, 7:20 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 1:45, 4:30, 7:35 2, 4:40, 6:50, 7:25, 10:05 | Thurs: 1:30, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 10:50, ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh 3D | ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts 2, 4:40, 6:50 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 Thurs: 9:30 Fri: 12:10, 2:25, 4:35, 7:20, 9:30 | Fri-Sat JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD: ThE IMAX late show: 11:40 4:10, 9:35* [no show Mar 7] EAST PROVIDENCE 10 EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 12, 2:20, 4:40, 21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 12:25, 2:50, ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts 60 Newport Ave, East Providence | 7:15, 9:35 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 Fri: 1:50, 4:30, 7:35, 9:55 401.438.1100 hANSEL & GRETEL: WITCh hUNTERS DARK SKIES | 12:15, 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 10 21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 2:10, 4:50, MOVIE 43 | Thurs: 9:20 | Thurs: 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15 7:45, 10:15 PARKER | Thurs: 9 ZERO DARK ThIRTY | Thurs: 3:15, 9:25 SNITCh | 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late DARK SKIES | Thurs: 1:50, 4:30, 7:20 | ThIS IS 40 | Thurs: 9:10 JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts show: 12:10 Fri-Thurs: 2:20, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 BULLET TO ThE hEAD | Starts Fri: 1:15, Fri: 1:20, 4:15, 10:15 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:05, SNITCh | Thurs: 2:10, 4:40, 7:30 | Fri- 3:15, 5:20, 7:20, 9:30 JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 2:15, 4:40, 6:55, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late Thurs: 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10:10 hANSEL & GRETEL: WITCh hUNTERS 12:50, 3:45, 7:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:55 show: 11:30 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh 3D | | Starts Fri: 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:25 JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER: ThE IMAX A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 12, 2:20, Thurs: 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 | Fri-Thurs: 4, 9:20 GANGSTER SQUAD | Thurs: 1:20, 3:40, 3D EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 12:20, 3:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | Thurs: 6:45, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 3:20, 6:40, 6:35, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 QUARTET | 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:50, 10:10 | 1:35, 4, 6:50 | Fri-Thurs: 1:45, 7 9:20 ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | Thurs: A hAUNTED hOUSE | Thurs: 1:15, 3:20, Fri: 12:10, 12:45, 2:25, 3, 4:45, 5:15, 7, SAFE hAVEN | 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:45 | 1:30, 2, 4:20, 4:50, 7:10, 7:40, 9:30, 10 | 5:20, 7:20, 9:45 | Fri-Thurs: 7:10, 9:15 7:30, 9:15, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 Fri-Thurs: 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:25 ThE LAST STAND | Thurs: 1:30, 4:15, 11:30, 12 IDENTITY ThIEF | 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 9:50 | SAFE hAVEN | 1:35, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45* 7:15, 9:35 | Fri-Thurs: 9:10 PhANTOM | Starts Fri: 12, 2:30, 5:05, Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 [*no show Feb 28] LES MISÉRABLES | 12:45, 4:30, 8 7:25, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 ZERO DARK ThIRTY | Thurs: 12:25, IDENTITY ThIEF | Thurs: 4:15, 6:55, PARENTAL GUIDANCE | 12:40, 3:05, 21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 12:25, 12:55, 6:05 | Fri-Thurs: 9:55 9:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:25, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 2:40, 3:10, 4:55, 5:25, 7:10, 7:40, 9:25, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 12:55, SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, ThE TWILIGhT SAGA: BREAKING 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40, 12:10 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 4:20, 10 DAWN — PART 2 | Thurs: 1:10, 3:30, 6:30 DARK SKIES | Thurs: 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, LINCOLN | Thurs: 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, WARM BODIES | Thurs: 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 3:40, 6:30, 9 7:55, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:50, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 12:20, 3:30, 6:45 10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:55, 7:20 RISE OF ThE GUARDIANS | 12:50, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 ARGO | Thurs: 4:25, 7, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | Thurs: 2:55, 5 SNITCh | 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 | 1:05, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, WRECK-IT RALPh | 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7 Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 show: 12:20 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | march 1, 2013 21

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FShort Takes new movieS XXW legs, lugging her to the toilet, and putting off AMOUR his promise to pull out a pillow and end it all. French | 127 minUteS | avon + jane pickenS Very romantic. Or maybe not. Is it a film The master of bleakness, depravity, and bit- about geriatric love or about the paralysis ter irony Michael Haneke has at last made of bourgeois existence — a less pathological an unabashedly romantic love story, and version of Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001), his most upbeat movie to date. This doesn’t in which Huppert, in the title role, plays the seem the case in the early going, as first re- oppressed daughter of another burdensome sponders cover their noses from the stench woman? Or maybe of The Seventh Continent REMORSELESS LITANY OF DESPAIR Trintignant and Riva in Amour. of a decomposing body. Nor will the film’s (1988), in which a normal middle-class fam- remorseless litany of decline, incapacity, ily lock themselves in their home, system- despondency, and death leave you with an atically destroy everything they possess, Anger movie. The crass Americanization noia driving Daniel to a gun shop before the extra spring in your step. But before the and then kill themselves? In fact, many of invalidates the detail; the silly melodrama Fourth of July–set finale adds a welcome dose tedious misery can drive you up the wall, a Haneke’s films depict the self-immolation of invalidates the realism of the script; and a of social satire. Amour _Brett Michel pigeon flies through a window and, with all a stifling social unit. As such, aspires climactic spiritualist conceit leaves it all feel- XX the dumb innocence of an obvious symbol, to a romantic ideal of a different sort — the ing like self-parody. Crimson Tide this isn’t. _Jake Mulligan SNITCH refuses to fly away. liberation of the individual from all social XXW Two of the world’s best actors, Jean-Louis ties, including those of love. 112 minUteS | cinema world + iSland + prov- _Peter Keough DARK SKIES idence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, play XW Amour’s octogenarian couple, so it’s surprising 95 minUteS | cinema world + iSland + StadiUm 12 that the characters aren’t very interesting. PHANTOM providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson idles through Riva plays Anne, a former piano teacher, and 97 minUteS | cinema world + providence StadiUm 12 this Ric Roman Waugh–directed action thrill- Trintignant is her husband, Georges, also a place 16 + ShowcaSe “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone er as John Matthews, a construction company retired musician. Except for in the opening Simultaneously bizarre and banal, director in the universe or we are not. Both are equal- owner who infiltrates a cartel to persuade scene in a concert hall, the two don’t get out Todd Robinson’s military procedural seems ly terrifying.” Arthur C. Clarke’s quote is the the DEA to set free his wrongly imprisoned much, nor does the movie; it’s shot almost designed to please no one. Ed Harris and first thing we see in this spare new thriller son. Johnson’s character is more vulnerable entirely in the couple’s apartment, the pair’s William Fichtner star as the commanders of from writer/director Scott Stewart (Legion), than his usual brute — Matthews is mugged, solitude broken only by rare visits from their a Cold War–era Soviet sub; making a final so it comes as little shock when a “Grey” ap- held at gunpoint, forced to do drugs — but daughter Eva (Isabelle Huppert), Anne’s for- journey before retirement. What starts as a pears, even if the superbly off-kilter sound his flinty expressions and delivery don’t show mer student Alexandre (Alexandre Tharaud), training mission ends up as a struggle for the design adds effective juice to that first it. More versatile is Jon Bernthal as one of his the concierge and his wife, who bring gro- nukes on board, with our stars battling — scream-inducing moment. Nothing coming employees, a tense two-striker who’s trying to ceries, and a few others. Nobody seems very New York/New Jersey accents in tow, hilari- after quite tops it in a film that borrows lib- stay clean but can’t resist introducing his boss comfortable, and they don’t stay very long. ously — for the fate of the world. Borderline erally from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Pol- to the back alleys when money’s on the table. Haneke, however, does, and meticulously impenetrable jargon-based dialogue sets the tergeist, Paranormal Activity, Signs, and even The Though Waugh adeptly raises the stakes as depicts lives so uneventful that when Anne static tone, but it’s broken by melodramatic Birds. What it lacks in originality, it almost the duo’s schemes snowball, the tension dis- freezes practically in mid-sentence from a overtures — this is the kind of movie where makes up for with strong performances from sipates like a plume of spilled cocaine during stroke, it takes a while for Georges, and the someone uses their dying breath to say, “You the Family Under Siege: Keri Russell and Josh the too-brief final shootout. But hey, at least viewer, to notice anything amiss. As her have to pick a side.” And then there are Har- Hamilton as Lacy and Daniel Barrett, reces- you get to see the Rock blast thugs with a condition deteriorates, Georges cares for her ris’s drunken epileptic incidents; overloaded sion-battered parents of Jesse (Dakota Goyo) shotgun and maneuver a semi with blown- obsessively, firing the nurses, whose work he on rum and racked with guilt, his hallucina- and Sam (Kadan Rockett). J.K. Simmons as a out tires — at the same time. finds “unprofessional,” massaging her pale tions leave Phantom looking like a Kenneth resigned E.T. expert is just gravy. The para- _Scott Sugarman FAlso Playing XX BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | 2013 EARTH | 2013 | On the distant planet in a high-rise and a midnight run it with a certain gesture or inflection. on franchise (he produces the movies ing through voiceover for most of the | Throughout his adaptation of Kami Baab lives a family of aliens who to Chernobyl, where a conspiracy McCarthy, with bouncing-off-the- of his books). And he’s got his hooks film) eats the brains of dutiful young Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s YA novel, must learn to cherish one another. to trade enriched uranium comes wall energy and commitment to her deep into director Lasse Hallström Perry (Dave Franco) and then creates a Richard Lagravenese drops the names They are Scorch Supernova (Brendan to light. Along the way there are character’s facility for fiction, is at (My Life As a Dog and The Cider House hostage situation cum romance with of books that would have provided a Fraser), an arrogant astronaut; his double-crosses, shootouts and the the start of what will be a wonderful Rules), who’s on board here for a sec- Julie (Teresa Palmer), the girl that more rewarding way of spending a brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), a nerdy supposedly touching scene when movie career. | 108m | ond tour of duty (after Dear John). One Perry left behind? Complete with riffs couple of hours than watching this technician; and Gary’s son, Kip (Jon- Jack starts calling his father “dad” might overlook the low production on Romeo and Juliet and John Malkovich movie. For instance, the adolescent athan Morgan Heit), and wife, Kira instead of “John.” A Good Day To Die JACK THE GIANT SLAYER | 2013 | values, endless platitudes, and tired playing the angry dad who needs to classics Catcher In the Rye, On the Road, To (Sarah Jessica Parker). Their story is Hard is a movie for people who like Bryan Singer’s loose adaptation of clichés because Sparks does know lighten up and let his daughter date Kill a Mockingbird, and Slaughterhouse-Five, a family-film cliché from a galaxy blowin’ stuff up, evidently a favor- the timeless fairy tale stars Nicholas how to jerk the tears, in a Hallmark a zombie? I think not. Sadly, though, which Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a not so far, far away. When Scorch ite pastime of director John Moore, Hoult as Jack, a young farmhand kind of way. But after the mysterious the product doesn’t live up to the small town kid yearning for romance, bumbles into captivity on Earth, it’s whose action scenes make about as who accidently rekindles an ancient Katie (Dancing with the Stars’ Julianne pitch. Director Jonathan Levine (of The is reading. No wonder he keeps dream- up to Gary to finally grow a pair and much sense as his script, which was war between humans and a race of Hough) lands in coastal North Caro- Wackness and 50/50 and who, despite ing about an elusive, beckoning sprite. step out from behind the keyboard likely written on a cocktail napkin. giants when he opens a gateway lina (Sparks’s breadbasket), falls for some pleasurable wide framing here, But then he meets Lena (Kristen Stew- to rescue his brother. Imprisoned in Yippee ki-yay? Try yippee ki-nyet, between the two worlds. Ewan single-dad Alex (Josh Duhamel), and seems to be in full sellout mode) pan- art clone Alice Englert), the ostracized Area 51 by Agent Shanker (William Mother Russia. | 97m | McGregor, Stanley Tucci, and Ewen the details of her dicey past slowly ders to the teen set with a fervor that new kid in school, and finds the girl Shatner), Gary is forced to devise an Bremner also star. | 114m | (and manipulatively) come to light (a would make Stephenie Meyer blush. XXW of his dreams. What he doesn’t know alien weapon that will grant Shanker IDENTITY THIEF | 2013 | THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES | 2012 cop from Boston and a possible mur- Warm Bodies may be about zombies, is that Lena is a pastiche of characters intergalactic domination. Directed Melissa McCarthy didn’t get awards | From IMDB: “An experimental der), the groan-worthy denouement but it’s more of a Frankenstein’s mon- from Harry Potter, Twilight, Interview with by novice Cal Brunker, Escape refer- for Bridesmaids for pishing in a sink, documentary film that uses archival washes Haven out into a sudsy sea of ster. It steals the “brain-dead culture” the Vampire, Carrie. . . . A “Caster” (i.e., ences an array of other films, such she got them for the 180-degree shift footage, interviews, and fictionalized shameless melodrama. | 115m | subtext from George Romero, the idea she casts spells), she’s hiding out at as Toy Story, Independence Day, and The to where she gives a moving tough- scenarios to tell the story of the peo- of rewriting classic romantic fiction the manor of her creepy Uncle Macon Artist (of all things), and sometimes love speech to Kristen Wiig. Identity ple around Jeffrey Dahmer during the 21 AND OVER | 2013 | Teen comedy for teen audiences from Clueless, and (Jeremy Irons, dressed like the Pope on mixes wit with its bromides. But Thief isn’t so daring or deep, but it too summer of his arrest in 1991. ” | 76m | directed by the writing team behind its best jokes from Shaun of the Dead. It’s holiday), so her wicked mother can’t thanks to the Weinstein Company’s gives McCarthy a counterpoint to her The Hangover. The film stars Justin more like fan fiction than a coherent find her and convert her to evil. Ethan insistence on low-rent animation, multitude of hilarious pratfalls: even- THE LAST EXORCISM PART II | 2013 Chon, Skylar Astin, and Miles Teller script. | 97m | is an unwelcome distraction — for the this might please young kids but tor- tually, the tacky con-woman she plays | Supernatural sequel directed by Ed as a group of best friends celebrating viewer too, since Ehrenreich is more ment discerning parents. | 95m | shows her vulnerable side to the mark Gass-Donnelly. Ashley Bell reprises a 21st birthday via a night of humili- like Jethro Clampett than Truman Ca- played by Jason Bateman. Seth Gordon her role as Nell Sweetzer and this ef- ation, overindulgence, and debauch- OUR RATING XX pote. LaGravanese at times spins strik- A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | directs this funny, though formulaic, fort picks up where the first one left ery. | 100m | ing images — a scene in which Ethan 2013 Just in time for Valentine’s mismatched-duo comedy in which off, with Nell attempting to rebuild Masterpiece XXXX | XXW walks into a magical time warp is Day, this fifth iteration of the Die Bateman’s straight-laced family man her life after her horrific encounters. WARM BODIES | 2013 | Good XXX Hard | 91m particularly nightmarish. But he also franchise (launched in 1988) has must nab McCarthy, the identity thief | The cinema of young-adult-novel Okay XX has a weakness for clichés; I guess he’s Bruce Willis’s John McClane heading who has ruined his credit, and haul adaptations has given us some gonzo XW been taking lessons from the wrong to Moscow to help his son Jack (Jai her from Florida to Denver for prosecu- SAFE HAVEN | 2013 | Some- plotlines. But can either Twilight or Not Good X books. | 124m | Courtney) protect an enemy of the tion. Yeah, Bateman’s playing his where along the way Nicholas Sparks The Hunger Games top Warm Bodies, in Stinks Z state from a corrupt government of- basic Michael Bluth, fussy and secure went from being just a bestselling which a zombie named R (Nicholas XX ESCAPE FROM PLANET ficial. A car chase leads to a standoff in his righteousness, but he’ll freshen author of preachy schmaltz to a full- Hoult, who rarely has dialogue, speak- 22 March 1, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence. thephoenix.coM

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This week’s lunar phase turns a cru- saTurday of-course 10:28 am until 7:14 pm, when cial corner: that last quarter moon March 2 it moves into capricorn. a good day for onward17 is about 18 finishing 19 up 20 projects 21 Waning 22 moon 23 in Scorpio. 24 Scorpio 25 moons 26 27 planning28 a trip 29 that’s 30 long-overdue, 31 32or for Nymphidels, that began in early February and on the weekend are always sensual and delving into some mode of thought that’s thur. climaxed February 25 or so. And a provocative. even the most conservative arcane or that relates to world religions. Comic Book word to the wise: This week, Venus folks may find themselves playing footsie adventures closer to home could include 2/28 and Mars continue moving towards under the table. also a fine day to cut to exotic cuisine — this sounds yummy to Li- Keith harmony (they’re both in Pisces now). the chase. virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagit- bra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, aquar- Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces could be tarius, capricorn, pisces, aries, Gemini and ius, taurus, cancer, Leo, and aries. Gemini, having unexpected flirtations with 1 2 3 c ancer:4 you’re 5 able 6 to see beneath7 8the 9 v irgo, 10 and p 11isces: hold12 off on 13 decisions. 14 15 16 EvEry unlikely candidates. This could lead to surface — which could be alarming. taurus, kArAoke something serious or just be a preview Leo, and aquarius: hold off on decision- WedNesday of “spring fever.” Okay? And don’t Fri. 1 2 3 4 5 6 making. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 March 14 6 15 16 forget: Mercury is retrograde for the 9pm 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Waning 26 moon 27 in capricorn28 mid-afternoon29 30 31 32 first half of Mars. If you’re having onward is super for construction projects. computer problems, directional chal- suNday sat. March 3 Building and structure is key — get your lenges,17 or18 chargers 19 that 20 don’t 21 work — 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Milkbread you’re in tune with Mercury. And yes, Waning moon in Scorpio; moon void- plans together, and then make your move. 3/2 that is not fun. of-course 4:19 am until 4:11 pm, when it this will be easier for capricorn, taurus, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 moves 10 into Sagittarius. 11 12 despite 13 a voc 14 15 and v irgo;16 but Libra, Gemini, aquarius, SOULFUL SUNDAY moon, this is a good time to work with fi- Sagittarius, and Leo also have a strategic sun. Thursday nances, inventory, cost-cutting, or manipu- advantage. pisces, cancer, Scorpio, aries: w/ Samantha Cain, February 28 lating information. also excellent for a hot everything is slower than you might like it 3/3 Barn Burning 17 18 19 Waning 20 moon 21 in Libra; 22 moon 23 void-of- 24 25 date 26 — or data! 27 virgo,28 Libra, Scorpio, 29 Sagit30 - 31 to be. 32 have patience, and put up your feet course 3:37 am until 12:30 pm Friday. an a tarius, capricorn, pisces, aries, Gemini and and relax, why don’t you? 6-10PM generous day, as moon and Jupiter are in cancer: dig beneath the surface. taurus, harmony, while venus, Mars, and the sun Leo, and aquarius: make time for being EvEry REGGAE NIGHT 1 prompt2 romantic3 4 longings 5 for Scorpio, 6 pi- 7 creative 8 — or9 cleaning 10 a closet. 11 12 13 m oon 14 Key 15 S 16 hosted by upsetta international sces, and cancer. however, the voc moon this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the mon. sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s & Rogue island Dub Foundation means some signs may need to “talk MoNday influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | themselves out” this weekend (capricorn, March 4 When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Vintage Vinyl aries, aquarius, Gemini, Leo, taurus, virgo, Last quarter moon in Sagittarius. a turn- a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect EvEry Sagittarius, Libra). Breakdown 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ing point 11 for decisions12 13 made on 14 or around 15 16increased insight and emotionality. When the moon tuE. February 26 — or for business that began moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), with the Colonel Friday around February 9. a great day for plan- expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, March 1 ning travel or sharing some humor. also, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities 17 18 19 20 Waning 21 moon 22 in Libra; 23 moon 24 void-of- 25 26 a fine 27 day for2 mystics,8 29 or those 30 who look 31 32 will not be at their best. | When the moon is in aries, EvEry TRIVIA NIGHT 8pm course until 12:30 pm, when it moves for the conspiracy. Gemini, virgo, and it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are into Scorpio. a morning of “information pisces: this could be you! Libra, Scorpio, taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, Leo/aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each wEd. w/ Trivia Master GMatt overload,” and it’s easy to grab hold of the Sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, taurus, sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon wrong end of the stick (think twice before cancer, Leo, and aries: keep everything moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void uPCominG you post on social media). virgo, Libra, on the lighter side — deflect super-serious of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider 3/9 The Johnsons , 3/14 Drunk Robb & The shots, 1 2 Scorpio, 3 Sagittarius,4 5 c apricorn, 6 Gemini, 7 8 inquiries. 9 10 11 12 13 14 this a 15null time and16 try to avoid making or implementing 3/16 Jazz Bastards, Briar Rose, For the love of sloane, and pisces: from the silly to the profound, decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For 3/23 soulshot, 3/30 proud of stupid Things, in one short step. cancer, capricorn, aries, Tuesday Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, 4/6 Jay Berndt and the Orphans taurus, and Leo: changeability (in your March 5 visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can 17 18 heart)19 is 20in the air. 21 22 23 24 Waning 25 moon 26 in Sagittarius; 27 28 moon 29 void- 30 be reached 31 at [email protected]. 32

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