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april 19-25, 2013 | rhode island’s largest weekly | Free ART AFTERMATH OF ATROCITY waFaa Bilal and daniel heyman at Brown’s Bell gallery _by Greg Cook | p 14 HEAR HERE The Cowsills, Steve Smith & the Nakeds, Paul Geremia, and more join the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame | p 8 THIS WHAT THE CLUCK!? BRING ALL THE NOISE JUST IN A game of chicken in Providence | p 6 !A week-long local music rager | p 12 providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | April 19, 2013 3 april 19, 2013 Contents IN THIS ISSUE p 8 p 16 p 25 8 hear here: a local symphony _by PHOENIX staff Meet the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame’s 2013 inductees, including George M. Cohan, Sissieretta Jones, Bobby Hackett, and Bill Flanagan. 12 homegrown product _by chris conti Bring all the noise: the artistic explosion music festival will showcase more than two dozen bands at six venues in six days. 14 art _by greg cook The aftermath of atrocity: wafaa bilal and daniel heyman at Brown’s Bell Gallery. 16 theater _by bill rodriguez A muddled mystery: curtains gets the ol’ college try at PC. 25 film There’s too much wonder and not enough story in Terrence Malick’s to the wonder. IN EVERY ISSUE 6 4 phillipe & Jorge’s 10 8 days a week cool, cool world The Feelies, the Eat Drink RI Festival, New kids on the block | Doughboys Mark Cutler’s fundraiser for the (and girls) | Movers and shakers | Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of A few words for Boston RI,6 Bettye LaVette, the 5th Annual SENE Film, Music & Arts Festival, 4 the city _by derf Epic7 Theatre Co.’s Betrayal, and more 6 this Just in 26 moon signs _by symboline dai The Cluck controversy | Record Store Day | Jukebox heroes 26 10Jonesin’ _puzzle by matt Jones the feelies | p 10 11 12 30 30 PROVIDENCE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER STEPHEN L. BROWN MANAGING EDITOR LOU PAPINEAU NEWS EDITOR PHILIP EIL EDITORIAL DESIGN MANAGER JANET SMITH TAYLOR PROVIDENCE | PORTLAND CONTRIBUTING EDITORS BILL RODRIGUEZ, JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITERS RUDY CHEEKS, CHRIS CONTI, VOL. XXVI | NO. 16 GREG COOK, CHIP YOUNG STEPHEN M. MINDICH CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD McCAFFREY PUBLISHER + CHAIRMAN CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATOR DALE STEPHANOS EVERETT FINKELSTEIN CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES JENNIFER ALARIE, BRUCE ALLEN, JOSHUA COURNOYER, DAYNA MANCINI OFFICES INTEGRATED MEDIA ACCOUNT COORDINATOR ADAM PROVIDENCE 150 CHESTNUT ST, PROVIDENCE, RI 02903 401.273.6397 | FAX 401.273.0920 OPPENHEIMER PORTLAND 65 WEST COMMERCIAL ST, SUITE 207, PORTLAND, ME 04101, 207.773.8900 | CIRCULATION JIM DORGAN [DIRECTOR], MICHAEL JOHNSON FAX 207.773.8905 [MANAGER] NATIONAL SALES OFFICE 150 CHESTNUT ST, PROVIDENCE, RI 02903, 401.273.6397 X 232 | FAX 401.272.8712 WEBSITE PROVIDENCE THEPHOENIX.COM THE PHOENIX MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CHAIRMAN STEPHEN M. MINDICH CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER EVERETT FINKELSTEIN SUBSCRIPTIONS BULK RATE $74/6 MONTHS, $156/1 YEAR, ALLOW 7-14 DAYS FOR DELIVERY. EXECUTIVE EDITOR PETER KADZIS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT A. WILLIAM RISTEEN CALL 401.273.6397 THE PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS | FNX RADIO NETWORK | G8WAVE COPYRIGHT © 2013 BY THE PROVIDENCE PHOENIX, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRODUC- TION WITHOUT PERMISSION, BY ANY METHOD WHATSOEVER, IS PROHIBITED. PRINTED BY MASS WEB PRINTING | PEOPLE2PEOPLE GROUP MASS WEB PRINTING CO., INC., 314 WASHINGTON ST, AUBURN, MA 01501 | 508.832.5317 providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | April 19, 2013 3 april 19, 2013 Contents ROCKSTAR IN THIS ISSUE KARAOKEEvery Sunday @ 9pm p 8 p 16 p 25 8 hear here: a local symphony _by PHOENIX staff Meet the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame’s 2013 inductees, including George M. Cohan, Sissieretta Jones, Bobby Hackett, and Bill Flanagan. Hosted by Idol Star and RI's very own 12 homegrown product _by chris conti Erika Van Pelt & Van Pelt Entertainment! Bring all the noise: the artistic explosion music festival will showcase more than two dozen bands at six venues in six days. 14 art _by greg cook The aftermath of atrocity: wafaa bilal and daniel heyman at Brown’s Bell Gallery. 16 theater _by bill rodriguez A muddled mystery: curtains gets the ol’ college try at PC. 25 film There’s too much wonder and not enough story in Terrence Malick’s to the wonder. IN EVERY ISSUE 6 4 phillipe & Jorge’s 10 8 days a week cool, cool world The Feelies, the Eat Drink RI Festival, New kids on the block | Doughboys Mark Cutler’s fundraiser for the (and girls) | Movers and shakers | Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of A few words for Boston RI,6 Bettye LaVette, the 5th Annual SENE Film, Music & Arts Festival, 4 the city _by derf Epic7 Theatre Co.’s Betrayal, and more 6 this Just in 26 moon signs _by symboline dai The Cluck controversy | Record Store Day | Jukebox heroes 26 10Jonesin’ _puzzle by matt Jones the feelies | p 10 11 12 30 30 PROVIDENCE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER STEPHEN L. BROWN MANAGING EDITOR LOU PAPINEAU NEWS EDITOR PHILIP EIL $3 SELECT DRAFTS EDITORIAL DESIGN MANAGER JANET SMITH TAYLOR PROVIDENCE | PORTLAND CONTRIBUTING EDITORS BILL RODRIGUEZ, JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITERS RUDY CHEEKS, CHRIS CONTI, VOL. XXVI | NO. 16 GREG COOK, CHIP YOUNG $5 MIXED DRINKS STEPHEN M. MINDICH CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD McCAFFREY PUBLISHER + CHAIRMAN CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATOR DALE STEPHANOS EVERETT FINKELSTEIN CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES JENNIFER ALARIE, BRUCE ALLEN, JOSHUA COURNOYER, DAYNA MANCINI OFFICES INTEGRATED MEDIA ACCOUNT COORDINATOR ADAM PROVIDENCE 150 CHESTNUT ST, PROVIDENCE, RI 02903 401.273.6397 | FAX 401.273.0920 OPPENHEIMER PORTLAND 65 WEST COMMERCIAL ST, SUITE 207, PORTLAND, ME 04101, 207.773.8900 | CIRCULATION JIM DORGAN [DIRECTOR], MICHAEL JOHNSON FAX 207.773.8905 www.TheWhiskeyRepublic.com [MANAGER] NATIONAL SALES OFFICE 150 CHESTNUT ST, PROVIDENCE, RI 02903, 401.273.6397 X 232 | FAX 401.272.8712 THE PHOENIX MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS GROUP WEBSITE PROVIDENCE THEPHOENIX.COM (401) 588-5158 515 S Water St Providence, RI CHAIRMAN STEPHEN M. MINDICH CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER EVERETT FINKELSTEIN SUBSCRIPTIONS BULK RATE $74/6 MONTHS, $156/1 YEAR, ALLOW 7-14 DAYS FOR DELIVERY. EXECUTIVE EDITOR PETER KADZIS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT A. WILLIAM RISTEEN CALL 401.273.6397 THE PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS | FNX RADIO NETWORK | G8WAVE COPYRIGHT © 2013 BY THE PROVIDENCE PHOENIX, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRODUC- TION WITHOUT PERMISSION, BY ANY METHOD WHATSOEVER, IS PROHIBITED. PRINTED BY MASS WEB PRINTING | PEOPLE2PEOPLE GROUP MASS WEB PRINTING CO., INC., 314 WASHINGTON ST, AUBURN, MA 01501 | 508.832.5317 4 April 19, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence. thephoenix.com phillipe + Jorge’s cool, cool World NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK CONGRATS TO MARCEL AND KAREN; READING WITH SHELDON; FAREWELL, JONATHAN Though he spent a stint as ously gotten to the point where an lighting his or her favorite books. Dunn, and Mike “Tex” Tanaka. Winters’s split-second character f executive director of the unnamed citizen activist printed (The article was tied to Senator Biscuit City has a rootsy, country, changes with accompanying fa- Rhode Island Economic Develop- bumper stickers reading “Free Sherbert’s recently-released book bluesy sound all its own. They al- cial and vocal special effects could ment Corporation under Governor Jamestown” over a photo of a po- of annotated inspiring quota- ways put on a fun show. understand why he suffered a ner- Lincoln “Missing Linc” Almond, lice cruiser’s flashing lights. tions, On Virtues. We expect that In other music news, we heard vous breakdown in 1959. Marcel Valois — the newly named Could we have a bit more pow- our signed copies are in the mail.) from our friend Jeffrey Lee, Esq., Winters grew up in Spring- head ramrod of the beleaguered dered sugar on that, please? Whitehouse’s selections were who reminds us that the Original field, Ohio, not far from the farm EDC — is hardly a household Last Exit to Brooklyn, by Hubert Southern New England Rock ’n’ country where Phillipe’s mother name in The Biggest Little. (Un- Movers anD shakers Selby; Howl by Allen Ginsberg Roll Collectors Convention in Feb- was raised. P. will always remem- less, of course, you live in a The Rhode Island Progressive (Whitebread is a poetry buff); ruary was sort of dismal. It took ber his stoic grandmother — the household with a lot of people Democrats will hold their first Memoirs of a Midget, by Walter de place during one of those pesky furthest thing from a name-drop- named Marcel or Valois.) “Movers and Shakers” event to la Mare; Class: A Guide Through the winter storms and, according to per — telling the story of encoun- But P&J have had the privilege honor “Five Fearless Leaders” on American Status System, by Paul Dr. Oldie, dealers and customers tering him in Springfield and of working with Marcel in the May 3 at 7 pm at the Waterplace Fussell; and Three Stooges FAQ: were “too a-scared” to brave the tut-tutting that a young Winters past, and we couldn’t have found Restaurant in Providence. The Everything Left to Know About the Eye- weather. So they’ve added a show used to hang out on the street cor- a better appointment. He is not honorees are State Senators Rhoda Poking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping at DiParma’s Italian Table at the ner making cutting remarks to or only intelligent and pragmatic, Perry and Josh Miller, State Rep- Geniuses, by David J. Hogan. Clarion Inn in Seekonk on April 21 about anyone who walked by. “He but he possesses an extremely resentatives Edie Ajello and Maria Well, truth be told, those are from 10 am to 3 pm. The next one was a smart-mouth,” she said. rare quality in Vo Dilun politics Cimini, and Planned Parenthood’s titles pulled from P&J’s favor- won’t be until the end of October, And so much smarter than the and economic development: the Paula Hodges.