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GOAT ISLAND VIEWS RIIFF Fringe Theater SPREADING STDS RASA • SANGRIA CROSSWORD: MOVIE QUOTES PHILLIPE & JORGE Newport TRACK 84 Bridgefest MOTIFRI.COM • JULY 2 – 15 2015 • FREE JULY 2015 MOTIF MAGAZINE 1 2 MOTIF MAGAZINE JULY 2015 CONTENTS 4 NEWS / OPINION 3 MUSIC HUMMEL REPORT: Mid-year Update ALT-NATION Festivals In Flux by Jim Hummel by Marc Clarkin PHILLIPE & JORGE’S COOL, COOL MIKE D’S TOP 5: Can’t Miss Shows of WORLD: Downton &The Donald July by Mike Delehanty 6 BEER HxC: Festival Season In PVD by GOT BEER? Top 10 Summer Beers: Khrysta Ryan The Reckoning ROOTS REPORT: On The Road Again by Pete Larrivee by John Fuzek 3 EATS, DRINKS & MORE 16 CENTER SPREAD Taking Taste to the Weird Side Food and Cooking Classes Eat Your Way Through the Animal ART Kingdom at Newport Jerky 18 by Mark Fogarty Comics Making the Most of This Summer’s Monster of the Month Restaurant Week by Big Nazo by Kim Kinzie Doodle Box, Trivia & Crossword Taking Stock by Ginnie Dunleavy 3 CANNABIS COLUMN Top Eateries by The Smallest State’s Biggest Hemp Eaty McEaterton Fest! A Rhode Islander Goes to Greece by Dave Sorgman by Jennifer Currier OPENED & CLOSED 3 THEATER Theater Awards Nominees 25 EVENT LISTINGS 30 LUNAR NOTES by Shirley Prisco 31 PIN-UP: BECKY MEDINA CATCH MORE ONLINE @ MOTIFRI.COM: My Fair Lady Review Doubt Preview By Joe Siegel By Joe Siegel motifri.com/myfairlady2015 motifri.com/ doubtpreview2015 The Dukes of Rocky Point Pictures Hazard Respond to Confederate Flag by Courtney Sequira Controversy motifri.com/rockypointpics By Mark Fogarty motifri.com/dukes PRD Update Good Samaritan Law by Crimson Al-Khemia by Jonathan Jacobs motifri.com/julyprd2015 motifri.com/ goodsamaritan2015 MOTIF MAGAZINE CONTACT: PHONE: 401.312.3305, WEB: motifri.com EMAIL: [email protected] for news, [email protected] for events ISSUE /motifri /motifri MOTIF To appreciate federal OFFICES: recognition of the 65 Blackstone Ave, Pawtucket, RI 02860 right to marry who you love, and the STAFF: MIKE RYAN (Publisher), ERIN BOTELHO (Sales Director), efforts of so many EMILY OLSON (Editor), CAITLIN ARDITO (Social Media Consultant), who persevered in MARC CLARKIN (Music Editor), CHASE CORPUS (Editorial Design), that pursuit EMILY MARSELLA (Office Manager), BRUCE ALLEN (Customer Rep), KATIE LEWIS (Customer Rep), GREGORY S. FERLAND (Associate Publisher) CREDITS: ERMINIO PINQUE / BIG NAZO (Monster of the Month), STEVE MARDO (Cover & Interior Illustrations), EMILY OLSON (Trivia), EMILY MARSELLA (Crossword) COPYRIGHT 2015 MOTIF MAGAZINE JULY 2015 MOTIF MAGAZINE 3 BLOCKING THE VIEW early everywhere you look, there is water. With the NNewport Bridge to the west, Fort Adams to the south and Newport Harbor to the east, the condominiums on Goat Island South have been a select slice of Rhode Island real estate since the late Christopher Boyle 1980s, after condos went up on land formerly owned by The U.S. Navy. had mixed success up until now in court. But Goat Island has also been embroiled in multiple property Sisto hired high-profile lobbyist disputes resulting in litigation – lots Christopher Boyle – a Newport of it, with three lawsuits so far going lawyer and former House majority to the Rhode Island Supreme Court. whip – to represent him before the Right in the middle of the current- General Assembly. Sisto declined day legal wrangling: Bennie Sisto, an our request for an interview, instead accountant and property investor having Boyle speak on his behalf. from Lincoln, who owns four of the 19 “From the very beginning there was standalone townhouse a provision allowing the townhouses units on the east to be altered, to be expanded,” Boyle end of the island said. “Anyone who bought their unit, overlooking Newport from the moment that condominium Harbor. Sisto has been started, was on notice that the both a defendant and townhouses could be expanded.” a plaintiff. But critics say those amendments Diane Vanden Dorpel did not conform to state law. Sisto and her husband Ron has already lost one case in the state By bought one of the 46 Supreme Court trying to expand a Jim units in the nearby unit he owns. In that case a justice Hummel America building in termed his reasoning “legal fiction.” 1992, primarily for a Vanden Dorpel – who has testified spectacular view of the harbor from repeatedly against the bills – labels their porch, later buying a second unit them special legislation to benefit in the same building as an investment one person and a threat statewide to in 2005, about a year before she first the Rhode Island Condominium Act, met Sisto. a consumer protection law modeled “He was very nice,” Vanden Dorpel after national legislation that has been said of that first meeting with Sisto. adopted in the majority of other “He had these plans to really expand states. the unit that’s directly in front of us. Boyle says nine other Harbor House It would have blocked our water view, units have expanded at various times, and we were trying to see if we could and if the Supreme Court rules against compromise.” Sisto on the expansion of his unit, the In 2006, Sisto’s attempts to expand other owners, by extension, might one of his units just down the street have to tear down their expansions. from the Vanden Dorpels and another Vanden Dorpel says there has never he owns set in motion litigation that is been any talk of tearing down any of still going today. “Our concern was, if the other units – just the doubling he can do it down there, what’s going in size of Sisto’s unit or plans that to stop him from doing it in front of would block other owners’ water us? Nothing,’’ Vanden Dorpel said. views. And, she adds, if this legislation Meanwhile, Sisto has gone to the goes through, it could affect other Rhode Island General Assembly to try condominium associations in the state. and change the state’s three-decade- old Condominium Act. At issue: a Senate Judiciary Chairman Michael 3,800-square-foot townhouse that McCaffrey told The Hummel Report was half the size it is now when Sisto after a hearing on the bill in May that bought it in 2011. Within months he did not see the legislation making it of the purchase he began adding out of committee this session. 1,200-square-feet of living space and Then Boyle proposed changes that a third floor, even though some of his would narrow the scope of the bill neighbors went to court to try and and it eventually made it through the stop him – saying he didn’t have the Judiciary Committee and was later permission of the other unit owners passed by the full Senate. But with to expand onto what was shared an abrupt end to this year’s General condominium space – a basic tenet of Assembly session, it never passed the state law. House and the bill died. Sisto maintains he did have permission Now the question is: Will Sisto try to to expand when the declarations have the bill reintroduced again next governing the property were amended year? in 2007. And now he is trying to change state law – a change that would The Hummel Report is a 501c3 that relies, allow him to keep the expansion he in part, on your donations. Have a story idea made to his massive unit, as he has or want to donate? Visit HummelReport.org. 4 MOTIF MAGAZINE MAYJULY 20152015 NEWS/OPINIONGOT BEER? PHILLIPE & JORGE’S COOL, COOL WORLD Chickens, a Fox with Sox & Young Adults Chickening Out: With the big couple’s daily lifestyle. Most likely with younger readers, back in the flap at Halitosis Hall this legislative LaFond was well aware of where 1950s and ‘60s, he was a regular Nominated for session over chicken coops and the money for renovations at his presence on the big TV variety Best Erotic Boutique in the USA the birds’ wingspans (OK, that is barber shop and the auto and shows of the era like Ed Sullivan’s AVN Awards 2012 a horrible pun, but blame the hot Tiffany purchases came from, which show. He would race through his weather), Phillipe and Jorge are makes P&J wonder if Gordo might routine and, if he wasn’t getting reminded of a famous story by actually deserve a cellmate he is laughs, would start to perspire and journalist, author and very funny guy quite familiar with in his new digs. blurt out “pee pee, caca, doodoo” Calvin Trillin. Patronizing PawSox: Phillipe (Jorge actually saw him do this on In New York City’s Chinatown, and Jorge don’t know exactly who television once). there is (possibly now was) a live is supposed to be doing the public Here is where the Jack Carter story chicken in a glassed-in box. You’d relations for the new Pawtucket becomes forever linked with Phillipe feed in a dollar, and the chicken will Red Sox ownership, but it appears & Jorge and the Young Adults: One play a game of tic-tac-toe against to be the crack communications afternoon around 1977, Phillipe was you by tapping the various squares firm of Moe, Larry and Curly. watching “The Hollywood Squares” inside as you make your own picks After the brazen announcement on TV and Jack Carter was one of outside. (Phillipe and Jorge did this of plans to move the PawSox the squares. Peter Marshall read a number of times when we lived out of revered McCoy Stadium the question, “Where does the on Mott St in the Big Apple.) The in Pawtucket to a gleaming new line, ‘Where heather lies in a field chicken almost invariably wins, we’re ballpark on the I-195 land in of grass’ appear?” Jack Carter’s sorry to say.