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february 8–14, 2013 | rhode island’s largest weekly | free last ChanCe! nominate local stars @ thephoenix. com/best WHY I LIKE VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES On power fantasies, gender, and first-person shooters _by Maddy Myers | p 6 sex and the City wrestling mania luv In Woonsocket, a kinky empire | p 8 ! The Wilbury Group’s Chad Deity | p 16 Firstworks presents The Joffrey Ballet Power. Precision. Passion. Herbert by Photo Migdoll Valentine’s Day Offer: Save 20% on tickets* Use code: LOVE20 at box office through Feb. 14 *Valid on $38-68 ticket levels. Prices incl. $3 restoration fee Fall in love with one of the world’s top dance companies! Three beautiful ballets, three brilliant composers. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ballet that caused a riot—Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. March 19, 7:30pm at Get tickets at first-works.org or 401-421-ARTS PROVIDENCE.THEPHOENIX.COM | THE PROVIDENCE PHOENIX | FEBRUARY 8, 2013 3 february 8, 2013 Contents on the cover F ILLUSTRATION By SAMUEL DEATS IN THIS ISSUE p 15 p 16 p 14 6 first-person shooter _maddy myers The author — black belt, game critic, feminist — explores what violent video games do for the women who love them. 14 homegrown product _by chris conti Ready for the big show: torn shorts ripping and rolling Through the Mill. 15 art _by chris conti Animal instincts: simen johan at Brown and maralie at Yellow Peril. 16 theater _by bill rodriguez Wrestling mania: the Wilbury Groups’s elaborate entrance of chad deity; and the illusion at Providence College Theatre. 24 film “Short Takes” on side effects and bullet to the head. IN EVERY ISSUE 46 phillipe & jorge’s cool, cool world The Blizzard: the origin of the bread- and-milk thing | The poison pill | 6 Dirty business | The Laurel Show 4 the city _by derf 7 5 this just in y Gordon Fox’s broken heart | The Twitter origin story | Bee School at 10 HEANE c Rhode Island College PHILIP 10 dining 11 Bonefish Grill is a well-polished link in an accomplished chain. online exclusives! F EYE-BLEACH-WORTHY CINEMA! 12 8 days a week American Idiot Just in time for valentine’s Day: a 12 Zappa Plays Zappa, , the collection of the 55 squickiest sex Providence Children’s Film Festival, The Rap Guide to Evolution scenes of the 21st century, from , and more. Freddy Got Fingered to Hyde Park 26 moon signs On Hudson, from autofellatio to zoo- 30 _by symboline dai philia. All the disgust and depravity 26 jonesin’ _puzzle by matt jones awaits at thePhoenix.com. 30 PROVIDENCE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER STEPHEN L. 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Cheeks) full-time gig was play- nocuously, weather-wise, P. Two days later, P. had one of there is a frog inside it.” Not that England is a role ing with the Young Adults. The only had a fairly light coat. He the oddest experiences in his time Well, it was only the frog con- model. The English national band had a two-night booking at added a pair of children’s mittens in Little Rhody when he hitched tingent that was surprised when team captain was accused of call- Trax, a club in Manhattan, that he’d found in the van that barely a ride north to Providence to see Europol recently declared that ing another player a “black c—t,” was to begin on that Monday. covered his fingers. Needless to his then-girlfriend. He wound up hundreds of professional match- and has lost his captaincy. Half of the band and crew had say, it was a bit frightening to be walking into the city down the es across the continent had been Sometimes we think there already traveled to New York and standing on the side of the road middle of Route 95 when the car fixed by underworld forces — couldn’t be worse sportsmen than were holed up on Bond Street at in no-man’s land on Route 4, couldn’t go any further due to the including an Asian cartel — in Lance Armstrong or worse fans the loft of their friends Jamie and freezing and with the snow blow- snow and abandoned vehicles. If recent years. than the drunken morons in the Susan. ing blindingly. you have ever seen The Day After For decades, match-fixing has stands in the US. But we’d be Jorge, though, was not among Fortunately, after about 15 Tomorrow, you get the idea. been a part of the game in Eu- wrong. this early group. He was planning minutes of contemplating a very rope. P&J won’t point fingers, but to take an afternoon train to the cold death, the group was able to THE POISON PILL Greece and Italy, among others, THE LAUREL SHOW city, as the band wasn’t set to take flag down one of the few drivers Despite the joy surrounding the will know whom we are talking For the past few Wednesday the stage until midnight. By mid- on the road. It turned out to be House’s recent passage of same-sex about. And don’t even think of evenings, the inimitable Laurel afternoon, the snow was so heavy another India Imports employee. marriage legislation, questions re- looking too deeply into African or Casey has been holding forth at that Our Little Towne was virtu- He let us hop in, and informed us main about its fate in the Senate. South American behavior. the Mile & a Quarter on South ally shutting down. And it was that he thought the snowfall so Proponents are most worried This is just a case of the apple Water Street in Providence. These obvious that members of the band beautiful, he’d dropped some acid about the wholehearted op- not falling far from the tree, are totally unique shows. There still in Rhode Island weren’t get- to further appreciate its splendor. position of Senate President M. though, as FIFA — the game’s are talented guest performers ting to NYC. So at 4 pm, Jorge did Perhaps too much information. Teresa Paiva Weed (thoroughly global governing body — is an singing or demonstrating fashion what any self-respecting rock ’n’ But the car was warm, and we explored in last week’s Phoenix by atrocious conflagration of self- tips as Laurel provides running roller would do in that situation: just hoped that our own Ken Ke- news editor David Scharfenberg); serving, power-hungry old men commentary and the occasional he rushed out to the closest liquor sey could handle the storm. Michael McCaffrey, chairman of who you wouldn’t let hold a dol- rant. And there is music, of store and stocked up. The intrepid driver stayed safely the Senate Judiciary Committee, lar for you. course, from the chanteuse and After a few days, the snow was on the back roads until we reached and professional thug Senator And that atrocious conflagra- her able backing musicians. Kirk waist-high and Vo Dilun was at Wickford at the trestle bridge over Frank Ciccone, who wants a voter tion has some serious problems Feather stopped by a couple of a standstill. There was the bad — the harbor, where P. hopped out referendum on a constitutional on its hands — not just match- weeks ago to add his alto saxo- RIPTA buses stranded in the snow to join a bunch of people who were amendment declaring marriage fixing, but incidents of racism, phone to the mix.