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p 6 p 13 TH 6 a dandy list _by david scharfenberg THURSDAY MARCH 14 Two shows — “Lists: To-Dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” and “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion” — highlight RISD Museum’s new 9pm: Pot of Gold Party with direction. Resident DJ Vinny Vibe 12 homegrown product _by chris conti Mega-March madness: meet the first six semi-finalists of the 2013 wbru rock hunt. 10pm: Door prizes from Plus, “Off the Couch” with cannibal ramblers, the gnomes, and more. the Pot of Gold 13 art _by greg cook The pleasures of patterns: “the conditions were just right” at World’s Fair; plus, “navigation paintings” TH Michael Childress’s at Yellow Peril Gallery. FRIDAY MARCH 15 24 film “Short Takes” on barbara and emperor. 5pm: After Work Live Acoustic Music with Brian Twohey featuring in every iSSue the Tom Lanigan Band 6 4 phillipe & jorge’s 10pm: Green Party with cool, cool world Show us your hands | Prayer shots | DJ Dirty Dek, cash prizes Board games | Glorious food | The 6 return of Stevie Thunder for best GREEN attire! 47 the city _by derf 5 this just in TH

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“What’s that you’re holding works to condoms, you’re living Ewing, Ed Pinckney, Walter Ber- Charles Bakst always said, is how Your superior correspondents f behind your back?” on a different planet. ry, Alonzo Mourning, and P&J work best: “You guys just highly recommend that you Whether it’s the last cupcake Of course, the state clearly Allen Iverson did not complete make it up.” take a look at the site. Bon everyone was supposed to share, lacks the staff to track down all their ecclesiastical studies before What we figure is that, since appetit! a risqué love letter, or a loaded these violations. But P&J hope hitting the hardwood. For years, there are no elections going on, Glock, anytime you conceal some- that authorities can at least stop the few black “students” you the staff over at the Board of the return oF thing it immediately provokes the practice of tapping casino could find on the PC campus just Elections doesn’t have a whole stevie thunder suspicion. ATMs; at least make an effort happened to play basketball. lot to do. So after the third run On March 16, on the One O’Clock So it is with Linc Chafee’s re- to conceal your scams, food At least another “religious” to Dunkin’ Donuts one day, radio show from 6 to 9 am on fusal (as of press time) to reveal stampers (read “cult”) school, Brigham somebody came up with an ex- WRIU (90.3 on your FM dial), the specifics of a state-commis- Young, draws its players from cellent idea: why not introduce host Cyber Larsen will have sioned report on Medicaid and Prayer shots its Mormon base — although some really bad legislation and Stevie Thunder on as his special food stamp fraud, prepared by Phillipe and Jorge mourn the loss that base now seems to include send it over to a Halitosis Hall guest. Stevie, a Pawtucket native consultant and former Moderate of the Big East Conference as we seven-foot players from around gang always interested in such and URI grad, once hosted his Party gubernatorial candidate know it; the institution is falling the globe who evidently found things? own radio show on WRIU, Ken Block. victim to the gods of greed and God after BYU missionaries put Although not privy to the “The Stevie Thunder Bad Taste A good rule of thumb for this the gridiron. guns to their heads and handed minutes of Monday’s closed board and Immaturity Hour.” Stevie type of report is that the less What gives us a chuckle, them airline tickets and four-year meeting on the subject, we imag- was also a founding member information that’s publicly avail- however, is the name affixed to scholarships. ine the hard word was that the of The Fabulous Motels and the able, the more likely it is rich the seven institutions of higher staff will just have to sit around owner/operator of the ground- folks who could be publicly em- learning (cough) that will play Board Games and play board games rather than breaking landscaping firm Acme barrassed — say, doctors and hos- basketball under the Big East We imagine that some of you formulate new legislation. Zen Gardens. pital executives — are up to their banner — keeping the brand have been following the story He’s been living outside of lying necks in it. alive. This group, the so-called about the dumbass legislation Glorious Food the Biggest Little for many years, Just look at the federal govern- “Catholic 7,” include our own recently introduced at Halitosis Longtime Providence Phoenix restau- but has lots of great stories about ment’s laughable “investigation” Providence College, Georgetown, Hall in the name of the state’s rant reviewer Bill Rodriguez has Vo Dilun’s underground art scene of Wall Street malfeasance. Per- and St. John’s, early stalwarts of board of elections, which hadn’t created a web site, foodismywife. of the 1970s. We encourage you haps Governor Chafee is looking the Big East. actually reviewed the proposals. com, that is, in Bill’s words, to tune in for the prodigal son’s for a way to declare Medicaid But before we imbue the new The board has since asked the “dedicated to the proposition that return. Jorge (Rudy Cheeks) will cheats “too big to fail” before the Big East with a religious aura, General Assembly to disregard the experience of food can be as be there, too. information is disclosed, either maybe we should look at some the bills. But P&J, like the rest of much fun as sex. (And as whole- the right way — full disclosure by of the faithful who have played you, are wondering how such a some, if you’re not a slut about st. Patrick’s day our Linc — or through strategic for these schools in the past. mighty blunder could have oc- it).” If you really want to celebrate St. leaks to the media. Other than PC’s St. Ernie of De- curred in the first place. There are quotes from food Patrick’s Day in style, P&J suggest Block is pushing for the release Gregorio and acolyte poster boy Since we were totally unsuc- celebrities, historical tidbits that on the afternoon of March 17 of his report. But unfortunately, Billy “The Kid” Donovan — toss cessful at prying any information (in case you want to know where you head over to the Met, where he signed a confidentiality agree- in Chris Mullin of St. John’s, from our friend Susan “Muffy” buffalo wings or Nutella come that mighty leprechaun Mike ment that zips his lips. (Call us whose face looked like the map Farmer, who serves on the board from), vintage clips of Julia O’Tanaka will be hosting a blues anyway, Kenny, we’ll do the of Ireland (albeit with a few zits) (we knew we’d be unsuccessful, Child dropping food on her PBS jam. Perhaps he will play some right thing.) — we don’t remember many play- but it was a good excuse to call television show and, of course, a old TV theme songs (an O’Tanaka The governor is saying he ers likely to frequent Mass on her and ask how she was doing), link to all of Bill’s Vo Dilun res- specialty). ^ can’t release the findings because Sunday. we have to speculate as to what taurant reviews from the Phoenix it may hamper ongoing and fu- No, we suspect that Big East exactly happened. This, as for- (a very useful tool if you’re going Send hula hoops and Pulitzer-grade ture investigations of fraud. To legends Marvin Barnes, Patrick mer BeloJo political columnist M. out to eat). tips to [email protected]. which P&J respond, “Give us an effing break, please.” That’s the oldest line in the book for any police department or government the city _By derF official who is dodging the sun- light. While most of the Medicaid fraud seems destined to hit the high and mighty, the food stamp fiasco will not entail perp walks for CEOs. Food stamp cards double as ATM cards for those qualifying for cash assistance. Insert one into a liquor store ATM, and you’re home free with an 18-pack or a few 40s of malt liquor. Then there are the conve- nience stores, where “We accept EBT cards” stickers have been sprouting like wild flowers in recent months. Trust us, there are more cartons of Marlboros marching out the doors of 7-Elev- ens then gallons of milk for little Baby Dumpling. And if you think a minimum-wage employee working a 12-hour shift is going to question the legality of your purchase, on anything from fire- providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | march 15, 2013 5

“I think [Lovecraft] was far too modest to be able to withstand the adoring fandom that has built up around him now.” this Just in _NiElS HobbS

protest Letters H.P. LOvecraft gets His due A generation’s challenge “I’m generally up to my armpits in the creepiest, slimiest, nastiest kind of critters that the ocean produces,” Niels Hobbs says. We’re discussing Hobbs’s work as a free- I knew the kids crisis, especially the lance marine biologist who patrols the coastlines of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, fweren’t messing poorest and most vulner- studying invasive species. But it’s not much of a leap to his interest in — and fierce around the first time able. They’re fighting advocacy for — Providence’s most famous literary figure: horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. I heard them sing — a for climate justice. On March 21, Hobbs will lead a Rhode Island Historical Society discussion at the low, slow, foot-stomping I say “kids.” I mean John Brown House Museum titled “H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Gods’: Atheism and the Cthulhu dirge, part spiritual and leaders. I mean the Mythos.” The lecture is the first in a series of 2013 events devoted to the man the New part worksong: young people who York Review of Books once dubbed “The King of Weird.” On March 23, the RIHS will host a are out in front of the “literary walk” pointing out significant landmarks from Lovecraft stories. On April 7, They are digging us a hole climate movement, the H.P. Lovecraft Commemorative Activities Committee will hold its annual tribute They are digging us a hole showing the way, with service on the lawn of Brown’s Ladd Observatory, followed by a march to Swan Point Six feet underground their bodies. They’re Cemetery and Lovecraft’s legendary “I AM PROVIDENCE” headstone. Where our future will go the vanguard of a gen- Come late August, Providence will play host to hundreds of Lovecraft fans and We will lay down our bodies eration putting itself scholars at NecronomiCon Providence 2013 — Hobbs & Co.’s reboot of the bygone Provi- We will lay down our souls on the line, helping the dence convention of the 1990s. Local venues and restaurants — like Julian’s, where No we won’t stand by rest of us get our moral Hobbs and I are having lunch — will hold exhibitions of Lovecraft-inspired artwork. and watch bearings. There were 70 AS220’s black box theater will host theater adaptations of the author’s fiction and life While they dig us a hole college students in this story. The all-stars of the Lovecraft universe — biographer S.T. Joshi, renowned Love- Westborough action craftian filmmaker Stuart Gordon — will mingle with hordes of costumed creatures You may remember — from Brown, Tufts, and Lovecraft lookalikes. Hobbs and his newly-christened non-profit, The Lovecraft the “Westborough 8,” Brandeis, and several Arts and Sciences Council, Inc., are dubbing it “The Month of Lovecraft.”

the student climate activ- r other schools — and at And that’s just the beginning. Over lunch, Hobbs excitedly reports that the Athe- ists who “locked down” least another 18 recent naeum has just agreed to provide a home for a bronze bust of Lovecraft and that plans tivi E inside the TransCanada E grads and twentysome- are in the works for the rededication of streets and squares in Lovecraft’s honor — and

Corporation’s northeast ay m things, many of them perhaps even an “H.P. Lovecraft Day” in Providence. S US office in Westbor- d involved with fossil-fuel Our interview is edited and condensed. ough, Massachusetts on li N divestment campaigns January 7, protesting the DIRGE on the death watch. on their campuses. They THE FLYER FOR YOUR RIHS EVENT SAYS THAT LOVECRAFT’S FICTION TRACES BACK TO “A PHILOSO- Keystone XL tar-sands were joined by about a PHY OF COSMICISM.” WHAT IS “COSMICISM,” EXACTLY? For Lovecraft, cosmicism is something pipeline and demanding dozen fellow activists that came out of his understanding, of the time, of the cutting edge of astrophysics that President Obama and all of our elected lead- over 30, including a group of five older mothers and astronomy. And it’s something that certainly ers get serious about the climate crisis bearing representing their children. still stands today as expressed by Neil deGrasse Ty- down on their generation. Of the 25 who stayed to be arrested after the son or Carl Sagan, where you think of the earth as Well, on Monday morning, their friends and police ordered everyone out, 18 were students the “pale blue dot” in this vast, unforgiving black allies went back to Westborough — more than — including Brown student Rachel Bishop — gulf. And not only is the universe this vast, cold, 100 of them, with more than 85 of them students and all but three were under 30. (But two were dark place which doesn’t really care about us on our and recent grads, and 25 (including a handful of pushing 70 — Boomers back for another round!) little speck of dust, we’re also just a speck of dust older activists) choosing to be arrested for peace- They sang as they were led away, first as a group, among many billions of other specks of dust out ful, principled civil disobedience. then one by one. And as they came out of the there that are also planets that may house life. And It was a serious, mournful kind of work the building in handcuffs, and were loaded into who knows what that life actually might be like? kids had come to do, dressed in black, march- police vehicles, their young friends and fellow ing and singing their dirge in a mock funeral mourners swelled the chorus: “We will lay down WHAT CAME FIRST FOR YOU, MARINE BIOLOGY OR LOVE- procession — what they called a “Funeral For Our our bodies/We will lay down our souls/No we CRAFT? There’s a tandem event going on in my life. Future,” complete with fake, life-sized coffin — won’t stand by and watch/While they dig us I don’t want to overplay it too much, but there is straight up to the locked glass doors of the Trans- a hole.” definitely a very strong correlation between why I Canada office on the third floor of a nondescript What are we to make of this? What should all live in Providence, why I’m a marine biologist, and building in the Westboro Executive Park. the smart, serious people in Rhode Island think why this convention is happening. And that really TransCanada is the company building the about a scene like this? is because of an early interest in his stories and a Keystone XL — the pipeline that will transport Here’s one thing: the grassroots climate growing fascination with Providence, with the his- highly toxic, carbon-intensive tar-sands oil movement, led by young people like these all tory of New England, with creepy creatures from the from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries for export, around the country, is getting serious — fast sea — all of these things sort of tie in together. leaving a smattering of permanent jobs (perhaps — and escalating the use of nonviolent direct ac- as few as 20) in the wake of its construction, tion to make itself heard. And here’s another: BUT YOU’RE A MAN OF SCIENCE. AND LOVECRAFT’S FICTION, while further locking us into fossil-fuel infra- the battle over Keystone, and the larger battle WHILE REALISTICALLY RENDERED, IS STILL FICTION. That’s structure at the very moment we need to be over the Alberta tar sands, is shaping up as a the thing: he was also a man of science, you could easily argue. He was a prolific leaving carbon in the ground and urgently defining moment. With the State Department’s devourer of the latest science of the time, for good and bad. Some of that might even scaling up clean energy. And yes, it’s the same draft environmental impact assessment under explain some of his racism: the fact that the ’20s and ’30s were the height of phrenol- pipeline President Obama delayed last year after heavy fire, and a final decision from Obama still ogy. These were all things that he gobbled up, along with the latest advances in phys- mass civil disobedience at the White House in months away, it’s only going to get hotter as we ics and astrophysics and geology and such. One of the particular things that I like, 2011. head into spring and summer. coming from a scientist’s point of view, is the fact that he writes this imaginative fic- And TransCanada is a company, along with The action this week in Westborough is part tion that includes things that are at least as weird as the stuff we find in our oceans, the whole fossil-fuel industry and its political of a national and regional upsurge of grassroots as opposed to so much of what Hollywood produces these days [which] are essentially enablers, that those kids (and many others) ac- activism on climate and Keystone. More than [films featuring] the stereotypical guy in the spandex suit. cuse of deep-sixing their future with a reckless 50,000 people have signed a CREDO Action business model leading straight to catastrophic pledge to resist the Keystone XL with acts of WHAT WOULD LOVECRAFT THINK OF THE NECRONOMICON 2013? He loved exchanging, what, climate change within this century — which is peaceful civil disobedience, and several thousand 20,000 letters with all of his friends who were also authors or budding authors. I to say, within their own lifetimes (if you believe of those have said they are willing to travel to think the opportunity to actually meet with potentially 100 of them at one place and the woolly enviros at the International Energy engage in civil disobedience along the pipeline one time would have been something that he would have relished. And to have them Agency). route. come to his home, essentially, he would have loved. [But] I think he was far too mod- In other words, these kids aren’t just fight- Politicians beware. You wouldn’t want a “Fu- est to be able to withstand the adoring fandom that has built up around him now. So ing to stop a particular pipeline or to protect “the neral For Our Future” showing up on your door- I think he might have ended up just being cloistered in his hotel room for most of the planet” — they’re fighting for themselves, and step, now would you? convention. for everyone else on the front lines of the climate _Wen Stephenson _Philip Eil 6 March 15, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.coM

SIGNIFICANT SCRIBBLINGS (Clockwise from top) Lists by Janice Lowry, Eero Saarinen, Pablo Picasso, and Arturo Rodriguez. A dAndy list Two shows highlighT The RisD MuseuM’s new DiRecTion

_By DAVi D s chARfenBeRg

It’s been a year-and-a-half since John The museum’s next major show, On the list — Fernand Lèger, Juan f Smith took over as director of the RISD “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion” Gris, and Marcel Duchamp, whose “Nude Museum. But it’s only now that his vision — in the works before Smith arrived, but Descending a Staircase, No. 2” caused an for the place is becoming reality. shaped in important ways by the new uproar. He will soon launch a completely rede- director — will celebrate tweed, tartan, Look closely and you’ll see that Picasso signed web site — a sort of digital wing of and the crafting of artists’ identities. misspelled Duchamp’s name. Just one of the museum. And “Locally Made,” a summer show the many imperfections that humanize And this week, visitors will take in the featuring Rhode Island work in the the often superhuman subjects of “Lists.” first traveling show Smith has brought ‘Lists’ sings museum’s collection, will be accompanied Indeed, this one-room exhibit sings, to town — “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated by talks from all kinds of area makers in no small part, because it grounds bold- Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and because it — visual artists, thinkers, farmers, and faced names in the ordinary — what could Other Artists’ Enumerations from the craftspeople. be more ordinary than a list? — without Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.” grounds bold- But if process is a through-line, it’s losing sight of their extraordinary talents. An oddly compelling haul of artists’ only that. The first couple of shows at Powerhouse art dealer Leo Castelli’s shopping lists and bulleted concerns (see faced names John Smith’s RISD Museum are richer to-do lists remind him to pick up tooth Janice Lowry’s “50 Angry Grievances”), fare. powder at the drug store and consult the exhibit was developed during Smith’s in the ordinary with “RR” — painter and sculptor Robert tenure at the Archives — a repository of ‘Lists: to-dos, iLLustrated inventories, Rauschenberg. letters, diaries, scrap books, and financial without losing CoLLeCted thoughts, and other art- Painter Philip Evergood’s list of neigh- records known as the Fort Knox of the art ists’ enumerations from the smith- borhood services — picture framers, art world. sight of their sonian’s arChives of ameriCan art,’ dealers, a camera shop — is a nifty, glued- The show, he argues, is a perfect fit for extraordinary marCh 15-June 16 and-taped-together collage of business the creative community at RISD and for It’s a small scrap of paper. Not terribly leg- cards and hand-written notes. Rhode Island writ large — an “interest- talents. ible. And not, at first glance, all that re- His evolving resume: newspaper clip- ing glimpse into process,” he says, “and markable: merely a collection of names. pings and his own, oft-edited penmanship how artists and designers think about the But read the accompanying text and piled one on top of another until the docu- world and organize the world, from the it becomes something much more. The ment wears out. quotidian to big ideas.” scratch, it turns out, is in Pablo Picasso’s The most affecting lists may come from Indeed, this focus on process — on the hand: a list of European artists he recom- Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen, who intellectual work of producing art and the mended for the first international exhibit designed the TWA terminal at John F. materials used to execute it — is emerging of modern art in the United States, the Kennedy Airport in New York City and the as an early theme for Smith. 1913 Armory Show. Gateway Arch in St. Louis. providence.thephoenix.coM | the providence phoenix | March 15, 2013 7

HIGH FASHION (Clockwise from top left) Guy Hills (by Geordie); Andy Warhol (by Yousuf Karsh); Massimiliano Mocchia Di Coggiola (by Rose Callahan); a suit jacket worn by Richard Merkin; Sebastian Horsley (by Tom Medwell); Merkin wearing a F.L. Dunne suit in Esquire’s December 1972 issue; a 1803 man’s greatcoat tailored by John Weston of Old Bond Street.

One ticks off his wife Aline Bernstein’s of “Artist/Rebel/Dandy,” say they are not But the two central characters in the Little wonder, then, that “Artist/ finer qualities, one by one, around the out to rescue the dandy, but to present a show — which will incorporate prints, Rebel/Dandy” presents him as a sort of time of their wedding. Bernstein, then an fuller picture of him. We’ll take them at photographs, and fashion blogs alongside culmination of the craft and complex- art editor and critic at the New York Times, their word. But it’s hard not to see some- the clothing — are Beau Brummell and ity laid out in the rest of the show — as is both “handsome” and “beautiful,” not thing redemptive in their project. Richard Merkin. an embodiment of the intricate dance of to mention “perceptive” and “terribly well The dandy — a self-conscious, well- Brummell, a late-18th-century and ear- caricature and substance that defines the organized.” dressed man who first appeared in late ly-19th-century figure who was a friend of dandy. A Saarinen to-do list that includes a host 18th-century England — is often dismissed the future King George IV, was the proto- In one of his style columns in GQ of projects, “done” and “half-done” — one as a shallow and self-absorbed figure of typical dandy — a free spender and arbiter magazine, titled “A Toff for All Seasons,” of them the renovation of his own home — little consequence. of men’s fashion who claimed to take five Merkin recalled coming across a was written just 16 days before he died. And that caricature will be represented hours to dress each day. Providence student “wearing an ancient The lists’ emotional register is a in the exhibit; indeed, the curators tell But Brummell, if lavish in personality, black topcoat that brought me to a state of reminder that even our most mechanical the Phoenix the exaggerated image of the did not dress flamboyantly. He tended, attention bordering on the catatonic.” tools cannot blot out the human impulse. dandy — and the dandy’s reaction to that instead, to the reserved and perfectly tai- He approached the young man and Modernist painter Hans Hoffman image — is an integral part of the story. lored; his clothing a challenge to our nar- found, in the breast coat pocket, the label ran the Hans Hoffman School of Art in “Is the dandy a real person?” asks Irvin, or row conception of the dandy. of an esteemed British tailor. The coat, New York City and a summer school in “is the dandy more of a fantasy?” Merkin, a painter and illustrator who moreover, had been made for one of his Provincetown, Massachusetts. He was a Still, if that’s an open question for Irvin taught at RISD for 42 years, was much idols, J. Drexel Biddle Jr. — a World War strong-willed teacher who trained some of and Brewer, the dandy’s significance is splashier — favoring bowler hats, bouton- II-era diplomat considered one of the the greatest painters of the 20th century: not. They see a person of real intelligence niéres, and custom-made suits like the world’s best-dressed men. Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Mark and real rebellion — right up to the pres- striking, orange-hued tweed Irvin and Merkin borrowed the vintage garment Rothko among them. ent-day hipster, who wears his grandfa- Brewer showed the Phoenix this week. so it could be replicated by his own tailor. But his list, “About the relations of ther’s wool, bespoke suit in opposition to “My sartorial aspirations,” he once But the copy, however fine, was not the students and teachers,” suggests he could our disposable culture. told the New York Times, “lie somewhere same as the original. “The whole affair not always bend his students to his will: This focus on the actual men who wear between the Duke of Windsor and the did teach me a lesson about clothing (and “1) What a teacher should know from the the clothes sets “Artist/Rebel/Dandy” Duke of Ellington.” life),” he wrote, “which is simply that beginning: there is always an apostle who apart from other shows on men’s fashion. But Merkin, whose 1992 and 1999 even the most adroit of artisans cannot would deny his master.” Here is a banyan the Prince Regent wore donations to the RISD Museum were an fabricate a dream.” ^ before he ascended to the throne as King inspiration for the show, was not simply ‘artist/rebeL/dandy: men of fashion,’ George IV. Here is a shirt that Oscar Wilde a clothes-wearing man. He was a complex David Scharfenberg can be reached at apriL 28-august 18 sent out for cleaning just before he died. figure: his drawings extravagant and per- [email protected]. Follow him on Kate Irvin and Laurie Brewer, co-curators Here is a suit worn by author Tom Wolfe. plexing, his style bracing and influential. Twitter @d_scharfenberg. 8 March 15, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.coM o CHAN’S Book Chan's great food for a great banquet and cater gathering. CELEBRATE ST. PATRICK’S DAY AT O’CHAN’S - Sunday March 17 Bottles and cans Food and Drink Specials! 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CD Release Beer on Broadway party recorded Live at Chan’s. If you were here for the Taking newporT by sTorm recording be Killer Kane raises the roof here for the with Jewel City Blues. party! _by Lou p apineau 8pm $12 8pm $12 upcoming shows: On Saturday, the snow was f finally gone, the air was semi- 3/ 21 Community Champions Music Series 2013 - The Michelle Cruz Quartet GET A HANDLE ON IT 3/22 Jeff Pitchell and Texas Flood warm, and the clocks were set to The taps at norey’s. 3/23 Tree House Reunion featuring Stefan & Matt spring ahead in the wee hours of the 10th. So it seemed the perfect reservations recommended day to head south, cross the Pell (401) 765-1900 Bridge, and hit some of Newport’s 267 Main Street Woonsocket, Rhode Island 02895 top beer spots. (We know there are www.chanseggrollsandjazz.com other spots to hit; please send your recommendations to bottlescansclap [email protected].) We started with a quick tour of three bottle shops. BRIdgE lIquoRS is right off the Pell’s first exit. They have a small but solid selection; their Facebook had promised a fresh batch of Ithaca’s Flower Power, and we grabbed a six-pack. Then we crossed over the line to Middletown to visit SaNdy’S lIquoRS (which we had fre- quented long ago in our college days, when it was called Marty’s). The megan sepe range of beer is similar to Bridge’s, and we were about to get a rack of Widmer Brothers’ Brrr, Harpoon’s Rich & Dan’s Rye, Uinta’s Hop Notch and a hoppy winter warmer which had eluded us during the Green Flash’s Imperial (they’ll be mixing up their flight brrr season, when we saw a couple of four-packs of Goose themes). And Malt is also serious about their whiskey; they Island Bourbon County Brand Stout. We had resolved have a formidable list. to not buy any more of the pricey beer (and thought we We dug in at Norey’s for two pours (and dinner); it’s a wouldn’t be typing about it again in this space for nine sleek room with lots of delightfully funky touches (especial- months or so), but then we turned and saw three cases of ly the diner-style stools at the bar). We finally got a taste the stuff, and a small hand-written sign indicating it was of Founders’ Bolt Cutter Barleywine (15% ABV) and Widmer on “special” for $19.99 (most stores had it for $27)! So: one Brothers’ Barrel Aged Brrrbon (9.4%); both selections were more four-pack (we’re on a budget). Did I mention it was extraordinarily good. We’re already planning a return trip $19.99?!? And that they have three cases of it?? — those 150 bottles won’t cross themselves off our list. Our last bottle shop stop was at vICkERS’ lIquoRS As we passed through Main Street in East Greenwich on Bellevue Avenue, and what a difference 2.9 miles on our way home, we had a brainstorm: that bustling makes: they also had multiple cases (!!) of BCBS, but their road needs a primo beer spot. It’d be the perfect (almost) four-packs were $29.99. There were other rarities on the halfway point for the fusion of Julian’s and Norey’s, shelves: bombers of Bourbon County Coffee and Cherry, which are near-doppelgangers vis-à-vis beer selection, and a few Stone Enjoy Bys, and a very impressive (if pricey menu, attitude, and décor. Juley’s — Norian’s? — would — hey, it’s Gatsby’s ’hood) array of top-level stuff. be a supreme destination. So here’s a tip for you folks in Providence and Warwick and Cranston who can’t believe this stuff flies off the BEER NEWS shelves so quickly: cross the Pell Bridge . . . . The second beer in NaRRagaNSEtt’s Private Stock series OK, enough beer-gawking, time for beer-drinking. We is on the shelves. ImpERIal BohEmIaN pIlSNER is a lager headed to Broadway, which has the state’s best walkable on steroids, a beer that draws on ’Gansett’s German roots Project Ace stretch of beer bars on the same side of the same road: it’s but amps up the ABV (8.6%) and the flavor. Brewmaster The Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University .3 miles from pouR JudgEmENt (32 B’way) to malt (150) to Sean Larkin has knocked another one out of the park. The NoREy’S StaR is seeking alcohol drinkers to participate in a study looking at (156, literally next door). (It’s .2 miles from 22-ounce bombers are $6 or $7 . . . And the Hi-Neighbor! the effects of alcohol cravings on behavior. Julian’s to the Avery to the E & O Tap, but those are on three folks want you to know that its flagship Lager is now different streets). Add the 36 high-quality taps at Yesterday’s available in 30-packs. Bulk is good. (just around the corner from B’way in Washington Square) FoolpRooF’s first specialty beer — REvERy, a Russian Earn up to $150 for completing the study. and the offerings at the trad-style Fastnet Pub, and Imperial Stout (10.7%) — is in stores. We had a you have a peerless pub crawl. few sips at the brewery and the RI Brew Fest and WHO IS ELIGIBLE: We had to pace ourselves (despite having our can vouch for its savorability. There are only 3240 designated driver) and stuck to the trio on the west bottles (and 32 draft logs), so grab it when you see * Adults ages 18-65 side of Broadway. The aggregate numbers are an it. (Their next limited edition will be a farmhouse embarrassment of riches: Pour has 18 drafts, two ale, slated for a late April release.) *Alcohol drinkers dozen bombers and 30 12-ounce bottles; Malt has And the NEWpoRt StoRm folks drew inspira- 26 taps (and two casks) and 70 or so bottles; Norey’s tion from the other side of the country for the WHAT IS INVOLVED has 14 taps and boasts 130 jaw-dropping bottle of- latest edition of their Cyclone Series. Named after ferings, an astounding selection of top-rated and the brewery’s fourth founder, Will Rafferty (from * Complete three sessions ultra-rare beers. They say their list defines “beer Spokane, WA), WIll is a massive hop bomb, with due diligence.” You can do your research or just seven varieties making for a complex creation. in 3 weeks dive in at random — either way, you’re in for a “We added more hops to this tank than any other sublime experience. tank we have ever brewed,” said brewmaster Derek * Each Session lasts about 1 hour We started with a Founders Red’s Rye Pale Ale Luke. Will will hit stores next week. 2Nd aNNual NEWpoRt If interested contact Rebecca at Pour Judgment. The place is comfortable and And save the date: the low-key, with a great CD jukebox. Malt is a tad CRaFt BEER FEStIval will be at the Great Friends (401) 863-6614 upscale (it’s the former home of Tucker’s Bistro), Meeting House on Saturday, April 27. Last year’s E-mail: [email protected] with a gorgeous bar. 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ted and eventually narrowed down to the top 11, with an Melise on “Suzy” and “Fireheart” are downright vicious, B Fall o online vote deciding the twelfth semifinalist (congrats to while the unreleased killer cut “Serpentine” (a dancey R the Bitchin’ Aardvarks). I couldn’t agree more with station Lolita number, dare I say?) may win the room over. By manager Wendell Clough when he recognized the 2013 ros- the way, I wonder how many people are reading this and ter as “the best crop of Rock Hunt talent we’ve seen in the thinking, “Holy fucking shit — Bob Otis is in the Rock last six years,” and commended 2012’s winner, Roz Raskin Hunt? Fucking awesome!” & the Rice Cakes, for inspiring such a strong turnout of quality bands (the Can’t Nots, Dylan Sevey, and the Mc- Saturday Gunks missed the final cut). At stake is a sweet prize pack Sienna (reverbnation.com/siennarock): Greene, RI, in valued at $7500, including video production and studio the building, y’all! This band competed at the 2011 Rock recording time, as well as gigs and steady airplay (Roz’s Hunt (at the Spot’s previous location) and started out in “Magma” received about one trillion spins last year). ominous fashion, with the guitarist almost landing a The action kicks off on Friday at JR’s Bourbon Street clothesline to lead singer Viana Newton as she ran on- Rock House (inside Mardi Gras, 1500 Oaklawn Ave, Cran- stage. They had my vote that night (but were bested Last ston, 401.463.3080) and the Spot Underground (“where One Out) and could play spoiler this weekend. Pick up the the Keg Room usedta be,” 101 Richmond St, Providence, 2011 EP debut, Mark These Words, on iTunes; the quintet is Lolita Black 401.383.7133). Both shows are $5 at the door and start at 9 working on an EP; and tune into WBRU to hear the new pm sharp. Tune into HomeBRU’d weeknights at 9 pm for track “Reason to Stay.” updates and check back here next week for coverage on the other six semifinalists, slated to square off at Fête in the Brother kite (thebrotherkite.com): Full disclosure: Olneyville and Gillary’s in Bristol. The Brother Kite is arguably the most beloved band in the Now onto this weekend’s contenders: PVD PHX office, as we impatiently await TBK’s fourth album (tentatively titled Model Rocket) set for release later Friday this year. A guaranteed showstopper will arrive with the the rare occaSionS (therareoccasions.com): There’s no whirling and beautiful rush of “Get On, Me,” from the denying the energetic bounce of this Boston-via-Provi- 2006 excellent debut album, Waiting For the Time To Be Right. dence quartet (members attend Tufts University), with And 2010’s Isolation is must-hear stuff. The quintet has lead singer Brian McLaughlin and the crew jumping out racked up plenty of miles over the past 10 years, includ-

“Miss Mary Mack.” A handful of demos are streaming on- ing three SXSW appearances. At first glance the betting on line (listen at therareoccasions.bandcamp.com) and a de- money would ride on Patrick Boutwell and the gang domi- but EP is in the works. I’d bet the upbeat cuts “Wickenden nating the Saturday showdown.

Sienna D osh lon Kids” and “The Uke Song” will get the joint jumping at j JR’s. TRO band members McLaughlin and drummer Luke cLyde Lawrence (clydelawrence.com): Don’t count Imbusch have previous Rock Hunt experience as members out young buck piano man Clyde Lawrence, a New York of the Valar a few years back. native currently attending Brown University. WBRU is spinning “Wake Up,” but “Homesick” and “So Damn SateLLiteS FaLL (satellitesfall.com): In terms of audience Fast” should get the crowd grooving. These are unabashed support, these guys won the room over at last year’s semi- piano-pop love songs, a formula that worked for previous finals at the Ocean Mist (but fell to local URI faves Kingston Rock Hunt victors like Johnny Lingo and Fairhaven. 530). Vocalist Mark Charron can pen and hit hooks, as According to the official Clyde Lawrence bio, he has heard on the 2012 debut EP Lines On the Road. The first single appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America; “Servitude” is a legit alt-pop radio hit. The band reports a and this piano guru’s compositions were featured in the new EP is in the works, tentatively titled Pascal’s Wager; the movie Miss Congeniality — written when he was six years ^ single “Strange New Day” premiered last week. old.

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The painting is animated by the rhythm of 3/15 these variations, by the contrast of all the rectangles with the triangle at top SUpeRbad left, by the comparison of all the pale NO COvER hues with the stark black bar running along the bottom right and up the whole left side. Merrill ranges from fine pencil TecHnicoloR MoToR HoMe lines to thick black bars, from washy SAt paint that reveals what’s underneath to INTRIGUING Part of Coleman’s Americanabilia Series. NO COvER opaque matte or satin finishes. Her com- 3/16 positions have the most snap when she crisply colors inside her lines. matte black coal or iron glazed with milky white stripes. Providence’s Elizabeth Potenza uses metal and glass in It’s energized by the alluring contrasts — matte versus brawny sculptures that evoke industry as well as the asym- glossy, the cosmic feel of the crystal forms versus the metric stained glass grids of Frank Lloyd Wright. Angle of quick, loose-seeming stripes. Repose, fashioned from recycled float glass and salvaged His Americanabilia Series offers two arrangements of own steel, could be an old, multi-paned factory window. Square his bowls and abstract ceramic lumps grouped with found FRI panes of green glass — some with peach tints — are hung and recast copies of tchotchkes — an owl, a baby in a winter 3/22 in groups of six in a vertical frame. The panes lean in and coat, a pile of skulls, a pig, a camel, a cute Klansman, a fist, out, and overlap some, as if opening and closing. In Geome- a lamp, hands, a head of a swan, a frog, a dinosaur, cattle. NO COvER try Rose, a repurposed Conestoga wagon wheel rim encircles In one group, the knickknacks are maimed, with fingers a symmetrical design of amber-hued glass rings (they look chopped off little ceramic hands and heads lopped off little GReG Hodde & something like cross-sections of bottles) in a rose pattern. statues of cattle. It’s an intriguing combination. Coleman’s Potenza has a strong technique, but right now her compo- own shapes feel alien. And the knickknacks read like some THe blUe ReiGn sitions feel too heavy, too repetitively decorative. portrait of the unconscious of middle-class America. Ceramicist Justin Coleman, who studied at RISD and Willa Van Nostrand’s World’s Fair gallery has such a now teaches in Pittsburgh, taps into the crystal and stripe strong, sure sensibility. And this three-person show is a SAt designs that have been popular over the past decade. On great grouping in which the artists’ various approaches 3/23 the one hand, he makes gem-shaped sculptures decorated to abstraction compliment each other, but also showcase with rugby stripes. A-Hedron (Daniel) resembles a big crystal of their individuality. NO COvER

“Navigation Paintings,” curated by Marcel McVay eRik naRwHal & f at Yellow Peril Gallery (60 Valley St, Providence, through March 17), features the work of Michael Chil- THe ManaTeeS dress of Amherst, Massachusetts. These canvases are part-abstraction, part-stylized realism, part-vectors and Monday diagrams, part-David Hockney, and part-metaphysical 8 third-eye visions. uNLimited PooL Some just feel hokey — like Dark Phenomena, which looks like a Monet water lily painting that was spun in FOR JUST $9 FROM 6PM-CLOSE • a blender. But things snap into place in Plane Ascension, a oPeN 8 baLL tourNameNt at 7Pm DayGlo camouflage pattern of orange, green, and yellow. Atop floats a geometric design of white lines seeming to $15 eNtry & caSh PriZeS diagram an office building or modernist stairwell, but the design keeps turning inside out like an optical illusion THURSday and dispersing into just lines. Open Mic Singer Peak of the Mystic Mountain is a sketchy, sort of lunkhead SOng Writer night “expressionist” painting of a starburst or an exploding Hosted by: Dino Larson volcano rendered with Xs and squiggles hovering over red Sign up begins at 7pm. mountains. Rose Window looks like a game board combined Come share your talent! with the pyramid from Q*bert combined with some sort of mystical mandala radiating beams of energy. COLLEGE I’m not totally sold on these paintings, but I’m inter- NIGHT! ested in what (I think) Childress is trying to do. It feels Ladies pLay pooL FRee like he begins with serious questions— wondering about FRom 8pm-cLose FREE POOL W/ nature, wondering about the forces that orient the uni- ^ $3.99 16oz sangRia COLLEGE ID! verse — and then begins to play. DAYGLo CAmoUfLAGE Childress’s Plane Ascension. $2 weLL Rum dRinks FRom 6pm-11pm Ask your bartender Read Greg Cook’s blog at gregcookland.com/journal. about drink specials! 14 March 15, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.coM

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GALLERY Z | 401.454.8844 | 259 a staged reading of Sext-ing, a short ING WORLD” | A talk by Min Zhu, org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + Atwells Ave, Providence | galleryzprov. Every Friday: play by Kathleen Bebeau | 7 pm | The deputy managing director of the In- by appointment | Through Mar 30: com | Wed-Sat 12-8 pm + by ap- Roots, 276 Westminster St, Providence ternational Monetary Fund | 5:30 pm “Approximately 7,642 Pounds of Art, pointment | Through Apr 27: “The | Suggested donation $5 | 401.272.7422 | | Brown University’s Watson Insti- Stacked and Somewhat Arranged,” Square Show,” works on three Flava Fridays rootscafeprovidence. com tute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free an installation by Thomas Morrissey difference size canvases [12”x12”, | watsoninstitute.org/events_detail. | “Spectacles & Spectators,” artwork 16”x16”, 20”x20”] by Christine Music by “THE ONE” J SLEAZY THURSDAY 21 cfm?id=2052 by Keri Ashley, Anoush Bargamian, Mag- GUY C. FRAKER will read from his King gie Bouchard, Mike Bryce, Bonnie Hosted by Jahpan / Ft. The ASAP Dancers book, Lincoln’s Ladder to the Presidency: TUESDAY 19 BANKRI GALLERY | 401.456.5015 Buck, Dennis Coelho Akervik (and The Eighth Judicial Circuit | 4 pm | Brown “JOHN LA FARGE IN PARADISE: x 1330 | 1 Turks Head Pl, Providence | apprentices), Bob Dilworth, Linda Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence THE PAINTER AND HIS MUSE” | A bankri.com | Mon-Wed 8:30 am-3 pm; DiFrenna, Kim Ellery, Judith Fer- Wed + Thurs Fri + Sat | Free | 401.863.3168 | bookstore. “Lunch with the Artist” talk with Thurs-Fri 8:30 am-5 pm | Through rara, Stacey Graham, Jack Kebarian, DJ MiDNiGHT DJ SLEAZY brown.edu Richard Tyre | Noon | Newport Art Apr 3: “Animal Fantasy,” paintings Eveline Luppi, Alaina Mahoney, PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM FEA- Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave | $8 [bring by Abbot Low Stephanie Marzella, Farnaz Mob- Every Fri & Sat: Go Go Dancers! TURING SAM SAX + CAMERON a lunch] | 401.848.8200 | newportart- — 137 Pitman St, Providence | bayan, Ian Mohon, Kevork Mourad, AWKWARD-RICH | 8 pm | AS220, museum.org Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Brian O’Malley, Julian Penrose, EAST BAY TAVERN 305 LYON AvE EAST PrOviDENcE 401-228-7343 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | Sun 12-4 pm | Through Apr 3: “Mo- Sandra Pezzullo, Ewa Romaszewicz, OPEN EvErY DAY FrOM 3PM-1AM 401.831.9327 | as220.org WEDNESDAY 20 ments In Color,” photographs by Christian Rubeck, Shari Rubeck, ROBERT A. GEAKE will discuss and “CYBERPOWER AND NATIONAL Stephen Spencer Amy Ryan, Erin Starr, Melissa sign his book, A History of the Providence CYBER SECURITY IN INTERNA- — 1140 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown Thyden, Sirarpi Walzer, Toba Wein- River | 7 pm | Books On the Square, TIONAL RELATIONS” | A talk by | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 traub, C.C. Wolf, and V.F. Wolf 471 Angell St, Providence | Free | Alexander Klimburgh, fellow and pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through Apr 3: GREEN SPACE GALLERY AT THE 401.331.9097 | booksq.com senior adviser at the Austrian Insti- “Construction Zone,” high-contrast T.F. GREEN AIRPORT | 2000 Post tute for International Affairs | Noon photographs by David DeMelim Rd, Warwick | Through Apr 30: “On | Brown University’s Watson Insti- BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE and Through and In Between,” new tute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 | work by Deborah Baronas and TALKS | watsoninstitute.org/events_detail. 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | Graham Heffernan cfm?id=2038 www.ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | “ORIGINS OF CIVIL WAR 12-8 pm | Through Mar 29: “You 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery. 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School Center for Mental Health 10 am-6 pm + by appointment | jamestownartcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 SatUrDaY MarcH 16 edu/pressreleases/2013/03/guns and Media and author of Grand Theft Through Apr 27: Work by Coral am-2 pm | Mar 16-Apr 12: “Members’ “WARFARE AND HUMAN SACRI- Childhood; and Craig Whitney, a New Bourgeois Show 2013” Tony madeiros quarTeT 7-10 FICE IN THE MOCHE WORLD: NEW York Times editor and author of Living CHABOT FINE ART GALLERY | KEESEH STUDIO GALLERY | 42 Rice DISCOVERIES AND CONTINUING With Guns: A Liberal’s Case for the Second 401.432.7783 | 379 Atwells Ave, Provi- St, Providence | Fri 11 am-2 pm; Sat- DEBATES” | A talk by John Verano, Amendment | 4 pm | Brown Universi- dence | chabotgallery.com | Wed + Sun 1-7 pm | Through Apr 5: The Art professor of anthropology at Tulane ty’s MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer St, Thurs 12-6 pm; Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | League of Rhode Island’s Annual As- University | 5:30 pm | Brown Univer- Starr Auditorium, Providence | Through April 16: “Expressions,” sociates’ Exhibition sity’s List Art Building, 64 College Free | news.brown.edu/press new works by resident gallery artists KNIGHT CAMPUS ART GALLERY St., Room 120, Providence | Free | releases/2013/03/guns CHAZAN GALLERY AT WHEELER AT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE brown.edu/Facilities/Haffenreffer/ “DESIGNING THE VISITOR’S EX- | 401.421.9230 | 228 Angell St, Provi- OF RHODE ISLAND | 401.825.2220 new/calendar.php PERIENCE AT THE NEW YORK dence | chazangallery.org | Tues-Sat | 400 East Ave, Warwick | ccri.edu/ BOTANICAL GARDENS” | A talk 11 am-4 pm; Sun 2-4 pm | Through art/galleries/knight | Tues-Wed + FRIDAY 15 by Karen Daubmann, director of Apr 3: “Drawing Matters,” works by Fri 10 am-4 pm; Thurs 10 am-7 pm “BE HERE NOW: A CONSIDER- exhibitions at the New York Botani- Luis Alonso, Leslie Bostrom, Dennis | Through Mar 29: “CCRI Ceramics ATION OF CONVERSATION,” a dis- cal Garden | Part of the Landscape Congdon, Wendy Edwards, Nancy Invitational,” with works by Mazon cussion which addressses the ques- Architecture Lecture Series | 7 pm | Friese, Bunny Harvey, Tayo Heuser, Adam, Rachelle Adam, Monica tion, “What value does real-time, Weaver Auditorium in the Coastal David Kinsey, Susan Lichtman, Jack Bock, Josephine Burr, Erica Cioe, transitory, face-to-face interaction Institute Building at the University Massey, Jerry Mischak, Jacqueline John Fazzino, George Garcia, Jay 50% OFF 50% OFF still have?,” with Thomas Augst, of Rhode Island, Greenhouse Rd, Ott,Gwen Strahle, Dan Talbot, Rog- Lacouture, James Lawton, Chris Lee, ALL CASIO ALL PEAVY GUITARS associate professor and director of Kingston | Free | 401.874.2983 | uri. er Tibbetts, and Michael Yefko Andrew Maglathlin, Nate Morrell, KEYBOARDS! 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For those who follow the stars, this saTurday for events that began around March 11. ThUr. Drunk Robb & The Shots week signifies the final week of the March 16 is everything moving as it should? if not, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 the Vaporubs, Dorisduke zodiacal year, as the sun moves into Waxing moon in taurus, moon void-of- evaluate options in the morning, and make 3/14 Aries on the spring equinox, March course 7:11 pm until 2:09 am Sunday. Get changes in the afternoon. that’s also a 20. With a waxing moon moving some beauty into your life — a craving for fine time for deepening relationships or

through17 the first 18 quarter, 19 it is 20 defi - 21 aesthetic 22 home 23 decor 24 or artistic 25 experienc 26 - 27 working28 on a 29 project 30with a long 31 comple 32 - EvEry nitely time to move projects from first es is perfectly nature. also, it’s a weekend tion time. doubting their instincts: pisces, kArAoke 9pm to third gear, and to continue to look of acquiring items for some — my money is aries, Sagittarius, capricorn. Going with Fri. for new contacts, romance, opportu- on taurus, virgo, capricorn, Scorpio, pisces the flow: Gemini, cancer, Leo, Libra, virgo, nities and occupations. Spring fever and cancer. too much won’t be enough aquarius Scorpio, and taurus. SAT. Fringe Benefit For the Love of hits folks in different ways, and my for you folks. aries, Sagittarius, Leo, Libra, readers are reporting an eagerness Gemini and aquarius could be impatient WedNesday Sloane, Jazz Bastards, Briar Rose for things to be “faster.” However, if with the slowpokes. March 20 3/16 you’re in the fast lane, being passed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Waxing 10 moon 11 in cancer,12 spring 13 equinox 14 15 16 by people on your right, figure out suNday (at LaSt!). can you hear a sigh? that’s the SUN St Patrick’s Day Blowout what speed is right for you. For more astrology, and information on read- March 17 sound of domestic bliss. the moon in cancer 1 2 3 4 5 6 Waxing 7 moon 8 in Gemini, 9 while 10 Mercury 11 12 prompts 13 feelings 14 of conjugal 15 happiness 16 and opening at NOON. ings, visit moonsigns.net.17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 3/17 moves direct. after three weeks of Mer- fierce defensiveness. however, aries, capri- Corn Beef and Cabbage cury retrograde and compromised commu- corn and Libra may “overdo” some aspect of

17 Thursday 18 19 20 21 22 nication, 23 everything 24 25 seems 26 more clear 27 and 28 interaction 29 (too 30 defensive, 31 not 32 clear about March 14 straightforward. Make a list, check it twice, needs). cancer, Scorpio, pisces, Leo, virgo, 1 2 3 Waxing 4 moon 5 in a ries, 6 with 7 the moon 8 9 and get 10 together 11 with12 as many 13 folks as14 you 15 taurus, 16 Gemini, aquarius and Sagittarius: followed void-of-course until 3:08 pm, when it can. Most social: Gemini, Libra, aquarius, don’t rush things. You’ll get more (and learn Soulful Sundays DJ moves into taurus. a great day to be com- aries, Leo, taurus, capricorn, cancer and more) by letting a process unfold naturally.

by 17 18 19 petitive, 20 or 21 to begin 22 projects 23 that finish 24 25 Scorpio. 26 o verwhelmed 27 28 by too 29 much busi 30 - 31 32 CADILLAC JACK quickly. risk-taking may be an ness: virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius. appealing activity for aries, Leo, Sagit- moon KeyS tarius, Libra, Gemini, and aquarius. if cap- this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the EvEry REGGAE NIGHT MoNday sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s ricorn, virgo, taurus, pisces, Scorpio and March 18 influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | hosted by upsetta international 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 MON. cancer have been procrastinating — today Waxing moon in Gemini. another day of When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning & Rogue island Dub Foundation and tomorrow may find you dancing on socializing and communication. if you a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect hot coals. North Main St. Breakdown don’t hear what you want, move onto the increased insight and emotionality. When the moon 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 next 24 person. 25 take some 26 time 27 for writing28 or 29 moves 30 into the 31sun sign opposite 32 yours (see below), EvEry Vintage Vinyl and Friday updating a diary, and expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, Old Rock n Roll w. The Colonel March 15 don’t expect others to have a long atten- family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities TUE. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Johnny Maguire Waxing moon in aries. the ides of March tion span. Gemini, Libra, aquarius, aries, will not be at their best. | When the moon is in aries, will be fortunate for some (fire signs). it’s Leo, taurus, capricorn, cancer and Scorpio: it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are also an excellent day to give up habits, follow your instincts, no matter how fleet- taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, EvEry TRIVIA NIGHT 8pm once and for all. or, perhaps you feel like Leo/aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ing. r27omantic 28 misunderstandings 29 30 could 31 be 32 sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon wEd. w/ Trivia Master GMatt acting like a child? You’re in tune with the the story for virgo, pisces and Sagittarius. moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void moon, and aries, Leo, Sagittarius, taurus, of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider virgo, Gemini, aquarius, pisces and Scorpio Tuesday this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing ThUr. Cactus Attack, may do anything to get their own way. March 19 decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For 1 2 c3 apricorn, 4 cancer 5 and Libra: 6 risk-taking 7 8 First 9 quarter 10 moon 11 in Gemini,12 moon 13 void- 14 Symboline 15 d ai’s 16 sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, 3/21 Audrey Ryan could backfire. Be conservative in your ac- of-course from 1:27 pM until 2:55 pm, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can tions. when it moves into cancer. a turning point be reached at [email protected].

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