april 12-18, 2013 | rhode island’s largest weekly | Free HOMEGROWN PRODUCT TEARING IT UP torn shorts triumph at the wbru rock hunt _by Chris Conti | p 10 LIBERAL WARRIOR Sheldon Whitehouse is attacking the obstructionist GOP head-on. Will it work? _by David Scharfenberg | p 6 THIS FORECLOSED DREAMS THE ART OF LIFE AND LUST JUST IN The art of ruin | p 5 !‘Reverse Cowgirl’ at Yellow Peril | p11 great live music By: eric Bloom Plus a sPecial Performance By the students from the food catered By: desserts By: Photo Booth Provided By: free airBrush tattoo's By: the viP hour sPonsored By: also sPonsored By: best2013 16th annual Best reader’s Poll wednesday aPril 24 6Pm-10Pm @ fete awards show 103 dike st. Providence Join us for a celeBration of local Businesses as we announce our 2013 readers’ choices for “the Best” in over 100 categories! free admission, free food, free music, valet Parking availaBle! Presented by rI's Arts & entertAInment AuthorIty for over 30 yeArs! ProvIdencePhoenIx.com providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | April 12, 2013 3 april 12, 2013 Contents ROCKSTAR on the cover F PHOTO BY ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THIS ISSUE KARAOKEEvery Sunday @ 9pm p 10 p 21 p 11 6 liberal warrior _by david scharfenberg Sheldon Whitehouse is attacking the obstructionist GOP head-on — taking on the party that so often seems the aggressor. Will it work? Hosted by Idol Star and RI's very own 10 homegrown product _by chris conti Erika Van Pelt & Van Pelt Entertainment! Showcase showdown: torn shorts triumphs over the Brother Kite, Kid Mountain, and Lolita Black at the WBRU Rock Hunt. 11 art _by greg cook Lust and life: ‘reverse cowgirl’ at Yellow Peril Gallery. 12 theater _by bill rodriguez Convent-ional wisdom: sister act rattles the rafters at PPAC. 21 film “Short Takes” on the place beyond the pines, 42, trance and evil dead. 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PRINTED BY MASS WEB PRINTING | PEOPLE2PEOPLE GROUP MASS WEB PRINTING CO., INC., 314 WASHINGTON ST, AUBURN, MA 01501 | 508.832.5317 4 April 12, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence. thephoenix.com phillipe + Jorge’s cool, cool World GINA BURNT FORBES REAMS RAIMONDO; RAGING WITH RILEY; CHEWING OUT BROWN Forbes magazine recently assets into high-cost, high-risk which almost guarantees the cops With” was never the actual name this is a great opportunity. f torched Vo Dilun Treasurer alternative investments, while locking you up. of the sandwich offered at the On Friday, April 12 at 8 pm, Joe Gina Raimondo with a blog post they slash workers’ benefits, Then again, Riley is a for- Brown cafeteria; it’s just what Silva, back from his travels and titled, “Rhode Island Public Pen- that’s no reform. Call it what it mer Wall Streeter, so maybe he the students have been calling it shows in the UK, will be at Spico- sion ‘Reform’ Looks More Like is: a money grab.” thought he was too big to fail. for years). li’s Bar and Grill in Albion, Rhode Wall Street Feeding Frenzy.” All Raimondo, of course, disputes Without checking with Island. The show is a fundraiser the more notable considering all this. But if she is grabbing CRUNCHBUTTON Crunchbutton, Brown wrongly for Aydan Nyberg, a young boy Forbes is hardly a liberal, kill-the- anything at the moment, we CHRONICLES assumed the sandwich was be- who has been fighting cancer. one-percenters magazine. imagine it would be a tall glass Your superior correspondents ing sourced, once again, from And on Sunday, April 14, you’ll Forbes contributor Ted Siedle filled to the brim with Jack Dan- recently spoke with Judd Rosenb- its cafeteria. The university then have an opportunity to see and smoked Raimondo in the first iels, a cold compress, and a hand- latt, founder of a company called wrote to Betaspring, incorrectly hear the legendary Rizzz, one of two sentences: “According to In- ful of Valium. Crunchbutton (crunchbutton. stating that Crunchbutton was Vo Dilun’s most popular bands stitutional Investor, Rhode Island com). Crunchbutton — a 2012 violating a C&D letter. The school during the ’70s and ’80s. They Treasurer Gina Raimondo is at LIFE OF RILEY graduate of the local startup accel- threatened to sue and asked if will be at the Met in Pawtucket, work solving the nation’s retire- P&J’s Monster Raving Looney of erator Betaspring — offers “one- Betaspring knew where to “serve starting at 4 pm. They packed the ment dilemma, showing how the Week Award goes to failed click” ordering for popular dishes Crunchbutton or its principals.” place less than two months ago tough public pension reforms can congressional candidate Michael from a number of local eateries. So, what have we learned and played magnificently. There pay fiscal and political dividends. Riley, who got popped for a DUI Back in December, Crunch- here? That Brown University, is no cover charge for this show, Don’t believe a word of it.” in Narragansett last week. button was delivering a chicken supposed champion of techno- so no excuses for staying home. This was just the beginning. As a grown man, he should sandwich, nicknamed the “Spicy logical innovation here in Our “A look behind the curtain know three things: 1) don’t piss With,” from one of Brown Uni- Little Towne, is somewhat tone GIRLS GONE BYE reveals her changes to the invest- into the wind; 2) don’t ever re- versity’s cafeterias. Students deaf. Rosenblatt told us that One was a hot babe, the other a ment portfolio of the $7 billion spond to a woman’s question could pay for the meal with their Crunchbutton, once based at Yale cold woman. Employee Retirement System with, “Well, to be truthful, it Brown ID. Crunchbutton typically University, came to Providence Much to our chagrin here at of the State of Rhode Island will does make your ass look fat”; and earns a piece of the restaurant’s because it “is a great college Casa Diablo, former Mouseketeer inevitably dramatically increase 3) don’t threaten police officers profit. But in the case of the town, a great restaurant town, Annette Funicello and former both risk and fees paid to alterna- when they are about to arrest you. “Spicy With” offering — meant to and Betaspring is there.” British Prime Minister Margaret tive investment managers, such Unfortunately, Riley — who introduce the company to Brown This is just the type of company Thatcher both turned up their as hedge funds and private equity got his ass whipped by Congress- students — the company was not that we want to succeed and flour- pedicured toes this week. firms,” wrote Siedle. “There’s no man Jim Langevin last November making a dime. ish here. Wise up, Bruno Uno. OK, we’re not exactly broken prudent, disciplined investment — seems to have missed the day According to an attorney for Let’s all get behind this effort. up about Ronnie Reagan’s biggest program at work here — just they taught Lesson #3. In the wee Crunchbutton, “Brown got re- admirer passing. But we’re cer- a blatant Wall Street gorging, hours of April 3, he was pulled ally bent out of shape and sent MUSIC FOR THE SOUL tainly mourning the Beach Blanket while simultaneously pruning over by police for allegedly doing these guys a cease and desist Your superior correspondents can Bingo queen. state workers’ pension benefits.” some serious swerving on Point letter (C&D) alleging that these highly recommend several shows In memoriam, P&J slipped into Normally P&J would call in Judith Road. guys were ‘trading upon the taking place in the Biggest Little our old two-piece cabana outfits Rolling Stone’s Wall Street whiz Riley lost his rag, reportedly good name/reputation of Brown this week.