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6 the station fire: 10 years after _david scharfenberg A decade ago, a fire tore through the nightclub in West Warwick — killing 100, injuring 200 more, and singeing the lives of thousands of New Englanders. In a roundtable discussion, four authors reflect on the tragedy.

16 homegrown product _by chris conti Naturally complicated: more eccentric wordplay from esh the monolith. Plus, on page 14, get “Off the Couch” and go see the coming weak and torn shorts.

17 art _by chris conti Objects of desire: “love nest” at Craftland and ian cozzens at AS220. 24 film “Short Takes” on a good day to die hard, escape from planet earth, safe haven, and beautiful creatures.

in every iSSue 46 phillipe & Jorge’s cool, cool world The pontiff’s pension ploy | Help from above | A meditation on the 6 Station | Genius time 4 the city _by derf 7

L 6 this Just in On climate change, Senator WEI g

E 10 Whitehouse plays the shame game |

STE v Mr. Cutler goes to Copenhagen

12 dining online exclusives! 11 Golden Chopstix serves some yummy dim sum in Westerly. F Man’s Man! Ron Swanson is the

affable curmudgeon on NBc’s Parks 14 8 days a week and Recreation. Nick Offerman, the 12 Mavis Staples, the French Film man who plays him, is one of the Festival, “Navigation Paintings,” “Story/Line,” and more. funniest parts of the show, which is saying something since he shares 26 moon signs 30 _by symboline dai the screen with Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari. Read a Q&A with Nick 26 Jonesin’ _puzzle by matt Jones at thePhoenix.com. 30

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phillipe + Jorge’s cool, cool World Pontiff’s Pension Ploy The PoPe cashes ouT; a nod To salTy; The Police bloTTer

Phillipe and Jorge have conducted you don’t know who Salty Brine and Jeff or the cover of this week’s Phoenix, you some way — a friend or a family member fan extensive investigation into are, we’re not going to help you. But at know that February 20 marks 10 years or someone you went to school with or Pope Benny Andajets’ decision to resign least you’ve got some youth on your vener- since The Station nightclub fire, one of worked with perished or was horribly from his exalted post, and we’ve discov- able columnists. the worst tragedies in recent Rhode Island burned. ered that the first Catholic pontiff to history. On the anniversary, there will be bail since the 1400s has done so for one a meDITaTIoN oN THe STaTIoN The nature of our community is such a commemorative event at the First reason and one reason only: he has a If you saw Karen Lee Ziner’s gripping that nearly everyone who has lived here Baptist Church, 75 North Main Street, pisser pension deal he wants to cash in and powerful story in Sunday’s BeloJo for any length of time was touched in Providence at 9:30 pm. “Station Nation: on. A Reflection on the Station Nightclub Evidently Pope Benny’s pension will Fire” will feature “performing artists from pay him a million euros annually, throughout the country and Canada,” with benefits including Swiss Guard THe CITy _by derF with “dramatic texts, dance performances therapeutic massage and red shoe replace- and songs.” ment for life. We’ve also learned he’s This event is free and, if you wish to been shopping for a McMansion in one learn more about it and others surround- of Donald Trump’s gated, West Palm ing the anniversary, go to stationmedita- Beach retirement communities. tion.tumblr.com. But it turns out the Vatican’s financial chief, Gino Raimondonoyouwont, is valeNTINe’S Day challenging the pension scam. He accuses The Phoenix hits the streets on Valentine’s Pope Benny of an unholy trinity: His Day. And there are a number of events Holiness, it seems, is already collecting throughout the Biggest Little that don’t a pension from the College of Cardinals involve the exchange of greeting cards (nancyboys.com) and his home parish and chocolate. Your superior correspon- in Germany, Hitlerputz, both under the dents are especially intrigued by one fea- alias of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger. turing fabulous singer and karaoke diva “The Vatican is facing tough financial Adrienne West titled “Valentines Day times,” said Raimondonoyouwont. “Do Sucks.” you know how much a mitre costs these The show is at the LA Cafe (that’s Low- days? Plus, the hourly rate for pool and er Arctic) in the love capital of the world, cabana boys just went up by 50 percent, West Warwick. and you can imagine how much that is going to cost us with all these guys GeNIuS TIme we’ve forced out still hanging around in Yes, February is Genius Time in the Big- their apartments.” The fiscal watchdog gest Little. did not name any names, but said, This week, Central Falls genius “Bernard Law will know who I am talking Chuckie Moreau, the former mayor, about.” was sentenced for his ridiculous and The Pope has employed the law firm brazen bilking of his poverty-stricken of Jenu, Flect & Down to defend his right city. Somehow, his no-bid contractor to the pension deal he cut when he took pal and partner in crime, Michael the job. His personal attorney, Neil Down, Bouthillette, got no time and, instead, and Down’s paralegal, Ben Dover, will was given a six-figure fine and 2000 represent him. hours of community service. Sic semper Said Down, “There is plenty of prec- moronicus. edent in religious circles for this type Meanwhile, another member of of pension arrangement. People forget Rhody’s Mensa Society walked into a that Jesus himself created the first union Sovereign Bank on North Main Street pension fund for Apostles #13 Local, in Providence, sans disguise, gloves and they even paid out to Judas when and holdup note. A teller gave him he retired. And the Son of God’s extended the money but P&J figure it will only family benefits allowed Mary Magdalene be a matter of days (or hours) before to live out her life in comfort before dying this guy is headed for a cell next to peacefully at Calvary Hill Nursing Home Chuckie’s. at age 92.” At least the hapless bank robber When P&J contacted Pope Benny at didn’t try to pull a trick we heard about the Vatican, he would only say, “I’ll years ago from an ACI psychologist. be buggered if I know why they won’t He described a guy who tried to rob a give me the money I was guaranteed.” bank with his weapon of choice, a photograph of a German shepherd that he Help from above said was out in his car, ready to back him The best headline of the Blizzard of up in case things got tense inside. 2013 comes from the February 12 edition And finally, Kim Jong-un, the presid- of the Urinal: “Salty brine clears R.I. ing genius in North Korea, decided to con- roads.” duct a nuclear test in complete violation of We don’t know if a copy editor typed international law. Not only did the move up this header to win a newsroom bet, piss off Japan and the United States, but but P&J loved it. We imagine the late it also embarrassed China, North Korea’s Salty Brine, the radio legend who made only ally. “Schools closed, Foster-Glocester!” a Jong-un, no doubt, would be a perfect classic line, is keeping an eye on The fit for the mayor’s office in Central Falls. Biggest Little, wherever he is. And Perhaps he’ll consider a run. ^ he surely appreciated the tip of the hat. Send a sump pump and Pulitzer-grade tips to Add an “arf” from Jeff as well. And if [email protected]. 6 February 15, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.com

“[Obama’s] legacy will be a failed one if he does not address permanent solutions [to what ails] our planet.” this Just in _sheldon whitehouse

Q&a citizen diplomacy Mr. Cutler goes On climate change, it’s Sheldon to Copenhagen Whitehouse v. Washington

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has taken YOU WROTE A LETTER WITH CONGRESSMEN WAX- fa lead role in one of Washington’s most MAN AND MARKEY TO PRESIDENT OBAMA SUG- important — and intractable — public policy GESTING HE COULD DO A LOT ON HIS OWN. HAS HE tj kelley III fights: reining in climate change. RESPONDED? AND WHAT CAN HE DO? I did speak He makes weekly speeches on the threat. to him about it at the [annual Senate Demo- He recently joined with Congressmen Henry crats] retreat. And he assured me that he would Waxman (D-California) and Ed Markey (D-Mas- not have given this issue the placement, the sachusetts) to pen a letter to President Obama, emphasis that it got in his inaugural speech if laying out actions the executive branch could he did not intend to be serious about it. take on its own to address the problem. We still need to work through what the ad- And lately, he’s formed a bicameral climate ministration can do, but two obvious ones are change task force with Waxman that aims to to have [the Environmental Protection Agency] fIt was a woman who brought Andy Cutler to pressure a recalcitrant capital into action. The crack down not only on future, but on existing Providence 10 years ago. Phoenix caught up with Whitehouse for a Q&A, power plants — let me drop in an asterisk there: The relationship didn’t work out. But he quickly via telephone. that makes a really big difference for Rhode grew enamored of the place: the food, the culture, Our conversation came a couple of weeks Island; if you look at the way the winds blow the people, the ideas. after President Obama talked of confronting across the United States, we are downwind of Cutler, a communications consultant with a climate change in his inaugural address. And the biggest and dirtiest [plants] in coal country. sprawling network of friends and collaborators, au- it came a couple of days before the president GReen Whitehouse. The other thing they could do is the US gov- thored more than a few of those ideas himself. But fleshed out his ideas in the State of the Union ernment and US military are the biggest buyers his latest, inspired by the city he’s come to love, may speech: endorsing long-stalled cap-and-trade of fuel and carbon in the country, I believe, and be his most ambitious to date. legislation and suggesting the administration would take sepa- could use their purchasing power. That means everything from Cutler says he’s devoted the last two years of his rate, unspecified executive action on global warming. greening their buildings, to hybriding their car fleets, to continu- life — and all of his retirement savings — to a concept The interview is edited and condensed. ing to invest in alternative fuels — not from their position as regu- he’s calling Smaller Cities Unite! lators, but from their position as consumers. The notion is to draw smaller municipalities YOU’VE ACKNOWLEDGED THERE’S LITTLE CHANCE REPUBLICANS, WHO around the world — with populations of 1.5 million CONTROL THE HOUSE, WILL SUPPORT CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION. NOW THAT HE’S BEEN RE-ELECTED, IS THE PRESIDENT POLITICALLY UN- or fewer — into a partnership far grander than your SO WHAT, IN THAT CONTEXT, CAN YOUR TASK FORCE DO? One thing CONSTRAINED WHEN IT COMES TO CLIMATE CHANGE? I think that there standard mayor-of-Toledo, Ohio-and-mayor-of-To- we can do is to help build [an] environment in which [Republi- are always some constraints on a president, even one who won’t ledo, Spain-swap-proclamations arrangement. cans] have to engage with us on climate change. stand for re-election again. [But] I think those constraints are He imagines a deep sort of learning about how [That requires] public engagement. [This is] yet another is- dramatically reduced in the second term. And I think that, to the small cities approach public policy, economic devel- sue where the Republican extremist wing dragged its party away extent the president had his eye on re-election in the first term, he opment, the arts, entrepreneurship, and education. from the regular American people and their point of view. In the now has his eye on his legacy. His legacy will be a failed one if he And he wants to begin by connecting Providence and same way the Republican Party has been wrong and they’re try- does not address permanent solutions [to what ails] our planet. Copenhagen, Denmark in a trans-Atlantic funnel of ing to recover on gay rights, they’ve been wrong and trying to Forty, 50 years from now, the economic woes that we’re experi- people and conversation. recover on immigration, they need to someday realize that they encing and the Middle Eastern conflicts that are taking place, things Cutler took a six-week trip to Copenhagen in 2001, are wrong and need to recover on climate change and that the like that, will be history — important parts of history, but history after a divorce, and he was immediately taken with American people will assess a penalty for not paying attention. nonetheless. [But] people will be living, then, every single day with the place. The city consistently ranks near the top of The second piece is that we want to press the administration the effects of what we’ve done to our atmosphere and oceans. happiness indexes. The people he met were possessed to take strong executive action, because when the big polluters of a deep and appealing humility. And during the are looking at strong, executive action, hopefully they may DO YOU THINK A CARBON TAX IS, ULTIMATELY, THE ANSWER. AND trip, Cutler met the late California Congressman Tom find that moving over to the legislature and trying to find some- WHAT’S THE VERSION OF THE CARBON TAX YOU’D LIKE TO SEE? I still Lantos, who said something that stuck: Denmark, he thing that can be done a little more harmoniously will be in their think that the cap-and-trade system is the most sensible one. argued, “is the most civilized nation in the world.” interest. Rhode Island is already in [a regional] one. California is running Now, Cutler sees a real affinity between Provi- Left alone, they will stonewall. one. A number of other examples exist around the world. It pro- dence and Copenhagen. Both are entrepreneurial So those are two of the pieces: urge executive action, try to find a vides the most flexibility, allowing [industry] to innovate to reach college towns, he says, that have put art and design way to engage public participation. And then, ultimately, work on the [pollution reduction] goal. I think it has been [damaged] politi- somewhere near the center of their identities legislation that can be a product of that engagement. cally by relentless propaganda from polluters. So I’m open, now, He’s been making calls to civic leaders in the Danish to a variety of ways to put a price on carbon. capital. Last month, he secured a letter of introduction YOU HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE OF WHAT YOU CALL A “JERICHO STRATEGY,” In effect, fossil fuels are getting an unfair market advantage from Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, declaring him INVOKING JOSHUA’S SEVEN-DAY MARCH AROUND THE CITY OF JERICHO against their green competitors because we haven’t found a way to “well equipped” to “serve as a global ambassador for the BEFORE HE DESTROYED IT. YOU’VE TALKED OF BRINGING LEGISLATION build in the cost of carbon fuel. That creates a market failure, that City of Providence.” And on February 16, with funding UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND APPLYING HEAVY PUBLIC PRESSURE in turn creates an incentive to [overuse] carbon fuel. from a series of local business leaders, he will hop on a TO EMBARRASS REPUBLICANS INTO ACTION. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU’RE plane for a two-week trip to Copenhagen. TALKING ABOUT SOME VERSION OF THAT HERE. BUT YOU HAVEN’T A CARBON TAX WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO GET THROUGH A REPUB- Cutler will stop by the Danish App Lab, visit Co- HAD THE BEST OF LUCK WITH THE JERICHO STRATEGY ON TWO OTHER LICAN-CONTROLLED HOUSE. ARE THERE SOME AREAS WHERE YOU penhagen Business School, and, dash off to the Insti- PRIORITIES: THE “BUFFETT RULE” THAT WOULD RAISE TAXES ON SEE A REALISTIC HOPE IN CONGRESS FOR BI-PARTISANSHIP? ENERGY tute of Happiness Research. He’ll attend a gathering THE WEALTHY AND A CAMPAIGN FINANCE MEASURE KNOWN AS THE EFFICIENCY? CLIMATE ADAPTATION? I think the most effective of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and partici- DISCLOSE ACT. CAN IT WORK HERE? I think it could work in any pieces of bipartisan action are probably going to be in the area of pate in Social Media Week Copenhagen. area where the Republican opposition is way out of step with encouraging efficiency and encouraging financing of efficiency Cutler says Copenhagen, which is building a bi- the American people. The question is, can we get enough trips investments that pay themselves back over time. I think there’s cycle super highway, has plenty to teach Providence around Jericho to make it actually work? Once around isn’t a clear market logic for doing that. And industry by industry, about sustainability. And Providence, he says, can enough and so far I only got once around on DISCLOSE. I think there’ll be advocates for it. Commercial real estate interests, I’d teach Copenhagen something about the power of net- we’ll get another round on the Buffett Rule in the [run up to au- think, would be very interested in finding ways to finance up- working and connectivity. tomatic cuts known as the “sequester”]. front investments in boilers, windows, more efficient means of But the truth is, Cutler’s not quite sure what shape It’s a question of raising the issue repeatedly so that it makes generating the power that their facility needs. the partnership might take. “Anyone who goes out ex- an impression with a very busy public: wait a minute, something Federal guarantees to help prop up that market while it ma- ploring, they don’t really know what they’re going to weird is going in Washington. 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THE AFTERMATH “it was a scene of utter devastation,” says Barylick. FF rey a c ichard M c r y B photos photos The sTaTIon fIre: 10 years afTer Four writers on the tragedy that disFigured rhode island

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t’s been 10 years since fire tore through fiancée in the fire, offers a glimpse at the ways to prevent this sort of disaster from to expose each team of four to only one a roadhouse in West Warwick — killing horror of that night — and at the power happening again — or at least, to make it recovery. And the routine was to send a 100, injuring 200 more, and singeing of recovery — in From the Ashes: Surviving the a rarer event. We just need to listen. team of four in, have them separate out I thousands of New Englanders whose Station Nightclub Fire, A Personal Story of Tragedy The interview has been edited and con- one victim’s remains, bag those remains, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and and Triumph. Lonardo, a fiction and non- densed. remove it, chaplain would say a prayer friends died inside The Station or never fiction writer, co-authored the book. over the remains, and the first responders quite figured out how to live outside of it. And Barylick, an attorney who repre- JOHN, YOU START YOUR BOOK AT THE SCENE OF would go to a remote area to be debriefed There are so many individual stories sented fire victims in what would become THE STATION FIRE THE MORNING AFTER. WHAT — for their own physical and mental to tell — stories of heroism and suffering a $176 million civil settlement, provides DID IT LOOK LIKE? health, to assess them. and failure. But the Phoenix decided to pull the definitive account of the tragedy in John Barylick: It was a scene of utter dev- Some of those teams had to be sent back together four Rhode Islanders who could Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s astation. The entire building had been as many as five times. So it took a toll on offer up a global view. Deadliest Rock Concert — a lawerly prosecu- engulfed within minutes. There were few first responders that really was not reported John Barylick, Gina Russo, Paul tion of who, and what, went wrong. standing walls. There was a collapsed roof too much. There were a lot of victims of this Lonardo, and Marilyn Bellemore all wrote The authors gathered in the Phoenix’s in one section. fire that weren’t out at the club that night. books about The Station fire. And togeth- offices not long after the deadly club It was extremely difficult extraction er, their work begins to answer some of fire in Santa Maria, Brazil that claimed for the first responders. One thing I came OK. THAT’S WHAT WE WERE LEFT WITH. the larger questions surrounding the club 238 lives. The parallels between the two to learn was that, in the first responder LET’S REWIND AND LEARN ABOUT THE CLUB. and the tragedy. events were striking — a band ignites community, they try to plan carefully THIS WAS ONCE A RESTAURANT AND THEN A Bellemore, a former Kent County Daily pyrotechnics, a blaze grows out of con- how many extractions a given person is ROADHOUSE. WHAT HAD IT MEANT TO RHODE Times reporter who previewed dozens of trol, overcrowding hastens death. And exposed to because it’s so traumatic. And ISLAND UP UNTIL THIS POINT? shows at The Station, tells us in The Night there was a certain fatalism in the room. in this case it was particularly traumatic Marilyn BelleMore: Since the fire, over the Music Ended a little about the history of Russo said she was sure the Station fire because the bodies were so intertwined. the years, I’ve been reading stuff about the club and its place in Rhode Island’s would repeat itself; indeed, it just had. Because they underestimated the num- how West Warwick was a low-income, blue-collar soul. And yet, as we finished our conversa- ber of victims originally, they thought rundown mill town, the bar was a dive Russo, a Station survivor who lost her tion, all of our panelists insisted there are they had marshaled enough responders and has-been bands played there. providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | February 15, 2013 9

If that’s true, which it’s not, what does other [musicians] — Vince Neil, Jackyl, all it say about the people that were there that these crazy bands. Tesla was always our night? favorite. Now, I’m pretty good friends with I wrote, as an entertainment writer the guys from Tesla, all because of this. for several papers, and I went to venues And all I think is, “God, what’s Fred think- from southern Rhode Island, up to Boston, ing when I’m hanging out with them.” Worcester, and all of that. And this club Losing him was definitely worse than just had something different about it. It the burns and worse than the lung dam- wasn’t has-been bands that went there. age and definitely a harder situation to There were bands like 10,000 Maniacs deal with. that played there, there were hair bands, there were bands that once played to are- TELL ME ABOUT HIM SHOWING UP AT THE HOUSE nas — Dave Davies from the Kinks. THAT NIGHT. It was just a fun place. You could sit by Gina: I come from a big Italian family and yourself alone, no one would bother you. every Thursday was dinner at my mom’s You could sit by the bar. You could go in house. And I had taken the day off from the back. You’d know people there — peo- work and taken the kids sledding — it was ple from all over. People from Boston came school vacation week. Fred was meeting down. It’s unusual. Some people from us there for dinner and his son was home Rhode Island didn’t even know the club — he wasn’t coming that night. When was there. And then, there were people Fred came from the house, he had just coming in from Connecticut and Boston come straight from work, so he was all in and New Hampshire. THE WRONG PLACE his painting clothes. But he was having a AT THE WRONG TIME snowball fight outside with the boys and TELL ME ABOUT THE CROWD THAT GATHERED Makeshift memorials have just before he’d come into the house — and AT THE STATION IN THOSE DAYS. been in place for a decade; I found this out five months later — my John: It was the heart of Rhode Island. The a permanent marker is in neighbor had pulled up and they said hello demographic was a little older than some the works. and he said to her, “What a great day to be of the downtown clubs. It was people who alive.” And she couldn’t come near me or came from all walks of life — from con- see me after the fire for months because struction to a budding investment banker. she only had that in her head and he was They had in common their love of the mu- dead a few hours later. sic. They wanted to see the band. Whether you were going to see a band SO WHEN GREAT WHITE COMES ON THE STAGE that was now touring second- or third-tier AND SETS OFF THE PYROTECHNICS AND THE venues or you were going to see a tribute FOAM SOUNDPROOFING CATCHES ON FIRE, band, you were going to get your money’s HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO REALIZE WHAT worth. There’s a fellow who fronts the WAS GOING ON? tribute band Believer, it’s a Black Sabbath Gina: Honestly, as soon as the pyrotechnics tribute band and he said, “You know, the went up. Fred has some pyrotechnic experi- average working stiff can’t afford a $100 ence. [We were up by the stage and] he saw ticket to Black Sabbath. But for $15 and the the [pyrotechnics] sitting right to the side price of a couple beers, I can pretty much of us and he said to me, “They’re too big convince them for a little while. So every- for this building,” and then he said, “look body makes out OK.” at the drummer’s alcove” — the spark was The one thing that the group had already on the black drape hanging behind in common is that all the victims were the drummer. And he grabbed me. And utterly blameless. They were in the wrong we put our drinks right at [frontman] Jack place at the wrong time and several other Russell’s feet and Jack is singing and do- people’s greed and carelessness cost them ing his thing, and literally — this is all in their lives or their health. seconds — walked three steps to a fire exit to our right and encountered a bouncer who GINA, YOU SHOWED UP AT THE STATION THAT didn’t let us out the door. We’re screaming, NIGHT WITH YOUR FIANCE, FRED CRISOSTOMI. “There’s a fire.” And he’s screaming, “Club TELL ME ABOUT HIM AND WHERE YOU WERE, policy — band only.” AS A COUPLE, AT THAT MOMENT. I’ve tried, over the years, to rational- Gina russo: We met on a dating web site ize what his thinking could have been. nine months before the fire and had been Other than stupidity, I’m not really sure. together every day from the moment we Someone screaming, “There’s a fire,” you met — never separated, never had an argu- might want to look. I’m not saying, “Hey ment. Just an incredible man, incredible dude, can I get on the tour bus.” I don’t force of nature. He was a very successful like Great White that much! businessman. He owned a painting busi- And I remember Fred saying, “We can’t ness, really worked hard to get to the level stand here and argue with this man, he was at. He was very proud of what he we’ve got to go.” Jack is still singing. And had achieved. Fred and I got to about the middle of the And this guy came into my world club and that’s when the rest of the crowd after I had been married for 13 years in realized the ceiling’s on fire, stuff’s hap- an abusive marriage — I finally got out of pening, and everyone started rushing that with my two children, and this man toward that front main door. comes along and puts me on a pedestal And I don’t know if it’s when Fred and treated me like a queen and showed started to feel sick, but he put his hand these two little boys that women are treat- on the middle of my back and just shoved ed with respect. me and pushed and screamed “Go!” And I And I still believe he, 10 years later, is went flying through the crowd and made the reason why I do so well in my life. And it to the ticket booth area that was right in my kids are very respectful of everything front of that main entrance. And I remem- he taught them in such a short amount of ber looking around for Fred and I couldn’t time and they still remember it. see him because it was black in there — at We just loved music — we loved rock that point the lights were shattering and music. When we were meeting, the first truly the ceiling was melting, what I’ve [few] times, he kept saying, “Do you really always called black rain over the years. like this music?” and I’m like, “Yeah, it’s Seeing people already on fire — their heads what I grew up with.” I didn’t like disco, I on fire. The screaming, the noise from the didn’t want to be in the clubs downtown. I alarms — that’s what’s in my head, that wanted to listen to hard rock — the louder will always be in my head. the better, and if it was live, even better. And I just remember getting to that Just the month before the fire, we’d point and just praying to God for my kids gone to the Avalon in Boston and seen the — let them have a good life and let them band Tesla. They were with a group of Continued on p 10 10 February 15, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.com

Continued from p 9 20 people who are working up on Federal forgive me for dying in this place. And I Hill that don’t even know what the crowd hit the hardwood floor. That was my last management program is. Why? Why? memory of being in The Station. But yet, I can go up to Massachusetts and the state fire marshal there — I helped GINA REACTED QUICKLY. BUT FOR OTHERS, IT fill a crowd management safety training TOOK TIME. JOHN, YOU SUGGESTED IN YOUR program. And it is being enforced. BOOK THAT THE DELAYED REACTION MIGHT John: There’s much more consciousness in HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE PHENOME- the Commonwealth [of Massachusetts]. NON OF “COMMITMENT.” TELL ME ABOUT THAT. Gina: Yes, there is. It’s sad. John: It’s not my term. It’s the term of a woman named Guylene Proulx, who was WHY IS THAT? a researcher in crowd behavior in Canada John: Even a couple of years after the fire and she particularly studied crowd behav- code was tightened regarding sprinklers, ior in structure fires. And she described the business community brought pressure a phenomenon that she called “commit- to bear, saying you’re putting small places ment,” which is really commitment to the out of business by requiring the invest- entertainment activity. ment in the sprinkler systems. Loosen There’s the thought among many it up, somewhat. And indeed, they did people who attend a concert that, even if loosen it up a little bit. they’re seeing something unusual that In one irony, several years after the in other circumstances would give them fire, in an 11th-hour session — wee hours great pause, you’re kind of in denial. You of the legislative session — they passed a paid good money to see this and perhaps law allowing the general public to buy cer- it’s part of the show. So I’m not saying it tain kinds of pyrotechnics now. I’m sorry, played an important part in a lot of the there’s gonna be accidents. We’ve already loss of life here, but it can cost seconds seen some fires. We’ve seen the incidents and as Gina mentioned, all it takes is sec- of personal injuries to children and even onds to make the difference between life adults increase with it. It’s inevitable and death. when you allow the public to buy this stuff. And also the quality of life, even for YOU ALSO WROTE ABOUT HOW, IN THESE SITU- people not using it, has been diminished ATIONS, PEOPLE DIE AS THEY LIVED — IN COM- around the holidays. It’s a noisy mess. MUNITY AND LOOKING OUT FOR LOVED ONES. Gina: No one is taking [safety] seriously John: That’s not my concept either. There’s enough. It can’t happen to them. It’s not a fellow who’s written about the sociology going to happen on my watch. They all of disaster and he did say that in disasters, think they’ve got it down. But the reality is we tend to die as we live. That is we look they don’t. They don’t. A TOUCHING TRIBUTE John: for our loved ones, we look for our friends, a shrine to nicholas You mentioned the commitment and we conform our conduct to what our o’neill; the 18-year-old phenomenon. Good crowd management loved ones are doing. We sometimes sur- was the youngest victim. can break the cycle of the commitment render our individual judgments in those phenomenon. If at the first sign of trouble, situations. the entertainment stops and there’s a clear announcement of what the crowd [should] AND THAT HAPPENED AT THE STATION? toxins in it — namely cyanide — such that her. They were both getting out that win- do, that can avoid so many problems. But John: No doubt. I’m sure there were people one or two lungfuls and the perception, dow. And they did. you have to break the public’s engagement that did not want to leave without others as described to me, is of passing out. Just with the entertainment activity. or couldn’t immediately locate others. I absolute knockdown. JOHN, YOU WROTE IN YOUR BOOK THAT, IRONI- mention in the book a very haunting pic- CALLY, THE FIRST PRACTICAL SPRINKLER HEAD MARILYN, HAVE YOU SEEN ANY LASTING ture that was taken inside the club — that DID YOU EXPERIENCE ANYTHING LIKE THAT, GINA? WAS DEVELOPED UP THE ROAD IN PROVIDENCE SHIFTS IN ATTITUDE AMONG CLUB MANAGERS of Jeff Rader, a roadie with Tesla [who was Gina: Oh, it was quick. I mean, I could feel IN 1881. THERE WAS NO SPRINKLER SYSTEM AT OR CLUBGOERS, OR HAS IT ALL FADED? visiting his girlfriend in Rhode Island]. it. And I know Fred went very quickly. He THE CLUB. WHY NOT? Marilyn: I don’t think people — I don’t He’s about 18 feet from the band exit when was a big guy, he was out of shape, so that John: It’s the legal phenomenon called know if they’re thinking about it. that picture’s taken and we’ve backed into took him quickly. And I felt it in my own “grandfathering,” whereby older buildings John: What changed, more in Massa- it timewise — both on [Great White fan] self. And I was very healthy, very athletic. that were built before the code required chusetts than here, if you go to a show Matthew Pickett’s audio tape and [on vid- I was running six miles a day. I was at sprinklers don’t have to become sprinklered now — uniformly in Massachusetts, there’s eotape from WPRI-TV cameraman] Brian the gym every day. But my lungs — it was unless they undergo a “change of use or oc- an announcement before the show: where Butler [who was at The Station shooting truly like someone was stabbing me, inde- cupancy.” Somehow, during the evolution all your available exits are. And in fact, if footage for a story on club safety] — to de- scribable pain, and every breath I tried to of this club — as Marilyn traces from hum- there are multiple acts, they’ll make the termine whether Jeffrey take, it was just worse and ble restaurant to a concert venue with over announcement between acts in case people had an opportunity, after worse, and shorter and 400 people in it — was never considered a only came for the second or third act on the that picture was snapped, shorter. sufficient change of use or occupancy to re- bill. I’m not sure how consistently that’s to escape. And he did. ‘No one is My friend, [one of] two quire sprinklering, which is really sad. honored in the smaller venues in Rhode As you look at the girls that were selling the Fortunately, Rhode Island since the Island. Certainly at PPAC, Trinity — yes. picture, you can’t really taking safety merchandise, remembers Station fire has tightened its fire code to Gina: Very early on, I started going out tell what is keeping him packing up the boxes, make it less easy to grandfather old build- after The Station, the local bands would there, whether he’s look- seriously thinking that the sprin- ings and to require the investment in say, “Before we start, pay attention to ing for his girlfriend, klers were going to go off, places of public assembly for more than your exits.” But that didn’t last. Becky Shaw, whether enough. It thinking, “Oh we don’t 300 people — that they be sprinklered. he’s looking at the crowd want the sprinklers to THE DERDERIAN BROTHERS, WHO OWNED THE backed up at the front can’t happen to ruin any CDs.” And then SO YOU HAD THE FAILURE TO INSTALL A SPRIN- CLUB, WOUND UP WITH PLEA BARGAINS IN door, determining that she said, all of a sudden KLER SYSTEM. WHAT WERE THE OTHER TWO CRIMINAL COURT. THE CIVIL CASES WERE SET- there’s no way I can them. It’s not just realizing, wait a min- OR THREE CATASTROPHIC MISTAKES THAT LED TLED. THERE WERE NO TRIALS. WAS THERE get through that or ute, the sprinklers aren’t TO THIS FIRE? A SATISFYING CONCLUSION TO THIS MATTER? whether he simply going to hap- going off. And just said to John: The perfect storm was: illegal use of COULD THERE EVEN BE SUCH A THING? doesn’t appreciate the her friend, “We’ve got to inappropriate pyrotechnics indoors, flam- Gina: No. As a survivor, no. Absolutely peril of the smoke layer pen on my get out of here.” mable wall coverings, overcrowding, and not. Jeffrey [Derderian], in my estima- coming down almost to watch. They They tried smashing poorly or completely untrained staff. tion, walked. Served community service. his head at that point. windows, or breaking in My son has to do community service for One thing I came to all think they’ve windows, and it didn’t YOU MENTIONED SOME CHANGES IN THE LAW his high school. A hundred people died learn in researching the work. Finally someone AROUND SPRINKLERING. BUT BROADLY SPEAK- on your watch. You were in the building book that I didn’t know got it down. heard them from the ING, FROM A PUBLIC POLICY PERSPECTIVE, HAS when this fire happened. before is how immedi- outside, kicking at the THE STATE RESPONDED ADEQUATELY? Michael [Derderian], OK, you weren’t ately the knockdown But the reality windows and that’s how Paul lonardo: Ten years later, you can see in the building, but you were knowledge- affect can occur, if you they got out — not with- that some changes were made. But is it able about things that were happening. get one or two lungfuls of is they don’t. out being significantly enough? They knew about the foam they put up in the wrong kind of smoke. burned. She got out. But Gina: No, not at all. I think crowd man- that building — they knew about it. They And this was the wrong They don’t.’ she wasn’t going without agement is a big problem. Supposedly definitely weren’t held accountable like kind of smoke. This was her friend. She made sure [the state of] Rhode Island has [a training they should have been. hydrocarbon-based. It had she went right along with requirement] in place. I can tell you 15 or Inspectors — it’s definitely a sore subject providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | February 15, 2013 1 1

in the Station community, who wasn’t held account- Gina Russo able and why. The inspectors can’t be held accountable because [the law protects public officials acting in “good faith”]. I worked for surgeons at the time of a fire. If I messed up a surgery, I would’ve been fired. What makes their job any more important than mine? That’s how I felt. John: There’s no criminal resolution or civil resolution that can adequately give, to use an unfortunate term, closure, or satisfactorily compensate, or make people whole for broken lives. It just can’t be done. Talk to family who have lost someone, talk to [the badly disfigured] Joe Kinan, who is a remarkable soul, continuing as he does in the face of great difficulty. So the law is a very imperfect tool for making people whole and satisfied. THAT SAID, IS THERE ANY COMPARABLE INCIDENT WHERE THERE WAS A BETTER RESOLUTION? John: Barnet Welansky, the owner of the Cocoanut Grove [site of the largest nightclub fire in US history], was held criminally liable, even though he wasn’t even on the premises that night. [Great White tour manager] Dan Biechele, who physically threw the switch and wired the pyro, was charged criminally, pled, and served a prison sentence. But nothing in Great White happened without the say-so of Jack Russell. Where is he to answer for this? It was a less-than-perfect result. BEYOND THE TECHNICAL ERRORS, WHAT WERE THE ROOT CAUSES OF THE FIRE? GREED? John: Money. Gina: It ruled it. John: It all comes down to greed. Gina: Buying the cheap foam. Overselling the club. Everything they did — it just blows my mind that they’re supposed to be educated men. I don’t mean that they woke up that morning and said, “Let’s go ruin hun- dreds of lives.” I don’t believe that. The only one I believe is remorseful is Dan Biechele. John: That’s right. There are habitual ways of living lives on the cheap and carelessly that sometimes we John all fall into. Does anyone who answers their phone Barylick when they’re driving think, “I’m going to kill someone today?” No. But perhaps we should think twice before we do that. By the same token, if you run a business — particularly that invites people in — you owe a duty to not make every decision in favor of prof- it over safety. I think that’s the takeaway. IF THE ROOT CAUSES ARE GREED, INDIFFERENCE. CAN THOSE THINGS EVER BE REMEDIED? Gina: I think they can be fixed. John: You know, we do something funny regulating places. If you’re overcrowded, we give you a little fine. If the fines approximated the extra money they make by overcrowding their venues, maybe you’d see a difference in behavior. But I don’t think that happens. Paul:: Greed’s not going to go away. That’s human nature. But I mean, the sprinklers are something the state and the towns have to get involved and make sure people are safe. I mean, greed is going to be greed. But there’s interventions that can be made. YOU CAN TREAT THE SYMPTOMS, IF NOT THE CAUSE. Paul: They’re in business to make money, right? But somebody has to step aside and say “safety first” or, at least, “safety as well.” AFTER ALL THIS, GINA, YOUR STORY SUGGESTS RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE. TELL ME HOW YOU’VE DONE AND HOW THE LARGER STATION COMMUNITY HAS DONE. Marilyn Gina: I think they’ve done incredible. There’s still some Bellemore that are stuck. They’re not as vocal as myself and a large number of my friends — we’re not afraid to talk about the fire. We’ve really grown from it. I love this life better than the one before the fire. I love how strong I am. I love what I’ve accomplished. Don’t know that I would have done that before. I just would’ve gone about life. So it’s definitely given me a new chance, a second chance, and I’m going with it. My friends go with it. I’m grateful for the friendships that this fire has brought. I wouldn’t give them up for the world. I can- not imagine my life without the survivors in it. ^

Lonardo is a writer and producer on a series of documentary web videos, “The Station,” set to debut February 20. The series, from Rhode Island filmmaker David Bettencourt, will tell the stories of survivors, victims’ families, first responders, doctors, nurses, law- makers, and others affected by the fire. The first installment will focus on Russo. Go to thestationmovie.com. 12 February 15, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.com

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But he’ll be Main Street) through March Sun, March 10 • 8pm • $35 circling back to Lupo’s, 79 3 | $9, $7 students, $55 for OPEN MIKE NIGHT Rusted Root w/opening acts sAturDAY 16 EVERY THURSDAY the big Picture Washington St, Providence, eight films ($20 for four stu- Doors, 7 p • 8pm • NO COVER Joel Plasket, Adam Ezra Duo Michael Childress says that with the Music Tapes and dent admissions) | brown. (Adam & Turtle). Doors 6:30p Play on the legendary backline. 3 ...... keePing the beAt he created “nAvigAtion Tall Firs at 7 pm | $29.50 + edu/Project/French_Film_ song sign up list & Free CD recording Sat. March 16 • 4pm • $15 Jaimoe (nee Jai Johanny PAintings” “on the concept $35 | 401.331.5876 | lupos.com Festival/ of performance. Weekly Host Bands. Sugar Ray & The Bluetones Award Winning Blues ...... [email protected] ...... Fri. Feb. 22 • 9pm • $10 Fri. March 29 • 8pm • $10 and eric cArbonArA; all-ages and $14 at the door, or bring your post-valentine’s day lover and score a 2 for $20 deal! on Sugar - Dance, Disco, Funk, Soul Rock N’ Soul Revue -Motown, ...... Saturday (the 16th), local alt-country crew shAcklehAnDs hit Swing, Pop & a little rock Sat. Feb. 23 • 8pm • $12a/$15d ...... Shove the shovel nick-a-nee’s free of charge (21+, 401.861.7290), while just around The Spampinato Bros. - Rock Sat. March 30 • 8pm • $15 diG out and diG in thiS WeeKend ...... the corner at the Spot (101 richmond St, 401.383.7133) expect Sun. Feb. 24 • 4pm • NC ...... Al Copley Quintet Blues Piano Last call to get your sexy ass to the parlour on valentine’s day plenty of expert funk courtesy of the goosePimP orchestrA Mystic Blues Fest Kick Off LET’S DANCE WEDNESDAYS fthurSday (the 14th) and get your grind on with boo citY and and the Free Funk All-stArs. 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Thurs. 2/14: microphone, honing and sharpening his skills on each I’m so wrapped up in my thoughts that I find it super dis- BLACk vALEnTinE successive release dating back to his self-produced 2008 tracting and aggravating when people are trying to talk to full-length The A.D.Dventures of an E.ccentric S.uper H.ero and me. My lady sometimes will walk into the studio and try AnTi-vALEnTinE’s time spent as co-founder of Labeless Illtelligence. On- to talk to me while I’m writing, but I don’t hear a word stage he’s a natural-born ham, and rest assured any video she says. She hates that. pARTy! featuring ESH the Monolith will be certified bananas 2-4-1 food specials (“Bored Games,” “Bonafide Napoleon Complex,” etc.) . do you pRefeR (oR is it easieR) to collaboRate as op- posed to cReating it all on youR oWn? dJ nook starts spinning at 9pm Get to Firehouse 13 next Friday and catch the Monolith’s I have grown return to Providence, and in the meantime visit eshthe- to love working collaboratively — I am way too much of a plus Tuesday Madness on a Thursday! monolith.bandcamp.com for plenty of name-your-price head case to produce all my own shit again. Doing anoth- downloads from his quality-stacked catalog. er self-produced album like A.D.Dventures would probably Edwards recently relocated to Allston, Massachusetts result in some sort of Howard Hughes pissing into mason FrI. 2/15: with his girlfriend. He has kept busy out there in the jars with six-inch-long fingernails- type of situation. Not Hits from the 80s, 90s, 2Ks and booth and on the live circuit, collaborating with numer- a good look. It is really beneficial to have someone else ous Boston-based producers and performing at area bars there to draw lines in the sand and/or tell me to get out of more! and clubs. In December he and Cambridge producer my own head. The Arcitype teamed for a six-track EP titled Nightworks, which featured ESH and expert Brooklyn-via-Edgewood When collaboRating With a pRoduceR, does the beat BREAK & RUN wordsmith Romen Rok on the killer cut “The Third Tit” guide youR WRiting oR do you come in With a specific (the rap world needs a full album with these two yahoos plan foR each piece? Most of the time I am inspired by spouting off together). Look no further than the first the beat. A beat conjures certain images in my head, and EvERy sAT. single (and video), “Bonafide Napoleon Complex,” as a I try my best to describe those images. I am always think- testament to this dude’s slick-witted lunacy with a cou- ing of rough ideas and song concepts, but the tone of the 3:30 TO 6:30: plet like, “Temperament of a raccoon with rabies/Gave beat is what brings the words out of me. THE oCEAn MISTICS your lady pearls? Well she’s wearin’ my babies.” Wow. In The Invisible youR baRs aRe layeRed With cRazy WoRdplay. do with special guest stars every week! 2011 we were treated to EP with local turnta- blist Dox Ellis, who also produced the ’12 single “A Song lines jump into youR head as alReady complicated, About Nothing” (with Boston rhymer Andrew Milicia), oR do you go back and plug in moRe complex WoRd- where ESH boasts being “in the lab more than Bunsen ing afteRWaRds? oR does it just come natuRally? and beaker.” Naturally complicated, I guess. I barely ever rewrite lines. I had ESH tackle a quick Q&A while digging out from I take awhile to write and I choose my words very careful- the weekend blizzard: ly. There is no filler in my verses and they are all pretty dense. I’ll just sit there nodding my head for 10 minutes, What motivated you to leave Rhode island? I just felt then like four bars just pour out. Then rinse and repeat. Mon. 2/18: stagnant in my life and music. I love Providence — my I try to write stuff that you will never fully comprehend OpEn fOR pREsidEnT’s dAy family is there and some of my best friends live there, but on your first listen. My favorite emcees write lines that WEEkEnd BREAkfAsT 9 AM I wanted to try to make a mark where nobody knew me you could go back to eight years later and just realize yuM! personally. I feel like I’m doing that in Boston, and it’s what they were talking about. I try to write songs with ^ making me realize I could do it anywhere I choose to. The that in mind. scene is great — it’s just big enough so that people are less protective of their spot. I felt welcomed with open arms. 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The ink drawings and watercolors of Jen f Corace, a Providence artist and illustrator as well as one of the folks behind Craftland, of- ten depict worlds of fairy tale adventure. They feel carefully observed, filled with a dreamlike hush and a faint undercurrent of melancholy. She amazes with her piece Eden in Craftland’s second annual Valentine show “Love Nest” (235 Westminster St, Providence, through March 2). A green covered tome called America’s Garden Book is folded open to reveal an accordion folder with a diorama inside. Cut-out paper silhou- ettes show a wolf slinking after rabbits in a SAt wood, and further in, a naked Eve and bearded SUpeRbad Adam sitting against a tree. Love is not in the 2/16 NO COvER air. They face away from each other, seemingly alone while together. And a snake slithers down from the branches above toward Eve. Corace is one of 15 artists, most hailing from Providence, in the romance-themed exhibit. It’s a fun show. And aligns with Craftland’s cozy yet skeptical take on the world. Most of the artists have a wry or entertainingly cynical view on love. CW Roelle bends wire into a 3D drawing of the Love Boat. A painted and embroidered pillow IN THE GARDEN Corace’s “eden.” by Erin Rosenthal, formerly of Providence, now of Hardwick, Vermont, depicts three elf-tree-be- ings cradling a baby in their arm-branches. Peter Fuller’s atop a frail tree floating in mid air and stare into each bird’s nest lamp is a simple, brilliant transformation. He other’s eyes. recycles parts of bicycle frames into a rugged bird’s nest that holds a pair of light bulbs that double as eggs. f At AS220’s Main Gallery (115 Empire St, Providence, SAt Other artists invent sweet, cute worlds. Lovin’ You by through February 23), artist-activist Ian Cozzens TRanSMiSSion Berkeley, California’s Deth P. Sun is a charming cartoony quotes Guy Hocquenghem writing about “starting the rev- 2/23 NO COvER painting of cat-person asleep alone in bend in a cottage olution by publicly announcing the object of your desire, amid snow-capped mountains. The rooms are decorated and asking in public who desires you.” with a San Francisco Forty-Niners pennant, a potted plant, Cozzens’s recent art about queer living and loving a bottle of booze, a dagger, and a book titled Lovin’ You. comes out of his transition from woman to guy beginning Cranston’s Corey Grayhorse shows one of her signature in 2009. “So you’re not comfortable with our complexity?” surreal costume photos, Bunny Love, depicting a couple he rants in a screenprinted broadside. “Your systems of reading the newspaper and having breakfast in bed. The control are not safety. They will never be a place to live woman leaves over to hug her bunny-headed partner. It’s . . . Yet we live right here, in dissonance & beauty. We’re cute-weird. Portland, Oregon’s Daria Tessler envisions a not comfortable. Yeah, we might be dangerous. Our long- Dr. Seuss-ian town of floating onion-dome houses joined term effects are definitely unknown. Our complexity is by bridge-walkways in her cartoony pen, ink, and water- the world.” color. At the center, a pair of bird-wizards perch in a nest A nearby wall is filled by colored handkerchiefs cus- tom-printed with paisley patterns augment- ed with images of hammers, pens, pocket knifes, lamps, boots, underwear briefs, and Monday sandwiches. With them, Cozzens displays 8 tags filled out with responses he got when he uNLimited PooL asked friends how they use handkerchiefs to send signals. “I would wear a magenta ban- FOR JUST $9 FROM 6PM-CLOSE • dana in my left pocket to signify gay identity oPeN 8 baLL tourNameNt at 7Pm in general.” “I fly black right to signify that I am a pain pig.” “Rear right butt pocket. $15 eNtry & caSh PriZeS Why: Queer identifying . . . highlights my ass, makes it look good. Burgundy deep color THURSday of blood color of love.” It’s art as community Open Mic Singer catharsis. SOng Writer night Other prints are Cozzens’s own raw Hosted by: Dino Larson emotional outpourings of words. “Anger/ Sign up begins at 7pm. Again/Yes.” “Queer bodied.” “Queers!/Dis- Come share your talent! sonance.” “Body/Anger/Trace.” “Difficulty/ Names/No.” He prints them in varying col- COLLEGE ors that create new meanings and new tones NIGHT! as the words overlap and red is layered over Ladies pLay pooL FRee pink is layered over blue. Cozzens’s art has FRom 8pm-cLose FREE POOL W/ been about precision and control as he aimed $3.99 16oz sangRia COLLEGE ID! to convey specific messages. The slight loos- EMOTIONAL OUTPOURING a print by Cozzens. ing here — of message, style, color — gives $2 weLL Rum dRinks FRom 6pm-11pm Ask your bartender ^ the prints a fresh, vivid energy. about drink specials! 18 February 15, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.com

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WALTER A BROWN, clinical + tip + show | 401.461.7896 | comedy day of show | 401.683.5085 | America’s Cup Ave | $9 [$7 with but- professor of psychiatry and hu- factoryri.com commonfencemusic.org ton], $3 ages 6-12 [$2 with button], man behavior at Brown University, POPPY CHAMPLIN | 7 pm | Indigo CHRIS SMITH CARIBBEAN JAZZ free under 6 | 401.847.7666 | Newport will discuss and sign his book, The QUINTET Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice www.narrowscenter.org Pizza, 599 Tiogue Ave, Coventry | | 8 pm | Garde Arts Center, WinterFestival.com | 5:30 $20, includes Italian sitdown meal | 325 State St, New London, CT | $33 | 2013 WINTER FETISH FAIR FLEA- pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer 401.615.9600 | indigopizza.com 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org MARKET | See listing for Fri St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3168 | IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs HANNAH FAIR + IAN FITZGERALD bookstore.brown.edu TAMMY PESCATELLI | See listing + ERIC LICHTER | 7 pm | Sandywoods SUNDAY 17 GOT POETRY LIVE! | 6 pm | Blue for Thurs Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! 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Feb. 15: CD Release Party! improv.com stadiumtheatre.com 21-23 10 am-8 pm + Feb 24 10 am-6 THURSDAY 21 GI’S OF COMIX with Thom Tran, pm | Rhode Island Convention Cen- PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm Tom Irwin, and Jose Sarduy | 8 pm | SUNDAY 17 ter, 1 Sabin St, Providence | $19, $16 | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | liz Comix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, THE DIXIE DIEHARDS JAZZ BAND | students + seniors, $7 ages 6-12, free $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org CT | $15-$25 advance 2 pm | Blackstone River Theatre, 549 under 6 or | flowershow.com Broad St, Cumberland | $10 in ad- WEDNESDAY 20 vance, $12 day of show | 401.725.9272 longley WICKED FUNNY SHOWCASE | riverfolk.org TALKS hosted by Brian Beaudoin with PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE | 8 pm FILM Derek Moore, Cory Tenchara, Brian | Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase Barganier, Christina Thomas, Chris St, New Bedford, MA | $32 + $37 | THURSDAY 14 THURSDAY 14 “A VOICE FOR THE STUDENTS: Wed. Feb. 20: Reyes, and Tom Stewart | 8 pm | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org Comedy Connection, East Provi- US GIRLS + SLIM TWIG + TRIP DICKS 4TH ANNUAL PROVIDENCE UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY, dence | $10 | Machines with Magnets, 400 Main CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL will EQUITY, AND DIVERSITY” | A talk NEW ENGLAND ALL-STAR COMIX St, Pawtucket | 401.475.2655 | present 17 features, plus “The Best by Naomi R. Thompson, URI’s chief STeVe with Graig Murphy, Taylor Ket- machineswithmagnets.com of the New York International Chil- diversity officer and associate vice chum, and host Kevin Fitzgerald | 8 dren’s Film Festival 2012,” “MIT + president of community, equity, pm | Comix at Foxwoods, Mashan- WEDNESDAY 20 K12: Engineering Rules,” and “Your and diversity | Noon | University of KimoCK tucket, CT | $10-$20 advance STEVE KIMOCK BAND WITH BER- Shorts Are Showin’ 2013 Editions” | Rhode Island Multicultural Center, NIE WORRELL, ANDY HESS, AND At Metcalf Auditorium at the RISD 74 Lower College Road, Kingston | THURSDAY 21 WALLY INGRAM | 8 pm | Narrows Museum, the RISD Auditorium, and Free | 401.874.2851 or uri.edu/mcc Band ELITE ACADEMY OF DANCE Center For the Arts, Fall River, MA | Cable Car Cinema through Feb 19 | “RITUAL AND LEISURE: MONEY, FeaTuring Bernie Worrell , andy HeSS and FEATURING DEREK FURTADO | $25 advance, $28 day of show Complete film descriptions + more GENDER, AND CHOICE IN MODERN Wally ingram 7 pm | Comedy Connection, East info @ pcffri.org | RISD Auditorium, CHINA” | 5 pm | Brown University’s Providence | $20 THURSDAY 21 17 Canal Walkway, Providence | Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, LOL THURSDAY | hosted by Frank ALLYSEN CALLERY + IAN FITZGER- $7.50, $5 children, students + se- Providence | Free | 401.863.2809 | Thurs. Feb. 21: O’Donnell | Catch A Rising Star at ALD | 7 pm | Rhode Island Historical niors | pcffri.org watsoninstitute.org/events_detail. Twin River, Lincoln | $10 Society, 110 Benevolent St, Provi- “CRIME: PULP, ART, AND HOLLY- cfm?id=2008 MARSHALL BRANDON | 8 pm | Co- dence | Free [reservations suggested] WOOD” | A monthly film series with SHaWn mix at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | 401.273.8107 x 10 | rihs.org facilitator Ron Hagell | Today: Double FRIDAY 15 | $20-$40 advance SHAWN MULLINS | 8 pm | Narrows Indemnity, the 1944 film directed “ARTIST/REBEL.DANDY: MEN IMPROV JONES | See listing for Thurs Center For the Arts, Fall River, MA | by Billy Wilder | 6 pm | Providence OF FASHION” | A discussion with mullinS $20 advance, $23 day of show Public Library, 150 Empire St | Free | RISD curators Kate Irvin and Lau- 401.455.8000 | provlib.org rie Brewer about the forthcoming 2/16: TaB BenoiT (Sold ouT!) 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Tony V and Jimmy WalSH concludes St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providence FRIDAY 15+ SUNDAY 17 with A New Leaf, the 1971 film with athenaeum.org 3/1: JonaTHan edWardS POPULAR OPERA PROVIDENCE present a Val- Walter Matthau and Elaine May | “MISINTERPRETATION OF THE 3/2: ed KoWalCzyK oF liVe entine’s Day concert | Fri 7 ; + Sun 3 7 pm | Warwick Public Library, 600 SCIENCE IN FORENSIC SCIENCE pm | Blithewold Mansion, Gardens Sandy Ln | Free | 401.739.5440 | BY JUST BEING HUMAN” | A talk FRIDAY 15 & Arboretum, 101 Ferry Rd, Bristol warwicklibrary.org by Susan Ballou, program manager LIZ LONGLEY | 8 pm | Narrows Cen- | $40 | 401.331.6060 | operaprovi- A VALENTINE’S DAY SCREENING of forensic science at the National ter For the Arts, 16 Anawan St, Fall dence.org OF THE DOCUMENTARY LOVE, Institute for Standards and Technol- River, MA | $20 advance, $23 day of MARILYN | 6:30 + 8:45 pm | Jane ogy | Part of the Forensic Science show | 508.324.1926 | narrowscenter. 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1806-1871, a translation of a new University, 64 College St, Providence | Brown School, 250 Lloyd Ave, Provi- $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students anthology based on the Annals of the brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_ dence | mosesbrown.org | Mon-Fri + military with ID; free under 6 | Dabneys Family in Fayal, compiled by Bell_Gallery | Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm; 8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through May 5: “Legacies In Paint: Roxana Dabney in 1899 | 6:30 pm | Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | Through Feb 17: Through March 1: “Diverse Views,” The Mentor Project,” with work Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit “Until the Kingdom Comes,” works by Holly Gaboriault and Holly from a four-month mentoring proj- St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providence photographs by Simen Johan & Eli Minaya ect with mid- to late-career Rhode athenaeum.org DORRANCE H. HAMILTON GAL- PAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORA- Island painters [Paula Martiesian, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LERY AT SALVE REGINA UNIVER- TIVE GALLERY | 175 Main St | David Barnes, Michele Provost, 127 Dorrance St. ProviDence, ri 401-421-7200 THURSDAY 21 SITY | 401.341.2981 | Antone Aca- pawtucketartscollaborative.org | John Riedel, and Ida Schmulowitz] “YANKEE INGENUITY: PLACE- demic Center, Lawrence + Leroy aves, Mon-Sat 10 am to 5 pm | Through and younger painters [Buck Hast- thiS thurSDay: MAKING IN THE REGIONAL LAND- Newport | salve.edu/academics/ Feb 22: “Past Present & Future,” ings, Mollie Hosmer-Dillard, Li Jun SCAPE” | A talk by Stephen Stimson departments/art/gallery | Tues + works by Robert W. Easton, Mimo Lai, Erika Sabel, and Dan Talbot] | Bill McGoldrick & PaM SteiBler of Stephen Stimson Associates | Thurs 11 am-6 pm; Wed + Fri 11 am- Gordon Riley, Timothy McCarthy, Through May 12: “Faculty Focus,” Part of the Landscape Architecture 5 pm; Sat + Sun 12-4 pm | Through Paul Hitchen, Jules, Eileen Mc- with works by Charlene Carpenzano FriDay: Lecture Series | 7 pm | Weaver Au- March 20: “Do What You Must Do,” Carney Muldoon, Nancy Gaucher- and Dan McManus of the NAM art ditorium in the Coastal Institute paintings by Sue McNally Thomas, Cindy Horovitz Wilson, school | Through May 12: “Shelf inventionS Quartet Building at the University of Rhode GALLERY AT CITY HALL | John Fazzino, Gretchen Dow Life,”paintings by Gerry Perrino | Island, Greenhouse Rd, Kingston 401.421.7740 | 25 Dorrance St, Simpson, Mary Ann Rossoni, Ewa Through May 19: “Newport Annual SaturDay: | Free | 401.874.2983 | uri.edu/cels/ Providence | Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4 pm | Roselli, Paul M. Murray, Charles Members’ Juried Exhibition” lar/events.html Through March 15: “Masters of the Morgan, Jean Patiky, Rob Mariani, RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Zeke Martin Project Craft: Gallery of Memory,” a pho- Karen Rand Anderson, Ian Mohon, Benefit St, Providence | risdmuseum. tography exhibi8t commemorating Sarah Roche, Marjorie Ball, Reed org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm [Thurs next thurSDay: the 80th anniversary of the found- McLaren, Michele Mennucci, Kris- until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 ART ing of Local 1329 of the International tin Street, Marc A. Jaffe, Bonnie seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages Gin Mill jane Longshoremen’s Association in Jaffe, Lucy B. 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DOWNSTAIRS GAL- GALLERY Z | 401.454.8844 | 259 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | rious Places: Edward Lear’s Travels” LERY | 508.984.1588 | 384 Acushnet Atwells Ave, Providence | galleryzprov. providenceartclub.org | Mon-Fri 12- | Through June 9: “RISD Business: Ave, New Bedford, MA | artworksfor com | Wed-Sat 12-8 pm + by appoint- 4 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Ale- you.org | Mon-Sat 9 am-5 pm | ment | Through March 9: “Estate Feb 22: “Inside & Out,” with works jandro Diaz” | Through June 30: Through Feb 21: “Material Matters: Show: Living and Non-Living Art- by Mary Dorsey Brewster and Pa- “Double-and-Add,” works by Angela Social Content Through Process and ists Represented and Exhibited mela Neal | “Oil and Water, A Fine Bulloch, Anthony McCall, and Ha- Materials,” with works by Mary with Gallery Z in the Past,” works Mix,” with works by Sally Ann Mar- roon Mirza | Through July 14: “The Hurwitz, Kat Cope, Christian Ko- by Aghassi, Francesco Agresti, tone and Marilyn Saabye Festive City,” an exhibit of rarely zaki, and Henry Daniel Gatlin Hagop Aprahamian, Hrair Apra- RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR seen prints and books that provide AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, hamian, Virginia Arakelian, Marc SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 | a glimpse into the festivals of early Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri Awodey, Lara B., Jillian Barber, Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, modern Europe 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appoint- Anoush Bargamian, Midge Bo- Pawtucket | riws.org | Tues-Sat 10 ment | Through Feb 23: “Practical vino, Colette Brésilla, Erik Bright, am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through Feb Tools For Shifting Reality,” new Sue Butler,Yevkine De Gréef, 21: “New Artist Member Show” work by Ian Cozzens | “Found Ob- Linda Denosky-Smart, Adrienne SECOND SIGHT GALLERY | ject Paintings,” new works by Lyn Der Marderosian, Areg Eibekian, 401.724.7300 | 413 Central Ave, THEATER Hayden | New photographs by Byron Robert Elibekian, Vagharshak Pawtucket | Thurs-Sun 12-5 pm | Hocker | New work by Indira Miller Elibekian, Samuel Gareginyan, Through Feb 28: “RHD Staff Art AS220 PROJECT SPACE | Melik Gazarian, Benjamin Giguere, Show” EPIC THEATRE COMPANY | facebook. 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Fran Henry-Meehan, Harutune SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIA- com/pages/Epic-Theatre-Company/ Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri Hovhanesian, Herbet C. 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XX Gary (Rob Corddry), a nerdy technician; and A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD Gary’s son, Kip (Jonathan Morgan Heit), and 97 minuteS | cinema world + entertain- wife, Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker). Their story ment + iSland + providence place 16 + is a family-film cliché from a galaxy not so ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 far, far away. When Scorch bumbles into Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this fifth captivity on Earth, it’s up to Gary to finally iteration of the Die Hard franchise (launched grow a pair and step out from behind the in 1988) has Bruce Willis’s John McClane keyboard to rescue his brother. Imprisoned SPELLBOUND Irons, Englert, and Ehrenreich in Beautiful Creatures. heading to Moscow to help his son Jack (Jai in Area 51 by Agent Shanker (William Shat- Courtney) protect an enemy of the state from ner), Gary is forced to devise an alien weapon a Mockingbird Slaughterhouse-Five a corrupt government official. A car chase that will grant Shanker intergalactic domi- tudes, and tired clichés because Sparks does , and , which leads to a standoff in a high-rise and a mid- nation. Directed by novice Cal Brunker, Es- know how to jerk the tears, in a Hallmark Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a small town kid night run to Chernobyl, where a conspiracy cape references an array of other films, such kind of way. But after the mysterious Ka- yearning for romance, is reading. No wonder Toy Story Independence Day The Artist Dancing with the Stars to trade enriched uranium comes to light. as , , and (of tie ( ’ Julianne Hough) he keeps dreaming about an elusive, beckon- Along the way there are double-crosses, all things), and sometimes mixes wit with lands in coastal North Carolina (Sparks’s ing sprite. But then he meets Lena (Kristen shootouts and the supposedly touching scene its bromides. But thanks to the Weinstein breadbasket), falls for single-dad Alex (Josh Stewart clone Alice Englert), the ostracized when Jack starts calling his father “dad” Company’s insistence on low-rent anima- Duhamel), and the details of her dicey past new kid in school, and finds the girl of his instead of “John.” A Good Day To Die Hard is a tion, this might please young kids but tor- slowly (and manipulatively) come to light (a dreams. What he doesn’t know is that Lena Harry Potter movie for people who like blowin’ stuff up, ment discerning parents. cop from Boston and a possible murder), the is a pastiche of characters from , _Jordan Rief Haven Twilight Interview with the Vampire Carrie evidently a favorite pastime of director John XW groan-worthy denouement washes out , , . . . . A Moore, whose action scenes make about as into a sudsy sea of shameless melodrama. “Caster” (i.e., she casts spells), she’s hiding SAFE HAVEN _Tom Meek much sense as his script, which was likely XX out at the manor of her creepy Uncle Macon 115 minuteS | cinema world + entertain- (Jeremy Irons, dressed like the Pope on holi- written on a cocktail napkin. Yippee ki-yay? ment + iSland + providence place 16 + BEAUTIFUL CREATURES Try yippee ki-nyet, Mother Russia. day), so her wicked mother can’t find her _Jordan Rief ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 124 minuteS | cinema world + entertain- and convert her to evil. Ethan is an unwel- XX Somewhere along the way Nicholas Sparks ment + iSland + providence place 16 + come distraction — for the viewer too, since ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH went from being just a bestselling author ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 Ehrenreich is more like Jethro Clampett than 95 minuteS | cinema world + entertain- of preachy schmaltz to a full-on franchise Throughout his adaptation of Kami Garcia Truman Capote. LaGravanese at times spins ment + iSland + providence place 16 + (he produces the movies of his books). And and Margaret Stohl’s YA novel, Richard striking images — a scene in which Ethan ShowcaSe + SwanSea Stadium 12 he’s got his hooks deep into director Lasse Lagravenese drops the names of books that walks into a magical time warp is particular- My Life As a Dog The Cider House On the distant planet Baab lives a family of Hallström ( and would have provided a more rewarding way ly nightmarish. But he also has a weakness Rules aliens who must learn to cherish one an- ), who’s on board here for a second tour of spending a couple of hours than watch- for clichés; I guess he’s been taking lessons Dear John other. They are Scorch Supernova (Brendan of duty (after ). One might overlook ing this movie. For instance, the adolescent from the wrong books. Catcher In the Rye On the Road To Kill _Peter Keough Fraser), an arrogant astronaut; his brother, the low production values, endless plati- classics , , FAlso Playing XXW XXXX THE IMPOSSIBLE | 2012 | ered living alone in the woods like regression in Hollywood’s attitude spats and the ugly wallpaper in the agra-fueled priapism, Val wonders ZERO DARK THIRTY | In J.A. Bayona’s neo-disaster-film, grubby changelings. Annabelle toward women. That is, they are living room. Home is where Pat Sol- if he’s going to die. “Not tonight,” 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty begins in terror everything but the carnage is cheap. does her best to put up with — and demonizing them. Let’s start with atano (Bradley Cooper) finds himself says his nurse (Julianna Margulies), and ends in despair. The first image is Appropriating a “true story” about eventually care for — the two girls, Hitchcock. As with Psycho, the studio once again. He has just been sprung who — wouldn’t you know it! — is a black screen with the date “Septem- a family torn apart by the 2004 but it becomes increasingly obvious has forbidden anyone from entering by his mother (Jacki Weaver ) from the daughter of old pal and getaway ber 11, 2001,” and a background sound Thailand tsunami — the Spanish that someone . . . or something . . . a screening of Steven Soderbergh’s the psychiatric institution where he driver Hirsch (Alan Arkin), who’ll be of panicked, doomed voices on cell clan who inspired it have been An- has gotten there first. First-time Side Effects after the film begins be- spent eight months after nearly beat- sprung from a nursing home soon phones. The last shot is of one person glicized in the form of Naomi Watts director Andrés Muschietti makes cause of its “non-linear nature.” I ing his wife’s lover to death. In the enough. Ah, but Doc’s been ordered in tears. In between, director Kathryn and Ewan McGregor — he alternates the scares in Mama too obvious to be assume that refers to its extensive, meantime he has lost his house and to execute Val. Not if Pacino kills his Bigelow and screen-writer Mark Boal between intense set pieces and sub- effective, but the quiet in-between and awkward, use of flashbacks, job as well as his wife and his mind, career first. | 100m | depict the failures and successes, the Spielbergian drivel. The tsunami times suggest genuine horror, as the because the story isn’t so much full and so he moves into the blue collar shame and triumph of 10 years in XXW scenes that bookend the picture hapless Annabelle tries to undo some of surprises as it is riddled with plot Philadelphia digs he grew up in. WARM BODIES | 2013 | the War on Terror. Densely detailed, achieve a visceral splendor; discon- seriously fucked-up pre-parenting. holes. But the proviso does put pres- With Robert De Niro playing the vol- The cinema of young-adult-novel superbly shot and acted, illuminat- certing sound design and brutal gore | 106m | sure on critics to reveal as little as atile Pat Sr., it’s kind of like All In the adaptations has given us some gonzo ing and thrilling, it is the best film effects make them painful to watch. possible for fear of spoilers. So,in Family, except the laughs sometimes plotlines. But can either Twilight or of 2012. Every epic needs a hero, and XX For those few minutes, The Impos- QUARTET | 2012 | At age 75, brief, Emily (Rooney Mara), whose degenerate into violence. Then Tif- The Hunger Games top Warm Bodies, in here Maya (Jessica Chastain), uneasily sible feels like a new type of survival- actor Dustin Hoffman is a gradu- husband (Channing Tatum) has just fany (Jennifer Lawrence) enters Pat’s which a zombie named R (Nicholas fills the role. She enters the film as ist movie, one that puts you through ate at last to directing a film, and returned from a prison term for in- life. She’s dealing with depression Hoult, who rarely has dialogue, one of the CIA agents watching the in- the same hell as its characters. But he takes it slow and easy with his sider trading, is depressed. A shrink over her husband’s death by sleeping speaking through voiceover for most terrogation of Ammar (Reda Kateb), a the only thing filling time between initial foray behind the camera. (Jude Law) prescribes a new drug with everyone in the neighborhood. of the film) eats the brains of dutiful detainee. At first she shows the revul- those two heart-pounding scenes is Very veteran British actors nibble and, well, it apparently has side ef- Pat declines her favors at first, but young Perry (Dave Franco) and then sion that most would feel watching faux inspirational melodrama, with on the scenery in this pleasant, fects. And then there are the ruthless genre expectations decree that op- creates a hostage situation cum a person being tortured and humili- every emotional moment — lives be- harmless adaptation of Ronald lesbians and. . . . Maybe I’ve said too posites attract and that these two romance with Julie (Teresa Palmer), ated. But once she fills a bucket for ing saved, families being reunited Harwood’s 1999 middlebrow play set much. Side Effects looks classy, keeps should find their psychoses mutually the girl that Perry left behind? the waterboarding, she’s implicated. — backed by an ingratiating musical in a retirement home for ex-opera your interest, and has attractive ac- compatible. To his credit, Russell Complete with riffs on Romeo and With more experience, her revulsion score and crass camera movements. performers. As one can surmise, tors. Soderbergh says that it is his keeps the outcome interesting; he Juliet and John Malkovich playing the gives way to routine. That’s a feeling The hokum can wear you down each character is delightfully ec- last movie. Ironically, the filmmaker knows that every silver lining has a angry dad who needs to lighten up viewers might not share, though per- worse than the tsunami. | 114m | centric, none more so than the who started his career with sex, lies cloud. | 122m | and let his daughter date a zombie? haps they, too, are implicated. Shot XW self-absorbed one-time diva (reliable and videotape, a film boosting female STAND UP GUYS | 2013 | Has I think not. Sadly, though, the with the handheld, precisely edited XXW MAMA | 2013 | This creepy Maggie Smith) whose sudden arrival sexuality and empowerment, now Al Pacino ever looked so small? product doesn’t live up to the pitch. immediacy that Bigelow demonstrat- Guillermo Del Toro-produced horror at the home causes havoc. Will she, ends it with a so-so thriller that Slouched and sadly more Dunkaccino Director Jonathan Levine (of The ed in The Hurt Locker, this procedural is flick (his hallmarks are all around or won’t she, have a rapprochement resorts to the same old misogyny. than Serpico, he plays the career Wackness and 50/50 and who, despite exhausting and exciting. And though the smudgy edges) demonstrates with the ex-husband (Tom Courte- | 106m | criminal Val in this sentimental some pleasurable CinemaScope fram- we know how it ends, do we know XXX convincingly that step-parenting is nay) whom she walked out on? Will SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK hokum directed by Fisher Stevens. ing here, seems to be in full sellout what it means? | 156m | a real bitch. Especially when a de- she, or won¹t she, join the others on | 2012 | According to some movies, Released from prison after 28 years, mode) panders to the teen set with ranged she-demon from beyond the stage in a quartet rendition of Verdi? being mentally ill is a great way to he’s picked up by best pal Doc (Chris- a fervor that would make Stephenie grave has laid all the groundwork. Not to worry: it all unravels splen- find love. As the title suggests, topher Walken, pure restraint next Meyer blush. Warm Bodies may be OUR RATING The step-mom is Annabelle (Jessica didly in this teeth-in-a-glass comedic David O. Russell’s adaptation of to Pacino’s ham), and soon the bad- about zombies, but it’s more of a Chastain, miles away from The Help drama. | 98m | Matthew Quick’s novel looks on hair buddies stage a “comeback.” Frankenstein’s monster. It steals Masterpiece XXXX or Zero Dark Thirty) who couldn’t be the bright side, and it bristles with Or, as Val relates to a priest in the the “brain-dead culture” subtext Good XXX XXW SIDE EFFECTS 2013 Spanking less maternal, as she swigs beer | | This quirky authenticity. From inevitable morning-after confession: from George Romero, the idea of Okay XX straight from the bottle and jams out was the second film I had seen in one the Monkey to The Fighter, Russell ob- “I shot a guy in the kneecap, and an- rewriting classic romantic fiction for with her punk rock pals. Alas, moth- day that owed a debt to Hitchcock serves the troubled soul within the other one in the arm; I stole a bunch teen audiences from Clueless, and its Not Good X erhood is thrust upon her when her and featured a presumably psy- environment that causes most of of prescription drugs and a sweet-ass best jokes from Shaun of the Dead. It’s Stinks Z artist boyfriend’s orphaned nieces, chotic, possibly homicidal female. 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Moon signs _by symboline dai not feeling the “magic,” don’t force an Many people find the time of the Tuesday issue. first quarter moon both relaxing and February 19 Sexxxy Time Valentine’s productive. You have the1 energy 2 to 3 4 s a 5 T urday 6 7 8 9 Waxing 10 moon 11 in Gemini;12 moon 13 void-of- 14 15 16 thur. Spectacular with initiative new projects, without the February 16 course 1:48 pm until 5:45 am 2.20. differing pressure1 2 of a deadline. 3 4 You also 5 have 6 Waxing 7 moon 8 in t aurus. 9 Stubbornness 10 11 12 opinions 13 are fun14 for some, 15 and 16 what seems the time to evaluate options, which is so important and meaningful now will 2/14 Boo City & The Silks 17 18 19 is 20 such a 21pleasure. 22 So is buying 23 new 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 no small thing in a binary world. This clothes, getting some elegant bit of art dwindle quickly in significance. aries, Libra, week also brings a solar shift from Gemini. taurus, capricorn, cancer, aquarius, sun17 in Aquarius 18 19 to Pisces. 20 If you’re 21 22 or 23craft to decorate24 25 your home, 26 or 27dining 28 29 30 31 32 EvEry out in luxury. if you didn’t get some spe- Scorpio, Leo: keep it light, but be sensitive kArAoke having a birthday this week, you’re to an audience that could misread flippancy. born on the cusp. Birthday folks this cial bon bon, treat yourself. aries, Sagit- Fri. tarius, Libra, Gemini. taurus, capricorn, Sagittarius, pisces, and virgo: you’ll want to 9pm week are high-minded, sensitive, and tell everyone all about your feelings — don’t. concerned about the down-trodden. virgo, cancer, pisces: get what’s yours. More about astrology and readings at Scorpio, Leo, and aquarius: it’s a “clowns WedNesday Sasquatch and moonsigns.net. I’ll answer questions to the left of me/jokers to the right” kind of day. February 20 sat. the Sick a Billys at asksymboline.blogspot.com.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Waxing 11 moon12 in c ancer. 13 t his 14 moon 15con - 16 cerns loyalty and domesticity — being Jay Berndt & suNday “at-home,” versus “out in the world.” if 2/16 Thursday February 17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 you hear14 your 15 couch singing16 a siren song, 17 18 19 20 First 21 quarter 22 moon 23 in taurus; 24 moon 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 The Orphans February 14 you’re in tune with the moon, particularly 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 void-of-course 11 12 3:31 pm 13 until 4:5014 pm, 15 16 Waxing moon in aries; moon void-of- for capricorn, aries, and Libra. Gemini, Leo, course 10:36 pm until 5:08 am Friday. when it moves into Gemini. a turning EvEry point for events that happened on or cancer, virgo, Scorpio, pisces, aquarius, SOULFUL SUNDAY 17 h 18appy v 19alentine’s 20 d ay! r 21omances 22 in the 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 and 30Sagittarius: 31 being 32 defensive, especially early stages will seem fresh and new, as around February 10. another fine day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 if you perceive injustice, is not a bad thing. sun. w/ Cadillac Jack aries moons encourage risk-taking and for making costly purchases, or investing initiative. aries, Sagittarius, Leo, Libra, in items that are meant to last. taurus aquarius, and Gemini: say what you mean moons help us appreciate beauty, moon KeyS EvEry REGGAE NIGHT to a loved one. taurus, capricorn, virgo, wherever we find it; so listen up, ar- this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the hosted by upsetta international cancer, Scorpio, pisces: put the past away ies, Sagittarius, Libra, Gemini. taurus, sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | mon. & Rogue island Dub Foundation — especially if you feel it’s controlling your capricorn, virgo, cancer, pisces. Financial anxiety could afflict Leo, Scorpio, and When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning present responses. a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect aquarius. increased insight and emotionality. When the moon EvEry TRIVIA NIGHT 8pm Friday moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), February 15 MoNday expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, wEd. w/ Trivia Master1 GMatt 2 3 4 5 Waxing 6 moon 7 in t aurus. 8 a fine 9 day 10 for 11 12 February 13 18 14 15 16 family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities 1 2 being 3 acquisitive 4 5 (greedy), 6 or loving 7 8 Waxing 9 moon 10 in Gemini; 11 sun12 moves 13 into 14 will not 15 be at their 16 best. | When the moon is in aries, beauty. even the most tone-deaf will pisces; Saturn retrogrades; president’s it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are thur. Hope Anchor day. Short errands, brief encounters is taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, 17 18/ 19 20 21 crave 22 melody 23 or harmony. 24 t 25aurus moons 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Leo/aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each 17 18 are19 also 20excellent 21 for dealing 22 with 23 banking 24 what 25 you want.26 Writing 27 and28 editing, 29 30 31 32 2/21 Glass Flowers or making putting large projects into a sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon matters — exactly how diligent are you moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void about monitoring your online finances? simple sequence of steps is also advised. confrontation could make things spicy for of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider uPCominG take the time today. aries, Sagittarius, this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing Libra, Gemini, taurus, capricorn, virgo, virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius. exaggera- decisions if you can. but it’s great for brainstorming. | For 2/23 mark Cutler & men of Great Courage, cancer, pisces: if you’re dealing with tion could be an unexpected pleasure for Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, los Texacanos, strange County Drifters someone needlessly stubborn — move aries, Libra, Gemini. taurus, capricorn, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. 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