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16 art _by greg cook 10pm: Door prizes from A wondrous window: the “2013 risd faculty biennial.” the Pot of Gold 17 theater _by bill rodriguez Paying their dues: Ocean State Theatre Company’s rent. TH 25 film FRIDAY MARCH 15 “Short Takes” on oz the great and powerful, dead man down, jack the giant slayer, the last exorcism part ii, and 21 and over. 5pm: After Work Live Acoustic Music with Brian Twohey featuring in every iSSue the Tom Lanigan Band 6 4 phillipe & jorge’s 10pm: Green Party with cool, cool world Thanks, Dr. Koop | Hoping for fresh DJ Dirty Dek, cash prizes air at the EPA | ‘Vatileaks’ | TV party L 6 for best GREEN attire!

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Thanks, Dr. koop Ya gotta have heart; hoping for fresh air; more dirt at the vatican

You may have noticed the passing of shoved through your vein and out a hole McCarthy’s predecessor Lisa Jackson re- Rodman. We are sure he would find all the fformer US Surgeon General C. Everett in your heart, take a pass). And soon there- signed with a hearty flip of the bird to clerics “awesome guys.” Koop, who turned in his famous braided after, Phillipe became one of the first 10 Congress. Salvation Army captain’s uniform on Feb- kids in the country to undergo open heart McCarthy is a good, rock-ribbed TV parTY ruary 25, at age 96. So put out that Kool surgery. Bostonian who appears ready to talk shit Jorge’s proposed television project with 100 cigarette in memory of the man, an (The modern version of the procedure and take none from the GOP. She will Nate Flynn for Rhode Island PBS, Meet anti-smoking crusader who also brought leaves about a six-inch scar. P. got a enforce stricter regulations — especially Me at the Met, dipped a toe in the water early attention to the threat of AIDS. Ya “patent pending” incision that runs half- in the area of air pollution, a division on Monday evening when the generous done good, Ev. way around his body — and the requisite she led in the EPA prior to her nomi- folks at the station gave the pair an entire Koop also played a major role in broken sternum and pried-apart ribs, to nation. evening to promote and raise money for Phillipe’s life, in a strange and wonderful boot.) She also worked for Mitt Romney the new show. way. If not for Koop’s genius, and that of when he was governor of Massachusetts As we mentioned last week, the aim P. was born with a hole in his heart. his fellow pediatricians, Phillipe would on global warming issues, which shows of Meet Me is to showcase Rhode Island At the time, open-heart surgery was in have been unable to take part in gym class she can communicate effectively with musicians playing live at the Met Cafe in its infancy, and there was no way to put after age 12. And he would have been a even the most ignorant animals in the Pawtucket. a child under anesthesia for the eight- goner, almost surely, by age 20. jungle. We certainly hope those who viewed to-10 hours required for the operation. Instead, with a repaired ticker, P. Good luck, Gina. You’ll need it. the program had as much fun as the You couldn’t just give a 100-pound kid was named an All-American soccer player people in the studio. Members of the half the gas you might give a 200-pound at Brown and has soldiered into AARP ‘VaTileaks’ board of directors of the Rhode Island adult. Keeping a young patient alive dur- membership eligibility with nary a Quite a coincidence that Pope Benny Music Hall of Fame answered the phones ing such an ordeal would require a more problem. He’s even enjoyed a perk: P. is Andajets headed for the hills just after amid great in-studio performances by inventive approach. able to impress his friends and frighten receiving a dossier that reportedly revealed Nolan Leite, the 10-year-old guitar prod- So a nine-year-old P. was put on a wait- his enemies with his human can-opener a group of prelates at the Vatican (aka, igy, the Jess Lewis Band, Kevin Williams ing list at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital chest scar. Hot Sheets-Roma) were facing blackmail and the Invisible Orphans, Mark Cutler in hopes that doctors could come up with for their sexual proclivities — and we don’t and Don “DC” Culp, and the ethereal Al- a life-saving approach before time ran out. Take a deep breaTh mean celibacy. lysen Callery. Along came Dr. Koop, who was head of For what it’s worth, Phillipe & Jorge have The exposure of these sordid games Also nice to have Roomful of Blues lead- pediatrics at Philadelphia Children’s at heard good reports on President Obama’s couldn’t have happened to a better bunch er and guitarist Chris Vachon stop by to say the time. choice to head the US Environmental of guys than the fast-exiting Pope, the hello and remind folks that it’s Roomful’s He and his staff came up with a plan: Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy (though College of Cardinals, and the international 45th year and the band will be celebrating drop the youngster into a tub full of ice we might have preferred Jenny McCarthy, circuit of paedo priests. soon with three nights at the Ocean Mist water to slow his blood flow and adminis- to add a touch of sexiness to the too-sterile Sure, this rings of Catholic-bashing. in Matunuck (P&J will let you know when ter just enough anesthesia to put him EPA). But P&J can’t think of any of our local that’s happening). under without sending him into a coma. EPA chiefs, like the heads of Little Catholic friends — and they are legion Thanks to all for making this a fun In a pre-surgery visit to the hospital, Rhody’s Department of Environmental — endorsing the behavior of their entitled night and the start of something very an X-ray-enabled catheter helped to Management, have traditionally served clergy. special indeed. ^ identify the location of hole (word to as legislators’ whipping boys and girls. Perhaps the Vatican could use a visit the wise here, if a doctor ever asks if Indeed, with the GOP attacking her from the skilled diplomat who just took a Send half-price 2013 calendars and Pulitzer- you’d like to view your innards via a tube every time she opened her mouth, jaunt to North Korea: Dennis “The Worm” grade tips to [email protected].

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“I’m not sure anything really registers for me unless it’s language.” This Just In _dAVid ShiEldS

Q&a David Shields on How Literature Saved My Life In the fourth chapter of his channel surfing, trying to navigate [He takes out a copy of the book and reads aloud] “The lan- fnew book How Literature Saved My the web or a declining relationship, guage of the event was at least as erotic to me as the events Life, Brown alumnus David Shields hearing that a close friend died last themselves and when I was no longer reading Rebecca’s contemplates nothing less than the night — flies at us in bright splin- words, I was no longer very adamantly in love with Rebecca. meaning of life: “Isn’t everyone’s ters,” Shields said. This is what is known as a tragic flaw.” For me it’s all bound project, on some level, to offer ten- Before his presentation, I spoke up with language. As a kid who stuttered really badly, I got tative theses regarding what — if with Shields over coffee at the very invested in language as my mode of escape. The irony anything — we’re doing here?” Brown Bookstore. Our conversa- for me — the tragic flaw — is that I think, for better or worse, The chapter is vintage Shields. tion, like Shields’s writing, was I’ve gotten a little trapped in language. I say this in the book: One moment he quotes Barack wildly digressive. We discussed something like, “I’m not sure anything really registers for Obama’s eulogy for a young victim the difference between handsome me unless it’s language.” of the 2011 mass shooting in Tuc- and ugly male writers (“The former son, Arizona; the next, he is quot- veer toward wise-depressive; the THIS BOOK DISCUSSES EVERYTHING FROM PROUST’S REMEM- ing Nietzsche; then Rembrandt; latter, toward brilliant-bitter,” BRANCE OF THINGS PAST TO WORLD OF WARCRAFT TO TIGER then Ice-T; then Burt Reynolds’s Shields writes); the author’s in- WOODS’S ILLICIT TEXT MESSAGES TO A PORN STAR. HOW DO YOU immortal Hollywood dictum: ability to change a tire; and the DEFINE “LITERATURE”? WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE BOUNDARIES? “First, it’s ‘Who’s Burt Reynolds?’ experience — detailed unforget- Well I haven’t sort of worked it out in any sort of super-duper Then it’s ‘Get me Burt Reynolds.’ tably in Literature — of reading his careful literary critical theory way, like “x is literature and [y] Then ‘Get me a Burt Reynolds type.’ Brown girlfriend’s diary without isn’t.” But for our purposes, I do go to this line of David Foster Then ‘Get me a young Burt Reyn- her knowledge. The interview has Wallace’s that I really like, that I probably quote at least indi- olds.’ And then it’s ‘Who’s Burt been edited and condensed. rectly in the book, which is, “We’re existentially alone on the Reynolds?’ ” planet. You can’t know what I’m thinking and feeling and This “collage” approach to writ- THERE ARE FEW SETTINGS MORE I can’t know what you’re thinking and feeling. And a book, ing, Shields explained during a LOADED FOR THIS INTERVIEW THAN A at its best, can construct a bridge across the abyss of human book tour stop at RISD on Monday BOOKSTORE AT BROWN UNIVERSITY. loneliness.” To me, if a work absolutely foregrounds the ques- evening, first occurred to him in I can’t tell you how much time I tion of how the writer saw being alive, that’s literature. That’s the shower while he was working spent here in college; here, and what I think is a great book. Samuel Johnson said, “A book on his third book, 1992’s A Handbook BY THE BOOK Shields. the library. I was here [from] ’74 to should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to for Drowning. (How Literature Saved My ’78. That’s, my goodness, 35 years endure it.” And the books I really love — the books that this Life is Shields’s fourteenth.) Yes, ago. It’s hard to believe. I feel like tries to be — they really err on the side of teaching us how to an epiphany in the shower is the ultimate cliché, Shields ac- I totally grew up here, to the degree that I’ve ever grown up. endure existence. That, to me, is literature. knowledges; but it was a revelation nonetheless. In high school, I was just completely emotionally [underde- “All literary possibilities opened up for me,” he said. “The veloped]. I was just very, very, very shy. I had a bad stutter, I YOU DON’T SEEM TO BE A FAN OF “BEACH READS.” This is true. I way my mind thinks — everything is connected to everything had very bad acne. I was like 5’4”, weighed 100 pounds; I was literally don’t get them. Obviously, everyone in the world is else — suddenly seemed transportable into my writing. I like this little shrimp [who] really had trouble speaking. And reading that stuff. I’ve been traveling for a month, I have two could play all the roles I wanted to play: reporter, fantasist, I just said, “Just forget it. It ain’t happening in high school.” more months of travel. Everyone on the plane is reading that autobiographer, essayist, critic.” Not that everyone at Brown was a genius, but at Brown, I [kind of book]. It kinda goes back to an earlier book of mine A few minutes later, he elaborated for a RISD audience. found people I could be literary with. I just found my way called, The Thing About Life is that One Day You’ll Be Dead. I’m only “I’m not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition- into my head and into the world. So I still feel unbelievably 56 and I’m sort of — knock on wood — healthy. But I’m very, ally disabled,” he said. “I’m interested in collage as, to be hon- nostalgic and affectionate toward Providence. very, very aware that I’ll be dead in 50 years and this is it. This est, an evolution beyond narrative.” Conventional memoirs is our journey, our existential journey. And I want a book that and novels are constructed on the false premise that the world YOU SAY IN THE BOOK THAT “EVERYONE’S AMBITION IS UNDER- seizes me by the throat and sort of helps me understand what is a coherent whole that can be wrapped up in a tidy revelation WRITTEN BY A TRAGIC FLAW.” WHAT’S YOURS? I actually literally I’m doing on the planet. by story’s end. “Life, though — standing on a street corner, say what it is in that chapter on reading that girl’s journal. _Philip Eil

Geology dept. In search of cumberlandIte

Rhode Islanders are fond of saying “only I pick him up on Thayer Street and we pieces of our state rock are underfoot, but fin Rhode Island,” even when it’s not head out for the source of all Cumberland- Vaughan calls them poor specimens. true. This isn’t the only state teeming with ite. Vaughan has been to the spot before on He has a beauty tucked away in his corruption, long-toothed palookas, or land- his bicycle; he does not own a car. From his backpack. I call the rock a “stunt fish.” He marks that “used to be” something else. backpack he pulls printed turn-by-turn di- doesn’t know the term. I explain that a stunt Come on, everything “used to be” some- rections. It occurs to me that I haven’t seen fish is one you keep in the cooler in case you thing else. directions on paper in years. don’t catch anything. Cumberlandite, however, is a uniquely “Why not use your phone?” A stunt fish, though, will not be neces- Rhode Island object. Dense, prone to rust, “I don’t have that kind of phone,” he says. sary today. Huge boulders of Cumberlandite and capable of holding a magnet, it is our Our man Vaughan admits he is a bit of a wait for us at the top of the hill. They’re im- state rock. All the Cumberlandite in the world contrarian. No smartphone, no car, no designs pressive, as boulders go, and Vaughan plays comes from, you guessed it, Cumberland. on using his geology prowess to make big bucks a neat little trick: taking a magnetized ID I recently went hunting for the intrusive, in the fracking business. Even among his peers, badge that reads “William Vaughan, Gradu- igneous rock. My guide: Will Vaughan, 23, a he is the exception. Geologists are typically ate Student” and sticking it to the rock. z

Brown University planetary geology grad stu- outdoors types. Vaughan, the only child of two “People say Cumberlandite is weird,” E dent who looks like a young, less menacing Chicago librarians, is an indoors guy. Vaughan says. “It’s sort of like salad dressing, r VA l

Willem Defoe. But he manages well when we get to the how the oil separates from the vinegar. It’s the A

Slight and soft spoken, he considers ques- snow-covered rocks of Iron Mine Hill. He is chemistry. You’ve got this white rock that basi- ul tions carefully before answering, is quick wearing what appear to be hospital slippers, cally separated from the black rock and when PA to admit when he doesn’t have the answer, or knockoff Vans, and yet he ascends the rocks you put the rocks together you get Cumberland- ictor ictor and is not at all surprised that a reporter is as if floating. On our hunt we find empty do- ite. It’s unique from a geology standpoint.” V interested in a man who studies rocks. “Who mestic beer cans on the ground. Someone has Only in Rhode Island. Really. ROCK STAR Vaughan. wouldn’t be?” he says. assembled wood for a fire that wasn’t lit. Small _Victor Paul Alvarez 6 March 8, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.coM

Standardized test scores — cold, f flawed, too often depressing — come and go with little notice these days; an ugly drumbeat we’d prefer to ignore. But pause for a moment, and you’ll hear the sound of a crisis as urgent as any in Rhode Island. Our urban schools are failing, from Central Falls to Pawtucket to Woonsocket. And nowhere is the emer- gency more dire than in our capital city. school At Hope High School in Providence, just three percent of juniors tested “proficient” in math on the latest round of exams. At Central High, two percent. At Alvarez one. And a new requirement tying test scores to graduation means two in three of the city’s juniors may not be able to walk the stage next year. It is a problem of breathtaking scope. In a city-state like Rhode Island, it reformCan ProvidenCe rise to the greatest Civil rights Challenge of our times? is something like a mortal threat to our weak economy. For the thousands of _By david sCharfenBerg black, brown, and low-income families who send their kids to Providence schools, it is something like the civil rights struggle of our time. And for a mayor with gubernatorial ambitions — a mayor who has put this big, seemingly intractable problem at the top of his agenda — it may be the defining fight of his young career. “These kids are me,” says Mayor Angel Taveras, who grew up poor in the Providence Public Schools. “I go into the classroom and I see a lot of little Angels.” The pressure is enormous, then, on the small cohort of district and union officials, principals and teachers, thinkers and doers at the leading edge of the push to turn around Providence’s schools. But that pressure has produced some intriguing ideas — ideas that have attracted regional and, in some cases, national attention; ideas that have gen- erated a bit of optimism — or, at least, a bit of hope — in some corners of the city’s sprawling educational complex. Is it a hope justified? The state’s future rests, in no small measure, on the answer to that question. PROVIDENCE UNITED? Rhode Island has long been a place of gritty, confrontational politics. And the schools have not escaped their snarl. Just three years ago, Central Falls became a national symbol of dysfunc- tion and decay when the school board fired the entire staff at the city’s failing high school in a dispute over how to turn the place around. And in February 2011, Mayor Taveras put Rhode Island schools in the New York Times again when he pink-slipped every teacher in the city at the height of a major budget crisis. The mass firing was, in some respects, just another in a long line of brutal labor-management clashes in Providence. For decades, union officials viewed school district headquarters as dic- tatorial. And former superintendent Melody Johnson recently recalled the Providence Teachers Union (PTU) as “one of the most radical and entrenched in the country.” But the relationship, however troubled, began to shift in the late aughts. Washington-based think tank Education Sector had convened years of national, off-the-record meetings of school district and union officials — including PTU president Steve Smith providence.thephoenix.coM | the providence phoenix | March 8, 2013 7

— aimed at forging a new approach to education reform. And the group, in what amounted to a radical revision of an historically adversarial relationship, developed a tem- plate for joint management of troubled schools. The model complete, the next step was to try it out in the real world. Smith said he could make it work in Providence. As an Education Sector report titled “Unlikely Allies” would later note, the experiment required a partnership between two very different characters. Smith, a former teacher and state legis- lator, was a “short fast-talking populist from the wrong side of town.” Then- Superintendent Tom Brady was a retired Army colonel who’d honed his crisp management style in the Washington DC and Philadelphia schools. “Be brief, be bright, and be gone” was his motto. Both men faced considerable political risk in entering into an alliance. After years of battle, rank-and-file teachers were suspicious of upper management. And for Brady, a partnership with the union could make him look weak.

But there were powerful forces draw- affrey ing the two together: the accountability C regime of the No Child Left Behind Act, the promise of federal funds, and a recog- hard m c Short,

nition that teachers unions — increasingly y ri C under fire in the national press — had to B be part of the reform movement or risk hotos hotos being swallowed by it. P In time, they forged a first-in-the- ‘This is where The magiC is’ Principal gara field in a classroom at Pleasant view elementary school. nation partnership known as United Providence!, with dominion over four struggling schools. The idea was to trade a decisions at her school — an “instructional and teachers can build a real and transfor- reading and one-third in math. But over certain amount of flexibility for enhanced leadership team” with a heavy teacher mational partnership. “This won’t work if the last three years, Pleasant View is accountability. presence — is without authority. schools feel we’re here to do something to one of just two schools in the district to The plan won widespread attention. “Nothing has been different from last them,” she says. improve test scores in all three bedrock Education Sector wrote its report. And US year,” she said, “at all.” Miller-Williams knows there’s a lot rid- subjects: math, reading, and writing. Education Secretary Arne Duncan took to But even she voiced long-run hope for ing on the UP! experiment. If it flops, she It’s not entirely clear, though, that the singling out the effort on a national stage. the model. And it’s not hard to find simi- says, observers around the country will school’s progress can be replicated. But radical change does not come easi- lar sentiment elsewhere in the district. conclude that labor-management collabo- Shortly after Field arrived in the fall of ly. Members of a new school board, which Not least in the person of Miller-Williams, ration can’t work. And the local impact 2011, the state identified Pleasant View hadn’t been part of the process, were the executive director, who recently met could be just as dispiriting. as a school in need of turnaround. The skeptical about whether it could work. with the Phoenix in UP!’s small offices in “Right now, there is a glimmer of . . . designation gave the principal the chance And when Taveras took office and fired all the PTU building on Corliss Street. light shining on Providence,” she says, “and to replace a quarter of the teaching staff, the teachers, the promise of collaboration A Houston native, she’s possessed of a I think if [UP!] fails, it might dim a bit.” extend the school day, and win a $425,000 seemed to collapse. soft, Texas drawl. But it doesn’t conceal grant she’s used to fund a full slate of Brady left the district shortly there- her intense drive. Miller-Williams, a for- PLEASANT VIEW afterschool programming and teacher after. And by the time incoming mer teacher, is sharp, put together, and Principal Gara Field marches down the training from a University of Connecticut Superintendent Sue Lusi sat down with oozing competence. hallways of Pleasant View Elementary math specialist. Smith at the Parkside Rotisserie & Bar on As principal of a high poverty, K-8 School with the lumbering, energetic gait Field says she has colleagues — princi- North Main Street in June 2011, a martini school in Detroit, she helped boost academ- of an athlete. pals at other schools — who “know exactly at her fingertips, the union chief was vow- ic achievement by some 50 percent in two She was a jock growing up in New what they would do” if they had the ing to leave his post after negotiating one years. Executive positions with for-profit Hampshire. She played soccer in high chance to engage in the process. final teachers contract. charter operator Edison Schools followed. school and college and went to work for Pleasant View is also distinguished by a But the contract came and went. And And when she launched a pioneering ESPN afterward. But she had an epiphany $470,000 technology grant that has trans- Smith, still in place, agreed to revive principal training program in her native during an Outward Bound course at Big formed a school without even a wireless United Providence! in time for the cur- Houston, she brought in big thinkers like Bend National Park in Texas; television, Internet connection into a hub of smart rent school year. The focus would be on a Harvard University education guru Tony she decided, wasn’t for her. boards, iPads, and laptop computers. new batch of troubled schools: Carl Lauro Wagner and New York University sociolo- Her second epiphany came in 2009 when The devices allow teachers to provide Elementary School, Gilbert Stuart Middle gist Pedro Noguera to advise. her mentor, education reformer Ted Sizer, more in the way of “differentiated instruc- School, and Dr. Jorge Alvarez High School. Noguera serves on an UP! advisory died. Field, then a professor of education tion.” On a recent morning in a Pleasant It took UP! some time to get off the board that paid its first visit to Providence psychology at the University of Georgia, View classroom, a few kids play laptop ground. The non-profit operated for just a few weeks back. And while the decided she had to leave the academy. math games attuned to their specific months with no formal staff. A first round panel found promise in the model, Miller- “I needed to be in the struggle,” she skill level, while a teacher offers one-on- of interviews for an executive director Williams says, it found plenty wanting says, “I needed to work.” one instruction to a kid who has fallen didn’t turn up any suitable candidates. And — starting with a less-than-welcoming On this morning, she’s greeting a par- behind. “This,” Field whispers, standing officials didn’t install their eventual choice, environment at some of the schools. ent at the front door, calling out kids by nearby, “is where the magic is.” Sheri Miller-Williams, until August 27. UP!’s first charge — and this fits neatly name, and pointing out dozens of college Pleasant View has also taken advantage There have been problems since the with Miller-Williams’ own philosophy — banners that line the cafeteria walls — the of an accident of history that placed 11 of school year began. Limited funding means is to improve that environment. Research, University of Connecticut, Vanderbilt, the district’s 24 pre-kindergarten classes in UP! can only afford one math specialist and she says, shows that struggling schools Mississippi State. the school. one English specialist for the three schools, can’t hope to boost achievement without a In a year-and-a-half, Field has effected Because pre-K students don’t partici- when the challenge calls for a math and climate shift. the cultural transformation the UP! schools pate in the extended day that came with English specialist at each school. That means building parent-teacher envision. “It’s like night and day, compared transformation, Field floods the upper And when the district transferred organizations, posting and celebrating to what it was,” says physical education grades with pre-K teachers and other Stuart principal Jeff Goss as part of a larger attendance gains, and, at Lauro, asking teacher and union delegate Joseph Murray, adults — called “Dream Teams” — three reshuffling at six struggling schools, home improvement behemoth Lowe’s to a set of keys dangling from his neck. mornings per week. teachers staged a public protest. donate the plexiglass bulletin board covers And Pleasant View, with its large popu- One morning is an “advisory” period One UP! instructor told the Phoenix the required by the state fire code. Only then lations of low-income and special needs — one-on-one mentoring. And a second non-profit is a weak presence at her school. can the school display student work. students, is already realizing some aca- morning will soon be devoted to “enrich- Promises of enhanced professional devel- The path from plexiglass to proficiency demic gains. ment academies,” with kids pursuing sub- opment have fallen short, she says. And is a long one. But Miller-Williams insists The numbers aren’t high enough. Just jects of personal interest — part of a larger the panel that’s supposed to be making UP! can get there; insists administrators half of the students here test “proficient” Continued on p 8 8 March 8, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence.thephoenix.coM

Continued from p 7 do portfolios, we’ll do performance-based effort to connect students’ education to assessment,’ ” Silva says, “and all of those the larger world and get them excited things could work, and can work, and in about learning. some instances do work. But it’s much But for all that’s unique to Pleasant easier said than done. View, it seems clear that the single most “There’s a reason why a time-based unit important factor in Pleasant View’s has survived for so long. And that reason upward trajectory is not money or time or is largely because we understand it. It’s flexibility — it’s leadership. simple, it is universally understood, and it Yes, the transformation process allowed is the only measure that people have been for an extended day at the school, but it able to come up with in all this time.” is difficult to imagine the Dream Teams without a principal who could win the par- THE RETHINK ticipation and buy-in of the faculty. Indeed, it is easy to see limits in even the Of course, producing leaders of Field’s most promising efforts in the Providence caliber is no easy task. She’s an optimist, schools. a doer, a font of ideas. In just two hours No one expects after school program- of conversation with the Phoenix, she cited ming, however smartly executed, to be a philosopher John Dewey, workplace and major driver of school turnaround. And pop science author Daniel Pink, and New programs like Teach for America, which Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell. can boast some impressive results, are not But Miller-Williams of UP!, who started terribly scaleable. the principal training program in Houston TFA teachers reach a relatively small sliv- and has offered to do something similar er of the nation’s struggling students and here, insists leadership can be cultivated. are only obligated to stay in the classroom “You can’t train character,” she says; Short, for two years (though many stay in educa- you can’t teach a principal to believe in tion, in some capacity, for the long term). kids. “But you can train people.” And when it comes to the big, market- You can offer intensive workshops on driven reform movement at the heart of school strategy, Miller-Williams says. ‘You Can’T Train CharaCTer, buT You Can Train people’ Sheri Miller-Williams of UP! American education for the last decade You can assign would-be school leaders to — charter schools, standardized tests, the shadow master principals for a year. new accountability — the record is mixed The district, as Providence schools that’s come to Providence of late. Rhode dles melted into place, and after some trial at best. chief Lusi acknowledges, does not have Island Teaching Fellows trains college and error, a slowly expanding dry cleaner Since state Commissioner Gist, local strong principal training programs at the graduates and mid-career professionals bag that lifted the makeshift contraption champion of the market-based approach, moment. And that’s a real problem. to become impact teachers. City Year, the off the ground. swept into town four years ago, Rhode But in the meantime, leadership is urban peace corps program, has placed The Hub’s offerings now qualify for Island has made only modest progress developing elsewhere. teams of young, low-wage, red-jacketed academic credit, which is a coup in and of toward testing goals. workers in urban schools across the state. itself. But the organization is also award- Gist, in a recent interview at her office, OUTSIDE INFLUENCE And with the district staring down a ing students digital badges — think on- said she was disappointed in the stagnant It is school vacation week and Drew Mil- stunning attendance problem — about line versions of Boy Scout badges — for scores. But if the results are not there yet, ligan, a third-year science and special one-third of kindergartners and five in completing a Hub course or engaging in a she said, the state is making real progress education teacher at the Juanita Sanchez 10 ninth graders were deemed “chroni- valuable, one-off activity. on systems reform — rolling out a stron- high school complex meets me at a bar and cally absent” last year — Family Service Rhode Island College is already accept- ger curriculum and more rigorous teacher restaurant downtown. of Rhode Island has launched a “walking ing the badges as part of the college appli- evaluations, making better use of data. Milligan, who is working toward a school bus” at Fogarty Elementary school cation process. And PASA hopes to use Still, she said, even these reforms masters in urban education policy at on the south side of the city. data from the badge system for its own won’t go far enough. They are, in the end, Brown University, has been impressed Every morning, a Family Service staff- purposes in time — developing a more “just improving what we should’ve been with the political energy unleashed by er, teachers, and volunteers don bright robust feel for students’ interests and pos- doing well in the first place.” Rhode Island’s education crisis. yellow pinnys and walk the neighbor- sible career paths. In the long run, Gist suggested, the The General Assembly has approved a hood, picking up kids who live too close to Damian Ewens, director of The Hub, says state needs to make far-reaching changes: funding formula that allows for a more the school to qualify for bus service, but he envisions an Amazon- it needs to overhaul its equitable distribution of state dollars. are often late or absent because a parent is style recommendation basic governance struc- Education Commissioner Deborah Gist chronically ill or works the late shift. engine: 62 percent of the tures, for instance, and has led an aggressive charge to improve Then there’s the nine-year-old students who engaged in Superintendent reimagine the high school achievement. And Mayor Taveras, he says, Providence After School Alliance (PASA), these four Hub activities — blurring the lines seems to have embraced the cause. which has become something of a national went on to study film, say, Lusi’s vision: between school and college But between the leadership and model in exploiting one of the hottest com- or land an IT job. and career. Providence kids, Milligan says, there is modities in education these days: time. PASA’s offerings and shrink the cen- In Providence, “this big monster” — a school system Much of the national discussion on digital badge system put Superintendent Lusi is filled with too many mediocre adminis- time has centered around extending the the program at the lead- tral office and outlining a radical trans- trators and too many old-school teach- school day. But analysts say simply add- ing edge of a national formation of her own. ers who can’t attach a document to an ing 15 or 20 minutes to the schedule — and re-imagining of what, push resources With 23 of the district’s 37 email, never mind use new data systems doing more of the same — does not have precisely, constitutes an schools in the turnaround meant to provide a richer view of student much of an impact. education. Does it have to and decision- process, she says, “we strengths and weaknesses. More promising is a PASA-like push for happen from 9 am to 3:30 need to fundamentally Improving schools, he is convinced, experiential, hands-on learning that can pm? Does it have to be making closer rethink the district.” is about cultivating talent and then giv- make math or science more interesting and, with a certified teacher? Lusi’s vision: shrink ing schools, which know their kids better ideally, spark a broader interest in learning Elena Silva, a senior to the schools the central office and than anyone else, greater autonomy. inside and outside of the classroom. associate with the push resources and deci- One way to build human capital is to PASA sees its central role as facilitator: Carnegie Foundation themselves. sion-making closer to the make use of outside organizations like connecting well-meaning businesses and for the Advancement of schools themselves. Teach for America, which places high- non-profits that may not have the staff or Teaching, says educa- The new administrative achieving college graduates like Milligan patience to navigate the school bureau- tors have long pondered unit, she says, could look — a Cornell alumnus — in urban class- cracy with kids they can serve. a move from the standard measure of something like United Providence! — an rooms. Students in PASA’s well-established educational attainment — seat time — to a outside group, whether labor-management Milligan was the only TFA teacher in middle school program, AfterZone, and competency-based system: analyzing what partnership or education consultancy, over- the building his first year. In his second its newer high school project, The Hub, students have learned, regardless of where seeing a cluster of three or four schools. year there were 11 TFA instructors, he take water samples from Narragansett Bay they’ve learned it. It is an intriguing idea: more of the says, and it meant a significant shift and use satellites to retrace their families’ But the idea has only become viable in autonomy that’s helped schools like in the school’s culture (if not, yet, the immigration to the United States. recent years, she says, with advances in Pleasant View make strides, combined school’s achievement levels). On a recent afternoon, a small group technology; the Internet has made distance with the support — and accountability — But TFA, a relative newcomer to Rhode of The Hub’s Juanita Sanchez complex learning, for example, a real possibility. offered up by figures like Miller-Williams. Island, is aiming for influence beyond students learned how to build their own Technological advance, though, doesn’t But Lusi will have trouble selling the idea individual classrooms. Its nationwide mis- hot-air balloons in a program called “Wing guarantee success. The movement, she if UP! falls short. Just a little more pressure sion is to build a cohort of young reform- It” run by Brown University engineering says, still has to answer the persistent on a group that’s already feeling it. ^ ers, baptized by their classroom experi- students. question of how we can effectively mea- ence, who will serve as principals, run First, a quick lesson on the phenom- sure out-of-school learning. 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grew up in the South Kingstown area gr E (Moore is a Warwick guy and Albro ANTE UP ponte, albro, Sevey, murray, and moore. hails from West Greenwich). Moore and Sevey first teamed up during their freshman year at URI in the jazz/rap collective Milk- young bucks probably grew up flipping through dad’s re- bread. Keaton joined URI’s music department the follow- cord crates, inspired by retro platters by the Beatles, Tom ing year and is considered by Sevey as the “final piece of Petty, and the Band. Sevey also cites My Morning Jacket the yet-to-be-formed puzzle.” Multi-instrumentalist and and Wilco as major influences. lead singer Sevey is the Gents’ primary songwriter; the for- “As long as we keep the songs real and honest, I like mer drummer took the helm after founder Dan Swain had to think we can have a distinct and unique sound,” Sevey to leave the band to attend college. said. “It was originally Dan Swain and the Gentlemen, with Sevey works part-time at Looney Tunes in Wakefield, me behind the kit, and Brendan, Denis, and I helped Dan which helped inspire Join the Club’s high-quality CD pack- record an EP in 2011, and then David joined the group for aging, which includes a 16-page color booklet. live shows,” Sevey said earlier this week. “For a couple “I absolutely love holding a tangible product in my shows, Dan and I switched places so I could do a few of hands, and while digital downloads are fine and dandy, my songs as well. nothing beats having a physical copy,” said Sevey. “The “Eventually, Dan had to leave but I didn’t want to album cover, lyrics, liner notes, and pictures are key piec- stop,” Sevey noted. He recorded and released a three-track es to the whole work of art that is the album. The packag- EP last year. “The EP received such a positive enough re- ing cost a lot more money but it was totally worth it, and sponse that I got back to trying to find a drummer, and I’m glad to see people responding to it positively.” when Keaton expressed interest I knew it would be a great Dylan Sevey and the Gentlemen will continue to push social fit,” Sevey continued. “So we got permission from Dan to the album locally, with plans to possibly hit the road retain the name and immediately got the ball rolling.” later this year. The songs from the EP re-appear on Join the Club. “Year- “We’re just trying to get our name and music out creatures long Autumn” jumpstarts the disc with some nice guitar there,” Sevey said. “The Providence scene is unbelievably work from Sevey and Ponte. 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JACK THE GIANT SLAYER 3D | 5, 7:45* ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH 3D | 2:35, 4:45, 7:25 Starts Fri: 12:45, 3:55, 7 | Fri-Sat late

[*no show Mar 7], 10:15 4:30*, 8:50* [*no shows Fri] SAFE HAVEN | 12:45, 3:40, 6:45 show: 9:55 JACK THE GIANT SLAYER | Thurs: 1:15, ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH | Thurs IDENTITY THIEF | 12:55, 4:05, 6:55 10:05 OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | 2:15, 4:15, 7:25, 9:45| Fri-Thurs: 10:30, + Sat-Thurs: 12:10, 2:20, 6:45 | Fri: ZERO DARK THIRTY | Thurs: 12:45, 4, Starts Fri: 1:15, 4:25, 7:30 | Fri-Sat late 11:45, 1:05, 2:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 1:10, 3:45 7:30 | Fri-Thurs: 9:30 show: 10:25 THE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Thurs: A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | Thurs + SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1:10, JACK THE GIANT SLAYER 3D | 1:05, 4, 11:35, 1:55, 5:30, 7:45, 10 | Fri-Thurs: Sat-Thurs: 6:30, 8:45 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 6:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:35 11:35, 1:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 SAFE HAVEN | 12:40, 3:30, 7:10, 9:35 JACK THE GIANT SLAYER | 1:35, 4:30, 21 AND OVER | 11:20, 1:35, 5:10, 8, 10:10 IDENTITY THIEF | 1, 4, 7:10, 9:45* [*no SHOWCASE CINEMAS 7:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:05 QUARTET | 10:45, 1, 4:25, 7:05, 9:20 show Fri] WARWICK THE LAST EXORCISM PART II | 12:55, DARK SKIES | 5:20, 10:20* [*no show SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 12:50, 1200 Quaker Ln | 401.885.1621 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:15 50% OFF 50% OFF Mar 14] 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 DARK SKIES | Thurs: 12:15, 2:45, 5:05, 21 AND OVER | 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:35 | ALL CASIO ALL PEAVY GUITARS SNITCH | 10:55, 1:30, 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 ARGO | Thurs: 12:45, 3:40 | Fri: 9:35 | 7:35, 10 Fri-Sat late show: 10 KEYBOARDS! AND GUITAR AMPS! ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH | 10:35, Sat-Thurs: 12:45, 3:40, 9:35 SNITCH | Thurs: 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35 SNITCH | 1:40 4:20, 6:55 | Fri-Sat late 1:10, 4:10, 6:30 ZERO DARK THIRTY | Thurs: 9:55 show: 9:40 PICKERS, FOLKSTERS, A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | Thurs: JANE PICKENS THEATER DEAD MAN DOWN | Starts Fri: 1:40, ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH | 12:30, 10:40, 1:25, 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 49 Touro St, Newport | 401.846.5252 4:25, 7:10, 10:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 2:35, 4:55, 7:10 AND BLUEGRASS LOVERS 10:40, 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35 AMOUR | Thurs: 4, 7 | Fri: 4:15, 7 | Sat: 12:15 SAFE HAVEN | Thurs: 1, 3:40, 6:30 | SAFE HAVEN | 11:05, 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 1:30, 4:15, 7 | Sun: 2, 7 | Tues-Thurs: OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL 3D | Fri-Sat late show: 9:20 WE NOW CARRY: 9:50 4:15, 7 Starts Fri: 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 6:30, 7, 9:30, IDENTITY THIEF | 1:20, 4:15, 7:15 | Fri- IDENTITY THIEF | 11:10, 1:50, 4:55, NOTRE DAME DE PARIS: BALLET 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30 Sat late show: 9:50 ROVER BANJOS, KENTUCKY 2352 Mendon Road, 7:35, 10:10 FROM TEATRO ALLA SCALA IN MILAN OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1, 3:45, MANDOLINS, LANIKAI UKULELES Cumberland, RI 02864 WARM BODIES | Thurs: 11:45, 2, 5:55, | Sun: 11 am Starts Fri: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 | Fri- 6:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:30 UNDER A MILE 8:10, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 11:15* [*no show SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN | Sun: 4:30 Sat late show: 12 LINCOLN | 12:40, 3:50, 7:05 • RENTALS • RETAIL FROM EXIT 10 OFF 295 Sun], 2, 7:50* [*no show Mar 14] JACK THE GIANT SLAYER 3D | 1:15, 4:15, www.ricksmusicalinstruments.com ZERO DARK THIRTY | 1:50, 7:10 PROVIDENCE PLACE 6:55, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05 SWANSEA STADIUM 12 • REPAIRS • LESSONS SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 10:50, CINEMAS 16 JACK THE GIANT SLAYER | Thurs: 207 Swansea Mall Dr, Swansea, MA | 401-658-3404 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Providence Place | 401.270.4646 1:45, 4:30, 7:35 | Fri-Thurs: 1:45, 4:45, 508.674.6700 ARGO | Thurs: 6:55 7:35, 10:15 DEAD MAN DOWN | Starts Fri: 1:20, EAST PROVIDENCE 10 DJANGO UNCHAINED | Thurs: 9:20 THE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Thurs: 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 60 Newport Ave, East Providence | JACK THE GIANT SLAYER: THE IMAX 12:10, 2:25, 4:35 | Fri-Thurs: 9:15 | Fri- OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL 3D | 401.438.1100 3D EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 3:15, 6:15 Sat late show: 11:40 Starts Fri: 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 6:30, 7:30*, GANGSTER SQUAD | Thurs: 1, 3:20, PHANTOM | Thurs: 2:30, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 21 AND OVER | 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 9:30, 10:30* [*no shows Wed] 6:40, 9:20 SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 4:40, 10:20 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25 OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | BROKEN CITY | Starts Fri: 1:05, 3:20, DEAD MAN DOWN | Starts Fri: 1:45, ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH | 12:05, Starts Fri: 7, 10 6:40, 9:20 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:35 2:15, 4:40, 7:05 JACK THE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Thurs: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL 3D | A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | 9:55 1:30, 2, 4:40, 6:55 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 4:10, JOURNEY | Starts Fri: 12:45, 4:40, 8 Starts Fri: 1:30, 1:55, 4:30, 5, 6:30, 7:30, QUARTET | 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:45 | 4:40, 7:25, 9:35, 10:05 BULLET TO THE HEAD | Thurs: 1:15, 8, 9:30, 10:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:30, Fri-Sat late show: 12:110 JACK THE GIANT SLAYER | Thurs: 4:10 3:15, 5:20, 7:20, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 9:10 12, 12:30 SAFE HAVEN | 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 | | Fri-Thurs: 12:40, 6:50 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10 THE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Thurs: | 1:15, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:25 Starts Fri: 12:30, 3:30 IDENTITY THIEF | 1:10, 4:05, 7:15, 9:50 | 1:50, 4:30, 7:35, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 12:20, A HAUNTED HOUSE | 7:10, 9:15 OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL: THE Fri-Sat late show: 12:20 2:40, 5, 7:40, 10:20 LES MISÉRABLES | Thurs: 12:45, 4:30, IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | 1, 4, 7, 10 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 12:55, 21 AND OVER | Thurs: 12:50, 3:10, 5:30 | 8 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 4:30, 7:40 JACK THE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Thurs: 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 Fri-Thurs: 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:50, 10:15 PARENTAL 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11:35, 12:10 7:30, 10 IDENTITY THIEF | Thurs: 4:35, 7:15, CINEMAS 21 AND OVER | Thurs: 12:25, 12:55, DJANGO UNCHAINED | Thurs: 9 9:50 | Fri-Thurs: 12:55, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 30 Village Square Dr, South 2:40, 3:10, 4:55, 5:25, 7:10, 7:40, 9:55 | A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | Thurs: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | Thurs: Kingstown | 401.792.8008 Fri-Thurs: 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 9, 9:30 | Fri- 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 12:35, DJANGO UNCHAINED | Thurs: 8:45 Sat late show: 11:15, 11:45 DEAD MAN DOWN | Starts Fri: 1:15, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | march 8, 2013 25

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FShort Takes new movieS XXW Victor endures the abuse because he seeks OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL revenge for Hoyt’s involvement in the mur- 123 minUteS | cinema world + entertain- der of his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, ment + iSland + providence place 16 + Beatrice (Noomi Rapace), who lives next ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12 door, complicates matters, blackmailing Sam Raimi nearly overcomes the unenviable Victor into killing the drunk driver respon- burden of revisiting a classic by delivering sible for scarring her face. J.H. Wyman’s dazzling footage, but not so the perfor- nuanced screenplay offers complex charac- mances. Dorothy Gale is yet to be born when ters expertly played by Farrell and Rapace, DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE? Franco and Kunis in Oz the Great and Powerful. carnival magician Oscar Diggs (James Franco) who are well supported by Isabelle Huppert, journeys over the rainbow to assume control F. Murray Abraham, Armand Assante, and of Emerald City. Franco stumbles in this Dominic Cooper. At times their inner lives actor behind Pirates of the Caribbean’s superior Wait — the talented mind behind Guy and role; his contemporary touches are jarring. bog down the pacing, but Oplev delivers a Davy Jones, which only serves to accentuate Madeline On a Park Bench? Now that is evil! _Brett Michel Mila Kunis bewitches as Theodora, but is out movie that easily outdoes his wildly over- the shoddy effects work on display in 3D in X of her depth when her character transforms rated Dragon Tattoo and is tonally precise and director Bryan Singer’s colossal stumble. into the Wicked Witch of the West. Ten years brimming with humanity. _Brett Michel 21 AND OVER _Jordan Riefe W 93 minUteS | cinema world + entertain- ago, Rachel Weisz would have owned that XW role, but she’s stuck playing Theodora’s older THE LAST EXORCISM PART II ment + iSland + providence place 16 + sister Evanora. And if this seems more Tim JACK THE GIANT SLAYER 88 minUteS | cinema world + iSland + ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12 Burton than Sam Raimi, thank production 114 minUteS | cinema world + entertain- providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + Swan- As one of the Asian stereotypes in this hit-or- designer Robert Stromberg (Alice in Wonder- ment + iSland + providence place 16 + Sea StadiUm 12 (mostly)-miss comedy from writer/directors land), who melds art deco and art nouveau, ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12 You probably thought you’d never miss the Jon Lucas and Scott Moore says, “Fuck kids and frequent Burton collaborator Danny Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a found-footage gimmick, but at least The Last these days. Every one of you is drunk, stupid Elfman, who contributes the incandescent farm Exorcism (2010) did a few interesting things and fat.” In other words, they’re following the score. Oz the Great and Powerful isn’t great, nor boy dreams of adventure, finds it, and falls within the genre tropes, including a twist beats of The Hangover, which Lucas and Moore is it powerful, but it is competent and enter- in love with a princess along the way. (For ending that added evil cult doings, along also co-wrote. I guess it’s not theft if you’re taining. everyone’s sake, let’s just hope she’s not with some kind of demonic birth in the stealing from yourself, right? But then, they’re _Jordan Riefe Ferris Bueller XXX his sister.) Leading our hero on his jour- woods. Ed Gass-Donnelly’s follow-up is the also borrowing from ’s playbook, ney to rescue her royal highness (Eleanor afterbirth, and it’s one hell of a mess. Now except neither Casey (Skylar Astin) nor Miller DEAD MAN DOWN Tomlinson) is Obi-Wan Kenobi — err, Ewan that the shaky-cam nonsense has been left (Miles Teller) have the personality or timing of 118 minUteS | cinema world + entertain- McGregor — in his role as head of the King’s behind, what remains are textureless, over- Matthew Broderick. Back in high school, they ment + iSland + providence place 16 + Guard. As for our hero, his name’s Jack lit, sub-TV-quality visuals that only accentu- were part of a triumvirate of friends, but col- ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12 (Nicholas Hoult, showing less life than as ate the fact that our protagonist, Nell Sweet- lege split them up. Now, to mark the 21st birth- Following the stunning success of The Girl the zombie he plays in Warm Bodies), and zer (Ashley Bell), is at least a decade older day of third bud Jeff Chang (Justin Chon), they with the Dragon Tattoo, Danish filmmaker he’s harboring a bag of magic beans with than the 17-year-old exorcised sect-escapee reunite to take their pre-med pal out for “just Niels Arden Oplev makes his English-lan- “the power to change the world.” Yes, that that she’s playing. Frank (Muse Watson), the one beer.” Uh huh. Jeff spends the remainder guage bow with this bleak film noir that Jack. He’s off to slay some giants, first and head of the halfway house where she’s rein- of the film dead drunk, in an extended lift values character over tension. Set in lower foremost General Fallon and his lieutenants: tegrating into society, tells her, “I don’t be- from Weekend at Bernie’s. But before passing out, Manhattan, it stars Colin Farrell as Victor, Fee, Fye, Foe and Fumm. Fallon’s motion- lieve in demons, but I do believe in evil. It’s he stands atop a bar, drops trou, and pisses all a gangster working under a sadistic crime capture and vocal performance is provided done by people.” Yes, people like Gass-Don- over the patrons. I know how they feel. boss, Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard). by Bill Nighy (well, for one of his heads), the nelly and his co-writer, Damien Chazelle. _Brett Michel FAlso Playing XXW THE ABCS OF DEATH | 2012 | Anthol- ent sort — the liberation of the indi- Courtney) protect an enemy of the basic Michael Bluth, fussy and secure SIDE EFFECTS | 2013 | This misogyny. | 106m | XX ogy horror collection featuring 26 seg- vidual from all social ties, including state from a corrupt government offi- in his righteousness, but he’ll freshen was the second film I had seen in SNITCH | 2013 | Dwayne “the ments, each directed by a different those of love. | French | 127m | cial. A car chase leads to a standoff in a it with a certain gesture or inflection. one day that owed a debt to Hitch- Rock” Johnson idles through this Ric director. Each director was assigned a high-rise and a midnight run to Cher- McCarthy, with bouncing-off-the- cock and featured a presumably psy- Roman Waugh–directed action thrill- XXW letter of the alphabet and then given DARK SKIES | 2013 | “Two nobyl, where a conspiracy to trade en- wall energy and commitment to her chotic, possibly homicidal female. er as John Matthews, a construction free rein as to the focus of their se- possibilities exist: either we are riched uranium comes to light. Along character’s facility for fiction, is at So maybe I’m overreacting when I company owner who infiltrates a car- quence. Notable participants include alone in the universe or we are not. the way there are double-crosses, the start of what will be a wonderful see regression in Hollywood’s at- tel to persuade the DEA to set free his Ti West and Xavier Gens. | 123m | Both are equally terrifying.” Arthur shootouts and the supposedly touch- movie career. | 108m | titude toward women. That is, they wrongly imprisoned son. Johnson’s XXW AMOUR | 2012 | The master C. Clarke’s quote is the first thing ing scene when Jack starts calling his are demonizing them. Let’s start character is more vulnerable than his of bleakness, depravity, and bitter we see in this spare new thriller father “dad” instead of “John.” A Good LET FURY HAVE THE HOUR | 2012 with Hitchcock. As with Psycho, usual brute — Matthews is mugged, irony Michael Haneke has at last from writer/director Scott Stewart Day To Die Hard is a movie for people | From IMDB: “A documentary that the studio has forbidden anyone held at gunpoint, forced to do drugs made an unabashedly romantic love (Legion), so it comes as little shock who like blowin’ stuff up, evidently chronicles how a generation of art- from entering a screening of Steven — but his flinty expressions and de- story, and his most upbeat movie when a “Grey” appears, even if the a favorite pastime of director John ists, thinkers, and activists used Soderbergh’s Side Effects after the film livery don’t show it. More versatile is to date. But the film’s remorseless superbly off-kilter sound design Moore, whose action scenes make their creativity as a response to the begins because of its “non-linear Jon Bernthal as one of his employees, litany of decline, incapacity, despon- adds effective juice to that first about as much sense as his script, reactionary politics that came to de- nature.” I assume that refers to its a tense two-striker who’s trying to dency, and death won’t leave you scream-inducing moment. Nothing which was likely written on a cocktail fine our culture in the ’80s.” | 100m | extensive, and awkward, use of stay clean but can’t resist introduc- with an extra spring in your step. coming after quite tops it in a film napkin. Yippee ki-yay? Try yippee ki- flashbacks, because the story isn’t so ing his boss to the back alleys when XX Two of the world’s best actors, Jean- that borrows liberally from Close nyet, Mother Russia. | 97m | QUARTET | 2012 | Dustin Hoff- much full of surprises as it is riddled money’s on the table. Though Waugh Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, man takes it slow and easy with his with plot holes. But the proviso does adeptly raises the stakes as the duo’s XXW Riva, play Amour’s octogenarian Paranormal Activity, Signs, and even The IDENTITY THIEF | 2013 | initial foray behind the camera. Very put pressure on critics to reveal as schemes snowball, the tension dis- couple, so it’s surprising that the Birds. What it lacks in originality, Melissa McCarthy didn’t get awards veteran British actors nibble on the little as possible for fear of spoilers. sipates like a plume of spilled cocaine characters aren’t very interesting. it almost makes up for with strong for Bridesmaids for pishing in a sink, scenery in this pleasant, harmless So,in brief, Emily (Rooney Mara), during the too-brief final shootout. Haneke meticulously depicts lives so performances from the Family she got them for the 180-degree shift adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s 1999 whose husband (Channing Tatum) But hey, at least you get to see the uneventful that when Anne (Riva) Under Siege: Keri Russell and Josh to where she gives a moving tough- middlebrow play set in a retirement has just returned from a prison term Rock blast thugs with a shotgun and freezes practically in mid-sentence Hamilton as Lacy and Daniel Barrett, love speech to Kristen Wiig. Identity home for ex-opera performers. As for insider trading, is depressed. A maneuver a semi with blown-out from a stroke, it takes a while for recession-battered parents of Jesse Thief isn’t so daring or deep, but it too one can surmise, each character is shrink (Jude Law) prescribes a new tires — at the same time. | 112m | Georges (Trintignant), and the (Dakota Goyo) and Sam (Kadan Rock- gives McCarthy a counterpoint to her delightfully eccentric, none more drug and, well, it apparently has viewer, to notice anything amiss. As ett). J.K. Simmons as a resigned E.T. multitude of hilarious pratfalls: even- so than the self-absorbed one-time side effects. And then there are the her condition deteriorates, Georges expert is just gravy. The paranoia tually, the tacky con-woman she plays diva (reliable Maggie Smith) whose ruthless lesbians and. . . . Maybe OUR RATING cares for her obsessively, firing the driving Daniel to a gun shop before shows her vulnerable side to the mark sudden arrival at the home causes I’ve said too much. Side Effects looks nurses, whose work he finds “unpro- the Fourth of July–set finale adds a played by Jason Bateman. Seth Gordon havoc. Will she, or won’t she, have a classy, keeps your interest, and has Masterpiece XXXX fessional,” massaging her pale legs, welcome dose of social satire. | 97m | directs this funny, though formulaic, rapprochement with the ex-husband attractive actors. Soderbergh says Good XXX lugging her to the toilet, and putting mismatched-duo comedy in which (Tom Courtenay) whom she walked that it is his last movie. Ironically, XX Okay XX off his promise to pull out a pillow A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | Bateman’s straight-laced family man out on? Will she, or won¹t she, join the filmmaker who started his ca- and end it all. Many of Haneke’s 2013 | In this fifth iteration of the must nab McCarthy, the identity thief the others on stage in a quartet ren- reer with sex, lies and videotape, a film Not Good X films depict the self-immolation of Die Hard franchise (launched in 1988), who has ruined his credit, and haul dition of Verdi? Not to worry: it all boosting female sexuality and em- Stinks Z a stifling social unit. As such, Amour Bruce Willis’s John McClane is head- her from Florida to Denver for prosecu- unravels splendidly in this teeth-in- powerment, now ends it with a so-so aspires to a romantic ideal of a differ- ing to Moscow to help his son Jack (Jai tion. Yeah, Bateman’s playing his a-glass comedic drama. | 98m | thriller that resorts to the same old 26 March 8, 2013 | the providence phoenix | providence. thephoenix.coM

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Not this troublous/Wringing of hands, saTurday course in pisces until 7:17 am; Mars moves this dark/Ceiling without a star. March 9 into aries. aries is about being fiery, in- 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 tense and easily excited. So expect steam EvEry — “Child,” Sylvia Plath Waning moon in aquarius; still in that kArAoke The waning of the moon brings two-day void-of-course moon until 1:19 in relationships between cancer, Scorpio, pisces, aries, Leo, and Sagittarius (or Fri. simplification. Complicated re- am Sunday. novelty appeals, but nothing 9pm lationships or projects suddenly is finished. it will be easy to get excited by any combination). pisces, cancer, virgo, smooth out, and the urgent phone something that is, upon reflection, unre- and taurus, may feel vulnerable and as if others are noticing what you’re doing SAt. calls cease. Or perhaps you stop markable. the long void-of-course moon The Johnsons caring. For some, this is the time will stir up the easily agitated, and Leo, (they’re not). capricorn, Libra, Gemini, and aquarius: the best ideas make you 3/9 to stare up at the dark ceiling, and taurus and Scorpio could be ill-tempered. The If gather strength for the coming however, excellent potential for romance if uncomfortable. lunar phase. Don’t try to make you’re aquarius, Libra, Gemini, aries, capri- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 something 10 11 work12 that 13isn’t work 14 - 15 corn, 16 pisces, or Sagittarius. WedNesday EvEry SOULFUL SUNDAY March 13 ing — the moon’s waning phase 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sun. emphasizes distance as clamoring suNday Waxing moon in aries; moon void-of-course w/ Cadillac Jack March 10 from 4:02 am until 3:08 pm thursday. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 fades 26 away, 27 and28 landscape 29 recedes 30 31 32 into the horizon. dark of the moon in pisces, daylight Saving even though the moon is “young,” old 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 time begins. this is a hugely sensitive17 time, 18 Man 19 Winter 20 still resides. 21 a nd 22 if you’re 23 a 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 EvEry REGGAE NIGHT particularly for the fast-twitch folks. Your young blood, feeling the weight of author- hosted by upsetta international Thursday intuition — also your pessimism — is intense, ity is disapproving — give the old guy a mon. & Rogue island Dub Foundation March 7 particularly about hidden matters concern- push. easy to do for aries, Leo, Sagittarius, 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Waning 29 moon 30 in c apricorn; 31 32moon void- ing close friends or family. this is a fine day Gemini, aquarius, Libra, virgo, taurus, Scor- of-course from 4:14 pm until 10:01 pm, for confessions, but decisions made today pio and pisces. capricorn and cancer: hold EvEry Vintage Vinyl when it moves into aquarius. do you will not last. Wait until the moon is in aries your fire. Breakdown feel like starting something gigantic and to make declarations, particularly pisces, tuE. complicated? oh, please, don’t. projects Scorpio, cancer, taurus, aries, aquarius, cap- with the Colonel begun will not follow through, particularly ricorn, Leo, and Libra. virgo, Sagittarius and moon KeyS for aries, Libra, cancer, capricorn, Scorpio, this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the Gemini: avoid- self-destructive impulses. sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s taurus and Leo. Much better to be vague EvEry influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | TRIVIA NIGHT 8pm and unreliable — a natural fit for Gemini, MoNday When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 a quarius, 14 v 15irgo, p isces, 16 and Sagittarius. March 11 a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect wEd. w/ Trivia Master GMatt new1 moon 2in pisces; 3 moon void-of-course 4 5 6 increased 7 insight 8 and emotionality. 9 When10 the moon11 12 13 14 15 16 Friday from 3:51 pm until 7:17 tuesday morning. as moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), Drunk Robb & The Shots March 8 yesterday, decisions made today will not hold expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, 17 18 19 thur. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Waning 30 moon 31 in a quarius; 32 moon void- family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities — but17 interruptions 18 19should be 20 noted. 21 What 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 3/14 the Vaporubs, Dorisduke of-course from 5:08 pm until 1:19 am on are you supposed to learn by traveling down will not be at their best. | When the moon is in aries, Sunday (yes, a two-day void-of-course, this unexpected path? take others along it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are stay loose). Look for the unusual person, for the ride, particularly aries, Leo, Sagit- taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, uPCominG Leo/aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each the quirky idea, or the eccentric notion. tarius, Libra, Gemini, and aquarius, who may sign approximately two and a half days. | as the moon 3/16 for the love if sloane, jazz bastards, briar rose this is an excellent weekend for socializing, feel social, and awkward if too long alone. moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void 3/21 cactus attack, 3/23 soulshot, 3/30 proud of stupid things but not so good for sticking to routine (lis- capricorn, taurus, virgo, Scorpio, cancer and of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider 4/4 Mercier/Zeiner/Carbone Trio featuring Jared Sims ten up, Leo, taurus and Scorpio). Fantasy pisces: make space for “aha!” moments. this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing (members of max creek & miracle orchestra) — especially about the potential of new decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For 4/6 jay Berndt and the orphans, barn burning relationships — is alluring, particularly for Tuesday Symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, 4/13 Sasquatch and the sick a billies aquarius, Libra, Gemini, aries, capricorn, March 12 visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can pisces, cancer, virgo and Sagittarius. 1 Waxing 2 moon 3 in a ries; 4 moon 5 void-of- 6 7 be reached 8 at [email protected]. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

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