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Pride in What You Wear,Swiper, No Swiping!: Local Entrepreneur To Pride in What You Wear June is not only Pride month, but the one year anniversary of a new Rhode Island-based podcast called “Your Queer Story.” “Your Queer Story” (YourQueerStory.com), from Evan Jones and Paul Hobbs, is a weekly free LGBT comedy podcast that covers queer history, personal stories, religion, politics, sexuality and more. Jones, an LGBTQ activist, decided to celebrate Pride through fashion and flags on his personal Facebook page. Focused on the podcast’s mission of educating as many people as possible about the LGBT community, Jones found a great way to grab attention while “sporting various work outfits this #pridemonth that coincide with flag colors and showcase the different members of [the] community.” Throughout the month, Jones shared selfies in colorful coordinating business attire. “I just wanted to show my support for the community and I like to dress up,” Jones said. He started off with the familiar rainbow Pride flag encompassing all the communities and then moved on to 11 other flags, including those representing the communities of genderqueer, intersex, asexual, lesbian, trans, pansexual, queer POC, bisexual, leather, polyamorous and queer. Jones used socks, shirts, buttons and even a small ax. Each post’s caption was filled with its corresponding flag’s creation history, symbolic meaning, fun facts and myth-busting. “I come from a background that doesn’t have a lot of education on the queer community. So that’s what I do with the podcast and with queer issues.” During his fashion foray, Jones was surprised by what he learned regarding the Labrys Lesbian flag. “It was beautiful and deep in meaning. I went back hundreds of years and the mythology it had for lesbians. I really liked the rich history of that flag. I didn’t see it until this year; it’s just not very popular, which is unfortunate.” Jones is passionate about everyone educating themselves on the struggle of other communities, and one way of doing that is by listening to his podcast. “We can’t have true empathy without education. You can’t empathize and show kindness if you don’t understand the issues.” The best part of Jones’ response from his Facebook community has been that even his queer friends have shared with him that they learned something new about their fellow communities, allowing their newfound education to help them support everyone. To see Jones’ fashion posts, view his Facebook page. Swiper, No Swiping!: Local entrepreneur to engage local singles in face-to-face meet-cute moments Anyone who has tried to jam their whole being into a thoughtfully crafted profile with six photos that show a well-rounded human being knows how it feels to put faith in the internet to make our search for a date faster, better, easier. What starts as a game-like app can turn us into brainlessly swiping automatons. We might begin to feel defeated and slightly jaded as we stare at disposable profiles, failing to recognize the person behind them. We want to connect. But we aren’t. That’s why 32-year-old entrepreneur and bachelorette Yosefa Kornwitz is trying to claw her way out of Tinder burnout by helping singles get off the internet and join her for alternative speed dating. She plans to provide a bi-monthly event at local bars where alternative singles in the Providence area — including her! — can meet. “I want it to be fun,” she told me during a recent conversation. Kornwitz plans to have an engaging host to entertain and help ease nervous participants. The event format will include dates and non-cringey games. And when the formal event ends, participants can stay and enjoy the hosting venue while Kornwitz sends emails out reporting who matched. Matching is anonymous and discreet. If you want to give someone your information, she will pass it along and if you don’t want to give anyone your information, that’s okay too. The virtual date will never replace the physical date. Kornwitz told stories of meeting someone virtually, spending countless days, nights and work breaks talking and texting only to meet in person and know instantly it wasn’t meant to be. Unless we engage all of our senses when meeting someone new, we will never truly know if there’s some spark of something worth pursuing. “My soulmate is probably out there somewhere doing the exact same thing as me: eating popcorn and watching ‘The Office’ on Netflix,” Kornwitz said. “I need to spiritually magnetize him to come to an event!” Watch this space for news about Yosefa Kornwitz’s alternative speed dating events, which will come to PVD in the near future. Robot Takeover: They Were Robots brings a new sound to PVD Two years ago, two members of The Copacetics, an eight-piece Providence-based reggae/ska band, decided they wanted to start a project to play music as an artistic outlet, and what they’ve built is an experimental, hard rock machine with horns front and center. You’ve never heard a robot wail like this before. Chris Mitchell (keys/lead vocals) and Mike Cirino (guitar/lead vocals) have been friends and co-writing songs since middle school, but the music wasn’t complete until they teamed up with their current lineup of Matt Smith (bass/vox), Keith Harriman (trombone/vox), Alex Colburn (trumpet/French horn) and Tim Eskey (drums/percussion). “I was looking for a drummer and I got an email from a trombone player,” Mitchell recalls of his first exchange with Keith Harriman. “He just showed up!” laughed Cirino while Mitchell added, “We’ll find something for him to do.” Matt Smith was another Copacetics member ready to join his bandmates, and they found Tim Eskey after an arduous series of drummer auditions. They thought the band was complete, but Harriman invited his friend Alex Colburn to see a show and Colburn wanted in. “So we rearranged all our music for a horn section,” said Mitchell. “There’s no specific tethers in this music to what we can or can’t write. It’s just an amalgamation of everything we all listen to. These guys [Mitchell and Cirino] write the lyrics and bring a general sound, but once they bring it into the room with everyone else, that’s when we do some of the genre-bending that we really like to do. We create a new sound through that,” stated Harriman. There is a certain level of energy that the horns inject into the catchy chorus of a song or as they guide the song through a new section. Their instrumentation is complex, but fun and upbeat even if their lyrics are deeper, and there are multiple colors and textures throughout a single song. They would be a sound engineer’s dream, but they’ve worked on albums in the past and with their own upgraded equipment and plan to self-record to have a full free EP available this spring. Cirino draws his inspiration from his frustration, and writing lyrics is his outlet. “It’s like painting a picture; it’s very therapeutic.” “[My songs] at least are half taken from personal experience, half taken from my favorite literature and movies. I like to think my songs come from an exaggerated persona that I put on,” Mitchell admits. Harriman confirmed this. “If you read the lyrics Chris puts out, it’s almost a sarcastic view of himself. There’s self-reflection, but it’s almost an in-the-moment reflection where it carries that self-depreciation element that we’re all trying to get rid of.” Their ultimate goal is to give the audience an in-the-moment interactive interpretation of the music in their heads. They take great pride in their music, paying attention to the smallest detail. They realize that it will never be perfect, but it will always be authentic to this collection of individuals that makes up They Were Robots. They Were Robots opens for The Copacetics, Motif Music Award winners for Best Alt Act 2018, on February 2 at The Parlour (theparlourri.com). They are planning shows in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts, in addition to their Rhode Island home. They can be found online at TheyWereRobots.com. Growth at the Renovated Garden Grille Pawtucket is Rhode Island’s vegan mecca. Nowhere else in this great state can you find an exclusively vegan bakery (Wildflour) alongside a vegetarian/vegan (v/v) eatery. The Garden Grille opened its doors in 1996. The original bright and colorful decor was more reminiscent of a Mexican establishment than a trendy v/v joint. “Until I met Uschi, my wife, I didn’t have a direction for style,” stated co-owner of both establishments, Rob Yaffe. He credits the direction of both Wildflour, which underwent a renovation in April and May, and the Garden Grille’s major improvement to his wife’s European aesthetic and designer Libby Slader. “If it were up to me, it would be a hippie enclave. This is more zen with a clean look and earthy feeling. The tree was designed by Kyla Coburn and added seven years ago.” Regulars of the Garden Grille (GG), upon hearing of the renovations, were quick to ask two things: Would the GG keep everyone’s favorite butternut squash quesadillas and the iconic tree? Happily, both are still at the GG. The tree remains exactly where it took root behind the bar, but it’s been cleaned, the twinkle lights were removed and it has a fresh coat of paint on its “treetop.” Rob mentioned, “The tree was a wink and a nod to tree huggers.” And although not many people were hugging trees, the who’s who of regulars were hugging each other and chatting throughout the warm, fresh, more open space during last week’s soft opening.
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