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STORES • ROUND AGAIN RECORDS • IN YOUR EAR • EMPIRE GUITARS providence.thephoenix.com | the providence phoenix | march 15, 2013 3 march 15, 2013 Contents IN THIS ISSUE p 8 p 6 p 13 TH 6 a dandy list _by david scharfenberg THURSDAY MARCH 14 Two shows — “Lists: To-Dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” and “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion” — highlight RISD Museum’s new 9pm: Pot of Gold Party with direction. Resident DJ Vinny Vibe 12 homegrown product _by chris conti Mega-March madness: meet the first six semi-finalists of the 2013 wbru rock hunt. 10pm: Door prizes from Plus, “Off the Couch” with cannibal ramblers, the gnomes, and more. the Pot of Gold 13 art _by greg cook The pleasures of patterns: “the conditions were just right” at World’s Fair; plus, “navigation paintings” TH Michael Childress’s at Yellow Peril Gallery. FRIDAY MARCH 15 24 film “Short Takes” on barbara and emperor. 5pm: After Work Live Acoustic Music with Brian Twohey featuring IN EVERY ISSUE the Tom Lanigan Band 6 4 phillipe & jorge’s 10pm: Green Party with cool, cool world Show us your hands | Prayer shots | DJ Dirty Dek, cash prizes Board games | Glorious food | The 6 return of Stevie Thunder for best GREEN attire! 47 the city _by derf 5 this just in TH Coming to Providence: “The Month SATURDAY MARCH 16 10 of Lovecraft” | In the climate change St. Practice Day and 2 Year fight, youth out front 8 bottles & cans Anniversary Party 11 Beer on Broadway: taking Newport Special VIP seating available by storm. online exclusives! Contact [email protected] 12 8 days a week F COOL NEW SOUNDS! We weigh 12 The Joffrey Ballet, Lori McKenna, to RSVP in on four new releases: Marnie The Real Thing, Second City, Word On Stern’s The Chronicles of Marnia, How Wednesday, and more. 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Bon everyone was supposed to share, lacks the staff to track down all their ecclesiastical studies before What we figure is that, since appetit! a risqué love letter, or a loaded these violations. But P&J hope hitting the hardwood. For years, there are no elections going on, Glock, anytime you conceal some- that authorities can at least stop the few black “students” you the staff over at the Board of the return oF thing it immediately provokes the practice of tapping casino could find on the PC campus just Elections doesn’t have a whole stevie thunder suspicion. ATMs; at least make an effort happened to play basketball. lot to do. So after the third run On March 16, on the One O’Clock So it is with Linc Chafee’s re- to conceal your scams, food At least another “religious” to Dunkin’ Donuts one day, radio show from 6 to 9 am on fusal (as of press time) to reveal stampers (read “cult”) school, Brigham somebody came up with an ex- WRIU (90.3 on your FM dial), the specifics of a state-commis- Young, draws its players from cellent idea: why not introduce host Cyber Larsen will have sioned report on Medicaid and Prayer shots its Mormon base — although some really bad legislation and Stevie Thunder on as his special food stamp fraud, prepared by Phillipe and Jorge mourn the loss that base now seems to include send it over to a Halitosis Hall guest. Stevie, a Pawtucket native consultant and former Moderate of the Big East Conference as we seven-foot players from around gang always interested in such and URI grad, once hosted his Party gubernatorial candidate know it; the institution is falling the globe who evidently found things? own radio show on WRIU, Ken Block. victim to the gods of greed and God after BYU missionaries put Although not privy to the “The Stevie Thunder Bad Taste A good rule of thumb for this the gridiron.