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a royal rompmonty python’s spamalot at tBtS _by Bill Rodriguez | p 16

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life iS a carnivalRiSd muSeum’S ‘ciRcuS’ goeS Behind the Big top _by greg cook | p 15

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digging deepget Ready foR the Rhythm & RootS feStival_by Bob gulla | p 14

The cost of winning a General Assembly seat, the worst TV ads, and more! _by philip eil | p 8

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September 5th • 6 p.m. - 11 p.m.Slater Mill • Admission $10, children under 12 free

Fat City Band • Ruben Moreno & Zydeco Re-evolution

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Slater Mill • Admission $10, children under 12 freeFat City Band • Ruben Moreno & Zydeco Re-evolution

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm TheatreSeptember 4th - 28th • Grounded by George Brant

15th Annual RI Chinese Dragon Boat Races & Taiwan Day Festival*

September 6th (rain date Sept. 7th) • 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.Festival Pier • Free Admission

S.A.M. Steampunk Soiree*September 6th • 7 p.m. – 11 p.m.

Slater Mill • Admission $10

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Sun. 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Michelle Cruz* Big Band

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Rhode Island Watercolor Society Fall Art Experi-ence*

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Pawtucket Teachers’ Alliance presents “Pops In The Park” with the RI Philharmonic Orchestra

September 13th (Rain date Sept. 14) • 5:30 p.m. Fireworks to follow • Slater Memorial Park • Free Ad-

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Third Annual James McNally Wilson Irish Music Festival

September 13th • 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Murphy’s Law Irish Pub • Free Admission

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172 Exchange St • Free Admission • Music by The Ros-sonians

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Five Mills in the Armory District • Free Admission

Central Falls Bright Future FestivalSeptember 20th • 12 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

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Mixed Magic Theater*September 24th - 25th • 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

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Boys & Girls Club - Day for KidsSeptember 27th • 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.One Moeller Place • Free Admission

15th Annual Pawtucket Film FestivalSeptember 26th - 28th

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8 of primAry imporTAnce _By philip eil

Election 2014’s first day of reckoning: facts, observations, and analysis.

10 BoTTleS & cAnS & jUST clAp yoUr hAndS _By loU pApineAU

Blast from the past: BAllAnTine ipA is back; and a slew of brew news.

12 homeGrown prodUcT _By chriS conTi

Tough love: hAyeS goes all in on Entering Providence.

14 mUSic _By BoB GUllA

Digging in: get ready for the rhyThm & rooTS feSTivAl.

15 ArT _By GreG cook

Life is a carnival: the RISD Museum’s “circUS” goes behind the big top.

16 TheATer _By Bill rodriGUez

A royal romp: monTy pyThon’S SpAmAloT at Theater By the Sea.

21 film

“Short Takes” on frAnk and Sin ciTy: A dAme To kill for.

the USUaL StUff

4 phillipe & jorGe’S cool, cool world Primary shades of grey | Walking the talking

4 jen SorenSen

6 ThiS jUST in Cutting through the info-fog in the PVD mayor’s race | A musical experiment in Pawtucket

11 8 dAyS A week The Rustic Tri Vue Drive-In offers three throwback double bills | The Original Living Legends Reggae Fest | The Gamm presents Grounded | Trinity Rep does Chekhov’s Ivanov

22 moonSiGnS _By SymBoline dAi

22 joneSin’ _pUzzle By mATT joneS

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fNever mind that probably two-thirds of Biggest Little

residents don’t even know that primary elections are being held on September 9 — or, if they do, they aren’t planning on dis-turbing their binge-watching of Real Housewives of Central Falls to ac-tually vote. Your superior corre-spondents still have the respon-sibility to give our unrequested thoughts on the political races, as informed by the Magic 8-Ball and dreams disturbed by two or t’ree Pernod and grapefruits be-fore bedtime.

We simply don’t know what to make of the gubernatorial pri-mary. While P&J like Clay Pell, Angel Taveras, and Gina Rai-mondo personally — they’re all smart and charming, and Angel was all pumped up when we saw him recently — questions remain about each. You have Angel bail-ing out on La Prov so soon with-out really being able to make any major progress as mayor, seem-ingly to continue his Head Start-to-Harvard-to-Halitosis Hall dream. Meanwhile, the distrust among commoners of Our Gina’s Wall Street financial connections runs deep and wide. And Clay Pell remains a cipher, though in our travels we’ve heard an under-current of, “What the hell? How bad can he be?” and “He’s too rich to steal.”

(Note: While Raimondo’s Nar-ragansett Beer-inspired ad was undoubtedly the most appeal-ing TV commercial of the lot, big points were deducted for the pesky little fact that it was totally misleading — read: bullshit — about her job creation in Rhode Island. Most Narragansett Beer jobs were actually created out of state. Hi, neighbor!)

Oh yes, there is also a Repub-lican gubernatorial primary with Allan Fung facing off against Ken Block. But if you like the odds for either of them taking the gov’s seat at the State House come 2015, it comes in a package bet on the Cleveland Browns and “Johnny Football” making the Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, the mayoral race in Our Little Towne is coming down to Dems Michael Solomon and Jorge Elorza essentially fight-ing for the right to run against the Bud-I and the GOP’s Daniel Harrop, a political ménage a trois that Buddy welcomes as much as a lot of guys would welcome a three-way in the usual sense of the phrase. (For more on this race, see “This Just In” on page 6.)

In other statewide tilts, P&J see a lot of folks we like; unfor-tunately, in some cases, they’re running against each other.

Guillaume deRamel (yeah, we can spell it, Billy) and Nellie Gorbea in the secretary of state’s race, Frank Ferri in the lieutenant gov’s race, and Seth Magaziner in the race for general treasurer all have legitimate chances to stay in the hunt. On the GOP side for looey governor, Catherine Taylor will be waiting as a formidable opponent for whomever emerges from the Democratic primary.

P&J would also like to offer our thanks, along with the Screaming Lord Sutch Monster Raving Loony Party award, to husband and wife team Chris-topher Young and Kara Russo Young, who are running for Prov mayor and lieutenant governor, respectively. As has become tra-dition, these two free us from the surly bonds of Earth every time they open their mouths, al-though we're a bit disappointed Chris couldn’t upend a table during a debate. That’s what

happens when the years get to you, we suspect.

Finally, while we fear this plea will fall on more deaf ears than we would wish: please vote in the primary on September 9, as a grateful member of a free Democratic society that affords you that right. Otherwise, as the saying goes, you lose your bitch-ing rights — not that this has ever hindered most morons from loudly sounding off.

Walking the talkingP&J’s longtime friend and col-league, Topher Hamblett, has begun an ambitious and admi-rable campaign to help combat the menace of Ebola in Western Africa.

Topher, for years one of the leading advocates at Save the Bay, is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone and current presi-dent of the Foundation for West Africa (tfwa.org), which raises

funds for community radio sta-tions in Sierra Leone and Liberia. He returns to Sierra Leone every year, as he modestly tells P&J, “to help build the country’s radio infrastructure, the ‘voice for the voiceless’ as they say over there.” His past work has led to a ter-rific documentary, Leh Wi Tok (Let Us Talk), that's required viewing for anyone concerned about how email, Facebook, and Twitter have replaced true social interac-tion and destroyed the passing along of real and valuable news.

When events like the Ebola outbreak occur in places like pov-erty-stricken West Africa, most people in the US feel powerless to help. But Topher’s initiative is providing something meaning-ful to do: support a Sierra Leone community radio station, Radio Moa 105.5 FM, that’s assisting healthcare professionals by pro-viding timely, critical, credible and live-saving information — in

Primary shades of greyvote — or else; help the african airwaves; tunes to go

Phillipe + Jorge’s Cool, Cool World

this case, on the causes, trans-mission, and spread of the Ebola virus — to hundreds of thou-sands of people.

Topher helped Radio Moa get started in 2003 in the remote east-ern area of Sierra Leone, now the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak. It's a farming region without cen-tral electricity, an illiteracy rate of about 70 percent, and roads so bad that they’re impassible for most vehicles. Radio Moa needs to up-grade its infrastructure to keep the station going: a new generator to replace an aging, malfunctioning one; three motorcycles for jour-nalists to use to reach the most remote areas; and hand-held, dig-ital recorders for journalists to get the voices of healthcare workers, community leaders, and everyday people on the air.

The fundraising effort has a goal of $20,000 to help Radio Moa combat both the disease, and the fear around it, with ac-curate information. As the Phoe-nix goes to print, nearly $10,000 has been contributed. You can help us reach the goal by visit-ing gofundme.com/d0sm0o, or contacting Topher directly at [email protected].

P&J are already on board with donating, and would appreciate you joining us.

Music in the park and at the fortThis weekend (August 29-31) is the 17th Annual Rhythm & Roots Festival at Ninigret Park in Charlestown. The fest boasts five stages and an amazing lineup of bands, including Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, the Trav-elin’ McCourys, C.J. Chenier, Bill Kirchen, Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, and many more. There are 92 sets of music in all, and kids under 12 get in for free!

This year, many of the main stage acts will be captured for Rhode Island PBS’ TV show, Rhode Island Live. (Disclosure: Jorge — aka Rudy Cheeks — is the host and a co-producer of that show.) This is a don’t-miss event for music lovers.

Meanwhile, the Newport Rocks the Fort summer music series at Fort Adams wraps up on Friday (the 29th). The bill includes Rhett Tyler and Early Warning, Hey Nineteen (a Steely Dan tribute band), and the leg-endary Rick Derringer. Derringer was the leader of the McCoys, whose “Hang On Sloopy” topped the charts in 1965; he later scored a solo hit with “Rock ’n’ Roll Hoochie Koo.”

The show starts at 7 pm. More info at newportrocksthe fort.com. ^

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It’s a sunny, breezy day on Saturday, Au-gust 23 and I find myself slouched over, grimacing at the pavement under a bridge in Pawtucket. There are several frequencies — some very high, others low, all incred-ibly loud — reverberating off the bridge’s beams and pylons. I close my eyes and it sounds for a moment like I’m in some hell-ish factory where the machinery is revolt-ing against the workers, or I’m inside a tunnel, listening to the screeching metal of a train that is about to kill me. Eventually, the screeching metal gives way to beauti-ful, bass-y oscillations and spacious white noise, reminding me I’m not about to die, I’m at the DOT AIR experimental music fes-tival and Work/Death is playing.

Work/Death is Scott Reber, a long-time contributor to Providence’s noise music scene who is known to use anything from synths and modulators to plastic bags and scraps of metal to create sounds that are sometimes harsh and grating, often sub-lime and cathartic. It’s fitting that his set is evocative of an industrial nightmare — the festival’s name is an acronym for “death of the American Industrial Revolution.”

That name sounds dark, but the event’s concept is anything but, according to James Toomey, director of marketing for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, which co-organized the event with the Pawtucket recording studio, Machines with Magnets. “DOT AIR is an absolute positive thing; it’s about being forward-thinking, it’s about looking at what’s actually going on in Paw-tucket right now rather than looking back on its industrial past,” he explains in be-tween sets at the show. “Right now there’s a couple hundred people just hanging out by the river, and they’re here to support art — new art, different art.”

Willa Van Nostrand, manager at Ma-chines with Magnets, says the show’s name did create some confusion in the weeks leading up to it. “We got some phone calls from people wanting to know if the French band, Air, was playing,” she says. “I was like, ‘Under a bridge, in Paw-tucket?’ . . . No.”

Air isn’t on the bill, but eight local acts are, along with several craft booths, food trucks, and an estimated 500 attendees temporarily taking over Taft Street. Accord-ing to Toomey, the location was chosen for its unique acoustics and to showcase the multicolored array of lights on the newly renovated bridge, which was completed last summer, and took about $81 million and three years to build. (Incidentally, the lights aren’t working properly this eve-ning, but no one seems to mind.)

Van Nostrand and sister Glenna opened the day’s lineup with a performance in-volving a kiddie pool, several large jugs of water, and a small pitcher of live feeder fish. The pair took the stage in white swim caps and vintage swimsuits, mak-ing themselves comfortable alongside the fish in the contact-miked pool, using modulators and singing through snorkel mouthpieces outfitted with plastic tub-ing. It was strange and lovely.

The Providence-based Assembly of Light women’s choir sang at dusk, in an ethereal, commanding performance led by composer and singer Chrissy Wolpert. Later, the accordion-fueled lilting disso-nance of Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores seemed right at home in the middle of the road under a highway overpass, and Pawtucket-based three-piece band Psycle played a happy, raucous set.

After that, Boston-based musician Kev-in Micka led the Animal Hospital Ensem-ble, a rotating cast of dozens of musicians which played in a circle surrounding the audience. The ensemble was comprised mostly of guitar players, whose mesmeric droning, loops, and buzzes inspired the audience to spontaneously mill around the band’s inside perimeter, forming a rotating concentric circle to observe the musicians as they played.

The night ended with the crowd as-sembling into a sort of big sweaty dough-nut, at the center of which was Black Pus, the solo project of artist and musi-cian Brian Chippendale, whose lunatic drumming, frenzied oscillations, and ex-

pansive sparkly en-ergy made us all feel like a happy fam-ily of under-bridge dwellers.

Will it happen again next year? Toomey says we’ll have to wait and see.

And what hap-pened to the feeder fish? They’re start-ing a new life in the Blackstone River, which we hope is now clean enough to support them, despite all those years of industrial pollutants.

_Liz Lee

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Cutting through the info-fog of the PVD mayor’s race fThree major Democratic

candidates for Providence mayor held press conferences at Prospect Terrace Park in the last week. On Friday morn-ing, August 22, Jorge Elorza and Brett Smiley stepped to a podium together to tell the crowd that Smiley is dropping out and endorsing his former opponent. Pointing specifi-cally to City Council President Michael Solomon as “someone currently under investigation by the Ethics Commission who has a $400,000 unpaid sweet-heart loan to the city,” Smiley said, “In recent weeks, it’s be-come increasingly clear that it will be an enormous step back-wards for Michael Solomon to lead our city.” Elorza followed by saying that if Smiley had stayed in the race, it was pos-sible Solomon could win the primary, then lose to Cianci in November. “And Brett and I both agreed that there was no way we could allow that to happen.”

Solomon’s conference took place four days later, mere paces from where his opponents had set up. It gave him a chance to do a few things. First, he was introduced by former city councilman, former state representative, and human stamp-of-liberal-approval, David Segal, who ticked off items from Solomon’s “strong, obvious progressive governance record,” rang-ing from spearheading the council’s vote to divest from fossil fuels to his work to protect and expand affordable housing in the city. Solomon proceeded to apologize for the errors he made in the ethics filings (the grounds for the Commission’s inquiry), but he stood by his still-unsettled Providence Economic Develop-ment Partnership loan from the 1980s intended to help re-purpose a building on Westminster Street. (He and his partners reduced the prin-cipal by $50,000 last year, Solomon said, and, in the first place, “That project created jobs. It spurred economic development.”) Before he spoke, a campaign consultant handed out press releases with polling data that — though the full methodology of the poll was not released and Republican candidate, Dr. Dan Harrop’s name was misspelled “Harrup” — suggested Solomon has a 36 versus 35 percent edge in a potential Cianci showdown, while Elorza faces a seven-percent deficit in a hypothetical Cianci battle. “Solomon Campaign Releases Poll Show-ing He’s the Only Candidate Who Can Defeat Cianci,” the release proclaimed.

That Solomon poll admitted to a 4.6 percent margin of error and, in general, things are get-ting pretty foggy out there, info-wise. So we tried to sift through the spin and sound bites, to offer few things we know to be true.

• We know that Smiley and Elorza are trying to portray Solomon and Cianci as old-school politi-cians cut from the same cloth. A Cianci/Solomon

matchup would be “the king of the ‘know-a-guy’ running against the former king of the ‘know-a-guy’ system,” Smiley told reporters at his press con-ference. On the other hand, when Solomon was asked at his presser whether he is, indeed, a “know-a-guy” guy, he said, “I wasn’t appointed as a hous-ing court judge [like Elorza]. And I wasn’t appointed to the Providence Water Supply Board [like Smiley] . . . I was the only candidate that was elected in this race.”

• We know that on August 24, the ProJo “enthusiasti-cally” endorsed Jorge Elorza, arguing he “would bring to the job great intelligence, high energy and a unique ability to unite a very diverse city.”

• We know reporters have been trying to fairly and accu-rately describe Solomon’s ver-

bal skills. Rhode Island Public Radio’s Ian Don-nis wrote he “wrestles with challenges in public communication”; WPRI.com’s Dan McGowan described him as “a poor communicator.”

• We know that, as of the last campaign-finance filing deadline on August 11, Solomon had about two-and-a-half times the funds on hand ($404,269.13) as Elorza ($160,621.28).

• We know the alliance between Elorza and Smiley extends past a simple one-candidate-drops-out-to-endorse-another press conference. In recent days, they have appeared together at farmers markets and meet-and-greets around the city, and Jorge Elorza posted a press release — “Team Elorza Gains Momentum, Shows Uni-ty with Addition of Former Smiley Staffers” — accompanied by a photo of a storefront display-ing their campaign signs, side-by-side. Asked whether this new partnership was akin to a dual ticket, Elorza said, “Perhaps it is.” This, of course, has fueled speculation about whether Smiley and Elorza made a behind-the-scenes ar-rangement for a City Hall position for Smiley, in the event of an Elorza victory. (Camp Solomon describes their partnership as a “last minute backroom political deal.”) Of this, Elorza would only say, “I look forward to working with Brett and I look forward to having his advice and his counsel as we turn this city around.”

• We know that Primary Day is Tuesday, Sep-tember 9, and the victor will step into the ring with a 73-year-old, twice-convicted, former prosecutor/cancer survivor/on-hiatus talk radio host who’s probably both the most famous and infamous man in our city’s 378-year history.

• We know, if nothing else, this will be a hell of a lot of fun to watch.

_Philip Eil

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of primary importanceelection 2014’s first day of reckoning: facts, observations, and expert analysis_by philip eil

unopposed in the primary, only one name will appear on the ballot.

X-Ray (Campaign) VisionWhat’s happening behind the scenes at each of these campaigns right now?

Rhode Island Deputy Secretary of State Paul Caranci — who previously served for 17 years on the North Providence City Council, among other elected and appoint-ed positions — has a pretty good idea. Caranci isn’t running for office this year. But in June he published a book titled The Essential Guide to Running for Local Office: How to Plan, Organize, and Win Your Next Election, covering everything from “A Reason to Run for Public Office” (Chapter 1) to “Reacting to Election Results” (Chapter 15), with plen-ty of info (“Effective Campaigning on a Budget,” “Getting Press Coverage”) in between.

A sit-down conver-sation with Caranci is about as close as you’ll get to peering with x-ray goggles at the many campaigns happening around the state. So, last recent weekend, we did just that.

Here’s what he says is happening as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to Primary Day:

“You’re going to have different tiers of volunteers running those campaigns. The top tier is interested in policy, and those people are right now writing the final ads that are going to be on TV, radio, in the newspaper [and online]. And they’re gearing them toward issues that have already been identified through polling as the issues people are responding to. So, early on, you saw that Gina Raimondo was talking about fam-ily issues. And, of late, she’s switched to

Once you’re registered, it’s time to prep for election day. This means head-ing to sos.ri.gov/vic to review your voter information and status, party affiliation, and polling place location. That site is also where you’ll find a list of your state and federal elected officials, better known as “the people you can complain to when you have a government-related problem.”

Then there’s the question of proper ID. Regardless of your feelings about voter ID laws, Rhode Island currently has one in place. So on voting day, you’ll need to bring a driver’s license or passport or educational ID or US military ID or government- or state-issued ID (a RIPTA bus pass, for example) or government-issued medical card. If you don’t have any of those, bring a utility bill, bank statement, or similar document to the Secretary of State’s office to obtain a spe-cial voting ID, or check upcoming stops on the SoS office’s ongoing voter-ID-dispensing tour at sos.ri.gov/elections/voterid/schedule. Little-known fact: you actually can vote in elections without an ID, but you’ll be given a provisional bal-lot to fill out and sign, and your signa-ture will be compared to the one on file from your voter registration to determine whether the vote will be counted.

Finally, you’ll want to get informed about the issues and candidates involved in the upcoming election. This really is an endless process better known as “con-suming journalism.” But, at the very least, you should download a preview version of the primary ballot (available at at the previously-mentioned SoS Voter Information Center site. The exact number of races varies depending on where you’re voting, but if you are, say, a Democrat in Providence, you’ll be asked to select candidates for US senate, US representa-tive, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, general treasurer, state senator, state rep, mayor, and city council. In some categories, like with Democratic US Senator Jack Reed, who is running

fIt’s often said that instead of a major professional sports team, Rhode

Island has politics. And now, in late August, we’re entering the playoffs.

Millions upon millions of dollars have been spent in a Democratic gubernatorial race that, according to a recent Providence Journal/WPRI poll, has General Treasurer Gina Raimondo leading Providence Mayor Angel Taveras by 5.4 percent and upstart newcomer Clay Pell by 6.6 percent. But, in delivering this news, ProJo politics reporter Kathy Gregg was quick to note the poll of 503 “likely Democratic voters” has a 4.38 percent margin of error, “which means any of the candidates could actually be up — or down — by that percentage.” As local polling guru Joe Fleming told Gregg, “The Democratic primary for governor still remains wide open.”

Meanwhile, the Providence mayoral race remains as jumbled and tense as ever. Independent Lorne Adrain and Democrat Brett Smiley have dropped out since the Phoenix’s meet-the-candi-dates cover story in June, and Smiley recently tossed his support behind fel-low Democrat Jorge Elorza. Following the press conference where this alliance was announced, Republican candidate Dr. Dan Harrop told us that the shifting landscape affects him little. “This is all Democratic Game of Thrones and whoever emerges on primary day is fine with me,” he said. That same day, a waiting-in-the-wings Buddy Cianci — who is running as an Independent — quipped to reporters, “There are more dropouts in the mayor’s race than in the Providence schools.’’ (We have more analysis of the mayor’s race in “This Just In,” page 6.)

In short, things are getting ever more interesting in the local political arena. And, in case you need a reminder of the stakes of RI’s 2014 elections, look at the most recent US employment rankings, which have the Ocean State crawling out of last place and ahead of Mississippi and Georgia to claim the third-worst unem-ployment rate in the nation. It’s bad news when this is good news.

With all of this in mind, we thought we’d feed you some facts, observations, and expert analysis as the first Election 2014 day of reckoning — Primary Day, September 9, which holds outsized impor-tance in a state as lopsidedly Democratic as ours – draws nigh.

Let’s do this.

The BasiCsThe 2014 elections won’t mean much if you don’t — or can’t — vote. So let’s go through a pre-election checklist.

First, are you registered?The deadline for the upcoming pri-

maries has, alas, already passed; it was August 10, 30 days before Primary Day. But it’s not too late to register to vote in the general election on November 4 — the deadline for that is October 5. In order to register, as long as you meet the necessary requirements (you’re a legal US citizen, you live in RI, you’ll be 18 years old by the time you vote), you’ll want to head to elec-tions.state.ri.us/voting/registration.php to print and fill out the proper form, then mail it to your local board of canvassers.

the beer commercial [touting her previ-ous investment in Narragansett Beer, as a venture capitalist] [and] business-related issues, [how] she’s going to build jobs and stuff. That’s a shift in idea that wasn’t probably hashed out early in the cam-paign. It’s probably them reacting to poll-ing data that they’re getting in, saying, ‘This is working, that’s not. People want to hear about that.’

“There’s a next layer of volunteers that’s organizing the ‘grunts’: the people that are going to be out in the field doing the work. And those people are busy orga-nizing leaflet drops that are going to hold the message that the candidate wants to get out. They’re going to be organiz-ing last-minute rallies and doing all the things that are visible in the campaign and meant to sway voters, one way or another, by getting the message out there.

“And then there’s another tier of vol-unteers that’s working on what’s going to happen on Election Day. And those are the people that are focused on . . . identifying the vote, how they’re going to get [voters] out that day, getting the volunteers that are going to make the calls. In the big cam-paigns, those are unions and organizations that are doing it; in the little campaigns for council and school committee, it’s family or friends and a few people [who] just vol-unteered because they like you.

“[Meanwhile,] fundraising continues, because you can spend money right until the last day. Maybe [it’s] not on televi-sion and radio, because those ads had to be placed. But you’re probably in debt and need to raise the money that’s going to be used to pay off a lot of the debt you have. [And] you’re hoping you’re going to win and your campaign’s going to go on, so you need money for the general elec-tion. That’s usually organized by the big

boys. The candidate, himself, will be on the phone, trying to raise money, [and] the cam-paign consultants will be working that out too and trying to orga-nize fundraisers.”

The CosT oF a seaTSpeaking of fundrais-ing, we know that this year’s governor’s race is one for the record books. As of August 25, the three Democratic gubernatorial reported a combined $11.03 mil-lion in spent or soon-to-be-spent funds. Let’s pause a moment to just ponder that.

But let’s also ask, “How much does it cost to get elected to the RI General Assembly?”

The answer isn’t a mystery, thanks to public campaign finance info and a corps of dedicated interns at a Providence-based PR firm. The New Harbor Group has pub-lished fundraising-breakdown reports on Rhode Island General Assembly races since the early 2000s. And its latest, Survey of Campaign Finances in the 2012 Elections for the



Rhode Island General Assembly, delivers info on exactly how much both victorious can-didates and their unsuccessful opponents raised and spent in races for the senate and house of reps.

For example, after reading the report, we know that former House Speaker Gordon Fox was tops on Rhody-land with $151,470 raised and $150,627.81 spent to maintain his seat in District 4. This exceeded his runner-up in spend-ing (and successor as House Speaker), Representative Nicholas Mattiello by more than $85,000. Meanwhile, we know that money similarly flowed in and out of the top perch of the Senate chamber in 20123, with Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed ranking highest in both funds raised ($121,649) and spent ($99,761.46).

But Fox and Paiva Weed are outliers. Perhaps most interesting about the NHG report is what it tells us about winning rank-and-file, non-leadership-related races. The median spending for victorious House candidates was just $12,918, and 28 representatives won races by spending less than $10,000. Senate seats demanded pric-ier campaigns — median spending there was $20,546 — but, still, someone like, say, Harold Metts in District 6 in Providence, could win his seat by spending only $5786.

What does it all mean?It means “a seat in the General

Assembly is probably more accessible than people realize,” says New Harbor founder (and former campaign manager and com-munications director for Governor Bruce Sundlun) David Preston. “If you can raise these modest amounts of money and are willing to effectively ring doorbells you can be a very viable candidate.”

Preston suspects that mail and post-age costs account for the biggest expenses in General Assembly races, followed by things like yard signs, bumper stickers, online and newspaper ads, and paying staffers to effectively manage data.

In all, though, “Money is an advan-tage, but at some point you have ‘enough,’ and that point comes surprisingly soon,” he says. “Generally speaking, if you are smart, focused and committed in the other aspects of an Assembly campaign you can be very competitive.”

So, next election cycle, you can cross “it costs too much” from the list of legitimate excuses for not running for local office. Just ask House Deputy Majority Leader and Rules Committee Chair, Rep. Samuel Azzinaro (D-Westerly), who spent a mere $1653 on his way to reelection in 2012. ^

For more on the NHG report, go to what-counts.org/government-affairs/280-rhode-island-politics-by-the-numbers.

Philip Eil can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @phileil.

campaign 2014 — and, therefore, the campaign 2014 tv ad season — is far from over. We still have more than two months until the general election on november 4.

but the freewheeling pre-primary days, when money flies out of campaign coffers and the evening news offers back-to-back-to-back political spots during commercial breaks, are about to end. so it’s a good time to recognize ads from the last few months that stood apart for reasons good and bad. ok, mostly bad.

it’s not the oscars. it’s not the emmys. We’re calling it the chestnuts, in honor of chestnut street in providence, where the Phoenix is headquartered.

read on to meet your winners.

WoRsT ideaMost attack ads go after candidates, not their supporters. so per-haps cranston Mayor and republican gubernatorial candidate allan

fung thought he was breaking new ground when he released an ad depicting fans of his opponent ken block saying and doing silly things (like attempting to stick a fork in a toaster), with their heads digitally altered to look like “blocks.” “don’t be a blockhead. say no to ken block,” the ad implores at the end, but it was fung who ended up looking blockheaded for insulting voters as a campaign tactic.

BesT FoReign Filmthe fung campaign would never officially confirm or deny whether their folksy, biographical ad declaring rhode island “open for busi-ness” was filmed outside of rhode island. but the owner of tommy’s diner in columbus, ohio said that the ad was filmed there, the de-cor in the ad seems to match tommy’s (hat tip to golocalprov for first noticing this), and fung’s campaign finance reports indicate a $127,000 expenditure to an ohio-based communications firm. com-pounding the gaffe was the campaign’s unwillingness to give a yes or no answer about the ad’s provenance. “We stand by the message of this ad,” campaign spokesman rob coupe told rhode island public radio. Unfortunately, when you film an ad in ohio for a rhode island gov’s race, it sends a message louder than all others.

WhiTesT ad Usually, republicans are self-conscious about their party’s white-bread image. apparently not republican gubernatorial candidate and barrington businessman ken block. While ringing doorbells in a tv ad to tell voters about his “3-2-1” tax/spending-reform plan, he doesn’t encounter a single asian, african american, or latino voter — just middle-aged white folks. (he encounters two more while strolling streets between houses.) Um, Mr. block, might we remind

you that the capital city of the state you’re running to govern — it’s called providence; you can find it on google Maps — is less than 50 percent white, according to the 2010 census? or were you just being honest about your target audience?

mosT duBious phRase“gina saved my life, twice,” says andrea Martin in an ad for gina raimondo. there’s no disputing Martin — who escaped from a violent husband to the crossroads shelter in providence (where raimondo serves on the board of directors) and received payments from the ri crime victims compensation program (which raimondo administers as general treasurer) after being beaten by a landlord — has a powerful story. but words matter. and unless the general treasurer moonlights as an eMt, it sure sounds like her “life-sav-ing” skills are exaggerated.

BesT “sponTaneous” momenTcampaigns are all about the tightly-scripted, poll-tested appear-ance of spontaneity: the smile, the chuckle, the non-sexual touch of a voter’s arm, the time-honored point-to-the-invisible-person-in-the-crowd while taking the stage before a debate. but the guy who “spontaneously” yells “hey, angel!” while driving by at the end of taveras’s Warren-based “Main street” spot, wins the day. We salute you, Unscripted/scripted taveras-supporting truck driver. “hey, angel!” indeed.

mosT eaRly Buzz and undeliVeRed pRomiseprovidence mayoral candidate brett smiley’s Wes anderson-esque “Man With a plan” ad depicting him publishing a “plan for recess” in fifth grade and proposing to his husband via powerpoint presentation was catnip for liberals nationwide (Slate called it “the most adorable campaign ad ever made”). but smiley’s premature departure from the mayoral race kinda undermined the whole “man with a plan” thing . . . unless his plan was never to be mayor, which would just be weird.

WoRsT douBlespeak FRom a Campaign suRRogaTe“i’m not a political guy,” local ironworker rich scalzi writes in a ginaraimondo.com blog post accompanying an ad in which he drives around providence, blaming Mayor taveras for the fact that he’s

“hardly worked in three years.” sorry, rich — you just starred in a negative campaign ad, which is as political as it gets. spare us the bullshit.

WoRsT JuXTaposiTionseth Magaziner is a fresh-faced candidate vying for general treasurer against a scion of the uber-connected caprio family, frank caprio. but Magaziner tripped over himself when he released an ad that derided “insider politics” before quickly pivoting to tout an en-dorsement from former president — and longtime advisee of seth’s father, ira, who currently serves as ceo of the clinton foundation’s health access initiative — bill clinton. at this point, the video ap-pears to have been scrubbed from the internet. smart move.

WoRsT uninTended messagepro-tip: dual attack ads often come across as a plea for help, more than anything else. such is the case with angel taveras’s recent 30-second ad taking jabs at both clay pell (“nine jobs in eight years”) and gina raimondo (“her venture capital firm secured a secret, no-bid contract funded by taxpayers”). that said, we do give team taveras points for the ad’s dramatic, minimalist title: “neither.”

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fTwo years ago in our “Gateway to beer heaven” compendium, Chuck Borkoski,

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F Beer ’round here: Inspired by “all the petty trademark disputes brought against Rhode Is-land brewers,” newPort Storm has concocted infringement. The Russian Imperial Stout (10% ABV) is the culmination of four years of devel-opment to determine which beers are best paired with the com-pany’s Thomas Tew Rum barrels, the ideal aging time, etc. “in-fRIngement goes well beyond just throwing beer in a barrel,” said Storm co-founder Brent Ryan. The very limited batch — about 100 cases of 22-ounce bottles — is in stores now . . . Crooked Current’s growlers arrived last week, the ink just dried on their distribu-tion papers, and they’re thisclose to hosting tours and tastings at their home at 560 Mineral Spring Ave, Pawtucket. Check facebook.com/Crooked CurrentBrewery for updates . . . But we are sure that CC will be at Brew at the Zoo, the fundraiser for the Roger Wil-liams Park Zoo, on September 6 from 5-9 pm. Forty-two brewers

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Holland, Sebago, Sixpoint; the com-plete list is here: rwpzoo.org/2014-

brewers). While you sample you can delight in “animal encoun-

ters” and live music. Tix are $50 ($25 designated driver), which benefits education and conservation programs and zoo improvements . . . As summer fades, the ’Gan-Sett/Del’s Shandy mania is in the rear-view mirror.

There are mountains of it in most stores, a scant few

weeks after there was a one-six-per-customer limit. But the

good news: the autoCrat Coffee milk Stout collab, which sold out

in about a week last December, is set to return — in tallboys and 12-packs of

bottles — around October 1 and be available through January . . . And another seasonal fave is back: foolProof’s auGtoBerfeSt, whose name nods to the annual celebration at their Pawtucket HQ and the trad festbier, made with caramel and Munich malts and American hops, that heralds autumn’s arrival.

F New national brews: doGfiSh head has re-leased its latest Ancient Ale — kvaSir, which was spawned from the chemical, botanical, and pollen “evidence” from a 3500-year-old Danish drinking vessel (yum!). The 10% ABV potion is made with lingonberry, cranberry, birch syrup, honey, cranberry juice, and herbs; as usual with Dogfish’s eccentric cre-ations, you’re gonna love or hate it . . . Sierra nevada’s new fall PaCk is out. It has two new brews — vienna laGer and oktoBer-feSt — plus the return of Tumbler brown ale and their flagship Pale Ale . . . If it seems that there’s a new Stone offering on shelves every week, that’s because there is! The newest: they teamed up with Beachwood and Heretic for unaPoloGetiC iPa. The label asks, “Who says the world needs another IPA? We do.” The 8.8% bomber is a taste treat, showcasing new and experimental hops (Azacca, Belma, and yet-to-be-named varieties from Washington’s Yakima Valley). Their 18th anniverSary

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classic cinemaHave you been to the rus-tic tri Vue driVe-in this summer? No?!? Then load up the station wagon and get ye to Rt 146 in North Smithfield for their “rus-tic Goes retro” weekend, with three terrific throw-back double bills: Jurassic Park with Jaws; Grease with American Graffiti; and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial with Raiders of the Lost Ark. With all that Amblin Entertainment on tap, maybe Mr. Spielberg will show up. Your radio (and neck) is going to get a workout as you try to take in all the classic cinematic splendor. Get there early (gates open on Friday and Saturday at 6, on Sunday at 4, and Monday at 7), we have a feeling this is going to be a big event | $25 per carload | 401.769.7601 | facebook.com/RusticDrivein

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roots ’n’ riddimsThe Rhythm & Roots Fest isn’t the only big music gathering on the “last” weekend of summer. the oriGinal liVinG leGends reGGae festiVal is tak-ing place where R&R got its start: Stepping Stone Ranch (201 Escoheag Hill Rd, West Greenwich). The lineup is stacked with Jamaican artists with deep roots and irresist-ible rhythms: Everton Blender, Admiral Tibet (aka Mr. Reality), Philip

Fraser, Michael Palmer (aka Palma Dog), Rank-ing Joe, and more. And the music will be con-stant from 11 am to 11 pm, with DJ Realm, Burning Flames, and Upsetta In-ternational at the controls | $60 | facebook.com/events/1445069959096647

sunday 31

blues bashMore big music fest action: the Newport Concert Series presents a blues Jam with the Kenny Wayne Shep-herd Band, and a boatload of local talent: Roomful of Blues, James Montgomery & Bruce Marshall, and Big Cat Blues. The rockin’ R&B kicks off at 4 pm at the Yachting Center | $25.50-$45.50 | newportwaterfronevents.com

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takinG fliGhtLabor Day is gone and the curtains are going up. The Gamm is starting its 30th season — congrats, folks! — with the New England premiere of George Brant’s Grounded. The one-wom-an show starring Liz Hayes shares the experiences of a fighter pilot whose un-planned pregnancy leads her to be reassigned to fly drones over Afghanistan. Gamm artistic director Tony Estrella says, “It is a gorgeous, intense, elec-trifying piece of theater. Deeply personal, emotion-ally draining, intelligent

and powerfully resonant. It is a masterpiece in min-iature, an incisive state-of-the-nation play dissecting America at an historical crossroads.” Grounded runs through the 28th at 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | $41 + $49 (previews $30 Sept 4-7) | 401.723.4266 | gamm theatre.org

a normal GuyTrinity Repertory Company is opening its 51st season — with the theme “The Necessity of Human Con-nection” — with Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov, with a world premiere transla-tion by artistic director Curt Columbus. It’s been in progress for a couple of years; Columbus says, “When we read it aloud, it was just this crazy, wild ride through the Russian countryside, and it’s a perfect play for our acting company.” Director Brian McEleney adds, “The thing that I keep coming back to when I think about Ivanov is if you translate the name literally into English, it’s John Seymour. He’s just writing about a guy [who’s a doctor], he’s not writing about a king, or a murderer, or some duch-ess. Chekhov saw people constantly, and he would observe them and all their strange, neurotic, contra-dictory behavior, and he said, ‘That is what drama should be about.’ ” Ivanov, which has been described as “the comic Russian Hamlet,” runs through Oc-tober 5 at 201 Washington St, Providence | $28-$68 | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com

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fPVD-based lyricist Hayes returns with a brand new platter, Entering Providence, the follow-up to his ’13 solo

debut u.s.A Cry for Help. Kennedy Plaza serves as inspiration for his rhymes and diatribes and provides a brutally honest perspective throughout the kinda-concept album. From government corruption to homelessness to the monotony of everyday life as just another Rhode Islander living that hand-to-mouth lifestyle, Hayes goes in hard. Throw those rose-colored glasses under a RIPTA bus tire and cue up Enter-ing Providence. Hayes and his Night Enders team will perform as part of a variety show at Larry’s Lounge in Pawtucket on Friday (the 29th). You can pick up the disc at the show or download it at nightenders401.bandcamp.com for $5.

When I spoke with Hayes late last year following the release of u.s.A Cry for Help, he noted how his goal was to “make an album that had some depth and meaning.” Society’s ills, mass consumerism, and personal demons were addressed with vigor, balanced by fun cipher jams like the Rhody rap anthem “Ocean State of the Art.” Hayes goes hyper-local this time around, drawing inspi-ration (and exasperation) from the capital city.

“I wanted to bring life to things I witness on the dai-ly,” Hayes said this week. “I tried to mix happy and sad, good and evil, righteousness and cowardice, love and hate, and many other things into this album with the underlying goal to make it as real as possible.

“This album could represent any city, though it relates directly to my current life here in Providence,” he con-tinued, “a place that’s both rich and poor in beauty and tragedy, and reflected in a multitude of art forms.”

On the title track, Hayes salutes the city “known for infamous mobster hits” as “a quaint place to get pockets picked” and hilariously shouts out TeleServe. His word-play shines on “War of the Gods”: “Takin’ the bus, shit’s like a mansion for bums that hijack Codac for a ransom of drugs/Shout out to my peoples never leavin’ Rhode Island that get rich or die tryin’ locked up in the ACI, and those gettin’ by with a 7-Eleven diet/In line with a Hostess pie that’s eaten before they buy it.” His mission statement could be derived from this gem: “Solutions to the prob-lems? I don’t got ’em/I write what I see, that’s me being honest/I spit toxic harder than weaning off Suboxone.”

Hayes returned to Beat Box Studios in Pawtucket with in-house maestro Vertygo who recorded, mixed, and mas-tered the album, and produced the first single, “Frozen Lemonade.” Hayes also enlisted an all-Rhody lineup of beat chemists (along with some vicious cuts by DJ Kellan and DJ John Gotem). He rides a crackling piano loop courte-sy of Kid Carnage on “Cross Rhodes” as he vividly address-es three individuals battling homelessness. Carnage also provides the beats on “Shop Right” (“I’m hungry as Shop Rite on the first of the month”), and jazzy horns accompany

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Hayes on “What’s Life?” as he declares, “The past won’t help me walk down the street/Moving forward as I chase ’round my dreams, til my homies are pouring one out for me.” Multi-talented phenom 8th Wundah serves up beats for “Guaranteed” and drops a verse on “Transmitting Live from RI” along with guests Milez Grimez and Night Enders crewmate Spoons. FourOhOne hooks up “War of the Gods” and “As I Is,” where Hayes announces, “I won’t be on the corner slangin’ shards to you/I’ll be on the block slangin’ Korean barbecue.” Yes, that’s Hayes working the grill on Mama Kim’s food truck (I recommended Beats, Rhymes & Bulgogi as a potential mixtape title) and yes, he usually has a copy or two on hand for sale. The final two cuts on Enter-ing Providence are among his best: “Times Have Changed” features Spoons and Rhody rhyme hero Swann Notty, and “Conquer Them” was a standout when Hayes performed a razor-sharp set at Dusk a few weeks back.

And though Hayes may be clutching an empty bottle of Jameson on the album cover, he has been sober for over a year now: “It definitely allows my thought process to flow clearer,” he said. “Writing is a form of meditation for me and the best way to reflect and understand this thing called ‘life,’ though I still don’t understand it.” ^

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MighTy good BoyS opening. both shows are 21+ and free; dial 401.861.7290 for all the details. A busy Saturday evening also in-cludes BraiNFruiT, The caN’T NoTS, and more at the parlour (401.383.5858); and look out for a TriaNgle ForeST sighting (!) at the Salon with BeTa MoTel and 24 hourS ($6, 401.865.6330). The 17th annual rhyThM & rooTS FeSTival is bigger and bet-ter than ever (see page 14), boasting 92 sets of music across five stages at ninigret park in charlestown from friday through SUndAY (the 31st). full weekend passes are available; visit rhyth-

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Brooklyn hip factor out of the Newport Folk Festival and replace it with some global dance grooves? You get Rhythm & Roots, a gathering of kindred souls that has truly hit its stride. It has become an extraordinary cel-ebration of traditional music (often with a modern twist) and is the premiere place to discover music, get en-lightened (and dazzled at intimate workshops — and dance, dance, and dance some more.

Here are a handful of the acts we’re looking forward to checking out at the 17th annual event this weekend.

A.J. GhentGhent’s lap steel is slung around his neck and looks remarkably like a guitar, but that’s the end of his conven-tion. With licks like Albert King and Ben Harper and vocals from the funky school of James Brown, Ghent’s southern soul is worth a close listen. (Sunday 3:45 pm)

ChArles BrAdley & the extrAordinAiresSpeaking of JB, Brad-ley had a job impersonating him at NYC clubs before breaking out on his own. By now his rags-to-relative riches story is fa-miliar, but no less riveting, and it comes to life when he sings as if his next meal depends on it. (Sunday 6 pm workshop + 7:45 pm performance)

MAtutoOK, so stop me if you’ve heard this one before: North Carolina guitar player goes to NYC, gets a Fulbright scholarship to study local music in northeast Brazil; comes back and mashes it all up together. Matuto features seven talented musicians from here and there, and produces some-thing that is at the very least spicy as hell, and quite possibly astounding. (Saturday 3 pm + Sunday noon)

leftover sAlMon with Bill PAyneThey’re calling it “polyethnic Cajun slam-grass,” but with this kind of talent, plus the boogie fever generated by Little Feat’s

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Payne, they can call it whatever they want. It has the distinct possibility of bring-ing Saturday night’s festivities to a good, old-fashioned, jam-min’, creole crescendo. (9:30 pm)

southern hosPitAlityNow that we’re on the subject of Little Feat, you can hear some flecks of the Feat in this band, a roots-blues all-star combo featuring super-acclaimed blues gui-tarists Damon Fowler and JP Soars, plus Memphis pianist and Pinetop Perkins adula-tor Victor Wainwright. (Saturday 6:30 pm + Sunday 9:30 pm)

MAtt AndersenThe burly but gentle dude from New Bruns-wick is red-frickin’ hot. He has a jillion plays on YouTube and his bags are packed for upwards of 250 dates for what is surely a banner year. He’s lik-able, sincere, gifted, and a songwriter on the rise. (Friday 8:45 pm + Saturday 2:30 pm)

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great bands that will be all over the festival, meaning they have a slot on each day. The Pine Leaf Boys may be the least familiar, but the Louisiana act gins up real rock ’n’ roll energy with its accordion danceability and will surely be a festival highlight. You’ll also see a lot of the Duhks, an excellent band that explores vast terrain spanning from Celtic to blustery punk and jazz. Other hat-trickers include old-time music young-ster Dom Flemons (Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder) and sublime blues belter Sarah Potenza (of Sarah and the Tall Boys). And re: Donna the Buffalo and Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, let’s just say they’re the musical equivalents of your favorite old Birkenstocks.

The fact is that fans of R&R have come to trust the musical choices booking folks make, so most festival-goers head to Ninigret Park in Charlestown with open ears. Hit rhythmandroots.com to get tickets and your game plan, but chances are your favorite act will be a brand- new discovery. ^

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phor for “leaving a dull life for a colorful one,” as the wise gurus at wikihow, whom I turn to for all my life advice, inform me. It speaks of merry tricksters and rule-defiers, people who might just as well seduce you as rip you off. To say it is to dream of liber-ation, to dream of escaping into a world of brighter lights and darker shadows and a friendlier embrace of kinks and freaks.

I was thinking of these things when visiting “Circus,” at the RISD Museum (224 Benefit St, Providence, through February 22), a small, but rich, two-room exhibition of century-old adver-tising posters and fine art paint-ings and prints of the spectacle, organized by Alison Chang.

I kept thinking about the “colorful” part. An 1895 color poster for Barnum & Bailey’s “Greatest Show on Earth” ad-vertises its “Great Ethnological Congress,” showcasing lions, camels, giraffes, bears, and hy-enas alongside Pacific islanders, whirling dervishes, Russian Cos-sack stomping, drumming Afri-cans, and dancing Native Ameri-cans in feathered headdresses.

Race and ethnicity were among the featured enter-tainments of the circus — and still are. The Western cir-cus has long been, by turns, a spectacle of United Nations multiculturalism and an orgy of Western colonial ogling that enforces racial stereotypes — see exotic, primitive specimens of critters and people from around the world!

Artists were entranced by the circus’ mingling of races and its fantasies of other ways of living. August Sander photographs a group of white and black performers sit-ting next to a circus caravan in 1926; Max Beckmann’s 1922 circus etching shows a woman dancing to the music of black musicians; in 1910, Max Pechstein depicts black women doing a Somali dance to drums and pipes.

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explains, “Pechstein embraced African and other non-European art as an uncorrupted and more authentic antidote to the stul-tified refinement of German society.”

The circus was also one more antidote to the starched academ-ic realism of painters like French artist James Tissot, represented here by his canvas of women in crowns riding chariots before a crowd of men in top hats and women in gowns inside Paris’s modern Hippodrome de l’Alma, all glass and steel illuminated by electric lights. Tissot impresses with his verisimilitude, but these “amazones” seem stiff and posed. He painted this in 1885 as the French Impressionists were scurrying across hayfields to break the old realist rules and bring back visions of the countryside in accumulations of short, dashed brushstrokes.

A quarter-century later, Pechstein’s purposely “primi-tive” woodcut is part of a line of Western aesthetic thought, running back through Pablo Picasso’s cubism and Paul Gauguin’s Polynesian sexca-pades, that imitated (carica-tured?) the styles of Africans,

black Americans, Pacific Islanders, ancient Mediter-ranean cultures, children’s drawings, and the art of the mentally handicapped to let loose, go wild, and break through to fresh ways of making art. French artist Fer-nand Leger’s book of lithographs, Cirque (1950), is cubism as colorful children’s doodles of acrobats, horses, and clowns. As an artistic move, “primitivism” was success-ful but, like the circus, it seems mainly to have left racial divides firmly in place.

Picasso and other artists in France turned the circus into a metaphor for themselves — avant-garde artists as dazzling, romantic outcasts. But then there’s Max Beck-mann’s 1922 portfolio of etchings, Annual Fair — a tight-rope walker shrouded under a sheet balances high above

a Ferris wheel; too many performers crowd into a too-small room; a topsy-turvy carousel of bulls and boars seems to spin off the rails. People keep look-ing over their shoulders as if fearing they’re being watched. The prints are an anxiety dream pulled from Germany’s collective unconscious. He turns circus sideshows into metaphors for the sordid, claustrophobic, traumatized society after its World War I defeat.

That psychological darkness pervades American works from the Great Depression. John Steuart Curry’s 1934 lithograph Missed Leap turns a trapeze act into film noir. Martin Lewis’s 1933 drypoint shows a crowd gathered outside circus tents at night at the edge of town. The world feels exhaust-ed, but the glow emanating from under the big top is a tantalizing offer of relief, of escape from the drudgery — if only for one sequined night before the itinerant show travels on. ^

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stiff upper lips was bound to eventually loosen up and bring us Monty Python, the comedy gang that gave us The Meaning of Life and the Ministry of Funny Walks.

So it’s a treat that Theatre By the Sea, down in Matunuck, is bringing us Monty Python’s Spamalot (through September 7), directed and choreographed by Billy Sprague, Jr., complete with live orchestra. With book and lyrics by troupe co-founder Eric Idle and music by Idle and John Du Prez, the musical is proudly and “lovingly ripped off,” as its credits declare, from the 1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

It’s a wildly silly onslaught upon our sober faculties in a gleefully talented pro-duction. Any audience member not imme-diately compelled to put aside all thoughts of world problems should be promptly escorted out and medicated.

Any similarity to the legend of Camelot and King Arthur’s search for the Holy Grail is purely and shamelessly intended, although the original tale is beefed up with such additions as a pile of Black Plague corpses who leap up to sing and a murderous bunny rabbit.

This King Arthur (Al Bundonis) is fol-lowed about by an obliging lackey named Patsy (Brad Bradley), who clops coconut shell halves together as they gallop about (the technique also saves trouble later on when some tap dancing comes up). Needless to say, a king with the imagination and finan-cial savvy to save on the cost and upkeep of a horse is bound to have lots of adventures.

Which include almost getting squished by the enormous feet of God (voiced by Bud-dy Cianci) descending toward the stage, soon balanced by the pleasant adventure of hooking up with the Lady of the Lake (Haley Swindal). Among those joining him are a peculiarly bloodthirsty Sir Lancelot (Jonathan Gregg) and Sir Dennis Galahad (Michael Andrako). The latter is recruited from among some peasants and is sur-prised to lose his lower-class accent upon being knighted. But not as surprised as Lancelot later on, who finds himself gaily and enthusiastically leading the ensemble in a colorful Carmen Miranda routine.

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Plenty of production numbers come up, the stage swarming with singers, but “Find Your Grail” slows down enough for Swindal to impress us belting out diva variations, from Judy Garland to Cher to Lady Gaga. She had exercised both her pipes and her sly comic skill earlier in a parody duet with Andrako, “The Song That Goes Like This,” making fun of those obligatory musical moments of soaring emotional manipulation. Happy for us that Swindal has the talent to com-mand her scenes so well, since she has five songs in Act One, and doesn’t appear again until almost halfway through Act Two when she complains about that tragic neglect with “The Diva’s Lament.”

As king and lackey, Bundonis and Bradley make a compelling funny team, the former playing dignified obtuseness with subtle restraint and his companion occasionally displaying a Jeeves-like com-mon sense superiority.

Their problematical encounters in-clude confronting the Knights Who Say Ni (a very annoying, high-pitched sound, though not as annoying as some weap-onry) and standing before a castle wall being taunted by a gleefully insulting (“I fart in your general direction!”) and per-sistent (“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”) French soldier. More than hurt feelings ensue as Patsy is floored by a catapulted cow, and mixed feelings follow as they are attacked by cancan dancers.

Others are as busy as this duo, such as Round Table member Sir Robin (Harry Bou-vy), who has a band of minstrels serenading him as he travels about. Robin is run off by the spunky Black Knight (Andrako), who maintains his feisty soldierly spirit even after Arthur whacks off every limb and im-pales him on a door. Most of these Python characters are nothing if not unrelenting.

Which is why the boppy ditty “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life” opens Act Two, led by King Arthur. “When you’re chewing on life’s gristle/Don’t grumble, give a whistle” — those indomitable Brits can prompt a tear, can’t they?

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Simiem & the Zydeco Experience + Dom Flemons + Gangstagrass + Ten Strings & A Goatskin + the Hand-some Family + Matuto + the Pine Leaf Boys + Jim Lauderdale + Jeffrey Broussard & the Creole Cowboys + Sarah Potenza + the Revelers + the 24th Street Wailers + Ed Poullard & Preston Frank + Mo’ Mojo + Magno-lia host band the Duhks | Fri-Sun | Ninigret Park, 4890a Old Post Rd, Charlestown | $45 Aug 29, $65 Aug 30 + 31, free under 13 | 888.855.6940 | rhythmandroots.com

FRIDAY 29THE ACOUSTIC VIBE OF JACK BABI-NEAU | 7:30 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $21 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.comNEWPORT ROCKS THE FORT with Rick Deringer + Rhett Tyler & Early Warning +Hey Nineteen [Steely Dan tribute] + Chakulla | 7-11 pm | Fort Adams State Park, Harrison Avenue, Newport | $35 | 401.841.0707 | newportrocksthefort.comWILL WOODSON AND ERIC MCDON-ALD | 8 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, 43 Muse Way, Tiverton | $12 advance, $15 door [a one-hour work-shop/lecture/Q&A will take place at 6:30 pm; $8 advance/$10 door; $18 ad-vance/$20 door for workshop + show] | 401.241.7349 | sandywoodsmusic.com

SATURDAY 30THE ORIGINAL LIVING LEGENDS REGGAE FESTIVAL with Everton Blender + Admiral Tibet + Mikey Mel-ody + Michael Palmer + Philip Fraser + Ranking Joe + Ken Serious backed by a live band | 11 am-11 pm | Step-ping Stone Ranch, 201 Escoheag Hill Rd, West Greenwich | $60 | facebook.com/events/1445069959096647RED EYE FLIGHT + BOB KENDALL | 7:30 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, Tiverton | $12 advance, $15 door [BYOB + food] | 401.241.7349 | sandy-woodsmusic.comTHOMPSON SQUARE | 2 pm | Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Rd, Webster, MA | $37-$54.50 | 508.943.3871 | indian ranch.com

SUNDAY 31BLUES JAM WITH THE KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND, Room-ful of Blues, James Montgomery and Bruce Marshall, and Big Cat Blues | 4 pm | Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf | $25.50-$45.50 | 401.846.1600 | newportwaterfrontevents.comRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC SUMMER POPS | 6 pm | Independence Park, Thames + Oliver sts, Bristol | Free | 401.248.7000 | riphil.orgZZ TOP + JEFF BECK | 7 pm | The Grand Theater at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT | $55 + $80 | 866.646.0050 | foxwoods.com

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THURSDAY 28NEWPORTFILM PRESENTS A SCREENING OF EMPTYING THE SKIES, a documentary that chron-icles the poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe | 6:30, pre-party with food from Glorious Affairs + libations by Spiked Seltzer, film at 7:45, followed by a Q&A with producer/co-director Roger Kass | Norman Bird Sanctuary, 583 Third Beach Rd, Middletown | $30 pre-party + film, $5 suggested donation for film only [proceeds benefit new-portFILM + Norman Bird Sanctuary] | 401.846.2577 | newport FILM.comA SCREENING OF CITY ON THE MOVE, a documentary about Woon-socket by Derek Dubois | 7 pm | Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $15 | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com

THURSDAY 4NEWPORTFILM presents Mission Blue, a documentary about ocean-ographer Dr. Sylvia Earle’s wake-up call to save the world’s seas, with a post-film Q&A with director Robert Nixon | Sunset, with pre-film music by Lainey Dionne with Izzy Marcil [picnics welcome; rain site: Casino Theater, 9 Freebody St] | King Park, Wellington Ave, Newport | Free | newportFILM.com

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THURSDAY 4PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | An open mic followed by a slam featur-ing Ian Rosales, Naomy Gutierrez, Alice Rayner, Joely Barrios, Seth Larbi | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

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ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE GALLERY OF WESTERLY | 401.596.2221 | 7 Canal St | westerlyarts.com | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Aug 28: “Character Development,” works by Diane Brown and Mark Perry | Sept 3-28: “A Change of Seasons,” works by John Fast and Nina BriggsARTISTS’ EXCHANGE | 401.490.9475 | 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston | artists-exchange.org | Through Sept 13: “Convergence,” an exhibit by artist and curator Reed McLaren, the third installment in her Integrated Exhi-bitions series, which will highlight work from Resources for Human Development RI, Flying Shuttles Studio, and (gallerie ellipsis)ARTPROV GALLERY | 401.641.5182 | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | art providence.com | Through Sept 6: “Patterns & Perspectives,” works by Marjorie Hellman, Nick Paciorek, Jeff Schneider, and Nina WeissAS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed- Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appoint-

ment | Through Aug 30: “Dog Days,” the AS220 staff and residence show | In the Youth Gallery: new work by KAnema Miller and Natasha VegaAS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Aug 30: “Scapegoat,” new work by Jennifer Hrabota Lesser | “RIPE: 3d Anthol-ogy,” Xeroxed pressings from the RI Independent Publishing ExpoBANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 | 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm | Sept 4-26: “Graphic Design from Konkuk University,” “where tradi-tional Korean culture melds with Western communication media, featuring posters, package designs, book designs, advertisements, and website designs”BERT GALLERY | 401.751.2628 | 24 Bridge St, Providence | bertgallery.com | Mon-Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat 12-4 pm | Through Sept 26: “Summer Tides,” paintings celebrating the end of the summer seasonCHARLESTOWN GALLERY | 401.364.0120 | 5000 South County Tr, Charlestown | charlestowngalleryri.com | Daily 10 am-5:30 pm | Through Sept 16: “Diamonds & Rust,” paint-ings by Amy Goodwin and Mark FreedmanCOASTAL LIVING GALLERY | 83 Brown St, Wickford | coastalliving gallery.com | Through Aug 29: paintings by Antoinette Campbell-Hunter | Sept 2-29: “Sunsets & His-tory,” photography by Andre LouisDEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 134 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown | debloisgallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Aug 31: “30th Anniver-sary Gala,” with new works by Kath-leen Morton, Valorie Sheehan, Lisa May, Valerie Debrule, Kathleen Ar-mor, Michael Guertin, Rodie Siegler, Ron Caplain, Felicia Touhey, Helen Poniatowski, Izabella Casselman, Rosemary Day, Marion Wilner, Dan McManus, and Karen NashDEDEE SHATTUCK GALLERY | 508.636.4177 | 1 Partners Ln, West-port, MA | dedeeshattuckgallery. com | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through Sept 6: paintings by Richard Whitten and painted wood works by Emi OzawaDRYDEN GALLERY | 401.421.6196 | 27 Dryden Ln, Providence | providence pictureframe.com | Mon-Sat 8:30 am-6:30 pm | Through Sept 5: “The Newport Folk Festival 2009-2014,” photographs by Richard McCaffreyGALLERY 4 | 401.816.0999 | 3848 Main Rd, Tiverton | gallery4tiverton.com | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through Sept 7: “Trio: Texture, Structure, Passion,” paint-ings by Ruth Hamill, Harry Nadler, and Susan StraussGRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | grinprovidence.com | Sat 12-5 pm | Through Sept 13: “tttrip.,” a group exhibit of installation and sculpture by Claudia O’Steen, Garret Gould, and Sophia SobersHERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through Aug 30: “current,” an exhibit which “will explore the current bodies of work from art-ist members,” including Amanda Swain Bingham, Uli Brahmst, Alex-andra Broches, Connie Greene, Su-san Hayward, Jeanette Jacobs, John Kotula, Viera Levitt, Jack Massey, Barbara Owen, Barbara Pagh, Ro-berta Richman, Myron Rubenstein, Jason Smith, Mara Trachtenberg, M.J. Yeager, and Mike YefkoIMAGO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imagofoundation4art.org | Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through Aug 30: “Water,” a group exhibit with works by artist mem-bers Linda Megathlin, Eileen Siob-han Collins, Rose Esson-Dawson, Mary Dondero, Carl Keitner, Pascale Lord, Lisa Legato, Eileen Mayhew, Howard Rotblat-Walker, Lenny Rumpler, Michael Scriven, and Howard Windham, and guest artists Jan Douglas Armor, David Gonville, Chris Sancomb, and Pat Warwick | Sept 4-Oct 11: works by featured member Lisa Legato and guest artist Christiane Corbat

JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestown artcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Sept 1: “Paper-Made,” an exhibit which “explores paper’s transformation from an everyday object into an exquisite three-dimensional sculptural artwork,” featuring Jo Lynn Alcorn, Molly Bo-sley, Heather Cherry, Heather Cox, Jiyoung Chung, B.L. Green, Joan M. Hall, Xander Marro, Courtney Watson McCarthy, Barbara Owen, Jessica Palmer, Lisa Perez, Kim Salerno, Michelle Samour, Matthew Shlian, Rebecca Siemering, Randal Thurston, and Wendy WahlJUST ART GALLERY | 401.272.0820 | 60 Valley St, Providence | justart- gallery.com | Wed 1-5 pm; Thurs + Fri 1-7 pm; Sat 12-5 pm | Through Sept 6: “Wander the Paths,” paintings by Lee ChabotMYSTIC ARTS CENTER | 860.536.7601 | 9 Water st, Mystic, CT | mysticarts.org | Daily 11 am-5 pm | Through Sept 20: “The 58th Region-al Show,” an all-media juried show with work from local and regional artists | “Figures, Faces, and Food,” oil paintings by Doug AabergNARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERY | 508.324.1926 | 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | narrowscenter.org | Wed-Sat 12-5 pm | Through Aug 30: “A Collaborative Journey,” with works by 27 par-ticipating individuals from People Incorporated with various abilities and artist Vania Noverca ViveirosPROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providence artclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Sept 5: “16x16 Members’ Exhibition” | “Travel Post-ers From the Permanent Collection”PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | 401.455.8000 | 150 Empire St | provlib.org | Mon + Thurs 12-8 pm; Tues + Wed 10 am-6 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5:30 pm | Through Oct 30: “Protect-ing Providence: Three Centuries of Policing In Rhode Island’s Capital”RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 | Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | rhodeisland watercolorsociety.wildapricot.org | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through Sept 4: “Celebrating The Rhode Island Watercolor Society with 1000 Works On Paper”URI PROVIDENCE CAMPUS GAL-LERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | Sept 2-30: “Bringing Guantánamo Home: Guan-tánamo Public Memory Project,” a traveling exhibit of stories, images, and documents from before 9/11 and after, co-curated by Brown and 11 other US universities. In Providence, the exhibit will feature newsletters written by detainees at Guantánamo, plus works by Mary Beth Meehan, Chris Simms, and students at the International Charter School in Paw-tucket, to connect the themes of mi-gration, security, refuge, and human rights with our communitiesWICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach St, North Kingstown | wickfordart.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm; Sun 12-3 pm | Through Sept 14: “Members’ Invitational”

MUSEUMS

HAFFENREFFER MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN MANNING HALL | 401.863.2065 | College + Wa-terman sts, Providence | brown.edu/Facilities/Haffenreffer | Tues-Sun 10 am-4 pm | Free admission | Through Aug 31: “Images of Power: Rulership In the Grasslands of Cameroon” | Through Aug 31: “In Deo Spera-mus: The Symbols and Ceremonies of Brown University” | Ongoing: “Reimagining the Americas,” an exhibition “bringing together the innovative cultural diversity of the Americas before European contact”NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERI-CAN ILLUSTRATION | 401.851.8949 | 492 Bellevue Ave, Newport | american illustration.org | Sat + Sun 11 am-5 pm [guided tours Fri 3 pm] | Through Oct 30: “Paul Szep: Famous Fames” an exhibit of caricaturesNEWPORT ART MUSEUM |

401.848.8200 | 76 Bellevue Ave | newportartmuseum.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students and military personnel with ID; free for children 5 and under | Aug 30-Jan 4: “Palate to Plate: Prints & Recipes From Members of the Bos-ton Printmakers” | Through Sept 1: “Marine Botanicals,” works by Mary Chatowsky Jameson | Through Sept 7: “Magic Gold, Full Sun,” paint-ings by Corinne Colarusso | Through Sept 14: “Very Simple Charm: The Early Life and Work of Richard Mor-ris Hunt In Newport”RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Benefit St, Providence | risd museum.org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm [Thurs until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am- 1 pm | Through Nov 16: “UuDam Tran Nguyen: Waltz of the Machine Equestrians,” a video installation | Through Feb 22: “Circus,” with 40 circus-themed paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and posters from 1850-1960WARWICK MUSEUM OF ART | 401.737.0010 | 3259 Post Rd, | warwick museum.org | Tues + Wed + Fri 12-4 pm, Thurs 4-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Aug 29: “Merge,” an ex-hibit of works on paper

THEATER

BURBAGE THEATRE COMPANY | btctheater.webs.com | At the William Hall Library, 1825 Broad St, Cranston | Through Sept 7: Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare | This week: Aug 28 + 30 + Sept 4 8 pm | $15, $12 students + seniorsCONTEMPORARY THEATER | 401.218.0282 | thecontemporary theater.com | 327 Main St, Wakefield | Through Sept 6: Art, by Yasmina Reza | Thurs-Sat 7 pm | $20 Fri + Sat, pay-what-you-can ThursFIRST HAND THEATRICAL | At 95 Empire St, Providence | Sept 4-7: In-terrupting the Sermon, by Kevin Olson | “A gentle story-play about the evolution of a theologically conser-vative kid from the Midwest into an intellectually progressive religious thinker over the course of a 50-year career as a minister and educator” | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm + Sun 2 pm | FreeGAMM THEATRE | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre.org | 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | Sept 4-28: Grounded, by George Brant | A one-woman play “about a hot-rod fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Reassigned to fly remote-controlled drones in Af-ghanistan from a windowless, air-conditioned trailer near Vegas, ‘The Pilot’ hunts terrorists by day and goes home to her family at night. But what happens the boundaries blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols?” | This week: Sept 4 7 pm | $41 + $49 [previews Sept 4-6 $30]POINT PRODUCTIONS | At 95 Em-pire St, Providence | Aug 29 8 pm: Everything of Any Value, “a new, origi-nal work of unimaginable strength and overwhelming cowardice” by Theresa Buchheister, Ryan William Downey, Scott Ries, Spencer Camp-bell, and Catrin Lloyd-Bollard | $52ND STORY THEATRE | 401.247.4200 | 2ndstorytheatre.com | 28 Market St, Warren | Through Aug 31: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie | This week: Aug 21 + 22 7:30 pm— Through Aug 29: Hay Fever, by Noel Coward | This week: Aug 23 + 24 + 28 7:30 pm— Sept 4-14: Sylvia, by A.R. Gurney, Jr. | This week: Sept 4 7:30 pm | $30, $21 under 21THEATRE BY THE SEA | 401.782.TKTS | theatrebythesea.biz | 364 Cards Pond Rd, Wakefield | Through Sept 7: Mon-ty Python’s Spamalot | This week: Aug 20 8 pm + Aug 21 2 + 8 pm | $42-$62TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | 401.351.4242 | trinityrep.com | 201 Washington St, Providence | Sept 4-Oct 5: Ivanov, a world premiere translation of Anton Chekhov’s play by Curt Columbus | This week: Sept 4 7:30 pm | $28-$68

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filmAVON CINEMA260 Thayer St, Providence | 401.421.3315FRANK | Starts Fri: 8:35 | Sat-Sun: 4:15, 8:35 | Mon-Wed: 8:35 | Thurs: 8:55MAGIC IN THE MOMENT | Thurs: 2:10, 4:15, 6:30, 8:35 | Fri: 2:10, 4:15, 6:30 | Sat-Sun: 2:10, 6:30 | Mon-Wed: 2:10, 4:15, 6:30 | Thurs: 4:15NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MEDEA STARRING HELEN McCRORY | Thurs [9.4]: 2, 7

CABLE CAR CINEMA204 South Main St, Providence | 401.272.3970BOYHOOD | Thurs-Fri: 2, 5:15, 8:30 | Sat-Sun: 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 | Tues-Thurs: 2, 5:15, 8:30

CINEMAWORLD622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln | 401.333.8676These listings are for Thurs Aug 28-Mon Sept 1 only. Call for updates or go to cinemaworldonline.com.LUCY | Thurs: 5:30, 10:25MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT | Thurs: 10:25, 4:05SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 10:15, 4:35BEGIN AGAIN | Starts Fri: 4:45HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 | Starts Fri: 10:45, 1:20, 3:45STEP UP: ALL IN | Thurs: 12:30, 7:35X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | Starts Fri: 6:15, 9:05AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:20 | Fri-Mon: 11:15, 1:35, 4:55, 7:45, 8:45, 10:15GHOSTBUSTERS: 30TH ANNIVER-SARY | Thurs: 7 | Fri-Mon: 10:45, 1:15, 4, 7, 9:30THE NOVEMBER MAN | Thurs: 11, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 | Fri-Mon: 11, 1:30, 4:30, 5:45, 7:30, 9, 10IF I STAY | 11, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | Thurs: 10:15, 1, 3:30, 7:40, 9:15, 10:05 | Fri-Mon: 11:10, 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:05WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 10:40, 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 9:55EARTH TO ECHO | Thurs: 11:05, 1:15 | Fri-Mon: 12:30, 2:30THE GIVER | 10:50, 1:05, 4:25, 7:05, 9:20THE EXPENDABLES 3 | Thurs: 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 | Fri-Mon: 10:55, 1:40, 4:20, 7:35, 10:20LET’S BE COPS | 11:10, 1:55, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 10:35, 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40INTO THE STORM | Thurs: 10:30, 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20 | Fri-Mon: 7:40, 9:50TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | Thurs: 10:05, 10:45, 12:45, 1:30, 3, 4, 5:15, 7, 8, 9:25, 10:15 | Fri-Mon: 10:30, 11:45, 1, 2:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: 11, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 | Fri-Mon: 11:05, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10AND SO IT GOES | Thurs: 10:10, 12:50 | Fri-Mon: 11:20, 1:45, 4:40, 6:50

EAST PROVIDENCE 1060 Newport Ave | 401.438.1100AMERICA: IMAGINE THE WORLD WITHOUT HER | Thurs: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50GODZILLA | Thurs: 12:40, 3:20, 6:55NEIGHBORS | Thurs: 9:35DELIVER US FROM EVIL | Starts Fri: 12:15, 3:15, 7:15, 9:45TAMMY | Starts Fri: 12:50, 3:05, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50WISH I WAS HERE | Starts Fri: 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10MALEFICENT | 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:30TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINC-TION | Starts Fri: 1, 4:30, 8 | Fri-Thurs: 12:35, 4, 7:25CHEF | 12:25, 2:55, 6:3X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | 12:45, 3:35, 6:40, 9:25THINK LIKE A MAN TOO | 5:10, 7:30, 9:55

EDGE OF TOMORROW | Thurs: 12:50, 3:40, 7:10, 9:45 | Fri-Thurs: 12:10, 2:40THE FAULT IN OUR STARS | 12:30, 3:10, 6:50, 9:40RIO 2 | 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20

ENTERTAINMENT CINEMAS30 Village Square Dr, South Kingstown | 401.792.8008SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 4:30, 9:35AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Starts Fri: 1:45, 4:10, 7:20, 9:40IF I STAY | 1:30, 4, 7:05, 9:25SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 1:40, 7:15WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 1:25, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30THE EXPENDABLES 3 | Thurs: 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 3:45, 9:15THE GIVER | 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 9LET’S BE COPS | 4:25, 9:30THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 1:10, 6:30GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D | 3:50, 9:10GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 1, 6:35

ISLAND CINEMAS 10105 Chase Ln, Middletown | 401.847.3456AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Starts Fri: 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 9:45THE NOVEMBER MAN | 12:45, 3:20, 7:15, 9:35IF I STAY | 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:20SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | 4:15, 9:45SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 1:40, 7:25WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20THE EXPENDABLES 3 | 12:30, 6:50THE GIVER | 12:50, 3:45, 7:20, 9:40LET’S BE COPS | 4:10, 9:40THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 1, 3:40, 6:45, 9:15TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 1:15, 4, 7:10, 9:30GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 1:20, 4:20, 7, 9:35

JANE PICKENS THEATER49 Touro St, Newport | 401.846.5252 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT | Thurs: 5:45, 8 | Fri-Sat: 3:30, 5:45, 8 | Sun-Mon: 2:30, 4:45, 7 | Tues-Thurs: 5:45, 8NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MEDEA STARRING HELEN McCRORY | Thurs [9.4]: 2

PROVIDENCE PLACE CINEMAS 16Providence Place | 401.270.4646THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | Thurs: 10:10, 12:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:25 |INTO THE STORM | Thurs: 12, 2:10, 4:25, 6:40SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 11:50, 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35STEP UP: ALL IN | Thurs: 8:55GHOSTBUSTERS: 30TH ANNIVERSA-RY | Starts Fri: 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:50AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10: 15 | Fri: 10:30, 12:10, 12:45, 2:25, 3, 4:45, 5:15, 7:1`5, 7:45, 9:40, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:55, 12:25THE NOVEMBER MAN | 11, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | 11, 12:05IF I STAY | 10:50, 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 10, 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 10:20, 1:15, 3:55, 7, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20THE EXPENDABLES 3 | 10, 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:50THE GIVER | 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10LET’S BE COPS | 11:25, 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D | 11:05, 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:30

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 11:10, 1:25, 1:55, 4:10, 4:40, 6:55, 7:25, 9:45, 10:15LUCY | Thurs: 1, 3:20, 5:35, 7:45, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 7:55, 10:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:35THE PURGE: ANARCHY | Thurs: 10:05, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | 3:35, 6:30

RUSTIC TRI VUE DRIVE-INRt 146, North Smithfield | 401.769.7601THE EXPENDABLES 3 + LUCY | Thurs: duskINTO THE STORM + LET’S BE COPS | Thurs: duskTEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES + GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: duskE.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL + RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK | Fri-Mon: duskGREASE + AMERICAN GRAFFITI | Fri-Mon: duskJURASSIC PARK + JAWS | Fri-Mon: dusk

SHOWCASE CINEMAS SEEKONK ROUTE 6Seekonk Square, Seekonk, MA | 508.336.6789AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:15 | 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10THE NOVEMBER MAN | 12:40, 3:40, 7:10, 10IF I STAY | 1, 4:15, 7, 9:30SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | Thurs: 12:05, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35 | Fri-Thurs: 9:35WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 12:45, 3:55, 7:05*, 10:15* [*no shows 8.28]THE GIVER | 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55LET’S BE COPS | 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 12:50, 4, 7:20, 10:05TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50A MOST WANTED MAN | 12:20, 4:05, 6:50GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 12:30, 3:45, 6:55, 9:45

SHOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK1200 Quaker Ln | 401.885.1621AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:15 | 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:50, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15THE NOVEMBER MAN | 1:35, 4:05, 7, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20IF I STAY | Thurs: 12, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:35, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25CAVALRY | 11:35, 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT | 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:50THE GIVER | 11:45, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10LET’S BE COPS | 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30BOYHOOD | 11:40, 3, 6:30, 9:55THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 12:45, 3:45, 6:35, 9:35TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 11:30, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40A MOST WANTED MAN | Thurs: 12:50, 6:40 | Fri-Thurs: 3:30, 6:40, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: 1:40, 2:15, 4:20, 5, 7:20, 10:20 | Fri-

Thurs: 1:10, 1:40, 3:50, 4:35, 6:50, 7:20, 10:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15LUCY | Thurs: 4:45, 6:55, 9:20 | Fri-Thurs: 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45EARTH TO ECHO | Thurs: 12:05, 2:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1

SHOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK MALL400 Bald Hill Rd | 401.736.5454SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 9:30, 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:30GHOSTBUSTERS: 30TH ANNIVER-SARY | Starts Fri: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:15 | 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30THE NOVEMBER MAN | 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7, 9:45IF I STAY | 10:15, 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 10, 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 10THE EXPENDABLES 3 | 10:05, 12:55, 3:45, 6:40*, 9:30* [*8.28 only 7:05, 10:15]THE GIVER | 9:45, 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50LET’S BE COPS | 9:35, 11:50, 2:25, 4:45, 7:50, 10:10TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 9:30, 11:35, 12:15, 2:15, 2:45, 4:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 9:40, 10:10, 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 6:50, 7:20, 9:35, 10:05LUCY | Thurs: 9:50, 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 7:05, 9;20

SHOWCASE CINEMAS NORTH ATTLEBORO640 South Washington St, North Attleboro, MA | 508.643.3900AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:15 | 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10THE NOVEMBER MAN | 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50IF I STAY | Thurs: 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 1:15, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | Thurs: 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:45, 4:45, 7:50, 10:05WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:45A MOST WANTED MAN | Thurs: 1:50 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 7:10THE EXPENDABLES 3 | 4, 10THE GIVER | 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55LET’S BE COPS | 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 1:55, 4:20, 6:55, 9:20GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25LUCY | Thurs: 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:25, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 12:55, 3:10, 5:25, 7:30, 9:40

SWANSEA STADIUM 12207 Swansea Mall Dr, Swansea, MA | 508.674.6700BOYHOOD | Starts Fri: 2:20, 6:05, 9:40AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10THE NOVEMBER MAN | Thurs: 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45IF I STAY | Thurs: 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 2:05, 5, 7:45, 10:25SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 1, 4, 7, 9:35 | Fri-Thurs: 2, 7:40SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 1:30, Thurs: 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 4:55, 10:15WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | Thurs: 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20THE EXPENDABLES 3 | Thurs: 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30THE GIVER | Thurs: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 | Fri-Thurs: 2:15, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25LET’S BE COPS |Thurs: 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:55, 4:45, 7:20, 10THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | Thurs 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 1:35, 7INTO THE STORM | Thurs: 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:30 | Fri-Thurs: 4:35, 9:55TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 5:05, 7:50, 10:20GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: 4:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10

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CABLE CAR CINEMA204 South Main St, Providence | 401.272.3970BOYHOOD | Thurs-Fri: 2, 5:15, 8:30 | Sat-Sun: 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 | Tues-Thurs: 2, 5:15, 8:30

CINEMAWORLD622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln | 401.333.8676These listings are for Thurs Aug 28-Mon Sept 1 only. Call for updates or go to cinemaworldonline.com.LUCY | Thurs: 5:30, 10:25MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT | Thurs: 10:25, 4:05SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 10:15, 4:35BEGIN AGAIN | Starts Fri: 4:45HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 | Starts Fri: 10:45, 1:20, 3:45STEP UP: ALL IN | Thurs: 12:30, 7:35X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | Starts Fri: 6:15, 9:05AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:20 | Fri-Mon: 11:15, 1:35, 4:55, 7:45, 8:45, 10:15GHOSTBUSTERS: 30TH ANNIVER-SARY | Thurs: 7 | Fri-Mon: 10:45, 1:15, 4, 7, 9:30THE NOVEMBER MAN | Thurs: 11, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 | Fri-Mon: 11, 1:30, 4:30, 5:45, 7:30, 9, 10IF I STAY | 11, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | Thurs: 10:15, 1, 3:30, 7:40, 9:15, 10:05 | Fri-Mon: 11:10, 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:05WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 10:40, 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 9:55EARTH TO ECHO | Thurs: 11:05, 1:15 | Fri-Mon: 12:30, 2:30THE GIVER | 10:50, 1:05, 4:25, 7:05, 9:20THE EXPENDABLES 3 | Thurs: 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 | Fri-Mon: 10:55, 1:40, 4:20, 7:35, 10:20LET’S BE COPS | 11:10, 1:55, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 10:35, 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40INTO THE STORM | Thurs: 10:30, 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20 | Fri-Mon: 7:40, 9:50TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | Thurs: 10:05, 10:45, 12:45, 1:30, 3, 4, 5:15, 7, 8, 9:25, 10:15 | Fri-Mon: 10:30, 11:45, 1, 2:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: 11, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 | Fri-Mon: 11:05, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10AND SO IT GOES | Thurs: 10:10, 12:50 | Fri-Mon: 11:20, 1:45, 4:40, 6:50

EAST PROVIDENCE 1060 Newport Ave | 401.438.1100AMERICA: IMAGINE THE WORLD WITHOUT HER | Thurs: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50GODZILLA | Thurs: 12:40, 3:20, 6:55NEIGHBORS | Thurs: 9:35DELIVER US FROM EVIL | Starts Fri: 12:15, 3:15, 7:15, 9:45TAMMY | Starts Fri: 12:50, 3:05, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50WISH I WAS HERE | Starts Fri: 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10MALEFICENT | 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:30TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINC-TION | Starts Fri: 1, 4:30, 8 | Fri-Thurs: 12:35, 4, 7:25CHEF | 12:25, 2:55, 6:3X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | 12:45, 3:35, 6:40, 9:25THINK LIKE A MAN TOO | 5:10, 7:30, 9:55

EDGE OF TOMORROW | Thurs: 12:50, 3:40, 7:10, 9:45 | Fri-Thurs: 12:10, 2:40THE FAULT IN OUR STARS | 12:30, 3:10, 6:50, 9:40RIO 2 | 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20

ENTERTAINMENT CINEMAS30 Village Square Dr, South Kingstown | 401.792.8008SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 4:30, 9:35AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Starts Fri: 1:45, 4:10, 7:20, 9:40IF I STAY | 1:30, 4, 7:05, 9:25SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 1:40, 7:15WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 1:25, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30THE EXPENDABLES 3 | Thurs: 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 3:45, 9:15THE GIVER | 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 9LET’S BE COPS | 4:25, 9:30THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 1:10, 6:30GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D | 3:50, 9:10GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 1, 6:35

ISLAND CINEMAS 10105 Chase Ln, Middletown | 401.847.3456AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Starts Fri: 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 9:45THE NOVEMBER MAN | 12:45, 3:20, 7:15, 9:35IF I STAY | 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:20SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | 4:15, 9:45SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 1:40, 7:25WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20THE EXPENDABLES 3 | 12:30, 6:50THE GIVER | 12:50, 3:45, 7:20, 9:40LET’S BE COPS | 4:10, 9:40THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 1, 3:40, 6:45, 9:15TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 1:15, 4, 7:10, 9:30GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 1:20, 4:20, 7, 9:35

JANE PICKENS THEATER49 Touro St, Newport | 401.846.5252 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT | Thurs: 5:45, 8 | Fri-Sat: 3:30, 5:45, 8 | Sun-Mon: 2:30, 4:45, 7 | Tues-Thurs: 5:45, 8NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MEDEA STARRING HELEN McCRORY | Thurs [9.4]: 2

PROVIDENCE PLACE CINEMAS 16Providence Place | 401.270.4646THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | Thurs: 10:10, 12:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:25 |INTO THE STORM | Thurs: 12, 2:10, 4:25, 6:40SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 11:50, 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35STEP UP: ALL IN | Thurs: 8:55GHOSTBUSTERS: 30TH ANNIVERSA-RY | Starts Fri: 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:50AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10: 15 | Fri: 10:30, 12:10, 12:45, 2:25, 3, 4:45, 5:15, 7:1`5, 7:45, 9:40, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:55, 12:25THE NOVEMBER MAN | 11, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | 11, 12:05IF I STAY | 10:50, 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 10, 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 10:20, 1:15, 3:55, 7, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20THE EXPENDABLES 3 | 10, 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:50THE GIVER | 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10LET’S BE COPS | 11:25, 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D | 11:05, 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:30

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 11:10, 1:25, 1:55, 4:10, 4:40, 6:55, 7:25, 9:45, 10:15LUCY | Thurs: 1, 3:20, 5:35, 7:45, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 7:55, 10:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:35THE PURGE: ANARCHY | Thurs: 10:05, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | 3:35, 6:30

RUSTIC TRI VUE DRIVE-INRt 146, North Smithfield | 401.769.7601THE EXPENDABLES 3 + LUCY | Thurs: duskINTO THE STORM + LET’S BE COPS | Thurs: duskTEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES + GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: duskE.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL + RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK | Fri-Mon: duskGREASE + AMERICAN GRAFFITI | Fri-Mon: duskJURASSIC PARK + JAWS | Fri-Mon: dusk

SHOWCASE CINEMAS SEEKONK ROUTE 6Seekonk Square, Seekonk, MA | 508.336.6789AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:15 | 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10THE NOVEMBER MAN | 12:40, 3:40, 7:10, 10IF I STAY | 1, 4:15, 7, 9:30SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | Thurs: 12:05, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35 | Fri-Thurs: 9:35WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 12:45, 3:55, 7:05*, 10:15* [*no shows 8.28]THE GIVER | 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55LET’S BE COPS | 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 12:50, 4, 7:20, 10:05TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50A MOST WANTED MAN | 12:20, 4:05, 6:50GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 12:30, 3:45, 6:55, 9:45

SHOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK1200 Quaker Ln | 401.885.1621AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:15 | 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:50, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15THE NOVEMBER MAN | 1:35, 4:05, 7, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20IF I STAY | Thurs: 12, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:35, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25CAVALRY | 11:35, 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT | 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:50THE GIVER | 11:45, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10LET’S BE COPS | 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30BOYHOOD | 11:40, 3, 6:30, 9:55THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 12:45, 3:45, 6:35, 9:35TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 11:30, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40A MOST WANTED MAN | Thurs: 12:50, 6:40 | Fri-Thurs: 3:30, 6:40, 9:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: 1:40, 2:15, 4:20, 5, 7:20, 10:20 | Fri-

Thurs: 1:10, 1:40, 3:50, 4:35, 6:50, 7:20, 10:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15LUCY | Thurs: 4:45, 6:55, 9:20 | Fri-Thurs: 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:45EARTH TO ECHO | Thurs: 12:05, 2:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1

SHOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK MALL400 Bald Hill Rd | 401.736.5454SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 9:30, 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:30GHOSTBUSTERS: 30TH ANNIVER-SARY | Starts Fri: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:15 | 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30THE NOVEMBER MAN | 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7, 9:45IF I STAY | 10:15, 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 10, 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 10THE EXPENDABLES 3 | 10:05, 12:55, 3:45, 6:40*, 9:30* [*8.28 only 7:05, 10:15]THE GIVER | 9:45, 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50LET’S BE COPS | 9:35, 11:50, 2:25, 4:45, 7:50, 10:10TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 9:30, 11:35, 12:15, 2:15, 2:45, 4:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 9:40, 10:10, 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 6:50, 7:20, 9:35, 10:05LUCY | Thurs: 9:50, 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 7:05, 9;20

SHOWCASE CINEMAS NORTH ATTLEBORO640 South Washington St, North Attleboro, MA | 508.643.3900AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:15 | 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10THE NOVEMBER MAN | 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50IF I STAY | Thurs: 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 1:15, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | Thurs: 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:45, 4:45, 7:50, 10:05WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:45A MOST WANTED MAN | Thurs: 1:50 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 7:10THE EXPENDABLES 3 | 4, 10THE GIVER | 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55LET’S BE COPS | 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 1:55, 4:20, 6:55, 9:20GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25LUCY | Thurs: 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:25, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 12:55, 3:10, 5:25, 7:30, 9:40

SWANSEA STADIUM 12207 Swansea Mall Dr, Swansea, MA | 508.674.6700BOYHOOD | Starts Fri: 2:20, 6:05, 9:40AS ABOVE, SO BELOW | Thurs: 8, 10:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10THE NOVEMBER MAN | Thurs: 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45IF I STAY | Thurs: 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:10 | Fri-Thurs: 2:05, 5, 7:45, 10:25SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D | Thurs: 1, 4, 7, 9:35 | Fri-Thurs: 2, 7:40SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR | 1:30, Thurs: 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 4:55, 10:15WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL | Thurs: 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20THE EXPENDABLES 3 | Thurs: 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30THE GIVER | Thurs: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 | Fri-Thurs: 2:15, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25LET’S BE COPS |Thurs: 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 1:55, 4:45, 7:20, 10THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY | Thurs 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 1:35, 7INTO THE STORM | Thurs: 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:30 | Fri-Thurs: 4:35, 9:55TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | 5:05, 7:50, 10:20GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | Thurs: 4:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10

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FRANK95 minUteS | r | avonDespite the contemporary setting, this offbeat British comedy was inspired by the career of ’80s avant-pop musician Chris Sievey, who performed wearing a giant papier-mâché head and calling himself Frank Sidebottom. Director Lenny Abramson and screenwriters Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan couldn’t be more determined in their courtship of cult status: their title char-acter (Michael Fassbender), hiding beneath his ovoid mask 24/7, calls to mind every loo-ny-bird rocker from Roky Erickson to Daniel Johnston, and the players in his backup band (among them Maggie Gyllenhaal) are comi-cally icy krautrock archetypes. Playing Nick Carraway to this geek Gatsby is a talentless songwriter (Domnhall Gleeson) who joins the band on keys, posts video from its secret recording sessions to YouTube, and lands it a

star-making gig at South by Southwest. The movie’s hipness quotient far outweighs its comedic value, though there’s no limit to the amusement of seeing someone bump around blindly in an oversize head.

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SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR102 minUteS | r | cinemaworld + enter-tainment + iSland + Providence Place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12Reviewers were forbidden from posting a word about this sequel until opening day, lest we give away the shocking secret that it’s a carbon copy of its predecessor, Sin City (2005). Of course, the carbon is the whole point: directors Frank Miller and Robert Ro-driguez, adapting Miller’s black-and-white neonoir comics, take all the key elements of hard-boiled fiction and boil them down even harder, till there’s nothing left but a crusty residue of vicious thugs, cynical los-

ers, crooked politicians, viperish women, and flying glass as people get punched out and crash through windows. The visual design is stun-ning, with stark black-and-white photography and striking use of spot color to emphasize the good things in life (neon signs, car taillights, cigarette embers, sexy redheads, etc). The icon-heavy cast includes Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Powers Boothe, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, and Stacy Ke-ach, the latter buried under tons of prosthetic makeup and looking like a human mud slide.

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X IF I STAY | 2014 | Cheesy barely be-gins to describe this maudlin tear-jerker, adapted from a young-adult novel, about a 17-year-old girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) who suffers a nasty car accident, slips into a coma, and has an out-of-body experience. Her parents and younger brother have died in the crash, so she has to de-

cide whether she wants to move on to the next life with them or stay on earth with her on-again, off-again rocker boyfriend (Jamie Blackley). In the fashion of melodrama, every moment is impossibly huge, and the movie is occasionally compel-ling in its brazen lack of subtlety. There are even shades of Bergman in the existential premise, but di-rector J.R. Cutler is more interested in the young leads’ cookie-cutter romance, and the clunky nonlinear plot precludes any sort of compre-hensive narrative. With Joshua Leonard and Mireille Enos. | 107m |

XX MAgIC IN THE MOONLIgHT | 2014 | Woody Allen on autopilot, retreating into the Jazz Age again for a blunt, listless thesis film about the limits of rationality. An arrogant stage illusionist (Colin Firth) is hired to discredit a fake mystic (Emma Stone) but soon falls under her spell; the story takes place in the late 1920s and most of the action transpires at an estate on the French Riviera, so there are good tunes and lovely scenery to distract one from the tossed-off script. As usual the writer-director has attracted a strong cast (includ-ing Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Simon McBurney, and

Eileen Atkins), though I’m sure most actors understand by now that making a movie with him is like playing the lotto. Better luck next time. | 98m |

XXW WHEN THE gAME STANDS TALL | 2014 | Playing both sides against the middle, this fact-based drama about high school football coach Bob Ladouceur and his De La Salle Spartans makes a commend-able effort to invest the inspiration-al sports movie with some deeper meaning but simultaneously labors to keep all the genre cliches firmly in place. Ladouceur led the Concord, California, team through a record 151-game winning streak from 1992 through 2004; the movie chronicles the string of defeats that followed before the Spartans roar back with their hard-fought 2001 victory against Long Beach Polytechnic. (Yeah, I know that’s achronologi-cal, but I told you it’s fact-based.) Along the way the jocks learn that teamwork is more important than individual glory and sports is about building character, not muscles. Of course, what really builds character is losing, something the Spartans seldom did. Thomas Carter directed; with Jim Caviezel, Michael Chiklis, and Laura Dern. | 115m |

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fThere are many great poems that mention the

moon, and I don’t think a poet exists who doesn’t explore Luna in verse at least once. With the new moon just in the rearview mirror, this week is superb for starting projects, moving enter-prises forward, and looking at new options or expansion. Yes, it’s the last gasps of August, so people are still in that “vacation-mode,” but some of us do our best creative thinking while relaxed. More at moonsigns.net.

thursday august 28

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Waxing moon in Libra. Let’s play nice everyone, as this is a good day for

partnerships and for hearing both sides of a story. however, cancer, Aries, pisces, taurus, and capricorn will be impatient if they sense insincerity or dithering. Leo, virgo, Libra, scorpio, sagittarius, Aquarius, and gemini can be productive and flirtatious (and recog-nized?). today and tomorrow could bring folks who love to talk together romantically.

Friday august 29

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Waxing moon in Libra, moon void-of-course 12 pm until 4:53 am saturday.

the focus is on doing more with less, as well as finding harmony in a relationship or

Across 1 they’re rigged 11 Nightline co-anchor chang 15 it kills with grilled cheese 16 bellicose greek god 17 sea creature named for another sea creature 18 home of the sun, storm and sky19 in-your-face types, in a Seinfeld episode 21 former europe guitarist ___ marcello 22 celtic folk singer mckennitt 23 AL stand-ins 26 cyclops’ pack 28 Let the moon shine through? 30 doody 32 “take this chair” 33 Alchemist’s cure-all 36 neglects to 37 picks up on 39 plays for a sucker 40 drake song that launched “YoLo” 42 Wine’s companion 44 pitiful 45 part at the end of your finger 47 mazatlan mrs. 50 plea after “don’t leave me!” 52 shuffle relative 55 skips shaving

56 keep everyone posted? 57 mouthless Japanese creation 58 michael of Arrested Development 59 cake variety

Down 1 exchange purchase 2 Authority whose fame was in the cards 3 pointer sisters hit 4 butter bits 5 Remington ___ 6 umbrella girl’s brand 7 to such an extent 8 full of stains 9 elephants prized by poachers 10 cranial bone 11 movie set on Amity island 12 funerary container 13 W’s bro 14 Psych network 20 converse with, in slang 23 Wears all black to look broody 24 singer Lena 25 bird feeder staples 27 “hot 100” magazine 29 ban ki-moon’s org. 30 dollar divisions 31 Elvis: ___ From Hawaii 34 -clast starter

35 took another go at tutoring 38 coffee shop freebie 41 cheer at a soccer match 42 1990s honda 43 start of a restaurant order 46 cries a river 48 paperboy’s path 49 firm workers, briefly

50 field of the late b.k.s. iyengar 51 medical suffix meaning “inflamed” 52 Grimm network 53 malty brew 54 neither mate

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project. virgo, Libra, scorpio, sagittarius, cancer, and pisces should look outside their immediate neighborhood to find partners or those on “the same wavelength.” Leo, tau-rus, Aquarius, Aries, and gemini may be needlessly touchy. if those folks need soli-tude, let them be.

saturday august 30

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Waxing moon in scorpio. today and tomorrow are excellent for mincing,

slicing, dicing and wincing. (that last com-ment most apropos to taurus, Leo, gemini, Aries, and Aquarius who feel “pressure” to take action.) virgo, Libra, scorpio, sagittari-us, capricorn, pisces, and cancer should fol-low instincts to “dig deep,” even if it means moving through mud.

sunday august 31

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Waxing moon in scorpio, moon void-of-course 11:40 am until 1:17 pm when

it moves into sagittarius. surgery is a theme, and skilled practitioners will have tools so sharp you won’t even notice the in-cision. virgo, Libra, scorpio, sagittarius, pi-sces, cancer, and capricorn: give yourself time to explore your own visceral responses to others’ actions. taurus, Leo, Aries, gemi-ni, and Aquarius: your instincts are muddy. Are you caught in the weeds, instead of looking at the horizon? try to get to a clear path before taking on a foe.

Monday septeMber 1

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first quarter moon in sagittarius. A turning point for events that began

around August 25. Are you are still moving in the right direction? A super day for travel, planning a trip, or speaking up for those who are treated unfairly. Libra, scorpio, sagittari-us, capricorn, Aquarius and Aries could be humorous and warm to those they love, while pisces, virgo, taurus, cancer, and gemini “mishear” tone in others’ comments.

tuesday septeMber 2

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Waxing moon in sagittarius, moon void-of-course 2:06 pm until 6:15 pm

when it moves into capricorn. game-playing, particularly outdoors, appeals to all. Another fine morning for planning a journey. follow your instincts if you’re sagittarius, capricorn, Aries, taurus, Leo, and virgo. understand you’ll have doubts about your course of ac-tion if you’re Libra, scorpio, Aquarius, pisces, gemini, and cancer.

Wednesday septeMber 3

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Waxing moon in capricorn. if you have an urge for wider knowledge, particu-

larly about exotic cultures, you’re in tune with the moon (even if further education is not for you right now). practical concerns take center stage, particularly for scorpio, sagittarius, capricorn, Aquarius, pisces, tau-rus, and virgo. Aries, Libra, Leo, gemini, and cancer should take a break from trying to fix others.

Moon KeyS this horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. other oppositions are taurus/scorpio, gemini/sagittarius, cancer/capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and virgo/pisces. the moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. but it’s great for brainstorming. | for symboline dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thephoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at [email protected].

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