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on the cover F MAIN PHOTO By BRyANT MOScOTE

5 this just in _by david scharfenberg + philip eil

David Segal on the death of Aaron Swartz; a history of the Providence River.

9 homegrown product _by chris conti

THR33 is the magic number: thr33 piece suit finds the perfect fit on Brand New Vintage. Plus, on page 8, “Off the Couch” with Detroit Rebellion, Meds, and more

10 art _by greg cook

A curious blend: the “2013 risca fellowship exhibition.”

12 theater _by bill + johnette rodriguez

Following the herd: Brown/Trinity Rep MFA’s rhinoceros. Plus, URI Theatre’s metamorphoses examines the changing of the gods.

21 film “Short Takes” on amour, phantom, dark skies, and snitch.

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fWhile Phillipe and Jorge are bona fide yucks-a-minute geniuses, we must

occasionally draw on other sources for the boffo humor our readers deserve.

So we offer up two recent bits from the English magazine, Private Eye, the best alternative news source in the UK. Both concern Pope Benny Andajets.

The first: a picture of Herr Pop Ratzing-er with the caption, “Like all good Catho-lics, I pulled out early.”

The second was in the magazine’s “Po-etry Corner,” which normally focuses on the recently deceased and mentions his or her signature catchphrase.

In Memoriam Pope Benedict XVI

So. FarewellThen,Pope Benedict XVI.

You have decidedto take earlyRetirement.

“In nomine Patris, etFilii, et Spiritus Sancti.”That was your catchphrase.

“Seig Heil.”That was anotherOne fromAn earlier time.

But we don’t muchMention thatNow.

Word gamesWe’ve seen plenty of bullshit linguistics out of Congress — aided and abetted by the me-dia. Think “Operation Desert Storm,” “Operation Enduring Freedom” and “shock and awe.” But we’ve reached a new low with “sequestration,” bland code for kick-in-the-nuts spending cuts that will go into effect if no deficit reduction deal is struck by March 1.

“Sequestration” may even be worse than the “prosecution” of the war in Af-ghanistan. Sounds so Law and Order, doesn’t it? This is no slick NBC production. What we’re actually doing is fighting a war in a godforsaken hellhole run by opium dealers and crooks half a world away.

Another favorite is “extraordinary ren-dition,” the euphemism for the US taking unindicted, lawyer-less terrorists to tor-ture chambers in foreign countries where battery cables tied to the groin and regular beatings are S.O.P.

Or what about the use of “quantita-tive easing” to boost the economy? That, boys and girls, is essentially printing more money, devaluing the five bucks you have in your pocket for a Big Mac and Coke.

Next time you hear anyone use these phrases, give him a sharp slap upside the head. And make it two if they babble on about a “paradigm shift.”

Helping HandsAs many of you know, Hurricane Sandy had a particularly devastating effect on the Rockaways in New York. Stephanie Pen-zell, a native of the Rockaways who lives in Rhode Island, wrote this in a Facebook appeal for help:

“In the streets, homes and businesses [of] the Rockaways, there was...6’-11” of ocean water, sewage, sand, oil from dis-lodged tanks, wet asbestos, fiberglass in-sulation, boardwalk and all sorts of things floating around. The day after, a local all volunteer group [the Graybeards] . . . went into action. They pumped out, mucked out, cleaned out homes and have not stopped to

this day. They gave out gift cards for food, Home Depot, and helped more people than one would be able to list.”

Stephanie has put together a fundraiser to support the Graybeards. It takes place March 3 from 1 to 10 pm at Fête in Ol-neyville. There will be children’s activities, a raffle, and performances by (among others) Tish Adams (with Willie Myette, Joe Po-

tenza, Alex Chapman, and Art Manchester), John Fuzek, Mark Cutler, Dennis McCarthy, the Bob Kendall Band, Psychedelic Clown Car, Tai Funmilayo Awolaju from Boo City, and Big Nazo. A very worthwhile and fun event to aid our friends in the Rockaways.

local colorOn March 4, RI-PBS (aka Channel 36) will be presenting an evening of music in sup-port of a proposed new television show, Meet Me At the Met. There will live music by Rhode Island artists including Mark Cutler, Allysen Callery, Nolan Leite, and others. There will also be screenings of two music documentaries. One features Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King; the other, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, captures a show organized by the Stones in 1968 with acts like John Lennon and the Who.

Meet Me At the Met, produced by Jonathan “Nate” Flynn and Rudy Cheeks (aka Jorge), would present live performances from the Met, with an emphasis on Rhode Island-based artists and their original music. The hope is that the show will inspire viewers to get out to local music venues to take in the state’s rich and varied assortment of talent.

Brainstorming tHe artsCasa Diablo regular Herb Weiss, the city of Pawtucket’s point man for the arts, tells your superior correspondents that on Febru-ary 11 there was an arts charrette at Fidelity Investments’ Smithfield headquarters that drew 110 people, including state senators, members of the business community, aca-demics, and nonprofit types. The mission, Herb writes: to “tell top State elected offi-cials how art and creativity can rev up Rhode Island’s sputtering economic engine.”

Fidelity was a logical place to convene. The company’s art curator Carol Warner says the firm has purchased more than 1200 pieces of art from 433 Vo Dilun artists. The collection is showcased throughout the campus.

And the potential for arts-as-economic-engine is real. Just last year, Washington-based Americans for the Arts pegged Rhode Island arts employment, in the private and nonprofit arts sectors, at 12,000 jobs.

Is the Biggest Little “The State of the Arts” yet? Maybe not, but we’re off to a good start.

sWinging in sWanseaThe Venus de Milo played host recently to the annual Newspaper Guild Follies, the mega-cocktail party featuring musical parodies of some of the most ridiculous news events of 2012. We say “some” of the news events because there is far too much foolishness going on in the Biggest Little to fit into one night.

The show was, as usual, scathing and fun. The “mystery guest,” Congressman Jim Langevin, gave his version of “stand-up” comedy (no “wheelies,” but he came pretty close). And the highlight for your su-perior correspondents was “Chafee (Gang-nam) Style,” a fine dance performance by Chafee impersonator Jim Brown. ^

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fRobert Geake remembers the smell.“It wasn’t exactly like a sewer,” he says, “but there were days that you

would come in, especially the hot days and at low tide, and . . . all the fetid odors that you could imagine were just coming up, rising up from the banks.”

Geake is walking along the river that he chronicles in his new book, A History of the Providence River: With the Moshassuck, Woonasquatucket & Seekonk Tribu-taries. Today, though, the foul-smelling river of his childhood is almost unrecognizable. It has been moved, uncovered, flushed of many of its pol-lutants, stripped of its wharves, and transformed from one of the city’s most glaring embarrassments to one of its marquee attractions. In fact, on summer nights, people actually come to the river to inhale the sweet wood smoke that wafts up from WaterFire’s crackling braziers.

Geake’s tome is bookended by two men who floated up the river with big ideas: Rhode Island founder Roger Williams, who paddled around Fox Point with visions of establishing a religious haven on its shores in the 1630s, and former Providence mayor Buddy Cianci, who buzzed upstream in a motorized dinghy some 360 years later to officially dedicate a new park called “Waterplace,” whose design echoed the city’s old saltwater cove.

But it is the interim decades where Geake — an events coordinator for the Brown Bookstore, by day — spends most of his time. The Providence River sto-ry is a tale of commerce, he says, as we walk south toward the I-Way bridge, the Hurricane Barrier, and Narragansett Electric’s South Street Power Sta-tion — all of which have a time in the book’s spotlight. In the 1700s, the river was the city’s gateway to far-flung ports in Russia, China, the Netherlands, and India. It was also the setting of one of the city’s darkest chapters — Provi-dence, Geake reminds readers in A History, was a bustling slave trading port that briefly topped Newport as the busiest in Rhode Island.

Hard as it may be to imagine now, the river was also a prime source of food production. Fish markets lined the river’s banks up until the early 20th century. And in the previous century, oys-ters plucked from Narragansett Bay were harvested, packed, and shipped by the tens of thousands here. “At the foot of Washington Bridge, on either side, there were oyster plants,” Geake says as we walk. “There was another one at the foot of Gano Street.” In his book, he describes an “oyster sa-loon” in Providence where patrons could enjoy what a guidebook from the time described as “deli-cious bivalves, served in every style desired.”

If there is a hero to Geake’s story, it isn’t Cianci or Williams or even the sailors and oyster shuck-ers who went home from their jobs on the river with sore muscles and bleeding hands (if they came home at all; many mariners left for sea on the Providence River and never returned). It is the legendary architect William Warner, who passed away last August. It was Warner, Geake writes, who in response to plans in the 1980s to pave still more of the Providence River, instead sketched a plan for moving the river 100 yards east and re-opening it with small, arched bridg-es. At the time, citizens and city officials sneered at this “Moses Plan.” And yet the man persisted.

Today his vision is simply an established feature of the capital city. The infamous intersection known as “Suicide Circle” is no more. The river is lined with walkways and restaurants. And Warner’s aesthetic fingerprints remain on a key architectural feature Geake lovingly describes in his book’s final chapter: “His elegant bow-like construction at the confluence of the Woonasquatucket and Moshassuck points outward as a reminder of how ships of old once faced open water.”

The Brown Bookstore will host a reading and book signing for Robert Gaeke’s A History of the Providence River at 5:30 p.m. on March 5.

_Philip Eil

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On the PrOvidence river: Oysters, slaves, and the ‘MOses Plan’

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Weeks after Aaron Swartz’s death, a friend takes action fProvidence State

Representative David Segal’s 2010 Congressio-nal campaign was a shoe-string affair. It would not prevail.

But for a certain breed of progressive — young, tech savvy, uncompro-mising — his bid had an undeniable allure. And among those drawn to the cause was digital prodigy Aaron Swartz.

Swartz committed suicide in January. And his death has inspired urgent questions about prosecutorial overreach; US Attorney Carmen Ortiz was aggressively pros-ecuting him, at the time, for downloading millions of academic articles with plans to distribute them freely on the web.

But the case has also touched off a broader de-bate about cyberspace and the law, with an immedi-ate focus on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The government charged Swartz with 11 violations of the statute and two counts of wire fraud. Maximum penalties: 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines

Swartz’s friends and allies say CFAA is a blunt rel-ic of the pre-Internet era that threatened the hacker with disproportionate punishment and helped push him to his death. And now Segal, who forged a part-nership with Swartz that outlasted the Congressional campaign, finds himself near the center of an effort to overhaul the law.

Swartz helped start the Progressive Change Cam-paign Committee, which launched in the run-up to the 2010 election. And when the political action com-mittee endorsed Segal, Swartz began traveling down from Boston to help out with the campaign.

He hung out at Segal’s small, East Side headquar-ters, worked on strategy, and developed cheap tools — robo calls and robo polling — that kept the low-budget operation in the hunt.

After the election, Swartz split off from PCCC and joined with Segal to form advocacy group Demand Progress. The pair envisioned a broad, progressive program; Segal says the press has too narrowly cast Swartz, since his death, as an open information ac-tivist.

But it was an Internet freedom campaign — ral-lying opposition to the Combating Online Infringe-ment and Counterfeits Act — that launched the group. “It’s really difficult to predict whether some-thing is going to go viral,” Segal says, “and we were quite astonished that this one did.”

In two to three weeks, 300,000 people signed on to the effort. And Swartz and Segal decided to stay — for the time being, at least — in the Internet activism space.

Demand Progress would go on to play an important

role in the remarkable on-line uprising that killed two anti-piracy bills, known as SOPA and PIPA, in January 2012. But Swartz, who had long struggled with mood swings, was in a bad spot.

In July 2011 came news that a federal grand jury had indicted him for en-tering a computer wiring closet at MIT and down-loading millions of articles from JSTOR, an archive of academic papers.

The pressure mounted. Swartz resisted a plea deal that would still brand him a felon. In January, his girlfriend found him hanging in his bedroom.

There was intense sorrow for his friends and family, but also an-ger. Whatever Swartz’s struggles, Segal suggests, Ortiz’s aggressive prosecu-tion — and the law that made it possible — had pushed the hacker over the edge.

Swartz “was chiefly friends with activists,” Segal says. “He dated an

activist. Even his parents have an activist instinct. So I think there was immediately a sense that we had to do something — make something positive happen in light of what had befallen all of us.”

There are several critiques of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Courts have interpreted CFAA such that a violation of a product or service’s terms of service can trigger criminal penalties. The law also allows prosecution for the sort of small-bore techni-cal workarounds — altering how a program is used for instance — that is standard fare for hackers. And it focuses too heavily on felony penalties, critics say, with little room for misdemeanors.

It’s unclear if a revision, known as “Aaron’s law,” will make it through Congress. Activists are trying to cobble together a progressive left-libertarian right co-alition that may not hold. But Segal hopes the push can, at least, shift the dialogue in Washington.

“Right now, there’s such a fear of anyone who’s labeled a hacker in the halls of power,” Segal says. “There is, I think, a complete conflation between some guy in China who’s hacking on behalf of the state and somebody like Aaron, who’s tinkering to try to make the world a better place.”

But the activism that comes out of Swartz’s death will not be limited to issues of Internet freedom, Segal says. Ultimately, friends hope to establish an organization in his name that will push for reform in cyberspace, in criminal justice, and in other areas of concern to progressives.

The net, alone, did not bring Swartz to Providence three years ago. The net, alone, did not drive him. And the net, alone, does not drive those he left be-hind.

_David Scharfenberg

“Right now, there’s such a fear of anyone who’s labeled a hacker in the halls of power.”

_DaviD SEgal

PUSHED OVER THE EDGE Swartz.


fIt’s a tiny place, which is appropriate. After

all, Flan y Ajo is attempting to re-create the sort of little hole-in-the-wall you might come across while strolling side streets in some city in Spain.

Diminutive size is also appropriate because of what they serve: tapas, more com-monly called pinchos, in Spain and pintxos in Basque provinces. The small dishes of various delicacies are designed to be sampled en masse, the table before you spread with them, perhaps accumulating into a substan-tial meal. There is a tradition in Spain of groups of people strolling from bar to bar in conversation, sipping wine and brandy, and chatting over tapas. The Joy of Cooking informs us that the word derives from tapar, “to cover.”

In the European tradition of people eating and drinking standing up at tall tables and counters, there are no regular tables here, just counters and banquettes at the street side window that will ac-commodate two couples, next to a single seat, with an armrest mini-table between them. The food preparation area counter has four stools, decoratively rough-hewn, but the counter across from it is stand-up only. The drinks chalkboard — five coffees, seltzer, and soda — is pretty brusque about your not requesting more seats: “No ass-holes!“ is how that’s emphasized.

Our midday chalkboard menu had five cold tapas and five hot, along with four bocadillos (sandwiches). Below that were cheeses and embutidos, which is a term for sausages but also includes here jamón serrano ($10), Spain’s proud answer to pro-sciutto. There are different offerings listed in the evenings, mostly seafood.

Right off let me praise the gambas al ajillo ($6.50). I don’t think it indicates a troubled psychological state for me to find a simple joy in what these three succu-lent shrimp before me had to go through. There they are, drowning in olive oil be-side decoratively sliced garlic cloves, their rows of little legs and heads left intact, their little beady eyes staring up in mute . . . accusation? Supplication? These juicy suckers gave their lives for my gustatory appreciation, so the least I can do is go to the mess of plucking them apart and pil-ing up paper napkins.

My other hot dish was huevos al plato ($5.50), two sunnyside-up eggs surrounded by disks of delicious Spanish sausage. And I had to have a bocadillo, the jamón y man-chego ($7) sandwich catching my eye as a Spanish variation on ordinary ham and cheese, the meat a rich red and quite tasty.

And then cold tapas, all of which we tasted and enjoyed. Boquerones ($3), three

Mediterranean anchovies, delicate and salty, served with olive oil crackers made on the premises. Pa amb tomàquet ($2.50), slices of bread lightly coated with a tomato and garlic paste. Sardinas ($4), atop that bread grilled this time. Pintxo bonito ($7), the chunks of white tuna topped with raw onions and criss-crossed with strips of roasted red pepper. Tortilla Española ($3), two wedges of the Spanish national dish, a frittata the heavy on potatoes. The cheese platter is also a popular treat, $4-$11 for one to three selections, from Manchego to idiazabal, from the milk of La Mancha’s Manchega sheep and Basque sheep, re-spectively.

Even the coffee here (La Colombe) is ex-ceptional, and this coming from a guy who not only makes his coffee at home from fresh beans but uses a burr grinder. They have cafe cortado, a foam-topped Spanish steamed-milk version of cappuccino, at a low $2. I loved that customers get an insult charge of an extra 50 cents above that price for ordering an Americano.

To prevent your soaring culinary aria from including a sour note, make sure to bring your own corkscrew and glasses with your wine. It’s BYOB here, but there’s a $5 corkage fee. A first-rate wine shop, Eno, is right next door. ^

Bill Rodriguez’s foodie site and blog is at foodismywife.com. He can be reached at [email protected].

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the reAl DeAlWe caught VintAge trouble on Letterman a while ago and immediately headed to Google to find out about the rockin’ soulful quartet. The facts: they formed three years ago in LA, and have been making jaws drop ever since. Their 2011 album, The Bomb Shelter Sessions, merely hints at the manic energy and fierce grooves they bring to the stage. and The legend-ary Booker T. Jones recently sat in with them and said, “The only thing troubling about Vintage Trouble is how authentic they are so early in the game.” They opened for the Who at the Dunk on Tuesday; today they will get in your face at the Fête Lounge, 103 Dike St, Providence. Leogun and DJ Keith Shocklee warm things up at 9 pm | $12 advance, $14 day of show | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com

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the life of troYRicardo Pitts-Wiley’s his-tory with August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences began with a ’92 production at Trinity Rep, continued at New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, MA, and picks up again with a production at Mixed Magic Theatre, directed by his son Jonathan. Pitts-Wiley takes on the role of Troy, the talkative former baseball player-turned-garbage collec-tor in 1950s Pittsburgh, who must deal with the conflicts

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between his dreams and those of his family, while enduring injustice and rac-ism as a black American. A truly heart-wrenching play, Fences will be presented at the Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main St, Pawtucket, through March 17 (Fri + Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm) | $25, $22 seniors | 401.305.7333 | mmtri.com

rAY of hoPeComedian rAY hArrington is a Rhody native, so let’s hope that the title of his new live album — The Worst Is Over — applies to his home state. Either way, he’s look-ing forward to his headlin-ing gig this weekend: “I can’t think of a better place

to celebrate the release of the album than the Comedy Connection [39 Warren Ave, East Providence], which is like home to me,” he says. Harrington (and Pat Oates) will crack wise tonight at 8 pm and on Saturday at 8 and 10:15 | $15 | 401.438.8383 | ricomedyconnection.com

still ’boningIt’s crazy to think we’re approaching 30 years of fishbone, but the massively influential Los Angeles ska-punk-funk collective are showing no signs of slowing down. An EP in 2011, Crazy Glue, was augmented by a critically-acclaimed docu-mentary on the ’Bone the

year before, Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, which was even narrated by Laurence Fishburne. Get into the mosh. The Alan Evans Trio and Boo City share the bill at Fête at 8 pm | $15 advance, $20 day of show | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com

kinD of blueThe blue MAn grouP troupes can be seen year-round in Boston, Chicago, LA, Vegas, NYC, Orlando, and Berlin. But there are also trios of rhythmic, robotic bald men that roam the world, bring-ing their witty and inventive multimedia assault to more modest burgs. BMG will be at the Providence Performing

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hitsVille, usAIt started with Standing In the Shadows of Motown: The Life & Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson, a 1989 book by Allan Slutsky. In 2002, there was a documentary about the Funk Brothers, the Motown back-ing band. Now a show titled stAnDing in the shADows of Motown liVe! is hitting the road. Singers Peabo Bryson and Leela James and bass-ist James Jamerson Jr. lead the ensemble, which will power through two dozen Motown classics, laced with anecdotes and scenes from the movie. Showtime is 7:30 pm | $30 advance, $35 day of, $40 gold circle + mezza-nine + $25 student advance | 401.331.5876 | lupos.com

weDnesDAY 6

MoDern MAstertrishA brown DAnce coMPAnY formed in 1970, 10 years after the namesake choreographer moved to New York City, which she de-scribed as a “hot-bed of dance revolution.” Throughout her career she has collaborated with other notable revolution-aries: Robert Rauschenberg, Laurie Anderson, Bill T. Jones, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Lina Wertmüller. Brown recently announced her re-tirement; the company is committed to continue to honor “Trisha’s spirit, her playfulness, her continual rethinking of her work, her stature as a visual artist.” The program to be presented at the Auditorium at Roberts Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence, will include the final works of Brown’s career, Les Yeux et l’âme and Rogues. Showtime is 7:30 pm | $35, $30 seniors | 401.456.8144 | ric.edu/pfa

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worD uPThe ProViDence PoetrY slAM is always a blast. And tonight there’s even more kablam than usual — acclaimed word-slinger JAreD singer will make an appearance. Get ready to get wowed at 8 pm | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

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fLast call for a double-stacked thUrsday (the 28th), with she riDes, blooDPheAsAnt, and PArtY Pigs tearing up Local 121

(401.274.2121) while go-to hotspot dusk hosts another killer combo led by newport’s skinnY MillionAires, Detroit rebellion (debut disc on the way), and us ’n’ Y’All; just $4 at the door, call 401.714.0444. ahead to a variety-filled Friday (the 1st): Billy Goode’s in newport (401.848.5013) presents MeDs (75orLess records) with the louD ones, Vicious circle, and the f.u.s; hit as220 for obuAMAh lAuD ADDY and the As220 criss cross orchestrA ($6, 401.831.9327); and the Met delivers Golden era rap greats eD o.g. and Juice crew alum crAig g; all-ages and $15 day of show, dial 401.729.1005 for more. on satUrday (the 2nd), the spot Underground (401.383.7133) will be jumping all night courtesy of the world-famous rebirth

brAss bAnD and our supremely badass extrAorDinArY renDition bAnD! $25 at the door and a guaranteed sell-out. start off your sUnday (the 3rd) at Firehouse 13 (401.270.1801) for another 4 pm hardcore matinee, with five bands for just five bucks, including Anti VenoM, olD wounDs, and locals bAr-ber coP. then head over to the parlour and catch sAMAnthA crAin, along with quality providence acts bArn burning and DAniel chAse; 21+ and $8 at the door, call 401.383.5858. on

tUesday (the 5th), there are a slew of lo-cal rappers opening up for the mighty (and forever underrated) Masta Killa of wu-tang clan fame at the pvd social club ($15 at the door, 401.454.7177). and take your pick next thUrsday (the 7th): MAth the bAnD will

headline at dusk with beArstronAut and many more ($7), torn shorts and gill Moss support cActus AttAck at the Met; and the revamped columbus theatre presents chris trAPPer (formerly of ’90s alt band the push stars) with the soulful Young PAnDAs opening.

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blinDeD bY the buzzWire, Pavement, and Gang of Four are just a few of the big names critics have strewn about while saluting the Brooklyn, NYC quartet PArquet courts. The 2012 full-length debut Light Up Gold twitches and crackles with energy; the two-chord gem “Stoned and Starving” is equal parts ridiculous and fucking awesome, “Donuts Only” rumbles in a la “Conduit For Sale!,” while “Yr No Stoner” and “Career In Combat” should spark the crowd when Parquet Courts hit AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence, with high-energy locals Party Pig and Gavage opening the show at 9 pm | $7 | 401.831.9327 | parquetcourts.wordpress.com

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fAce-Melting DuotenAcious D are rocking out “old school acoustic style” on their current tour. “As good as our band is, there is a magic to just me and Kage [Kyle Gass],” Jack Black told Rolling Stone. “When me and Kage melt your faces off without any electric guitars and no drums, it’s almost, like, more impressive?” The dynamic duo will bring their self-described “passion and mirth” to Lupo’s, 79 Washington St, Providence. Sasquatch opens at 7:30 pm | $39.50 advance, $42 day of, $45 reserved | 401.331.5876 | lupos.com

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inDiA cAllingTake a literary passage to India, when writers/edi-tors Sharmistha Mohanty and Vivek Narayanan pres-ent a reading and discus-sion titled “AlMost islAnD: inDiAn writing now.” It’s at Brown University’s Granoff Center for the Creative Art, 154 Angell St, Providence, at 7:30 pm | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw

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fLast year, Rhode Island rhyme vets Chachi Carvalho and Swann Notty teamed up with

producer/beat composer J. DePina to form THR33 Piece Suit. Their full-length debut platter titled Brand New Vintage is just that — a flavorful combo of jazzy, throwback beats adorned with some serious cuts and, of course, countless quotable bars. THR33 Piece Suit may have coined a new rap genre via the album title: there is nothing dated, stale, nor formulaic about the presentation, but the record is just that — a brand new spin on a classic sound. The first 100 people through the door at Fête next Friday (and/or those purchasing advance tickets) will receive an autographed “bootleg” copy of the album, and it will be available free-of-charge for a limited time beginning March 14 before officially hitting the shelves and iTunes in April.

On a blustery Wednesday afternoon in “down-town” Pawtucket, all three members have con-vened at Carvalho’s Beatbox Studio inside the Grant Building. This is my first time meeting Dar-ryl Jordan, aka Swann Notty, his slim frame hid-den behind a XXXL Beatbox Studios hoodie, as well as Joel DePina, who strolls in a few minutes later, while Charles “Chachi” Carvalho sits by his desk cueing up the album and reminiscing over a recent trip to Cape Verde.

Check the pedigree — both lyricists jumped onto the music scene nearly 15 years ago as charter members of the CNJ Records camp; Swann’s debut single, “4 Steps” remains a coveted homegrown classic, and he later released two outstanding solo records in Classic Material and Right and Exact. Carval-ho’s skills have been on display long before he tore it up in front of a national audience on BET’s 106 & Park five years ago. He is highly active working with youth, both as a mentor at the Met School and serving as a proud pee-wee football coach. And business is picking up at his Beatbox Studios (visit Beatbox on Facebook for rates and contact info), with local heavy hitters like Big Rush re-cently recording here.

“The three-piece suit has always been a symbol of respect, class, and dignity amongst men,” goes the sampled intro, and all three men are already nodding in unison. Swann is a laidback cat, to say the least, while Chachi’s Cheshire cat grin grows when the beat drops on “Can I Do My Thing?,” where Swann raps, “The chem-istry is magic,” accompanied by DJ Mekalek’s slicing up Slick Rick and Greg Nice in the closing moments. “I Wish We Were There” follows, and is on a par with De La Soul’s “Much More.” Looking through my notes, I had scribbled down comparisons to Golden Era classics like Breaking At-oms, Mecca and the Soul Brother, and The Low End Theory.

On the get-your-hands-up anthem “Outloud,” Swann suavely delivers another memorable verse: “It’s so natu-ral the feeling is beautiful/This is my 9-to-5, I don’t chill in a cubicle . . . the crowd shows love and the feeling is mutual,” while Chachi declares, “Hey young world, I just wanna be your motivation, your daily inspiration/It’s a helluva sensation when they give congratulations.” And on “Take Your Time” Swann opens up with, “I was raised to believe in myself and keep an open mind/Dance to my own tune and follow no design.” While there are plenty of positive-vibe rhymes on the album (“You feelin’ good and love the vibe/Then come along, enjoy the ride,” Swann raps on “Best Time Ever”), Brand New Vintage is no afterschool special. Swann and Chachi can kill with kind-ness on the mic.

“The braggadocio is there, and we’re plenty boastful,” Swann says, “but we’re not . . .”

Chachi chimes in, “We ain’t angry rappers, ya know? We’re not walking around scowling and screw-facing,” he said. “There’s no need for that.”

J. DePina’s beats boom and crackle throughout Brand New Vintage, and guided the recording process.

“This album was inspired by the beat,” Carvalho ex-plains. “The beat can inspire a hook, or a concept or idea. When we started we all said, ‘Let’s not think about it too much, we’ll just let it rip.’ ”

DePina is a dual threat, pulling a Pete Rock and hop-ping on the mic for standout track “THR33 Reasons,” where he closes out his verse with, “Word to my son, daughter and nieces, and nephew — we the wrong ones to step to.”

“Think Before You Move” is a personal favorite; and see how many Swann/Chachi song and album titles you can cull from the clever concept of “Track Listing” (see: Master Ace’s “Maybe Next Time”). The guys initially ad-dress the ladies on “Women,” but eventually vent about pretty-boy dudes sporting skinny jeans as Chachi sneers, “What the fuck? You got umbrellas in your cup full of pink stuff lookin’ tough but you sippin’ like women.” The hook on “Head Nod” is tailor-made for summertime cruising; the interweaving bars and booming horns on the killer title track had me doing the Kid ’n Play Kick Step with my desk chair. And Chachi’s opening verse on “Grand Finale” should go down as one of his best yet: “Thirty some-odd years in life I made friends and enemies an’ frenemies that pretend to be a friend of me/Now they just a memory, the problem is the pain that I gain when I take trips down memory lane.”

The trio has a slew of respected local rap artists in their corner, from CR the Beast handling A&R duties, DJ Me-kalek and DJ Therion on the cuts, and longtime friend, producer, and Beatbox co-owner Vertygo served as studio engineer on the album.

Chachi, DePina, and Swann anticipate big things on tap in 2013. Just this week they opened for Talib Kweli for a second time, and casual conversation eventually turns to plans for an overseas tour. But it is clear the trio will take their time and plot accordingly.

“It’s been a really cool ride so far,” DePina says, “but the journey has just begun.” ^

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f“2013 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition,” the Rhode Island State Council on

the Arts’ annual roundup of winners of the agency’s $5000 and $1000 grants, is a curious experience. At the Jamestown Art Center (18 Valley St, through March 19), it serves as a sampler of what’s percolating in the state but, with a handful of works from each of the 14 visual artists — plus videos featuring choreography — every-thing kind of blends together.

A few pieces stand out. Providence sculptor Jill Colinan, who is now a multi-time state grant winner, is known for stitching together creepy, funny, patch-work lady dolls. Her Baby Doll is a lumpy fabric figure laying sprawled, naked, on her back on an overstuffed little bed perched atop four-foot-tall spindly legs. One eye is closed, the other half-open; her lips are parted to reveal creepy bead teeth. Three zip-pers run down her body, like the surgical scars from some Dr. Frankenstein. One zipper along the middle of her chest is pulled down a bit and white stuffing spills out for a visceral jolt.

The photograph Lori by Maria Scaglione of Westerly depicts a woman with red curly hair kissing her reflection in a window. The twinning makes the photo feel kaleido-scopic. Her reflection is like an apparition emerging from the lush green foliage of the garden and alluring blue pool outside. Scaglione’s other photos here are just okay, straight-ahead portraits of folks whom she describes as “separated from a ‘normal’ social environment by their grandiose and difficult personalities.” But Lori is in an-other register. It vibrates like a hallucination.

Carolina ceramics artist Jay Lacouture’s soda vapor glazed porcelain technique makes his elegant Fire and Ice Bottle with Platter resemble shards from two or three differ-ent vases and plates excavated by an archaeologist and then carefully jigsaw puzzled back together. The impres-sion of age and the alternation between a red feather pat-tern and an intricate Asian-style blue flower, shell, and butterfly design combine to handsome effect.

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ing and collage, realist sculpture, and various sorts of sur-realism or goth, like Colinan’s soft sculptures. Also at the goth-surreal end is Providence sculptor Jesse Thompson’s mini-tableau Pry. It depicts a gray, smooth-skinned baby-man wearing just a diaper and socks. He sits on a chair in a desolate muddy landscape, next to a rotted tree trunk. He uses a long branch to poke at the desiccated corpse of a bird. Thompson has impressive realist technique, but his imagery feels affected.

Esteemed Riverside photographer Denny Moers’s im-ages of bare trees standing in a flooded lake or the ruins of a cabin in the woods are printed expressionistically. The results feel scratched and weathered, as if the images are antiques that have survived burning and rust. At times Moers’s technique feels mannered, but when it works it has the feeling of a dark dream.

As for abstraction, Michelle Benoit of West Warwick slathers stacks of flat bars of hand-cut, reclaimed acrylic resin with paint so they seem to radiate color or glower with frost. Pawtucket artist Leslie Hirst’s L O N E spells out the title in wildstyle graffiti letters, cut out and floating out from the wall, which is significantly more dynamic than her usual drawings. The twist — both cool and per-haps too pat — is that her letters are collages of antique

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Providence painter Nick Carter’s Golf Shirt Tack Painting is a rumpled geometric abstraction of a network of orange, blue, and yellow bars across a white pinstriped background. His paint-ings have the feel of some stained, ragged old towel you find in the gutter and that when you dry it out you discover that it’s a rare Frank Stella minimal-ist abstraction lost from the Museum of Modern Art. Something about the junky, purposely offhand manner rubs me wrong, but it aligns with the hot trend some-times called “provisional painting” or “the new casual.” ^

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satisfied just to clarify how people should rephrase the question.

As for the concerned witnesses, the only question they get stirred up over is whether that rhinoceros had one horn or two, and whether that meant it was African or Asian. But the beasts start multiplying and soon are as populous, and apparently harm-less, as pigeons. Office mate Botard (Matt E. Russell) appears as a character type as opinionated as the Logician, as he refuses to believe in French rhinoceroses, despite adamant eyewitness testimony by others at work. Berenger eventually gets some com-fort, in the form of the opposite sex, but Daisy (Sylvia Kates) proves worrisome.

The last act of this 2-1/2-hour evening drags dreadfully, thanks to excessive con-cerns of the playwright to explicate his subtext. Ionesco couldn’t leave absurd enough alone; he had to have his char-acters go on and on after the climax that ends Act II. Why settle for bon mots when beaucoup can do?

There are good performances, for the most part. I especially enjoyed the self-de-lusive enthusiasm of Moller’s Jean. Carisa Anik Platt is a sure crowd-pleaser as the an-guished Housewife distraught over her flat-tened cat — her hysteria is hysterical. Elise LeBreton has a couple of small roles, but she really shines in some inventive stage business, sitting mutely while the main ac-tion goes on across the stage.

Ionesco chose an excellent animal stand-in for such a transformation of hu-man beings. We are indeed stupid, short-sighted, lumbering creatures who can be harmless enough just wandering around but are potentially quite dangerous. That’s our real existential plight. ^

fEver have days when you’re just not yourself? Eugène Ionesco’s brilliantly

conceived Rhinoceros extends that notion to the snapping point of ridiculousness, and it’s getting a delightful rendition by the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA theater programs at the Pell Chafee Performance Center (through March 9).

The price of conformity was never so expensive, the world learns when people start turning into rhinoceroses. But then again, much of the advantage of any herd instinct is collective comfort, so maybe they feel it’s a bargain after all.

A little context. Theatre of the Absurd, which a critic named the movement the year after this 1959 play, was a creative expression of Existentialism, the philo-sophical reaction to such absurd human interactions as war. Exemplars of the style included Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet, and Rhinoceros pokes gentle fun at the latter, having a cat of that name become the sole victim of the clumsy beasts. Ionesco doesn’t stop there — in a lighthearted digression, he has characters briefly praise his own plays like a trio of theatergoers at tea.

We start out with antihero Berenger (Greg Fallick) hung over one Sunday morn-ing at a sidewalk café. His office job is so tedious that he overdoes it every weekend, though he insists he’s not an alcoholic. A friend shows up, Jean (Ted Moller), an office mate who couldn’t be more of

a contrast: brightly energetic, bursting with joie de vivre and optimism, formally well-dressed. His way of pulling Berenger together is to run a comb through his hair and dress him up with an extra tie he hap-pens to have in his suit pocket.

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by. Passersby exclaim as one: “Well, of all things!” Berenger tries to make sense of the sight, a problematic tendency he has, suggesting: “Perhaps it’s been hiding . . . in a surrounding swamp.” The vague fear-fulness he’d said was behind his drinking to comfort himself is now tangible.

But there are straws to grab at. The Logician (Ben Chase), ridiculous in a red fez and pretentious manner, offers help. A typical syllogism of his: a), all cats are mortal; b), Socrates was mortal; c), there-fore, Socrates was a cat. He doesn’t actual-ly solve the problem of the rhinoceroses or why they appeared, instead he is smugly

fMary Zimmerman’s wonderfully inventive 2002 play, Metamorphoses,

based on 10 of Ovid’s tales of the Greek myths, is being given a spirited and hip production at the URI Theatre (through March 3). Based on David R. Slavitt’s 1994 translation of Ovid and even quoting from Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes,” Zimmerman’s version is respect-ful of its sources in tone and language but allows plenty of room for broad humor and contemporary interpretations.

The URI ensemble, under the direction of Steven Raider-Ginsburg, takes that and runs with it. Costumes by David T. How-ard and sound design by Michael Hyde are particularly noteworthy, adding much to the characters and the scene-setting.

For example, the young women who portray old-fashioned laundresses by a pond open the show with Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country.” It’s a reminder of modern mythmaking and also of the

love theme threaded through Ovid’s tales. The laundresses and some of the other 11 cast members take turns narrating the tales, though the characters in the stories often assume their own voices.

First up is the tale of Midas, with his own up-tempo entrance tune, to which Brandon Gailliard performs some fancy dance steps and generally struts his stuff. A bit later, he also gets across Midas’s an-guish when his daughter (Laine Wagner) is turned to gold.

The tender love story of Alcyone and Ceyx begins with a beautiful dance se-quence (Daraja Hinds and Benjamin Mill-er), as the narrator describes their “monot-ony of happiness.” Alas, Ceyx sets out to sea and is drowned (kudos to Patrick Lynch for the storm and shipwreck) and the grieving Alcyone and her dead husband are turned to birds, with a lovely representa-tion of their flight together: colorful rib-bons waving atop a long pole held by each of the actors as they circle the stage.

Another lesser-known of the myths is that of Erysichthon (Benjamin Hill) who is punished by Ceres (Julia Bartoletti) for chopping down a sacred tree; she sends the frightening figure of Hunger (Cath-erine Poirier) to goad him to his death.

The most well-known myth — Orpheus (Miller) and Eurydice (Christine O’Connell) — is presented in two variations, each incredibly evocative and soul-stirring. The first features the wedding, the mor-tal snakebite and Orpheus’s request of Hades (Gailliard), with the condition set of not looking back at Eurydice, as they ascend from the Underworld, with Hermes (Americo Lanni) as their guide. The second relives the trio’s fateful steps upward. And the narrator asks whether this is a story about love and loss, about time’s progres-sion, or about an artist’s impatience?

This sad tale is followed by an amusing one — Pomona (a sprightly Hinds) and Ver-tumnus (Marc Tiberiis II, in one of several well-wrought comic roles) — though it actu-ally has a tragic story in the middle of it — Myrrha (Wagner) angers Aphrodite (Poirier) by not falling in love with any of her many suitors, and is thus visited with a passion for . . . her father (Hill). This telling does release Pomona from her apathy, and she gives in to Vertumnus’s pleas.

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The Phaeton/Apollo story is thoroughly modernized, told to a “therapist” (Katerine Riley), with Phaeton asking his dad for the “keys to the car” — the chariot which he drives too close to the sun. This se-quence suffered (as did some others) from indistinct or weak projection; the serious pronouncements by the shrink were not audible enough to make their satiric im-pression.

A brief mimed Narcissus episode fea-tured Bartoletti staring into a video camera (video projection was used instead of back-drops, with mixed effectiveness); another wordless snippet was that of Pandora (Wag-ner), the consequences of her actions most vividly visual on the large upstage screen.

The last two sections are tender happy-ending love stories, that of Psyche and Eros — “wherever our love goes, there we find our soul” — and Baucis and Philemon, who ask of Zeus and Bacchus that they die at the same moment — “let me not outlive my own capacity to love.”

Thus, through Zimmerman’s elegant and thought-provoking re-workings of Ovid’s tales, and through URI’s steady-on production, it becomes evident how time-less these stories of personal metamorpho-sis are and, once again, what we can learn from them. ^

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READINGS

THURSDAY 28THE RISCA FELLOWSHIP WRIT-ERS NIGHT with readings by play-wright Leigh Medeiros, poet David O’Connell, and fiction writers Anna Solomon and Edward Delaney, and a demonstration of traditional Irish step dance by Kevin Doyle | 6:30 pm | Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley St, Jamestown | Free | 401.560.0979 | www.arts.ri.gov/individuals/ fellowships13.phpSTEPHEN DOBYNS will read from, discuss, and sign his new novel, Burn Palace | 7 pm | Books On the Square, 471 Angell St, Providence | 401.331.9097 | booksq.com

MONDAY 4“ALMOST ISLAND,” an evening of readings by and discussion with Sharmistha Mohanty and Vivek Narayanan, two of India’s foremost writers and editors | 7:30 pm | Brown University’s Granoff Center for Cre-ative Arts, 154 Angell St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw

TUESDAY 5GOT POETRY LIVE! | 6 pm | Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer St, Provi-dence | $3 | 401.383.8393 | gotpoetry.com/News/topic=23.htmlROBERT A. GEAKE will discuss his sign his recent book, A History of the Providence River | 5:30 pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3168 | bookstore.brown.edu

THURSDAY 7PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM FEATURING JARED SINGER | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.orgVLADIMIR ALEXANDROV will discuss and sign his new book, The Black Russian | 5:30 pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence | Free | 401.863.3168 | bookstore.brown.edu

TALKS

THURSDAY 28“CYBERSECURITY: ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS” | A talk by Susan Landau, an expert in cyber-security, privacy, and public policy | 4 pm | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free | 401.863.2809 | watsoninstitute. org/events_detail.cfm?id=1901“AN UNCOMMON FAITH: REREAD-ING W.E.B. DUBOIS ON RELIGION” | A talk by Eddie S. Glaude, profes-sor of African American studies at Princeton University | 5:30 pm | Brown University’s Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 001, the College Green, Providence | Free | brown.edu/academics/religious-studies/node/215/k-brooke-anderson-lectureJUDAH-MICAH LAMAR, a doctoral fellow in the URI English depart-ment, will present a reading of the antagonist in Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Color Purple; the discussion will seek to open dialogue about the ways in which black men are portrayed by black women authors in literature, and how society at large misreads black men through fragmented lenses as damaged goods | Noon | University of Rhode Island Multicul-tural Center, 74 Lower College Rd, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2536 | uri.edu/mcc

FRIDAY 1“CULTURAL CONVULSION/IN-CIPIENT EXPLOSION: ART AS AU-GURY IN 1913,” a conversation about

the premiere of Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring, the first volume of Proust’s revolutionary novel Á la Recherche du Temps Perdu, and the cultural and political moment characterized by these and other interconnected radi-cal developments, including advanc-es in technology and a coming world war, with Dr. Mary E. Davis, dean of graduate studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology; Dr. Marilyn S. Kushner, curator and head of the Department of Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections at the NY Historical Society; and Dr. Arnold Weinstein, professor of com-parative literature at Brown Univer-sity | 5 pm | Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St | Free | 401.421.6970 | providenceathenaeum.org“HOW TO AVOID FALLING IN LOVE WITH A JERK OR JERKETTE” | A talk by therapist and author John Van Epp | 3:30 pm | Thomas M. Ryan Family Auditorium of the Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences at the University of Rhode Island, 120 Flagg Rd, Kingston | Free | 401.874.4014 | uri.edu/hss“THE MUNROE EFFECT: SCIEN-TIFIC ACCIDENT TO BATTLEFIELD SUCCESS & BEYOND” | A talk by Ted Gatchel of the Naval War College | Part of the Forensic Science Part-nership Seminar Series | 3:30 pm | Pastore Hall at the University of Rhode Island, 51 Lower College Rd, Kingston | Free | chm.uri.edu/ forensics/seminars.php

THURSDAY 7“RELIGION AND INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY: NEGOTIATING GLOB-AL CONFLICT STABILIZATION” | A talk by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jerry White | 5:30 pm | Brown University’s MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer St, Providence | Free | brown.edu/academics/religious-studies/node/215/dug-events

ART

GALLERIESAS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appoint-ment | Mar 2-30: New works by Jessica Thurber & Sarah Beck | Paint-ings by Brian Xavier | New works by Indira MillerAS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220.org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Mar 2-30: “Approximately 7,642 Pounds of Art, Stacked and Some-what Arranged,” an installation by Thomas Morrissey | “Spectacles & Spectators,” artwork by Keri KingBANKRI GALLERY | 401.456.5015 x 1330 | 1 Turks Head Pl, Providence | bankri.com | Mon-Wed 8:30 am-3 pm; Thurs-Fri 8:30 am-5 pm | Through Mar 6: “In the Land of Primrose,” illustrations by Alyssa Holland Short | Mar 7-Apr 3: “Animal Fantasy,” paintings by Abbot Low— 137 Pitman St, Providence | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through Mar 6: “Animal Fantasy,” paintings by Abbot Low | Mar 7-Apr 3: “Moments In Color,” photographs by Stephen Spencer— 1140 Ten Rod Rd, North Kingstown | Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Through Apr 3: “Construction Zone,” high-contrast photographs by David DeMelimBANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 | 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | www.ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm | Through Mar 1: “Story/Line: Narrative Form in Six Graphic Novel-ists,” works by Gabrielle Bell, Ellen Crenshaw, Emily Flake, Kevin Mutch, Bishakh Som, and Karl Stevens | Mar 7-29: “You Were Just Mine,” multimedia works by Richard GoulisBILL KRUL GALLERY | 401.782.1715 | 142 Boon St, Narragansett | billkrul gallery.com | Daily 10 am-8 pm | Through Feb 28: “Chasing the Light from Sunrise to Sunset,” images by the photographers of the Sunrise-

Sunset Workshop | Mar 1-31: “Mixed Media Images [Paintings, Drawings, and Photography],” by Jess Nalban-dian and Nick McKnightCADE TOMPKINS PROJECTS | 401.751.4888 | 198 Hope St, Provi- dence | cadetompkins.com | Sat 10 am-6 pm + by appointment | Through Feb 28: “Double Legacy,” with drawings, prints, sculpture, and painting by artist pairs, in-cluding Nancy Friese and Sophiya Khwaja; Daniel Heyman and Stella Ebner; Julia Jacquette and Tedd Nash Pomaski; Dean Snyder and James Foster; and John Udvardy and Huckleberry Starnes | Mar 2-Apr 27: Work by Coral BourgeoisCANDITA CLAYTON STUDIO | 401.533.8825 | 999 Main St, Unit 105, Pawtucket | canditaclaytonstudio.com | Wed 6-9 pm + by appointment + chance | Through Mar 6: “Through Time,” works by Kate BlacklockCHAZAN GALLERY AT WHEELER | 401.421.9230 | 228 Angell St, Providence | chazangallery.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 2-4 pm | Through Feb 28: “New Impossi-bilities,” works by Emma Hogarth, Katie Koti, Evan Mann, Agata Michalowska, and Tim Winn and Zehra Khan | Mar 7-Apr 3: “Drawing Matters,” works by Luis Alonso, Leslie Bostrom, Dennis Congdon, Wendy Edwards, Nancy Friese, Bun-ny Harvey, Tayo Heuser, David Kin-sey, Susan Lichtman, Jack Massey, Jerry Mischak, Jacqueline Ott,Gwen Strahle, Dan Talbot, Roger Tibbetts, and Michael YefkoCOLO COLO GALLERY | 508.496.4718 | 25 Centre St, New Bedford, MA | Tues + Thurs noon-5 pm; Wed + Fri 3-6 pm; Sat 12-6 pm | Through Mar 5: “Arrival,” paintings by Cynthia GuildCRAFTLAND | 401.272.4285 | 235 Westminster St, Providence | craftland shop.com | Through Mar 2: “Love Nest,” a group exhibition of prints, paintings, sculpture, and drawings created for the second annual Valentine show |with works by Jill Colinan, Jen Corace, Jim Frain, Peter Fuller, Leif Goldberg, Corey Grayhorse, Cassi Jacobs, CW Roelle, Erin Rosenthal, Will Schaff, Deth P. Sun, Daria Tessler, Alec Thibodeau, Hilary Treadwell, Matthew Underwood, and Neal WalshCRANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | 401.943.9080 | cranstonlibrary.org | 140 Sockanosset Cross Rd | Mar 3-29: “The Annual East Greenwich Art Club Artist Members’ Exhibit”DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 138 Bellevue Ave, Newport | deblois gallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Mar 2-Apr 2: “The Seven Deadly Sins,” a non-juried open showDORRANCE H. HAMILTON GAL-LERY AT SALVE REGINA UNIVER-SITY | 401.341.2981 | Antone Academic Center, Lawrence + Leroy aves, Newport | salve.edu/academics/departments/art/gallery | Tues + Thurs 11 am-6 pm; Wed + Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat + Sun 12-4 pm | Through Mar 20: “Do What You Must Do,” paintings by Sue McNallyGALLERY AT CITY HALL | 401.421.7740 | 25 Dorrance St, Prov-idence | Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4 pm | Through Mar 15: “Masters of the Craft: Gallery of Memory,” a pho-tography exhibi8t commemorating the 80th anniversary of the found-ing of Local 1329 of the International Longshoremen’s Association in Providence, the first labor union in New England organized predomi-nantly by Cape VerdeansGALLERY Z | 401.454.8844 | 259 Atwells Ave, Providence | galleryzprov.com | Wed-Sat 12-8 pm + by appoint-ment | Through Mar 9: “Estate Show: Living and Non-Living Art-ists Represented and Exhibited with Gallery Z in the Past,” works by Aghassi, Francesco Agresti, Hagop Aprahamian, Hrair Apra-hamian, Virginia Arakelian, Marc Awodey, Lara B., Jillian Barber, Anoush Bargamian, Midge Bo-vino, Colette Brésilla, Erik Bright, Sue Butler,Yevkine De Gréef, Linda Denosky-Smart, Adrienne Der Marderosian, Areg Eibekian, Robert Elibekian, Vagharshak Elibekian, Samuel Gareginyan, Melik Gazarian, Benjamin Giguere,

Fran Henry-Meehan, Harutune Hovhanesian, Herbet C. Illium, Nonna Kazanskaya, Ivan Kazanski, Stephen Koharian, Alex Khomski, Janice Lawrence, Marty McCorkle, Stephanie Marzella, Eduard Mat-evosian, Alan Metnick, Kevork Mourad, Sevan Naccashian, Reuben Nakian, Valentina Nekrash, Karnig Nalbandian, Mathias Opperdorff, Paul Orzech, Nick Paciorek, Regina A. Partridge, Julian Penrose, Jeff Pullen, Ewa Romaszewicz, Piraji Sagara, Simon Samsonian, Donalyn Schofield, Michael Sherman, Mark Sposato, Helena Stockar, Kegham Tazian, and Ben WeissGREEN SPACE GALLERY AT THE T.F. GREEN AIRPORT | 2000 Post Rd, Warwick | Through Apr 30: “On and Through and In Between,” new work by Deborah Baronas and Graham HeffernanHERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery.org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Mar 2-30: New works by Claudia Flynn, Connie Green, Jill McLaugh-lin, and Troy WestHOPE GALLERY | 401.396.9117 | 435 Hope St, Bristol | hopegallery fineartfinecraft.com | Thurs-Sat 1-5 pm | Through Mar 1: “The Color Red,” a group exhibit with jew-elry, textiles, photography, blown glass, oil, pastels, watercolors, and sculptureIMAGO GALLERY | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imago foundation 4art.org | Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through Mar 3: “Open Community Exhibit” | Mar 7-Apr 13: “10th Anniversary Invita-tional Exhibit” JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestownartcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Mar 9: “2013 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition,” with works by Michelle Benoit, Nick Carter, Jill Colinan, Leslie Hirst, Ernest Jolicoeur, Aaron Jungels, Jay Lacouture, Denny Moers, Andrew Oesch, Frank Poor, Maria Scaglione, and Jesse Thompson; video and music stations in the gallery will feature works by cho-reographers Heidi Henderson and Kathleen Gordon Smith, music composers Glenda Luck and Brian Knoth, filmmakers Ann Fessler, and Steven Subotnick, and New Genres artist Aaron JungelsKRAUSE GALLERY | 401.831.7350 x 174 | In the Jenks Center at Moses Brown School, 250 Lloyd Ave, Provi-dence | mosesbrown.org | Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm + by appointment | Through Mar 1: “Diverse Views,” works by Holly Gaboriault and Holly & Eli MinayaMIXED MAGIC THEATRE ART GALLERY | 401.305.7333 | At Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main St, Pawtucket | mmtri.com | Wed 12- 3 pm; Fri-Sat 5-7 pm; Sun 12-2 pm | Mar 1-17: Works by Morris NathansonMUSEUM OF NEWPORT HISTORY | 401.841.8770 | 127 Thames St, Newport | newporthistory.org | Through May 31: “Hearth In Home: Keeping Warm In Early Newport”NARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERY | 508.324.1926 | 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | narrowscenter.org | Wed-Sat 12-5 pm | Through Mar 30: “Strangers In Class: Gazing Across the Economic Divide,” wood sculptures by John MagnanPAWTUCKET ARTS COLLABORA-TIVE GALLERY | 175 Main St | pawtucketartscollaborative.org | Mon-Sat 10 am to 5 pm | Through Apr 5: “Drawing From the Multiple,” a print exhibit with works by Court-ney Sennish, Jessica Murray, Chase Taylor, Suruchi Kabra, Pippa Zor-noza, Augustina Bello Decurnex, and Simonette QuaminaPORTSMOUTH ARTS GUILD GAL-LERY | 401.293.5ART | 2679 East Main Rd, Portsmouth | portsmouth artsguild.org | Fri-Sun 1-5 pm | Mar 1-Apr 7: “Town and Country,” a jur-ied exhibitPROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providenceartclub.org | Mon-Fri 12- 4 pm; Sat-Sun 2-4 pm | Through Mar 15: “Color & Contrast,” works

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by Nancy Rapelye Godfray and Brian Larkin | “Of Three Minds,” works by Jim Bush, Vincent J. Castaldi, and S. Chandler Kissell RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 | Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | riws.org | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through Mar 22: “Bon Appetit,” an open juried showSECOND SIGHT GALLERY | 401.724.7300 | 413 Central Ave, Paw-tucket | Thurs-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Feb 28: “RHD Staff Art Show”SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION | 401.783.2195 | 2587 Kingstown Rd, Kingston | southcountyart.org | Wed-Sun 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-8 pm | Through Mar 16: “Open Juried Print, Paint & Pastel Annual”URI ART GALLERY | 105 Upper Col-lege Rd, Kingston | uri.edu/artsci/art/gallery | Through Feb 28: “Moments of Crisis and Transcendence,” paint-ings by David BarnesURI FEINSTEN CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-5 pm | Through Feb 28: “Rhode Island’s African-American Community: From the Colonial Period to the Present,” with fine art, photo-graphs, documents, and artifacts from the Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit, the Haffenreffer Museum, Providence City Archives, the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, the Rhode Island Historical Society. the Rhode Island College Library Special Collections, Riverzedge, the South County Museum, the URI Library Archive Special Collections, and the private collections of Keith and Theresa Guzman Stokes and Onna Moniz JohnsUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND’S WOMEN’S CENTER | 22 Upper College Rd, Kingston | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm | Through Mar 8: “In Our Family: Portraits of All Kinds of Families,” | with photographs by Gigi Kaeser with interviews edited by Peggy Gillespie and Rebekah BoydWICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach St, North Kingstown | wickfordart. org | Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm; Sun 12- 3 pm | Through Mar 10: “Members’ Invitational,” with works by Amos Trout Paine, Bill Krul, and Barry J. ButterworthYELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Provi-dence | yellowperilgallery.com | Through Mar 17: “Navigation Paint-ings,” by Michael Childress

MUSEUMSNEWPORT 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 + military with ID; free under 6 | Through May 5: “Legacies In Paint: The Mentor Project,” with work from a four-month mentoring project with mid- to late-career Rhode Island painters [Paula Martiesian, David Barnes, Michele Provost, John Riedel, and Ida Schmulowitz] and younger painters [Buck Hastings, Mollie Hosmer- Dillard, Li Jun Lai, Erika Sabel, and Dan Talbot] | Through May 12: “Faculty Focus,” with works by Charlene Carpenzano and Dan McManus of the NAM art school | Through May 12: “Shelf Life,”paintings by Gerry Perrino | Through May 19: “Newport Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition”RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Benefit St, Providence | risdmuseum.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 Mar 17: “2013 RISD Faculty Biennial” | Through May 19: “Gris-gorious Places: Edward Lear’s Travels” | Through June 9: “RISD Business: Sassy Signs and Sculp-tures by Alejandro Diaz” | Through June 30: “Double-and-Add,” works by Angela Bulloch, Anthony McCall, and Haroon Mirza | Through July 14: “The Festive City,” an exhibit of rarely seen

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CINEMA WORLD622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln | 401.333.8676BROKEN CITY | Thurs: 10:35, 7:20MAMA | Thurs: 2:30, 5:25, 10:20STAND UP GUYS | Thurs: 1:20, 4:35JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts Fri: 5, 10:15JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 10:30, 11:30, 1:15, 2:15, 4:15, 7:25, 9:45ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts Fri: 11:35, 1:55, 5:30, 7:45, 10PhANTOM | Starts Fri: 10:45, 1:05, 4, 7:20*, 9:35* [*no shows Mar 7]21 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 11:20, 1:35, 5:10, 8, 10:10QUARTET | Starts Fri: 10:45, 1, 4:25, 7, 9:20DARK SKIES | 11:15, 1:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15SNITCh | 11, 1:30, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | Thurs: 10:30, 11:10, 12:10, 1:10, 2:10, 4:10, 6:45 | Fri-Thurs: 10:35, 1:10, 4, 6:45, 10:25BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 10:45, 1:35, 4:40, 7:25 | Fri-Thurs: 10:30, 4:30A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | Thurs: 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 10:40, 1:25, 4:50, 7:40, 9:55SAFE hAVEN | 11:05, 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50IDENTITY ThIEF | 11:10, 1:50, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 4:25, 7:40, 10:05 | Fri-Thurs: 4:10, 9:15* [*no show Mar 7]WARM BODIES | Thurs: 11:45, 2, 5:20, 7:35 | Fri-Thurs: 11:45* [*no show Sat], 2, 5:55, 8:10, 10:20hANSEL & GRETEL: WITCh hUNTERS | Thurs: 6:10 | Fri-Thurs: 11:40, 5:05ZERO DARK ThIRTY | Thurs: 1:15, 4:25, 7:50 | Fri-Thurs: 1:50, 7:10LES MISÉRABLES | 12:45, 4, 7:10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 7:20SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 10:50, 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40

EAST PROVIDENCE 1060 Newport Ave, East Providence | 401.438.1100MOVIE 43 | Thurs: 9:20PARKER | Thurs: 9ThIS IS 40 | Thurs: 9:10BULLET TO ThE hEAD | Starts Fri: 1:15, 3:15, 5:20, 7:20, 9:30hANSEL & GRETEL: WITCh hUNTERS | Starts Fri: 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:25GANGSTER SQUAD | Thurs: 1:20, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1, 3:20, 6:40, 9:20A hAUNTED hOUSE | Thurs: 1:15, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:45 | Fri-Thurs: 7:10, 9:15ThE LAST STAND | Thurs: 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:35 | Fri-Thurs: 9:10LES MISÉRABLES | 12:45, 4:30, 8PARENTAL GUIDANCE | 12:40, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35ThE TWILIGhT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN — PART 2 | Thurs: 1:10, 3:30, 6:30 | Fri-Thurs: 1:10, 3:40, 6:30, 9RISE OF ThE GUARDIANS | 12:50, 2:55, 5WRECK-IT RALPh | 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7

ENTERTAINMENT CINEMAS30 Village Square Dr, South Kingstown | 401.792.8008BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh 3D | Thurs: 4, 9JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts Fri: 1:40, 7JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 4:25, 9:3021 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 1:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40DJANGO UNChAINED | Starts Fri: 8:45SNITCh | 4:10, 9:35ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | Thurs: 1:20, 7 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 4, 6:30A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 9:30SAFE hAVEN | 1:05, 4:20, 7, 9:25IDENTITY ThIEF | 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:35SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 | Fri-Thurs: 1:20, 7:15SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1, 4, 6:45, 9:20

ISLAND CINEMAS 10105 Chase Ln, Middletown | 401.847.3456BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 12:50, 3:50, 7, 9:40SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 9:55WARM BODIES | Thurs: 1:20, 7:15JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts Fri: 4:10, 9:30JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 1:10, 7ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts Fri: 1:30, 4:10, 7:40, 9:5521 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 1:20, 3:50, 7:30, 9:50DARK SKIES | 1:40, 4:20, 7:40, 9:50SNITCh | 1:10, 3:45, 7:20, 9:45ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh 3D | 4:30, 8:50ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:10, 2:20, 6:45A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 6:30, 8:45SAFE hAVEN | 12:40, 3:30, 7:10, 9:35IDENTITY ThIEF | 1, 4, 7:10, 9:45SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35ARGO | 12:45, 3:40

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PROVIDENCE PLACE CINEMAS 16Providence Place | 401.270.4646BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 12:35, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh 3D | Thurs: 9:30A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD: ThE IMAX EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7:15, 9:35hANSEL & GRETEL: WITCh hUNTERS | Thurs: 9:50ZERO DARK ThIRTY | Thurs: 3:15, 9:25JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts Fri: 1:20, 4:15, 10:15JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 12:50, 3:45, 7:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:55JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER: ThE IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE | Thurs: 12:20, 3:15, 6:35, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts Fri: 12:10, 12:45, 2:25, 3, 4:45, 5:15, 7, 7:30, 9:15, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:30, 12PhANTOM | Starts Fri: 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:1021 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 12:25, 12:55, 2:40, 3:10, 4:55, 5:25, 7:10, 7:40, 9:25, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:40, 12:10DARK SKIES | Thurs: 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 | Fri-Thurs: 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:50, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30SNITCh | 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25SAFE hAVEN | Thurs: 12:50, 1:20, 3:40, 4:10, 6:30, 7, 9:10 | Fri-Thurs: 1:15, 4, 6:40, 9:25IDENTITY ThIEF | Thurs: 4:30, 5, 7:05, 7:35, 9:40, 10:20 | Fri-Thurs: 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 4:40, 10:20WARM BODIES | 11:50, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 12MAMA | Thurs: 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:05ARGO | Thurs: 12, 6:20 | Fri-Thurs: 6:55DJANGO UNChAINED | Thurs: 2:45, 9:05 | Fri-Thurs: 9:20SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | Thurs: 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 10 | Fri-Thurs: 12:40, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10LIFE OF PI | Thurs: 12:25, 6:35 | Fri-Thurs: 1:40, 7:25

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ShOWCASE CINEMAS WARWICK1200 Quaker Ln | 401.885.1621BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | Thurs: 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:25SIDE EFFECTS | Thurs: 4:50, 7:30, 10:30WARM BODIES | Thurs: 2:30, 10:15JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts Fri: 1:15, 4, 7:05, 9:45, 10:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 1:45, 4:30, 7:35ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts Fri: 12:10, 2:25, 4:35, 7:20, 9:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:4021 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20DARK SKIES | 12:15, 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:15SNITCh | 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:10ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:05, 2:15, 4:40, 6:55, 9:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 11:30A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 12, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20QUARTET | 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:50, 10:10 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30SAFE hAVEN | 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:25IDENTITY ThIEF | 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 9:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:30ZERO DARK ThIRTY | Thurs: 12:25, 6:05 | Fri-Thurs: 9:55SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 12:55, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 | Fri-Sat late show: 12LINCOLN | Thurs: 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 | Fri-Thurs: 12:20, 3:30, 6:45ARGO | Thurs: 4:25, 7, 9:40 | Fri-Thurs: 1:05, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 | Fri-Sat late show: 12:20

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ShOWCASE CINEMAS NORTh ATTLEBORO640 South Washington St, North Attleboro, MA | 508.643.3900JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER 3D | Starts Fri: 1:15, 4:10, 7 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:45JACK ThE GIANT SLAYER | Starts Fri: 1:45, 4:40, 7:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 910:15ThE LAST EXORCISM PART II | Starts Fri: 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:1021 AND OVER | Starts Fri: 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:35 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:55DARK SKIES | 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:30SNITCh | 1:25, 4:15, 6:55 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:40ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTh | 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20A GOOD DAY TO DIE hARD | 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45 | Fri-Sat late show: 10:05SAFE hAVEN | 1, 3:40, 6:30 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:10IDENTITY ThIEF | 1:40, 4:35, 7:25 | Fri-Sat late show: 10SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | 1:20, 4:05, 6:50 | Fri-Sat late show: 9:35LINCOLN | 12:40, 3:55, 7:05

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XX BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | 2013 | Throughout his adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s YA novel, Richard Lagravenese drops the names of books that would have provided a more rewarding way of spending a couple of hours than watching this movie. For instance, the adolescent classics Catcher In the Rye, On the Road, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Slaughterhouse-Five, which Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a small town kid yearning for romance, is reading. No wonder he keeps dream-ing about an elusive, beckoning sprite. But then he meets Lena (Kristen Stew-art clone Alice Englert), the ostracized new kid in school, and finds the girl of his dreams. What he doesn’t know is that Lena is a pastiche of characters from Harry Potter, Twilight, Interview with the Vampire, Carrie. . . . A “Caster” (i.e., she casts spells), she’s hiding out at the manor of her creepy Uncle Macon (Jeremy Irons, dressed like the Pope on holiday), so her wicked mother can’t find her and convert her to evil. Ethan is an unwelcome distraction — for the viewer too, since Ehrenreich is more like Jethro Clampett than Truman Ca-pote. LaGravanese at times spins strik-ing images — a scene in which Ethan walks into a magical time warp is particularly nightmarish. But he also has a weakness for clichés; I guess he’s been taking lessons from the wrong books. | 124m |

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EARTH | 2013 | On the distant planet Baab lives a family of aliens who must learn to cherish one another. They are Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser), an arrogant astronaut; his brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), a nerdy technician; and Gary’s son, Kip (Jon-athan Morgan Heit), and wife, Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker). Their story is a family-film cliché from a galaxy not so far, far away. When Scorch bumbles into captivity on Earth, it’s up to Gary to finally grow a pair and step out from behind the keyboard to rescue his brother. Imprisoned in Area 51 by Agent Shanker (William Shatner), Gary is forced to devise an alien weapon that will grant Shanker intergalactic domination. Directed by novice Cal Brunker, Escape refer-ences an array of other films, such as Toy Story, Independence Day, and The Artist (of all things), and sometimes mixes wit with its bromides. But thanks to the Weinstein Company’s insistence on low-rent animation, this might please young kids but tor-ment discerning parents. | 95m |

XX A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | 2013 | Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this fifth iteration of the Die Hard franchise (launched in 1988) has Bruce Willis’s John McClane heading to Moscow to help his son Jack (Jai Courtney) protect an enemy of the state from a corrupt government of-ficial. A car chase leads to a standoff

in a high-rise and a midnight run to Chernobyl, where a conspiracy to trade enriched uranium comes to light. Along the way there are double-crosses, shootouts and the supposedly touching scene when Jack starts calling his father “dad” instead of “John.” A Good Day To Die Hard is a movie for people who like blowin’ stuff up, evidently a favor-ite pastime of director John Moore, whose action scenes make about as much sense as his script, which was likely written on a cocktail napkin. Yippee ki-yay? Try yippee ki-nyet, Mother Russia. | 97m |

XXW IDENTITY THIEF | 2013 | Melissa McCarthy didn’t get awards for Bridesmaids for pishing in a sink, she got them for the 180-degree shift to where she gives a moving tough-love speech to Kristen Wiig. Identity Thief isn’t so daring or deep, but it too gives McCarthy a counterpoint to her multitude of hilarious pratfalls: even-tually, the tacky con-woman she plays shows her vulnerable side to the mark played by Jason Bateman. Seth Gordon directs this funny, though formulaic, mismatched-duo comedy in which Bateman’s straight-laced family man must nab McCarthy, the identity thief who has ruined his credit, and haul her from Florida to Denver for prosecu-tion. Yeah, Bateman’s playing his basic Michael Bluth, fussy and secure in his righteousness, but he’ll freshen

it with a certain gesture or inflection. McCarthy, with bouncing-off-the-wall energy and commitment to her character’s facility for fiction, is at the start of what will be a wonderful movie career. | 108m |

JACK THE GIANT SLAYER | 2013 | Bryan Singer’s loose adaptation of the timeless fairy tale stars Nicholas Hoult as Jack, a young farmhand who accidently rekindles an ancient war between humans and a race of giants when he opens a gateway between the two worlds. Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, and Ewen Bremner also star. | 114m |THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES | 2012 | From IMDB: “An experimental documentary film that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalized scenarios to tell the story of the peo-ple around Jeffrey Dahmer during the summer of his arrest in 1991. ” | 76m |

THE LAST EXORCISM PART II | 2013 | Supernatural sequel directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly. Ashley Bell reprises her role as Nell Sweetzer and this ef-fort picks up where the first one left off, with Nell attempting to rebuild her life after her horrific encounters. | 91m |

XW SAFE HAVEN | 2013 | Some-where along the way Nicholas Sparks went from being just a bestselling author of preachy schmaltz to a full-

on franchise (he produces the movies of his books). And he’s got his hooks deep into director Lasse Hallström (My Life As a Dog and The Cider House Rules), who’s on board here for a sec-ond tour of duty (after Dear John). One might overlook the low production values, endless platitudes, and tired clichés because Sparks does know how to jerk the tears, in a Hallmark kind of way. But after the mysterious Katie (Dancing with the Stars’ Julianne Hough) lands in coastal North Caro-lina (Sparks’s breadbasket), falls for single-dad Alex (Josh Duhamel), and the details of her dicey past slowly (and manipulatively) come to light (a cop from Boston and a possible mur-der), the groan-worthy denouement washes Haven out into a sudsy sea of shameless melodrama. | 115m |

21 AND OVER | 2013 | Teen comedy directed by the writing team behind The Hangover. The film stars Justin Chon, Skylar Astin, and Miles Teller as a group of best friends celebrating a 21st birthday via a night of humili-ation, overindulgence, and debauch-ery. | 100m |

XXW WARM BODIES | 2013 | The cinema of young-adult-novel adaptations has given us some gonzo plotlines. But can either Twilight or The Hunger Games top Warm Bodies, in which a zombie named R (Nicholas Hoult, who rarely has dialogue, speak-

ing through voiceover for most of the film) eats the brains of dutiful young Perry (Dave Franco) and then creates a hostage situation cum romance with Julie (Teresa Palmer), the girl that Perry left behind? Complete with riffs on Romeo and Juliet and John Malkovich playing the angry dad who needs to lighten up and let his daughter date a zombie? I think not. Sadly, though, the product doesn’t live up to the pitch. Director Jonathan Levine (of The Wackness and 50/50 and who, despite some pleasurable wide framing here, seems to be in full sellout mode) pan-ders to the teen set with a fervor that would make Stephenie Meyer blush. Warm Bodies may be about zombies, but it’s more of a Frankenstein’s mon-ster. It steals the “brain-dead culture” subtext from George Romero, the idea of rewriting classic romantic fiction for teen audiences from Clueless, and its best jokes from Shaun of the Dead. It’s more like fan fiction than a coherent script. | 97m |

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XXW AMOURFrench | 127 minUteS | avon + jane pickenSThe master of bleakness, depravity, and bit-ter irony Michael Haneke has at last made an unabashedly romantic love story, and his most upbeat movie to date. This doesn’t seem the case in the early going, as first re-sponders cover their noses from the stench of a decomposing body. Nor will the film’s remorseless litany of decline, incapacity, despondency, and death leave you with an extra spring in your step. But before the tedious misery can drive you up the wall, a pigeon flies through a window and, with all the dumb innocence of an obvious symbol, refuses to fly away.

Two of the world’s best actors, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, play Amour’s octogenarian couple, so it’s surprising that the characters aren’t very interesting. Riva plays Anne, a former piano teacher, and Trintignant is her husband, Georges, also a retired musician. Except for in the opening scene in a concert hall, the two don’t get out much, nor does the movie; it’s shot almost entirely in the couple’s apartment, the pair’s solitude broken only by rare visits from their daughter Eva (Isabelle Huppert), Anne’s for-mer student Alexandre (Alexandre Tharaud), the concierge and his wife, who bring gro-ceries, and a few others. Nobody seems very comfortable, and they don’t stay very long.

Haneke, however, does, and meticulously depicts lives so uneventful that when Anne freezes practically in mid-sentence from a stroke, it takes a while for Georges, and the viewer, to notice anything amiss. As her condition deteriorates, Georges cares for her obsessively, firing the nurses, whose work he finds “unprofessional,” massaging her pale

legs, lugging her to the toilet, and putting off his promise to pull out a pillow and end it all.

Very romantic. Or maybe not. Is it a film about geriatric love or about the paralysis of bourgeois existence — a less pathological version of Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001), in which Huppert, in the title role, plays the oppressed daughter of another burdensome woman? Or maybe of The Seventh Continent (1988), in which a normal middle-class fam-ily lock themselves in their home, system-atically destroy everything they possess, and then kill themselves? In fact, many of Haneke’s films depict the self-immolation of a stifling social unit. As such, Amour aspires to a romantic ideal of a different sort — the liberation of the individual from all social ties, including those of love.

_Peter KeoughXW PHANTOM97 minUteS | cinema world + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe Simultaneously bizarre and banal, director Todd Robinson’s military procedural seems designed to please no one. Ed Harris and William Fichtner star as the commanders of a Cold War–era Soviet sub; making a final journey before retirement. What starts as a training mission ends up as a struggle for the nukes on board, with our stars battling — New York/New Jersey accents in tow, hilari-ously — for the fate of the world. Borderline impenetrable jargon-based dialogue sets the static tone, but it’s broken by melodramatic overtures — this is the kind of movie where someone uses their dying breath to say, “You have to pick a side.” And then there are Har-ris’s drunken epileptic incidents; overloaded on rum and racked with guilt, his hallucina-tions leave Phantom looking like a Kenneth

Anger movie. The crass Americanization invalidates the detail; the silly melodrama invalidates the realism of the script; and a climactic spiritualist conceit leaves it all feel-ing like self-parody. Crimson Tide this isn’t.

_Jake MulliganXXW DARK SKIES95 minUteS | cinema world + iSland + providence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equal-ly terrifying.” Arthur C. Clarke’s quote is the first thing we see in this spare new thriller from writer/director Scott Stewart (Legion), so it comes as little shock when a “Grey” ap-pears, even if the superbly off-kilter sound design adds effective juice to that first scream-inducing moment. Nothing coming after quite tops it in a film that borrows lib-erally from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Pol-tergeist, Paranormal Activity, Signs, and even The Birds. What it lacks in originality, it almost makes up for with strong performances from the Family Under Siege: Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton as Lacy and Daniel Barrett, reces-sion-battered parents of Jesse (Dakota Goyo) and Sam (Kadan Rockett). J.K. Simmons as a resigned E.T. expert is just gravy. The para-

noia driving Daniel to a gun shop before the Fourth of July–set finale adds a welcome dose of social satire.

_Brett MichelXX SNITCH112 minUteS | cinema world + iSland + prov-idence place 16 + ShowcaSe + SwanSea StadiUm 12Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson idles through this Ric Roman Waugh–directed action thrill-er as John Matthews, a construction company owner who infiltrates a cartel to persuade the DEA to set free his wrongly imprisoned son. Johnson’s character is more vulnerable than his usual brute — Matthews is mugged, held at gunpoint, forced to do drugs — but his flinty expressions and delivery don’t show it. More versatile is Jon Bernthal as one of his employees, a tense two-striker who’s trying to stay clean but can’t resist introducing his boss to the back alleys when money’s on the table. Though Waugh adeptly raises the stakes as the duo’s schemes snowball, the tension dis-sipates like a plume of spilled cocaine during the too-brief final shootout. But hey, at least you get to see the Rock blast thugs with a shotgun and maneuver a semi with blown-out tires — at the same time.

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This week’s lunar phase turns a cru-cial corner: that last quarter moon onward is about finishing up projects that began in early February and climaxed February 25 or so. And a word to the wise: This week, Venus and Mars continue moving towards harmony (they’re both in Pisces now). Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces could be having unexpected flirtations with unlikely candidates. This could lead to something serious or just be a preview of “spring fever.” Okay? And don’t forget: Mercury is retrograde for the first half of Mars. If you’re having computer problems, directional chal-lenges, or chargers that don’t work — you’re in tune with Mercury. And yes, that is not fun.

ThursdayFebruary 28

Waning moon in Libra; moon void-of-course 3:37 am until 12:30 pm Friday. an a generous day, as moon and Jupiter are in harmony, while venus, Mars, and the sun prompt romantic longings for Scorpio, pi-sces, and cancer. however, the voc moon means some signs may need to “talk themselves out” this weekend (capricorn, aries, aquarius, Gemini, Leo, taurus, virgo, Sagittarius, Libra).

FridayMarch 1

Waning moon in Libra; moon void-of-course until 12:30 pm, when it moves into Scorpio. a morning of “information overload,” and it’s easy to grab hold of the wrong end of the stick (think twice before you post on social media). virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, Gemini, and pisces: from the silly to the profound, in one short step. cancer, capricorn, aries, taurus, and Leo: changeability (in your heart) is in the air.

across1 Smoky entree5 it may be enough9 picks a candidate14 *phrase once heard before a long beep16 What “x” may mean17 *part of a memorable anti- drug commercial18 he jumps on turtles frequently19 Former texas Governor richards20 Karaoke joint, usually21 viper relative23 Unit of resistance24 Fire, euphemistically26 *cliche line from bank robbers28 Furniture maker ___ allen31 Mentalist Geller32 *Short poem by William carlos Williams36 cyberspace40 St. Louis attraction41 Brilliance43 Up to the task44 “But you told me that...” retort46 *1995 hit for Montell Jordan48 Backtalk50 Windshield problem51 *Game show intro55 Like Boston accents, as it were59 Fight club?60 howard in the director’s chair61 number cruncher63 Snitch64 tabriz resident66 *dignified (but angry) complaint

69 Kenneth and ashley70 *Movie with the line “it’s such a fine line between stupid and clever”71 Make into law72 Sea birds73 Mumford & ___

doWN1 Kingly2 “___ ear and out the other”3 dull4 Leb. neighbor5 ___ vez (“again,” in Spanish)6 handy7 Series set in Las vegas8 Lab heaters9 “twilight” characters10 ___ Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg’s “Ghost” role)11 “dinosaur hunter” in a nintendo series12 Former Secretary of State root13 Broadway show with trash can lids15 comedian Bud22 “the Fifth Beatle” Sutcliffe25 Start seeing a shrink26 comparison27 Military school, with “the”29 tilling tool30 Writer Sholem32 ___ alai33 it usually starts with www.34 chem., e.g.35 Small ship37 “Girls” network

38 peyton’s brother39 no longer working: abbr.42 airline until 200145 Bridget Jones or Samuel pepys47 List of mistakes49 paid athlete51 power52 actor Zac53 Florida city54 enzyme that breaks down genetic material

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saTurdayMarch 2

Waning moon in Scorpio. Scorpio moons on the weekend are always sensual and provocative. even the most conservative folks may find themselves playing footsie under the table. also a fine day to cut to the chase. virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagit-tarius, capricorn, pisces, aries, Gemini and cancer: you’re able to see beneath the surface — which could be alarming. taurus, Leo, and aquarius: hold off on decision-making.

suNdayMarch 3

Waning moon in Scorpio; moon void-of-course 4:19 am until 4:11 pm, when it moves into Sagittarius. despite a voc moon, this is a good time to work with fi-nances, inventory, cost-cutting, or manipu-lating information. also excellent for a hot date — or data! virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagit-tarius, capricorn, pisces, aries, Gemini and cancer: dig beneath the surface. taurus, Leo, and aquarius: make time for being creative — or cleaning a closet.

MoNdayMarch 4

Last quarter moon in Sagittarius. a turn-ing point for decisions made on or around February 26 — or for business that began around February 9. a great day for plan-ning travel or sharing some humor. also, a fine day for mystics, or those who look for the conspiracy. Gemini, virgo, and pisces: this could be you! Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, taurus, cancer, Leo, and aries: keep everything on the lighter side — deflect super-serious inquiries.

TuesdayMarch 5

Waning moon in Sagittarius; moon void-

of-course 10:28 am until 7:14 pm, when it moves into capricorn. a good day for planning a trip that’s long-overdue, or for delving into some mode of thought that’s arcane or that relates to world religions. adventures closer to home could include exotic cuisine — this sounds yummy to Li-bra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, aquar-ius, taurus, cancer, Leo, and aries. Gemini, virgo, and pisces: hold off on decisions.

WedNesdayMarch 6

Waning moon in capricorn mid-afternoon onward is super for construction projects. Building and structure is key — get your plans together, and then make your move. this will be easier for capricorn, taurus, and virgo; but Libra, Gemini, aquarius, Sagittarius, and Leo also have a strategic advantage. pisces, cancer, Scorpio, aries: everything is slower than you might like it to be. have patience, and put up your feet and relax, why don’t you?

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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