Gymshorts Gymshorts return from a cross country trek drumming up mayhem and preaching the gospel of sleazy rock ‘n’ roll. Things tend get a little wild at a Gymshorts show. So much so that guitarist Chris Annunziato had to leave the tour early due to severe bruising. I can’t recall the last time that I’ve […]
Editor’s Note: Voters face a crowded ballot when they go to the polls on November 4 from federal races and Rhode Island general officers, down to their local offices. There are also seven referendum questions. Jim Hummel takes a look at Question 3, which would authorize the first constitutional convention in nearly 30 years. The […]
Gracie’s in Providence will host a Star Chef’s Dinner Monday, October 20, featuring Chef Taylor Knapp. Gracie’s Star Chef Series began in 2007 and has been a great success, inviting chefs from all over to come share their craft with the Providence community. Gracie’s will welcome Chef Taylor Knapp from First and South in Greenport, New […]
Fresh off a road trip from Richmond, Va., where they were invited to perform with Amaranth Arts as part of their Great Friends Touring Project, Island Moving Company had one more stop before returning home to Newport. On Friday, October 10, they presented “A Thousand Reflections” at Rhode Island College’s Sapinsley Hall. This one-evening-only performance […]
Epic Theatre Company has been on a roll lately, with superior productions of Angels in America and Compleat Female Stage Beauty. Unfortunately, Stop Kiss, which examines the close friendship between two women, aims for high drama but ends up being deadly dull. Callie (Lauren Odenwalder) meets Sara (Kerry Giorgi), a St. Louis native who moved […]
2nd Story Theatre is presenting Enron, a wickedly funny satire of corporate greed and deception. It is also one of the year’s best shows. In late 2001, Houston energy company Enron went out of business. At the time, it was the largest corporate bankruptcy in history. Enron’s founder was Ken Lay (Tom Roberts), who left […]
The Phoenix Media/Communications Group (PMCG) announced today that, after 36 years, it will stop publishing the venerated alt-weekly The Providence Phoenix. This news comes a little over a year after publisher Stephen Mindich and COO Everett Finkelstein announced the closing of the sister publication The Boston Phoenix. The Portland Phoenix, in Maine, remains in operation. […]
Ocean State Theatre Company’s new production of the classic Broadway musical, My Fair Lady, is a triumph. My Fair Lady, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play Pygmalion, and with a book and score by Lerner and Loewe, centers on Eliza Doolittle (Jessica Wagner), a London flower peddler who agrees to take speech lessons from […]
An artist known to dabble in experimentation, Flying Lotus manages to take it to a higher level with each release. His new album, You’re Dead! takes you on a multi-dimensional electronic jazz-hop journey into the afterlife as he examines all facets of death the best way he can. It’s quite a treasure and shows that […]