Month: April 2016

Album Of The Week: Endless Mike and The Beagle Club’s Saint Paul

You don’t hear much about the music coming out of Pittsburgh these days. You’ll hear about their sports teams, the fact that the city is still the heartbeat of America’s steel industry and those famous sandwiches from Primanti Bros. If you do your research you’ll actually find a good amount of talented acts that call […]

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Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child and Can’t-Miss Events

Not Cool, Not Warm Phillipe & Jorge hope that in the “Cooler and Warmer” PR fiasco here in the Vo Dilun, we do not miss the irony of the fact that its head cheerleader, Governor Gigi, is neither cool nor warm. She is essentially Hillary Lite, infatuated by Wall Street and the Big Apple, icily imperious in the […]

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Wilbury’s Murder Ballad Belts Out a Burning Tale of Love, Sex and Betrayal

With Murder Ballad, The Wilbury Theatre Group’s latest in-your-face rock musical, set designer Josh Christofferson has dressed down their Broad Street space to create the bare bones King’s Club, a dark, back alley bar that brings one right back to the old club days when Living Room, One Up and Rocket ruled Providence night life. […]

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RWU’s Working Works

Studs Terkel, the son of a tailor and a seamstress, is an interesting cat. Equipped with a law degree he decided to instead become a concierge, followed by a career in theater and radio. In 1974 he published a transcript of one of his recording series named, Working: People Talk About What They Do All […]

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Blues for Mister Charlie: Light from Terrible Darkness

Blues for Mister Charlie is an angry play from an angry time. The “Mister Charlie” of the title is a euphemism for “cracker,” a pejorative racial epithet for white people that has etymological roots in the slave driver of the antebellum South who literally cracked a whip. Trinity Rep deserves enormous credit for putting on […]

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Jared Paul Celebrates His 19th Vegan Birthday At Ada Books on April 19

Providence activist, artist, poet and musician Jared Paul has never been a stranger to radical political thought. He also has been a huge advocate for the rights of all, including animals. On Tuesday, April 19, at Ada Books on Westminster Street in Providence, Paul will be putting on a celebration ringing in his 19th year of […]

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2nd Story Theatre’s Catholic School Girls Will Never Be Better than it is Right Now

Catholic School Girls is a memory play written by Casey Kurtti and currently playing at 2nd Story Theatre in Warren. The play follows four girls as they grow up together from their first days of St. George’s School in Yonkers, New York, through their eventual graduation from eighth grade, and into adolescence. Set in the […]

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