Month: October 2024

Ants In The City: Socialist ants and invert-ed hierarchies

As we head to the polls in November, about 18 billion ants beneath our feet here in Rhode Island will also be busy voting. Although they probably won’t be crowning their next queen, their collective decision-making processes will influence everything from where they forage to where they live and whether or not they’ll revolt. The […]

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PPAC Presents Shucked: Well, Yeah, It’s corny

Shucked is a Tony Award–winning musical comedy featuring the book by Robert Horn, a score by the Grammy Award–winning songwriting team of Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally and directed by Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien; this corn-fed, corn-bred American musical promises to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater. The lighthearted story starts with the […]

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Subterranean Jungle: November’s Diesel & Dust

Gamma Rage – Self-Titled On their self-titled debut, Gamma Rage serves a platter of punk with stoner rock seasoning. There are tunes about going down the wrong way on the highway of love “Blindsided” and acid “Scorchers.” “SCP 3000” is my favorite tune on the record. It’s infectious sci-fi pop-punk about an eel responsible for […]

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Selling Creative Capital: Providence’s beloved artist haven, Atlantic Mills, faces uncertain future

There is a silence that accompanies a setting sun – as though the day is using all its power to transform into night. A concentration that bleeds orange into the sky, muting the vibrant signs of life. There is a finality in the spaces of transition: everything resembles an end, the click of a key […]

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