Do you have a nickname? Trace What’s your profession? I’m a makeup artist. What’s your favorite movie? The Big Lebowski What’s your favorite quote? “A li’l paint makes you the woman you ain’t.” Beer cocktails: love ’em or hate ’em? I love beer and oj. It’s a man-mosa! Earth Day is coming! What do you […]
The Rhode Island Film Office. Who exactly are they? What do they do? “They” are Steven Feinberg, executive director of the office, and Carol Conley, his loyal assistant. The first thing that strikes me after arriving at the office across from the state house, is the family atmosphere that is prevalent here. Carol Conley, who has […]
Christian de Rezendes discusses documentary When Rhode Island-based director Christian de Rezendes was approached by a mutual acquaintance about making a documentary on the life of the recently deceased Matthew “Matty” Christian (1983-2009) of Canton, MA, who was born without full limbs or a tongue, de Rezendes was apprehensive about repeating the “emotionally grueling process” […]
On the Screen The 6th annual Southeast New England Film, Music and Arts Festival opens Tuesday, April 22, 2014, and runs through Sunday, April 27, according to Philip Capobres, its artistic director, co-founder, and film programmer. Although the festival employs multiple venues in Providence and Warwick during the week, it uses only a single venue […]
Horoscope decides business success A lot of folks don’t agree with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that corporations have the same rights as human beings. Human or not, corporations do have horoscopes. Financial astrologers often use the date and time of a stock’s first trade to predict fluctuations in a stock’s price. But to learn […]
Monthly Horoscope Aries: The winds of change disrupt your life, from the domestic and very private to the professional and very public. Your natural instinct is to act on impulse, but try curb that instinct. This is not the time for knee-jerk reactions. A lot of these issues require a conversation. As the Full Moon approaches, […]
Hitting the jackpot From a niche card game mostly played by savvy rounders seeking out high-stakes games, the classic game of poker has well and truly evolved into a massively popular sport with a decidedly international following. While the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is still one of the premiere events in the sport, an […]
Over 500 people sat in the bleachers at Trinity Repertory Company’s main stage, as AS220 founder Bert Crenca explained, “Every time I go somewhere, somebody asks, ‘What the heck is AS220?’ Probably not anyone in this room. But it shows that we still have a lot of awareness to raise.” The event Monday night was […]
I was never a giggling fan of Andy Warhol, but one would have to be totally ignorant of modern art and his influence therein to fail giving him the attention and respect he deserves as an artist and master of modern communications, visual and otherwise. With androgyny before androgyny, much of his bent on conceptualism and […]
Graphic novel released in English Beautiful Darkness, a 2009 graphic novel released in English for the first time this year by Drawn & Quarterly, is a study in contrasts. The book begins as a Disney-esque fairy tale in which the dashing Prince Hector comes to visit the lovely Aurora for tea. Chivalry and romance are […]