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Providence (Rhode Island)

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Das Racist's Top Ten Tour Memories (So Far)

    ​Viktor Vazquez has just arrived at a hotel in Seattle and is pining for some noodles. Specifically, he has the hankering for some "fancy ramen noodles." It's a caliber of Japanese wheat-noodle that he has not been able to find since leaving his home in New York City to undertake a vehement 30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Q&A: Ted Lee And Steve D'Agostino Of ZEBU! On Naked Shows, Germany, And The Brilliance Of Nick Nolte

    ​The ZEBU! song "Your Band Is Nothing"—from Hookers In Sweatpants (Feeding Tube, 2006)—is pretty hard to argue with. Guitar-slinger Steve D'Agostino pinches off mammoth riffs that somehow conflate hair metal, Molly Hatchet, bubblegum bliss, and peevish Peavy blare while scrappy sin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Dewey Dufresne to Open BYGGYZ, an Unusually Monikered Sandwich Project

    A sandwich, though not a Dufresne sandwich.​Sandwich shops just keep on rising from the ashes of the 2008 financial meltdown, and the latest indication of their still surging popularity comes from none other than Wylie Dufresne's dad.

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Live: Paramore Ends Their Year And Celebrates Their Label At Terminal 5

    Paramore w/ fun., The Stereo, The Swellers, and This Providence Terminal 5 Wednesday, September 8 Better than: Getting soaked on the long walk back to the subway. In one of the many shoutouts Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams directed toward her record label Fueled By Ramen—the emo-pop ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Q&A With Battles Drummer John Stanier: "I Was Determined To Use The Last Drop Of My Blood To Make This Happen."

    Jason Frank Rothenberg​The rock band Battles is often likened to a machine. It's not too much of a stretch: on their breakthrough debut Mirrored, they soldered together eerily controlled riffs, futuristic textures, and fiendishly powerful drumming; and on stage, the group's wrench-heavy, wrenc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Ruckus in Bahrain: Activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja Beaten and Dragged From His Home

    Alkhawaja: Beaten in Bahrain​Leading Bahraini human-rights activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja was beaten bloody and dragged out of his house by government police over the weekend in Manama, his daughter (and former Fulbright Fellow at Brown University) Maryam Alkhawaja tells the Voice. Abdulhadi Al ... More >>

  • Film

    February 23, 2011

    The Farrellys Give Us One From the Shart in Hall Pass

    Alkhawaja: Beaten in Bahrain​Leading Bahraini human-rights activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja was beaten bloody and dragged out of his house by government police over the weekend in Manama, his daughter (and former Fulbright Fellow at Brown University) Maryam Alkhawaja tells the Voice. Abdulhadi Al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Live: Doom Metal Veterans Pentagram Celebrate Their 40th Anniversary at Europa

    All photos by Daniel Snyder, more below​Pentagram Club Europa Thursday, January 6 Better than: Going completely deaf anywhere else. Metal has a habit of cannibalizing its own classic sounds in times of inspirational drought, and it doesn't take much for a few well-meaning homages to spawn a ... More >>

  • Music

    December 1, 2010

    AraabMuzik, MPC Hero

    The demonic dance-floor bombast of hip-hop producer Abraham Orellana

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Gay Takeaways From Election Night

    The first openly gay winner of yesterday's election won long before the polls even opened on the East Coast...in Guam! A former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Guam, openly gay Benjamin Cruz won re-election to the Guam Senate. Not nearly as far away but perhaps even more surprising, Jim Gray ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2010

    Hero Dad Breaks High Five Record

    (via Daily News)​The previous Guinness world record for high-fiving has been trampled by a 49-year-old salesman from Rockland County. In a gritty performance yesterday, Sam Kass started high-fiving people in Times Square at 4:18 p.m. and finished in under four hours at 8:02 p.m., completing 3,132 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Announcing the New Sightings Album, City of Straw, and Its Killer First Single, "Tar and Pine"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Sightings are Brooklyn's greatest living noise band--period. The avant-bruisers have been making jagged, nauseous, pig-fucked chip-'n'-sizzle for over a solid decade and have only gotten better with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Locavorism Gone Loco: Rhode Island Chef Certified to Cook Roadkill

    Today's local, seasonal special: roadkill.​Knowing exactly where your food is from is a source of pride these days. Patrons of a Providence, Rhode Island sportsman's club, however, might prefer to stay in the dark. Richard Bourque, the chef at Smithfield Sportsman's Club, is on the state's Dep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    More Steamy Blind Items!

    That's what you get in this week's column [CLICK HERE], which I managed to compile before taking the vacation that has some of you so understandably distraught. Well, you can console yourselves with my tasty pile of tawdry anonymous tidbits--though that's only at the end of the opus. As with sex, yo ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 24, 2009

    More Steamy Blind Items! And Some With Names Too!

    Michelle Obama swears by Isabel Toledo's gowns, and now crowds do, too.

  • Music

    May 6, 2009

    God Bless the USA Is a Monster

    A fantastic prog-noise institution goes out on top

  • Music

    April 15, 2009

    The Inhuman League: the Juan MacLean

    On the dance-music dude's faux-android love affairs

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    SXSW's 2009 Partial Performers List: If You Can Afford to Go, You Must Be Running a Ponzi Scheme

    Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

  • News

    October 22, 2008

    Vets Vs. McCain

    The hypocrisy of the war hero

  • News

    November 27, 2007

    Exterminating Angel

    The twisted relationship of the goth girl, her preppy sister, and their murdered father

  • NYC Life

    October 30, 2007

    Perez Hilton: "I Like Food, Not Drugs!"

    Yet another Rhode trip. Then it's back to Manhattan for cock tales.

  • News

    October 3, 2006

    School of Shock

    Inside a school where mentally disturbed students are jolted into good behavior

  • News

    September 12, 2006

    Can Bill Gates Rescue Evelyn Cabrera?

    The journey of one high school senior through the small-school experiment of America's most generous philanthropist

  • VLS

    May 10, 2005

    The Fear

    Michel Houellebecq gives the legendary Lovecraft a new platform

  • Books

    January 18, 2005

    Uprooted Plante: A Movable Life Begins in a Providence Parish

    Michel Houellebecq gives the legendary Lovecraft a new platform

  • Specials

    November 30, 2004

    Letters

    Michel Houellebecq gives the legendary Lovecraft a new platform

  • Art

    April 13, 2004

    Material World

    Recipe for a retrospective: Mix sausages, bananas, Easter bunnies, cacti, and add chocolate

  • News

    April 6, 2004

    Bloomberg's Accountability?

    Eva Moskowitz's prescription: giving kids a fighting chance well before the third grade

  • Music

    March 23, 2004

    Providence of God

    Accordion and Old Testament in tow, waiting for ice to melt

  • News

    March 16, 2004

    Day by Day, Death by Death

    A Chronology of U.S. Military Fatalities Since 'Mission Accomplished,' Part II

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    A Critic's Job at Work

    A Chronology of U.S. Military Fatalities Since 'Mission Accomplished,' Part II

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    100 Hottest Hotties

    Sex Drive Outpaces Death Drive as the Biz Goes Down the Toilet

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    On Da Corner Worldwide

    Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People

  • News

    August 26, 2003

    Anti-Conventional Wisdom

    Attention, GOP! The Forecast for Next Year in New York City: Extremely Stormy

  • Specials

    March 18, 2003

    Letters

    Attention, GOP! The Forecast for Next Year in New York City: Extremely Stormy

  • News

    November 26, 2002

    Cheap Lay

    The Myth of the Gay-Friendly GOP

  • Dance

    February 19, 2002

    On the Fence

    The Myth of the Gay-Friendly GOP

  • News

    November 27, 2001

    On Edge

    Aggressive Skaters Have to Choose Between a Living and a Life

  • Art

    October 2, 2001

    All at Once

    Aggressive Skaters Have to Choose Between a Living and a Life

  • News

    June 5, 2001

    The Great Down-Low Debate

    A New Black Sexual Identity May Be an Incubator for AIDS

  • Music

    May 29, 2001

    Fear of Music

    A New Black Sexual Identity May Be an Incubator for AIDS

  • Specials

    April 24, 2001

    Letters

    A New Black Sexual Identity May Be an Incubator for AIDS

  • Specials

    January 9, 2001

    Letters

    A New Black Sexual Identity May Be an Incubator for AIDS

  • Books

    May 23, 2000

    Amour No More

    A New Black Sexual Identity May Be an Incubator for AIDS

  • Specials

    January 12, 1999

    Letters

    A New Black Sexual Identity May Be an Incubator for AIDS

  • Specials

    December 8, 1998

    Letters

    A New Black Sexual Identity May Be an Incubator for AIDS

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