PROVIDENCE

Avant-oompah!
Mixing old and new, Providence’s What Cheer? Brigade takes a stand against pre-fabricated culture - BY IAN DONNIS

Welcome to the PalinDome

One-stop shopping for humor mavericks

By: | October 09, 2008

Spirited moves

Paula Hunter’s off-kilter world
Paula Hunter gets under your skin.

By: JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | October 09, 2008

Be a real man

Ask Dr. Lovemonkey
I hope you inform your readers that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month throughout the United States.

By: DR. LOVEMONKEY | October 09, 2008

Kon Asian Bistro

With a heavy Japanese accent
Kon is essentially Japanese, but it calls itself an “Asian Bistro,” inviting us to cross borders.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | October 08, 2008

Bicyclists to spell support for Obama

Election cycle
There are the usual ways of spelling out your support for a candidate, and then there’s this weekend’s “Bike Write for Obama.”

By: GREG COOK | October 09, 2008

Sexual Politics

Everybody wants some, but women don’t call it an illness
Duchovny, now 48 and with a nearly complete doctorate from Yale in English lit, says he is back in rehab for sex addiction.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | October 09, 2008

Barbarisi assigned to the Sox; more changes coming

As The ProJo Turns
In a locally unorthodox move, the Providence Journal is reassigning Dan Barbarisi, its well-regarded Providence City Hall reporter, to cover the Red Sox.

By: IAN DONNIS | October 09, 2008

Our congressional officials owe Rhode Island an apology
Phillipe + Jorge are furious over the $700 billion bailout of the pinstriped pirates of Wall Street, who are laughing as they return to their McMansions.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | October 09, 2008

Funhouse

“New Obstructions” at AS220; “Trash” at 5 Traverse
AS220’s exhibit “New Obstructions” is one of those right-on ideas that seem to come so naturally to the institution.

By: GREG COOK | October 09, 2008

A battling brood

2nd Story’s stormy Another Part of the Forest
Although Lillian Hellman wrote Another Part of the Forest as a prequel after The Little Foxes , it was by no means an afterthought.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | October 09, 2008

Rebirth of the cool

Call it a comeback: Jake’s Bar & Grille is back in action
The new and improved Jake’s Bar & Grille on Richmond Street reopens the 9th and kicks off a Columbus Day welcome back weekend with three diverse shows.

By: CHRIS CONTI | October 09, 2008

Recession survival tips

Big Fat Whale

By: BRIAN MCFADDEN | October 09, 2008

More bad news for the Mets

Sports blotter: "Very bad times" edition
Look, it just isn’t seemly for us non–New Yorkers to laugh too much about the continued suckdom of the New York Mets, specifically their bullpen.

By: MATT TAIBBI | October 09, 2008

Hoover? Damn!

George W. Bush’s failures may have set off a tectonic shift in US presidential politics, commencing a Democratic Party reign
It doesn't matter how many negative ads are broadcast or how many moose are slain on the tundra, candidates and their actions don't transform our politics nearly as much as outside events and circumstances do.

By: STEVEN STARK | October 09, 2008