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Missives
The Big Blue Bug is here.
Scenes
Techno music is thumping through L'Apogee, the bar at the top of the Providence Biltmore.
Pretty Pictures
"Is this really my life?" LuLu Locks asks. "I'm waking up this morning to go play Barbie dress-up with grown women?"
Mobsters
Jon Land's latest thriller begins in a South Boston basement where a man named John McIntyre has been handcuffed to a chair, slammed in the head with a chair leg, and strangled with a length of sailing rope.
Music Dept.
When Point Street Dueling Pianos opens its doors in the coming weeks, some patrons will recognize the bare brick walls and angled windows as the former home of the Hi-Hat — the respected, if slightly under-attended, jazz club that closed earlier this year.
English Dept.
Jeffrey Eugenides entered a select club last month when he published his novel, The Marriage Plot . His ticket for admission was a sentence on page 9 that began, "Providence was a corrupt town, crime ridden and mob-controlled . . . ."
Supernatural sleuths
Rhode Island's Ghost Rush — the books, the TV shows, the tours — often seems built to squeeze a little money out of a haunted economy.
Histories
I do not envy the person assigned with reducing 375 years of Providence history to four words.
Hungry? You've come to the right place
Friends don't let friends order Domino's.
Run for it!
Rhode Island was founded by a man on the run, so it's no surprise the state has become a runner's paradise.
The 88s
You might not know David Cutler, but you know his work. If you've played a piano in Providence over the last 15 years — from the dusty upright in Hudson Street Market to a posh baby-grand on the East Side — it's likely the city's go-to piano technician was there before you, tweaking the strings to make "Rocket Man" and "Für Elise" sound just right.
City history
When Gustavo Costanzo purchased pool and liquor licenses from the city of Providence in 1909, first-class stamps sold for two cents and 46 stars adorned the US flag.
The new world of going green in the bathroom
Bathroom math used to be simple: Number 1 or Number 2. That was it.
Providence gripped by funk shortage
Who's got the funk?
Up For Bid
After the auction began, Vincent, a collector with his eye on a Fernand Leger print, offered his thoughts.
Rant
On the night of Saturday, November 1, I went to a house party in the Fox Point section of Providence. Standing in the beer line, flanked by Cruella DeVille and Catwoman, I was both confused and underdressed.
Roving Eye
Spend a few minutes browsing RISD’s repository for shells, seeds, skins, and skeletons and you’ll see why — dead or alive — the Nature Lab is one of Providence’s most stimulating settings.
Citywatch
For a long time, Kennedy Plaza in Providence was in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Grave-gawkers
It’s been a rough year for cemetery buffs.
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