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10:53 PM Sat, Nov 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Channing Gray  Email
The big news coming out of Saturday's Rhode Island Philharmonic concert was the return of German cellist Alban Gerhardt, who gave a wonderfully heartfelt performance of the dreamy Elgar Cello Concerto. Gerhardt, who has quite a reputation in Europe, made......
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6:50 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Habits die hard," the title character of "Rainwater" (Simon & Schuster, 245 pages, $23.99) says early on. "But I wouldn't have done it if I'd known it would make you angry." Fitting words to describe Sandra Brown's latest effort, since......
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6:00 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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On Sept. 4, 1844, former Massachusetts Gov. Marcus Morton attended a large rally in Providence for the release of the embattled reformer Thomas Wilson Dorr, who was being held in state prison. The rally served the dual purpose of advocating......
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3:22 PM Thu, Nov 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bryan Rourke Email
PROVIDENCE -- Fusionworks Dance Company presents movements with a message. In the modern dance troupe's new show, which opened Thursday and runs through Saturday at Rhode Island College, there's an emphasis on making a statement. Three of the program's five......
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1:10 PM Thu, Nov 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Pawtucket's Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre has extended the run of its critically acclaimed "Much Ado About Nothing" to Dec. 5 due to popular demand. "Much Ado," one of Shakespeare's most uproarious comedies, is running in repertory until Nov. 29 with "Romeo......
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7:00 AM Thu, Nov 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Years ago, when I was director at a Providence shelter for battered women and children, we learned that a local official was demanding sex from women applying for federally subsidized housing. The young mother who alerted us feared for her......
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11:33 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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David Lindsay-Abaire's "Rabbit Hole" is the ultimate elephant-in-the-room play, a biting drama about a couple dealing with the death of their four-year-old, a couple who can't take a breath without bumping up against their loss. The play won a Pulitzer......
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1:28 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Two Rhode Islanders will be among the six people inducted into the New England chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in a ceremony tonight in Quincy. Ken Bell, the sports director for WLNE, Channel 6 in......
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12:02 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Rick Massimo Email
Shinedown, Puddle of Mudd and Skillet will play at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, 1 La Salle Sq., Providence, on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 at 7:30. Shinedown have had 10 top-5 rock radio hits, including the latest single, "If You......
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7:00 AM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal sports columnist Jim Donaldson has covered and written about New England Patriots football since 1979, during which he has collected enough facts, stories and quotes to bring the full history of this intriguing NFL franchise to light. In......
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11:58 PM Tue, Nov 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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If you weren't among the legions of "Rent" groupies that packed the Providence Performing Arts Center Tuesday night, you should know that the current tour of this Broadway smash is top-notch. The last couple of tours of "Rent" to come......
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4:13 PM Tue, Nov 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Providence-based rock band Deer Tick already released the killer album "Born on Flag Day" this year, but they're not quite through yet. The EP "More Fuel for the Fire" will come out Dec. 1 only on iTunes. It will......
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1:52 PM Tue, Nov 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bryan Rourke Email
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon," the follow-up to "Twilight," opens in theaters at midnight on Thursday. The new movie, based on the second in a series of vampire novels by Stephanie Meyer, brings Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner......
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2:31 PM Mon, Nov 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal file photo/ Frieda Squires Maxwell Mays in front of one of his paintings at his home in Coventry in 2006 By Bill Van Siclen Journal arts writer Maxwell Mays, a Providence-born painter whose whimsical depictions of Rhode Island......
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11:03 AM Mon, Nov 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Paula Vogel's new play, "A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration," has come to Boston's Huntington Theatre Co. The show runs through Dec. 13. Vogel, late of Brown University and now chair of the playwrighting department at the Yale......
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