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Busting Balls: 20 ways to improve sports

We blow the whistle on the ridiculous rules and quirks that make the games lame
College football is stupid. Everybody knows it.

By: LANCE GOULD | January 08, 2009

Where the crytpids are

As our planet edges closer to the apocalypse, the escapist, fantasy world of cryptids is suddenly coming to life
Venture out into the waters and woodlands of New England, and there's a chance you'll bump into "Champ," America's own Loch Ness Monster, who allegedly plies the muddy ripples of Lake Champlain.

By: MIKE MILIARD | January 08, 2009

Homage to Claiborne Pell

Rest in peace, Claiborne Pell, former senator and all-around class act
Phillipe + Jorge took time to attend the funeral of Claiborne Pell, in deference to all that he did for both Rhode Island and civility everywhere he went.

By: PHILLIPE + JORGE | January 07, 2009

Weiner donations raise questions

Weiners donate $100K for Obama's inauguration
A well-connected Rhode Island couple has donated $100,000 for the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

By: STEVEN STYCOS | January 07, 2009

Review: Spumoni's

Big on family atmosphere
In far eastern Pawtucket, almost Massachusetts, sits a 30-year-old family-owned restaurant that's a great hit with locals.

By: JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | January 07, 2009

Phil Goldman tells the truth

Sharing stories at Live Bait
Stories. We all have them.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 07, 2009

Grow keeps it real-life

Grow keep it real on livin lovin learnin
Chatting with Grow songwriter Matt Odabashian and resident rapper Sneaktechniks about their livin lovin learnin debut and upcoming CD release party, it was clear that the band has taken an admirable and ballsy approach to their music.

By: CHRIS CONTI | January 06, 2009

Review: Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

Domino (2009)
Animal Collective began as a band of fringe weirdos, but over time they've dropped the freak from their folk.

By: MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY | January 06, 2009

Review: Factory Records: Communications 1978-92

Rhino (2009)
The whole Factory Records stereotype of thin, earnest men in long raincoats complaining about the cold and the damp to absolutely no chicks whatsoever over frenetic machine-made beats is with us for a reason.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 06, 2009

Review: Wu-Tang Clan's essential flavor

Lupo's, January 2, 2009
Fortune magazine once estimated that Michael Jordan has fueled our economy to the tune of $10 billion. Wu-Tang Clan are responsible for the careers of about that many MCs.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | January 06, 2009

Review: Prince of Persia

Run, jump, die, repeat
Pauline Kael titled one of her review compilations Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , saying that those four words (from a Japanese movie poster) captured the basic appeal of movies.

By: MITCH KRPATA | January 06, 2009

The City doesn't shine

MTV's The City never gets real
if you were Whitney Port, the colt-legged, honey-haired, cow-eyed star of The City , you might not think that what Herman Rosenblat did was so terrible.

By: SHARON STEEL | January 06, 2009

Review: Let Freedom Sing! Music of the Civil Rights Movement

Time/Life (2009)
In any given Black History Month, the three-disc Let Freedom Sing: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement would be a powerful anthology.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | January 06, 2009

Providence Journal goes Amish

In tough times, newspapers get ad money where they can
A full-page advertisement that ran on page A7 of Monday's ProJo featured an illustration depicting a workshop of flinty Amish craftsmen busily building what the headline called an "Amish mantle and miracle invention" that helps "home heat bills hit rock bottom."

By: IAN DONNIS | January 08, 2009