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31 The City’s Big MomentOver the last year PVD has been raking in

national accolades. Are we about to be the

country’s next It City?

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15 Providence PulseDiscover the green innovations coming

out of Riverzedge Arts

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37 City StylePrepare for Thunderdome at Training for Warriors

37 At Home 39 The Look 40 Get Fit 43 Shop Around

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48 Review 50 On The Menu 53 In The Kitchen

54 In The Drink 55 Rhody Bites

59 Get OutMeet the minds behind Frog and Toad’s quirky kitsch

60 Calendar 62 Music 64 Art 66 Theatre

68 Taste TestTacos for days, just in time for Cinco de Mayo

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Editor’s Note

We’re Kind of a Big Deal

I have a theory: Providence is going to be America’s next It City. Call me biased – after all, it’s my job to be a cheerleader for all of the awesomeness con-tained in our 20 square miles – but I see something happening here. A new energy and enthusiasm. A new wave of people moving here, who are willing to risk a shaky job market for high quality of life, but who make the job market stronger by widen-ing the talent pool. A new group of developers will-ing to invest in the city’s potential. Providence has enjoyed lots of positive attention from the national media over the last couple of years, and people are finally getting the memo. In this month’s cover

story, we explore all of the pieces of the puzzle that are coming together to give Providence its national moment. Are we going to be the next Austin. I think so. I hope so. Because what could happen here means great things for all of us.

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Did your first job involve saving the world? “I get to play the part of an environmental hero and [give] people another chance to help the Earth,” says Chant Smith, 17, about her job at the Green Design Lab (GDL) at Riverzedge Arts. Chant, along with her colleagues, saves the world every time they work, which is undeniably pretty cool.

Green Design Lab got its roots in 2009, as a gov-ernmentally funded program for at risk youth in Woonsocket. “We specifically developed environ-mental programs for this population to deploy the powerful healing effects of nature through outdoor learning, reversing the direction of our traditional lenses,” says Riverzedge Arts Executive Director, Re-bekah Greenwald. The program was so well-received by the community, that in 2012, it was integrated into Riverzedge Arts’ Studio Arts & Enterprise Project as the fifth studio, along with Graphic Design, Visual

Arts, Digital Media and Screen Printing.Teen members are team members at GDL. “They

do everything,” John Speck, Green Design Lab Direc-tor says, “from brainstorming, sketching and writing, to scale drawing or 3D models and then building in the wood shop or installing environmentally benefi-cial landscape improvements with good old manual labor.” Summer is the GDL’s most crucial season, due to the high volume of outdoor work, and they thrive on their youth colleagues’ innovation and participa-tion. “The teens are the creative talent, working and learning collaboratively with their Industry Mentor studio leads,” says Rebekah.

Teen involvement was always at the core of GDL’s development. John commented, “The youth in the program seemed to lack any connection to their sur-roundings. For them, nature was not something they could find in Woonsocket; it was something that they traveled elsewhere to experience.” GDL has success-fully transformed the way many in the area, from teens to adults, think about the environment. “Na-ture is more than a pretty flower you smell, or pick and give to a friend,” says GDL member, Cassaundra McDermott, 14.” “[It’s] something that gives life to another creature.”

The team of youth members have a heavy hand in making Woonsocket a greener place, installing rain gardens at Woonsocket High School and the Woon-socket Police Department headquarters, to name a few. In addition, they maintain on-site flower and vegetable gardens.

While many of the GDL’s future projects are top secret, they have a full month lined up for May, with rain garden designs for CH2M’s Woonsocket waste-

water treatment plant and an initiative to double their production of food growth on-site. “We hope to have a significant food-growing operation that pro-duces a meaningful quantity of fresh food during the summer and fall, John says, “If we reach our goals in the greenhouse, we should be able to sell or do-nate plants to the community.” Green Design Lab at Riverzedge Arts, 196 2nd Avenue, Woonsocket. 767-2100, RiverzedgeArts.org/Services/Green-Design –Charlotte Seley

Steve Brosnihan is inviting “anyone who has line of sight and the will to help a hospital-ized child” to participate in Good Night Lights. “It’s easy,” he says, “you flick a light on and off four times and you’ve done your job.” Steve has been volunteering as a cartoonist in the Healing Arts Department at Hasbro Children’s Hospital since the early ‘90s and six years ago created this initiative to bid goodnight to the patients every evening at 8:30pm.

“It’s already a great show,” he says, thanks to the

dedication from multiple community members, in-cluding the Hot Club, Providence Steamboat Com-pany, Tockwotton on the Waterfront, The Brown University Sciences Library and most recently, The East Providence Police Department. “A chief with a huge heart immediately agreed that he wanted his department to do what it could for this display,” which has culminated in a weekly Wednesday night ritual. The chief leads six cars to an overlook point-ed at the hospital to flash their red, white and blue lights, looking like “a fireworks display for the kids.”

Now, Steve hopes the Providence Skyline, which “looks like a bunch of big brothers to the hospital,” will get involved.

Steve recounts one seven-year-old patient witnessing the lights for the first time: “The kid went nuts! He couldn’t sit still because he was trying to [see] every signal.” This child’s reac-tion clearly articulates the potential of Good Night Lights. Steve concludes, “I think it’s more than a project. I hope it becomes a tradition.” –Samantha Westmoreland

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Night Night

Cultivating Environmentally Conscious Youth Riverzedge Arts and its youth members are making their community greener

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Neo-Providence is About to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.Providence Anime brings niche nerdery to Brook Street

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After Acme Video closed two years ago, Providence stared at the empty storefront wondering what would take its place. The wait is over, as 137 Brook Street is lively and once more filled with DVDs and Blu-Rays, albeit of a very specific fashion.

Providence Anime owner Adam Anderson opened the store after see-ing a gap in Providence’s market. A tried and true anime fan since the age of seven when he first started watch-ing Dragon Ball Z on Toonami, Adam

recognized that while there may be a couple discs of One Piece or Na-ruto shuffled into the stock of some stores there was no place truly ded-icated to his favorite sub-culture, even though almost every college in the state has a club dedicated to anime. This was Adam’s goal when he chose to fill the hole left behind by Acme Video – to make a place where people could walk to and find great anime.

Additionally he sells tabletop

games and cards, because, in his words, anime and gaming are both part of a “weird collective fam-ily.” The store is set up with sev-eral tables ready to use for any of the games available either to buy or rent in store, or you can bring in your own. Renting a table is just $5 per person. Feel free to bring take out and snacks, just leave the adult beverages at home. 137 Brook Street. 351-1200, Providence-Anime.com –Kendra Genereux

Sometimes jewelry isn’t just jewelry. Sometimes a necklace is a meaningful gift, or a ring is a family heirloom. Suzanne Ellis Wernevi, founder of Luna & Stella, knows that the things we wear often mean more than decoration. “I believe relationships – between parents, grandparents, children, partners, siblings and friends – are what life is all about,” she says. The jewelry she designs: rings, necklaces and charms in celestial shapes, and with birthstones of your own or your loved ones, represent connections between people. “My most prized possessions are two rings, one that was my grandmother’s, and one that my mother-in-law gave me on my wedding day, a ring that was her mother’s,” Suzanne says. “I never take them off.”

You might have seen Luna & Stella jewelry on kids’ fashion blogs. Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise, arbiters of mother/daughter fashion, which is really a thing, have been seen wearing the star necklaces with each others’ birthstones in them. “When I was a little girl, my mother

was always suggesting that we should get mother-daugh-ter outfits, to the point that it became a running joke,” Su-zanne says. “While I never wanted to dress like my mother, I always loved her jewelry collection, much of which she had inherited from her own mother. It got me thinking about the timelessness of jewelry, and the ability for it to hold meaning across generations.”

For the last year, she’s been working on Luna & Stella’s “mama + me” collection, which debuted this spring. The line includes girls sizes of heart and star stacking birthstone rings, and mama + me bracelets and necklaces using the brand’s signature moon and stars designs: a moon for mom, and a star for her girl. “Being a mom myself now, I can relate to the appeal of the idea of wearing something that connects you to your child,” Suzanne says. “Wearing jewelry that symbol-izes a connection is a much more subtle way of celebrating the mother-daughter relationship than wearing a matching outfit.” And way less embarrassing, too. LunaandStella.com –Julie Tremaine

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In the immortal words of Ron Burgundy, that escalated quickly. When Commerce RI unveiled the new state tourism campaign in a suspiciously timed 5pm press conference on March 28, the negative reaction was swift and unmerciful. The mistakes were many and well documented, and the out-rage voluminous, so we needn’t wade through the muck again. Nor do we have any desire to be another gun in the circular firing squad of discourse about this campaign. Let’s focus instead, on the lessons to be learned here:

1. Stop looking outside RI for a savior.The governor and Commerce RI must have thought they had a slam dunk when they landed Milton Glaser to design the new logo and slogan. After all, this was the guy who created perhaps the most successful tourism campaign of all time, “I Love New York.” Now he was going to work that same magic for Rhode Island. That’s one way to look at it; another is that they hired an octogenarian with no connection to Rhode Island whose most significant work was almost 40 years ago to do a job for which any number of locals were eminently qualified. We might as well have hired Neil Diamond to write a new state song. The decision had echoes of both the infamous Provi-dence rebrand of 2009, in which then-Mayor Cicilline hired a Tennessee firm to come up with an orange ‘P’, and the 38 Studios debacle, in which the EDC (now Commerce RI) sank a bunch of taxpayer money into a big name outsider. Design is one of our strengths in Rhode Island. The governor probably could have stum-bled over someone capable of a better logo while getting her morning coffee. Hell, it might have even been the person serving the coffee.

2. Don’t make things harder than they have to be. Rhode Island is pretty damn good at design and branding. Hospitality and tourism are also strengths for us. Tourism is already our second biggest industry, and we have eight regional tourism boards (six of whom had their budgets cut to help pay for this campaign) that manage to do a lot on limited resources. We also have a wide network of business

owners, creative professionals, media outlets (ahem ahem) and local boosters who know how to showcase the best this state has to offer. Investing $5 million in consolidating those efforts, and drawing upon that expertise for a statewide cam-paign, would have been money well spent.

3. If you want us to embrace something, make us feel like a part of it.Rhode Islanders are fiercely proud of their state and probably would have been ready to support a coordinated effort to showcase it – if only the leader-ship had made an effort to activate that pride. Had this campaign felt even the least bit organic and homegrown – and if the logo actually looked cool – you would have seen people sporting it on t-shirts within a week.

4. We crave a reason to be outraged.Sometimes I wonder if Rhode Islanders love complaining about government in-competence more than they actually hate government incompetence. This bungled campaign was a time for thoughtful criti-cism and holding our leaders account-able, not gleeful schadenfreude. This campaign was embarrassing enough, but we compound the humiliation by coming off like a mob of torch-waving villagers.

5. We still need a (good) statewide tourism campaign.Despite all that our state has to offer, we sorely lack the pretty, shiny packaging we need to properly sell it. The problem is that this effort was so poorly executed that we still need a good rebranding – and now there won’t be the political or popular will to do so. Any further effort at promoting the state is going to carry the 38 Studios-like stink of institutional incompetence, and taxpayers are going to instinctively recoil from the thought of spending another dollar.

6. We love our state.People really do love this place, and they’re eager to talk about it. Beneath the anger and know-it-all spitefulness, there was an undeniable sense that ev-erybody understands what’s wonderful about Rhode Island and knows how to express it – everybody except the people who worked on this campaign, of course. –John Taraborelli

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It’s easy to take our small city – and state – for granted. We’ve been there, done it all and are happy to settle into our regular PVD patterns. With the release of 100 Things To Do In Providence Be-fore You Die, author Rebecca Keister has given us all a practical guide to rediscovering what we love about the city and things to do with out of town guests besides just going to the Hot Club (Thing To Do #11 “Sip a Summer Cocktail” and #37 “Make Your Own Movie Tour.”)

Broken down into five categories – food and drink, music and entertainment, sports and recre-ation, culture and history, shopping and fashion –

the book definitely highlights PVD’s greatest hits, but also branches out beyond the city.

“There are things like take a beautiful day trip to Block Island,” Rebecca tells me over coffee at Seven Stars (#37 and #82 “Pass the Bread”) “Or other places where you could spend a day like Narragansett, Newport and Bristol.” True story: I’ve never been to Block Island (#60) but Rebecca hasn’t scored a perfect 100 either.

“I’ve never had a New York System hot wiener,” she concedes, promising to cross #10 off of list ASAP. “I was a vegan up until very recently.”

Whether you’re new to town and looking to

explore or you’re a lifer looking to rack up some bragging rights, we suggest keeping a copy of 100 Things To Do In Providence Before You Die in your glove box or next to your RIPTA pass. You haven’t experienced Providence until you’ve experienced it “all the way.” Check out our full Q&A with Re-becca at ProvidenceOnline.com. 100 Things To Do in Providence Before You Die is available online and at both Barrington Books locations, Books on the Square and Wakefield Books. Follow Rebecca on Twitter at @RebeccaKeister for more info about book signings at some of the locations mentioned throughout the book. –Tony Pacitti

Dolapo Akinkugbe was born in Nigeria, classically trained in piano and attended boarding school in England. Now he’s a senior at Brown, about to pass through those vaulted Van Wickle Gates. Law school may be in his future, but so might a career in music. Known on stage as DAP, Dolapo is a rapper who was selected by Converse Rubber Tracks last fall for an all-expenses paid recording session in an iconic studio with an influential producer. His experience was cap-tured in the online documentary released by Noisey in March called The Under-graduate, where he juggled familial expectations and school with the opportunity to record at Abbey Road (yes that Abbey Road) under the guidance of “Uptown Funk” producer Mark Ronson.

“Firstly I think it is important to mention that I have the most incredible parents, have never wanted for anything, and have always had full support in whatever I do,” explains DAP, who was set to take the LSATs just one week after a whirlwind trip to the legendary studio. “They realized that I really live and breathe music, simply in the decision to fly to London that weekend and

not let that opportunity slide.”Once there he couldn’t help but be in awe of the mythology of the place, but

at the same time he couldn’t let the memories that linger in its walls distract him. “I know better than to be overly intimidated by a space because of who has

been there before me and throw away such an opportunity,” he offers pragmati-cally. “I was very very inspired and from the moment I walked in I was already making music in my head, but what I found was that I was completely ready. Playing the piano for already almost two decades at age 22 made me more than ready to take full advantage of the opportunity.”

By the end of the documentary, things are still up in the air. He did well on his LSATs and is ready to settle into the waiting game that so many graduates and soon-to-graduates have to play. After a life of schooling it’s uncomfortable to exist in a state of academic ambiguity, but for DAP there is a powerful constant: music.

“I am ready, I always have been, and I was always meant to do this. It was never really up to me. Music is my purpose.” Watch The Undergraduate and read our complete interview with DAP at ProvidenceOnline.com –Tony Pacitti

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T he world has changed considerably since William Shakespeare’s time on

Earth, but adolescents and teenagers in modern America’s fast-paced digital cul-ture still find themselves grappling with the same types of urges, emotions, con-fusion and issues that Shakespeare cap-tured in his plays and sonnets – which is precisely what makes them timeless.

American youth, raised on instant grat-ification, might initially balk at the idea of delving into centuries-old British writing and performance, only to find themselves weeks or months later unexpectedly en-thralled by the chance to explore such rich themes in a visceral way, through the arts. One local theater is honoring the transformative power of language and performance by using a national grant to imbue the lives of local teens with a little hands-on Shakespeare immersion.

The GranTPawtucket’s Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre has held a strong presence in the Providence area theater and nonprofit scenes since 1998 (with origins dating back in various iterations to 1984). For its 31st season, The Gamm has brought to life a diverse spectrum of stage oeuvres spanning from classic to modern, includ-ing A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rant, Grizzly Mama and A Skull in Connemara.

The final play in the lineup – Shake-speare’s The Winter’s Tale – has

something that the other runs do not: it will be used as part of a special teach-ing workshop for students at ten dif-ferent high schools and middle schools in Central Falls, Pawtucket, Providence and Cranston.

Education Director Susie Schutt has worked at The Gamm for five years to-tal and in her current position for close to two. A sociology major in college, she also studied plays and directing concur-rently with her schooling, and directs other plays within the Providence com-munity as well.

“It’s so important for my department to have a positive impact on our community and to enact exchanges in a really proac-tive way; with my sociology background, that is of major interest,” says Suzie.

The Gamm’s community-driven Shakespeare workshops and classes are made possible through a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Shakespeare in Ameri-can Communities grant is a well-known 13-year-old national award given to 40 nonprofit professional theater compa-nies in 26 states nationwide. The Gamm previously received the same grant two years ago, when the company ran Mac-beth as part of its 2014 season. The the-atre’s 2016’s instruction of The Winter’s Tale will be modeled after the previous grant application, with the advantage of some experience already under its belt.

The sTudenTsSome might wonder, “Why Shakespeare in particular?”

“Shakespeare’s work is absolutely worth studying because it gives you a chance to think about topics like your own humanity, the English language and its origins, self-expression, poetry and history,” explains Suzie, who herself stud-ied Shakespeare in high school and col-lege and participated in a Shakespearean summer camp in her youth. “The roles in his plays also give students the chance to explore and experience heightened emo-tions in a safe and interesting way. It gives them a unique opportunity to really tap into themselves.”

The content and tones of the individual plays themselves are also more impor-tant than readers may realize if they are not already well-acquainted with Shake-speare’s body of work. Whereas Mac-beth is one of the most familiar titles in the Western world and taught in schools across the country, The Winter’s Tale is far more obscure and rarely makes it into English class curriculums. Because of this, says Suzie, “It’s exciting for the stu-dents to get to have this particular work as something they’ve worked on going forward. We did the play last summer with The Gamm Theatre camp, and that’s kind of how I fell in love with it.”

“It’s such a beautiful play; it taps into a range of human emotion and

experience in a profound way. You get to look at the sources of jealousy, for-giveness and other big topics that our students are also experiencing deeply and personally in their own lives. The Winter’s Tale has forbidden love, over-protective parents and children rebel-ling; it has fight scenes and people going mad, and all of that intensity can really engage students in that age range,” explains Suzie. “Even though it’s a 400 year-old text, it’s still incred-ibly relevant at an emotional level, and it’s exciting to watch as the students realize that and then use it as a vehicle to channel and explore their feelings through the arts.”

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“Because the grant is extremely gener-ous, it becomes a big puzzle,” says Suzie. “It’s all about juggling the schedule and allocating resources.” Different schools have different numbers of classrooms participating: one has six, while another might have two. The ten-week classes have already begun and will continue through June, taught by two people in The Gamm’s education department, and two freelance teaching artists have been hired to help out.

Teaching Shakespeare in schools is very different than teaching his works at the summer camp, Suzie finds. The four-week, seven-hours-a-day camps are elective and have participants work-ing to stage and produce two plays con-currently. The school program works in partnership with the classroom teacher, which means a stronger focus on the study of the text and understanding its themes. Most students at the school are also not electing to be there; the pro-gram is a mandatory part of their Eng-lish class. Many of them initially question why they have to be there at all.

“What I’ve found teaching Shake-speare in public schools,” says Suzie, “is that during the week or so leading up to their performing the play, none of them have that question anymore. They all re-alize why they are there and why this is important. And that’s the moment when I feel the luckiest to be doing what I do.”

The playIn addition to studying the text, having students stage the play is a major part of the program. For some of them, it is their first exposure to acting or theater

production in any form. Another key element of the in-school workshops is when students travel to The Gamm to see the same play that they are working on staged by professional actors.

“We wouldn’t be doing this project if we weren’t performing Shakespeare on our own stage,” says Suzie. “We share this incredible work of art with our patrons, and all of our students come and see it and get to interact with the actors. Stu-dents playing roles get so excited to see professional actors portraying the same parts and then ask them questions after-wards; they become really engaged.”

She notes that the timing of the pro-fessional viewing has a big impact on the class overall, and it can be tough to find the right date: “Ideally, students come see the play when they’re almost ready to perform theirs and have almost every-thing in place. If they see the professional one first, then they just work on copying; if they view it too late, they’ve already disconnected from the material. We’re trying to talk all of the schools into that sweet spot.”

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and in fairness, we have our share of issues and loud opinions, especially on parking meters and, apparently, on state branding. But if you moved here from somewhere else, you probably have a lot more optimism about the city than anyone who lived through the worst of the Know-A-Guy years. In particular, people outside

of Rhode Island view Providence positively. So positively, in fact, that just last year we were America’s Fa-vorite City in Travel + Leisure, GQ’s Coolest City in America and one of The New York Times’ 52 Places to Visit in 2016, in the entire world. It’s the kind of talk that made Austin the country’s It City in the 2000s, and that has Portland, Oregon on the tip of everyone’s tongue right now.

People talk about visiting those cities

for the food, the culture, the music. They talk about living in those cities because of the quality of life, the walk-ability, the affordability. But we’ve got all of those things, too. Providence is unparalleled in its culinary scene, its historicity, its concentration of colleg-es and universities, its unique cultural character in things like WaterFire, Big Nazo and the RISD Museum. “We have everything we need to compete with any of these booming cities,” says May-or Jorge Elorza. “Most of the cities I’ve visited have nothing on Providence.”

As for the things we don’t have: jobs, housing, student retention… well, let’s just say there are improvements on the horizon. That’s why Providence is about to land on America’s radar in a big way.

Word is Spreading About UsThere’s hardly a week when Provi-dence isn’t on some new national list: for best coffee, pizza, burgers; as an affordable family vacation, or a gay-friendly city; as a must-see college town or a historic preservation leader. Those big three are huge, but there have been 65 others in just a year.

“The city sells itself,” says Kristen Ad-amo, Vice President of Marketing at the Providence Warwick Convention & Visi-tors Bureau (CVB). “The passion of the people who live here takes over. I don’t think you get that in bigger cities.” Part of the CVB’s work is to spread Provi-dence’s message across the country. When they host reporters (57 in 2015), they connect them to the right PVD people. “We have a lot of unique people with stories to tell,” Kristen says. “What reporter isn’t going to love [AS220’s] Bert Crenca?”

She also uses the city’s connectivity – our “one degree of separation” – as a selling tool. “I can get the mayor to come to something,” Kristen says. “You can’t do that in other big cities. You go up to Federal Hill, and those guys will come out of their stores to say hello. Writers from New York come here, and they’re a little jaded, and by the end they’re like I want to move here.”

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Where food was once the leader in garnering national interest, fashion is our next big topic. All eyes are on Alex + Ani, our neighborhood billion dollar brand, amid whispers of an IPO. Last year, Forbes and Marie Claire did pieces on StyleWeek, and the CVB is doing a lot to promote our vintage scene, including digitizing the Guide to Providence Vin-tage that Christine Francis-Barta from Carmen and Ginger put together. Their work landed Ann Hood a feature in the upcoming summer issue of National Geographic Traveler about why she loves this city. The CVB’s next big push is his-toric preservation, in which Providence is a national leader; they brought Brent Runyon from The Providence Preserva-tion Society to New York for “desksides” with editors last month.

People are Moving HereChris and Angie Cunico were headed to Boston last fall, where Angie had gotten a job as in-house counsel for Santander Bank. They were headed to Boston, until they figured out that would mean a long commute to an outer suburb. “We were going to be living in a neighborhood we definitely didn’t want to live in,” Angie says. “Between the two of us, we’d lived in Houston, Austin, Charlotte, DC, Nashville, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Jersey,” Chris says. “We had a feel for how much city we actually wanted, and Providence appeared to be that.” After just a few months, they knew they wanted to stay. “It was appealing because we could find something we liked, and be comfortable, and be in a nice neighborhood,” Angie says. “We have the kind of day to day life-style that we want to have, but long term, we can afford to buy a house here. There

aren’t many places on the East Coast right now where that’s the case.”

While they love it, the Cunicos are making real sacrifices to make Provi-dence happen. Angie works in Boston, while Chris is still working as in-house counsel in Newark. “It would be nice to work here,” he says. “It’s really a func-tion of the number of bigger companies there are. They’re very good, and they’re very big, but there aren’t many of them.”

“We’re doing some pretty interest-ing life gymnastics to make it possible to live here, but it’s worth it to us,” Angie adds. “We don’t like that he’s in New Jersey three days a week, but he spends the other four here. We have a great social life, we can go to res-taurants, he can park the car when he comes home on Thursday night and walk everywhere that we go.”

“The quality of life here is really good,” Chris adds. “People don’t get it unless they’ve visited. If you can get people to support a workforce that will come and stay, I think a lot of people would. Where else can you drive to the beach, or to another major city, and you have the easiest airport in the country?”

To be able to move to Providence, Rich Pezzillo and Michael DeGrandpre had to do something similar: telecommute from their jobs in Washington DC. Rich, a North Providence native, left in 2001. When he and then-fiance Michael were looking to relocate to New England, the search came down to Providence and Portland, in Michael’s home state. “When we were talking about our future,” Mi-chael says, “one of the things we had as a core value was the quality of life and the quality of people that you encounter in Rhode Island. This is a place that is unlike anywhere in the world.” Considering they

both travel extensively for work - Michael, until recently, for 30 weekends a year in different cities – they’re qualified to make that distinction.

“Would we have been able to move here without our jobs in DC? Prob-ably not,” Rich says. “I think that’s what people are going to need to do to make it work here, is to work remotely and establish themselves.” Though nei-ther he nor Michael immediately got a job in Rhode Island – Michael recently started working for a Providence-based marketing firm, after a year of telecom-muting, while Rich still works for the Hemophilia Association of America in DC – they didn’t see that as a bad thing. Because they were working in their living space, the two would leave for lunch every day, and got to know their neighbors through those interactions. “It was amazing to be able to work and live in the same space, to enjoy this un-believable neighborhood that we have around us,” Michael says.

The two were so taken by Providence, and by their neighborhood, that they dove into enhancing the community, helping to found the Downtown Neigh-borhood Association (DNA) in Octo-ber. In less than six months, they’ve es-tablished a Downtown Neighborhood Crime Watch, gotten

the decorative lights restored and graffiti cleaned up, set up rush tickets for Down-town residents at PPAC and started “so-cials” where residents meet up in groups at neighborhood restaurants on slow nights. The DNA is just one force aimed at making Downtown more resident-friendly. The Providence Foundation is working with the Downtown Improve-ment District and the Downtown Parks Conservancy to develop Downtown outdoor spaces, adding public art, and making them feel clean and safe. “What we’ve found nationally is that the qual-ity of public space is a necessity when you want to attract people and attract companies,” says The Providence Foun-dation’s Dan Baudouin. “The quality of public space is very important: parks, sidewalks, cafes on sidewalks – people want it to be clean, interactive and fun.”

“It’s such a great feeling of being in a city where things are still develop-ing, but there are so many supporters behind them,” Rich adds. “We’re firm believers that the biggest cheerleaders are those who move here and fall in love with it. Rhode Islanders are Providence’s worst critics.”

...But Those People Need HousesAs more young people move here – and as graduates from our schools are incen-tivized to stay, but more on that later – the talent pool is getting bigger. But what happens then? Some projections from Rhode Island Housing indicate a 20% surge in Providence households over the next decade, according to Exec-utive Director Barbara Fields. Our vacan-cy rate is chronically low, just over 4%, so it’s hard to find an affordable apartment or buy a house in the city.

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“We see housing as an essential piece of the puzzle in trying to build the economic strength in Rhode Is-land,” Barbara says. “We create jobs when we invest in housing. We want people to stay here, and they need housing within their reach if we want them to spend within the local econ-omy.” To encourage that, RI Housing offers money to homebuyers: forgiv-able loans up to $7,000 for recent graduates; $20,000 grants for pur-chasing foreclosures; mortgages for first time homebuyers. “Last year, we put over $500 million dollars in the Rhode Island economy,” she says.

The incentives are appealing, but that doesn’t solve the problem of where these people are going to live. That’s Christine West’s job. “My sense is that people are ready to in-vest,” she says. “There’s value to be unlocked in Providence. The smart developers are doing it.” A principal and co-owner at KITE Architects, Christine and partner Albert Garcia led the team that designed the first approved construction on the I-195 Redevelopment Project, on Parcel 8. The building includes 80,000 square feet of new construction, with retail and office space on the lower levels and apartments above, and those LED lights that have peo-ple buzzing.

Other projects, like the mixed-use redevelopment at 32 Custom House Street with ground-floor retail space, are being announced by KITE in quick succession. “Our

firm is spectacularly busy,” she explains. “All of my architect friends are. When we get busy, in two years people start seeing things happen.” There are no cranes in the sky yet – just ask any of the mayor’s de-tractors – but there are about to be soon, and will be for a long time.

“We’re under capacity,” Christine continues. “We don’t have enough housing for all of the people who want to live here. It drives the econo-my, but it does mean that while we’re under supplied, prices are going up.” The rent increase between 2014 and 2015 was the biggest we’ve seen in a decade, according to RI Hous-ing, and tax increases are pointing to higher rents this year, too. Real-tors, especially on the East Side, are busier than they’ve been in years. But the concern,aside from schools, which is a conversation for another time, is attainable price points for all of this new development. Yes, it’s great that people are moving here, but eventually they could price us out of our own city. “The only way you can keep the rents approach-able is to make the units smaller,” Christine says. “There is a trend to-ward smaller housing, but you trade off space for proximity. That’s the nature of cities.” Given the perpetual waiting list for micro-lofts at The Ar-cade, it only reinforces the need for smaller space development, like the apartments going in at 95 Chest-nut Street, which are right-sized for more economical living.

...And Most Importantly, They Need JobsSo we’ve got pieces in place: the talent pool, the positive messaging about Providence and the places to house everyone. Then there’s the el-ephant in the room – there still aren’t enough jobs to go around.

“When you think of what we need in Providence to kickstart our economy and reverse the brain drain, we need something like Wexford Properties,” says Mayor Jorge Elorza of the science and technology development going into the 195 space. “That’s a game changer. They do shared workspace, but they do shared workspace supercharged,” he explains. “They also do programming to facilitate the ideas of one institution mixing with the ideas from another.” Wexford will develop the two largest parcels of 195 land in three phases.

The mayor also cites successes in workforce development, like the culinary program at Providence Career and Tech-nical Academy, which trains the next generation of restaurateurs, as an invest-ment in future jobs. And, there are large corporations investing in the city, like Deepwater Wind, which is building the nation’s first wind farm off Block Island and assembling the turbines in Provi-dence. “In assembling these massive wind turbines, they’ve put 300 people to work,” he explains. “This is the first time in the nation this Deepwater Wind project is happening. If this works, there’s potential for great growth for the state.”

Particularly exciting, especially for a foodie city, is the new Cromwell devel-opment in the Armory District: 40 resi-dential units, and the entire first floor as shared space for chefs to try out new concepts before launching their own restaurants. “They’re Brooklyn develop-ers,” the mayor explains. “This has been successful in Brooklyn, and they have big plans for Providence.”

Cromwell also plays to our strengths, which according to the Brookings Insti-tution study commissioned by Gover-nor Raimondo, are shellfish and design (among others). “We’re not a corporate town,” Christine West says. “Everyone I know has a really interesting job. There’s a correlation there. Providence is where people who want to do what they want get to do it.” She suggests the idea will become more of an asset as our nation-al star rises. “People can have creative and unique jobs, and it’s the kind of

culture that promotes that,” Chris-tine explains. “I know people who make money handcrafting jewel-ry, or in fashion or photography. To be neighbors with an oyster farmer? Come on. If that’s our strength, then the branding can be that you can choose your own destiny in Providence.”

To that end, the City has just rolled out the Providence Design Catalyst Program, intended specifically to pro-mote these creative, innovative jobs. A collaboration with RISD, the Social Enterprise Greenhouse, DesignxRI and the Community Development Block Grant, the program gives entrepre-neurs grants of up to $35,000, plus technical assistance and mentorship. The stipulation is that recipients have to live in and do business in Provi-dence. The program is just one thing in place to help alleviate brain drain from departing graduates. “I’ve met with all of the university presidents, and in our first conversations I told them that more than anything, I want their students to stay here. They’re willing to partner with us to help develop the local economy and make it a more re-ceptive, inviting place for graduates to stay.” Mayor Elorza also has a five year plan in the works to make Providence a hub for innovations in the technol-ogy surrounding aging, connecting Dementia and Alzheimer’s research at Brown with senior housing design development at RISD, with physical therapy innovation at URI, with food as medicine study at JWU, to make Providence the center for innovators in that industry.

Can PVD Be the Next Austin?One major piece of national visibility that we’re missing is a marquis festival, like Austin’s South by Southwest. This year’s PVD Fest on June 4, building on the resounding success of last year’s Providence International Arts Festival, is built with scalability. Austin’s music festival grew to a week of SXSW In-teractive conferences just beforehand. “There’s nothing stopping us from do-ing something similar,” Mayor Elorza says. “I came back thinking Austin is a great city, but in terms of raw materials, there’s nothing that they have that we don’t have that can help us develop a festival,” he says. The comparisons to Austin don’t end there.

“One of the things that’s so appeal-ing to me about living here is that it feels like Austin did in the ‘90s,” just be-fore its SXSW and tech booms, Angie Cunico says. “It’s the same kind of indie, artistic, higher education focused city. I see that growth for Providence.” But, she says, “As many things as we liked about Austin…” Chris continues: “We like being here more.”

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How does your work attire differ from your non-work? Out of college, it was suit and tie, M-F. My attitude’s evolved since starting JaiCG in 2012. Now, I strive to look “professional” but not stiff. It’s what you do and produce that matters – which is how we think at JaiCG. Taking what exists and challenging ourselves to make it our own, or do it better. It’s not being rebellious; it’s just refusing to blindly con-form. That’s how true authenticity happens.

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What’s your favorite season in Rhode Island? What do you look forward to wearing?A tie between summer and winter. I have a collec-tion of Kobe 9 sneakers in different colorways. For colder climates, I have multiple J. Crew coats and limited edition Timberlands that make me feel like an astronaut/arctic Alaskan.

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I don’t consider myself much of a warrior. So I approached TFW Providence with a bit of trepidation. TFW stands for Training for Warriors, a fitness regimen developed by strength trainer and javelin thrower Martin Rooney. TFW Providence is the third in Rhode Island. It was started by Mike Cronin, a National Strength and Conditioning Association-certified spe-cialist, grad student in kinesiology and former mixed martial arts fighter.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that TFW Providence is much more Average Joe’s than Globo-Gym. Currently, Mike runs his classes at Next Level Fitness in Johnston, as he works towards open-ing his own studio in Providence next fall. I arrived to meet the other “war-riors” I would be training with: one guy a little older than me and another a little younger, both recovering from injuries; two women I would estimate to be in their 60s, one of whom was overcoming Lyme disease; and a roughly 12-year-old kid. If we were going to be a team of warriors in some sort of post-apocalyp-tic thunderdome, I didn’t like our odds. Fortunately, these warriors were there to take on personal challenges, not motor-bike-riding berserkers.

Warriors lift heavy and sprintThe TFW approach is based on alternat-ing days of strength and speed training, with the added bonus of a “Hurricane,” which mixes sprints with bodyweight exercises in a kind of fast-paced interval training. (That’s the class I tried.) “Every-body wants to have the physique of an athlete – lean with muscle,” says Mike. “How do athletes get that physique? They lift weights two days a week and they sprint two days a week.”

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Barrington Books Retold’s man-ager Jennifer Massotti describes the vibe of the store, an offshoot of the orig-inal Barrington Books in Barrington, as “unexpected” – and it certainly is. While it appears to be an ordinary bookstore, the new location in Cranston’s Garden City Center is packed with unexpected and delightful finds. For example, upon entering the 5,000 square foot space, you’re immediately greeted by a vintage red and white French car. Yes, a real, full-sized car inside the store. The store carries over 20,000 titles of new books here, everything from adult fiction and nonfiction to children’s picture books and young adult reads.

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Once the needles were in place, she left me to rest for a while, then came back to add needles to my knee to get the energy flowing properly in there. As she explained, “Acupunc-ture grows momentum. The results get better after several sessions. It’s like getting in shape.” So during the first session, I was excited by the newness of the treatment, and felt relaxed afterwards, but I didn’t feel any major long term alleviation. But after my second session, I felt com-pletely different: relaxed and simul-taneously energized, and with mea-surable reduction in my knee pain. I’m looking forward to seeing how I feel after a third, which I will definite-ly be doing soon. “I love the science, the art and the holistic philosophy of Chinese medicine,” Hadley says. “Working with clients to overcome health issues that have been stop-ping them from living the life they want is incredibly rewarding.”

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Whet Your AppetiteProvidence, Johnston, Cranston. These are the state’s go-to cities for Italian cuisine. regardless of the excitement around new restaurants, the hungry faithful return time and time again to es-tablished favorites. Turn the page to read all about one of them: Pat’s Italian restaurant.

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Our stomachs were grumbling as we pulled up to Pat’s, which is a good way to begin an evening of serious sampling. Pat’s strip-mall lo-cation may be unimpressive, but as we entered, we were soothed by the comfortable, nicely-decorated and surprisingly spacious interior.

Pat’s has expanded to take up the entire strip mall, making room for not only plenty of dining tables and booths, but also a lounge with a large bar and lower seating area, as well as a banquet room which seats over 50 people. Though the parking lot was full on a Friday night, we only waited a few minutes to be seated.

As we ordered appetizers, I ea-gerly attacked the bread basket and could have eaten a loaf of the whole-grain bread myself. It was just a deli-cious, old-style slice.

The Arancini ($7.95) were served four to a plate. I liked that these fried rice balls had plenty of cheese and incorporated fresh spinach in place of peas. The Mozzarella triangles ($7.95), also an order of four, were

a fantasy version of the mozzarella sticks of our childhood, giant and fresh. Both appetizers were served with a saucer of Pat’s signature to-mato basil sauce.

The Polpette ($8.95), a special, featured three giant meatballs swim-ming in sauce with a dollop of Narra-gansett Creamery ricotta. The meat-balls were airy, as if whipped, with a soft, velvety texture.

Pat’s famous tomato basil sauce enhanced all three of these appe-tizers. Once named “Best Sauce in Rhode Island” by readers of the Prov-idence Journal, it is light and uni-form with a hint of sweetness. This lightness was appreciated; we must have had a jarful with our appetizers alone!

To drink, we shared one bottle, and then another, of the Sensi Cupido San-giovese ($27). It was dry and smooth, able to cut through rich food.

Pat’s entrees come with a choice of soup or salad. The rest of my table chose the salad with creamy Parme-san peppercorn dressing. I tried the

chicken soup, a traditional version with plenty of small Acini di Pepe-type pasta.

For my main, I ordered the Vitello alla Sorrento ($21.95), a breaded veal

cutlet topped with mozzarella, ricot-ta and breaded eggplant, served in sauce. The size of this dish was im-pressive, the cutlet pounded to the size of a dinner plate. My husband’s Inferno di Pollo del David ($19.95) had plenty of character. The large chicken breast was topped with pro-sciutto, tomato, fresh mozzarella and scattered with hot pepper rings. One of our friends had the Cotoletta di Pollo Parmigiana ($16.95), which you probably know as chicken Parmesan. This, too, was served with melted mozzarella and tomato-basil sauce.

These three entrees came with a choice of pasta, potato or vegetable. I recommend upgrading to one of the homemade pastas ($1.95 surcharge): radiatore, bucatini, rigatoni and pap-pardelle. I loved my radiatore, which were playfully large, almost the size of ping-pong balls. This quirky pasta shape is named after a radiator. Just like a radiator’s folds increase surface area to provide more heat, the squig-gles of this pasta increase surface

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Our fourth dining companion had a pasta dish for her entree. The But-ternut Squash Ravioli ($17.95), a first-time special, were not only filled with butternut squash, but also had squash in the dough. The brilliantly orange ravioli were tossed with slices of grilled chicken breast. She was happy with her choice, and jealous glances from nearby tables told me this spe-cial might make a repeat appearance.

We shared two desserts. Our Spumoni ($4.95) was a classic ver-sion of the layered ice cream treat made with chocolate, pistachio and cherry ice cream, drizzled with mel-ba sauce. The Mud Pie ($7.95) had a chocolate crust filled with coffee

and chocolate ice cream, topped with milk chocolate. We enjoyed these with cappuccino ($4) and cof-fees ($2, free refills).

Our young server, who was excep-tionally attentive, was a highlight of our experience. We also appreciated the restaurant’s commitment to source local ingredients, including meat.

Pat’s Italian’s tagline is “nobody leaves this kitchen hungry,” and they certainly deliver on that promise. Not only did we leave full, but carry-ing bags of leftovers.

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In an effort to move coffee forward – as well as our interaction with it – War-wick entrepreneur Paul Haun of local startup Kaneland just launched Nack. “Every morning I would pick up a cof-fee on my way to work. The thought of buying a cup for a co-worker, sec-retary or even a client would always pass through my mind,” Paul says. “However, not knowing how they liked their coffee, or if they already grabbed a cup for themselves, it was always dif-ficult to turn this thought into action. I soon came to see these disconnects as missed opportunities to share sim-ple acts of kindness. I started to think about an app that could enable anyone to express their knack for kindness and forever change and enhance the social experience around coffee.”

Nack is an app where anyone can gift a cup of coffee to anyone else. Imagine gifting a cup to your bestie on their birthday. Owe your coworker a few bucks? Gift them a cup of their favorite joe. Want to give back to the community you live in? Gift a cup of coffee to a specific café. Need to sweeten a deal? You get the point. It all works through PayPal, so it’s legit, quick and delish. The user easily and safely deposits money from their Pay-Pal account to the recipients. “A free cup of coffee will bring a smile to your

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You shop local, think local and eat local. But is it enough? Believe it or not there’s yet another level to be concerned with when it comes to what we put in our bodies. While most of what is purchased at farmer’s markets or specialty shops is surely local, made with care, concern and a commitment to correct labeling, there are those few bad eggs that have to go and ruin it for the rest. Ruining it to the point where EcoRI is doing some-thing about it. On May 18, they’re hosting the inaugural Happy Hour Speaker Se-ries: The Dark Side of Local Food with a panel of experts.

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Tell me about the distinctive qualities of New York-style pizza. You have to have the right crust to start. It can’t be soft; it can’t be dry. It has to have the right consistency to hold its shape, so when you pick up the slice it doesn’t flop down. And it must be chewy with a little bit of crisp.

After that, the mozzarella cheese, which is basic. A lot of places around here use different cheeses on their pizzas, like cheddar. I think most New Yorkers would die a little if they saw cheddar cheese on a pizza. We don’t mix and match here. If you want to sprinkle parmesan on your slice after the fact, that’s your decision. But it’s mozzarella – that’s it.

If you had to choose one, what’s your favorite slice of pizza? Cheese. Three key ingredients: cheese, tomato sauce and dough. If you can’t make cheese pizza, you can’t make piz-za at all. A lot of places will throw weird ingredients on a slice to make it taste good, but for me, if you want to eat piz-za, you have to order a slice of cheese first. If that tastes amazing, you know the rest of the pizza is great, too. You have to have a good base and then build off it.

How do New Yorkers eat pizza?You have to fold it. Crust-to-crust; not crust-to-point. It’s the easiest way to eat

a slice. When you pick it up and fold it (if you have a good piece), it’s not going to flop down at the tip. It’ll maintain a nice structure and then you can walk around, get on the subway, read the paper and you’re on your way. I don’t know why New Englanders have trouble with that concept. I’ve had plenty come in here and fold the pizza the wrong way. New Yorkers will try to school them on how to eat a slice the right way. It’s pretty funny.

What’s another must-try on the menu? I’d say the homemade gravy with the meatballs and sausages. It was a sta-ple every Sunday at my house when I was a kid. You could smell it cooking in the morning and knew around two or three o’clock you were going to sit down and have some type of macaroni or ravioli with meatballs. We make the sausages in-house; it gives the gravy a really nice flavor.

What’s the type of feedback you like to see from area pizza lovers? My favorite is serving another New York-er a slice, especially when they haven’t had it in years. He or she will come in and look around, like, “is this for real? I don’t believe you.” Believe me, this is the real thing! Then they take the first bite and they’re like “Oh my God, it’s been so long.” Sometimes it’ll be ten, 20 even 40 years since they had a New York-style pizza. So that’s great to watch.

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In a former hole-in-the-wall joint just over the Providence border in Pawtucket, a Cape Verdean-inspired tapas bar called Ten Rocks is quietly flipping a lot of scripts. It’s a bit more upscale than what its neighborhood was used to, for one, after transform-ing a dingy nook into something brighter and finer. Second, it’s main-streaming Cape Verdean culture in a place that still bears its very blue col-lar, very blue-plate-special roots. And, last but not least, it’s garnered the first endorsement of a flavored martini that this column has ever put on record. Let’s pause while that sinks in.

Some background: Most cocktail enthusiasts and, ahem, booze colum-nists wince at “martinis” that bedaz-zle the drink’s classic formula of gin or

vodka, vermouth and bitters. (See for reference: Chocolate-tini) The proper reaction is almost always a shudder – and yet, somehow, Ten Rocks serves up a tamarind rum-based version that totally charms. Named for Brava, one of the ten Cape Verdean Islands where tamarind grows wild, the cock-tail is a heady mix of sweet, sour and a little sticky. Ginger and lemon keep it this side of treacly, and the homage to home is hard to resist. Even hard-ened-liver, hard-nosed critics can be swayed, it seems.

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The anchor of this cocktail is a tamarind ponche, made by infusing the region’s local rum (called grogue), with tama-rind. Plenty of DIY recipes float on the internet, but charisma and a good tip might buy you some in a pinch. Or, you could sidle up to the bar at Ten Rocks any night of the week but Monday, and enjoy their handiwork.

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Combine all ingredients in a cock-tail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass, then garnish with lemon. Ten Rocks uses a wedge, but a thin strip of peel would work nicely, too.

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May 12: The NPR news quiz comes to PPAC, bringing along host Peter Sagal and friends as they crack wise about the week’s headlines. Test your own knowledge and public radio wit through Lightning Fill in the Blank, Limerick Challenges and other games you all know and love. 7:30pm. 220

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May 1-29: The Gamm The-atre marks the 400th an-

niversary of Shakespeare’s death with The Winter’s Tale. King Leon-tes imprisons his wife, banishes his daughter and tries to murder a life-long friend, reassuring audiences that though their family might be crazy, it isn’t Shakespeare crazy. 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket. 723-4266, GammTheatre.org

2. May 13: Friday the 13 gets extra spooky this month

as Vudu Sister drops their new-est album, Mortis Nervosa, at the Columbus Theatre. Brace yourself for an evening of haunting goth-ic folk from Keith McCurdy and friends, as well as acoustic per-formances from Bloodpheasant and Pixels. 8pm. 270 Broadway. 621-9660. ColumbusTheatre.com

3. May 21: The Providence Artisans Market is back,

just in time for opening day of the Hope Street Farmers Market. The market offers paintings, ceramics, jewelry, glass, vintage and much more, doing for your aestehtic what the farmer’s market does for your fridge. There is definitely something for everyone. 1015 Hope Street. Facebook.com/PVDArtisansMarket

5.May 15: Put on your high-est heels and do your

makeup for Guys as Dolls Drag Extravaganza at Comedy Con-nection. This 90-minute show is full of costume changes, sparkle and glam. Come say hi to Sabri-na Blaze, Ladiva Jonz and Haley Star. 7pm. 39 Warren Avenue, East Providence. 438-8383, RICom-edyConnection.com

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May 1-22: Anything goes at Ocean State Theatre Company, that includes their production of Anything Goes. Set aboard the ocean liner S.S. Amer-ican with nightclub singer and evan-gelist Reno Sweeney and her friend Billy Crocker, who stowed away to be with his sweetheart, Hope Harcourt. Unfortunately, Hope is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh so things don’t go exactly according to plan. 1245 Jefferson Boulevard, Warwick. 921-6800, OceanStateTheatre.org

May 7: Okay, so technically it’s Siete de Mayo, but a party’s a

party so we’re not about to split hairs. Head down to downcity for their annual Cinco de Mayo Block Party, featuring a fleet of food trucks, a bar at Grant’s Block and the Rock ’n Roll Yard Sale. Free. 11am-6pm. Westminster from Dor-rance to Mathewson. InDowncity.com

May 7: Ocean State Theatre Com-pany is thrilled to announce the re-turn of LuckyBob. This magician/jug-gler/comedian will give you a night of awe and laughs. The show is fun for everyone as he interacts with the audience and incorporates children and adults. He juggles, reads minds and makes things vanish. Is there anything he can’t do? 11:30am. 1245 Jefferson Boulevard, Warwick. 921-6800, OceanStateTheatre.org

May 8: Do the little ones want to make something for Mother’s Day? Bring them to the Providence Chil-dren’s Museum for Mother’s Day Bead Making. Sculpt your own beads from clay, paper and other materials and use them to make necklaces and keychains. Admission is free for mom and grandma. 100 South Street. 273-5437, ChildrenMuseum.org

May 8: It’s time to treat your mom and Celebrate Mother’s Day with Tea at Lippitt House. Enjoy an af-ternoon with tea, sweet and savory delights, signature cocktails and a relaxing Jazz quartet led by James Scott Chowning. This event will give your mom a day to remember. 12:30 and 4pm. 199 Hope Street. 453-0688, LippittHouse.org

May 11: It’s a beautiful time to walk amongst the flowers. The

Spring Blooms Walking Tour at Swan Point Cemetery allows you to do just that. The guided tour that is offered will spotlight mid-spring blossoms in a historic garden ceme-tery. Find life on this tour. Free. 2pm. 585 Blackstone Boulevard. Reserva-tions at 272-1314 or [email protected]

May 11: Lupo’s gets loud as it wel-comes Eagles of Death Metal back to PVD. Bang your head and rock out, but don’t let the name fool you. These dudes aren’t here to scare you, they’re here to get you to party. 8pm. 79 Washington Street. Lupos.com

May 12-31: Connected and commu-nicating, As One and Many by Shari Weschler Rubeck looks at how we have communicated collectively and individually in the past and how we will in the future. These paint-ings are filled with draping imagery that symbolizes a veil that is being covered or lifted. How has technol-ogy affected the way we communi-cate face to face? 999 Main Street, Unit 105, Pawtucket. 533-8825, CanditaClaytonGallery.com

May 14: The Urban Pond Procession is a growing event that takes place

each year to celebrate and cultivate public interest in the health of the Lower Pawtuxet River Watershed. The Procession goes through neigh-borhoods around Mashapaug Pond and Roger Williams Park. There will be food, music, environmental health updates and art from local artists and youth. UPPArts.org

May 18-31: Catechism classes are not considered to be fun, but with Trinity Rep’s Late Nite Catechism your per-spective might change. This interac-tive hit comedy will bring back mem-ories to anyone who went to school with an all-seeing nun. 201 Washing-ton Street. 351-4242, TrinityRep.com

May 15: For the first time in nearly two decades, the Chorus of Wester-ly will be performing in Providence. Guest conductor Maestro David Hill will lead a stirring performance of Verdi Requiem as the chorus takes the stage at The Vets. Use the code PM20 at checkout for 20% off tick-ets. 2:30pm. One Avenue of the Arts. TheVetsRI.com

May 15: Calling all runners and walk-ers. The Kids Klub Fundraiser is hold-ing its Klub House Rock! 5k. Along with the run there will be face painting, games, a raffle and other fun activities. All of the proceeds go to The Kids Klub Fund to provide students with tuition

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May 12: Want an event that has it all? Come to the Sweet Little Variety Show where there are musicians, comedians and more. This monthly show promotes local artists as a feminist, anti-racist, queer-positive and body-positive cabaret. Featured this month are Lara Herscovitch, Reece Cotton, Bernard Morton and Host, Nicool. This event is 18+ unless attended by an adult. 8pm. 276 Westminster Street. 272-5723, AuroraProvidence.com

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Vudu Sister’s Keith McCurdy asks me this early in a conversation that had already found itself wandering in and out of childhood reminiscing (he’s got an impressive collection of Super Nintendo carts). Of course I’m familiar with Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. What ‘90s brat isn’t?

“Those original illustrations were so visceral,” he says, and I get chills just thinking about them. The black and white illustrations featured phan-tasms and horrors that often seemed like they’d be a better fit for a Hell-raiser movie than a kid’s anthology, but therein lay the beauty of them. “I was flipping through it and looking at the titles of the stories and thought ‘some of these sound like cool song titles.’ I never write a song based on a title but sometimes it’s a fun exercise, so I decided to do that. Then it just got ahead of itself.”

Mortis Nervosa might draw from a beloved piece of Gen X pop cul-ture, but it completely abandons the grunge trappings of Vudu Sister’s 2013 rocker Household Items. Mortis Nervosa goes for straight folk with a sinister twist, sounding more like tra-ditional ballads than even Vudu Sis-ter’s debut, Bastard Children, which lands more in the orbit of Americana and folk revival. Populated by mur-derers and ghosts, Mortis plays like the horror anthology that inspired it, with beautiful string arrangements to compliment the dark, often grisly subject matter. Like a raspy-voiced stranger on a dark country road, Keith leads listeners from one macabre tale

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“Some of it’s gruesome,” Keith says. “But most of the material on this al-bum is me trying to find disturbing themes and work with them in a way that’s beautiful. A lot of the subjects are disgusting, but [the songs] aren’t overtly disgusting. It’s trying to find the beauty in decay.”

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Recently, storyteller Len Cabral was cleaning his office. A collector as much as a teller of stories, histories and rich cross-cultural experiences, one can only imagine what trea-sures such a space might hold, ready to be uncovered at any moment.

In this particular moment, Len recalls, two letters came tumbling out from a portfolio. They were both from the late Senator Claiborne Pell, the ad-vocate of education and arts whose legacy is honored each year by Trinity Repertory Com-pany. Fitting, since Len was re-cently named one of the two Rhode Island Pell Award for Ex-cellence in the Arts recipients to be feted at the 2016 gala, held this month in Newport. Len had met Pell on two occa-sions: once when Len received the Jefferson Award, an award honoring citizenship, and again when he emceed an event in honor of the Senator’s retirement.

“I’m honored to receive the award,” Len says. “[Senator Pell] was a good man, and I was glad that he was from Rhode Island. He was someone I could brag about when I traveled around the country.”

It’s safe to say that many Rhode Is-landers feel the same way about Len. He’s a recognizable figure in the Provi-dence arts scene – his decades-long storytelling career has gone hand in hand with his work for the Providence Inner City Arts Council (PICA), a non-profit multi-cultural community orga-nization he founded in 1971. Through PICA, the city has enjoyed festivals like the Florentine Faire, the Jazz City series, two years of programming at the now-shuttered Roots Cultural Center downtown and other projects that have borne Len’s stamp.

“It feeds my soul, on a personal lev-el,” Len says when asked about what makes the arts so important. And what about the arts in Providence and in Rhode Island, the place he calls

home? “There’s so much diversity in Rhode Island. It should be highlighted, but we don’t talk about it,” he says.

For Len, advocating for the arts – for the value of showcasing and reveling in the human experience in all its fac-ets – is advocating for diversity in the arts. An African-American whose own cultural heritage reaches back on both sides to the Cape Verdean islands, this is a deeply felt responsibility.

“It’s discouraging to see the lack of diversity in Rhode Island in the arts, in education and in business. This is my home,” he says. “You walk through downtown, and you’re like, where are the people of color? Where are the black professionals? Where are the black artists? It’s not inviting. The places I go into, it’s [often] just me and a cup of coffee.”

An integral part of changing that, Len says, is to actively encourage the celebration of our differences. He feels that it’s our duty to expose our young people to as many experiences and stories as we can find – to show

them that other types of peo-ple, and that other paths, exist apart from the majority. From a young age, he realized the importance of storytelling in this mission – he found that he was most interested in classes where teachers approached education with a storytelling bent. He would go on to re-flect that philosophy in his own teaching, whether with PICA, throughout the state in his own performances, or in his work as an early childhood educa-tor (“On a wing, I took this job at a daycare center, and I was in charge of 15 five-year-olds. That’ll make you a storyteller”).

With a resonant voice, an open, expressive face that’s easy to break into a warm smile, you can see that Len makes the ideal teacher. To see him on stage is to become enrap-tured with whatever story he’s spinning – he prefers folklore, fairytales, myths and the like. It

seems impossible to not connect. And that’s what he’s hoping for, he says. That despite the disconnect of the modern world, and despite the bub-bles that we impose upon ourselves, that we’ll be able to learn how to listen – and that we’ll all be better for it.

“We’re all connected through these stories. People have been telling them since the beginning of time. Before people knew how to write, they told stories,” he says. “Many of the themes in the stories are share, be kind, take care of the environment, take care of each other, be helpful, don’t be greedy. Don’t be a bully. All these things are right there in folklore from years gone by. I feel a lot of the answers to to-day’s problems are in these folktales that people have been telling since the beginning of time.”

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