Table of contents for week of December 16, 2005
Te-Ping Chen takes an inside look at YouthBuild Providence, a program offering a productive path out of poverty for at-risk young people.
Phillipe & Jorge: Lies and damned lies!
Ask Dr. Lovemonkey: The Older Guy
Savage Love: Call boy concerned
Editors' Picks
Crossword Solution: Solution for the Jonesin' Crossword of December 16, 2005: "We've Got Your Number" — figures to figure out
Plus, this just in:
SERVICE SECTOR: Gibbs cashes in on casino management
CITYWATCH: Providence makes do without a food co-op
AS THE PROJO TURNS: The Journal plans relatively benign cuts
Astrology: Moon Signs
MUSIC
Bob Gulla says goodbye to talented musicians Jerry Balchunas and Tom Estes; plus what's new in Providence's music scene.
James Parker talks with Brian Gibson, the bass-playing half of Providence bass/drums duo Lightning Bolt.
Also, short reviews of:
CYNDI LAUPER: THE BODY ACOUSTIC
MADONNA: CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR
SAINT ETIENNE: TALES FROM TURNPIKE HOUSE
SWORDS: METROPOLIS
TERIYAKI BOYZ: BEEF OR CHICKEN
FILM
Peter Keough compares 1933's King Kong with Peter Jackson’s 2005 King Kong.
Peter Keough says Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale does it all.
This week's trailers:
THE FAMILY STONE
Worth the Trip:
Electric Edwardians, which starts this Friday at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, offers a 70-minute sampling of the pristine negatives of 800 documentary shorts, 28 hours of film methodically recording public daily life in Great Britain at the turn of the 20th century.
THEATER
Carolyn Clay reviews Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers.
Bill Rodrigez says "Greetings! has something for everyone: Catholics, Jews, atheists, New Agers, and those who hate predictable dysfunctional family stories."
DANCE
Worth the Trip:
Nutcracker at the Opera House
ART
Bill Rodriguez on "Ourchitecture" at the Newport Art Museum.
Worth the Trip:
"Plastic Princess: Barbie As Art" at Montserrat College of Art.
"Edward Curtis: Selected Reproductions" @ Southwest Northeast Gallery, Paul Chan's Baghdad in No Particular Order @ Institute of Contemporary Art, and "Critters" @ MIT List Visual Arts Center's Media Test Wall.
TELEVISION
Hot dots: WEDNESDAY 21: 10:00 [44] A CEMETERY SPECIAL | Filmmaker Rick Sebak (Sandwiches That You Will Like) toured America to visit some unusual, famous, and obscure burying grounds. This has got to be worth the time.
FOOD
Johnette Rodriguez reviews Blaze Eastside, the "hot new restaurant."
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