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18 Big Ideas in Providence
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Our annual guide to the 10 people pushing the
44 Review 47 In the Kitchen 48 On the Menu
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51 Behind the Bar 52 In the Drink 55 Dining Guide
Every Month 4 Editor’s Note 6 PM List 9 Feedback
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61 Get Out Behind the scenes with The Gamm’s costume designer 62 Calendar 65 Music 66 Theatre 69 Art
70 Savor Providence Our newest column dishes on Providence’s culinary scene
The Avon celebrates 75 years of cinematic success 13 City 14 Malcontent 15 Scene in PVD
33 City Style A RISD professor's nostalgic retreat
On the Cover: Davide Dukcevich, Leah Wil-
liams Metts and Visael “Bobby” Rodriguez at The Arcade. Photographed by James Jones.
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Publishers Barry Fain Richard Fleischer John Howell Publishing Director Jeanette St. Pierre Executive Editor Julie Tremaine Associate Editor Grace Lentini Editorial Assistant Dale J. Rappaneau, Jr Special Projects Manager John Taraborelli Digital Manager Samantha Pezza
Big Ideas for the New Year Let’s be honest here. When it comes to your New Year’s resolutions, you’re pretty selfish. You want to improve yourself: you’re going to work out, quit smoking, floss more, save money. But while you’re nursing your hangover into 2014, there are people in Providence who are thinking about the greater good, about how to improve our city and the lives of the people in it. Ten of them are in this issue. Our annual 10 to Watch is a list of promising up-andcomers who have fresh perspectives on Providence and are dedicating themselves to doing good work here (even though more than half of them aren’t local natives… but hey, nobody’s perfect, and they’re
here now). Read all about them in our cover story, and then come meet them at our (also annual) 10 to Watch Party. This year, it’s on January 14 at the Arcade. Buy your tickets at providenceonline.com, and we’ll see you there. Happy New Year.
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A Reel Accomplishment The Avon celebrates its 75th anniversary
Social Medium How to Make Friends and Influence People in 140 Characters Twitter is great for connecting people to their favorite celebrities, but you might not have realized it’s also useful for connecting people with common interests… in the same town, even. Here are some Twitter-based Providence meetup groups. You might even run into me (and my Twitter BFF Corey Feldman) there. –Julie Tremaine
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resembling a wallet, but hey, if I want to schmooze with the likes of Donatella and Tyra one day, then I simply had to remember Mr. Tim Gunn’s infamous phrase and make it work. First we ironed the pieces in the store’s back room, which serves as a workshop for Kreatelier’s employees. Then, the part I feared, the part with the sharp object hammering up and down in close proximity to my delicate hands, arrived. Making sure my fingers were not in danger of getting sewn human centipede style, I tentatively pressed my toes downwards on the pedal that powers the machine, making it explode with life. Eee! That was too fast! Eee! But obviously, I just needed to feel out the rhythm, kind of like driving a car for the first time; you just need to understand how to control the beast. After only a few minutes, I was surprised at how hypnotic and relaxing sewing could be, and as each piece became attached I started to feel magical, like I could actually create something beautiful out of raw material. What a sense of power! Over the course of the next two hours and with Alexis’ helpful guidance, my fabric scraps transformed into an adorable, colorful wallet, and I transformed from nervous, Project Runway wannabe into a confident crafting goddess. 804 Hope Street. 4327995. kreatelier.com -Elyena de Goguel
The holidays are always one of my favorite times of year, not so much because I like the holidays (which I do), but because it’s around that time that I’m interviewing the individuals featured in our annual “10 to Watch” story, as featured on page 18. These are always interesting people with fascinating, unexpected stories and fresh, compelling ideas to share, but one of the things I like most is getting to see Providence through their eyes. I’ve spent my whole life in or around this city, and I have the privilege of making a living highlighting its best parts. So, while I may have a deep and abiding love for it, being that much in the thick of things every day makes it easy to lose perspective. Talking with our 10 to Watch always realigns my perspective. What’s always shocking (though perhaps it shouldn’t be anymore) about this roster of rising stars is that every year, without fail, it turns out that more than half of them are not native Rhode Islanders. Many of them have traveled extensively or lived in many other places – most have at least lived in another major metropolitan area – yet all of them are in Rhode Island simply because the want to be. That’s a very powerful thing. We are bombarded on a daily basis with information and opinions telling us what a lousy place Providence is: how our economy is crap, our taxes are too high, our schools are lousy, there are no jobs, it’s unsafe, it’s dirty, it’s corrupt, it’s too small, it’ll never be New York or Boston, there are no opportunities. We’ll shout ourselves hoarse trying to make it known how bad off we are. Yet these people are not getting the message. Despite all the warnings and bad press, smart, cosmopolitan, forward thinking, engaged individuals still find Providence a desirable enough place to be that they will not only come here, they will do the work necessary to build a life here – and then make it a more attractive place for others to do the same. This is important because these people are here by choice. Many of us have to be here – or at least feel like we do – but these people could live anywhere in the world. Many of them have. These are people who could just as easily make their way in bigger metro areas like New York or Boston, where existing opportunity is much easier to come by. Yet they’re here, because Providence offers the quality of life they want. While we rail about taxes or public safety or the economy of any number of other issues that allegedly determine whether or not a city is worth inhabiting, people are making that decision based on less dollars and sense criteria, like the number of good restaurants, the presence of community organizations, the vibrancy of the arts scene, the closeness of the professional and social networks and many more intangibles. These things matter because someone who is in Rhode Island for a job opportunity, or an economic boom (pretending that we’d ever have one), or school, or any number of other more directly compelling reasons is only likely to stick around as long as they’re given cause to – while someone who wants to be here will find a way to make it work no matter what. And that’s exactly what a small, scrappy, oft-overlooked city like Providence needs: people who will fight to make a place work, even when it doesn’t look good on paper. –John Taraborelli
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Ever year LRI accepts 50-60 established and emerging leaders from all industries and all corners of the state into its Core Program. This program explores the issues affecting our state – like education, healthcare and the economy – through intensive, full-day sessions, then directs the members of the class to take action through group projects. Varney is responsible for the curriculum and projects – meaning what these people will learn and do for 10 months.
That’s a pretty influential position for anyone to be in – let alone someone who’s not yet 30.
What she brings to the role: “My approach revolves entirely around finding unique ways to bring every perspective to the discussion and continuously implementing new techniques to accommodate different learning styles. In my opinion, the ideal session day would be one where every leader deepened their understanding of another perspective, gained a holistic view of the topic for the day and felt inspired and empowered to strengthen their communities.”
How this translates into action: Over the past two years, LRI class members have engaged in “community reconnaissance” in Central Falls and Quonset, conducting face-to-face interviews with over 600 community members to learn what their needs are and what kind of projects would have an impact.
What that’s taught her: “The most important lesson I have learned from the community reconnaissance model is that I don’t know better and neither do you… My advice to any person looking to make change in their communities would be to engage as many person in the process as possible and to keep an open mind to what a solution might look like. Every single person adds value and a new perspective to consider.”
What’s on the horizon: The next Leadership Rhode Island class begins this month with a theme of “LRI Crosses the Line.” Though the organization has been tight-lipped about what this means, it hasn’t been shy about making a splash over the past couple of years (its work in Central Falls raised its profile considerably), so expect a lot of noise in the next 10 months.
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reinvigorating a temple that turns 90 this year. • Has a background as both a community organizer and an entrepreneur. • Holds an MBA in nonprofit management. • Uses both the outreach techniques of a community organizer (“Meeting people where they are” is a favorite phrase of his) and the marketing savvy of a business professional to re-engage the congregation.
the results: • Temple Emanu-El is instituting a change in its membership model from the traditional assessed dues to a voluntary contribution. • Babchuck is responsible for the marketing of this campaign, which has brought over 30 new families to the temple since June. “If we’re asking people to come to us, pay our institutions, and then do only what we allow them and tell them to do, religion will be a bankrupt business. But if we’re meeting people where they are – geographically and existentially, getting to know what makes them tick, finding out what they desire in life, engaging them with the rich wisdom that our religions offer and giving them space to grow within that framework, then we’ll not only survive – we’ll thrive.”
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Why this matters: Religious organizations of all stripes around the state are losing membership and fighting to remain relevant in their communities. Babchuck represents a new way of doing things that’s more in tune with the wants and needs of a younger generation.
What he’s doing about it: • Instituted 401J, Rhode Island’s first community-oriented Jewish young professionals group, which brings together three East Side temples and the Jewish Alliance of RI. • Launched in December with an event at The Grange, a hip, West Side restaurant. • Mailing list already includes hundreds of young professionals, and 401J’s offerings will include member-driven groups and activities like book clubs, adventure sports and Jewish text studies.
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What he does: Rabbi, Temple Emanu-El on the East Side since 2012
Why we like him: • Young, dynamic clergyman
“Transactional religion is a dying trend; transformational religion is the future. That means that religious institutions need to adapt community organizing methods – leadership development, cultivating and leveraging stories, creating space for leaders to actually lead, grassroots campaigns, etc. – to allow for transformation to happen.”
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“It’s much easier to leave a mark in Rhode Island than it is in a big city like New York. You can improve the entire city with a single great restaurant.”
“We want kids to know that creativity in any form is a beautiful and natural human instinct.”
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Why we took notice: • Last year launched a local line of charcuterie and meats sourced from New England hogs, with packaging designed by RISD students and recipes devised by JWU instructors. • Next fall brings online a state-ofthe-art, 500,000 square foot production facility, also in Burrillville. • Was actively courted by Virginia, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut for that expansion, but the Dukcevich family ultimately decided to invest $60 million to remain in Rhode Island.
Why this matters: Daniele is a 60+-year-old company that’s behaving like a start-up. In doing so, it bridges the gap between Rhode Island’s traditional manufacturing economy and the new creative, knowledge-based economy it’s trying to build.
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Dukcevich doesn’t talk much about the traditional indicators of a “business friendly environment” – like taxes and regulation – in which Rhode Island lags. Instead, he focuses more on “new economy” areas of concern – like quality of life, a pool of young talent and a creative community – in which our state is competitive.
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Hometown pride: Daniele’s larger conventional line sells all over the world, including Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Colombia and Mexico – and every product bears the “Made in Rhode Island” label.
Why she matters now: The Avenue Concept is a fairly new organization. 2013 was its pilot year, and Wolpert was appointed its first GM in the spring. In 2014, it will launch in earnest with murals and other public art projects, gallery showings, skateboarding events in Kennedy Plaza, DJ workshops and more.
What makes the avenue concept different: There are lots of arts programs for both youth and adults, but the Avenue Concept is focused on public art. Through its murals, events and other projects, it is taking creativity out of the galleries and classrooms and bringing it into public space. Furthermore, this kind of public art beautifies the city by filling empty spaces that might otherwise attract taggers and vandals.
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What that is: A nonprofit program that offers instruction and mentorship for both at-risk youth and curious adults in public/street art projects and DJing. It also serves developmentally disabled adults through a partnership with the nonprofit Resources for Human Development.
Where you can see the results: • In murals: The underpass where Westminster Street dips into Olneyville under Route 6 is just one of the Avenue Concept’s public art works. • On its “legal wall” for graffiti: The walls of its Lockwood Street home are open for anyone over the age of 18 to paint between noon-5pm, Monday through Friday. • At the Kennedy Plaza Skating Center: The Avenue Sandwich is a public showcase for graffiti, dance, DJs and skateboarding, every other Thursday from June through October.
the role of art in our city: “We all need the same thing: a safe and thriving city, where adults and youth feel they are valued and belong. When you think about what makes a quality of life, a thriving artistic community is just as important as keeping the roads plowed and enforcing building codes. Maybe you don’t need art to survive, but that’s just the point: at the Avenue Concept, we don’t think kids should merely survive – we want them to thrive.”
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“I don’t think there are a lot of places where at 21 I would have been managing a state treasurer’s race. That is unique to Rhode Island.”
“It’s up to women to encourage and support each other and take risks. When one person succeeds, we all succeed.”
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What he does: Vice President for Government and Institutional Banking, Webster Bank
What he’s done: • Fellowships at Harvard and Yale Law Schools. • Master’s from Brown’s Taubman Center for Public Policy. • Managed Frank Caprio’s campaigns for Treasurer and Governor. • Deputy Chief of Staff for Treasurer Caprio. • Conducted $1 billion worth of transactions in public infrastructure financing while working for Morgan Stanley in New York City. • Worked on direct mail campaigns for over a dozen candidates for federal office in the 2012 election cycle. • All before his 30th birthday.
Why we took notice: He was recently appointed Chairman of the Providence Water Supply Board, replacing outgoing Chairman Brett Smiley, who used the position as a springboard to a mayoral campaign.
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In a state that is increasingly willing to entrust its fate to the next generation of politicians, Khamsyvoravong represents one of the emerging leaders of the next generation, ready to ascend into more significant roles. “Many of the interns and young staffers I hired while at the Treasury and running campaigns have since developed into leaders in our State’s policy and political arenas and now run
How to develop young leadership: “I’d advise any emerging leader to ‘pay it forward,’ by helping others find and start their own careers. In the same way we need to foster the initial careers of recent college grads, we need to foster the development of young leaders to prepare them to take the reins. Organizations and institutions must be willing to hire young professionals and support their community involvement in order for them to develop capable leaders.”
activity groups, a website and social media. It now boasts over 90 member businesses and almost 150 individual members. “The biggest goal that Julie [Sygiel, co-founder] and I set was to make Providence the city to start a business in if you’re a woman.”
What’s the big deal: Response has been so enthusiastic and demand has been so high that Lady Project is expanding into other cities. New Haven Lady Project launched in October. This month Boston Lady Project kicks off.
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“People here really do want to help you succeed. But what you need to do is put yourself in a position to have those conversations. Pecha Kucha, Providence Geeks and Drinking Liberally are great incubators for those conversations to get people talking about their careers.”
Barter has pledged that Lady Project Org, the umbrella nonprofit, and the annual Lady Project Summit will always remain in Rhode Island.
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What she does by day: Student Services Social Media Coordinator, Johnson & Wales University
What she does by night: Co-founder and CEO of PVD Lady Project, a networking, professional and social group for women
Why we picked her: Lady Project has grown exponentially in just a couple of years, encompassing a membership program, events,
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How to keep more students in the city after school: “I think the biggest thing is getting students connected while in school; programs like College Leadership RI and internships allow students to make connections and be part of something in the city that’s outside of their school and immediate circle. I am in Providence because of the connections I made in college and didn’t want to ‘start over’ somewhere else, when I had such a great foundation in RI.”
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“Diversity is just a bunch of differences. Inclusion is putting it all together.” “I want to empower young mothers. We can teach them to be constructive community members and leaders.”
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Who he is: Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI
What you think he does: Affirmative Action.
What he actually does: Manage and implement a strategic, company-wide plan for diversity and inclusion (D&I). “The job of diversity is not affirmative action. This is not what I do. Diversity is inclusion. It’s when you bring the best of everyone into an organization. Imagine a place where we can get ideas from everyone and everyone can contribute to the success of the organization – for that you need to change the culture. That culture needs to be open to receiving people.”
Why that matters now: He is teaching one of the largest companies in one of the state’s few growth industries to think about diversity in a new way – and other organizations have already approached him to teach them the same lessons.
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What that actually entails: A lot of things, including: • Making sure that healthcare information is translated into the many languages BCBSRI’s customers speak. (A full-on Spanish language version of the company website launches this year.) • Marketing the company’s healthcare plans in Latino, black and LGBT communities. • Developing partnerships with organizations that are trusted in those communities (Progreso Latino, RI Free Clinic, etc.) to develop better healthcare awareness and outreach.
Why we’re not a melting pot, and how that benefits business: “We’re not a melting pot – we’re a big salad. In a melting pot, everything comes to be one. In a salad, everything keeps its own flavor. In the future, you’re going to need talent from every community. Knowledge comes from every community. When you embrace inclusion you come to be a better organization that’s more productive and more easily sees return on investment. Behind diversity and inclusion there is a business purpose.”
Family Court systems. • Board member, South Side Elementary Charter School, opening in September. • Co-chair, Davey Lopes Recreation Center alumni board. • Chairwoman, NAACP Youth Council. • Also works with the RI Black Heritage Foundation and Swim Empowerment, a nonprofit program that aims to teach 30,000 Rhode Islanders to swim over the next 10 years.
How she came to our attention: As the most prominent and passionate voice fighting against the mayor’s plan to close and demolish the pool at the Davey Lopes Recreation Center last summer, which became a citywide controversy. “I went to the pool and what I saw was horrifying. There were about 40 children – mostly black – playing on the side of the empty pool with a hose. It was despicable. I wasn’t going to let that happen in my community… I went to every office in the City and the State House that would let me in. I went to Republicans and Democrats. I talked to Senators, Council Members – I just wasn’t shy.”
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What drives her to do it: “I know that the children don’t have a voice. They don’t vote. Someone has to speak up for them. And if that someone has to be little old me, then I’ll do it.”
On speaking out: What she does to live: Marketing Director, Catch a Rising Star at Twin River. She’s also a licensed cosmetologist.
What she lives to do: Community activism: • Volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in the DCYF and
“In order to make your voice heard, you need only to use it. Politicians will only stay honest and represent your issues if you speak out about them. One benefit of living in this information age is that it’s easy to make yourself relevant. Facebook, Twitter, online editions of newspapers, etc. – there are a million ways to get your message out.”
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“I think the tech start-up community can have the biggest impact by keeping college Grads in the area.”
“The way we educate students must change as our society changes... yet our schools look the same as they did 30-40 years ago.”
Jessica HerrOn Tech Who she is: Designer and founder, Green Heron Works
What she does: Designs apps for scientists and wildlife researchers to track sightings while in the field.
Why that matters: Herron’s app will allow researchers to set up the criteria for data collection beforehand, then quickly and easily upload from the field to cloud storage, allowing teams to collaborate and share data more freely. “The current method of keeping track of wildlife sightings in the field includes a dozen clipboards, pounds of paper, expensive hand-held GPS units and a great deal of time spent inputting the data into Excel spreadsheets… Sharing the data is tedious and time-consuming.”
Why that matters to Providence: The Seattle native and RISD grad left a big time job with Microsoft Research back home to return to Providence and start a company.
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“We have to pop the College Hill bubble. Engage the students in community art projects, invite them to hackathons and accelerator program events, bring local entrepreneurs into their classrooms. Every way that the students can be introduced to and engaged with the real problems and the real people right here in this awesome city should be taken advantage of.”
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How the city can better engage the start-up community: “Lay out a local problem that the City is struggling with and offer a reward to the entrepreneur who can come up with a way to address it. They’d be showing their willingness to cut through red tape to address the City’s needs quickly, acting on the desire to stay on the cutting edge, and engaging the local entrepreneurial talent with the needs of the state.”
What’s on the horizon: Herron expects to release the first version of her app, Glance, by spring, after which there will be a period of feedback and adjustments. By 2015, she hopes to push Glance into other fields of scientific observation, including water, air and health data.
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Who he is: • Founder/CEO of Metryx, an education technology company • Director of Technology Integration and Blended Learning, Highlander Institute • Education consultant who helped Providence Public Schools establish Pleasant View Elementary as a model “blended learning” program
What that all means: Rubin is at the forefront of incorporating technology into schools (“blended learning”), both nationally and within Providence.
What metryx does: • Develop software for teachers to collect and analyze data about what’s happening in their classrooms: what students
are learning, how they’re learning it and how well they’re learning it. • Help teachers use that data to develop individual learning plans for students – i.e. challenging the advanced students and providing extra help for those who need it – without disrupting the classroom experience or singling out any students.
rubin’s vision of tomorrow’s classroom: “…To move from teacher-centered classrooms, where one adult stands before a group of students and delivers information at one skill or content level, to a dynamic student-centered environment, in which each student has an individual learning plan that is managed through technology, with the teacher moving about the room guiding and instructing as needed.”
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What’s on the horizon for 2014: • Building the Titan Teacher Network through Highlander: recruiting and training up to 100 teachers across Southern New England who are motivated to test new ideas in blended learning, offer feedback and establish best practices. • The January rollout of school and district versions of Metryx’s platform to assess student and teacher progress.
engaging the business community in transforming education: “Businesses in RI are calling for more computer science graduates with more skills in coding, design, entrepreneurship, making, media, social media, blogging, podcasting and marketing. K-12 is not talking about how to prepare RI students for these skills… I would love to see an ‘Adopt a Teacher’ program in which a GTech engineer adopts a Providence teacher and helps them run a [technology design] activity with their fourth grade classroom. I’d love to see the Hasbro FunLab run professional development on how teachers can tell when students are engaged in an activity or not engaged in an activity.”
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Object Lessons 1. I didn’t want to clutter up my house when my children were born, so I turned the garage into my studio. I retreat there to write or browse my collections. My souvenirs are on the walls. The fancy ceiling was something an architectural student of mine added to the beams. I can spin my life around every object in here. 2. The portrait of the woman is an abstraction of a photograph of my wife. It was done by a former student, Patricia Allen. I like the pastel hues and its design quality. 3. This peasant with his lady upon a horse came from my grandmother’s house, just up the hill. A student of mine bought the house and gave the table statue to me. 4. I teach a Bible course at RISD, about bringing scripture to life in the studio.
When my mother died, a student of mine calligraphed a passage from Proverbs, the poem about the woman of valor with the phrase “She laugheth at the time to come.” I framed it: for me, it means having an optimistic pursuit of happiness. Everybody has hard times, but you’re supposed to be happy. Cheerfulness is a valorous form of prayer. 5. The Van Gogh poster is my memento of a year I spent in Paris, when I turned twenty. 6. In that wooden box are many photographs and newspapers in which I’ve written stories: not only of my adventures, but the community, my students, friends. The problem with keeping things is no matter where you keep them, nothing lasts forever, but this is my little private pyramid.
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Describe your outfit. The plaid is one of my signature pieces, especially during the winter. It’s stylish but warm and comfortable, and it’s easy to pair with different graphic shirts. This is one of my favorites that I got while traveling to Hawaii a few years ago. What’s the best piece of fashion advice you ever got? To dress for yourself and wear pieces that stand out to you. I love being able to see people’s personalities come out in the way they dress, especially when I can tell that a particular piece means a lot to them! Are there any aspects of your work that inspire your fashion? My work is really the biggest inspiration for my fashion. As an actor I get to be a different person each day, so I get to experiment with different styles. I think I take something from each character I play and put it all together to create my own style. What movies are you working on? I love to keep busy so I always have lots going on. In the past month I’ve played a crazed father separated from his daughter, a deaf man who has his hearing returned to him and even a cowboy in a spaghetti Western! You can also keep an eye out for me in Woodhaven Productions’ A Bet’s A Bet, which will be coming to theaters in 2014. Photography: Corey Grayhorse
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Form meets function at a SoMa boutique A quick peek through the window of Andrea Valentini’s retail space, the Showroom Gallery on South Main Street, might fool the curious passerby into believing that the only items sold inside are handbags: editorial-ready lifestyle bags are displayed neatly on floating shelves in eye-catching contrast to the stark white wall behind them. But a step inside and a look around will reveal that Valentini has cast her mark on the furniture, lighting and more. She’s truly a 3D artist. The acclaimed designer is all about creating unique sculptural materials while also utilizing everyday materials, forming and sculpting them to create something new – like the custom light pendant and the accordian wall in her showroom. “We have a saying in our studio,” Valentini says, “materials form objects form space. Our practice goes full circle from creating materials to creating spaces.” Whether it’s a handbag or a chair, her pieces are raw and edgy but with feminine and sensual touches. It all began back when the designer focused primarily on interiors, often making custom furniture for her clients. During this process, she noticed her children really gravitated to the sculptural materials she would create and bring home from the foam factory. Her renowned Coose Egg
Chair was inspired by a child’s desire to touch and was cut from a single block of fire-retardant foam, creating an interlocking chair and ottoman. The made-to-order piece retails for $399 and is available online. After developing the chair, Valentini tried to further protect the foam by laminating and molding fabrics to create a durable material that would withstand weather and wear while being tactile in nature. The result of her hard work and experimentation was Bump, the exclusive, sculptural foam textile that she is well-known for. In fact, those neatly displayed lifestyle bags in her showroom are constructed from Bump. The material protects from the inside out: the foam protects contents on the inside while the outer layer is water-repellent and very easy to clean, protecting itself from the everyday environmental exposures. Valentini first created her own bags and then sourced local manufacturers to further develop the collection to include items such as a computer laptop briefcase, which she was first noticed for. From there, she took her tactile material and created many more objects from lighting to sculptures to personal accessories. “I’m all about sculptural textures and up-cycling everyday
materials to create something different,” Valentini says. “I strive to design pieces that people curiously question – it looks familiar to them, but it is different and unique.” The RISD grad and adjunct professor shows off her versatility and vision with one-of-a-kind items such as the Origami Pillow Cover (originally designed for the W Hotel in Seoul, South Korea); the Squeeze Lamp (made from the same fire-retardant, corregated foam as the Coose Egg Chair); and the DNA jewelry collection (a fun, wearable connection between science and art). Stop by the showroom TuesdaySaturday from 11am-6pm. The in-store product ranges from $24-$299. “We intentionally redesigned the lifestyle bag collection to be uniquely different yet functional pieces one would use in their everyday life. Therefore, we want to ensure our bags are sold at an affordable price – all under $300,” Valentini says. “We believe everyone deserves to afford great design.”
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By Dale J Rappaneau, Jr
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1) pass out in the middle of an assignment surrounded by women and the man-beast, or 2) take the long walk of shame. I opted for the second option. As if by some miracle, at that moment the music cut off and I fell to a sitting position. “No sitting, no sitting, stand up, no sitting,” shouted Coach Mike. But he must have seen the utter lack of masculinity left within this writer’s deadened, lightheaded eyes, because he pointed at the doors and said, “Whoa, hey, water’s outside, man.” So outside the room I sat like a workout wallflower, watching a dozen or so women having a great time. And my aura of shame at picking such a strenuous class for my first time out must have felt strong, because Gold’s Gym’s trainers flocked to me like bees to honey. (Seriously, much thanks to those trainers.) Soon after, Coach Mike himself put the class on hold and came to find me. Sweating, smiling, about as chipper as anyone whose career is spent high on endorphins, he beamed a wicked smile and said, “Maybe you shouldn’t continue the class. Go get a Gatorade - on me.” So congratulations, Gold’s Gym. I can spend three months living in the woods and hauling a 40-pound-plus backpack up and down mountains, but I couldn’t last even an hour in your Group Power. It quite frankly proved too powerful - an exercise routine worthy of respect and proper preparation. Well done.
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In Wayland Square, Lim’s is serving up some of the best Thai and sushi around, and people are catching on. The restaurant recently doubled its size. Turn the page to read our review.
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By Stephanie Obodda
Spice of Life
Heating up the winter with Thai delicacies in wayland Square
mango Curry
the most striking dish of the night and tasted just as good as it looked. Diced spicy salmon was layered over a round of chopped avocado and sprinkled with red and black caviar (tobiko). A tiny raw quail egg, still in shell, sat upright on a dab of wasabi. A graceful tree drawn with thick brown sauce decorated the plate, little ‘fruit’ of sriracha dotting the branches. A tiny dragon was fashioned from a slice of lime. This description may sound over the top, but it was absolutely delicate and tasteful. The Incredible Hulk ($15) was an inside-out roll packed with tuna, yellowtail, salmon, avocado, jalapeño and cucumber. It was sprinkled with wasabi tobiko and cilantro and served with wasabi mayo dipping sauce on the side. On the menu, it was marked with three peppers (very hot) but didn’t have us reaching for a handkerchief – I suspect the heat might depend on the day’s jalapeños. The roll was well constructed and held together when picked up with chopsticks, even if eaten in two bites. Our Mussels Bomb ($6.95) featured
Seafood Pad Sha
four mussel shells each lined with a piece of jalapeño, then topped with a plump mussel, chopped crab stick in spicy mayonnaise and masago (capelin
roe). This was a beautiful dish with balanced flavors and pleasant heat. Our waiter warned us that this appetizer can take about 15 minutes extra to prepare, but it didn’t seem like a long wait. Though we had already ordered quite a bit, we couldn’t resist a fragrant bowl of soup on a bitterly cold day. I ordered the Coconut Soup ($4), a translucent coconut broth with plenty of sliced mushrooms, organic chicken and cilantro. I’d never had a soup quite like this and it was pleasing and simple. My husband tried the Tom Yum Soup ($4) with vegetables. This classic Tom Yum would please most palates - it was on the sweet side and not too spicy. Speaking of Tom Yum, I spotted the Tom Yum Margarita ($9.95) on the cocktail list and had to give it a try. It was made with Bombay Sapphire East gin (“East” signifies the addition of lemongrass and peppercorns), Stoli Citros vodka, lemongrass, bird’s eye chili, cranberry and lime juices and galangal – a rhizome with a similar
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I first visited Lim’s shortly after it opened last year, having heard rumors of a great sushi hideaway in Wayland Square. Lim’s debuted on South Angell Street in April 2012 and has already seen enough traffic to necessitate expanding into the next storefront for more seating. The restaurant serves Thai and Japanese food; elegant attention to detail is evident in the décor and platings. We stopped in on a freezing afternoon and the sushi chef greeted us with a warm smile. We were seated at a cozy table on the original side of the restaurant. The sushi bar is also a choice place to sit, as are the tables by the window - especially for people watching in warmer weather. We decided to order a mix of dishes to get a sense of both the Thai and Japanese offerings. To drink, we shared some Kurosawa Junmai Kimoto ($14) sake, cold. The frigid weather had us craving spicier menu items, but there’s plenty on the menu for the spicy-adverse too. The Spicy Salmon Tartar ($13) was
Yuzu Hama
appearance to ginger. The cocktail was well-balanced and refreshing, with just a note of pepper in the aftertaste. Since we’d only eaten sashimi and sushi at Lim’s in the past, we chose Thai entrées. My husband opted for the Yellow Curry with Beef ($14.50), made with pineapple, yellow summer squash, peppers, onion and carrots. This bowl full of curry comes with a choice of white, brown or coconut rice to soak up the plentiful sauce. I had the Pad Kee-Mow ($11.75), wide rice noodles with egg, onion and peppers. I ordered mine with shrimp, but it can also be made with beef, chicken, pork, vegetables or tofu. The noodles are very wide - wider than pappardelle - and are stuck together in a sweet, delicious sauce. The dish was large but no
complaints here, as the leftovers are just as good the next day. We ended with Mango Sticky Rice ($5.50). A slab of mango was scored into cubes and served with a translucent, warm, sweet rice that will remind you of a comforting childhood dessert. The warmth of the staff and food at Lim’s turned out to be a great way to fight the New England freeze.
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In the Kitchen
By Grace Lentini
Whipping Up Perfection Pastry as fine art at Pastiche
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From a young age, Scot Stegmann worked in the restaurant business. Influenced by his mother, who is a baker, he went to Johnson & Wales to pursue a degree in Pastry Arts. Before he graduated, he started working at Pastiche. Twenty-six years later, he remains there, where he puts perfection and patience into the pastries. Can you describe the pastry making process at Pastiche? There were a lot [of recipes] that were in place when I got here and we’ve created a lot since. They’ve been manipulated over the years as we see fit. We’re constantly tasting each component. Maybe it’s too sweet or needs something. I’ve yet to pick up a recipe where I haven’t seen some change I think it needs. How long does it take to perfect a new recipe? From start to finish it takes about 10-20 times to perfect a recipe. And that’s starting with two to three cakes and bumping that recipe up to 15 cakes. Everybody’s got to be able to do the same thing, so you want to have recipes that everyone can do. What advice can you give to the home baker? Perfection and patience equals pastry. You have to mix it perfectly and have the patience to allow the tools to do their job. You can’t rush things. You can’t use short cuts. Mistakes will always happen but what’s important is what you take out of it.
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Do you use any local ingredients? We’ve been buying local before there was a movement. Anytime we can, we do. In the summertime we use fresh fruit. We use Christiansen’s Dairy because they have a very high fat content. The cream whips easier and stays thicker longer. We get our eggs from Stamp Farm in Johnston. We’ve been buying from both of these places for over 25 years. Can you possibly pick a favorite pastry? Season to season I have different desserts I’m hooked on. In the summer, it’s the Passion Fruit Tart. In the fall and winter it’s the Pumpkin Cheesecake. So many of our items are year round so these are really special.
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My favorite dessert is the Torta di Cioccolata. How did that recipe evolve? This was one of the recipes I had worked on. It used to be a chocolate chestnut flourless cake. But we found that chestnut didn’t sell well. So we took the chestnut purée out and put almond butter in. It’s that dark, smooth, melt-in-your-mouth kind of thing. I use Callebaut chocolate in that; it’s a 64% dark chocolate. How can two chocolates have the same percentage of chocolate yet taste different? Dark chocolates with the same percentages will taste different based on where they get their cocoa beans from – South America, Mexico, etc. Each country has different flavor components and each company blends it differently. It’s like coffee beans. They may even blend beans from different places. They’ll also taste different based on what they add to the chocolate base. Tell me about your vanilla sponge cake. We use this for our Mascarpone Torte which is basically our version of tiramisu. It’s also used for the Lemon Mousse. It’s not like a pound cake; this is a lot lighter. We think it matches up with the mousse better. We always fold egg whites into the sponge base by hand. Do you carry any gluten-free items? We have several gluten-free items such as the Torta di Cioccolata. Another is the Raspberry Bomb, which
is a flourless chocolate base, almond mousse in the center with a raspberry mousse around it covered in dark chocolate. We also make a flourless coconut cake with coconut cream cheese frosting. What’s the newest recipe you’ve come out with? We just experimented with a new type of caramel dessert. We use caramel nibs, salted caramel and caramel mousse between chocolate cake layers. It took us awhile to figure this one out. How much sugar do we take out because caramel is so sweet. January is the time we experiment. What’s your secret to remaining passionate about your work? I always take it to heart when a customer complains. I always wonder if there is something I can change. You can’t take the attitude of “it’s perfect.” You always have to reevaluate, to taste the product and make sure there is consistency. It’s an everyday thing. I like to taste things. You’d be surprised how many things you can catch just by tasting it. I think it’s important to let some criticism flow.
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by Dale J. Rappaneau Jr.
a New Season
The wintertime Farmer’s market is better than ever Short is the history
left in the wake of the Hope Artiste Wintertime Farmer’s Market, but long is its reach in empowering Rhode Island’s farmto-fork food movement. Since opening in 2007, inside AS220, with only a dozen or so farms and producers, the market quickly outgrew its humble roots, and so transplanted itself in the Hope Artiste Village, in 2009, with approximately four times as many farms and producers. Since then, they have seen two additional expansions, one of time and the other of space. The former occurred in 2010, when the Saturday-only market opened its doors on Wednesday nights, from 4-7pm, so that individuals unable to make the Saturday morning market could spend their time after work perusing the produce. The latter expansion came about this year - at the start of the winter season, in fact when the market expanded into both the 1005 and 99 hallways of the Hope Artiste Village, essentially doubling the size of the market. Growth of this nature provides a sense of context for Rhode Island’s farm-tofork movement. Over the past six years the steadily increasing demand for local, community-driven produce has allowed for such farm and produce epicenters as the Hope Artiste Wintertime Farmer’s Market to take hold. It grew, expanded, found new sources for seasonal vegetation and then found - and continues to find - efficient avenues for connecting the Ocean State’s farms to the community. And that community quite literally eats it all up. So on the surface, yes, these new hallways allow for additional farm-tofamily connections by bringing in new farms and producers, but beneath the obvious surface lies a supply-demand formula that any elementary student could easily point to as a shining example of Rhode Island’s growing love for local food. The Hope Artiste Wintertime Farmer’s Market provides an opportunity and the community acts, it’s that simple, and this upward cycle continues until the two are so entwined that it’s hard to tell where one begins and the other ends.
Frank martinelli from Pv Farm Stand is one of the vendors in the expanded wintertime Farmer’s market
Take for example the market’s upcoming events: January 8: Soil Nutrition 101 & Cooking Demo with Sebastian Porto from Sensata January 15: Soda Making Workshop January 22: Youth Art Show January 29: Farms and Food Job Fair Besides the slight connection between better soil producing better crops, none of those events particularly scream advertising intended to entice people to purchase produce. In fact, the tone taken is more of a gentle whisper inviting the community to come together as a cohesive unit. The Youth Art Show encourages kids to use their imagination and creative skills; the Farms and Food Job Fair helps put Rhode Islanders back to work; the Soda Making Workshop fights back against big carbonated business - the Hope Artiste market is seizing upon its ability to pull in people to provide a foundation for a more empowered community future. And where those two new hallways will someday lead, it’s hard to say. Especially when considering such a successful, community-bound establishment as the Hope Artiste Wintertime Farmer’s Market. DRINk IN THE NEW YEaR Something about the immediate gratification of buying local produce
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By Cristy Raposo
Running Hot and Cold A wave of sake hits the Hill
Does Nami have a signature cocktail? Wasabi Martini. We create our own ginger-infused simple syrup by boiling three roots of fresh ginger, adding sugar and some white pepper for extra zing. I’ll muddle fresh wasabi and then add your choice of vodka and our house-made syrup. Surprisingly, it’s not spicy at all. I’ve had people send it back saying, “It’s not spicy enough.”
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What has Nami taught you about sake? That I was pronouncing it wrong! Sake is pronounced “sah-kay” not “sahkee.” It’s a gluten-free rice wine with no tannins, preservatives or sulfates. At Nami, we offer a variety of sake including some with a 12% alcohol content. Fifty percent of our cocktail list is made of sake. Enjoy it hot or cold and flavored; we offer eight different flavored sakes. Sake – hot or cold? I personally prefer cold sake. We have a machine that pours hot original sake for our guests. Sake bombs are gaining popularity; people like the transition from hot sake to cold beer. Here, a sake bomb is shot of hot sake dropped into a glass of Sapporo and then chugged.
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Emily Phrasikaysone is shaking up cocktails at Nami on Federal Hill
What can we order besides the typical Scorpion bowl? The Sake Bodo Bowl combines all eight flavored sakes – pear, raspberry, lychee, apple, peach, coconut, lemongrass and citrus – with pineapple and orange juices. It’s light, tropical and floral undertones make it easy to drink. It goes great with one of our desserts or lunch bento boxes. We also feature a Nami Bowl made with light rum, gold rum, coconut rum, melon liquor, OJ and pineapple juice with a blue curacao float. The blue represents the Nami wave. Which sake cocktail is a must try? Lychee Martini made with lychee vodka, lychee sake and lychee juice; garnished with a natural lychee. It’s best paired with a sushi roll. If you’re looking for something on the sweeter side, order the SuperFruit Martini made with raspberry sake, regular sake, citrus sake and Monin SuperFruit puree garnished with an edible flower. Both make great after-dinner drinks. Besides sake, what are you pouring? We have a full bar and offer everything from organic cucumber vodka to Tito’s homemade vodka to the owner’s personal Cognac selection. We just started serving Japanese plum wine.
For interesting beers, we serve Tsingtao, Kirian Ichiban and Lucky Buddha, which is actually served in a green Buddha shaped bottle. When eating sushi, which cocktail should we stay away from? Don’t order any dessert cocktails. But if you’re going to order a dessert cocktail, get the RumChata Martini. It’s made with Pumpkin RumChata, espresso vodka, pumpkin spice liquor and pumpkin cream; rimmed with cinnamon sugar. It’s amazing. Why are you so passionate about this craft? Bartending got me to open my eyes to different diversities and walks of life. I really care about the people I make drinks for. I enjoy listening to people and being there for them to vent to. Bartending is about building relationships with people and networking. Bartending is my social life.
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Drunk on Coffee Milk
Narragansett brewery and Autocrat unite in beverage heaven Coffee milk was one of my standout discoveries as a freshman in college, fresh-faced and fresh to Rhode Island as I was. In a cafeteria semi-affectionately known as the Ratty, giant, nicked-up steel beverage caddies dispensed it along side regular and chocolate milk. I remember my introduction to it clear as day: “Coffee milk?” I asked. “Like coffee, with milk?” No, not at all, I was informed. And shame on me for assuming so. (I understand that lifelong Rhode Islanders find nothing at all surprising or unique about coffee milk, but interlopers such as myself find it curious if not mind-blowing.) Long on tradition and oddbut-good, coffee milk felt like a fitting emblem of the state that I was getting to know, which quickly presented itself as deep in history yet also deeply maverick. Thus, when Narragansett Brewing Company – “‘Gansett” to most – is announced this past fall that they planned to release a coffee milk stout this winter, my pickled heart skipped about half a dozen beats. How perfect, I thought. So perfect, in fact, that it’s hard to fathom why a mashup of the state’s most beloved beverage categories hadn’t happened ages ago. When I chatted with Mark Hellendrung, Narragansett’s CEO and amiable force to be reckoned with, he told me the inspiration was all about partnership. After resurrecting the Narragansett in 2005 from the state’s graveyard of once-great but sincefelled businesses, and quickly hitting phenomenal growth numbers, Hellendrung and Co. began to think about new directions. The idea was not to ditch classics, or to change a brand identity with roots stretching back to 1890, but to do more with seasonal and other limited-edition brews. Straightaway, the brand’s long-lived,
much-loved “Hi, neighbor” slogan – famously barked by Sox announcer Curt Gowdy – offered a springboard for partnering up with other iconic local companies. Thus begat the forthcoming “Hi, Neighbor” series of what the industry calls “shoulder” offerings: one-offs that allow a brewery to flex its creativity while keeping up with a core roster of beers. Hellendrung and his team
knew they wanted to keep things close to home at first, and drummed up a wish list of local companies with compatible DNA. Autocrat Coffee Syrup materialized almost immediately as a likely candidate, since the two companies are a match made in beverage heaven. “It just seemed so right,” Hellendrung said. “They’re a company with great heritage in Rhode Island, like us, with similar 1890s roots.” It couldn’t hurt that coffee milk just so happens to be the state’s official drink as of 1993, and that coffee itself is a natural match for
certain dark beers, a flavor profile that makes sense given the beers’ natural character. The story goes like this: Hellundrung called up Autocrat’s CEO Rich Fields, who happens to be as invested in Rhode Island’s historic drinks culture as the ‘Gansett team, and conveniently also happens to be a beer fan. (Though, really, it’s rare to find somebody in the Ocean State who’s not a beer fan, no?) Fields signed on enthusiastically, and the first “Hi, Neighbour” collaboration was born. Brewmaster Sean Larkin, who also heads up the widely loved craft-beer upstart Revival Brewing, got to work on the beer itself. What resulted was a coffee stout that uses real autocrat syrup as a key ingredient, but Hellendrung is quick to note that anyone expecting milk’s signature stickysweetness will get something else entirely. “We’re playing up the true coffee ingredient, rather than the syrup’s sweetness,” he said. “It makes more sense for a beer to go that route.” Customers can expect something more dry than it is sweet, and with complex bitter flavors akin to that of a good cup of coffee. Which will get you drunk. Let’s hear it for a hybrid between everyone’s favorite two drinks, eh? Eager patrons can find it in both draught and can forms for a limited time. Look for a label that injects ‘Gansett’s classic, trademark style with a steam punk vibe, to play up both its and Autocrat’s turn-of-the-century origins. Future “Hi, Neighbor” rollouts are in the works, TBA. I’m dreaming of a shandy that marries ‘Gansett with Del’s, if that’s not already on the table. Cut me a check for the concept, Mr. Hellendrung – or just send me a case of the results. Will work for delicious, boozy currency.
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BakER STREET RUE 75 Baker St.; 4905025, therue.com. The Rue De L’Espoir empire expands with this comfortable neighborhood café serving “upscale diner food” with an emphasis on local ingredients. BBrL $ BLUE COTTaGE 748 Hope St.; 3837307. Enjoy a bed and breakfast style morning meal or deli sandwich at this cozy diner. It’s a good breakfast at a fair price in a family friendly setting. Daily specials. BBR $ BOMBaY CLUB 145 Dean St.; 2736363, bombayclubri.com. Located on Federal Hill, this Indian restaurant features dinner everyday and a buffet lunch on weekends. Try the specialty Bombay Mix Grill with an assortment of kebobs on a sizzling plate. LD $$$$$
CaV 14 Imperial Pl.; 751-9164, cavrestaurant.com. The New York Times’ choice as one of Providence’s five best restaurants, CAV’s contemporary award-winning cuisine is available for lunch and dinner daily. They also feature Saturday/Sunday brunch. BrLD $$-$$$ DON JOSE TEQUILaS 351 Atwells Ave.; 454-8951, donjosetequilas.com. Don Jose’s digs a little deeper than your average Mexican restaurant, with all the basics you love alongside more artfully composed entrées and a wonderful selection of house-made tequilas. LD $$ THE DORRaNCE 60 Dorrance St.; 5216000, thedorrance.com. The Dorrance, a 2012 James Beard Foundation award semi-finalist (best new restaurant and chef), is known for its impressive architecture, hand-crafted cocktails and delicious modern American cuisine. LD $$-$$$ GOURMET HEaVEN 173 Weybossett St.& 205 Meeting St; 536-9000, gourmetheaven.com. Whether in need of a quick bite, a couple of items to fill the pantry or a thoughtfully made meal, Gourmet Heaven
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MILLS TaVERN 101 North Main St., 272-3331, millstavernrestaurant.com. The only restaurant in RI to receive The Mobile Four Star Award for five consecutive years, Mills Tavern provides traditional American cuisine in a warm, friendly setting. D $$-$$$ MUMU CUISINE 220 Atwells Ave; 369-7040, mumucuisine.com. This upscale Providence restaurant features authentic Chinese food in a modern, relaxing atmosphere. Try some of the best-rated dishes, such as the savory (and grease-free) Scallion Pancakes or Ambrosial Tea-Smoked Duck in a chic red-and-black themed setting. LD $$
PaRaGON 234 Thayer Street; 3316200, www.paragonandviva.com. Opened in 1994, this European-style bistro/café is a one-stop shop. Start the night with the Lobster Mac & Cheese and end it with one their stellar martinis at Viva, their comfortable lounge and weeknight club. BrLD $-$$ PaRkSIDE 76 South Main St.; 3310003, parksideprovidence.com. Chef/ owner Steven Davenport offers innovative and classic foods with eclectic flare. The menu also includes creative pasta dishes and, of course, the signature rotisserie meats for which Parkside is famous. LD $-$$ PHO HORN’S 50 Ann Mary St.; 3656278, phohorns.com. Pho Horn’s offers authentic Vietnamese cuisine, including traditional dishes like the popular Pho (noodle soup) and Rice Chowder with Pulled Pork. It’s a delicious choice for anyone looking for something different. LD $-$$ PROVIDENCE OYSTER BaR 283 Atwells Ave.; 272-8866, providenceoysterbar.com. Visit this unique restaurant for a taste of the sea, featuring “Today’s Catch” and specialty Shrimp and Fish Tacos. “Appy Hour” from 4-6:30pm features a sushi and raw oyster bar. LD $-$$ PROVIDENCE PRIME 279 Atwells Ave.; 454-8881, providenceprime.com.
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RED STRIPE 465 Angell St.; 437-6950, redstriperestaurants.com. It’s classic comfort food with French influences. From their Grilled Cheese with Tomato Soup to ten styles of Moules & Frites, Red Stripe’s menu is reasonably priced and made with passion. LD $-$$$ RICk’S ROaDHOUSE 370 Richmond St.; 272-7675, ricksroadhouseri.com. With hand-cut, fire-kissed steaks, gut-busting burgers and fall off the bone ribs, Rick’s brings the best slowcooked cuisine to the Ocean State. LD $-$$ RUE BIS 95 South St.; 490-9966, therue.com. This intimate eatery provides breakfast and lunch in a cozy, neighborhood bistro atmosphere – all with the gourmet pedigree of Hope Street dining staple Rue De L’Espoir behind it. BBrL $ RUE DE L’ESPOIR 99 Hope St.; 7518890, therue.com. In business for over 30 years, the Rue has only gotten better. Beautifully prepared with the freshest ingredients, the innovative, constantly changing menu keeps diners on their toes. BBrLD $$ THREE SISTERS 1074 Hope Street; 273-7230, threesistersri.com. This highly acclaimed creamery features traditional Vanilla Bean along with new award-winning flavors such as Kulfi (cardamom, cinnamon, pistachio). Don’t miss its well-crafted breakfast omelets and lunchtime paninis. BBRL $
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January 2-12: See the Wicked Witch of the West and Glenda the Good Witch as children in Wicked, the musical for people who don’t normally enjoy musicals. It’s a spin on the beloved tale The Wizard of Oz, set to music. Get to know the real Wicked Witch (who may not be as wicked as everyone thinks). Head to the Providence Performing Arts Center and revisit the classic story in a way that will leave you thinking… and singing. After all, the production hasn’t won a Grammy and three Tony Awards for nothing! Check website for showtimes. 220 Weybosset Street. 421-2787, ppacri.org.
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January 5: Getting hitched? Check out the Southern new England Bridal Expo, the largest bridal event in New England. With an estimated attendance of 1,800, the Convention Center will be full of brides, grooms, vendors and love. 10:15am-5pm. 885-8788, 1 Sabin Street. southernnewenglandbridalexpo.com.
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January 25: As Olivia Newton-John said, let’s get physical! Go Snowshoeing at Fort refuge to explore the beauty of the fort during winter while looking for tracks and wildlife. Bring or rent snowshoes from REI or EMS in advance. $8-$12. 10amnoon. 12 Sanderson Road, Smithfield. asri.org.
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January 4: Get your fashion fix while raising money for Providence’s School One by attending the 3rd annual Prom Expo Fashion Show. This year’s theme is “rock concert.” All profits benefit School One. $5-$10. 7pm doors; 8pm show. 100 Cedar Avenue, East Greenwich. 340-7667, laurainkphotography.com.
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January 4-25: Have you ever dreamed of acting on stage? Let Trinity Rep teach you how with Exploring Character, an acting class for adults taught by resident company member Angela Brazil. This is an 8-week class that continues through February 22. $300. 10am-noon. 201 Washington Street. trinityrep.com/education.
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This Month January 3-31: Drop in the Providence Athenaeum on Friday evenings for the weekly Salon Series, a conversation on topics from art to philosophy to literature. Get smart. Free. 5-7pm. 251 Benefit Street. 4216970, providenceathenaeum.org.
January 1-5: Don’t miss the Historias: Latin american Works on Paper exhibit of prints, drawings and photographs at the RISD Museum of Art. 224 Benefit Street. 454-6500, risdmuseum.org.
January 3-31: Swing by Bottles for a weekly beer or wine tasting. You may even Skype with a faraway winemaker as you sip his wares! Free. Fri beer tasting 3:30-7:30pm; Sat wine tasting 3-7pm. 141 Pitman Street. 372-2030, bottlesfinewine.com.
January 1-29: Hope Artiste Village opens its doors every Wednesday and Saturday to host the Wintertime Farmers’ Market, selling everything from local eggs to oysters. Wednesday 4-7pm; Saturday 9am-1pm. 1005 Main Street, Pawtucket. farmfresh.org. January 1-30: Have the day off? Swing by Peace Love Studios in their beautiful new space for Gallery Hours, your chance to check out their artists’ work. Free. Hope Artiste Village, 999 Main Street, Pawtucket. 475-9778, peacelovestudios. com. January 1-31: Go Ice Skating at The Providence rink. Each Wednesday it’s college night, which means $5 skating from 6-10pm; every weekday admission is just $5 between noon2pm and from 4-6pm. 2 Kennedy Plaza. providencerink.com. January 2-30: Thursdays on the Terrace has become Thursdays at the Biltmore. Indulge in cocktails and complimentary hors d’oeuvres while enjoying live jazz. Free. 5-8pm. 11 Dorrance Street. 4210700, providencebiltmore.com. January 3-31: Every Friday it’s Friday night Live at Everett. Performers improvise on song, dance and skits that are appropriate for all ages. Prepare to laugh, cry, snort and wet your pants. $5. 7pm. 9 Duncan Avenue. 831-9479, everettri.org.
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January 4: Saturday Nights bring the beloved Improv Jones to the 95 Empire Black Box. Enjoy a fantastically funny world of comedy and zaniness that’s different every week. $5. 10pm. 95 Empire Street. 831-9327, improvjones.com. January 4-25: Make a date with your little one for the Brown University Bookstore’s weekly Children’s Story Time each Saturday, a magical world where tots can learn. Free. 244 Thayer Street. 863-3168, bookstore.brown.edu/. January 5: On the first Sunday of each month, from now ‘til forever, head downtown to AS220 for its Empire revue, a night of sketch comedy, friends and more. $8. 8-11:30pm. 115 Empire Street. 831-9327, as220.org. January 5-26: Every Sunday at AS220 you can hop into your leotard for a drop-in Beginner or Intermediate Ballet class with Stephanie Albanese. $13. 10:30-11:30am beginner; 12-1:30pm intermediate. 95 Empire Street. 831-9327, as220.org. January 7 & 21: Take a Guided architectural Library Tour at the historic Providence Public Library on the first and third Tuesday of every month. Free. 10:30-11:30am. 225 Washington Street. 455-8000, provlib.org. January 7-28: Take a look at the night sky every Tuesday night
January 19-25: The weather may be cold, but fashion is still hot. StyleWeek Northeast returns for its showcase of talented local designers. Shop the accessory showcase every day before and after the shows, no tickets necessary. Weekend tickets sell out in advance but weekday tickets are available online or at the door. The Biltmore, 11 Dorrance Street. styleweeknortheast.com. at the Ladd’s weekly Telescope Observing night, weather permitting. The galaxy is your oyster. Free. 9-11pm. 210 Doyle Avenue. 863-2323, brown. edu/Departments/Physics/Ladd/. January 7-28: Head to Trinity Brewhouse every Tuesday night for Stump! Trivia. Winning teams go home with awesome prizes so be sure to bring your smartest friends. 8pm. 186 Fountain Street. 453-2337, stumptrivia.com. January 8: The Providence College men’s basketball team takes to the court at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center for an exciting game of hoops. See the Friars vs. Georgetown. 7pm. 1 La Salle Square. 865-4672, friars.com. January 9-31: Eight actors portray multiple characters in The Big Meal, a play about an ordinary family over five generations. $38-$48. 2pm, 7pm & 8pm. Gamm Theatre, 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket. 723-4266, gammtheatre.org. January 10-19: The Community Players present Arsenic and Old Lace, a lively comic masterpiece written by Joseph Kesselring. $12 student; $15 adult. Jenks Auditorium, Division
Street, Pawtucket. 726-6860, thecommunityplayers.org. January 11: The popular Winter Big Day program is back, birders! Set out from the Audubon’s Powder Mill Ledges Wildlife Refuge and cover all the state’s winter hot spots in this daylong van trip. $45-$55. 12 Sanderson Road, Smithfield. asri.org. January 11: Break those winter blues with a hot cup of coffee and some live music. Stone Soup Coffeehouse presents Box Car Lilies with opening act Paul Pesch. 8pm. 50 Park Place, Pawtucket. 723-0354, soup.org. January 11: Learn how to identify tracks and other signs of our native mammals and birds at Audubon’s animal Tracks and Signs for Families program. $8 member pair; $12 non-member pair. 10am-noon. 12 Sanderson Road, Smithfield. 949-5454, asri.org. January 17: Providence was recently voted the fourth most hipster city in Travel + Leisure and the Columbus Theater might have something to do with it. Don’t miss Mother Falcon at this great venue. 270 Broadway. columbustheatre.com.
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January 1: If you’ve ever wondered what goes on at The Steel Yard, now is your chance to find out. The Yardies offer free public tours on the first Wednesday of every month. Stop by and say hi. Noon. 27 Sims Avenue. 2737101, thesteelyard.org.
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January 17: The Chazan Gallery hosts an Opening reception for Group Show featuring works by Hannah Antalek, Harrison Bucy, Jenn Houle, Anne Rogers, and more. Free. 5-7pm. 228 Angell Street. 4219230, chazangallery.org. January 17 & 19: You have two chances to catch the Providence Bruins skate circles around Wilkes-Barre this month at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. $21.25-$38. 7:05pm Friday; 3:05pm Sunday. 1 LaSalle Square. 273-5000, providencebruins.com. January 18: The rock-a-Baby Band is coming to Roger Williams Zoo! Jam along to well-known children’s songs and see entertaining puppets. Registration required. $15 pair. $5 additional child. 1000 Elmwood Avenue. 941-4998, rwpzoo.org. January 18: Don’t miss the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra’s dynamic performance of Beethoven’s Second at the Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium. $15 and up. 8pm. 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence. 221-1467, vmari.com.
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Chris Daltry came to Rhode Island to play an indie rock festival with his band, Purple Ivy Shadows, and never left. “My first visits to Providence revealed a lively DIY music scene that included not just the music I liked, but one that included like-minded people whose music may have differed, but made sense together because the people did,” he says. Though Purple Ivy Shadows disbanded in 2002, Daltry has remained a vital part of the city’s scene as the singer/guitarist of The ‘Mericans and owner, along with his wife Jennifer, of What Cheer? Records & Vintage. Over three albums, The ‘Mericans have established themselves as the city’s preeminent Americana rockers, drawing comparisons to everyone from CCR to Wilco, but those first experiences in Providence and the influence its homegrown music had on him have never been too far from Daltry’s mind. As a way of honoring the scene that brought him here, The ‘Mericans have released the free to download A Tribute to Providence, a collection of 20 songs from the last 20 years of local music. The album starts with Small Factory’s “For When You Cannot Land” which is fitting given the role they played in Daltry relocating his band all those years ago – he gives them a lot of the credit for convincing him that this was the place he wanted to make music. This track, along with Throwing Muses’ “Honeychain” and Miracle
Legion’s “Country Boy” highlight Rhode Island’s contribution to the golden age of alternative rock. On the more contemporary side of things are covers of Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes, Deer Tick, Death Vessel and The Low Anthem. At the extreme ends of the spectrum are an eerily spaced out take on Allysen Callery’s “Winter Island,” and arguably the album’s rowdiest track, “Radio to Saturn vs. Hackamore Brick” originally by Three Hydrogen Terrors. More than any other songs on the album, these two come closest to feeling like departures from any sort of established comfort zone. Listening to the original recordings of all of these songs reveals a diverse, sometimes clashing collection of style and energy, but what Daltry believes unifies them all is that they’re great songs to start with. Making them all work together as the record fell on The ‘Mericans, and they aced it. On paper this is a zig-zagging tour through two decades of local music but the end product is surprisingly cohesive. “To make a 20-song album be strong and make sense together is an achievement on its own. Usually stuff winds up getting cut to make for a more cohesive record, but all the songs we recorded for this album somehow managed to turn out well and make sense together. Michael Moore (The ‘Mericans guitarist) was recently telling me that he feels this is an incredible
accomplishment. I feel the same way.” As a love-letter to the good old days and a gateway to music younger audiences may have missed out on, A Tribute to Providence succeeds in its mission to celebrate the creative tradition that define our city’s scene. That scene may be radically different from what it was 20 years ago, but the infectious creativity that Daltry fell in love with in the first place remains as strong as ever. “Providence is unique in that it gets a constant flow of new blood year after year from schools like RISD and Brown. These new faces bring new ideas here, and exciting stuff happens. We should all be very proud of what our music scene has become.”
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Theatre
By Jenn Salcido
Behind the Curtain
Playing dress-up with the Gamm’s costume designer What makes a character? Is it all accent and affect? Or is it psychological underpinnings – questions of motivation and precedent? In theatre, the answer of course is all of this, but not just all of this. There’s more. Each show’s design team works to help create the universe for those characters, and allows those characters to reveal themselves as they interact with that universe. All of the unseen hands backstage play a part in this, of course, but only the costume designer literally builds the outer shells of those characters, helping the actors bring their creations to life. At the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre, this is a role played largely by David Howard, the theatre’s resident costume designer. David has been working at the theater since 1999, when happenstance brought him together with Artistic Director Tony Estrella when the pair shared an office at the University of Rhode Island, where Howard had taken a post as an adjunct filling in for a professor on sabbatical. Now, Howard has 32 productions with the company under his belt, and he has nothing but praise for Tony and the rest of his team. “The people I work with are so generous in their belief in me,” he says. Just like the Gamm has a long history with David, David has a long history with the creative arts. He says he was always drawn to them, particularly live performance. “I was always the kid who wanted to put on crazy plays in school,” he says, laughing as he recalls his early work. “They were interminable and awful. But what can you expect from a six-year-old?” From there, David pursued his interest in the arts, learning many instruments (“though I was a master of none”), painting and crafting in his bedroom, singing and acting. His senior year of high school, he realized he wanted to go into theater, though he said the department at SUNY-Fredonia “didn’t really know what to do with [him]”– he says he wasn’t a particularly wonderful actor, and had a propensity for involvement in a lot of different aspects of the theatrical craft, but hadn’t really focused in on any one thing. After graduation, his best friend got
David Howard’s talent as a costume designer extends beyond plays at The Gamm to his personal collection
him a gig in a summer theater where he worked as a wardrobe supervisor, readying the clothes for the actors for each and every performance as well as caring for them afterward. After David moved to Rhode Island to work as a costume designer and performer at the Astor’s Beechwood in Newport in 1993, it wasn’t long before he began to get more serious in his theatrical thinking. On something of a lark, he applied for and was accepted to the University of Connecticut’s costume design program, where he earned his MFA. There, he says, he began to think about his work on a more intellectual level and in a more immersive sort of detail. This would ultimately prepare him for his teaching career at URI, which continues on to this day. Howard says that the job always begins with reading the script and looking for both instructions and possible interpretations for the characters. “I look at who the character is. What would this character need? What are we trying to say about the character?” For a period drama, David says, historical accuracy is obviously an important factor, but there are other considerations at play as well. ”I think more often than not, actors are more willing to accept the rules of period clothes and give themselves over to it. They don’t judge period clothing,” he says, adding that his job is then to make an actor’s character feel and look as comfortable in a boned corset as a modern woman would in leggings.
And speaking of contemporary productions, David says that those are some of the more challenging shows to costume, despite notions to the contrary. “People think that contemporary clothes are easy, that you can just go to Macy’s and pick them out,” he says. It’s not just about being able to run out and get any blue sweater, he says. “It’s getting the blue sweater. The right color. The right v-neck. The right texture.” For The Big Meal, the theatre’s upcoming production, David will have to overcome not only the challenge of outfitting the eight actors in contemporary garb in exactly the right way for the right price, but will need to deal with weaving a thread between characters as they progress in age on stage. The Dan LeFranc script leaves little time for quick changes, so David will need to design and implement costumes that make sense for a character who in one moment appears as a seven-year-old and in another moment has transitioned into another stage of life, all the way through old age. “There are a lot of exciting possibilities,” he says.
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Reality flirts with imagination in Pawtucket When Eric auger and Joe Pari decided to bring their love of expression and costume to WaterFire nearly a decade back, they hadn’t the slightest idea how their passion for performance art would develop into a full-fledged studio and staff. The long-time friends began by crafting and donning their now-iconic Gargoyles as they came to life on the firelit banks of the Providence River for a bit of fun. As the public gathered to admire the intricate craftsmanship and immersive creativity, interest piqued and it wasn’t long before queries started rolling in. Thus Ten31 was born, taking its name from the holiday where everyone embraces their imagination and make believe, Halloween. “It was validation,” Pari said of the initial response and public interest in their living statues. Suddenly, the pair were creating for a reason. First came the crew of Nutcrackers commissioned for a holiday event, closely followed by the white birch trees. Each custom-order was a new undertaking, with Auger and Pari handcrafting and painting unique designs that were carefully fabricated pieces of fine art while remaining wearable. Their costume collection grew as customer requests diversified, with finishes from bronzes and gold, to white marble and patina, and characters spanning history, cultures, nature and professions. Once a new costume was debuted, it came back to the closet, ready for future events and engagements, and as the closet grew, so did Ten31’s team of craftsman and women, producers and performers. When I visit their new workshop space in Pawtucket, the true artisanship shines through. Boots with shiny new buttons line in a row and golden floral masks just back from a Boston Ballet benefit await careful cleaning and return to their categorized place. No detail goes unnoticed. As I step into the closet, rows and rows of costumes hang in garment bags and open cabinets reveal gilded hats, masks and an array of accessories. It’s a dress-up-lover’s dream, and
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whelmingly personal audience reactions. At WaterFire, it’s not uncommon for a visitor to lean in and tell the Gargoyles a secret. It’s all a part of the connection, “transforming the energy the way any piece of artwork will successfully do,” says Pari. The performers not only acknowledge these powerful moments, they embrace them, taking the energy from the crowd and both utilizing and recirculating it. Whether through silence or through movement, anyone who’s watched one of the statues in action knows that even the smallest of acknowledgments fail to go unnoticed. Time seems to slow down around the pieces of living art. People hush, and contemplate, much in the way they would in a museum. There’s something spectacular about seeing that same reaction re-contextualized. It’s the moment when the public eye first sees the art in the everyday.
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