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Round-up: You Win Some (Emmys), You Lose Some (Freedom), and Then You Dance (with the Stars)
Life is a bowl of Life (Cereal) and Conan's new show will be called Conan (td). Paris Hilton is in trouble. Felony trouble. A guido,...
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webteam
| September 01, 2010
Ask Dr. Lovemonkey: Ties that bind
This is not actually my story, but the story of a good friend from college.
Dr. Lovemonkey answers your questions
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DR. LOVEMONKEY
| February 11, 2009
High-tech high jinx
Like being visited by the Grinch instead of Santa, it looks as if Barack Obama is going to have to give up his beloved BlackBerry not long after this holiday season draws to a close.
Anybody can give electronics that do something useful, it takes imagination to air-condition a dog
By
MIKE MILIARD
| December 08, 2008
Dance, Monkey: Dan Sally
Is he the father of Clay Aiken’s child?
By
SARA FAITH ALTERMAN
| October 15, 2008
The right stuff
Politics is often a matter of perspective.
Senator John Kerry has it; challenger Ed O’Reilly doesn’t. Plus, Sarah Palin’s Hannah Montana equation.
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EDITORIAL
| September 10, 2008
Corrente’s born-again retirement
Now here’s a shocker: the Providence Retirement Board made a stupid decision. My heavens!
If at first you don’t get a taxpayer-funded pension, try, try again
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PHILLIPE AND JORGE
| August 20, 2008
Over and out for Opie
Jim "Opie" Hummel has been among the handful of local wild and crazy reporters who consistently come up with solid, aggressively pursued, and flashy stories.
Newsman takes a walk rather than embrace tabloid lexicon
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PHILIPPE + JORGE
| August 06, 2008
A User’s Guide to AltCom 2008
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MIKE MILIARD
| May 07, 2008
Native Portlander makes good at Sundance
Don’t watch The Execution of Solomon Harris expecting a treatise about the death penalty.
Local film
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DEIRDRE FULTON
| March 06, 2008
The Big Hurt: Fire sales
The world’s largest collection of recorded music has gone up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $3 million.
Plus, this week in tedious headlines
By
DAVID THORPE
| March 04, 2008
Fool's Gold
As for Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, they should have a sit-down with their agents.
Ever shirtless, ever silly
By
TOM MEEK
| February 13, 2008
Who I am
She answers my questions in a Valley Girl vixen voice, with a languid aplomb that characterizes the way she approaches life.
Paris speaks
By
SHARON STEEL
| February 13, 2008
The Estate’s first
She’s the 21st century’s best example of someone who’s famous for being famous, but she’s also a good sport and, up close and semi-personal, kind of sweet.
Paris Hilton helps celebrate a local anniversary
By
JIM SULLIVAN
| February 11, 2008
The Hottie and the Nottie
It’s a shame you can’t auto-tune acting talent the same way you can manufacture vocals in the recording studio.
Total makeover madness
By
SHARON STEEL
| February 06, 2008
Youth in the booth
Sometime since 1976 — just four years after 18 year olds were granted the right to vote but decided they’d rather not — the youth movement has become a joke.
The frat party at the Electoral College may be over . So why are the kids still turning out?
By
VANESSA CZARNECKI
| January 30, 2008
Meet the Spartans
The steam has at last run out on the Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer movie-spoofing machine.
A humorless turd
By
TOM MEEK
| January 30, 2008
Fie, society
Frailty, thy name is society — or so suggest two comedies of manners currently on view but written 340 years apart.
The Little Dog Laughed at SpeakEasy; The Misanthrope at New Rep
By
CAROLYN CLAY
| January 22, 2008
On the national affront
Where does one begin to recap 12 months of such willful self-parody?
An inescapable year reaches its inevitable conclusion
By
BARRY CRIMMINS
| December 19, 2007
Confidential by Alison Jackson
Taschen | 264 pages | $39.99
By
SHARON STEEL
| December 03, 2007
Memory Lane time for Leo’s
There is certain to be a run on Botox injections, Grecian Formula, and William Shatner rubber corsets.
Old-line Providence hipsters to regroup over hard stuff
By
PHILLIPE AND JORGE
| November 19, 2007
Faux and Fabulous
Lane seems forever a child of the ’60s: psychedelia, India, and all that.
Kenneth Jay Lane’s classy costume jewelry at the RISD Museum
By
GREG COOK
| October 30, 2007
Open city
In the pioneering early-’80s days of the Toronto Film Festival, the audience actually rose before movie showings for a canned recording of “God Save the Queen.”
The 2007 Toronto Film Festival
By
GERALD PEARY
| September 18, 2007
Armies of the light
Maybe the trauma of another intractable war has sparked the movies’ recent interest in ’60s headliners.
Norman Mailer’s primal screen at the HFA
By
PETER KEOUGH
| September 18, 2007
The witching hour
WICKED is a very different witch hunt from the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel on which it is based.
Wicked , plus The Atheist , A Streetcar Named Desire , Zanna, Don’t!
By
CAROLYN CLAY
| September 18, 2007
The kids are not all right
If you lived in Massachusetts you heard about it.
The authors of Restless Virgins talk about the underbelly of teen culture at Milton Academy
By
JENNY HALPER
| August 31, 2007
Aesthetic genius
When I saw Marisha Pessl in the New York Times Style Section, meticulously posed on an antique chair wearing a pair of high heels and a coy smile, I cringed.
Why can’t more writers be smart enough to be beautiful, handsome, or at least cute
By
SHARON STEEL
| August 30, 2007
Law and order in Nawt Prov
Nice work by the carabiniere in Nawt Prov, who broke the leg of a young woman who was taking part in a protest .
Woman’s leg used as a wishbone during IWW protest
By
PHILLIPE AND JORGE
| August 15, 2007
Reality ingenue
What is it about MTV’s top-rated reality show The Hills , premiering its third season August 13th?
Lauren Conrad on MTV's The Hills
By
ELLEE DEAN
| August 13, 2007
Explicitly yours
The easiest way out with R. Kelly — as with Bill Clinton or Paris Hilton — is sex jokes.
R. Kelly after the sex jokes
By
RICHARD BECK
| August 07, 2007
Fulsome prison blues
If a Hollywood It-Girl really wants to leave her mark this summer, she’ll have to work a lot harder than usual.
Two DUI s , cocaine, and now jail — what’s next for Li Lo? Five local dignitaries chime in.
By
SHARON STEEL
| August 01, 2007
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