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Philip Eil

Providence
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Covers:  providence & rhode island politics, the providence journal (and other local media outlets), marijuana legalization, climate change and the environment, activism, what to do with rhode island's most iconic (and currently abandoned) skyscraper, drug addiction & overdoses, the local tech scene, urban violence, mars exploration, alex and ani, brown/risd/uri/pc & ri's other colleges and universities, hp lovecraft
Journalist. Author of "Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the 'Pill Mill Killer.'" This place is cooked. Find me on Bluesky & elsewhere.
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It's Alex and Ani's state...

It's Alex and Ani's state...

Has Rhode Island ever seen a company as ambitious or as hungry to broadcast its name as Alex and Ani? Before …

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On Tour With Westboro: Bubbles, Condoms, and a Gay Pope from Pawtucket

On Tour With Westboro: Bubbles, Condoms, and a Gay Pope from Pawtucket

Say what you want about the Westboro Baptist Church - that they're a flaring rash on the ass of humanity that…

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News at What Cost?

News at What Cost?

A 16-year-old girl is shot at a graduation party. Days later, after the shooter (also 16) turns himself in, a…

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The New Menswear Exhibit Worth a Road Trip: RISD's Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion...

The New Menswear Exhibit Worth a Road Trip: RISD's Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion...

I witnessed an almost religious moment during a recent preview of Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion, the hig…

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Should Jews Own Guns?

Should Jews Own Guns?

"Jews have been on the wrong end of the gun, the crossbow, and the sword forever," a man tells Dan Baum over …

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Looking for Providence in All the Wrong Places

Looking for Providence in All the Wrong Places

In the fall of 1635, Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, convicted of preaching "d…

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Becoming James Brown: On RJ Smith’s The One

Becoming James Brown: On RJ Smith’s The One

RJ Smith doesn't draw an exact line marking when James Brown, the 5'6" son of a South Carolina turpentine mak…

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