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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...

providence.thephoenix.com — Has Rhode Island ever seen a company as ambitious or as hungry to broadcast its name as Alex and Ani? Before you answer, consider the following facts. To date, Alex and Ani has entered sponsorships with the Newport Jazz Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Newport's International Tennis Hall of Fame, WaterFire, ABC6's coverage of the Bristol 4th of July parade, the Miss Rhode Island USA pageant, the 2013 Rhode Island State Police 5K, the Boston Red Sox, and the cheerleading squads of the Boston Celtics, the New England Patriots - and the Patriots' AFC East division rivals, the Buffalo Bills.
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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

Providence Phoenix — Say what you want about the Westboro Baptist Church - that they're a flaring rash on the ass of humanity that itches too much to be completely ignored, for example - but you've got to give them credit: those people know how to travel. For their trip to Rhode Island last Thursday, August 1, to protest the official start of legalized gay marriage, the infamous hate-mongers planned to stop at not one, but five different spots before noon.
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News at What Cost?

News at What Cost?

Providence Phoenix — A 16-year-old girl is shot at a graduation party. Days later, after the shooter (also 16) turns himself in, a young TV news reporter heads to the home of the shooting victim's mother's in search of a comment. The resulting news story - in which the mother curses at the reporter, throws a rock at the cameraman, goes into the house to retrieve a baseball bat, then apparently sics her pit bulls on the news crew, sending the reporter screaming, running away, and dropping her microphone - has since been viewed 1,074,408 times on worldstarhiphop.com and 71,213 times on gawker.com.
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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...

The GQ Eye (blog) — I witnessed an almost religious moment during a recent preview of Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion, the highly-anticipated exhibit opening this Sunday at the Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art in Providence. Co-curator Kate Irvin rounded a corner and pointed to a glass-encased cotton shirt that, she said, still gives her shivers. It is the sole remaining garment from Oscar Wilde's wardrobe. "We don't have the velvets. We don't have anything," she said. "This is it."
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Should Jews Own Guns?

Should Jews Own Guns?

Jewish Daily Forward — "Jews have been on the wrong end of the gun, the crossbow, and the sword forever," a man tells Dan Baum over breakfast in Baum's new book "Gun Guys: A Road Trip." That man - Aaron Zelman, founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, "an organization widely revered by gun-rights activists as so absolutist that it made the NRA look like a bunch of milk-and-water sissies," as Baum explains - goes on to describe the moment his life changed.
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Looking for Providence in All the Wrong Places

Looking for Providence in All the Wrong Places

theclassical.org — In the fall of 1635, Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, convicted of preaching "dangerous opinions" advocating the separation of church and state and condemning the colonists' theft of Native American lands. By early 1636, with sheriffs in pursuit, he was trampling through frozen woods in search of a place he might call home. He eventually found one in a hilly nook at the top of a bay fifty miles south of Boston. His arrival in a canoe, greeted by friendly Native Americans, became the central image of the town he founded: Providence, Rhode Island.
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Becoming James Brown: On RJ Smith’s The One

Becoming James Brown: On RJ Smith’s The One

The Millions — RJ Smith doesn't draw an exact line marking when James Brown, the 5'6" son of a South Carolina turpentine maker, became James Brown, Sex Machine/Black Elvis/Mr. Please, Please, Please/etc. But I will. It happens about a third of the way through Smith's remarkable new book, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown . Brown's smash album, Live at the Apollo, has just spent 66 weeks on the pop charts, vaulting the performer from the sweaty dives of the chitlin' circuit into a higher, neon-lit level of exposure.
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