26 July 08 (Issue #16)
Request for more units in same space to be decided by Zoning Board of Review
by Ted Rao
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #16, March 2006]
On Tuesday, February 21st, representatives of Premier Land Development, led by Dan Corsetti and represented by their lawyer, former Lieutenant Governor Richard Licht, appeared before…
25 July 08 (Issue #16)
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #16, March 2006]
Downcity is a center of controversy—but not the up-in-arms, rally-in-the-streets, hullabaloo kind of controversy. Downtown Providence has become an architectural center of quiet contention.
“As far as I am concerned I am the city. So are you. You walk with it every…
25 July 08 (Issue #16)
by John Taraborelli
My
fellow board members, I come before you today to silence the growing voices of
concern, speculation, rumor and innuendo. There has been much controversy
surrounding our fine institution as of late and much ballyhoo has been made of
the sudden, indefinite closure of the Dr. Timothy Leary Memorial XXXtreme
Monkey and Primate…
23 July 08 (Issue #16)
The author continues his tradition of bizarre meditations on film
By Evan Villari
[Note: This article first appeared in The Agenda #16]
Cheat Sheet: An Eastern European family hires Evan to transfer some film to video. The film, from an orphanage in Russia, is of a little girl this family is thinking of…
4 July 07 (Issue #16)
Do you know anything about the old train tunnel
underneath College Hill? Supposedly there was some kind of riot in it in the
early '90s. The North Main St.
Entrance to the tunnel, near Mill's Tavern, is now sealed shut with a large
metal wall. Thanks. - Dan Lawlor
The East Side Railroad Tunnel…
4 July 07 (Issue #16)
The Agenda was saddened to learn
of the recent passing of a beloved figure in Providence's arts & music community. The
following memorial for Eugene P. Severens was written by longtime friend and
musical contemporary Terry Linehan.
The Providence and Worcester music scenes suffered a great loss on Sunday
when Eugene P. Severens (also known…
28 June 07 (Issue #16)
Providence College Bans The Vagina Monologues
By Eve Wartenberg Condon
[Note: This article first appeared in The Agenda #16 (March 16, 2006)]
To exclude [The Vagina Monologues] from
a Catholic Campus is to say either that these women are wrong or that their
experience has nothing important to say to use. [T]hese are voices…
