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Summer 2008


The Agenda Issue #18

Local

Vegetables Get Their Revenge!

28 June 07 (Issue #18)

Eight Mouth-Watering Ways to Change the World by Shopping at a Farmers’ Market! by Gilligan Warmer Help your neighbor: When you buy food from a farmers’ market, you directly support a farm family. Of course, if you buy from an Uber-Market or the Wal-Mart Super Center, you are supporting a farm family too.…

Humor

Rocafella Presents: The Summer of Smoove©

28 June 07 (Issue #18)

A Companion Primer for Summering Smooth with Swagger A special to The Agenda by Jay-Z [Note: This article originally appeared in The Agenda #18] What's good, family? It's your boy, H-to-the-Izzo. I ran into my man P Breezy at Martha Stewart's annual spring key party in Southampton, and he put…

Art

Screen Printing Made Even More D.I.Y.

28 June 07 (Issue #18)

By Dan Voknine [Note: This article first appeared in The Agenda #18] This is a manual method of screen printing that requires no special equipment or tools. It does require some drawing or tracing ability however. The advantage of this method over typical screen printing is that this screen is permanent and reusable. This…

Humor

Awesomeism presents: THE SUMMER OF SMOOTH©

28 June 07 (Issue #18)

A special to the agenda by Preston Ozymandias Bradthird the Third, outside consultant on all matters smooth and awesome [Note: This article first appeared in The Agenda #18] I just stepped out onto my veranda. I just opened my one-of-a-kind, platinum G4 PowerBook. I just had Derwood mix me a fantastic…

Community

Featured Letter

26 June 07 (Issue #18)

Note: This letter from a concerned Providentian appeared in The Agenda #18. Dear “The Cheesecake Factory,” Approximately one year ago I went to your restaurant to enjoy a nice meal with my girlfriend. She had been given a gift certificate and was excited to take me out for a change. I was…

Humor

Stay Awake

26 June 07 (Issue #18)

My Long Overdue “Enough is Enough” Response to the Modern Horror Flick in “How-To” Form by Evan Villari [Note: This article first appeared in Agenda #18] Much like all the other forms of popular entertainment, the moving picture industry has once again created a market where the mindless can assemble, shell out, and…

East Side Upset!

27 September 06 (Issue #18)

How To Have A Riot: A True Tale of RISD and Brown Students Gone Wild! by Alex Lukas “Who expected Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University students, my god, you think they’d teach them a little more than that for the $25,000 in tuition they pay. You think they’d teach…

Local

New Your City

27 September 06 (Issue #18)

by Jean Cozzens During the month of March 2006, at the Fox Point Branch of the Providence Public Library, we built a giant cardboard city as a collaboration between a whole bunch of people, ranging in age from two through grandmother age. The outcome of the experiment was entirely unknown: introduce…