issue #1 // edited by shawn schillberg and tom weyman // have an

"THERE'S (ALMOST) ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO"
issue #1 // edited by shawn schillberg and tom weyman // have an event to submit? email [email protected]
Sat 1 // Atlantic Thrills, Ravi Shavi,
Gymshorts, Littlefoot @ Dusk 9pm $5
Sun 2 // Empire Revue @ AS220 8pm $8 //
Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry
Reading @ RISD Museum 1 pm $FREE
Tue 4 // Telescope Observing Night @ Ladd
Observatory 7-9pm $FREE
Wed 5 // Luray, Dan Dodd, Haunt the House
@ 1 50 Chestnut 7pm $7
Thu 6 // Charles Bradley and his
Extraordinaires, Ravi Shavi @ Columbus
Theatre 8pm $25 Charles Bradley has risen
from James Brown impersonator to soul
superstar. Watching him perform, you never
doubt for a second that he is completely grateful
to the universe for being given the chance to
share his music with the world.
Fri 7 // Thee Fabulous Itchies, The Evil
Streaks @ Dusk 9pm $7
Sat 8 // Ed Askew, Josephine Foster, Victor
Herrero @ Columbus Theatre 8pm $1 2 //
Midnight Movie: The Telephone Book @
Psychic Readings 1 2am $5 This x-rated comedy
from 1 971 is about a woman determined to find
the man who made dirty phone calls to her.
Spoiler! She does find him. And he’s wearing a
pig mask.
Mon 1 7 // Leyla McCalla, The Sugar Honey
Iced Tea, Allysen Callery, KC Moaners @
Fete 7pm $1 0 Former member of the Carolina
Chocolate Drops Leyla McCalla is touring in
support of her debut album “Vari-Colored
Songs”. It’s a tribute to poet Langston Hughes,
putting his poetry to her music.
Tue 1 8 // Jonah Tolchin, Dan Blakeslee,
Haunt the House @ AS220 9:30pm $6
Thu 20 // Pawtucket Arts Meet & Greet @
Machines With Magnets 6pm $FREE
Fri 21 // Denver Boot, Viking Jesus, Pixels @
AS220 9pm $6 // Earl Sweatshirt @ The Met
9pm $25 Once you look past the shock value
and silly antics of rap crew Odd Future, there is
some serious undeniable talent. Earl Sweatshirt
put out his first album when he was 1 6, got sent
away to a boarding school for at risk youth in
Samoa, and returned home two years later to a
fanbase he barely knew existed. His major label
debut, Doris, was released to critical acclaim
last August - expect a sweaty, packed Met.
Sat 22 // Providence French Film Festival ­
Aya of Yop City @ Cable Car 1 2pm $9 The
Providence French Film Festival runs February
20th-March 2nd - films are listed at
cablecarcinema.com // Bear Hands,
Tapestries, Herra Terra @ The Met 9pm $1 2
Sun 23 // Forts/Gainesville, King Falcon @
Sun 9 // Dylan Harley @ Nick-A-Nees 4-7pm Local 1 21 1 0pm $FREE Brian Barthelmes, Matt
$FREE Dylan Harley is one of the most original Raskopf and Dave Drago of Tallahassee make
songwriters in the area. He writes very clever, their Providence debut as Forts/Gainesville.
often hilarious lyrics and can often be found
Mon 24 // Surfer Blood, Fort Lean, Wake Up
playing multiple instruments at once.
@ The Met 9pm $1 0
Mon 1 0 // Olympia Snowe lecture @ MacMillan
Wed 26 // Vio/Mirè, Stephen Steinbrink, No
Hall (Brown U) 4pm $FREE
Parents @ AS220 9pm $6 Brendan Glasson
has been releasing music as Vio/Mirè for as
Tue 11 // Rhode Island Film Collaborative
Monthly Networking Meeting @ Wild Colonial long as I can remember. The music has evolved
7pm $FREE // AIGA Film Night: "Typeface" @ from solo singer/songwriter to a quartet that
squeezes every drop of beauty from their
Empire Black Box 7pm $8
instruments (keyboard, pump organ, cello and
Fri 1 4 // LuLz! Comedy Night presents: Leslie trombone). It helps to see them in a quiet room
and the LY’s, Dean and the Delilahs, Randy like AS220, where the songs can grow from a
Bush, and Boone County Comedy Troupe @ whisper to a force that is overwhelming.
AS220 9pm $1 0
Fri 28 // Joe Fletcher & The Wrong Reasons,
Toy Soldiers, The Lawsuits @ Columbus
Sat 1 5 // Robert Ellis, Ian O’Neil, Smith &
Weeden @ Columbus Theatre 9pm $1 2 // The Theatre 9pm $1 2 Toy Soldiers backed up and
Black Angels, Roky Erickson @ The Met 9pm opened for country legend Wanda Jackson in
PVD last December - here’s a chance to see
$1 7
them in a more intimate setting.