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A symbol of tough times
NEW BEDFORD — As foreclosures batter the dense neighborhoods of urban New England, a regional emblem is under siege.
Crabtree & Evelyn files for Chapter 11
The company, with a store in Cranston, plans to use the court’s protection to renegotiate leases with reluctant landlords in its effort to restructure and emerge from bankruptcy
Fidelity to add 500 jobs in R.I.
The investment company expects to bring the new workers in during the first quarter of 2010.
Gift shop to move into church building
Thorpe’s Gift Shop will move to the United Methodist Church building on Main Street in East Greenwich.
R.I. gets federal grant to help unemployed
The $98,193 grant will be used to help put unemployed workers in apprenticeship programs.
State offers free online job training, education
The state is providing free online job training and remedial education courses through its netWORKri career centers, which are run by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training.
LIFEBEAT
Leguizamo was no sloth in working on ‘Ice Age’Leguizamo was no sloth in working on ‘Ice Age’
It takes a while for John Leguizamo to get into sloth.
Mann, Dillinger share some similarities
Hollywood is full of filmmakers who are uncompromising perfectionists, but only Michael Mann could boast that he not only has a favorite room to screen his films — the Zanuck theater on the Fox lot — but also a favorite row in the theater where he thinks you should park your fanny for the optimal viewing experience.
Movie Review: ‘$9.99’ features an eerie parallel universe
Israeli writer Etgar Keret possesses an imagination not easily slotted into conventional literary categories. His very short stories might be described as Kafkaesque parables, magic-realist knock-knock jokes or sad kernels of cracked cosmic wisdom.
Movie Review: ‘Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs’ continues to be fun
By the time mammoths and saber-toothed tigers ruled the Earth 10,000 years ago, dinosaurs had been extinct for 65 million years or so.
People: Broderick, Parker kids’ pic
A week after the birth of their twin daughters, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick debuted the babies in an official family photo.
Regis Philbin returns to prime time
Regis Philbin returns to prime-time television in August to celebrate the 10th anniversary of ABC’s Who Wants to Be A Millionaire. You can be there too.
TOP RENTALS
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The ESSENTIALS
FASHION
Video: Sensitive coming-of-age drama keeps taking unexpected turns
The crew of the coming-of-age drama The Education of Charlie Banks (Anchor Bay, $29.97) spent a month in June 2006 filming on Rhode Island locations with Fred Durst, formerly the lead singer of Limp Bizkit, making his feature movie debut and a cast that included Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter and Eva Amurri, who is Susan Sarandon’s daughter.
Woody Allen describes comic Larry David as his ‘kind of actor’
NEW YORK — On Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David’s alter ego has realized two fantasies: starring in a Mel Brooks production (as Max Bialystock in The Producers) and acting in a Martin Scorsese film (as a Jewish gangster).
Woody Allen’s Whatever Works works
If a lot of Woody Allen’s latest film Whatever Works seems more than a little like the “old Woody Allen” — befuddled by the day-to-day stuff of life; unlucky at love and carping about just about everything he comes across; feeling that ultimately there is no point to what we do — it is probably because Whatever Works was written about the time Allen completed the script for Annie Hall in the mid 1970s.
LOCAL
A bow to ‘The Kiss’
The booze was flowing and, all around him in Times Square, people were whooping it up in a spontaneous celebration of the war’s end. So when the sailor in his Navy blues saw the nurse in her white uniform, he embraced her, dipped her slightly and then firmly pressed his lips to hers.
Burlingame campers have a soggy time of it
Campers battle the elements to enjoy their vacations in the very uncooperative weather.
Family: Man who fled hospital might be in Providence
Gregory Hillman, 21, disappeared Monday after fleeing from a mental hospital in western Massachusetts.
High court decision halts plans to raze long-closed school
The ruling, voiding a lower court decision, says the city, not the owners, must decide the fate of the former Grove Street School on Federal Hill.
High court decision halts plans to raze long-closed school
The ruling, voiding a lower court decision, says the city must decide the fate of the former Grove Street School on Federal Hill.
Providence to study getting revenue from tax-exempt institutions
In an attempt to raise revenue, Providence will consider asking hospitals and universities to make payments in lieu of taxes.
Recession cuts into marching bands
Fewer bands, but more floats.
Sheehan to head E. Providence High School
EAST PROVIDENCE — A Middletown High School administrator will be the next principal of the state’s largest high school.
Tough times prompt 3 communities to cancel July 4 fireworks shows
Financial constraints have forced Cranston, Glocester and North Providence to cancel their traditional Fourth of July fireworks shows.
NEWS
3 injured as fire damages house in Providence
Three people were injured Thursday afternoon in a fire at 123 Laurel Hill Ave., in Providence. The building was heavily damaged, and all six of its residents required Red Cross assistance. Two firefighters suffered back injuries and a first-floor occupant was treated for smoke inhalation, Battalion Chief Joe Desmarais said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Dispose of propane tanks safely, landfill officials warn
State officials are asking that those discarding the tanks do so properly, and not include them with trash bound for the state’s Central Landfill.
EVENTS THIS WEEKEND
FRIDAY
Early Thursday Lotteries
WEDNESDAY WINNERS
Final Thursday Lottery Results
THURSDAY WINNERS
For an ex-Brit, Fourth just doesn’t hold the same sparkle
I love a party but have to admit I have mixed feelings about the Fourth of July holiday.
Governor vetoes Assembly’s dog-racing mandate
He says legislation forcing Twin River to hold dog racing “is a risk that the state cannot afford to take” because it could disrupt bankruptcy proceedings.
Governor vetoes Assembly’s dog-racing mandate
He says legislation forcing Twin River to hold dog racing “is a risk that the state cannot afford to take” because it could disrupt bankruptcy proceedings.
Heavy rains exceed even overflow tunnel’s capacity
PROVIDENCE — It rained so hard Thursday morning that for the first time all year, the state’s massive, $359-million combined sewer overflow tunnel finally filled to capacity and allowed untreated sewage to spill into the city’s rivers.
Late Thursday Lotteries
WEDNESDAY WINNERS
News Digest
Scituate man pleads guilty to tax charges
Plane makes belly landing at Green
This single-engine Piper Malibu, its landing gear stuck in the up position, made a safe belly landing at T.F. Green Airport, Warwick, at about 8:30 Thursday night. The owner-pilot, who is from Atlanta, was the only one aboard the six-passenger plane. He was uninjured. Commercial traffic at the airport was not interrupted, according to Patti Goldstein, spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Airport Corporation.
Police Digest
Man denies murder count in mother’s slaying
Police identify victim in Quonset Point accident
NORTH KINGSTOWN — Ritchie A. Morse, 31, of North Kingstown, has been identified by the police as the man who died in an accident at Electric Boat’s Quonset Point plant Wednesday morning.
R.I. summer: The deluge continues
Another series of storms sweep through the state, dumping almost 3 inches of rain.
R.I. summer: The deluge continues
Another series of storms sweep through the state, dumping almost 3 inches of rain.
Rain, cloudy skies taking their toll on state’s agriculture
The lack of warm weather and sunlight are wreaking havoc on crops, especially strawberries and hay, and increasing the threat of blight and mildew.
St. Laurent’s lawyer moves for delay in trial
The lawyer for Anthony M. “The Saint” St. Laurent Sr. says his client, charged in a murder for hire plot, has been hospitalized.
St. Laurent’s lawyer moves for delay in trial
The lawyer for Anthony M. “The Saint” St. Laurent Sr. says his client, charged in a murder-for-hire plot, has been hospitalized.
Thus far, stimulus money has generated few jobs in R.I.
So far, most of the money the state received from the economic recovery package has gone to defray the budget deficit.
Tiverton soil cleanup to start in fall
The Department of Environmental Management says the cleanup of contaminated soil should be completed by the end of the year.
What’s open, closed Friday and Saturday Fourth of July weekend
What’s open and what’s closed Friday
OPINION
Anara Guard: Avoiding child deaths in parked cars
NEWTON, Mass.
Editorial: Feds have the power
A federal appeals court has ruled that federal regulators have power over the cost estimates used to determine electricity pricing in New England.
Editorial: New fishing rules
Commercial saltwater fishermen in New England can soon choose to be regulated by how much fish they catch, not by how many days they spend at sea. And as part of its new program, the New England Fisheries Management Council has approved a plan to allocate shares of the annual groundfish (haddock, flounder, etc.) catch by sectors of fishermen instead of by individual quota. A sector would be closed if it exceeded its limit. This seems a much easier and more orderly way to prevent overfishing than going after fishermen (or, rather, fishing boats) one by one.
Fred Comella: Iranian yearnings
In every person’s heart lies the God-given yearning to be free. In Iran, years of tyrannical government have taken their toll on a confused and disenchanted people. Now, as they cry out for what is rightfully theirs, they are bludgeoned, beaten and shot down in the streets of their own country.
James Lawson: ‘Doomsday provision’
As Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2003 wrote: “The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.”
Kevin E. Lynch: Ma’am, the general merited the respect
As a former military officer I was beside myself after hearing the exchange that Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) had with Army Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh at a Senate hearing, after he had addressed her as “Ma’am”:
Nancy Duska: Free speech did not cause this murder
I am writing in response to Rabbi Leslie Gutterman’s June 23 Commentary piece, “How violent speech can lead to murder.” How could an educated, religious man come to the conclusion that because many people have spoken truthfully about the late-term abortionist George Tiller that they were somehow responsible for his death?
Peter Mandel: Going for the green, one towel at a time
IF YOU TRAVEL A LOT you get used to the drill. Hotels, motels, resorts, your favorite airline or cruise line may have snagged your business. But it is nearly impossible to find one that will leave you alone.
Tom Plate: Why Hong Kong cares a lot for Obama
HONG KONG
Tom Sgouros: Don’t we care, now, for school services?
Truman Taylor; Father of the expense accounts
There are those who regard a blank company expense-account form as an artist looks at an empty canvas — a blank space on which to create wonders.
