Articles by Jamie Packs
15 articles found.
Week in Interpretive Resistance
PUNCH A NAZI, TAZE A COP? There may be many occasions in the coming four years where it seems fitting to …
Thrown Under the Bus
RIPTA Revokes No-Fare Passes
“RIPTA helps seniors get out and be more active, a good way to feel better about life.” Thus begins a video …
Aim for the Stars
Yelp Reviewers Take On Providence
Yelp is the democratic scream. Rate the restaurant, the local record store, the dental hygienist. People love your advice—from Yelp, we …
Industrial Nostalgia
Images from the Providence City Archives
The Hadley Co., Watch Bracelet Factory Ceco Manufacturing Co., Radio Tube Manufacturing Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. Gorham Manufacturing Co., Silver …
Stepping Up to the Plate
Rhode Island Seeks a New Image
In October of last year Governor Lincoln Chafee unveiled his design for a new Rhode Island license plate. The simple proposal …
Walking to Not Forget
The Changing Place of HIV/AIDS Activism in Rhode Island
Blocks away from the State House, Usher’s “Yeah” reverberates through the empty streets. The day is grey and wet, but I …
Not Your Mother's Tongue
Language Troubles in Rhode Island's Schools
“I’m from Guatemala,” Leandro tells me the moment I enter Ms. Lopez’s fifth grade classroom at William D’Abate Elementary School in …
Stuffed to the Gills
An amateur dissection of taxidermy
Prepare the form In Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, the protagonist pulls up to an empty motel and has an unsettling dinner with its …
Week in Sponsorship
Whopper of a Wedding Wedding announcement photos are surely the pinnacle of elegance. Typically set in some idyllic pastoral scene, or …
Week in Education
Easy as ABC Substitute teachers have an almost mythic allure. They alone offer high school students the prospect of a brief …
Tastes Like Chicken
Sizing Up Alternative Meats
Although we live in a culture replete with red paint on fur coats, images of warehouses crammed with livestock, and non-stop …
Genetic Poetics
Christian Bök gets experimental
“The word is now a virus” —William S. Burroughs Something deeply radical is pulsating under poet Christian Bök’s seemingly normal exterior, …
Towards a Greener Future
The environmental impact of cannabis cultivation
A pair of sultry eyes sunken into a frighteningly unblemished face appeared on the screen. Beneath a wisp of smoke ascending …
Talk of the Town
Exhibition, redesigned
If you let your eyes linger for a moment, you’ll notice that there is something a little off about the images …