Articles by Patrick McMenamin
19 articles found.
Week in Post-Apocalypse
A Fizzling Housing Market Like a specter haunting Middle America, the remnants of Cold War industry are making for a strange …
Week in X-Files
THE DA VINCI POD At a time when it looks like so many fundamental American institutions are at risk, perhaps we …
Said and Saying
A conversation with poet Ariana Reines
When I reach Ariana Reines on the phone, the first thing she asks me is where I’m calling from. It’s a …
Food Desk
Notes on Providence Eateries
In Ferno (S Water St.) This hot spot burns. Providence and Italiano go together like an apple and knowledge. That people …
On Being Lost
Field Notes from an Exploration of the Rhode Island Craigslist’s Lost and Found Page Somebody found a tool bag in Cranston, …
From the Editors V.30 N.5
The Indy wants to be your friend. Quickly, double-check your email, fold your laundry, and update a few items on your …
Notes on Connection
Technology—and more relevantly, those who make/use it—very much wants to work within a language of disruption. Tech has always defined breaks …
Bigger Than You Can Imagine
Paranoia and privacy law
Big Data. Admittedly, it’s a great phrase, encapsulating every bigger-better progress narrative in a tight trisyllabic punch. As a term, it …
Ghosts in the Machine
The sounds of the digital archive
How can a body connect with the Internet? Think of how each sense wouldconceive of the Internet. It’s harder than you …
Young and Younger
the creative practices of tech’s next generation
In his newest film, A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought Alone, Mike Mills interviews the eight to twelve-year-old …
Web Exclusive: Interview with Fred Turner
Editor’s Note: This unexcerpted interview accompanies “Young and Younger: the creative practices of tech’s next generation” from Issue 9. Fred Turner, …
You Swan, Go On
Sun Kil Moon and the artist as death-prophet
Bob Dylan’s “Highlands” plays over the stereo. About ten minutes into the song, I become distracted and check my computer quickly. …