Articles by Mimi Dwyer
12 articles found.
Remnants
Preserving National Bodies
Hugo Chavez is dead. Cancer took him, finally, after months away from his country, after surgeries in Cuba, after the obligatory …
French Connection, RI
Adulte Terrible Like any attempt to periodize an artistic movement in its contemporary, the phrase “New French Extremity” is only about …
Future Histories
Modernism & Preservation in Providence
Providence is a film set. Its two-dimensional skyline reads like a greatest-hits list of the last century’s architectural design principles—the 1913 …
Houses
IRA M. GOFF House, 62 John StreetI like the Goff House because it’s almost not one. It’s small and red and …
Tales of Pokémastery
Cards and critters
Newsflash: Charizard is dead. I had no idea. This was my first mistake when I tried to enter the Pokémon Autumn …
Stogie Fever
Heap some tobacco onto a brown leaf, roll it up, stuff it nice and thick. Cut off its tip, poke a …
Week in Review
4/20 Update Detroit is a decrepit city—its former industry in dark shambles, its slums rife with poverty. But don’t worry! Gubernatorial …
Week in Review
Facebook Squahes "Third Palestinian Intifada" After receiving numerous complaints and appeals, including a request from the Anti-Defamation League—a US-based Jewish advocacy …
Billboard Hits Remastered
The hamburger is ten feet tall—or it will be, once Johan Bjurman finishes with it. “The meat’s gonna be the hard …
Zen and Now
meditations on the Providence Zen Center and the Brown Contemplative Studies Initiative
In Providence, two influential and disparate iterations of Zen in the West stand within thirty minutes of one another: the Providence …
Love Stories Throughout History
LILITH AND ADAM: AN ARGUMENTThe legend of Lilith, Adam’s wife before Eve, found its first mention in Sumerian times. Lilith appears …
Reckless Abandon
abandoned homes, squatting, and direct revolutionary action
On certain blocks of the south and west sides of Providence, burnt and dilapidated abandoned homes are as common as inhabited …