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What's happening this week.
Law And Order Party
April 27 – May 3
Count May Breakfasts among the many, many, many mothballed traditions of 2020. First held in Cranston in 1867, May Breakfast is a uniquely Rhode Island tradition where hundreds of people gather early in the morning for eggs and clamcakes; in a normal year you can find them happening around May 1 at churches and historic sites around the state. It's like a more wholesome May Day celebration with an additional nod to Rhode Island Independence Day (May 4). Read what you're missing out on at quahog.org.

Also: it's almost May already?

I received multiple concerned emails this week when Matthew, an artist in Providence, was quoted in a New York Times piece about platonic friends sending explicit nudes during the time of quarantine. It wasn't me! But now I'm wondering which Matthew it was. Anybody know? 

We're having another Zoom cocktail party this Thursday. Meet other Law and Order Party readers and talk about what you've been doing and watching and listening to lately. 7:30pm, RSVP here.

74 Patreon subscribers got a bonus newsletter on Friday. For as little as $1/month you too can support Law and Order Party through this awkward quarantine business. You can also support this project by shopping at the Law and Order Party Bookshop, a curated list of 75 titles that can just show up at your door. 10% of each sale goes to Law and Order Party Bookshop, while a portion of each sale supports independent brick-and-mortar bookshops across the country. Orders are shipped directly from distributors.
Moondog

10 Things To Do Online This Week


AT SPECIFIC TIMES

Tuesday–Thursday – Film
Brown's Ivy Film Festival is happening digitally this year, with shorts playing daily. The speaker series includes Q&As with Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston (Thursday, 5pm); director Eliza Hittman (Neve Rarely Sometimes Always) on Tuesday at 5pm; and director John Chu (Crazy Rich Asians; In the Heights) on Wednesday at 3pm. The speaking program wraps up on Thursday evening with Valerie Jarrett, former advisor to President Obama, who will discuss the intersection of media and politics. (Facebook Live)

Wednesday – Art
Artist Walker Mettling (Providence Comics Consortium; Wipeout) turns 40 this week, and he's celebrating with a 24-hour drawing marathon in his apartment doorway. The whole thing will be livestreamed on Twitch. It's part of Providence Public Library's Adaptive Strategies series.

Thursday – Jazz
Start your morning with Moondog! French pianist François Mardirossian will play selections from his new album Moondog Piano Works, featuring some of the jazzier pieces written by the blind Viking of 6th Avenue.  (Facebook Live, 8:30am)

Thursday – Theatre
A staged reading of M Sloth Levine's Nosferatu, the Vampyr, "a story for those who fear that pleasure will lead to plague." (6:30pm)

Thursday – Opera
I just loved the Metropolitan Opera's 2018 staging of Nico Muhly's Marnie, the opera based on Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 thriller. It's streaming for free for 23 hours starting at 7:30pm on Thursday.

Friday – Music
RIOT RI (formerly Girls Rock! Rhode Island) celebrates its new name with a livestreamed concert featuring students and adults. Zoom; email denise@riotri.org for the meeting invite. (7pm)


ANY TIME

Dance
Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui premiered the haunting, hour-long performance Mea Culpa in 2006. It's a big show, incorporating video, dance, and quite a number of musical styles, dealing as it does with guilt and privilege and Belgian's awful colonial legacy in Africa. A performance from Ghent's Opera Vlaanderen is streaming on Youtube.

Art
Galleries are putting lots of video work online. For instance, Metro Pictures has Isaac Julien's 12-minute piece Baltimore (2003) streaming right now on Vimeo.

Work out
Groovy Australian nightlife personality Anna Copacabanna hosts a biweekly master class in go-go dancing on Instagram. (Tuesdays at 2:30pm and Fridays at 6:30pm)

Don't work out
What do Rita Moreno, Tanya Tucker, and Mark Wahlberg all have in common? Embarrassing home workout videos from the VHS era. Youtube channel Hard Stars features clips of Zsa Zsa Gabor, OJ Simpson, Mary Hart and LaToya Jackson among many, many others.

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