Ben Berke
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Progressive challenger David Morales unseats Providence Mayor Brett Smiley (opens the original)
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Riding a wave of anti-incumbency, State Rep. David Morales defeated Providence Mayor Brett Smiley in Wednesday’s Democratic primary, notching a major win for the progressive wing of the party. “Providence, let’s get ready,” he exhorted his supporters. “Over the next four years we are going to build a ‘Providence for All.’” Those last three words were his campaign slogan. The crowd in the courtyard of the Riff Raff bookstore in Olneyville enthusiastically joined in to complete the sentence. At 27
Progressive challenger David Morales unseats Providence Mayor Brett Smiley (opens the original)
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Riding a wave of anti-incumbency, State Rep. David Morales defeated Providence Mayor Brett Smiley in Wednesday’s Democratic primary, notching a major win for the progressive wing of the party. “Providence, let’s get ready,” he exhorted his supporters. “Over the next four years we are going to build a ‘Providence for All.’” Those last three words were his campaign slogan. The crowd in the courtyard of the Riff Raff bookstore in Olneyville enthusiastically joined in to complete the sentence. At 27
Progressive challenger David Morales unseats Providence Mayor Brett Smiley (opens the original)
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Riding a wave of anti-incumbency, State Rep. David Morales defeated Providence Mayor Brett Smiley in Wednesday’s Democratic primary, notching a major win for the progressive wing of the party. “Providence, let’s get ready,” he exhorted his supporters. “Over the next four years we are going to build a ‘Providence for All.’” Those last three words were his campaign slogan. The crowd in the courtyard of the Riff Raff bookstore in Olneyville enthusiastically joined in to complete the sentence. At 27
Who’s the toughest shucker in New Bedford? (opens the original)
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New Bedford crowned a champion last week at its annual scallop shucking contest, which celebrates the intricate flick of the wrist that helps generate over $300 million in annual seafood revenue for the city. Eddie Dellecese, captain of the fishing vessel Buckeye, shucked 50 scallops in under two and a half minutes in both rounds of last Thursday’s Scallopalooza contest. With two thrusts of his knife, Dellecese can pop open a scallop and separate its white circular meat from the colorful guts an
At a Fall River museum, teens learn to live the art life (opens the original)
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Each time I come back, the sculpture of a woman’s head has changed. “It definitely does, sort of, rethink how sculptures work, I guess?” said Alisia Cubero Cora, one of seven teenage artists whose work is on display this weekend at the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, a slice of the high art world dropped into post-industrial New England. Cora, who is from nearby New Bedford, allows visitors to rearrange her sculpture and photograph the changes with an instant camera. The snapshots are the
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