Weekend Edition: Politics, preservation, and Ponzi schemes

Weekend Edition: Politics, preservation, and Ponzi schemes

Set down your coffee... Congressional candidate John Loughlin is calling Social Security "A Ponzi Scheme." How is he able to support this attack? Read it here. Need more of a jolt than that dark roast you're sipping? Catch up with Matt Jerzyk's Who's Not and Who's Not column for the latest in the ups and downs of the campaigns as well as local politics. And don't miss a video look at joblessness, where RIers talk bluntly on camera about their frustrations and challenges.

Make some more coffee... and settle in with another great video on one of our state's architectural treasures - the Arcade - and hear what Providence Preservation Society Executive Director James Hall has to say about what we stand to lose as this building lies abandoned and ignored. More great video: the Gemma family, speaking emotionally and candidly about Gloria Gemma's legacy, as Breast Cancer Awareness Month kicks off this weekend.

Now it's time to get out and about: we've got seven handpicked best events for the weekend, a preview of the Women's Playwriting Festival opening at Perishable Theater and a look at Pixilerations, the New Media Fringe Festival of this year's FirstWorks Festival. Got more art? We've also got a preview of Warwick Art Museum's upcoming show, Art Right Now.

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Finally, in a story every RIer needs to read, the Venus turns 50. Celebrate it right here.