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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man wanted for threatening RIC concession stand employee
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police are searching for a man who reportedly locked himself inside of a Rhode Island College (RIC) concession stand with a woman and threatened her Monday afternoon. RIC's John Taraborelli confirmed to 12 News that the man walked into the concession stand at Pontarelli Baseball Field, locked the door and then demanded that the female employee working there 'get on her knees.' It's unclear at this time if anyone was injured. The man then ran out of the concession stand and hasn't been seen since. Taraborelli said the RIC and North Providence police departments are working together to identify and apprehend the suspect. RIC has increased patrols and are maintaining 'heightened vigilance' across campus as a result of the incident, according to Taraborelli. 12 News has reached out to the North Providence Police Department regarding the incident but has not yet heard back. Download the and apps to get breaking news and weather alerts. Watch or with the new . Follow us on social media: Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
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What challenges did RI native Michael Shawver overcome editing the movie 'Sinners'?
NORTH PROVIDENCE – If you stay for the credits at the end of the hit movie "Sinners," you'll see the name of 41-year-old North Providence native "Michael P. Shawver" fill the screen. Shawver, who graduated from Ponaganset High School and now lives in Woodland Hills, California, with his 9-year-old son, Ben, is credited as the editor of "Sinners," a wildly popular and multifaceted film that ultimately gets classified as a "vampire movie." "A lot of people don't really realize how much goes into editing a feature film," Shawver told The Providence Journal in late April. "Most movies, I'm on for 10 months to a year, 12-hour days. An editor has their hands and helps out in every different department. Ultimately, we're sort of the gatekeepers of the movie in a way and plot out the emotional blueprint for the experience of the audience. We're the first audience." He got his love of movies from weekly family movie nights at home with his parents, Paul and Barbara, and older sister, Jessica. But it quickly snowballed from there. "When I was around 12, my parents bought one of those big chunky VHS camcorders," Shawver said. "I would take that camera out and go make whatever movies I could with my friends. I fell in love with and got addicted to that feeling of creating something, and then showing other people." With that, the die was cast. "That ability to do something that came from me that could affect other people was really profound for me," he said. "So, as a teenager, I talked about making movies most of my life." After majoring in communications studies at the University of Rhode Island, he Googled "best film schools in the world" and packed up his car and headed to the University of Southern California in 2008. That's where he first teamed up with Ryan Coogler, making possible later collaborations such as "Black Panther," "Creed," and this year's "Sinners." "I had met Ryan in a directing class, and he was just making things that were above and beyond anybody else at the time," Shawver said. "He was making things that would make you think and feel things and change your mind and open your eyes about things and different walks of life. I realized I can have the same joy of storytelling and creating from editing and helping someone who is doing things at a different level than myself." "To be honest, the biggest obstacle has always been sort of myself and my anxiety," Shawver said. "It's a big responsibility to create and be artistic under deadlines. As an artist, putting your work out there to the world, there's always a bit of, 'Is this good enough? Am I good enough?'" But the challenges of editing aren't just psychological. "In terms of actually like the physical, technical aspects of editing, it's keeping everything in front of you and being mindful and being present," he said. "Editing is, it's a puzzle. But you don't have a picture on the box in front of you to tell you what the answers are. So you have to be in tune with what the story needs to be, what you want the audience to feel." Editors will watch the movie hundreds of times while working on it, almost constantly tweaking, putting material in or taking it out. And then they show it to a producer or director or test audience, who may find that it doesn't work and needs even more tweaking. "I don't know how many hours officially were shot, but we were there 55 days or so, and each day there would be anywhere between six to eight hours of footage. There could be anywhere between three to 10 hours of footage per scene," Shawver said. "That is one of the difficult things: How do you pick those moments?" And "Sinners" had the added complication of actor Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers, Shawver said. "Instead of choosing one take, I have got to have two takes, and do they match? Does the performance match? Do the twins feel different enough?" "In general, per scene there's hours and hours of footage that sometimes just have to get boiled down to a minute and a half, two minutes." "If you can have people lost in it and have a relationship between themselves and the movie in terms of their own experiences, their own hopes and fears, you know that's when you're winning," said Shawver. So he said he trained himself to watch raw footage that way, as the movie's "first audience." "If it makes me feel happy, sad, tear up, afraid, scared – anything, those are the pieces," he said. "So then those become my puzzle pieces, and then the rest is, 'OK, how do I get to these moments? How do I build up to make this moment the best thing?' It's a lot of trial and error." "I do want to write and direct a movie that takes place and is shot in in Rhode Island," he said. "I think Rhode Island is the most untapped resource for film making. The fact that you can go from the beach, and then 10 minutes later you're in the woods, and then 10 minutes later in the suburbs, and then you're in the city, and then another 10 minutes you're on a farm. The locations are beautiful. The history, the old buildings and hidden railways and factories and all that. It's just such a beautiful place." He'd like to work on the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair," starring and directed by Michael B. Jordan. This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: What went into making and editing Michael B. Jordan's 'Sinners'?
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
R.I. elections board sets dates for Senate District 4 special election
The Rhode Island Board of Elections approved dates for a Senate District 4 special election and deadlines leading up to it during its meeting on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Screenshot) The countdown has begun to fill the late Senate President Dominick Ruggerio's seat. A timeline with a July 8 primary followed by an Aug. 5 general special election was approved by the Rhode Island Board of Elections Tuesday. Ruggerio, a North Providence Democrat, died on April 21 at age 76. His death opens up the Senate District 4 seat representing North Providence and a small section of northern Providence, which Ruggerio has represented for the last 40 years. The election panel's unanimous vote Tuesday laying out a calendar for the special election came immediately, without discussion. State law requires open seats to be filled 70 to 90 days after a vacancy occurs. However, there is flexibility to push the election later within the calendar year if it is 'doubtful' that the successor will be chosen in time to complete the legislative session. The primary and election dates were chosen so that schools — which will be on summer recess — could be used as polling places, and to give local election administrators time to advertise, Miguel Nunez, executive director for the Board of Elections, said during the meeting Tuesday. Candidates must declare their intent to seek the state office during a two-day window on May 29 and 30, based on the primary date the state elections panel set Tuesday. Declared candidates have till June 5 to turn in at least 100 signatures of registered district voters to their local board of canvassers. Already, contenders are filling out the potential field, with one — former state Rep. Marcia Ranglin-Vassell — confirming her candidacy in a May 2 Facebook post. 'North Providence and Providence needs a Senator with: experience, passion, purpose and a proven track record of fighting and winning for all of us,' Ranglin-Vassell, a Providence Democrat, wrote. 'North Providence and Providence needs a Senator who will listen and to and take all of our voices and concerns to the State Providence and Providence need a Senator who will fight for our shared values.' The 64-year-old Providence Public Schools teacher served three terms representing House District 6 before opting not to seek reelection in 2022. She did not immediately respond to inquiries for comment Tuesday. Flowers are placed at the desk now covered where the late Rhode Island Senate President Dominick Ruggerio sat and cast votes while representing Senate District 4 on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, during the first Senate session since his death on Monday, April 21. (Photo by Nikki Silva/Rhode Island Current) North Providence Town Council President Dino Autiello and Councilman Stefano Famiglietti have both indicated they are considering a run for the open seat, according to news reports. 'The final decision has not been made,' Famiglietti said in a phone interview Tuesday. 'The Council President and I are very close. We both have a forward-looking and passionate vision for the town of North Providence, so that being said, I think both of us want to get on the same page to see which one of us is going to run. It's going to be one of us. It will not be both.' Famiglietti, 33, is an associate attorney at Providence law firm Coia & Lepore Ltd., and has served on the North Providence Town Council since 2018. Autiello did not immediately return inquiries for comment Tuesday. The 42-year-old town council president formerly worked for the Rhode Island Senate as a policy analyst and deputy director of constituent services and one was one of the pallbearers at Ruggerio's funeral Mass. He now serves as director of community and government relations for the University of Rhode Island Foundation. Another potential Democratic candidate is Lenny Cioe, a nurse at Blackstone Valley Community Health Center who unsuccessfully challenged Ruggerio in the last three Democratic primaries. 'Right now I am putting together a team,' Cioe, 65, said Tuesday. 'I have to give it a lot of thought. But I haven't made a final decision yet.' No Republican candidates have emerged so far. The district is nearly evenly split between registered Democrats and independents, who comprise 45% and 44%, respectively, of its 22,300 registered voters as of May, according to data with the Rhode Island Department of State. The remaining 11% of voters are registered Republicans. Voters have until June 8 to register, or disaffiliate, ahead of the July 8 primary election. Early voting is set to begin June 18, running through July 7. State lawmakers serve two-year terms and make $19,817 a year. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
