Yes, that's what you think it is. Actually, it's a replica of what you think it is.

Back in 1990, then-RISD student Shepard Fairey bombed a Re-Elect Cianci billboard with his Andre the Giant meme. It was the first high profile splash in what would turn into an illustrious career in street art.

Some RISD students recreated it yesterday, behind the First Baptist Church on Benefit Street, in connection with a film project, which I'll have a bit more on later this week.

The Providence Phoenix is just back from the New England Newspaper & Press Association's annual awards gala at the Boston Park Plaza hotel - $8 beers! - and we've got a nice little haul of awards to report.

Yours truly took first place in health reporting for "Reefer Medness," on the coming shift (since short-circuited) in Rhode Island's medical marijuana culture; second place in the general news story category for "The Stunning Demise of Gay Marriage"; third place in the social issues feature category for "Agents of Change," on the transformation of urban peace corps City Year and what it says about race and public service; and third place in education reporting for "Not Waiting for Superman," for a look at Teach for America and its big push to transform education in Rhode Island.

And it's on.

A couple of days ago, in this space, I pointed readers to a blog post by my Boston Phoenix colleague Carly Carioli calling out New York Times executive editor-turned-columnist Bill Keller for his hard line on copyright violations - and noting that the Times, just a couple of days before, had apparently violated the Phoenix's copyright: uploading a pdf of an article that ran in a Phoenix predecessor, The Real Paper, and linking to it from a Joe Nocera column.

My colleague at the Boston Phoenix, Carly Carioli, lights into New York Times columnist Bill Keller over copyright law and an apparent Times violation of the Phoenix's copyright. It's worth reading the whole thing, but here's a wee taste:

Bill Keller: I heard you like copyright. You wrote one provocative print column about it on Sunday, one blistering blog followup on Monday, and pointed to a third Times op-ed piece from Sunday (headline: "Perpetual War: Digital Pirates amd Creators") that says basically the same thing.

A long-awaited piece in the New Republic on Rhode Island's voter ID law has landed. The story, by Simon van Zuylen-Wood, asks why black liberal politicians here supported the bill and suggests anxiety over growing Latino political power - among elected officials black and white - is to blame.

The story recounts several "tales of corruption" - anecdotal stories of voter fraud cited by the bill's supporters - and concludes:

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling will be at a Game Stop in Bellingham, Massachusetts at midnight tonight for the release of his video game company 38 Studios' highly anticipated first title, "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning."

The game has won positive early reviews and, as the Providence Journal reported this weekend, industry analysts are expecting sales of at least 1 million, which would make the game a moderate success.

For years, WJAR-TV was one of the only local television stations in the country - perhaps the only one - to employ an ombudsman, an independent arbiter of journalistic practices who weighs in on fairness in coverage, conflicts of interest for journalists and the like.

But no more. Back in July, the station dropped the position.

The Providence Journal had a front page story today on the budget proposal Governor Chafee will unveil, tonight, in his "State of the State" address.

A leaked budget proposal is not unprecedented. But the story has angered some in the State House press corps, who accuse the Journal of breaking what is known, in the biz, as an "embargo" and unfairly beating them to the punch on the story.

Mediapeel, run by possible Congressional candidate Anthony Gemma, has apparently negotiated its way out of a contract with several local radio stations to do traffic reports.

A source says the stations affected include those owned by Atlanta-based Cumulus in Providence and parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Yours truly was on WPRI's "Newsmakers" panel that taped this morning, with Congressman James Langevin as featured guest (thanks to WPRI's Tim White and Ted Nesi for having me on). Among the interesting tidbits: as Nesi has already tweeted, Langevin spoke in support of the prayer banner at Cranston High School West.

I pushed the Congressman a bit on whether the cybersecurity threat he's warned about is as significant as he would have us believe.

WPRO talk radio personalities Dan Yorke, John DePetro, and Ron St. Pierre, all facing expiring contracts, are in talks to sign new contracts with the station, the Phoenix has learned.

There has been uncertainty at the station since last winter, when news broke that Atlanta-based Cumulus Media was moving to buy WPRO's old parent company, Citadel Broadcasting.

Providence Journal education reporter Jennifer Jordan had a fine cover story in Sunday's paper about the controversy over the prayer banner, recently deemed unconstitutional, at Cranston High School West.

She also had a smaller piece that was, in essence, an interview with Charles C. Haynes, a scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington who, as the article puts it, "specializes in the intersection of public schools and religion."

I've got a cover story in today's Phoenix about the suddenly white hot debate over Internet piracy - a debate that has fired up the netroots and split Rhode Island's Congressional delegation.

The opposition to a pair of anti-piracy bills in Congress, aimed at blocking the illegal distribution of music, film, and pharmaceuticals, was already bubbling.

GoLocalProv, the feisty web-based news site, has signed a one-year content-sharing partnership with WJAR-TV.

"We're excited about it, obviously," says Josh Fenton, co-founder of GoLocal. "Channel 10 has been the number one station in the market for 40-plus years."

News consumers got their first look at the partnership last week when WJAR piggybacked on a GoLocal review of Department of Environmental Management fines - what's actually collected by the state, and what's not.