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Keep On Moving: The Future Is Purple: Prince is leading us into Halloween
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Roots Report: Dark Times: And we’re not just talking about setting the clocks back
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The Roots Report: Eating Shit — Farm Aid challenges corporate farms
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Listen to This! Musicians encourage musicians to get a tune-up
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Keep on Moving: Top Musicians Go Solo: Local favorites strike out on their own with new albums
Books
Book Review: Frank Di Filippo’s The Big Get-Even
The Big Get-Even follows a mixture of somewhat (or formally) bad people who ultimately end up doing a positive thing all in ...
Cannabis
Yes We Can! NE CANN plants seeds among enthusiasts
This weekend will mark the fourth annual Rhode Island Cannabis Convention, hosted by NE CANN and taking place at the ...
Dare Me
Global Scavenger Hunt
“Win a Free Trip Around the World!” the subject line said. Because I suffer from wanderlust, I apply to every ...
Environment
How I Became the Motif Weatherman
Weather is an endlessly fascinating topic: It affects everybody and can literally be a matter of life and death. Forecasting ...
Film
Diversity of Expression: An interview with Gary Glassman, producer of Native America
Native America occupies a shady area in the mainstream national consciousness, but the indigenous people of the Americas have neither ...
Fine Arts
Designing for Doris: David Webb Jewelry and Newport’s Architectural Gems and “To Preserve and Restore”: Newport Restoration Foundation at 50
What happens when you put jewelry and Newport history in parallel exhibitions? Amazing things. The Newport Restoration Foundation marks ...
Food
I Scream!: Chef Melissa Denmark whips up a fall dessert
A number of students go to culinary school without much culinary experience, but this wasn’t the case for the ...
Got Beer?
Got Beer? Taste Test: Foolproof’s Irish Rhode brings all the Irish with none of the cultural appropriation
The next local beer in my infinity-part series of locally made refreshments is Foolproof’s Irish Rhode, which we alerted readers ...
Keep on Moving
Keep On Moving: Alt-Nation Gets a Makeover
After like 13 years of writing under Alt-Nation, it is weird to say fuck that, but I’m nobody’s go-to for ...
Lifestyle
They’re Everywhere: We interviewed prominent Rhode Islanders who now slumber beneath our soil
As the veil between the worlds thins this Halloween night, this time-travelling Irishman stepped into the land beyond the horizon ...
Lunar Notes
Lunar Notes
Aries: Love and money — sometimes they work together and sometimes they don’t. This is one of those times when ...
News
In Their Own Words: We spoke to Providence mayoral candidates about their plans for the city
We asked the following questions of candidates running for Providence mayor in the upcoming November elections. This is part one of a ...
Opinion
AltFacts: Oh, Yeezus! If that’s a smart cookie, we’d hate to see a stupid one
Kanye West: Voice of Reason Forget the sage observations of the Dali Lama and the resolute reassurances of free world ...
Phillipe & Jorge
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Leader of the Free World … for Me to Poop On!
Trump, the Insult Dog Every day, Phillipe and Jorge awaken in hopes that America and President Pussy-Grabber will have finally ...
Pin-Up/Profile
Pin-up: Kayla Girard
What’s your favorite part about fall in RI? The color change in the trees. What’s your favorite book? I’m ...
Roots Report
Roots Report: Dark Times: And we’re not just talking about setting the clocks back
Okee dokee folks… I hate to beat a dead horse, mostly because I am an animal lover, but it is ...
Shopping
Locale Profile: The Joint on 6
Sometimes, a spontaneous idea quickly comes together, turning into a successful business model. Christopher Langevin lost his job as ...
Sports
PRD: Wrapping up the shakeup
The year of the skater shakeup is coming to a close in Providence Roller Derby. Many of the veterans of ...
Theater
Struggle at Home: Watch on the Rhine explores conflicting political leanings within one household
Watch on the Rhine, written in 1941 by Lillian Hellman (and winner of the New York Drama Critic’ Circle Award ...
