Books

ARIA v. Savage: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the First Amendment

Whether non-fiction books are entitled to the same sales tax exemption as fiction books is a dispute that has been ...

• Book Review: Jeff Danielian’s Remnants of a Former Time

Cannabis

Munchies: CBD in food remains a gray area

The distinctions between food, drugs and medicine can be unclear and overlapping, and the lines separating them are often contrived ...

• Equity Now: Cannabis Coalition demands justice through legalization

Comics

This dragon doesn’t breathe fire. For obvious reasons.       Answer: Roger Williams Botanical garden as part of their ...

• Trivia

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 ...

• DareMe: Making the Jump

Environment

Earth Needs Dusting

The last ice piles finally melted back to reveal more than a little bit of trash marring the face of ...

• Pass it On!: Raising kids to be stewards of the Earth is no child’s play

Film

That’s Just Super: A rundown for the top 5 best and worst Marvel movies

The explosion of superhero movies has been an absolute dream come true for those of us who used to get punched ...

• Period Piece: Brown first-year talks about her Oscar win for Period. End of Sentence.

Fine Arts

Pretty Is a Blind Man’s Playground

Beware the pretty; it is a spinning maelstrom, a black hole that will suck you in and leave you in ...

• Reflections: URI’s latest art exhibit celebrates Black History Month

Food

Send Noods: The Broth Bros are sending out top-notch bisque pics

The Broth Bros are lighting up Instagram feeds around New England with scintillating pictures of noodles, chowder, ramen and all ...

• A Co-Op Finds its Home: Urban Greens to house first retail space

Got Beer?

Got Beer? All the Beer That’s Fit to Drink: Beer events are springing up like dandelions

As we noted a coupla issue ago, the folks at Narragansett Beer are looking into launching a multi-purpose attraction – a brewpub/taproom ...

• Got Beer? In a Hoppy Mood: This cloudy brew gives our beer expert a sunny disposition

Health

News Analysis: What Happens if Roe v. Wade is Overturned?

Currently, the right to abortion is protected under landmark US Supreme Court decisions, Roe v. Wade (and its lesser-known companion ...

• Love Styles: Why romance goes wrong

Keep on Moving

Keep on Movin: Penn Sultan’s New Legs: Sultan delivers the first chapter of many

Penn Sultan’s Museum Legs — Traversing the Flat Circle Museum Legs is a new project from Penn Sultan, best known ...

• Keep on Movin’: Burn it all Down: Local legends Churchburn do doom and gloom right

Lifestyle

A Spoonful of Ashes Makes the Tea Sweeter

Sky rockets… I know I could have spent my time more productively on a Sunday afternoon. Jeez, I could have ...

• Boots on the Ground in 2019

Lunar Notes

Lunar Notes

Aries: Concerns about what’s mine, what’s yours and what’s ours has you thinking about boundaries as well. Don’t think about it ...

• Lunar Notes

News

Boots on the Ground in 2019

  The Boots on the Ground  for Heroes Memorial, honoring soldiers who have died in combat post 9-11 in the Global ...

• A Co-Op Finds its Home: Urban Greens to house first retail space

Opinion

AltFacts: Nice Day for a Pic-a-Nic: Unlike the last two years, which have been no picnic

There, There, It’s Gonna Be Fine Foster, Hopkinton and West Greenwich have all joined Burriville in becoming sanctuary towns for ...

• Unsavory Tastes: Give a thought to history before placing your order

Phillipe & Jorge

Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Too Many Players on the Field!: Your superior correspondents talk sports and politics

Death of a Nation Phillipe and Jorge hate to preach or belabor the obvious, but we can’t help saying that ...

• Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Throw Away the Key!

Pin-Up/Profile

Pin-Up: Wayne St. Vincent

What’s your biggest pet peeve? I’ve got a lot of ’em. The biggest one is people on the phone when ...

• Pin-up: Kayla Girard

Roots Report

The Roots Report: Don’t Let the Rain Fool Ya: Summer is coming in hot

Okee dokee folks… ‘Tis the season when things start wrapping up indoors and begin to crawl out into the sun ...

• The Roots Report: E-nnoying!: Those highway signs should hit the road

Shopping

Open and Closed

Opened Friskie Fries: County Road, Barrington. friskiefries.com Hey, french fry lovers (that’s all but two of you, right?)! Friskie Fries now ...

• Spotlight: Local Entrepreneurs The Vachon’s Open Olympia Gymnastics Center in Cumberland

Sports

Smokin’ Skates

Providence Roller Derby has been skating strong this season with their travel teams, the Rhode Island Riveters and the Killah ...

• Derby Roundup: Rolling fast into the 2019 season

Theater

No Simple Answers in Counter-Productions’ Gidion’s Knot

“We watch the war and we write about the great deeds done or the horrors done. And that is how ...

• All Shook Up at Community Players: Escape from Heartbreak Hotel