On the Cover: Sara Inácio
SARA INÁCIO, Providence artist, printmaker, and public engagement maintainer says, “I’ve been into making art for as long as I can remember – I was always the art kid growing […]
Stuff to Do
A Christmas Carol
November 23 - December 29Ali Siddiq
December 24 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmSons of Skynyrd
December 28 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmSugar Ray and The Bluetones
December 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPitbull
December 29 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Hamilton Comes to PPAC: A review
You’ve never had a history lesson like it and if you’ve managed to avoid the “Hamilton” buzz for the last nine years – or you’ve been missing the punchy tunes […]
Open & Closed
Closed All Seasons Café: This East Providence café, serving empanadas, coffee, pastries, and ice cream, announced over social media it will be closing its doors on December 29. So you […]
The Blizzard: Fiction
By the time the final flurry had fallen, a towering twenty-three inches of snow blanketed the city of Providence in a vast sea of white. The winter of 2005 came […]
Synesthesia/ My Bite: Poems
Synesthesia First date/ Boy tells girl she is strawberries and mint and/ Sometimesmusic tastes bad/ His brother doesn’t know he is oranges/ The datecontinues point and tell/ What does the […]
Christmas Past & Present: ‘Tis the Season for Dueling Dickens
Surely, you know the story. Set in mid-19th century London, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a morality tale about Ebenezer Scrooge’s one-night transformation from malevolent miser to charitable cherub. […]
Top 10 Books to read in 2024
The One, John MarrsRating: 5 stars.Set in the UK, Marrs’ The One paints a near future where a company called “Match Your DNA” promises to pair you with your genetic […]
Book Review: Farah Ali’s The River, The Town
On the cusp of adulthood, Baadal and his two friends get into mischief in their Pakistani Town. They egg the house of a suspicious official. They go to the Town […]
Book Review: The Science of Weed: and Indispensable Guide to Cannabis, by Godfrey Pearlson
“Cannabis is the noisiest plant on earth.” This first sentence of the foreword by Joe Dolce in The Science of Weed sets the stage for the topics covered in this […]
The Experience, More Important Than the Outcome?: Fans at Moonshine Alley cheer RIFC in champion defeat
Moonshine Alley had a modest line of amber and blue shirts as the doors opened at 10:30 am, everyone showing their support for the RI Football Club (RIFC), our AA […]
Revisiting Something Old (or new) This Winter: A spotlight on South County’s Mews Tavern
In the winter, I often find myself craving comfort. When it comes to eating out, I tend to go to the familiar, steadfast places, the ones that rarely change. As […]