My Big Bash and Burn
It’s hard to make lightning strike twice. Actually, it’s hard to make lightning strike at all unless you’ve got a Tesla coil and a generator the size of a Honda. New Albion Ale I had written a wonderful review of the New Albion Ale from New Albion Brewing Company (brewed by Samuel Adams) but […]
Writing Is Live at Brown
by Mary DeBerry Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies graduate program is at once highly selective and highly intensive. From January 31 to March 2, students in the demanding three-year M.F.A. program have a chance to present their work to the public in the month-long festival. This year marks the fourth annual […]
February Trivia by the Wild Colonial
Q1: According the Athenaeum’s website, the building was the site of many important moments in the courtship of poet Sarah Whitman by this American icon, including the moment of that courtship’s demise in 1848. Q2: In 2005, the Athenaeum made the controversial decision to sell its unbound and complete copy of the masterwork of this […]
Closer to Fine, Luck and Fiddling Fishermen
Last week I was fortunate enough to be part of the sold out Fiddlers and Fishermen show at Common Fence Point in Portsmouth. I love this show! It’s so much fun to be a part an event like this and to hear all of the other artists as well. Some of the highlights of the […]
Growing Young Film Buffs
By Erin Swanson The 4th Annual Providence Children’s Film Festival is coming to town from February 14-19, thanks again to the hard work of several key players. Eric Bilodeau had over 22 years of experience programming thematic film fests when he came aboard as the director of programming for PCFF. “I had not been […]
Top DJs on the EDM Scene
Electro Dance Music (EDM) has reached a critical mass in America and dominates much of the club and event landscape in our region. The rising prominence of these once underground DJs has come so far into the mainstream that last year, Rolling Stone magazine ran a feature called the “25 DJs that Rule the Earth.” […]
Three Cheers for Laura
The Independent Spirit Awards has named Providence-based filmmaker Laura Collela their Jameson FIND Your Audience Award winner for 2013. The prize comes with a $50,000 grant to cover the winner’s marketing and distribution costs. Colella, a mainstay of the Providence film scene, has frequently used the city as a character in her films, including Tax […]
Get Warm at this Spoken WORD! Alumni Show
By Christopher Johnson For 10 years now, a group of Brown and RISD students crowd into a small space that for two hours a week is dedicated to poetry. There they produce some of the best spoken word shows in Providence. It is Thursday night in the basement of Brown’s Rites and Reasons Theater. […]
Something’s Brewing in the Bucket
By Amanda Resch You might not have noticed yet, but Rhode Island is in the midst of a beer boom. Five new stand-alone breweries have opened this year, bringing the state’s total to seven. One of those new breweries is Bucket Brewery in (where else?) Pawtucket. Founded by close friends Nate Broomfield, Erik Alaksen, T.J. […]