by Erin Swanson, Debralee Iacobucci and Mike Ryan You’re recently married, deliriously in love and in debt up to your eyeballs. Who knew that wedding cake cost more than a mortgage payment? Who could have guessed that sweet Aunt Irma would slip a five-dollar bill into your card and call it a day? Sadly, no […]
I have despised love ever since my engagement was called off over four years ago. Any date, except in the name of DareMe, I declined. I didn’t even RSVP to wedding invitations – they ended up as kindle. Men were no more than hairier friends and the first and only woman I dated left me […]
#1 Friday, July 5: 95.5 Summer Concert series featuring The Mowglis, 7:30 pm. All ages. Free! Waterplace Park. Someone recently asked me how I can tell when a band is getting big or going to make it. These days, it seems when the song is either inescapable from social media and commercials or if people […]
Brown/ Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre has a gripping line-up this summer with three new plays from Brown/Trinity MFA graduates. Each play will run in repertory for a week at Brown University’s Leeds Theatre on Waterman Street. Starting July 31, Festival Week, all three plays will be in repertory and on August 3, the Marathon Madness […]
No one likes to think about it on their wedding day, but the fact remains that not every couple who dives happily into marriage will wish to remain married till death do they part. The tragedy of divorce is made more complex for same sex couples who cross state borders to make their vows or […]
The Contemporary Theater Company (CTC) lives up to its name with 2013 summer-season opener Fuddy Meers, written in 1999 as a first professional work by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. Unlike his more well-known 2006 Rabbit Hole that won a Pulitzer Prize and was turned into a film, Fuddy Meers is a genre-defying black comedy and domestic […]
Many same sex couples finally allowed to marry in Rhode Island have been together and sharing a household for years. They have love, romance, the long-awaited right to marry, and lots and lots of stuff. What’s a wedding guest in search of a meaningful gift for the happy couple to do? We have a few […]
Wedding traditions have their own mystique – traditions that immediately conjure up everything associated with commitment, love and family. But many creative RI brides and grooms also step outside the box to color in weddings that mean something special and specific to them. As someone who’s been to weddings big and small, naked and clothed, […]
The Phury #7 What’s your day job? Bartender, pet sitter, assassin, professional organizer What’s your dream job? Rodeo trick rider What do you never leave home with out? Underwear What’s your favorite romantic movie? Wedding Crashers What’s your favorite RI summertime spot? A cold bathtub with a margarita Have you ever done anything embarrassing at a […]
This past week had to be one of the worst across-the-board weeks for Boston sports teams. I can’t think of a comparison because other examples just involve one team. The triple downer from the Bruins choke in game 6, a Patriots Pro Bowl caliber player being arraigned for first degree murder, and the end of […]