Created In Our Image
“If I could stick a knife in my heart Suicide right on stage Would it be enough for your teenage lust Would it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain?” – Jagger/Richards, “It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It) “We created rock ‘n’ roll from our own image, it’s our child […]
Art Seen: Boheme’ Salon of Art in Warren
“ I want a piece of art to speak to me … to evoke something in me … to [make me] feel something,” says Valcourt of her art choices. “Many folks have discovered Warren so I am working within that process. And there’s a great artistic energy here,” says lovely Karen Valcourt, owner of the […]
A Christmas Carol Featuring Big Nazo: Haunting the House Pleasantly
When renowned masked puppet workshop Big Nazo produces visionary ghosts, no thin airy shoals are these. Charles Dickens prefaced his classic 1843 novella, “I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, […]
Assembly’s Miracle on 34th St. Turns Out To Be Manmade
Assembly Theater, in Harrisville, is presenting a black and white version of the yuletide classic Miracle on 34th Street, performed by the Rhode Island Stage Ensemble. The show opened December 6 and will be performed December 13 through 15. Paul Tourville plays Kris Kringle, who is hired as a department store Santa by Macy’s. He […]
So Long to Sales Tax (on Art)
Massholes and Connecticutians now have a new reason to head to the Ocean State: no sales tax on art. That’s right, the 7 percent price increase is gone. No more. Dead. And may it forever rest in peace. Of course art purchasers benefit most from this abolishment, as they no longer have to pay, for […]
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant: Drinking the Kool-Aid
If the children of Scientologists in their youthful innocence performed a stage musical in the mode of a Christmas pageant about their religious movement that has driven people to bankruptcy and suicide, complete with cheesy cardboard props and scenery, the result would presumably be this black humor extravaganza. The satire consists largely in simply exhibiting […]
The Not So Great Gatsby Is Thankful … and Not So Thankful
All the many tidings of the season to you and yours! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and gobbled up your share of turkey. 2013 was such a great year for me personally. I had so many new and strange and wonderful experiences that is was nice to spend a couple days reflecting on […]
Holiday Arts, Crafts, and Bazaars
Buy local this holiday season with some handmade and salvaged gifts The Artists’ Co Op Gallery of Westerly Celebrate the Joy: Art as the Perfect Gift, 7 Canal St, Westerly. Dec 4 – 28 www.westerlyarts.com Sharing Small Treasures, 7 Canal St, Westerly. Thru Dec 1. Wed – Sat 11am – 4pm; Sun 1-5pm www.westerlyarts.com […]
