The good, the bad, and the unordinary: Motif talks to Jeselyn Online For thousands of years human beings have stretched, pierced, branded, tattooed and lacerated their skin in the name of love, gods, war or artistic expression. Body modification is certainly nowhere near as controversial or taboo of a topic as it once was in […]
Every school day, just after 8 o’clock, Gail Johnson leaves for her job as a crossing guard for the city of Warwick in her 2005 silver Cadillac with Rhode Island license plate XX-999. Johnson’s son, Joshua Brayman, is out the door most days well before his mom. He drives to work in Providence. His vehicle? […]
Mazzenga creeps readers out with twisted townies, eerie sea creatures, aliens and more in his short story collection, Mad Tales HP Lovecraft has had more of an impact on Rhode Island writers than I realized. It seems like every book or synopsis I read is Lovecraft-esque, tales of macabre with a touch of eccentricity to […]
If you had told me five years ago I’d be back in a club watching hardcore, I would have thought you insane. Going to clubs was something my youthful doppelganger did in another life. I had resigned myself to an existence of suburban playgroups. The only live music I had seen in years was Yo […]
“A more groove orientated T. Rex kind of Electric Warrior feel.” –Swan Point’s upcoming album Salt Whelp, the polar vortex has metamorphosed into a balmy-January-by-New-England-standards vortex. So let’s continue with a heat wave and talk about a new band that’s ready to catch some waves in Swan Point. I caught Swan Point a number of […]
“Despite all of the multi-layered wit, much of the play depends upon non-verbal communication by the cast.” — Epic Theatre’s Tribes at Theatre 82 The challenge of a play about tribal affiliation is that literally any arbitrary characteristic can be yanked out of thin air and turned into a criterion in order to draw a circle around […]
Local farmers pose for Santa’s Elves to help feed the hungry in RI When you think of your average calendar girl or guy, the first image to come to mind is most likely not that of a farmer. And chances are, said calendar isn’t being sold with 100 percent of the proceeds going to feed […]