Festival51, a Rhode Island-based play festival focused on developing plays by women writers, seeks submissions for inclusion in the Festival51 Women’s Playwriting Festival. In the void of what was Perishable Theatre’s International Women’s Playwriting Festival, artists Leann Heath, the brainchild behind the festival, and Terry Shea, local actor and director, are collaborating to produce this […]
Antiquing: Sounds like a great way to spend a Saturday. For someone else. But before you judge too harshly, think beyond a stereotyped collection of scuffed bread boxes and threadbare furniture best described as farmhouse chic. Several antique shops have adopted an organization plan where separate vendors set up their own booths within the store. These booths […]
What I’m about to say might not win me any popularity contests among the younger indie crowd, but as a rule I frown upon artists recording their commercial releases in their “home studio”(a.k.a., mom’s basement), armed only with their laptop and a midi controller keyboard. Skipping over the professional recording studio environment, with its visceral, […]
It took me a bit of time to find a connection with Jeff Danielian’s first book of poetry, Seasonal Ramblings. As I read through the first section, “Through Time & Space,” I felt like I just was reading words on a page. There were a few interesting lines here and there (“Language is about the […]
On a Sunday it’s common to just stay in, relax and gear up for the upcoming week. This past Sunday at The Parlour was an exception as ska royalty entered the building for what was going to be a righteous time. Founding member and guitarist from English ska legends The Specials, Roddy Radiation, was rolling […]
Signe Baumane is an independent animator originally from Latvia, now living and working in New York City. For years, she travelled the world with her animated shorts; most recently, she created her first feature, Rocks in My Pockets. Animation, as Signe points out, is a medium, not a genre as many label it. Anything can be […]
Rough Francis The sons of Death return to the Columbus Theatre to lay a smackdown of ’70s Motor City inspired rock ‘n’ roll. I call them the sons of Death because three members of the band are sons of the Hackney brothers who had the band Death in the early ’70s. Death has come back to […]
A wave of electrifyingly experimental rock has been coming out of Ireland & Northern Ireland over the past few years. At the forefront of this underground explosion is Belfast’s And So I Watch You From Afar. With a sound that hits numerous dimensions, at times being progressive then flowing into a hyper metal and hardcore punk […]