What do you never leave home without? My camera What’s your biggest pet peeve? Plastic bags — I hate pollution! What’s your favorite TV show? “Sons of Anarchy” and “Breaking Bad” What’s the best gift you ever received? A camera that gave me the push I needed into my career! What’s your favorite gift to […]
There’s a lot of planetary action going on leading up to and beyond the Full Moon on Wednesday, November 25. On Sunday, November 22, 2015, the Sun enters optimistic Sagittarius leaving the heavy emotion of Scorpio behind preparing us for the holiday season. On Monday, Venus, the planet of love and money, opposes Uranus. Uranus brings about the […]
Genres blur in today’s music. Sometimes it’s a simple merging of two styles while other times it can be very abstract and all over the place. Then there’s music that’s stunningly weird, but able to strike a chord with your senses. Psychedelic electronic trip-hoppers Black Moth Super Rainbow are exactly that, with Tobacco’s entrancing vocals […]
When you hear the words Black Friday, horrific images might float around in your head. Crazed parents trying to find that new hot toy for their spoiled kids, people camped outside of Walmart for hours before the doors open and retail workers praying for their sanity while they deal with droves of customers until their shift […]
New York City. It’s a mere three hours away, you can get there by train, or a drive down the Tappan Zee. Even with all of that it’s tough to get to New York City! We’re so close, yet so far. And I have wanted to make it to the great White Way to see The Book of […]
Dear Sister C; Until I went to college, my weight was pretty normal, maybe a couple pounds over. This first semester, I’ve gained over 30 pounds. It’s making me miserable and I’ve started hiding my room because I feel like a whale. I saw the school therapist and she was more concerned as to whether […]
Compared to many of my fellow music writers who toil daily in the literary trenches, I’m still a relative newbie, having only been at this just shy of a decade. In that time, I’ve received hundreds of compact discs, many of which today enjoy new life re-purposed as beer coasters. But this week, in an […]
In December, Providence’s own TAPA: Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts, Providence’s premiere school for the integration of the arts and academics, along with the URI Providence Campus Arts & Culture Program, will bring Prospect High: Brooklyn to Rhode Island audiences. TAPA will be the one and only school in Rhode Island and New England […]
Reginald Rose’s granddaddy of all courtroom dramas, Twelve Angry Jurors, is quite an interesting acting and staging challenge for even the most mature of groups to tackle. Originally airing on television in 1954, and adapted by Sherman Sergel, the script is more commonly known as Twelve Angry Men. My memories of the play and […]
Wynton Marsalis is arguably the most important musician of his generation. A nine-time Grammy award winning trumpet virtuoso, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, master educator, impassioned arts advocate and humanitarian, Marsalis has been at the forefront of the global music scene for more than 30 years. On Friday, December 4, 2015, at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, FirstWorks […]