WBRU Summer Concert Series 95.5 WBRU’s annual series of free concerts not only gives music lovers a chance to catch national headliners, but provides exposure to a new audience for local musicians. This year’s lineup is as follows: The Heavy, Ra Ra Riot, and VulGarrity are at Alex and Ani Center on June 3. Le […]
Summer and suds are a perfect match. Here’s a jam-packed guide to where to make the most of both of ’em. First, the fests. Each of the summer months has a big-time beer gathering. Two of them are at Roger Williams Park: On Saturday, June 18, America On Tap spreads out on the greenery in […]
Okee dokee folks … It’s that time of year again. Time for the coffee cups to go in the sink and the folding chairs to be put away for a couple of months. The coffeehouse season comes to a close and the summer events take the lead. Someone already hit the summer switch and the […]
When the door of the Cessna 182 whipped open at 10,000 feet above ground, the cold rush of air snapped me into reality. Soon I’d be freefalling at close to 120 mph before a nylon parachute would deploy and save me from gravity’s grasp. That inescapable truth was made even more clear when Sampson Jacobs, a fellow jumper […]
There’s a lot of things you can find out about a band when they release their debut album. Beyond their songs, you can hear their standards when it comes to production and how they view their band themselves. With Psychic Heat’s Sunshower that’s currently out, the psychedelic fuzz punks from Lawrence, Kansas, are taking themselves […]
If you’re looking for some religious education without heavy-handed moralizing, then Late Nite Catechism is for you. This one-woman show, being performed at Trinity Repertory Company, features Colleen Moore as Sister, a no-nonsense nun who won’t tolerate any misbehavior in her classroom. The 90-minute show features plenty of interaction between the nun and the […]