St. Patrick’s Day Event Map
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Locked Up for Our Country’s Good
The United States is home to only 5% of the world’s population, yet houses 25% of the world’s prisoners. Why do we lock up so many of our own citizens? That question came to mind during Brown/Trinity Rep.’s production of Our Country’s Good, which is set in an Australian penal colony in 1788. The prisoners […]
Album Of The Week: Crystal Fairy
Supergroups pop up at least once a year, and they can be an imploding disaster waiting to happen or a brilliant melding of talents that’s simply amazing. The latter can be said for Crystal Fairy, a brand new band consisting of Dale Crover and Buzz Osbourne from Seattle sludge legends The Melvins, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from […]
Terror Con Invades Providence
On February 25 & 26, the Rhode Island Convention Center will be taken to a whole new dimension. Celebrities from horror and paranormal films, psychic mediums, talented artists and absolute weirdos will be present. There’s also bound to be a bunch of cosplay taking place with countless captivating costumes. It’s Terror Con, a two-day event […]
Advice from the Trenches: My Guy Is Bi
Dear C; I’ve known Erik for about six months. At first we were just friends, but as things went on I began to feel really attracted to him. I thought I was picking up those vibes from him too, and I was really starting to think we were on the way to something more. On […]
Motif Event Picks for February 22 – February 28
WED 22 PechaKucha: The theme is “two wheels.” The interpretation – up to an assemblage of presenters. 7:20. Recycle-a-bike, 12 Library Ct, PVD. fb.com/pechakuchapvd THU 23 – SAT 25 12th Annual Illuminated Garden in Ballard Park: Trees and flowers lit up like Christmas, with thousands of lights spread over 3 acres. Buckle on your snowboots […]
Around the World in 80 Days: If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Woonsocket
Around the World in 80 Days is a stage version of what is very likely the most popular novel by Jules Verne, the prolific 19th century grandfather of technological fiction, by which I mean fiction dependent upon and heavily influenced by then-current or just slightly futuristic technology as distinguished from science-fiction that is more speculative. The […]
Delightful Midsummer Night’s Dream at Trinity
I love seeing Shakespeare, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream is by far my favorite of all of the Bard’s pieces. If there’s a production of it nearby, I have to attend — including 20 years ago when Trinity Rep performed it. As with most Shakespeare I’ve caught at Trinity Rep, the production stayed with me. Fast […]
Roots Report: Grand Funk Railroad at Twin River
Okee dokee folks… I went to see Grand Funk Railroad and former Eagles member Don Felder at Twin River last Friday night. These are my thoughts on the show. First of all, we were a bit late for the show. All week I had been thinking, “How are they going to squeeze two acts into […]
Murder at the Howard Johnson’s: Funny Like Jimmy Carter
Murder at the Howard Johnson’s tries to be a nostalgic look back to the late 1970s when leisure suits, the sexual revolution and proto-New Age gurus were the thing, but as a relic actually written in 1979 and set in 1978 it never achieves the necessary distance needed for genuine reflection. People did a lot of […]