Brooklyn has always been a melting pot for live music. The 2000s saw the music scene there explode again with acts like TV On The Radio, Kevin Devine, The Hold Steady and numerous others putting out their best material and making the borough the epicenter for indie rock. The 2010s have brought changes to the […]
While Attleboro Community Theatre is now clocking in more than 60 years actively producing plays, the “old” broad is nowhere near slowing down to let the rest of the world pass it by. In fact, with their latest production, Kevin Broccoli’s naughty mythological mashup American Strippers, the group has thrown down the gauntlet to all other […]
OPENED Asian Buffet: After a sudden closure January 1, they have reopened under new management. The place’s extensive buffet includes sushi and Hibachi, and some non-Asian staples. Airport Plaza, 1800 Post Rd, Warwick. Pokéworks: The national chain of low-pressure poké spots has reached Providence. Pikachu is not involved, although we really hope they’ll have a […]
The new inductees are: David Blue (posthumously), John Chan, Tom Ghent, Lloyd Kaplan, James Montgomery, Paul Murphy (posthumously), plus Andrew Polin, Bob Morrissey and LeRoy Bennett in the Technical/Lighting category, and jazz performer Mike Renzi. The inductees will be profiled in a near-future issue of this very periodical! Three events take place in April to […]
I don’t get out too much, both because of anxiety and an unrequited love of my own bed. A restaurant opening isn’t something I would picture myself at, but at the recent grand opening of R1 Karting’s brand new FUEL Sports Bar, I found myself at the front desk, standing beside my coworker Erin, waiting […]
I began my journey through a red tape jungle about 20 years ago, on a quest to clean up a pond and then to help out some toads. Here’s where my regulatory travails took me… There has always been a segment of the US population that felt any restraint on the use of land was […]
A Chorus Line, one of Broadway’s longest-running musicals of all time, will be performed at the Stadium Theatre from March 2 – 4. The show follows 17 chorus dancers and puts them through the final grueling audition run by the director, Zach, for a new Broadway musical. The music is by Marvin Hamlisch with […]
Trinity Rep’s Othello aims at being a bold, contemporary production. Yet director Whitney White misses the target, and instead the play strolls into the minefield laid by the unforgiving challenges of Shakespeare’s text. Staged with a minimalist, modern, military look and feel, Trinity’s Othello seems to forget its mission, instead becoming bogged down in a […]
Stillwater Books, the first bookstore in Pawtucket for many years, opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10:45am, Thursday, Mar 1. Located at 175 Main St on the corner of Roosevelt Ave, in the same building as the visitor center for the Blackstone Valley National Historic Corridor and the RIPTA Pawtucket Transit Hub, it is […]