An Interview with Storm Ford
As I sit in the recording studio of New Urban Arts a cacophony fills the small room filled with about five people all playing different instruments, all different tempos, humming to […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Locale Profile: Xaco Taco
Rick’s Roadhouse was underappreciated. That’s right. I said it. When Motif hired me, they knew they were getting someone willing to expose the cold, hard truth when others would slink away […]
Got Beer? A Taste of Sam ’76
If my many years grappling with the long-departed founding father Samuel Adams has taught me anything, besides how to properly use a proton pack (do NOT cross the streams,) it’s […]
How Pure Is Your Drinking Water?
On February 6, I received a letter from the City of East Providence Public Works announcing that they had “recently violated a drinking water standard.” Since this was not the […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: The Good News, the Bad News, the Local News
The Good News A few articles in the Friday, March 9, New York Times gave Phillipe & Jorge reason to believe that the patriarchal culture in a number of countries may be […]
Doodle Box March ’18
Artist: Joe Marhoffer
Top 5 Fun Things To Do: March 14 – March 20
THU 15 Public Hearing: No Utility Rate Hikes: Open forum for the public to let National Grid and the Public Utilities Commission get public feedback on the new rate hikes. […]
Head Trick Artistic Director Rebecca Maxfield Discusses God of Vengeance
Head Trick Theatre, under the helm of artistic director Rebecca Maxfield, is making quite a name for themselves by staging some of the more controversial, challenging and politically fueled scripts […]
Bon Me Oh My!
One of my regrets upon leaving Vietnam last year was that I never tried a Vietnamese coffee. I heard a rumor the night before we caught our flight that […]
Barker’s 12 Angry Jurors Remains Relevant
In the 1950s, the death penalty was still widely legal across the country — though falling out of fashion — and only men served on juries in many states. This […]