Trinity’s Powerful Ragtime Evokes a Sense of Community
Going to the theater is always a communal experience. Even in a movie theater — who’s never experienced a time when fellow audience members applauded at the end, or cheered […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Beauty and the Beast Showcases Stadium’s Incredible Work
In the wake of the last year’s live action remake of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the stage version, unsurprisingly, has become a popular choice for schools and community theater […]
More Parking, Wider Roads, Bigger Houses and Yards? How Outdated Laws Get in the Way of Sustainable Community Planning
When a representative from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) asked the audience how we’d gotten ourselves to the clean transportation listening session, most people raised their hands to […]
Proof: Not a Bathhouse
Although three of its four characters are mathematicians, you don’t need to know any math to appreciate Proof, but it doesn’t hurt. Nearly all of the math in the play […]
The Ballpark at Slater Mill
In as big a sign of spring as the crocuses, baseball is back in Rhode Island and the Pawtucket Red Sox are underway for the 2018 season. The PawSox have […]
RI State Government Banks Locally
RI General Treasurer Seth Magaziner well understands that what banks and credit unions do is accept money in from depositors and lend it out to borrowers, charging interest from borrowers […]
Open and Closed May 2018
OPENED Options: The temporarily defunct Providence queer culture magazine has reinvigorated and busted back onto the scene with a new board and mostly new staff. optionsri.org The Lotus Garden […]
Get Copyright Clarity by Understanding Fair Use
Creative people from all walks of life use videos, images, music, newspapers, websites and social media — and these copyrighted materials are an important part of our cultural heritage. Teachers […]
“Really Occifer, I’m Fine:” What to Do, and Not Do, If You’re Stopped for Drunk Driving
This is an article I have mixed feelings about writing. I in no way want to promote drunk driving. To the contrary, I believe that in the era of Uber […]