No More Fake News: Teaching kids 21st century literacy
In our digital age and “post-truth” era, media literacy — the expansion of the definition and skills of literacy to include the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate […]
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The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Lunar Notes
Aries: Conversations, pleasant and otherwise, take place between you and the significant others in your life. Conversations that you are not directly involved in affect you as well. There’s a lot […]
Fear and Loyalty Collide at RIC: What role do our college theater programs play in a crowded performing arts community?
As a theater performance major at Rhode Island College (1988-1992), I was fortunate enough to experience part of what many feel were the “golden years” of the program. Given the […]
Thief! Burglar Makes Audiences Roar — But Should It?
The Guardian’s Michael Billington once wrote, “…at its best, farce makes us laugh uncontrollably while showing human beings reduced to a state of desperation.” This quote comes from an article […]
Trail of Broken Promises: Mashpee Wampanoag Land Trust revoked by Department of the Interior
Wampanoag means “People of the First Light.” Having lived in Cape Cod for at least 10,000 years, they are one of the longest continuous cultures in the Americas. In 2015, […]
AltFacts: Modern Patriots: Burning Your Sneakers to Spite Your Face
Take a Nike, Kaepernick Since the cloudy dawn of humanity, snot-nosed children have been stomping their feet and smashing their toys when petulance gets the better of them. And since […]
Corruption Rules
Time go get some sun. I’m not talking about the sun in the sky – I’m talking about the proverbial sun, the “out from the shadows and into the sunlight” […]
The Roots Report: You Can Observe a Lot by Watching: Our resident roots expert talks politics
Okee dokee folks… Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra famously said, “It’s deja vu all over again,” and this certainly applies to this year’s RI primary elections. So why am I […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Just Deserts — Your superior correspondents realize you’re not sending us your best
You Get What You Deserve Could there be anything more dispiriting than the results of the gubernatorial primaries last week? Now we have the choice – once again — between the jumped-up, […]
Nice and Easy: Roll In to Proud Mary’s Donuts
Their motto “Pick your glaze. Pick your topping. Get wild.” let me know I was in for a treat. When my friends and I walked into Proud Mary’s Donuts, we were […]