Month: December 2018


Dancing Thru the Snow: Leap into the holidays with these seasonal dance performances

  While Island Moving Company is packing away its Nutcracker at Rosecliff in Newport, the rest of New England is just beginning to celebrate the magic of Christmas. ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, Providence Ballet Theatre’s one-night-only holiday performance, returns. The production is inspired by Clement Clarke Moore’s classic poem, and professional dancers, along with […]

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Unwined from Seasonal Stress: Don’t miss these must-try selections for everyone your list

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me the older I get, the shorter the window of time between Thanksgiving and the gift giving holidays. Running around grabbing gifts for friends, family, office parties and holiday party hosts can be a daunting and overwhelming thing to do when you’re in a time crunch. […]

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IP Hey, Hey, Hey!: Beer nerd desperately seeking stouts grudgingly accepts a deliciously summery fall release

Ah, here we go careening into another cold winter season. Time for all the porters and stouts to come out and fill us with their lovely, malty sweet, roasty-toasty, warming – I’m just kidding, everything is an IPA now. Let’s just get it out of the way right now: I love IPAs, but when the […]

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Future World: House minority leader Blake Filippi discusses where the RI GOP is headed

After a poor local showing in the recent midterms, with Rhode Islanders largely rejecting much of the national GOP platform and rhetoric from President Trump, I sat down with House Minority Leader Blake Filippi to discuss the future of Rhode Island’s Republican party. Rhode Island politics is full of anomalies, and one of the particular oddities […]

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Sci-Fi Poetry? Meta-physical musical? Director Brien Lang on The Wilbury Theatre Group’s genre-defying Futurity

“We wrote a Civil War sci-fi musical,” states frontman César Alvarez and his New York-based indie rock band The Lisps. “It will melt your heart and ignite your brain.” This genre-defying musical is Futurity, a wild ride of a tale in which Civil War soldier Julian, along with the meta-physician Ada Lovelace, invents a steam-powered […]

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An Even Better Christmas Show

Get ready to laugh even harder this holiday season, local comedy fans! One of Providence’s wittiest comedy duos, Chuck Staton and Brad Rohrer, will be spreading even more holiday cheer this year with their second Christmas comedy show, Chuck and Brad’s EVEN BETTER Best Christmas Show. Chuck and Brad dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the Providence comedy […]

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