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Where In Our World?
Answer: The Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame
Trivia: Scram-bled!
We’ve scrambled the names of a few of our Music Award nominees. See if you can figure out the correct spelling. And nominees – if you prefer the scrambled name to your actual name, feel free to use it. It’s our gift to you. A) citrae chicktopno B) veets codmonile C) ego riot D) mythig […]
Five Fun Things to do: Feb 20 – Feb 26
THU FEB 24 – FRI MAR 1 Providence French Film Festival: 14 films in French with English subtitles, most screened twice. Public invited. Brown University Granoff Center for the Arts, 154 Angell St, PVD. brown.edu/campus-life/events/french-film-festival/ See motifri.com/pvdfrenchfilm2019 THU 21 Sofia Ribeiro Quartet: Portuguese music. 7:30pm. Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, Mass. […]
News Analysis: What Happens if Roe v. Wade is Overturned?
Currently, the right to abortion is protected under landmark US Supreme Court decisions, Roe v. Wade (and its lesser-known companion Doe v. Bolton decided on the same day) in 1973 and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992. “Viability” is defined to occur when a fetus is sufficiently developed to live, with artificial aid, outside the […]
Pretty Is a Blind Man’s Playground
Beware the pretty; it is a spinning maelstrom, a black hole that will suck you in and leave you in the dark. Pretty things distract viewers from the reality that lies beneath what they see. Maybe when things get too pretty, a barrier between the art and the viewer forms that says, “I am here and […]
Hometown Poké Finds a Home
Rhode Island is a small state — the smallest, in fact, which you all already knew — but here’s another example. My first encounter with Becca Brady and Tiffany Ting, co-founders of Hometown Cafe and Poké, was not at their brand new brick and mortar location, or even when they began serving poké bowls from […]
Loki Ragnarok
Rhode Island’s Mark Binder was named a finalist for the 2019 Audie Awards for Best Original Work for his audiobook titled Loki Ragnarok. This 77-minute audiobook is based on Norse mythology and weaves a tale of Viking Armageddon from the titular character’s point of view. Listeners might come away from the experience with a greater understanding of violence and […]