Month: February 2019


Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: In a New York Minute: Gigi claims no DC ambition, but your superior correspondents aren’t so sure

Gigi Does New York Phillipe and Jorge will be presumptuous enough to assume that most of you missed the feature cum profile of our own head honcho, Gigi Raimondo, in the January 27 edition of The New York Times in its excellent “Sunday Review” section. It was by columnist Frank Bruni, who owns the coveted page three space […]

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Show-Down Slow-Down: The government shutdown ripple effect reaches Rhody beer

Beer is a many-splendored and (responsibly) intoxicating thing, but navigating the beer business is a sobering experience. The beer/wine/distilled spirits industry is controlled by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), which was established in 2003 when it was separated from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The TTB issues permits to […]

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Oumâ: A tale of romance and adventure on the seven seas

It is said that true love has no borders. In the case of Hadley Eames and Simon Wilson, that truth is lived far beyond the prescribed boundaries of dry land and restrictions of political geography. Aboard their 38 ft. steel yacht Oumâ, the only confines these oceangoing circumnavigators know are the limitations of their imagination […]

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Confessions of a Divorced Immigrant: Everything was smooth sailing before Trump’s paperwork arrived in the mail

Given the sensitive nature of this article, the writer has assumed a pen name. It’s difficult being an immigrant in Trump’s America. But even more difficult is getting divorced as a foreign national in a country where the stakes in paranoia run high. Which is just what happened to this writer in the summer of […]

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Smoking Hot: Our expert tells you how to take your sexual experiences higher with cannabis

Cannabis has a long history of being used to enhance the human sexual experience. Since 700 BC in India, a cannabis drink has been used to heighten sensation and prolong arousal so people can achieve spiritual awakening while engaging in tantric sex focused on “oneness.” In Eastern Europe, cannabis-infused lamb’s fat has been given to […]

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AltFacts: Trapped in a Vortex: Rhody politics spin round and round

Put a Pawsock in it, Gina! Baseball is, without question, the single most boring pastime on the face of the earth; however, that doesn’t stop us from having a sense of pride in our community teams, which is more than can be said of certain local politicians. During the debacle that saw the Pawsox heading to an […]

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