“A few years ago, nobody knew about urban agriculture,” said Roberta Groch, a board member of the Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) who also is an urban planner for the state. “But, slowly we started incorporating it into the zoning in Providence and in other communities. And now it’s up at the State House, it’s […]
I have been composting since 1981, when I first started cleaning sheep barns for a cut of the manure. I fed sheep manure compost to my garden every year for 15 years and watched the clumpy clay and rock soil turn into black earth that could grow anything. Then I moved to Providence and after […]
Opened Friskie Fries: County Road, Barrington. friskiefries.com Hey, french fry lovers (that’s all but two of you, right?)! Friskie Fries now has a fourth location in Barrington. Go check it out! Cork and Rye: 255 Lambert Lind Highway, Warwick. corkandryeri.com A new gastropub and scratch kitchen located where Fat Belly’s used to be. Fearless Fish Market: […]
The 44th annual Rhode Island PrideFest is less than four months away and Providence has already begun preparing for another unforgettable LGBTQ+ celebration this summer. New England’s largest PrideFest and only Illuminated Night Parade has received international recognition over recent years, and people are beginning to travel from distances to be a part of PVD’s epic […]
The 14th annual French Film Festival at Salve Regina University screens six films Sunday, Mar 17, to Friday, Mar 29, all open to the public. Films include: Un beau soleil intérieur (“Let the Sunshine In”), 2017, by Claire Denis, starring Juliette Binoche as a woman in middle age who has relationships with difficult men; the […]
The Liar Games: Cohen, Trump and the Stench of DecayThe circus is in town, and this time the people want blood. The credibility of the witness is dubious and the defiance of the accused is positively Caesarian, while the integrity of the stage is very much up for question. But as compelling as the theater of […]
A Pulitzer Prize winner, a “microcosm of the life cycle,” a community theater staple, popular for its minimalist staging requirements and its often (overly) sentimental portrayals of small-town life – Thornton Wilder’s 1938 classic, Our Town, is all of this and, potentially, more. Based as it is on the actual town of Peterborough, New Hampshire, […]
George Eliot wrote, “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” At Urban Air Adventure Park (UAAP), just north of Woonsocket in Bellingham, Mss, it is both, depending on whether you are child or caretaker of said child. Part trampoline park and part ninja warrior playground with an arcade, rock climbing wall and dodgeball court, […]
Escaped Alone is a puzzling and strange one-act by British playwright Caryl Churchill, now in her 80s and resting on her laurels 57 years after her first play for BBC radio. It involves a group of three women in their 70s – Sally (Karen MacDonald), Vi (Marya Lowry) and Lena (Carol Drewes) – who are […]