Lanna Nawa and Saroj Bhandari reacted to the devastating 2015 earthquake in Nepal by raising more than $10,000 through various fundraisers with assistance from some of their college friends. They used the money to build their own school in Ramche, Nepal. To keep the school funded, they set up pop-up shops at various locations, selling backpacks […]
Evelyn’s Drive-In is the real deal. There are a lot of excellent places to get New England seafood around Rhode Island. Restaurants serving clam cakes, clam chowder, lobster rolls and fish n’ chips are in solid supply in the Ocean State. But how many of those restaurants include these directions on their website? “Motor slowly […]
Once again, PVDFest takes to the streets in celebration of rich arts and culture communities from RI and around the world. From June 6 through 9, there will be dance, art installations, an ideas festival and food (think a 50+ food truck “village” in Kennedy Plaza) throughout the public spaces. Sponsored by Mayor Jorge O. […]
I grew up in Texas and experienced more scorchingly hot summer days than I care to count. But when the sun finally went down on those blistering days, we were rewarded with still more humid, hot, thick air. So my first RI summer was a surprise when I learned that evening air provided sweet relief […]
The long-awaited drama Vault, based on the audacious 1975 robbery of the Hudson Bonded Vault company in PVD, a private safe-deposit company used by big-time criminals to store their loot under the protection of organized crime, opens to the public June 7 for a RI sneak preview at Showcase cinemas in Providence and Warwick (the […]
This year so far has given us snow, rain, more rain and grey skies. RI doesn’t get the promised four seasons. Growing up, it was a joke that our seasons are autumn, winter, half winter, roadwork, summer. Really though, it’s all just roadwork. In the hopes that summer weather will soon be here, I have compiled […]
Congratulations! You have survived another long, cold winter and wet, rainy spring. Now it’s festival season! RI offers an abundance of festivals, for all ages and interests. Family fun, music, foodies, cultural – RI has it all! Providence’s art, culture and culinary communities come together each year to kick off summer with PVDFest. Hosted by […]
We conducted an informal poll of the kids in our lives to find out what they plan to do with what will be, as one child assured us with fists raised triumphantly, “The best. Summer. Ever!!” Surprisingly, 41% of those who responded to our poll also stated their belief that Elmo should be impeached. Check out […]
Goodbye – and Good Riddance Phillipe and Jorge were sad to see that Newport’s most famous gigolo, Claus von Bulow, popped his clogs the other day at age 96. Not because if there was a God, the alleged murdering s.o.b. should have died long ago, but because he was a source of vast entertainment and […]
Nostalgia for the lazy days of childhood. Fear that summer brain drain will put your kid at the end of the class come September. Theories conflict, heart and mind clashes — what’s an overworked, stressed out parent madly in love with their brood to do to make the most of one of 18 short summers […]