During Governor Gina Raimondo’s much-anticipated August 31 press conference, she announced that all Rhode Island school districts, with the exception of Providence and Central Falls, meet all five of her reopening metrics and are cleared to begin bringing students back to the classroom on September 14 for full in-person learning. “It is my expectation that […]
Homegrown is an unexpected oasis on Providence’s East Side. Inside this unassuming building on Gano Street you’ll find airy, white-walled rooms, fragrant with greenery. An elegantly limned hummingbird and vine mural by artist Mary Linberg hovers on the wall above a display table lined with exotic plants and bonzai pots created by artist Paul Olson. […]
One Gun Gone is an anti-gun violence art project that takes one gun off the street, turns it into art and then sells that art for funds for a gun buy-back program, taking more guns off neighborhood streets. Several students involved in the project are planning to attend private high schools or college in the […]
With the opening notes pulling a distinct power move by featuring just stripped-down vocals, I was thinking this would be a capella upon my first listen – but I was immediately transported somewhere new once the bright piano chords blended with the warmth of Emily Goldsteins’s half-sung, half-spoken raw vocals. Later, she is joined by […]
The live event scene, decimated for months by the COVID-19 shutdown of the economy, is holding a #RedAlertRESTART event on Tuesday, September 1, from 9pm to midnight, to illuminate the exteriors of publicly visible buildings with red light to draw attention to their desperate economic plight. “The hope is to get as many people involved […]
A letter from nine Rhode Island school districts to Governor Raimondo and Education Commissioner Infante-Green expressing their concerns about the reopening of schools in their districts was recently made public. Superintendents and leaders from Coventry, Cranston, Johnston, Lincoln, Pawtucket, West Warwick, Warwick, Woonsocket and North Providence expressed their intention to open their schools with distance […]
If you were with me on my birthday a year ago, you’d know that I spent an hour of it at Greenline Apothecary in Providence. Of course, you wouldn’t know this, because I was there alone. It was my first time there, and I wanted the experience of sitting in a vintage setting, drinking a […]
Governor Raimondo, RIDE commissioner Angelica Infante-Green and DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave the 101st COVID-19 press briefing today at 1pm, from The Vets Auditorium. As the governor likes to say, today was another good news story when it comes to Ocean State COVID rates. DOH reports 39 new cases of the coronavirus since yesterday, […]
In Rhode Island, there is no shortage of Italian cuisine and fresh seafood. Mexican food, on the other hand, can be challenging to find. Let me rephrase that: good Mexican food can be challenging to find (no offense, Taco Bell and On the Border). Enter Lola’s Lounge, a new Mexican cantina that recently had its grand […]
Dear C and Dr. B; I lost my mom as a teen and it’s still bothering me. But it’s not because I miss her so much, or because we had such a good relationship – it’s more because we didn’t. I was really awful when I was a teenager and I feel really crappy about […]