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Photo: Rites of Ochún, Carmen Christina Moreno. As summer tapers, the leaves will fall, annual flowers will die, apples will drop and rot into the ground. The sweet stench of plant death will be absorbed by the soil and digested, if it’s lucky, by underground structures called mycelium. Mycelium are the root-like, fungi structures that […]
Beginning before even the dog days of summer have ended, Dunkin’ Donuts, in their divine Providence, reveal to us the Holey Trinity of fall: The pumpkin doughnut. The pumpkin muffin. And the Pumpkin Spice Latte. But who among us, by the 21st night of September, hasn’t gotten sick of the silly squashes? Why torture yourself […]
Photo: RIOT RI. After a name change and years of halted programming due to COVID, RIOT RI is still here – but they aren’t trying to rush back to the way things were. RIOT, which stands for Revolution In Our Time, was formerly known as Girls Rock! RI before their name change in 2020. The […]
Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The current state of Providence Water is another example of Rhode Island’s long history of disenfranchising its poor in favor of its wealthy. To be fair, it isn’t just Rhode Island. It’s pretty much an American tradition to exploit the populace when it serves the powerful and neglect them when it doesn’t. […]
Photo: Meg Coss. In late summer, the dark purple drupe of the black cherry tree reaches maturity and the resident birds – the robins and sparrows, the finches and crows – have a feast. Fully ripened, nearly black in color, the fruit is gobbled and shat out. The backyard pathway is a mess of purple […]
Aries:As the swirl and whirl of the summer season winds down, your social life continues at full bore. Amidst all of this frivolity you manage to focus on how much you are spending and what you are spending it on. Fun and games have their place in your life but you also need to take […]
Photo: Thomas Cizauskas. Growing up outside of Boston, Ryk McIntyre first thought about becoming a poet during high school when he read Anne Sexton’s The Awful Rowing Towards God. McIntyre jokes that he became a poet the “day the voices in my head formed the theater company.” Despite not receiving a formal college level education […]
Photo: Pickpik. Though we’ve seen little relief from the heat and rain, history tells us that eventually fall will arrive, the temperature will drop, and the leaves will change color and fall to the ground. Fortunately for music lovers, autumn is a great time for classical music in New England. Giving way to fanfare, season […]
Photo: Mavis Staples by Bryan Ledgard through Wikimedia Commons. Labor Day often feels like the end of summer: Kids are back in school, beach days dwindle, and pumpkin spice lattes reappear on coffee shop menus. This year, though, we can stretch summer at least one more weekend, through September 8-10, with the return of PVDFest. […]