So here we are again people, inexplicably at the beginning of yet another Trump presidency. I hoped we wouldn’t have to endure another four years of the deranged and inexplicable, but these are the cards we’ve been dealt. Good is bad, bad is good, and no one knows which way up or down is anymore. […]
I wasn’t 21 yet, but somehow my friends and I snuck into Foxwoods to hit the casino. Shocked they let us in without checking IDs, we laughed for a bit before taking everything in. One 21-year-old friend started gambling with his alcohol intake, putting some chips into a bucket and walking near a slot machine […]
Cindy Holt, an EAS certified Master Beekeeper has always been a fan of insects. A large part of her childhood was spent checking flowers and under rocks, in hopes of finding a creature. She considered getting a degree in Entomology, but focused on raising a family. An advertisement for an annual class taught by the […]
When I tuned into the energy of this month and began pulling cards, I started to feel a playful lightness swirling around my chest, throat, and third eye. There’s a heavy anchoring that tends to happen in winter, a grounding that can be both nourishing and hard as we ready ourselves to survive another dark […]
Redefining the standards of modern theater, the highly acclaimed & Juliet is presented by the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) for a limited time. Deliberately altering the fate in one of the best works in history, Director Luke Sheppard has masterfully outdone himself with this remade narration of Juliet’s life had she chosen a different path from […]
I met Michelle Perez downtown for coffee at Bolt. I was looking forward to getting together because I had been poking around her website and discovered that she is an amazing artist. Imagine my delight when our time over coffee ended up being just as charming as looking at online images of her work in […]
The seas are wicked now like the thoughts in a crazy man’s mind. Soon the baby will sleep again so soft and innocent. In time the little one will grow, and learn to be furious at the ways of the world. But with maturity life will calm again. The child is simple and very impressionable. […]
Somewhere in Providence there is a painting. I want it. * In this coffeeshop there are sculptures, which are flat and look like paintings but are not. Today I visited an art gallery, which is located in a building where I hope to live but many people want to live, so I can’t. * A […]
Gritty, profanity-laced, and unforgiving might be just the elixir audiences need these days and Gamm Theatre delivers via a gut-punch production of Between Riverside and Crazy. The dark comedy by Stephen Adly Guirgis and 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it should be. The reason is Guirgis’ […]
This is the third in a series of articles on the Ecology of Cannabis Growers in RI. There are around 60 growers and 7 retail cannabis dispensaries in the Ocean State, which works out to about 7.5 times more growers than retailers. When these numbers are linked with the fact that cannabis growers are not […]