Month: May 2025

Move and Let Move: The joys of parkour

Parkour started in France in the 1990s with a nine-member group dubbed Yamakasi (meaning strong in one’s person). They based their challenges on martial arts and Asian culture, and considered George Herbert, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jean-Claude Van Damme as major influences. Their popularity grew and the sport found itself in documentaries, Ripley’s Believe […]

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It’s Showtime: There’s a rich and robust crop of RI summer theater awaiting you

It’s the season of splendor, abundance, and vibrancy. We are, of course, referring to the summer theater scene in Rhode Island and its varied, homegrown bumper crop of entertaining and thought-provoking productions… not just sweet corn, summer squash, and an abundance of berries.    Here’s a list of community and professional playhouses, straw hat theaters, and […]

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Empathetic Art in Negative Space: The Secret Mall Apartment and it’s 750 square feet of living protest art

A really magical thing happens when you see a place (or places) you know and love on screen; you’re suddenly involved in a very different way. You might be sitting there wondering if the back of that yellow house is one you’ve walked by before, if you know one of the many artists or musicians […]

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Spray Painting More Walls and Boxes: Avenue Concept’s big push to nurture new and emerging artists

The heart of The Avenue Concept (TAC) lies outside the rear door of its facility on Lockwood Street in PVD. It’s the back wall of the one-story structure which has been spray painted with a wealth of graffiti, an art form that goes back to ancient Rome. “This is where graffiti artists, and emerging mural […]

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