This is the fourth article in a series about community theaters located throughout Rhode Island. The Community Players’ first performance was the 1921 staging of Milestones, a three-act melodrama that followed an upper-middle-class English family over the span of 52 years. It appeared on the Old Star Theatre stage – a former Masonic Temple on […]
Did you know that birth control has only been legalized in 14 states? Or that not one, but two activists fought for its legalization? Providence resident Stephanie Gorton dives deep into the origins of birth control and the longwinded battle of activists Mary Ware Dennett and Margaret Sanger against the political, legal, and medical establishment, […]
Tattoos have been part of history for at least 5,000 years. They are an artistic and poetic expression. From ink to skin, thoughts, pain, joy, love and memories are written. The permanency of this creative art is symbolic of keeping feelings and memories alive. Tattoos have been done on every place on the body. The […]
Bubbie’s Deli and Market has been a staple and important part of the East Side PVD community since 2021. David’s Dairy, which had been open for a century, caught fire and the owners decided not to reopen. This left a need for a kosher market in the community, which Jeffrey Ingber and Freda Ronkin realized. […]
Grand Pagoda 2 oz Moet Hennessy .75oz dry curaçao .75 oz lemon grass syrup .5 oz lemon juice .25 oz orgeat 2 dashes of grapefruit and orange bitters Shaken and served over ice with amaretto float This drink was inspired culturally; not by the place, but by the spirit behind it. In my life, I’ve […]
When I told my friend Judy that I wanted to try out a new restaurant, Suya Joint, for lunch a few weeks ago, she was very excited and immediately checked out their website (I love that about her!). For me, I just made sure of the address (350 Westminster St) and that there was parking […]
My first thought after waking up at 6:30 am was about the staff at Centerville Bank Stadium. This venue is a big deal for the state, with a lot of ramifications, and blowhards waiting for it to fail. Construction took longer than expected, leading RIFC to play their first season at Bryant. This got me […]
When Wu-Tang Clan’s debut album Enter the 36 Chambers was released in 1993, I was thirteen years old. I remember it vividly because Theodora, my longtime friend/ crush, had gifted me a bootleg copy of the LP on cassette tape. For those too young to remember, pirated copies of tapes and CDs were the only […]
Mirah’s second full-length, Advisory Committee (K Records, 2002), came out during the spring of my freshman year at Boston University. While the album’s title perhaps suggested some homage to academia, the songwriting mostly revealed a study of contrasts. Spartan and robust, serious and mirthful, soft and assertive, literal and symbolic, the singer-songwriter Mirah Yom Tov […]
Okee dokee folks… I realized that I am now in my 40th year of being a performing songwriter. My first real gig was at AS220 in Providence in March of 1985. This was the original 220 Weybosset Street location in downtown Providence, above the Providence Performing Arts Center. I made $1. I still might have […]