The holidays, over the years, have changed. This may be true for you as well. As a toddler most of us have followed family traditions. My late sister and I would wait for my father to get home from his shift at the fire department to open up gifts and snack on homemade Italian cookies. […]
For the first time ever, I was officially tasked with reviewing a restaurant — which doesn’t mean it was my first time pretending. I often act like a reviewer (I critique everything in life, exhaustingly so, according to my friends and family). I think I’ve wanted to be a food critic ever since I first […]
Okee dokee folks… If you listen to music enough you can always find lines in a song or whole songs that relate to the world around you. Lately I have been elder-Ubering my parents more, and though I usually don’t listen to the radio, I do while I am waiting for them. The other day […]
“It went pretty well,” said Bobby Forand about the “Give or Take” food drive he coordinated on Thanksgiving weekend at the News Cafe on Broad Street in Pawtucket. “People stayed, and there’s a lot of food.” Forand, the drummer of The McGunks, which was one of three punk groups that played at the iconic bar […]
It’s that time of year where every asshat wants to spew their “Best of whatever year” list like someone out in the ether really gives a flying fart. These lists can be dumb, but I have discovered new music from them too. So I decided to join the fray! Here are my top biscuits, shows […]
Sen. Whitehouse One of Few US Representatives at Climate Conference PROVIDENCE — It’s not every day a Rhode Island politician can claim to be the only representative of the US federal government. For the opening weekend of this year’s 30th U.N. Conference of the Parties (COP) — the largest and most important venue for world […]
Providence 2045: Over the last twenty years only one company has emerged as the leader in self-driving taxis; Cab-E. Traditional taxicabs have long-since gone extinct. Tesla has recently crumbled under the weight of its founder’s sheer lunacy. Amazon has focused all of its attention on colonizing Mars. Even Uber and Lyft have faded from the […]
New Year’s resolutions tend to be short-lived. We usually make them after weeks of holiday binging, comforting ourselves with the thought that the damage can be undone through will power alone. So what if we’ve made the same resolutions two years in a row? Third time’s the charm! Whose bright idea was this? Surprisingly, we […]
I am not optimistic in the short term, but I am in the long term. I’ve watched the country go through terrible upheavals, back to the Vietnam War and the election of Richard Nixon as president, which in combination normalized cynicism about whether society is trying to help or hurt ordinary people. The leaked Pentagon […]
It’s coming to the point in the year where we all announce resolutions that we don’t keep. So why not start with one that’s easy too? Albeit, it might take a small act of bravery. On January 1, across the state of Rhode Island, thousands of people will be freezing their chilly-willy-penguin-bones to support some […]