Okee dokee folks… Tonight, at Theatre By The Sea in Matunuck, was the world premiere of You’ve Still Got a Friend: A Musical Tribute to the Lives and Friendship of Carole King and James Taylor. You’ve Still Got A Friend is not entirely what you would think it would be — a tribute show to […]
The summer brought us fire and flood across the land. The summer also hailed the famous Barbault Basket: the three biggies, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in close alignment, an alignment that is extremely rare. Andre Barbault, a French astrologer, claimed it heralded a new era, the world was on an up swing. He spent […]
Okee dokee folks… Back in May I saw Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass at Veterans Auditorium in Providence. That show was so amazing that I had to see it again! Fortunately, just up the road in Worcester, The Hanover Theatre had the Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass & Other Delights concert booked for […]
The unionized workers of the Community Libraries of Providence have been without a contract for two years now. Their patience, which had been wearing thin, was stretched to the breaking point by a recent move on the part of management that, by union rules, crossed a line. On August 4 & 5 they went into […]
Aries: Being on top of the latest and the greatest keeps you ahead of the pack. Technology and innovation add to your leading edge. You have a pioneering gene that pushes you into that lead position. The New Moon gets you on the right track. You pay attention to the details, and you listen to […]
In 1835, after sailing into Newport and then continuing his journey through the United States, famed French historian and apparent theater geek Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about the cultural and political revolution that was still taking place in this country. In his Democracy in America, he argued that as a society transitions from aristocracy to […]
There’s something wonderful about talking to film students because you can usually pinpoint the exact moment when movies stopped being simply entertainment and started becoming something much more meaningful. For Robert Blue IV, that moment arrived courtesy of giant alien robots. As a kid, he sat down with his dad to watch Transformers. He was […]
The Rhode Island International Film Festival, also known as Flickers, took place August 4 through August 9, bringing filmmakers, actors, industry professionals, and film lovers from around the world to the Ocean State. This year’s festival received more than 7,000 submissions representing over 100 countries. Selected films screened at venues throughout Rhode Island, including the […]
There I was, alone, lying on my side, basking in sunlight, amid the chaos of a busy city street, minding my own business. In my peripheral vision I could make out the wavering, jumbled festoonery of mankind passing by, back and forth, sometimes repeatedly, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly — as a form of recreation of […]
Orville Becker looked again at his map of Lincoln Woods State Park. He’d hiked through the natural rock formations of Druid Circle, stopping to gaze at the Pedestal and Split Rock boulders, before continuing toward Quinsicket Pond, which lay to the northwest, where he planned to break for a late lunch. Odd name, Druid Circle, […]