The Birth of the Rhode Island Rave Scene
by DJ Venom The year was 1992. Buddy Cianci started his second stint as the mayor of Providence while an Arkansas governor named Bill Clinton campaigned his way to the White House. Kurt Cobain and his grunge movement brethren had ousted the hair metal bands from their throne atop rock radio while hip-hop could […]
Romance, War and Animation En Francais
Go to the crawl space and dust off your joie de vivre, the Brown University French Film Festival is back. This year there’s a well balanced variety of films including a feature animation based on a best-selling graphic novel; a period drama that takes an original look at three days in the life of a […]
February Trivia by the Wild Colonial
Q1: According the Athenaeum’s website, the building was the site of many important moments in the courtship of poet Sarah Whitman by this American icon, including the moment of that courtship’s demise in 1848. Q2: In 2005, the Athenaeum made the controversial decision to sell its unbound and complete copy of the masterwork of this […]
Growing Young Film Buffs
By Erin Swanson The 4th Annual Providence Children’s Film Festival is coming to town from February 14-19, thanks again to the hard work of several key players. Eric Bilodeau had over 22 years of experience programming thematic film fests when he came aboard as the director of programming for PCFF. “I had not been […]
Get Warm at this Spoken WORD! Alumni Show
By Christopher Johnson For 10 years now, a group of Brown and RISD students crowd into a small space that for two hours a week is dedicated to poetry. There they produce some of the best spoken word shows in Providence. It is Thursday night in the basement of Brown’s Rites and Reasons Theater. […]
Something’s Brewing in the Bucket
By Amanda Resch You might not have noticed yet, but Rhode Island is in the midst of a beer boom. Five new stand-alone breweries have opened this year, bringing the state’s total to seven. One of those new breweries is Bucket Brewery in (where else?) Pawtucket. Founded by close friends Nate Broomfield, Erik Alaksen, T.J. […]
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January Pin Up of the Month: Citizen Toxie
What’s your biggest pet peeve? People who express loud and extremely confident points of view while being completely uninformed. Loud and wrong is not a good look on anyone. What do you never leave home without? Breath mints. Fresh breath, even while playing roller derby – it’s the right thing to do as a team […]
Rhode Island Spoken Word: This Is not Your Professor’s Poetry by Christoper Johnson
Rhode Island first hit my radar as a spoken word scene in 2000, which is a testament to my ignorance at the time. The Providence Poetry Slam Team created a ruckus for its notability years prior – it was the1996 National Poetry Slam Champion and earned itself a feature spot in the 1998 documentary Slam […]