A few years ago, my wife, Patricia, used cranberry juice and ginger ale to concoct a drink for everyone at the Thanksgiving table. She made it in a pitcher. We served it as our guests arrived, and they liked it so much, they drank it throughout the entire meal. She subsequently refined it, and we’ve […]
One of our favorite cooking traditions is deep-frying the turkey on Thanksgiving Day. We’ve been doing it safely for 15 years. We bought a turkey fryer that came with a 30-quart cooking pot, a burner with a regulator and hose attachment, a vertical hook, a hanger, and a clip-on vertical temperature gauge. A couple of […]
For cover artist Mishki Thompson of Hopkinton, love helped her conquer a disability and embark on a journey of learning and practicing the art of beadworking, and passing on her Indigenous traditions to the next generation, she relates. A member of the Narragansett Tribe, Thompson was forced to go on disability in 2012 due to […]
As dusk descended on Halloween, Karl Vincent turned on the outdoor porch light of his charcoal gray, gabled house on Grimwood Street in Providence to let the Trick-or-Treaters know that he was now “awake.” For fun, he’d open the front door with a Transylvanian-accented “Good evenink” worthy of Bela Lugosi himself. The kids in the […]
“October is our Super Bowl,” says Jeff Angell who, with his wife Courtney, owns Deadbeats on Knight Street in Providence. The horror-themed bar has something planned for the good evenings in the lead-up to Halloween and beyond. For instance, every Thursday this month, Deadbeats Drive-In will run a horror movie on a 23-foot inflatable screen […]
“I never drink…wine,” Bela Lugosi famously said in the classic horror movie Dracula. But he never said anything about cocktails. So here are six scary drinks you can mix at your haunted house to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve. Corpse Reviver No. 2 Sounds like it was made for Night of the Living Dead (or the […]
Cover artist Nilton Cárdenas of Cranston refuses to stand still. “I am constantly moving, and creating art,” he says in an interview at Sharks Peruvian Cuisine on Broad Street in Central Falls. And when he’s not putting a brush to canvas, or a pencil to a sketchbook page, he’s curating art exhibitions. For instance, Cárdenas […]
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, […]
The death of their beloved pet Teddy, a pit bull boxer mix, led Iggy Gozman and Dr. Jess Van Loon to launch Full Circle Water Cremation & Pet Memorials. The aquamation facility, located at 15 Appian Way in Smithfield, opened its doors last Valentine’s Day. “We didn’t have a good experience when Teddy passed,” Gozman […]
For the cover of Motif’s Fall Guide, painter and muralist Nicholas “Niko” Tolentino of Cranston drew inspiration from his childhood days, he relates in an interview at White Electric Coffee Co-Op in Providence. Roger Williams Park in PVD was practically in his backyard. He loved to jump a fence and get to the gazebo behind […]