This Porridge is Too Good
Every winter, our mammalian kin pack on the blubber and slow down the pace of life so as not to expend valuable calories on wasted efforts. Winter is the season […]
Events:
Holiday Small Works
November 4 - December 31A Christmas Carol
Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, is back. The timeless holiday tale of redemption and joy, Trinity Rep’s reimagined production always has a few new wrinkles, and has been a beloved
November 9 @ 10:00 am - December 31 @ 1:00 pm
Tuft Crowd: Give the Gift of Yarn
In a colorful, yarn-covered studio on the West Side of Providence (behind Ogie’s and upstairs from where The Nest used to be) you’ll find TuftxPVD – a new art space […]
A PVD Winter Cake Walk
In the mid-1800s, Black folks developed the cakewalk – a pageant of ostentatious dances mocking the absurdity of their plantation owners. And from the traditions of the cakewalk, you can […]
And Your Little Sly Fox Den Too!
As the second most densely populated state in America, it’s hard for anywhere in Rhode Island to be “in the middle of nowhere.” But I’ll be damned if Sly Fox […]
Bloodsucking Friends: The other vampires of Rhode Island
On a frigid winter night in 1892, the villagers of Exeter exhumed the corpse of Mercy Brown. Her cheeks blushed, her lips still red – Mercy’s body was desecrated in […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Stargazing
While we modern folk go about our evening bustle under the glow of city lights, citizens of the ancient world had nothing but the stars to light their nights. All […]
Let a Little Apple in Your Life
Beginning before even the dog days of summer have ended, Dunkin’ Donuts, in their divine Providence, reveal to us the Holey Trinity of fall: The pumpkin doughnut. The pumpkin muffin. […]
Wheelmen & Deal Men: Providence’s cycling past
In 1925, while cyclists – with chattering teeth and shaking bones – raced ’round the pine-board planks of the nation’s largest velodrome, upwards of 13,000 fans roared from Providence’s East […]