In the intimate, shaggy sphere of Providence’s classic Avon Cinema, a row of college students sit in their winter parkas. They are taking ample time before the lights go down to talk; munching popcorn and biting off the heads of twizzlers with gloved hands. The heat in the cinema has turned off, and everyone’s breath […]
It’s 1993 and Nirvana walks onto the “MTV Unplugged in New York” studio set. When Cobain sat down with his signature sweater and guitar, little did the world know they were watching a dead man carve a set of initials into the infinite record of the world. Five months later Cobain committed suicide, and seven […]
Photographs line the walls of the white, empty gallery. The lights go off and footsteps fade down a long corridor. A door slows to a shut. Silence reigns in a room full of frozen faces. These faces are full of emotion, their bodies contorted in dance – expressions of a soul caught in the throes […]
Ah yes, the sun has finally retired. The slight anxiety of longer days can finally be put to rest. The air is cold, all your windows are shut, and you light a candle – It’s 5pm and you have nothing to do. So what do you do? Turn off the TV, put down the phone, […]
On November 5, throughout neighborhoods, apartment complexes, car radios, bars and restaurants, the nation’s eyes and ears were focused on two things: their political party, and the election results. Hopeful Democrats watched with growing disbelief as all the swing states started leaning right, counties turning shades of deep and light red like blossoming ticks. On […]
No one knows what exists behind every door. We may think we do, it may seem obvious, we may believe the signs; but who’s to know what’s really hiding behind the walls and the opaque, storefront glass? This is a lesson well-learned by those who stumble into Olneyville, looking for the Fête, and end up […]
EvErybody has a heartache — This silence in the noise of the terminal is a mountain of bison skulls. Nobody knows, nobody sees — Unless the indigenous are dancing powwow all decked out in flash and beauty We just don’t exist. We’ve been dispersed to an outlaw cowboy tale. What were they thinking with all those guns […]
If you are a denizen of Providence, it is unlikely that you haven’t heard about the recent uptake in fires afflicting our city. The cause of these fires is unknown, but we have our suspicions it could be related to Judgement Day (we thought we had at least a few more years, but this upcoming […]
There is a silence that accompanies a setting sun – as though the day is using all its power to transform into night. A concentration that bleeds orange into the sky, muting the vibrant signs of life. There is a finality in the spaces of transition: everything resembles an end, the click of a key […]
It is a sunny Saturday. The air is electric with the promise of summer. Only a few white clouds patrol the sky. A sunglass-donning DJ bobs his head to the speakers that are blasting bass music, just one of the many small booths that litter the parking lot of the Solar Cannabis Co. Joseph Ritchotte, […]