Bleed for This Is a Knock-Out
On November 18, Bleed for This will open on 2,500 screens nationwide. In anticipation, Open Road (the distributor) and Verdi Productions (the production company) staged a press screening/RI premiere on […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Comic Con: The Con That Ate PVD (in a good way)
RI Comic Con is like that radioactive mutant that just won’t stop growing. But in a good way. This year’s event once again took over the entire Convention Center and […]
Trump Carnage
That Donald Trump won the US Presidency should be old news to you now. What is a surprise is how few saw this coming. It seems like even those who […]
An Interview with Chad Verdi, Bleed for This Producer
Bleed for This, the story of RI boxing legend Vinny “Paz” Pazienza is a film that many on the filmmaking side figuratively bled for as well. Producer Chad Verdi, of […]
An Interview with Christine Evangelista of Bleed for This
We talked to Christine Evangelista, who plays Ashley in the upcoming film. (You can see her in the trailer here: ) Motif: Had you heard of Vinny Paz before this […]
7 Referendum Questions
What should you do about the referendum questions on this year’s ballot? Rhode Island voters have a history of approving bonds because they seem like free money: buy now, pay […]
An Interview with The Walking Dead’s Michael Cudlitz
The question, “Who shot JR?” still resonates in American culture – the cliffhanger was a summer obsession for a generation of Americans. But not too many people remember the answer […]
Anti-Social Media
I recently posted on Facebook asking people if they’d unfriended or unfollowed people this political season over their political posts. (Unfriending leads to no further contact. Unfollowing means not receiving […]
Bleed for This Hits the Big Screen Next Month
Paz has rightfully become the stuff of Rhode Island legend, a topic of constant local – and national – discussion in the ’80s and ’90s. Soon, that legend will be […]
Pick Your Monster!
As each Halloween approaches, the twisted winds of fall urge us to plan our special insert of monsters. Space constraints prevent us from putting all the monsters in the insert. […]