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Long Live the King: King Richard’s Faire crowns a new monarch

In 2018, the long-running King Richard’s Faire welcomed a new Queen Anne. One year later, there’s another shakeup in the kingdom: a fresh King Richard will preside over the fictional Carvershire this fall.  Now in its 38th season, the popular Carver, Mass., renaissance faire runs weekends and holidays through October 20, and this year, the […]

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Fall in Love with Hip-Hop: The Ocean State’s lineup is so fresh and so clean

Fall is a beautiful season, yet our lives tend to become as crisp and changing as the leaves.  Don’t let your flow slip away as you encounter stress after deadline after change.  Find a consistent beat and walk to it, find peace within, and you will be useful and productive for others and yourself. Fortunately, […]

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Waiting in the Wings: Fall theater is about the take the stage by storm

In September, Academy Players are bringing a RI premiere with “Imaginary,” a new musical by Timothy Knapman, that tells about the power of imagination and explores the wonder of childhood. Academy will dance their way through November with Mama Mia, sure to be a crowd pleaser. And don’t forget to visit Academy’s second annual vendor fair […]

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Take the Stage: Danse Salmagundi is an open mic of a different sort

I hadn’t heard of Danse Salmagundi (pronounced “dans sal-ma-gun-di”) until I was thrown into a performance in front of a group of people I’d never met or seen before. At its performance, housed in the Chifferobe Atelier in the Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket, I found a packed room full of smiling people in bellydance […]

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Stand and Deliver: TEDx Providence brings new ideas front and center

TEDx Providence is returning this fall, and there are some fantastic speakers lined up, ready to tell audiences about what is and open audience’s minds to what could be. The Providence Speaking Society has supported Providence’s annual TEDx event, their biggest event of the year, for eight years. I got the chance to speak with […]

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