Five Things To Do: August 14 – 20
THU 15 Beth Barron/ Jamie Craighead Duo/ Corinne Southern: Vocals/Guitar. 9pm. Askew, 150 Chestnut St, PVD. fb.com/Askewprov Out of State Plates Literary Series: Featuring Sarah Elaine Smith, author of Malibu is Everywhere. 7pm. Twenty Stories Bookstore, 107 Ives St, PVD. outofstateplateslit.com FRI 16 – SUN 18 92nd Annual Grecian Festival: Your best chance of experiencing […]
Taking it to the Streets: Day Trill closes out the summer with the party of the season
Daytrill is a PVD-rooted hip-hop/DJ festival that has been taking place twice a year since 2012. It’s run by local group Stay Silent, and one of the founding group members, WHERE’S NASTY, provides DJ sets along with many other acts. The festival also includes games, drinks, music, art and food trucks. The second and final […]
Art! Music! Papermaking! Pawtucket Arts Fest takes center stage
For anyone who is still reeling from Ari Aster’s new festival film Midsommar, a terrifying triptych of bacchanalia, pagan ritual and cult-enforced suicide, the term “festival” can conjure up a host of images — and some of them are a bit unsettling. Thankfully, most festivals are of a more innocent variety than those of Aster’s […]
A Walk on the Weird Side: Lovecraft is long gone, but echoes of his footsteps remain
A few years back I saw an advertisement on Craigslist that offered up an apartment in PVD that claimed to be where H.P. Lovecraft lived and worked. Fascinated, but too poor to move, I did the next best thing and became addicted to finding out where PVD’s own master of horror spent his time, and […]
Five Fun Things to do: August 7 – 13
THU 8 RI Foundation presents Pops at Roger Williams Park: Annual free classical concert — a full evening leading up to the 1812 Overture. Temple of Music, Roger Williams Park Zoo, PVD. rifoundation.org/pops Flicks on Bricks: The long running public movie screening is back this summer! The movie is Mid-90s. 8pm. The Plant (courtyard behind […]
Five Fun Things to Do: Aug 1 – 7
THU 1 WHEM Living Radio Show:The Horse-Eyed Men/ Downhill Strugglers/ The Vox Hunters: Classic radio format podcast with modern guests. 7pm. Columbus Theater, 270 Broadway, PVD. columbustheatre.com Mister Frizzle/ Plug/ The Really Heavy:.Local indie rock! 8pm. News Café, 43 Broad St, Pawtucket. fb.com/newscafe.ri THU 1 – SUN 4RKO Con 2019: The big National Rocky Horror […]
Dammit, Janet: If you love Rocky Horror, don’t miss RKO Con
It’s just a jump to the left, then a step to the right … into Downcity Providence. It’s time for RKO Con 2019. RKO Con is a celebration of 1975’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show. A commercial flop in its initial release, the movie was re-released as a midnight showing in 1976 at the Waverly […]