Michele Aucoin was always kind, generally sarcastic and reliably wise. She served as a mentor or booster for many in the arts community – both designers and fine artists – and her loss is acutely felt in those communities. Aucoin, 57, was a RI College grad and a graphic designer at many firms in PVD, […]
Our runners-up in the fiction contest are: “It Won’t Be Ignored” by J L. Metcalf, “The Ever-Ending World” by Kent J. Starrett “The God Spot” by Shad Fagerland “Ghoul of Providence” by Mike Slater Honorable Mention: “Bring the Children Home, Lord Cthulhu” by Andrew Stewart
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]