It’s the end of the week and you don’t feel like cooking. Getting microwaved food at your local Applebee’s sounds unappetizing, and the rarefied restaurants of Federal HIll are too far away. What’s a person gotta do to eat? Well, if you’re anything like the hundreds of Rhode Islanders who turn out in the early evenings, […]
It all started with a little friendly competition. Bobby Bradford and Tyrone Steans were friends who competed over cooking the best fried chicken. “We’d show up to the same family or friend’s events, like cookouts, and try to see who everyone liked better,” says Bobby, now co-owner and chef of SoulFull, a food truck that serves […]
Lil Rhody is the Ocean State, but it’s not all stuffies, clams cakes and fish. If you turn from the shoreline and go inland, away from the city and suburbs, RI has rich forests and plentiful game. Enter the food truck Open Season. It prepares traditional American food with wild game and locally sourced meats […]
Throughout its history, Pawtucket has been home to plenty of small, close-knit communities. Tucked away in a quiet corner of the city is a little-known one. Masjid Al-Rahman is one of Lil Rhody’s Islamic mosques, and on May 20, it, along with a few others, hosted local residents at an open house. The public was invited […]
When I walked into the ice cream parlor on the corner of Ives and Williams St one cool spring morning, it looked like what you’d expect from an ice cream shop: coolers, tables, napkins for spillage and amusing local kitsch on the walls. There’s a purple ice cream truck parked in the street outside. Looks are […]
It’s 9:30 on a Wednesday night and I’m in a dimly lit room sitting at a table on the second floor of the Columbus Theatre. A classical music piece plays over the sound system. In front of me, a 20-something man pretends to be tied down to an invisible wall with invisible rope to experience unknown pleasures, […]
Rhode Island’s gotta have it: Whether it’s at home, at work or any one of the hundreds of shops around the state, coffee is one of the state’s top obsessions. If you’re one of those people who say “Don’t talk to me in the morning until I have my coffee,” then do we have the […]
It was a weird world in 2016, and 2017 is showing to be weirder still. It’s a time where outright lies are called alternative facts, and your local friendly paper is owned by a major international media conglomerate. They all push a view, but who’s standing up for you and not someone’s profit margin? There has […]
In 2015, the Good Samaritan Law, designed to protect people from prosecution if they call emergency services to help a companion who overdosed, was allowed to expire due to a sunset provision. This was the first time ‘Lil Rhody lost a law thanks to a political snafu by the General Assembly toward the end of […]