Tara Monastesse

Summer Retrospective: Searching for the “Song of the Summer” on Rhode Island radio

I spent nearly every day of the past three months scouring Rhode Island’s radio stations for the elusive “Song of the Summer”, even as an endless parade of national media critics declared the search futile. “The Song of the Summer is Dead,” pronounced a WIRED headline in August; I recall hearing an NPR segment that […]

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Defining Vintage: Local vintage dealers discuss how the scene has evolved

It’s no coincidence that interest in Y2K fashion is reaching a fever pitch. With every passing year, more and more bygone fashion eras are being rescued from irrelevance as they get old enough to be associated with the prized term, “vintage.” What makes an item vintage, though? Turns out it’s more than just frayed threads […]

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