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The challenge to staging a production of “Titanic: The Musical” isn’t in retelling the familiar story but in captivating the audience in the grandeur and horror of it all without seeming trite. A tour decades ago opted for multiple scenery changes to transport audiences among the three classes aboard the massive ocean liner and used […]
The Tattoo Awards featured a gallery wall populated by local artists. Here is a selection of the artwork on display!
I met Lily Spencer in an acting class taught by Eric Lutes, whom many television fans will remember from the 1990s sitcom “Caroline in the City.” Eric, who now lives in his home state of Rhode Island, hosts a small acting cohort that I joined last year. Lily has been studying with him for the […]
Favorite Animal/ Favorite Floral Tara D’Agostino – Iron Lion Tattoo By the numbers, Tara D’Agostino got her first tattoo at the age of 15, picked up her own tattoo machine at the age of 19, opened her own tattoo parlor 16 years ago, has been a tattoo artist for 20 years, and has won Motif […]
There’s no feeling quite like finally being able to fully step into your own, to truly embrace your whole self and carry yourself through the world with that mentality. Not an identity that other people have come to expect of you, but the identity that is actually true to you. That’s what country artist River […]
Okee dokee folks… Last weekend I went on a ten-hour, each way, road trip to play a show. The drive wasn’t so bad, but the music was horrible. As I have mentioned before, I rarely listen to the radio and generally prefer silence when operating a vehicle. If I do listen to anything, it’s 88.1 […]
Wards 2, 9 and 12 all report the same. Mendez wins in each! It appeared that Providence was perfectly poised to usher-in its first female mayor in history. The polls were closed and final results for each of the fifteen wards were starting to trickle in. There was a sense that something monumental was occurring, […]
“You’re late, Brother,” she said, hovering outside the weathered cottage near a pebbly beach, indistinguishable from the shadows cast by moonlight that hit the thick hydrangeas. It was late in the evening of a seawind-chilled Thursday in early summer on Block Island. “I miscalculated, Sister, and manifested in Port Judith,” he explained. “So I took […]
It’s almost Cthulhu – pardon my hiccup, I meant, “election” – season again. And if the tactics of these times don’t make your head swim and your bowls ache, as if you were being eviscerated by a barely-seen eldritch horror, well … you must have turned your phone off. The parallels abound. Do the reddish […]
When cover artist Bob Eggleton of Warwick first got interested in art and started sketching nightmarish creatures, he recalls, an aunt asked him, “What’s drawing a monster gonna get you in life?” He’s spent the last forty-three years showing her, along with the rest of the world. Between 1994 and 2004, he won the Hugo […]