Lifestyle

Black Excellence in Rhode Island: Support Black-owned businesses throughout Black History Month and every other day

Black excellence is something that should be celebrated every day. Black History Month not only honors that excellence but places it front and center. In that spirit, I invite you to visit one or more places in this directory and take the time to respectfully experience the culture and the beauty it offers the world.  […]

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Getting your art on this holiday season: Local picks

We the artists of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America. Our Ocean State […]

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2 Feet 2 Bucks: Explore all of Providence

Just walking around has been a favorite pastime of city dwellers and tourists ever since cities were invented. How many long walks it takes to see all that’s worth seeing is a good measure of how great a city is. The greatest are inexhaustible. Among smaller cities known for an attractive downtown to walk around […]

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How to Pick a Christmas Tree: Advice from the woodcutter’s daughter

Thinking back about trees and the meaning of the holidays, a warm, fuzzy feeling comes over me. I am a woodcutter’s daughter, and trees have a special meaning and purpose in our lives. During the busy hustle and bustle of the holiday season we forget the true meaning of the Christmas tree. A Christmas tree […]

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TS 12: The Life of a Showgirl Review For Motif Magazine

If you didn’t stay up until midnight on the night of the TS12 album release, covered in glittery friendship bracelets from the Eras tour and a friend’s small business clinging to both wrists, slightly tipsy after just having lost Taylor Swift trivia night at Trident Books, freshly listening to The Manuscript-and for some reason, ‘I […]

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