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Pin-up: Milla LowLife, Rhode Island Riveters and Sakonnet River Roller Rats
What do you never leave home without? Burts Bees and a sense of adventure! What’s your biggest pet peeve? People who complain and don’t act. Whining fixes nothing. What’s your favorite book? Catcher in the Rye. Still. What’s your favorite movie? Anything by Wes Anderson What’s your favorite TV show? “Orphan Black.” Completely obsessed Are you excited for fall […]
IMBIBE: School Night Musings
After summer’s heat, long days, parties and weddings, many of us are ready to welcome a chill, throw on sweaters and relish a moment to just sit down. Well, not too calmly, just not as rowdy as the beach bars where we clamored for sweaty beers and margaritas. Apples hang lower and ripe, ready for […]
Welcome to Bucktown, Population: Delicious
It must have been a Saturday in something like late June when I introduced one of my good friends to Long Live Beerworks, as I’ve been quite an evangelist for the relatively new craft brewery on the West Side of Providence. It’s a neighborhood I lived in for a few years, led a Motif neighborhood profile […]
Making Art in the Creative Capital and Beyond
Rhode Island offers year-round art classes and workshops to tap into your inner creativity. Below is a collected list of locations where professional artists and experienced teachers provide inspiring access to studio discovery. With day and evening classes for all ages, now is the time to sign up. Arch; 18 East Rd, Tiverton; 401- 835-8415, archcontemporary.com. Just in time […]
Manhattan Short Returns to RI on September 30th and October 1st at Jamestown Center for the Arts
Manhattan Short does not consider itself a travelling film festival per se. It screens simultaneously across the globe from September 23 to October 2, coining the phrase, “one world – one week – one festival.” Each year, audiences around the world view the same program of 10 films and vote for their favorite. The results are […]
Book Review: Rory O’Brien’s Summerland
Rory O’Brien has written an enjoyable piece of historical fiction set in the high brow of Newport in 1892. The World’s Fair in Chicago was in full swing (I off-topically recommend Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, which is about that World’s Fair and a serial killer living in Chicago at the time), Lizzie Borden […]
The Slow Boil of Last Days of Summer
William Fichtner is a prolific character actor with a long and prominent body of work. If you don’t recognize the name, you definitely would recognize his distinctive face — stretched and doe-eyed — as that of the obsessive detective in Prison Break, or perhaps the leader of the free world (by default, since everyone else […]
Film Review: Lo And Behold, Reveries Of A Connected World
From the UCLA classroom where the Internet first relayed to life as the Arpanet to the future possibilities of our worldwide connection, Werner Herzog’s newest film explores the multi-faceted concept that is our “connected world.” Not just the origins of the Internet are discussed, but also its multitude of uses, its dangerous side and even […]