2016 Food Truck Awards
Event Page on Facebook General admission is free at 5pm. VIP tickets, to get in earlier, are now available. Rhode Island has been host to a robust food industry since the 1880s, and the trend has never been more popular. Veterans (including America’s oldest food truck, Haven Brothers) are joined by a regular flow of […]
Steampunk Rhode Island: We Are Not Amused
Fresh off the successful and widely acclaimed introduction of a new logo and slogan, “Size Doesn’t Matter,” the state tourism agency announced plans to convert Rhode Island into a theme park. “Once we discovered that the Rhode Island economy was so far in the tank that we couldn’t afford electricity, we decided to make the […]
New RI Advertising Campaign to Include Subway
Subway is now among the partnerships being called on to help promote the Ocean State as part of the new branding just released. Yes, the chain of sandwich shops will feature “picturesque” photos of Iceland and other parts of the world, with the message “Visit Rhode Island” under each. “We think the fact that they make no […]
Making Providence “Better Off” in the Digital Age
“I think that creating space to pursue art and entrepreneurship is the most important thing you can do.” Sitting across from me is Brandon Lane, owner of Better Off, a local business situated on the West Side of Providence. It’s a chilly Monday night at 168 Broadway, and as the sky dims the city comes […]
Book Review: Heather Rigney’s Hunting the Merrow
I can’t remember the last time I was this excited to learn that a book was coming out. Waking the Merrow, Heather Rigney’s first book in the Merrow Trilogy, blew me away, keeping me reading whenever I could or wishing I had the book in my hand when I wasn’t. There was a cliffhanger that […]
Oscars by RI
The 2016 Oscar ceremony thrown by the RI International Film Festival was filled with surprises, drama and excitement – and little of that came from the Oscars themselves. There were beautiful gowns and dashing tuxes, and awards were handed out to several well deserving local filmmakers, most notably Mauro Coangelo, a local composer now scoring […]
Film Review: The Wave
The Norwegian disaster film The Wave depicts what could happen if a landslide induced tsunami were to hit the small town of Geiranger, an event that scientists claim is imminent and that has indeed happened to other small villages in the past. We are introduced to Kristian, his wife Idun and their two children. Kristian […]