Beyond Belief Warning: This going to be a rant, so find a “safe space” to read it, and buckle your seat belt. When is someone going to shoot off the flare that alerts everyone to the fact that our President, Donald Pussy-grab, is certifiably delusional, erratic and basically barking mad on a day-to-day basis? This […]
With Halloween approaching, I decided to add a bit of spook and mystery to my step, so I summoned the mighty content wizard known in this world as Ben DeCastro. DeCastro has been seen and/or heard on just about every radio, television and new media platform in the southern New England market, has left a […]
We’ve rounded up a list of horror films sure to terrify you in this most terrifying of seasons. The Loved Ones: One of the best horror villains of all time turns out to be a girl who just wants a prom date. When a cute boy turns her down, she and her father won’t take […]
The last time I was with ghost hunter Dustin Pari, we were sitting in the attic at the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River. All the lights were out, sans Pari’s computer screen and the device he held in his hands to help spirit voices come through. After some garbled sounds poured out of the […]
In summer 2018, I was walking around the Providence Flea with one of my best friends when we came across a booth toward the end of the market. A lone woman stood, surrounded by some of the most beautiful art pieces, all castings taken from New England gravestones. I stopped dead in my tracks (sorry, […]
Dear C and Dr. B; My daughter Laura is one of the popular girls in high school and she is being wooed by one of their football team’s big stars. Laura says that he is nice enough, but basically, kind of boring. All he does is talk about himself or about football, which is more […]
The Steel Yard just celebrated its grand reopening after a summer of renovations, and now is going to show off its new digs with its annual and epic Halloween Pour, sponsored by Revival Brewing who is bringing along its never-before-poured Iron Pour brew. We assume those who crack open a can will be treated to […]
For those of you who prefer to hold the object of your fear in your hands, Robin Kall Homonoff, host of the Reading with Robin podcast and part of the team behind the award-winning reading series The Cardigan Connection offers these scary stories sure to send shivers down your spine. Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky: […]
Leading up to the second scariest night of the year (the first being Black Friday), Providence Ghost Tours has teamed up with Stranger Stories to create true ghost story open mics at The Graduate Providence. At the first of three planned open mics, storytellers tingled spines with stories of a haunted basement and a haunted […]
Christians & Lions — Young Familiar Christians & Lions, a self-described “New England DIY dreamfolk collective,” is out with the album Young Familiar, the group’s first release after a 10-year gap, and the album is nothing short of spectacular. Frontman Ben Potrykus led indie rock outfit Bent Shapes in the ‘10s, and founded screamo band […]