Granite’s La Mancha – An Outpouring of Community
Community theater truly is an animal entirely unto itself. Each show is the result of a handful of passionate and dedicated amateurs giving their spare time and energy – over and above the hours they put into work and family – to mount a production for their friends, family and members of their town and […]
Roots Report: An Interview with Jimmy Webb
Okee dokee folks…One of the biggest legends in the songwriting world is coming to the Greenwich Odeum on October 25. Most “civilians” may not know the name Jimmy Webb, but we songwriters sure do! Webb is responsible for some for some of the greatest and memorable songs of ALL TIME including “Up, Up and Away,” […]
Providence Craft Beer Week
Beervana has grown into the grand poobah of beer fests in our region (see last issue for a full breakdown of this year’s expanded Saturday events on Oct 26). Leading up to it is Providence Craft Beer Week, an extended warm up that can get your taste buds in gear, with events from Saturday the […]
Rise Up Together: The Womxn Project to announce their next legislative agenda
We don’t often see legislative agendas announced at the neighborhood bar with a live band. But what would civic engagement look like if, maybe, more were? The Womxn Project calls their approach “artivism” – a partnering of art and activisim to bring about political or social change. Since the non-profit’s inception in 2017, The Womxn […]
Book Review: Joe Hill’s Horns
Even if you’re not a fan of horror, you’ve heard of Stephen King. It’s hard not to, as he has written more books than most any other three authors put together, and currently sits atop his own publishing house, scribbling away on napkins that somehow morph into bestsellers every few months. But this is about […]
Coffin-Bangers: Tight Crew + RI Indoor Karting = “Monster” Halloween
Do you like scary movies? What about costume parties? If you answered yes to one or both of those questions, pay attention! On Saturday, October 26, EDM event super-producers Tight Crew is throwing their annual Halloween blowout. The’ll transform RI Indoor Karting (RIIK) in Lincoln into a real-life Monster Mash. Mash-goers can rage from 8pm […]
In Fourteen Hundred Ninety-Two: Columbus raped and pillaged, too
Indigenous People’s Day Let’s make no mistake about this. FUCK Columbus. He was, and ever will be, a murderer, a rapist and an enslaver, an unwashed pervert with baggy clothes and shit hair … but to actively celebrate this man, well ladies and gentlemen, that’s akin to cheering Hitler during Yom Kippur, or giving Ted […]
Hoppy Halloween: Party like its 1989
If you’re anything like me, you spent your Fourth of July binging the third season of “Stranger Things.” Lucky for us, our paranormal protagonists don’t stop at one holiday. This Halloween is bound to be full of Scoops Ahoy cosplay, ’80s nostalgia and the iconic bloody nose made famous by Eleven. The image is so […]
Decaying Icarus: Paranormal tales from an airplane graveyard
The rusted frame of a nosecone pokes out of a tangle of vines and long grass, permanently grounded, never to fly again. Behind, a cross-section of a narrow body jet slowly sinks into the soft undergrowth, another resident of the airplane graveyard deep in the backwoods of South County. But don’t go grabbing your passport […]