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 […]
It had been six weeks since I’d eaten pizza. This is, by my own standards, sacrilegious, so when I saw pictures of the grilled pizza served at Bar ‘Cino in Newport, I made a reservation. My Italian is not as good as my Greek, so I didn’t know if ‘Cino meant something — like, “Young […]
We asked local cult movie cinema club Dreadphile to share a list of films they think every horror fan should see. As Halloween approaches and brings out the horror fan in us all, we suggest you lock the doors, turn on the lights, settle down in front of one of these flicks and prepare to […]
Masssachusetts has seen a spike in HIV infection by drug injecting users in the past few years. RI has seen no such spike in the infection rate; if anything it’s plateaued or trended downward since its 10-year high of 121 in 2008. Part of that success has to be credited to the state’s only needle […]
There are many commonly held beliefs about the cannabis plant that have little to no basis in scientific fact. Anything that has been a part of human history, culture and medicinal practices since basically the beginning of time is going to have a long history passed down for many generations, which leaves plenty of time […]