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 […]
Okee dokee folks… The other night I headed up to Plymouth to catch the Larry Burnett/Rick Roberts’ show at The Spire Center for the Performing Arts. Roberts and Burnett were the main voices and the songwriters behind the band Firefall (“Strange Way,” Your Are The Woman,” “Just Remember I Love You”). A couple of months […]
It’s been 30 years since Shepard Fairey clipped a picture of Andre the Giant from the newspaper to show a fellow RISD student how to make a stencil. The resulting sticker spread across the country by way of the skateboarding community, and “Andre the Giant has a posse” mushroomed into an analog meme, years before […]
Dylan Columbare is just 20 years old, yet he’s achieved the status of bar manager at Massimo restaurant in Providence. Not too shabby, considering nothing was handed to him. He is not family, but works for the family establishment. He started at Pane E’ Vino, Massimo’s sister restaurant farther down Atwells Avenue, and worked as […]
WED 16 Halloween Horror Story Hour: Scary stories for adults. 7pm. Stillwater Books, 175 Main St, Pawtucket. fb.com/pg/stillwaterbooksri Venture Café Providence FoodBev Connect: Connect with Rhody’s unique culinary ecosystems at this crossing of culinary and entrepreneurial streams. 4pm. Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, 60 Rhodes Pl, Cranston. venturecafeprovidence.org/foodbevconnect SAT 19 Battle of the Patriarchy Showcase: Five […]
I sometimes wonder if I survived the drop. It’s a drop that never happened, but could have– Maybe it did. Years ago, I was standing on a rooftop in downtown Providence on a date that was going poorly, and the guy suggested we go out onto the roof, which seemed like a romantic strategy for […]
THU 10 Sweet Little October Show: Feminist, anti-racist, queer-positive and body-positive cabaret. 8pm. Askew, 150 Chestnut St, PVD. fb.com/Askewprov SAT 12 – MON 14 Scituate Art Festival: Three days of juried selected arts, crafts and food. 10am. Village Green, 554 Greenville Rd, North Scituate. scituateartfestival.org SAT 12 Hari Kondabolu: Political comedy. 7:30pm & 10pm. 39 […]
The climate strike held at the State House was the first public and global protest that I attended since turning 18, legally an adult. And that shift changed my thought process and the way my brain wrapped itself around everything happening at the State House that day. What I realized, or I should say what […]
No sense in sugar-coating it; the stray cat population in Rhode Island is out of control. Shelters are over-populated and the rescue groups are doing all they can to help cut down on feral cats multiplying non-stop. A female cat’s pregnancy only lasts about two months, and she gives birth to an average litter of […]