Thanks to everyone who wrote in to help us get started with this column! It’s my hope that readers will continue to write in with a variety of queries, short and long – you don’t have to write in with a single sentence in question form, but instead I invite you to wax poetic on […]
OPEN Track 15, a huge food hall featuring several different flavors of restaurant, from the local to the national, will be opening sometime in February. Keep your eyes open for specific launch dates and reviews. The food hall will be where train track number 15 used to be from ancient times through the 1980s, in […]
Black History Month: The Making of Memory and Remembering I’d like to tell you a story. It’s a story of things. Not things really but people; a story of people told through things, which is how we often do tell the story of people. The things we collect; the thingswe discard; the things we covet; […]
Merciless1 I think I understand Victor Frankenstein now that I am older He was lonely and so created his monster for companionship without knowing it was going to appear monstrous. I, too, did the same thing but with myself to cover my own loneliness without knowing that I too now appear monstrous There was this […]
THREE BODY PROBLEM1 “…My resolution is fixed. I shall be free.” …at that moment he was free, at least in spirit. The future gleamed brightly before him, and his fetters lay broken at his feet. – The Heroic Slave (1852) “As to the moral and social influences of pictures, it would hardly be extravagant to […]
5 minutes into talking with Claudia Cardozo, I’m taken aback by her overwhelmingly positive aura and calm presence. Claudia, originally from Colombia, is a corporate coach, who for the past couple of years has been working on the book that shares her story of self-acceptance. The book, Love is the Path, released officially in October, […]
A few days ago, some friends and I were having drinks. As expected when you put on a decent buzz, we started to reminisce about the joys of a good drink and a good smoke. We headed out of the bar and walked down the street to our local convenience store, our hearts set on […]
RI Environmental Agencies Avoid Cuts in McKee’s 2026 Budget PROVIDENCE — Many of the state’s climate and environmental programs are avoiding the chopping block — for now. That’s the main takeaway from Gov. Dan McKee’s $14.2 billion spending plan released on Jan 16. In the months leading up to its release, state budget officials have […]
“Disinformation is now a game played for fun and profit by people all over the world,” says Professor Renee Hobbs URI digital literacy expert weighs in on Meta’s decision to end fact-checking of social media posts ‘Disinformation is now a game played for fun and profit by people all over the world,’ says professor Renee […]
THE ABYSSAL WOMB, THE FETID WORLD OF COLONIALITY’S CAPTURE As the heavy sloshing of horses’ hooves grows ever closer, and the wailing of her child grows ever louder, she, an indigenous Kalinago woman fleeing through a mangrove swamp from her white husband’s plantation, makes a choice. Gently, slowly, she submerges the newborn’s head into the […]