Providence, celebrated for its gritty charm and vibrant arts scene, will soon lose a pivotal foundation of its community. After seven long years as a haven for artists, Askew will close its doors on December 1st. This beloved venue, owned by Windsong Hadley and John DiFruscio, became a cornerstone for artists and audiences drawn to […]
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of […]
Wanda Hopkins is a citizen of the Narragansett Indian Tribal Nation, mother of three adult children and grandmother of three. She has served in Tribal Government and has ministered at the Narragansett Indian Church for twenty-five years. She and her family participate in Indigenous cultural arts education, civic activism, and community service. Wanda is a […]
The Westerly School Committee is rewriting its Transgender, Gender Diverse, and Transitioning Student Policy. It is the only municipality in Rhode Island actively working to weaken the RIDE (Rhode Island Department of Education) policy that has protected all public school students in the state for seven years without incident. For this reason, I watched the […]
If you are a denizen of Providence, it is unlikely that you haven’t heard about the recent uptake in fires afflicting our city. The cause of these fires is unknown, but we have our suspicions it could be related to Judgement Day (we thought we had at least a few more years, but this upcoming […]
There is a silence that accompanies a setting sun – as though the day is using all its power to transform into night. A concentration that bleeds orange into the sky, muting the vibrant signs of life. There is a finality in the spaces of transition: everything resembles an end, the click of a key […]
At Providence, afternoon temperature is expected to reach as high as 80°F around 2pm on Halloween day, but for trick-or-treat in the early evening will slowly cool to 75°F by sunset at 5:38pm and further to 70°F by end of twilight at 6:08pm. Chance of precipitation will be near zero. While unlikely to break the […]
Okee dokee folks… In 1974 I bought the “45” (remember those?) of the pop hit, “Rock and Roll Heaven” by The Righteous Brothers, a song written by Alan O’Day and Johnny Stevenson. I still have it … somewhere. That song popped into my head today with the passing of Kris Kristofferson. The chorus of that […]
Earlier in September, the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) quietly launched a statewide rental registry for landlords. The Rental Registry is an online portal that will have important information about rental properties. This was created to meet the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act requirements. Landlords were originally required to submit the information by October […]
Painters: Francisco Goya, Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Edvard Munch. Musicians: Ludwig van Beethoven, Chris Cornell, Ian Curtis, Chester Charles Bennington, Kurt Cobain. Writers: Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Anthony Bourdain, Sylvia Plath. All are artists who suffered emotional disorders, neurosis and breakdowns, and, in […]