Rhode Island licenses doctors and dentists, nurses, midwives, athletic trainers and dieticians for the medical community. They also license acupuncturists and their assistants, chiropractors, massage therapists and interpreters for the deaf. They do not license naturopathic physicians. To find out why, I went to the Department of Health, which issues all licensing permits for RI. A supervisor said […]
Health. Detox. Cleansing. No more Booze. No more processed okra. No more white stuff of any kind (humans excluded because they’re everywhere). We’ve all done it. Claimed New Year’s resolutions with such fervor those staunch proclamations might as well be set in stone on Mt. Sinai. You know the particularly difficult resolutions — completely nixing […]
Tune In & Tune Up, the health awareness initiative of the RI Music Hall of Fame, has changed a lot in the last year. Conceived as a way to raise awareness in the music community of health issues, especially preventative care, it ended up focusing a lot of effort on helping musicians navigate the strange landscape that shaped efforts […]
As she led a procession up the brick walkway toward the south side of the Rhode Island State House, Gina Raimondo was beaming. After all, she had been waiting for this day a long time — some might say for years. And when she finally took the oath as governor the afternoon of Jan 6, Raimondo became the […]
1. Sun, Jan 18: Balance and Composure, Ovlov, Wargames; $13 advance / $15 day of; 8pm doors / 8:30pm show; All ages; The Met, 1005 Main St, Pawtucket. Finally Doylestown, Penn.’s Balance and Composure return to Rhode Island. The band, while often grouped in with the new explosion of emo and pop punk acts like Title Fight and […]
A year ago, we wrote about the massive changes happening in health care – Obamacare on the national level, HealthSourceRI and changes at Blue Cross Blue Shield and other RI institutions, as well as how those things were expected to change the lives of local residents, especially artists, musicians and others in professions that historically […]
Dear Dr. Brilliant Cliché; I am so sick of the hypocrisy! Every New Year’s Eve, I listen to people babble incoherently about all the great resolutions they are starting tomorrow. Tomorrow comes and some of them manage to actually make it one day. I’ve seen them go as long as a month. Then — boom! That’s it. […]
North Korea is one of history’s most brutal, irrational, vicious, and cruel regimes. The so-called Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not democratic, views its people as dehumanized slaves to the collective, and sullies the notion of republicanism through rule by a monarchic dynasty now in its third generation. Despite its status as the closest […]
A Legendary Reporter Retires Probably no television street reporter in the Biggest Little is as recognizable and ubiquitous as Sean Daly. who announced last week that he was retiring from the day-to-day grind of reporting the news. For 42 years, Sean reported the news, mostly in Vo Dilun (he spent a few years in Chicago […]
With cold weather just around the corner, Bruce Moreau decided to take advantage of an unusually warm day in early October to hit the links at the Lincoln Country Club. Moreau spent the morning at his house just down the road before leaving at 1:30 and teeing off an hour later. By 6:15 he was […]