Mr. Speaker — Raided Like a Fox
House Speaker Gordon Fox Resigns The irony was not lost on anybody who has spent any amount of time at the Rhode Island State House. On a quiet Friday morning […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Building AS220 – Insight into the Providence Arts Organization
Over 500 people sat in the bleachers at Trinity Repertory Company’s main stage, as AS220 founder Bert Crenca explained, “Every time I go somewhere, somebody asks, ‘What the heck is […]
Not So Great Gatsby Asks, “What Does the Fox Say?”
Dear Nick, How is your NCAA bracket holding up? With so many upsets, buzzer beaters and instant classics this year, it seems the rubbish bins from here to Burrillville are […]
Lyfting Providence Travelers
The unique dysfunction Rhode Islanders have around parking has attracted a new warrior in the battle for transportation dominance around Providence. Lyft is a recent start-up from San Francisco that […]
Puzzling Pieces
This weekend saw the opening of a very puzzling art exhibit at the Machines with Magnets studio in Pawtucket. Part bar, part performance space, part gallery and part […]
E-Book to Memorialize Richard Walton
As my co-editor, Rhode Island College (RIC) President Nancy Carriuolo will tell you that the late Richard Walton clearly understood the power of the emerging Internet and the power social […]
Are Your Kids Warm, Safe and Dry at School?
Schools becoming a “fixer-upper” Like many schools of its era, Harry Kirzirian Elementary off Chalkstone Avenue needs a lot more than a facelift. From the outside, the school looks […]
VOTE IN THE 2014 MOTIF MUSIC AWARDS
CLICK HERE TO VOTE The nominations are in and the results for the 2013 music award nominees are in! So here’s how it works… We contact over 50 […]
This Weekend We Improvise
Head Trick Theatre’s production of Tonight We Improvise is 1930s improvisation modernized Some theater strives to create the illusion of reality – to coax the audience into forgetting that they […]
401 Counterculture: Heroin: The Plague On Our Streets
An attempt to understand the recent rise of dangerous drug use Bodies are accumulating. A populace is scared. Poison flows in the streets with impunity. It is almost as if […]