Summer Guide Cover Art
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Hummel Spotlight: The Name Is Outdated, but the Services Are Not
One of Rhode Island’s Oldest Independent Charities On a Saturday morning in April, a committee of half a dozen people gathered to decide how more than $100,000 will be spread to three dozen agencies in the Providence area. They are today’s stewards for one of Rhode Island’s oldest independent charities: The Providence Shelter for Colored […]
Fighting Goliath for Her Daughter
Navigating the Labyrinth of Social Insurance Becky Kelsey is in a great mood this Monday afternoon, laughing and smiling for her mother Jodi. It is a lighter moment in what can often be challenging days. Becky, who is 33 and lives at home, has a severe form of cerebral palsy. She can’t speak or walk, […]
Thar Be Dragons
The Providence pop-up scene can be hard to track down – the very nature of a pop-up is that is temporary, almost ephemeral. Pop-up galleries in Providence can be like unexpected springs discovered on a backwoods hike – something you come across when you part some foliage, without realizing what you’ll be stumbling upon. One […]
The Hummel Report: Proposed Bills Will Leave You Wondering
Nearly 2,000 bills have been filed since the beginning of this year’s general assembly session. Only a fraction have made it to the governor’s desk so far and the majority of those are bills that would allow certain individuals to perform marriage ceremonies. So The Hummel Report decided to take its annual look at some […]
Tap In to Community Outreach
Every Thursday they converge, seemingly out of nowhere: a core group of volunteers who will unload two pallets of food in about 20 minutes. It is an efficient operation and this group has it down to a science. They are some of the nearly 100 people pitching in at Tap In, an all-volunteer outreach organization […]
Motif Alternative Album Nominees
Sick Pills — Sickening Earlier today I was blasting the new CD Sickening from the New Bedford-based band Sick Pills. With all that ground thumping new wave goodness pouring from my open window, my normally bucolic, suburban street was transformed into what the Bowery must have sounded like some 40 years ago when Television or […]
Smiley vs. Smiley on Gun Violence
With November’s statewide election drawing closer, Rhode Island is beginning to enter its bi-annual political frenzy of candidates and policies. In the four years since the last mayoral race, the nation has seen a dozen gun-related mass murders and hundreds of shootings in Providence alone, putting firearm policy atop the list of hot topics. In […]
PRD’s Travel Teams Are Lacing Up for Competition
By Crimson Al-Khemia Beautiful and brutal, they are the Providence Roller Derby’s all-star teams: The Rhode Island Riveters, The Killah Bees and The Rocky Point Rollers! On May 31, roller derby moves to the William H. Thayer Arena in Warwick. A double bout will feature the Riveters going skate to skate against the Gainesville Roller […]
Are URI’s Hiring and Rentention Practices Fair?
An unresponsive university president doesn’t look good For more than a decade, the University of Rhode Island had a national reputation as one of the most unfriendly campuses for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. Those students didn’t need The Princeton Review to tell them how hostile the environment had become; they had been […]