Alt-Health: The World at Your Fingertips
Before lab tests, before xrays and even before thermometers, people got sick, and someone had to figure out what was wrong with them. Diagnostics have always been an important step […]
Events:
Auction for the Arts
A Stadium Theatre Fundraiser. 22nd annual online silent “Auction for the Arts.”
May 29 @ 9:00 am - June 14 @ 5:00 pmAngels in America (Part I)
This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning modern musical masterpiece is set in 1980s New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Part II will open in September.
June 1 - June 15American Idiot
In 1994, Rolling Stone magazine dismissed the underground band Green Day as, “Cheeky monkeys who came to raid the bar and disappear.” Raid they did, but disappear they did not.
June 1 - June 15Sly Fox
Directed by Jeanne Smith: Based on Ben Jonson’s Volpone, this sly farce was reset to 19th-Century San Francisco, and chronicles the misadventures of Foxwell Sly and his manservant as four
June 1 - June 22Four Dimensions
diverse perspectives by Albert Baez, Caterine Milinaire, Marilyn O’Donnell, Michael O’Donnell, Claudia Rowland
June 1 - June 29A Walk Through With The Weavers Artist Talk
June 1 - June 25Linda Megathlin Featured Exhibit
June 1 - July 13Julio D. Samayoa
June 1 - June 28The Way We See: A Visual and Emotional Conversation
an exhibit by noted RI painter Anthony D. Tomaselli. Closing Reception Thu, Sep 4, 4:30 – 7pm.
June 1 - September 5Jonathan Buonaccorsi Izzard of Lunar Queer Art | The Illuminated Chamber
June 7 - June 30Chloë Bohórquez | Retrospective
June 7 - June 30Eric Telfort | The New World Federation
June 7 - June 30Gabriel Richardson | Toward the Unknown
June 7 - June 30Macbeth
Theatre Rats in Fall River, MA, are looking for actors ages 9 – 20 to take a youthful stab at the Scottish Play. Contact ladykcreative@gmail.com for details. 1641 Pleasant St,
June 11 - June 13Being Seen
June 11 - July 12Answering Our Ancestors
June 11 - July 12The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals
An alien meteor transforms a small town into singing, dancing monsters, except for a rag-tag group of survivors who must become (non-musical) heros. Auditions June 12 at Swamp Meadow &
June 12 - June 14Lydi Conklin reading from Songs of No Provenance, in conversation with Karan Mahajan
A suspenseful debut novel by the award-winning author of Rainbow Rainbow, following a musician spiraling in self-doubt after a night — and a relationship — gone wrong.
June 13 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmFoolproof Songwriter Series
Support local beer and music at Foolproof Brewing Company! No admission. Featuring Polly Bessette, Anthony Loffredio, and J. Michael Graham.
June 13 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmJudy N’ Deez Guys
A group of musicians performing acoustic rock tunes with heart and soul.
June 13 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Alt-Health: Doc in a Box
Doctors have been regarded as superheroes and omnipotent beings, as trusted saviors and givers of life. The doctor has also been reviled as a blood-sucking pill pusher with a luxury […]
Alt-Health: Assume Nothing
One of my favorite literary quotes is from Stephen King’s, Cell, a gory tale in which most of the US population is turned into zombies by a frequency transmitted via […]
Alt-Health: Changing … And Not
Most of us who are making resolutions this year have already made the same promise at least once, possibly many times. So why do we keep falling back into the […]
Alt-Health: Death by Chocolate
Today, a friend of mine was told that he has diabetes. It’s a story that is becoming all too familiar. For perspective on this creeping plague, I went browsing in […]
Alt-Health: Election Infection?
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the real presidential debates and “Saturday Night Live’s” satirical version of them. The election has crossed a line. We are […]
Alt-Health: Continuing Addiction
Every 19 minutes, someone dies in this country from an opioid overdose. Many of these are from prescription pain medicine, but overdose deaths have also soared among users of psychiatric […]
Alt-Health: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
I got my first lesson about the dangers of acetaminophen back in 1980, from a physician specializing in sports injuries. Like many other broke students in the 1980s, I did […]
Alt-Health: Guns — A Public Health Crisis
The American Public Health Association (APHA) has long recognized that guns are not just a political or civil rights issue; they are a public health issue. There is more gun […]
Alt-Health: Step on a Crack …
Summer is here and Dr. Michael Zola is expecting company. With warm weather comes overexertion and sports injuries; this is the time most of us think of going to a […]