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The time is here once again for the midterm elections, and wee doggy, what a quagmire we find ourselves in. When I sat down to write this piece, I told myself I wasn’t going to make it about Donald Trump, but, in the current political climate, it’s difficult to find anything politically that doesn’t have […]
Okee dokee folks… I was fortunate to be in attendance for the sold-out Rush concert, night two, at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday, November 1. It had been forty+ years since I’d seen the band live. I first saw them in the mid ’70s, as an opening act, for what band I don’t recall. They […]
There are few things more terrifying than a haunted cellar, except maybe realizing you’ve wandered into the basement of a Halloween craft store and can’t find your way up to the clearance section. Welcome to Burbage Theatre Company’s Witching Hour: Secret Cellar, James Lucey’s wonderfully sinister horror anthology, where bygone merchandise, questionable decisions, and things […]
In anticipation of the upcoming Sabrina Live Reunion Event at the historic Uptown Theater this Sunday, November 1, we had the great pleasure of speaking with Melissa Joan Hart in an exclusive interview. Welcome back to the East Coast, Sabrina! Fans have been waiting 30 years for this exciting reunion, wondering what the spark was […]
For over 33 years, jam band fans have been getting cheesy with the String Cheese Incident! Known for their eclectic and diverse styles, the group forged their roots in bluegrass and jam, rolled into funk, swerved into reggae, decorated with transcendent electronic styles, twirled around Latin, added the rhythmic vibes of traditional African music, dancing […]
Okee dokee folks… Back in 1982, I paid a scalper a whopping $90 for a ticket to see The Who at the Worcester Centrum. That was a lot of money back then. I had wanted to see The Who for quite a long time, and that was supposed to have been their last tour. I […]
It’s 2003, Thursday afternoon, in a quiet little town called Eberndorf, in the deep south of Austria, surrounded by fields, trees, and medieval churches; 10-year-old me is in my parents’ living room, glued to the four-by-three tube TV screen. “Sabrina – Total Verhext!” [Totally Bewitched! in English] is on. In the US, the iconic show […]
During the time in which F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby takes place, the US economy was in a massive post-World War I boom. Though there was money to be had, wealth was heavily concentrated at the top, creating a stark divide between the ultra-rich and the impoverished working classes. A stark divide […]
The Arctic Playhouse presents “Little Women,” based on Louise May Alcott’s timeless novel following the lives of the March sisters: spirited aspiring writer Jo, thoughtful Meg, tender Beth, and tenacious Amy. Their childhood in the 1860s is chronicled as they strive to be intelligent, imaginative, and kind young ladies. With each passing year, the sisters […]
Cover artist Nilton Cárdenas of Cranston refuses to stand still. “I am constantly moving, and creating art,” he says in an interview at Sharks Peruvian Cuisine on Broad Street in Central Falls. And when he’s not putting a brush to canvas, or a pencil to a sketchbook page, he’s curating art exhibitions. For instance, Cárdenas […]