Now Read This!: Local authors to stash in your beach bag this summer
Some people will feel safe venturing out to the old haunts of last summer, while others will continue to be cautious and stay close to home. Here are some book […]
Events:
A Christmas Carol
Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, is back! The humbug’s wrenching, covetous, and cares more for money than all else. When the clock strikes midnight one fateful Christmas Eve, the ghost
November 23 - December 29The Founders
Swinging rock music.
December 4 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmA Christmas Carol
With a cast of five amazing actors playing all of the parts, this is the wonderful holiday story and tradition that you love with CTC flair. Full of fun, energy,
December 5 - December 22Mark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmKevin Herchen
RI country artist.
December 5 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmRadio Flashback
‘70s, ‘80s rock & roll radio tribute show!
December 6 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmDustbowl Revival
The band reimagines and recreates their favorite Laurel Canyon hits using their eight-piece band as the mini-orchestra to bring it all to life. Actually, our world might not be that
December 6 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmStraight No Chaser
Only the top-shelf holiday acapella, please.
December 6 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPlaying Dead
Close enough to the Grateful Dead.
December 6 @ 9:00 pm - December 7 @ 12:00 amRed Hot
These ladies put a new spin on Motley Cruexxx.
December 6 @ 9:00 pm - 11:30 pmAmerican Honey
Country rock dance and sweet cover band.
December 6 @ 9:00 pm - December 7 @ 12:00 amMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 6 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pmMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 7 @ 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 7 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmVan Morrison Tribute – Moondance
Performing Moondance, setting a jazzy, romantic mood.
December 7 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmIndigo Girls
We love the Indigo Girls! A classic, and closer to fine than ever!
December 7 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 7 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pmHoliday Extravaganza
Wine, beer, and festive food stations including holiday desserts, a hot cocoa bar, and holiday cookies. Plus fire pits with vineyard views. Break out your ugly holiday sweater – there
December 8 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pmMichael DiMucci
A series of concerts featuring the pianist and singer.
December 8 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Page Turners: Essential reading for steps toward being anti-racist
It’s a popular social media trend, lists of book recommendations dealing with anti-racism. You’re probably familiar with their contents, The Color of Law, White Fragility, Audre Lorde, Ta Neesi-Coates, with […]
Pandemic Non-fiction: What you don’t know can kill you
There is no shortage of books about diseases through human history, but a few have become definitive classics. I’ve curated an admittedly highly opinionated selection of the best. Some books […]
18 Tiny Deaths: The untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
I discovered the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, while wandering through Atlas Obscura one evening. Vintage dioramas on a 1:12 scale? Of mysterious death scenes? By the first female police […]
Reading Together While Apart: Continuing to connect PVD’s literary community
After coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns caused What Cheer Writers Club (whatcheerclub.org) to close its co-working space and podcasting studio in downtown PVD and to cancel in-person events beginning on Monday, March […]
Watch It!: 20 films, shows, and novels to keep you paranoid while quarantined
Either by choice or not, we all will be spending a lot of time indoors. Even after lying in bed contemplating our mortality, raiding the fridge and fighting over toilet […]
From In-Line to Online with Twenty Stories: PVD bookseller drives into an escalating pandemic
After converting a 30-year-old Chevy G20 van into the Twenty Stories bookmobile in 2017, Alexa Trembly and Emory Harkins drove around Los Angeles sweltering through summer highs, some days struggling […]
Closed Libraries, Open Resources: Films, e-books, and audiobooks within reach for free during social distancing
During October 1918, the Providence Public Library closed for three weeks on account of the influenza pandemic, known as the Spanish flu. That year, the outbreak claimed the lives of […]
Book Review: I Gotta Tell You Something showcases novice poets
The 34 poems in I Gotta Tell You Something are the result of a three-year-long creative writing workshop run by award winning writer, B Lucy Stevens. The workshop, which consisted […]
Elizabeth Rush’s Rising: When the storm is on top of us
When Elizabeth Rush arrived in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2008, she dwelled on the former capital’s colonial buildings. For nearly a century, the British Empire claimed and governed the city as […]