And the winners are … See our event recap and profiles of these winners now! Joey Moreira-Typography, Favorite Skull & Overall Winner Rachel WS-Overall Cover Amie Connors-Line Work/Black Work Tara D’Agostino-Overall Black and Grey Corey Creamer-Black and Grey w/Color, Judges Pick Traditional Gabriel De Jesus-Geometric Alyssa Cavallo-Traditional Jay Blackburn-Character, Anime Rodney St. Onge-Animal Kristen Lanctot-Cover […]
Curtis Aric, aka Dirty Curty, is an old-world artisan who makes all his art from car parts and scrap metal. His studio in Pawtucket is filled with half-assembled cars, bikes, patched-together machinery, and his metal flowers. Curtis has been making metal flowers for over twenty years, and at first, he was hoping to connect with […]
Funda is a Zulu word meaning “to learn.” This month, the Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS) are hoping you learn about the art of storytelling in all forms and have fun doing it. Their annual Funda Fest is celebrating its 25th year, as well as their return to live performances, rather than the online version […]
What do you want for Christmas? Put aside your wishes for world peace and that shiny new bike, here’s one better: A Santa Stroll. What’s a Santa Stroll you might ask? Picture a group, on the larger side, all dressed up as their versions of Santa, strolling together from bar to bar with activities and […]
Giving to a charity makes us feel good. Giving to a charity and being able to raise a glass of delicious craft beer to them is even better. If you are looking to support a local cause this month you can do just that at Bristol Beer Fest. Most of Bristol’s Fire Department, with the […]
As a huge fan of the DC Universe and its many creations, who was also a child when shows like The Fairly Odd Parents and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends were running, I’ve grown up hearing Tara Strong’s voice throughout my household. Whether I was watching shows like these or playing any of the Batman […]
Death. As the saying goes, it’s one of the few things inevitably shared by all humans. Yet when it’s pending, we often don’t know how to deal with it – and in cinema this reluctance is often reflected. Film is full of funerals and spectacular, world-saving sacrifices, but tends to flinch from confronting the slow, […]
On August 1st at R1 Indoor Karting, over 100 bartenders gathered to celebrate the art of the pour. And the shake. And the making of drinks. MCs Bettysioux Tailor and Paul Garcia and presenters Thea Engst, Tammy Laforest, Mike Delehanty and Crimson Al-Khemia handed out a select number of awards amid flying aerialists, belly-dancing drum […]
RKOcon 2022 in Providence, held Wed – Sun, Aug 3 – 7, is a worldwide convention for “shadowcasting” theater troupes, hosted by the RI-based RKO Army, one of the largest such troupes in the world with about 30 regular and 15 semi-regular performers. Grounded in the midnight cult movie tradition that has grown up around […]
It’s 1978 and Chuck Wentworth is lugging vinyl records to WRIU to host his Monday night radio show Traditions. For the next 37 years, as the host of Traditions and WRIU’s roots music director, Wentworth will broadcast a weekly dose of renowned and emerging roots music from the towers of WRIU to the radios of […]