Let your Halloween costume pull a double this year – RI Comic Con is earlier in the season than usual. Held November 2 through 4, the weekend event is expected to bring in 80,000 to 90,000 sci-fi, fantasy, action, comic, wrestling, gaming, music and – let’s just say “pop culture” fans to downtown Providence. With […]
Askew is hosting a new monthly literary event called Wordsmiths & Storytellers. It will take place on the fourth Monday of the month at 6:30pm, and four featured published authors will read from their work at each event. “Rhode Island has a fantastic array of writers,” event coordinator and author R. Forand said. “This […]
Eager to get your spook on? Now’s your chance to check out HeARTspot’s Art of Darkness, back for its second year. “Most of the artists in this exhibit are locals,” said gallery owner Jennifer Gillooly Cahoon of the 42 pieces in the exhibition. “Some pieces are creepy and others are whimsical and funny.” The show […]
Native America occupies a shady area in the mainstream national consciousness, but the indigenous people of the Americas have neither vanished nor must be seen as an intangible unknown forced to linger on the fringes of society. Rhode Island-based documentary filmmaker and founder of Providence Pictures, Gary Glassman, has long been interested in the wealth […]
I had the recent opportunity to speak with Trinity Rep’s conversationalist-in-residence, Christina Bevilacqua. Our conversation follows: Alison O’Donnell: What does a conversationalist-in-residence do, and what brought you to play that role at Trinity Rep? Christina Bevilacqua: I kind of made up the title! In the 11 years I spent producing humanities-based conversations at the Providence Athenaeum […]
Thousands of zombies are about to celebrate Zombie Night XII by invading the Quarantine Zone on Snow Street in front of event hosts The Dark Lady and The Alley Cat. “It’s like bringing your kids to the pumpkin patch,” said ringmaster Reverend Al Mighty of this annual tradition. Rev Al proudly boasts that Zombie Night is […]
WED 26 PechaKucha: The show-and-tell for grown ups tackles the intriguing theme, “curiosity.” See what RI speakers do in a handful of short presentations. RI Museum of Science and Art, 763 Westminster St, PVD. fb.com/pechakuchapvd FRI 28 Ocean State Follies: Charlie Hall’s RI-centric send up of local culture and politics, sure to be full of […]
“Love can’t pay the rent, but lust…” / “Bo leans into Delilah, their nose touching her cheek as they lock lips. Long and tender.” / “Arriving at the house, he let himself in with his key – and headed up the stairs to the playroom.” Listening to lines from the audio teaser for Aural Sex, […]
FRI 14 The Viennagram: Space punk. 9pm. Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, PVD. columbustheatre.com PVD Shanty Sing: Acoustic sing-along music. 6pm. The Parlour, 1119 N Main St, PVD. fb.com/ParlourRI SAT 15 American Idol Live! 2018: American Idol live at The Z! 8pm. Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, Mass. zeiterion.org SAT 15 – […]
It was a dark and stormy night. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. Fuck. Writing is hard. I mean, sure — the inspiration part is easy. But when it’s time to roll up your sleeves and put pen to paper, one […]