Athletic Dad FRI 19 Narragansett Bay Half Marathon and 5k: A beautiful run along the bike path with views of Narragansett Bay. 7am – noon, Starts at Pierce Memorial Stadium, East Providence. nbhalf.com SAT 20 22nd Annual Buzzards Bay Swim: Celebrate clean water with more than 300 individuals, families and teams, ages 12 – 83! […]
Pride Festival on South Water Street – Saturday Daytime RI Pride will host a daytime festival on South Water St all day long on Sat, Jun 20 that is free and open to the public. Festival goers will be treated to a variety of informational and fun booths and displays. Food trucks, food vendors, organizational […]
Save The Bay’s fourth annual Taste of The Bay drew more than 300 supporters to the organization’s bayside location to sample the local flavors of Narragansett Bay on Thurs, Jun 11. More than 30 vendors served up delicious bite-sized dishes featuring locally grown or produced oysters, scallops, fish, vegetables, breads, meat, desserts, beer, wine and […]
The Providence Gay Men’s Chorus have delivered a relentlessly upbeat show with their new spring concert. The theme is “Get Happy,” and the song selections are guaranteed to get you in a happy mood. Under the direction of Kim Kuda, the chorus hit nothing but high notes in their 20-song set. The concerts will continue through Jun 7 […]
Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers is a play about family and kindness. I have never seen a production of this play that emulated that theme from the moment you stepped in the door — from the set construction, which was a family affair, to the lovely family created onstage — until I saw Rhode Island […]
Epic Theatre Company’s production of Orlando, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, questions our view of the sexes with stunning efficiency. Written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Kira Hawkridge, Orlando is a parody of a biography. The book was inspired by Woolf’s admiration for the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, to whom it is dedicated. […]
Nominated for acting Oscars four times and winning twice, Anthony Quinn was one of the most prolific and recognizable actors of the 20th century. He appeared in over 160 films released between 1936 and 2002, many of them considered among the best of all-time or at least definitive in their genre. Born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca […]
A surefire hit this summer will be the Downtown Providence Parks and Conservancy Programming (DPPC) in Kennedy Plaza. Kennedy Plaza is no longer the dreary location it was 10 years ago. With the new renovations it is not only beautiful, but thanks to Jennifer Smith, program manager for the DPPC, during the summer it is […]
It’s Tuesday, which is pretty much just Monday dressed a bit fancier, and you’re sitting at your desk, entirely not on Facebook trying to waste those last few minutes before the clock strikes five and you can blow this popsicle stand and find your first after-work libation. But, you have to ask, where the heck […]
It’s difficult for any local to imagine someone not knowing about WaterFire. But it’s not common knowledge to everyone. I mentioned it to some friends from as nearby as New York, and they’d never heard of WaterFire – even the word suddenly seemed strange. We forget the unusualness of it – my New Yorkers’ immediate concern […]