The Wilbury Group opens its fifth season with the Rhode Island premiere of This Beautiful City by Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis. Cosson is the artistic director of The Civilians, a New York theater company that develops their work by interviews, research and community residencies, combining journalism and art to explore current issues. The play, which […]
1. Friday, October 3rd: John Faraone, Thomas Gardner Jr., Able Thought; Fatt Squirrel; $10; 9pm doors / 9:30pm show; 21+ only; 150 Chestnut St., Providence. This is not only a homecoming for Warwick’s own Thomas Gardner Jr., but also celebrates the release of his new album 12:34. Gardner locally cut his teeth performing as singer / […]
Do you want to learn about the best wine pairings in Spain? Experience the flavors of Miami? Explore the geography of Greek food — all while savoring delectable samples and listening to international experts share their knowledge (in lovely foreign accents)? Then you won’t want to miss Taste Trekkers 2014 Food Expo coming to Providence […]
The streets of Providence will run red with Midwest Blood as Expire take over Firehouse 13 on Sunday, October 5. The last time they played Providence was over two years ago, so this is long overdue. With the release of their second full-length studio album, Pretty Low, in June, the band has been touring nonstop. […]
A-Mazing Halloween Party, Escobar’s Farm, 255 Middle Rd., Portsmouth. Arrive in costume and try to find your way through the 8-acre, Wizard of Oz-themed corn maze. Arts and crafts, hayrides, food and more. Oct 26 10am – 5pm. escobarshighlandfarm.com Boo at the Zoo, Buttonwood Park Zoo, 425 Hawthorne St., New Bedford. A spooky train […]
Vintage fashion, formerly a niche interest restricted to punks, goths, celebrities, and other weirdoes, has within the past decade achieved a rapid and overwhelming mainstream acceptance. Those who remember being taunted for wearing secondhand clothes in grade school may smile at the irony of those same garments now being revered as the epitome of cool, […]
We’ve all been there. There’s one friend in your circle, which if you were questioned by a stranger you may say is just an acquaintance. And he thinks that he is a laugh riot because someone told him once that he is “so dramatic,” which was not meant as a compliment. So he joined an […]
World premieres are a rarity, and are especially uncommon in smaller cities like Providence. Even more unusual is to have two world premieres by the same composer in the same small city within the same year. When I last spoke with composer Steven Jobe in May, it was days before the inaugural performance of his […]
Pawtucket, like all cities, once had a theater-studded city center. One online archive has 11 movie palaces listed for Pawtucket. All of them have now faded into the history of the early 20th century of the city, the last one demolished in 1998. Now to see a film in Pawtucket, one has to go to […]
Steampunk is about books, stories, invention, science, and using your imagination to recreate the past and build the future with history in mind. Steampunk is about costumes and the characters who wear them. It is a living art form, much like Renaissance fair and Revolutionary War re-enactments movements. For some it is a lifestyle. But […]