There are few things more terrifying than a haunted cellar, except maybe realizing you’ve wandered into the basement of a Halloween craft store and can’t find your way up to the clearance section. Welcome to Burbage Theatre Company’s Witching Hour: Secret Cellar, James Lucey’s wonderfully sinister horror anthology, where bygone merchandise, questionable decisions, and things […]
In anticipation of the upcoming Sabrina Live Reunion Event at the historic Uptown Theater this Sunday, November 1, we had the great pleasure of speaking with Melissa Joan Hart in an exclusive interview. Welcome back to the East Coast, Sabrina! Fans have been waiting 30 years for this exciting reunion, wondering what the spark was […]
Some of the eeriest places in RI are ready for you to check out, if you dare. As the first crisp, damp breaths of autumn begin to catch at the lungs and the trees begin to flare with bright bursts of color, I find Rhode Island to be more itself than the rest of the […]
People get really confused when I say I’m a vampire. I don’t sleep in a coffin, hiss at crucifixes (I just hiss at men I don’t know who try to talk to me), or live in Transylvania. Instead, I live in Providence, Rhode Island. Being a real vampire doesn’t equate to never aging, or sinking […]
Darkness crept in through the sharp, pulpy crevices … clinging to the inner walls of my sanctum, which fluctuated and fought with the flickering light caught within — as a stormy, kaleidoscopic maelstrom of heat and light, shimmering and fluttering — culminating in my mind and cloaked body as an oceanic tapestry of unnerving emotions, […]
For the entirety of 2015, I drove a taxi from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. throughout Providence on behalf of Economy Cab Company. It was a gap job while I formulated my next move, sandwiched between 15 years in hospital security, then 10 years (and counting) on the campus of Brown. Admittedly, taxicabs have enthralled […]
help me wash my laundry in the little machines that are kept downstairs. I haul my bag of whites & darks & towels & sheets & they each hold a corner, tossing in the fabric softener, handing me my satin pouch of dirty coins. When I’m lonely, light-blue ghosts help fold my scattered socks, and […]
As dusk descended on Halloween, Karl Vincent turned on the outdoor porch light of his charcoal gray, gabled house on Grimwood Street in Providence to let the Trick-or-Treaters know that he was now “awake.” For fun, he’d open the front door with a Transylvanian-accented “Good evenink” worthy of Bela Lugosi himself. The kids in the […]
“October is our Super Bowl,” says Jeff Angell who, with his wife Courtney, owns Deadbeats on Knight Street in Providence. The horror-themed bar has something planned for the good evenings in the lead-up to Halloween and beyond. For instance, every Thursday this month, Deadbeats Drive-In will run a horror movie on a 23-foot inflatable screen […]
We all know that women were the first to make beer, right? It was discovered by accident when grains were used to make other foods digestible. Dried grain was stored and used to make bread. Some of the grain was exposed to water. This caused the yeast to ferment the sugars in the grain into […]