Grave Concern: Historical cemeteries beckon volunteers to final resting places
You see them all over Rhode Island: white rectangular placards on metal poles — like bus stop signs — beside a highway, near a school, tucked between houses or in […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
An Interview with Trinity Rep’s Conversationalist-in-Residence, Christina Bevilacqua
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 […]
Advice from the Trenches: Free the Nipple
Dear C and Dr. B; I read your post on “Free the Nipple,” the movement that says that for true gender equality, wherever its appropriate for a man to be topless, […]
Mission Electric: A Bike with a Mission
The storefront on Ives St. is mostly a revolving showroom of many styles of e-bikes. The bikes on display are not for sale. Potential buyers are encouraged to come in […]
AltHealth: We Need Choices
There are two lessons that are burned into every American’s brain as we live and grow. Want a refresher course? All you have to do is watch one hour of […]
Brown Students Put a Satellite into Earth Orbit
“The flashing is what we use to get people excited about” the satellite, designed and built by Brown University undergraduate students, that was launched into earth orbit from the International […]
Immigration Enforcement and Public Schools
As RI settles into another school year, the nation continues to deal with a summer marked by news stories of detention camps, family separations and protests in response to the […]
If You See Something, Say Something: Our writer has something to get off his chest
Last place aversion is the heuristic bias in which people support measures that ensure they don’t fall to last place, even if that means acting against the greater good and […]
RI Writing Project: Providing a lifeline for teachers
If you walk into any high school during the first few days of a school year, you’ll probably encounter some form of professional development. Often, it’s representative of the newest, flashiest […]
No More Fake News: Teaching kids 21st century literacy
In our digital age and “post-truth” era, media literacy — the expansion of the definition and skills of literacy to include the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate […]