Alt-Health: Allergies and Nutrition
Allergy season is here. You can tell by the blotchy green dust on your car, the sniggley, snitchy sneezing, and your weeping eyes. Doctors recommend that you begin taking an allergy […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
First Catch
It was the last sunday in April and it was gorgeous outside. After the winter we just had, it seemed unreal that we would ever see another day like this. […]
Only in Rhode Island: Blocked by a Block Party
I work on Smith St. This means that at least a few times a week, I witness something on my way to or from work that could happen only in […]
Dear Dr. Brilliant Cliché and Granny Doctor: Just Busted
Dear Dr. Brilliant Cliché, My son is 19 and was recently caught smoking marijuana. He’s not a juvenile delinquent — his grades are good. The friends he smokes pot with are […]
Alt-Health: Pandora’s Paradise
The legalization of cannabis is nearly upon us and it is a move that I both applaud and dread. If we lived in a perfect world, with people who respected the […]
Phillipe and Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Traffic Snarls, Political Fools and Art Makes Everything Better
Newport Nightmares Ah, Newport. Sailing Capital of the World. City by the Sea. Rhode Island’s #1 tourist attraction. And seemingly determined by state and local pols and planners to make […]
Beachcombing for Arrowheads
When I was a young boy, I spent a lot of time exploring the beaches in my neighborhood of Potowomut, a little community in Warwick. My street came to a dead […]
Photo Essay: Proposed Area for New Paw Sox Stadium in Providence
Lawyer James J. Skeffington took a walking tour Thursday of the former Route 195 land in Providence where he and other owners of the PawSox hope to build a new […]
Alt-Health: Fear of Yeast
When I began reading about the health effects of yeast, i.e., candida albicans, it was with an impersonal eye. I was intending to track down the latest research and wrap up […]
Ask Dr. Brilliant Cliché and The Granny Doctor: Jealousy and Love
Dear Dr. Brilliant Cliché, I am not sure if this is a problem, but it does worry me a lot. My boyfriend never gets jealous over me, not even the tiniest […]