Dear Dr. Brilliant Cliché; I am so sick of the hypocrisy! Every New Year’s Eve, I listen to people babble incoherently about all the great resolutions they are starting tomorrow. Tomorrow comes and some of them manage to actually make it one day. I’ve seen them go as long as a month. Then — boom! That’s it. […]
This year my son has asked Santa for three unreasonably expensive gifts: a Polar Express train ($400); WiiU ($300) and a Kindle Fire HD ($130). He thankfully knows that Santa will bring only one of these items, as opposed to expecting all three. He kindly left it up to Santa to decide. Given his budget, […]
If you follow poetry and know anything about spoken word and the art’s local action and inertia, you should know Christopher Johnson’s name. To say that Chris Johnson is a colorful and interesting guy is less than an understatement. He is energized, mysteriously humorous and a walking billboard for where the spoken word performance art thing has taken us. […]
Rhode Island has fast become synonymous with creative small business. You can hardly find a street corner or loft office in the Providence or Warwick area not adorned with the humble and vibrant signs of local-owned businesses selling everything from artisan food to eclectic art and handmade furniture. One such office in Pawtucket holds the […]
Dear Nick, I cannot believe that we’ve made our way round the sun yet another time. As the weather blusters into town turning our breath steamy white, I’ve taken to thinking about the year to come. As our friend Alfred Tennyson once cooed, “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it […]
One Wednesday after a house-gathering with friends, several guys said they were going to The Grange for live music and drinks. “Wait,” I said. “The Grange? On Broadway?” “Yes.” “You’re talking the vegetarian brunch place?” “Yes.” “They’re open at night?” And thus began my epiphany: The restaurants we go to on weekend mornings for Bloody […]
A Legendary Reporter Retires Probably no television street reporter in the Biggest Little is as recognizable and ubiquitous as Sean Daly. who announced last week that he was retiring from the day-to-day grind of reporting the news. For 42 years, Sean reported the news, mostly in Vo Dilun (he spent a few years in Chicago […]
It’s the morning after your New Year’s Eve celebration. You just spent all night downing martinis and champagne, throwing back shots of who-knows-what and dancing on a confetti-covered floor. The countdown to midnight still echoes in your pounding head and there’s vomit in your handbag. Your crusty eyes open slowly, vision still swirling, and the […]
Dear Dr. Brilliant Cliché, This is a bit embarrassing, but it’s bothering me and I really want to do something about it. Since as far back as I can remember, I haven’t been able to pee in public restrooms. Men’s bathroom urinals are all lined up next to each other, exposed, and if someone else […]
Phillipe and Jorge enjoy giving gifts as much as anyone, but actually far prefer getting them. This is especially so if they still have the tags attached and have the store receipt stapled to them, so we can avoid having to display or even endure the unspeakably bad taste that was employed in their selection and […]