Best Books to Bring to the Beach
By Bobby Forand I have been to the beach four times in the last calendar year – to attend a wedding, to watch my son surf with Surfer’s Healing, […]
Events:
Spring Awakening
March 1 - March 22CELEBRATE SPRING
March 15 - April 27Into The Woods
This classic musical follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would
March 21 - April 6Selwyn Birchwood
Contemporary blues guitarist, singer & songwriter.
March 22 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmRI Music Awards
Celebrate local music with the broadest, most eclectic gathering of musicians in the state, crossing every genre and facet of local music. Live performances by School of Rock, People Eating
March 24TR3 featuring Tim Reynolds
From the Dave Matthews Band. Plays hit single “Crash” the whole time.
March 27 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmJoanne Shaw Taylor
The bluesy singer’s spring tour features songs from her latest album, Heavy Soul.
March 28The TeleDynes
Influenced by surf rock and rockabilly while also drawing heavily from blues, country and swing to create their sound.
March 28 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pmMarc Cohn
Singer/songwriter.
March 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmBig Bad Voodoo Daddy
Contemporary swing revival band from Southern California.
March 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmHey Nineteen
Tribute to Steely Dan. These guys don’t mess around.
March 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmEastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
Music director & conductor Toshiyuki Shimada.
March 29 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmJohnny Hoy and the Bluefish
Island dance party. Just what we need right now.
March 29 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmWalter Trout
Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.
March 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmAudiofields
House music.
March 29 @ 10:00 pm - March 30 @ 2:00 amChazz Palminteri’s A Bronx Tale
The prolific actor (The Usual Suspects, Analyze This) wrote the well known film, and this one-man play version.
March 30Peter Frampton
An English-American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who rose to prominence as a member of the rock bands the Herd and Humble Pie.
March 30 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Book Review
Machine of Death’s “Vegetables”
By Bobby Forand Nearly everyone spends hours wondering how they are going to die. The collaborators of Machine of Death took this conundrum to the next level by putting together […]
Book Review
Buddhaland Brooklyn
Soon, it will be winter. You’ll look out over brown fields and at empty branches, and though you understand that life remains, this knowledge cannot ameliorate the scene’s barrenness. A […]
Gotschall ‘Storytelling Animal’
“Tell me a story.” Put on the spot like that, one’s mind tends to go blank. Based on the context, and the identity of the person demanding the story, you […]
Leith’s ‘Coincidence Engine’ Digs Deep, Dark
Somewhere, the spirit of Douglas Adams is crying foul over Sam Leith’s new novel The Coincidence Engine. Lifting from the Hitchhiker books Adams’ infinite improbability drive is a far more […]
Hayhurst Hurls Personal ‘Out of My League’
A female acquaintance of mine once complained about baseball that “All it is, is a bunch of guys standing around grabbing themselves and spitting for an hour, moving for maybe […]
O’Nan’s ‘The Odds’ Rolls Double or Nothing
Two books take place simultaneously within the slim confines of Stewart O’Nan’s new novel The Odds. One tells the story of a failed marriage, its two unhappy principals not filled […]
‘Lost Saints of Tennessee’ Find Redemption
There’s an iron fist inside the velvet glove that is Amy Franklin-Willis’ new novel, The Lost Saints of Tennessee, a story that, though it strays into sentimentality now and again, […]
‘Stranger’s Child’ Estranges Interest
Boredom, identical in effect, is the offspring of a million causes. I can happily watch the moon rise over the beach, changing colors as it climbs higher into the sky, […]
Offer Editor the Antidote? Maybe
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, because I despise the inevitable disappointment I feel when I break them slightly more than I enjoy the wicked thrill of violating even self-imposed […]
