Aries: Recent events have shifted your focus and set you off in a new direction. You are energized and ready for action. This is a good time to make plans for the future. Explore all the possibilities and let your imagination run free. It’s a big world and you can partake of it as much as […]
The superhero movies that have dominated pop culture over the past decade or so are a boon for small businesses. Comic book shops and small toy stores have been popping up all over the place, giving fans many more options for content than there were years ago. Comic books have always been popular, but the demand […]
Aries: Career matters and your public persona clash with many things you would like to keep private — things like love, money and your changing philosophy. You’re not always so secretive, but these days you want to have your ducks in a row before you pull the big reveal. Taurus: Some lovely and pleasant people engage you […]
As the Yuletide season enters our lives and Father Christmas gently rests his frigid nipples on our collective shoulder, we all face that yearly holiday challenge: gift-giving. Sometimes, it’s difficult to find the right gift for the people you care about. Giving the gift of an experience can show someone you care about them, and […]
At Sarto’s Grand Opening in early November, they rolled out the red carpet — quite literally — along Dorrance Street, on the Weybosset corner of the Providence G building, to welcome Rhode Island’s brand new Osteria and Salumeria. Gathered by the doors, a crowd of prominent RI folk stayed warm with the help of outdoor heaters, listening […]
Aries: Just when you thought things were settling down – here comes chaos. This is more than just the usual holiday hullabaloo. Intense conversations engaging the high mind and buried psychological tidbits reveal some profound truths that change your world view. All this tends to keep you off balance. Taurus: Someone in your life finally begins to […]
Muggs Fogarty tackles not only the subject of sex, but all the complications and emotions that come with it in their book Sex Camel. With only 10 poems, Fogarty takes readers through the notions of their experience; exploring how multilayered sex can be, showing that it’s more than just doing it. Fogarty paints a picture of […]
Chef Brian Kingsford of Bacaro got his start in the kitchen as a dishwasher at a breakfast restaurant when he was 12. Fairly quickly, he realized that dishwashing wasn’t his cup of tea and he wanted to be a line cook. At 14, he was given the opportunity to show what he was made of and he […]
“What was I thinking?” The first words out of my mouth after offering to review this hot-off-the-press book –The Grateful Dead’s 100 Essential Songs: The Music Never Stops. With limited knowledge and listening experience of the band to ride on (there are only two Dead songs I know – “Truckin” and “Friend of the Devil”), […]
Driveable roads? Jobs that offer health insurance? Politicians you’d leave alone in your house? There are a few things Rhode Island lacks. But talented writers isn’t one of them and any reader on your shopping list would be thrilled to receive a book by a local author. Check out these new releases below, or keep an eye […]