Young people interested in traditional scouting that emphasizes outdoor activities and interaction with nature had few opportunities if they felt excluded by policy from more widely known scouting organizations. The Baden-Powell Service Association (BPSA) seeks to remedy that by opening its membership without discrimination on the basis of religious views, sexual orientation or gender, aiming […]
[OPEN] A new chicken and fish place, Bucktown, recently opened on the west side of Providence. They also have beer on tap from Long Live Beerworks, which is right up the street! 471 West Fountain Street, PVD. facebook.com/bucktownpvd Homestead Creamery, a new ice cream shop at the Homestead Gardens property on Industrial Drive in North […]
Tickled starts off with the quirky conceit that New Zealand journalist David Farrier has stumbled onto information about a “Competitive Endurance Tickling” organization and would like to interview the organizers for an article. Now that seems like a perfectly reasonable request, but the response David receives is not what was expected. Rather than an interview […]
This is a coming-of-age tale about Billy, a recent high school graduate, during his last summer of carefree kid-dom before heading off to college. While he has a couple of close friends — Charlie and Mark — his best friend is his dog, Jimmy. Old and wise, Jimmy serves as the silent voice of […]
On Saturday, June 25, Merging Arts will present the 8th annual Womanimation Film Festival in Providence, and if you’re not quite sure what it is, their slogan says it all, “It’s women…It’s animation…It’s Womanimation!” The Womanimation Film Festival will take place at AS220 and will feature 11 short films from around the world. The films will showcase […]
As a child of the ‘70s, my memory of frozen summer treats includes Popsicles loaded with red dye number 40, Fudgsicles, and – my personal favorite – the push pop: an empty toilet paper roll filled with rainbow sherbet. The notion of a “homemade frozen treat” was about as foreign as the Internet. As […]
[See main article: motifri.com/gmofood] Surprisingly, the first and hardest problem of talking about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is defining them. Advanced biotechnology since the 1990s makes possible direct modification of cellular genetic material through genetic engineering, but the results are distinguishable only by their precision from traditional breeding techniques used for millennia with plants and […]
[See sidebar: motifri.com/gmoguide] Food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) made by genetic engineering (GE) has been in the news recently following the May release of results from a major study conducted by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), a private non-profit corporation funded entirely by the federal government and originally chartered by […]
Summer is party time in my book. Throwing the backyard BBQ, beach blanket gathering or casual bocce bash is easy queasy, but what about the fancy dinner party? That can seem daunting if you don’t have a game plan. Here are some tips to get you started: first the guest list. I always imagine the conversation […]
Aries: You’ve been hitting road blocks no matter which way you turn. These snags have been occurring in many aspects of your life from the mundane to the spiritual. Some of it is the result of your own inertia. Cheer up – at month end the flood gates open and forward movement begins. There’ll be […]