Taste of The Bay Benefit Draws a Crowd
Save The Bay’s fourth annual Taste of The Bay drew more than 300 supporters to the organization’s bayside location to sample the local flavors of Narragansett Bay on Thurs, Jun 11. More than 30 vendors served up delicious bite-sized dishes featuring locally grown or produced oysters, scallops, fish, vegetables, breads, meat, desserts, beer, wine and […]
Dare To Go Inside My Cranium?
With a name like that, you’d expect this traveling shop to be something out of the Mutter Museum. No, you won’t find flesh in jars of formaldehyde, rather something bred of flesh and spirit that’s made into tokens of the modern arts. Guitar strings that have been beaten and broken down by local artist are twisted, spiraled […]
Film Review: Roar
Hank runs a nature reserve to study large cats in Africa, but the other land owners don’t like having a concentration of large predators so close by. On the same day Hank’s family flies to join him, he has a run-in with a council of neighbors who want the cats removed, and two men […]
Pin-Up: Leah Schroeder
Do you have a nickname? Leelee What do you never leave home without? Sunglasses and sass Favorite beach read? The Dirt, by Motley Crue Favorite place to watch an outdoor movie? Grant’s Block in Downtown Providence. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and Jaws; two favorites back to back this summer! Favorite show to binge watch […]
Film Review: Ex Machina
A mid-’20s computer coder named Caleb wins a mysterious contest to spend a week at a secluded location with Nathan, the reclusive head of the internet search engine company Caleb works for. It seems that all of the secrecy regarding the getaway is that Nathan is in the final stages of perfecting AI and […]
Flickers Honors Anthony Quinn, Adopted Rhode Islander, on 100th Birthday
Nominated for acting Oscars four times and winning twice, Anthony Quinn was one of the most prolific and recognizable actors of the 20th century. He appeared in over 160 films released between 1936 and 2002, many of them considered among the best of all-time or at least definitive in their genre. Born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca […]
Food Tours: The Hottest Thing To Do This Summer
The way I see it, there are two camps of people: those who love food tours, and those who have no idea what a food tour is. It’s not exactly rocket science — I’m sure the latter group could figure out what a food tour entails — but I feel it is my duty to […]
The Providence International Arts Festival Shoots for the Stars
In what will likely be the biggest cultural event of the year in Rhode Island, the city of Providence is teaming up with FirstWorks to present the Providence International Arts Festival (PIAF). If you’re a fan of, well, pretty much anything, you’re going to want to check this out. Providence is known for putting on […]
Who Let the Dogs Out? Downcity Dog Days at Aurora
It’s Tuesday, which is pretty much just Monday dressed a bit fancier, and you’re sitting at your desk, entirely not on Facebook trying to waste those last few minutes before the clock strikes five and you can blow this popsicle stand and find your first after-work libation. But, you have to ask, where the heck […]