Tiny Bar, Big Dreams!: Popping the cork on Providence’s newest hidden gem
What is one ambitious lady to do when she’s got a rad old building, tons of fanciful ideas for its usage (A coffee shop? A takeout counter?) and the verve […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
How Sick Is the President?: We don’t know, and that’s disturbing
Donald Trump – the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief, the leader of the free world – is hospitalized with a life-threatening medical condition. COVID-19 has killed well over […]
Trump has COVID-19 and it’s not “karma” at all
Donald Trump, in his capacity as president, has spent now 10 months ignoring expert public health advice, opposing basic safety measures such as wearing protective face coverings and opposing curtailing […]
Ceremony Re-Reimagined: The Thayer Street hot spot gets even more creative
The “People’s Choice” winner of RI Food Fights Iced Coffee challenge came from an unexpected spot this year: Ceremony, a café on Thayer street best known for its tea ceremonies. […]
The Scoop on French Onion Soup: We rounded up the best options on offer in PVD
The colder months are ahead, and nothing warms bodies like a steamy serving of French onion soup. So our French onion enthusiasts rounded up a variety of some of the […]
Tardy Tests: K-12 testing delay keeps teacher out of work
Natalie Andrus Fleming is a school psychologist based at the Asa Messer Elementary school in Providence. On Wednesday, September 16, the third day after schools partially reopened in Providence, one […]
Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Book review
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a rare example of the fortunate academic whose subject matter, through no actions of her own, becomes of intense public interest. What she spent a career studying […]
Surviving and Thriving: Vegan, vegetarian eateries face the pandemic in PVD and Pawtucket
Prior to the pandemic, you could often find Rob and Uschi Yaffe seated at the end of a long, reclaimed wood table in the middle of their casual fine dining […]
Math Behind Group Size Limits in the Pandemic
In RI, during the COVID-19 emergency Gov. Gina Raimondo has limited informal social gatherings to no more than 15 people and in-person school classrooms to stable groups of no more […]
Chazan! Unfiltered: Art and medicine collide in this locally produced biographical graphic novel
Dr. Joseph Chazan, like the character Billy Pilgrim in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, is unstuck in time. The phenomenon is localized in a new graphic novel Chazan! Unfiltered, which takes a […]