Ah, Providence in the summer. The silhouette of the Superman building against the skyline, the cedar smoke from WaterFire dancing through the city, and the gondoliers gracefully rowing their boats across the Providence river, singing and guiding their passengers down its waterways. Cue record scratch. Wait, what? Yeah, you don’t expect that last one — […]
The Rhode Island Theater Awards, sponsored and produced by a team at Motif magazine, have a little less than two months to find a new venue. The event was to take place at McVinney Auditorium, a venue owned and operated by the diocese of Providence. Last year’s event in this location was a rousing success, […]
The seventh annual Red Bandana award ceremony was held Sunday, June 9, at the Providence Fire Fighters Hall. The awards are bestowed each year recognizing persons or organizations carrying on the social activism of the late Richard J. Walton, who from 1988 to 2011 threw a pot-luck birthday party for himself on the first weekend […]
THU 13 Sweet Little Variety Show: Special Pride show with Heather Rose In Clover, TropiGals, Randy Andy, Kristen Minsky, comic Rich Hite, Virginia Dare, and host Eva Destruction. Queer-positive comedy and music night, with unique skits each month. 8pm. Askew, 150 Chestnut St, PVD. fb.com/Askewprov FRI 14 The Rocky Horror Picture Show: RKO Army Celebrates […]
Saturday around 3:45 pm something happened in Kennedy Plaza that will go down in history. Well, if you count the Guinness Book of World Records as history. At an eating event sponsored by The Malted Barley, which provided the pretzels as well, the world record for speed pretzel eating was set. Geoffrey Esper downed 26 pretzels […]
[Mike Ryan was present at the incident and filed this report.] Shortly after 11pm Saturday night, PVD Fest was in full swing, with hundreds of people crowding Washington St in Downcity. The Extraordinary Rendition Band had just finished a rousing performance which, ironically, emphasized the power of love and understanding. Then shots rang out. There […]
One hobby that runs all year long but takes on extra life in the summer is the driving, racing, jumping and general mayhem of Remote Control (RC) vehicles. We’re not talking about the ready-to-go toys from WalMart. There are far more sophisticated vehicles that become a sort of cross in complexity between a toy and […]
WED 5 WHEM: The Horse-Eyed Men/ The Down Hill Strugglers/ The Vox Hunters: A Living Radio Show and musical performance in the old tyme spirit. 8pm. Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, PVD. columbustheatre.com THU 6 – SUN 9 PVDFEST 2019: Live music, dance, food and visual art installations transform the city for a four-day, multi-arts take-over […]
Picture this: A collection of aliens spots Earth from the farthest reaches of space and they decide — of all the spots on the planet — to settle in Rhode Island. And when these intergalactic musical geniuses with technology light-years beyond ours arrives, how would you imagine they’d get around? RIPTA! So to make seeing […]