THU 2 WHEM: The long running live radio show. 8pm. Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, PVD. columbustheatre.com FRI 3 Taste of the Towers: Food and South County’s most iconic building. 7pm. The Towers, 35 Ocean Rd, Narragansett. towersri.com Curiosities: An Auction to Support the CSPH: The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health raises funds and spirits […]
Spring means different things to different Rhode Islanders. For some, it means flowers, food trucks and the reopening of Del’s and our public beaches. For anyone down and out, it means they survived another winter. Homelessness remains a visible problem and a public policy failure. For the third year in a row, Senator Josh Miller […]
Using a sharpened deerbone needle, Indigenous tattoo artists of Southern New England create permanent tattoos with ink created from finely crushed hardwood charcoal. Artists rub the skin with bear oil before beginning the process.
Tess Perry, Tess Perry Tattoos, Best Cover Up Pete Fortune, Anchor Steam, Critics Choice: Character Jen Clinch Guertin, Anchor Steam, American Traditional Tara D’Agostino, Iron Lion, Critics Choice: Pirate Emma Hamilton, Richmond Street Tattoo, Critics Choice: Femme Fatale Jay Blackburn, Powerline Tattoo, Critics Choice: Healthy Food Chrystal Santos, Phoenix Tattoo, Critics Choice: Hand of God […]
A couple of Juan Antonio Cortez’s buddies wanted to go ride bikes. There would be music, girls, maybe even some spray paint — everything a teenaged boy could desire. But young Juan could not go because he’d been legally mandated to spend his nights at New Urban Arts. Juan would have to spend another night […]
Rhode Island has a vast and storied history as a creative mecca and artist hub, dating back to at least Native American times, running full speed through colonial days and early statehood, and once again reinventing itself in the modern era and heading into the future. However, with the arts trending as a secondary priority […]
From Russia with Love We already knew that the NRA is slightly stoopid, but this takes the (white flour, American) biscuit. It was recently revealed that a 30-year-old Russian national infiltrated the Nobrain Reprobate Association – among others – in an effort to sway American sentiment in favor of the Kremlin. Complete with heavy Russian […]
Proprietor of Richmond St Tattoo, Glowrious George, lends a particular feature to the shop. His bodysuit features black light tattoos, which provide an impressive glow in the right setting. “My original tattoo work was all done in pastels and I almost got to a three-quarter bodysuit,” George says about the origins of the black light tattoos. “A unique […]
The word “visceral” is often overused by critics in describing any work that has an immediate, almost physical impact on the audience, whether via physical events onstage or in the relentless passion of the author’s words. Polaroid Stories, a streetwise stew of classical mythology and urban tales, partly inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, promises to live […]
Anecdotal second-hand reports of tattoos or piercings causing problems for employees or prospective employees are common, but Motif was unable to find any labor lawyer who had been approached on the issue: It simply has not come up, several said. This is not evidence of an absence of incidents, just that hardly anyone has waved […]