MON, WED, FRI, SAT Ice Bumper Cars: What’s more exciting than bumper cars? How about bumper cars on ice? Slide and bump around the Ice Rink in brightly colored, round cars. Mon / Fri, 10am-6pm; Wed / Sat, 10pm-midnight. Providence City Center, 2 Kennedy Plaza, PVD. theprovidencerink.com/bumper-cars WED 10 Glow Volleyball & After Party (Adult Co-ed Social Sports): Show your skills […]
A hospital stay for a Rhode Island resident meant she was not able to use her physician-directed medical marijuana, which she said resulted in negative physical effects, only cured when she began using it again without hospital staff’s knowledge. RI legalized medical marijuana in 2006, and since then, roughly 19,000 people statewide have received certifications […]
Opened: Heng Thai Rotisserie. From the owners of TONG-D in Barrington and South Kingston, this new spot in PVD serves classic style Thai street food. 165 Angell St, PVD. hengpvd.com Wow Barbecue Providence. Behind Tealuxe on Thayer is a Chinese barbeque opening their third location (first in RI). See if it makes you say, “Wow!” 183 Angell […]
Whether to consider deaths and injuries from guns a public health problem, and therefore to bring to bear the statistical tools of epidemiology, has been a substantial controversy since at least the 1990s. Gun rights attorney Don Kates was the lead author with four professors of biology and medicine of a seminal and influential 1994 […]
2017 Perhaps only Phillipe and Jorge know how difficult keeping the Cool, Cool World going for over 38 years has been, but this past year has been especially challenging in a world seemingly gone mad. As Jorge’s brilliant friend the Sun Queen recently put it, “Just a bunch of creators and destroyers, wandering around earth […]
There’s been as much drama around the Affordable Care Act(ACA) this year as there was the year it was created. There’s some irony in that, as the divided public opinion when it launched has tipped the needle toward a general approval of Obamacare (from 42% of Americans in early 2016, to 55% this year, […]
Average Lifespan Statistics In the spirit of our health issue, we wanted to look at a truly bizarre trend in the US. Statistically, people are living longer, and people are dying younger. Try that math on for size. What we’re talking about are the advances in medical science that allow the old and frail to […]
FRI 29 Dancing Feeling Ugly Sweater Party: Wear your ugliest Christmas attire and get ready to ballroom dance! Couples and singles welcome. Beginners encouraged. 8 – 11pm, Prices vary. The Dancing Feeling, 2429 Post Rd, Warwick. dancingfeeling.com Something From A Dream – Providence Honors Tom Petty: Rock that won’t back down. 7:30pm. Columbus Theatre, 270 […]
THU 21 Chuck and Brad’s Best Christmas Show Ever: A live comedy holiday and variety show inspired by the local music podcast of the same name. 8pm, RI Comedy Connection, 39 Warren Ave, East Providence. ricomedyconnection.com FRI 22 Sparkle! An Outdoor Family Event: Enjoy Blithewold’s marshmallow-roasting-Christmas-carol-singing-cocoa-sipping-strolling-through-the-twinkling-garden-paths-fun-for-the-whole-family event! Free Hot Cocoa! S’mores kits are available for […]
Like a good magician, Trump has the ability to get people to look down when the important stuff is happening above, or vice-versa. Instinctive, an accidental side-effect of his instability, or a deliberate outgrowth of his reality show-life training? Regardless of how he acquired this trait, he and much of our leadership use it extensively. Right […]