Editor’s note: Jim Hummel has a mid-year update with new information on a handful of his investigations. Office with a View: Plans to build a $7.2 million state-owned ‘natural resources and visitors center’ in Exeter have ground to a halt. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management’s plans ran into a buzz saw of local […]
THU 13 National Grid Public Info Session: Did you know National Grid was planning to build a new liquified natural gas processing facility in South Providence, purported to run around $180 million? Did you know they’ve declined to attend or hold any public hearings about the plant? Do you want to know more? This hearing […]
Dear Nick, Happy 4th of July! The intersection of everything going on in Washington, DC, and the celebration of our declaration of independence from tyranny got me to thinking. We are knee deep in strange times. Our president is a tiny-handed man who is clearly more comfortable mocking daytime television hosts through social media than […]
Now let’s play two truths and a lie: NASA has officially issued a press release denying allegations that it has been abducting children and using them to populate experimental work colonies on Mars. Bill Cosby has begun teaching seminars for celebrities, supervisors and high-income individuals on how to avoid sexual harassment and assault suits. The […]
The beach, the lake, the warm weather antics are calling your name. All you need to do to join the party is bring something you and your friends can share. Yes, sure, bring the controversial party strips. But really what you need is a bit of alcoholic genius. No, not that cousin, I’m talking party […]
WHEM: Father’s Day Special WHEM (W-Horse Eyed Men) is a live music radio show at The Columbus Theatre hosted by the Horse Eyed Men, a fraternal duo that mixes country, ragtime, folk and rock. Their WHEM residency features sets from both the band and special guests, with the Harley Brothers performing mock radio skits and […]
It’s the end of the week and you don’t feel like cooking. Getting microwaved food at your local Applebee’s sounds unappetizing, and the rarefied restaurants of Federal HIll are too far away. What’s a person gotta do to eat? Well, if you’re anything like the hundreds of Rhode Islanders who turn out in the early evenings, […]
Opened Indigo Supply Co, is a new crafts and homegoods shop where Leviathan shop’s old space was. Run by a woman who has curated mainstream spaces like Restoration Hardware and American Apparel. 745 Westminster St, PVD. facebook.com/indigosupplyco Geoff’s Superlative Sandwiches is opening a second location on 401 South Main Street. TBA Wicked Fresh Cafe, a new […]
It is the golf, of course, that has been the draw for the better part of the past two decades. Big-name professional golfers from the PGA, the LPGA and the Champions Tour converge on the picturesque Rhode Island Country Club every June. Just as the name has changed since it began in 1999 — it […]
Rant-some Notes Phillipe and Jorge are furious about President Pussy’s recent Twitter outburst against MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, calling the former, essentially, a stupid, lunatic, facially altered twat, and the latter a psychopath. What has us seeing red is that we haven’t been the target of one of the Orange Orangutan’s immature attacks, […]