It was all shades of red as far as the eye could see across the 5th floor ballroom of the Rhode Island Convention Center in February, as women – and men – gathered for this year’s Go Red for Women luncheon. You probably have heard about Go Red for Women, which the American Heart Association […]
Pretty Faces Perception is reality, as the old political saying goes. So what do you think people from elsewhere perceive when they look at the face of government in Little Rhody now that “Rubbers” Ruggerio has been chosen Senate president by his peers at Halitosis Hall? No, not necessarily a police line-up, but don’t discard […]
South By Southwest (SxSW) is a music showcase for industry folks trying to find the next big trends and acts. It used to be that new bands and unsigned acts would flock to Austin to try to get record deals and seek out their rock and roll dreams. Over the years, as record labels have […]
Vote Now Last year’s Food Truck Awards were a great time, so we’re back for the second annual. This year we’re excited to have our event at the newly opened Guild in Pawtucket, where Narragansett Brewing has begun to turn out authentically RI brews, and where other breweries are now micro-co-brewing. The event is family […]
Okee dokee folks … I spoke with comedian Kathy Griffin last week about her upcoming show at Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium in Providence on Sunday, April 9. This is how it all went down. Kathy Griffin: How are you doing? John Fuzek: Exhausted. We had a snow storm and it froze into black ice. I’m trying […]
The Downtown Design Review Committee (DDRC) meets monthly to approve all renovation and construction in Providence’s D-1 zoning district. The Downtown Design Review Committee Review (DDRCR) relays the meeting’s highlights and introduces the public to the movers and shakers of Providence real estate development. The March 13 meeting of the DDRC was the first since […]
The nominees in each category were suggested by local live music venues (over 80 of them) as well as local labels, radio stations and, of course, Motif music writers. Event details here We hope you can join us to find out who won on April 23 at The Met in Pawtucket.
Three federal government agencies have been targets in the culture wars for decades: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Their funding is tiny by federal standards – about $148 million each for the NEA and NEH, and about $445 million for […]
Internationally renowned choreographer and dancer Bill Evans relocated to Providence in 2014 when his husband, Don Halquist, became dean of education at RIC’s Feinstein School of Education and Human Development. He will present a concert of his contemporary dance and rhythm tap dance choreography twice on Sunday, March 19, at 4 and 7 pm, at the […]
The core concepts deployed when using alternative facts as a political weapon are far from new (The Rosetta Stone was a multi-lingual piece of ancient propaganda, attempting to get the Egyptian public to accept a Roman conqueror as a manifestation of a local god). But the particular spin lent to the practice by recent events […]