Memorial Hospital: Birthing Unit’s Closure
On February 29, Care New England (CNE) announced a restructuring at Pawtucket’s Memorial Hospital that includes closing its ICU and obstetrics unit and sending those services to CNE-owned Kent and […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Rallies, 38 Studios and Civil Disobedience
Making America Grate Your superior correspondents have watched far too many presidential debates this year. We have known all along that we would be voting Democratic (whether Bernie or Hillary), […]
Alfred A. Nicolace
Famed pianist Alfred A. Nicolace passed away on February 20, 2016. He was son to the late Carlo and Rose (Navarro) Nicolace. He was the father of Alfred Nicolace, Diane […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Screwing the Pooch 38 Studios Style
We are going to wear out the memory of poor old Claude Rains, but like his Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca, Phillipe and Jorge are shocked – shocked! – to […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Phucking Pharma, Hot Dogging Hosts and a Buddy Blunder
Phuck Big Pharma Hats off to our old pal Senator Weldon Shitehouse for co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill in the US Senate that would provide better and more effective policies and […]
The Hummel Report: West Coventry Wind Turbines
In a remote section of Western Coventry the foundations for 10 wind turbines are taking shape. Three of them are projected to produce enough electricity to save the town of […]
Medical Marijuana Tax Protest Rally
A large crowd, initially about 100 but growing to about 150 despite wind-whipped bitter cold and light snow that began falling an hour into the event, assembled on the Smith […]
A Halitosis Hall War, a Big Oops and RIMHOF Inductees
How Halitosis Hall Works Now that the controversial RhodeWorks tolling plan bill has been rushed through the General Assembly and signed by Governor Gigi, it should now be the legislature’s […]
Rhode Island Spotlight: Telling Foster Kids They Matter
If you think you have a lot of wrapping to do around the holidays, all you have to do is watch as hundreds of volunteers gather over several weeks leading […]
Tattooing in Rhode Island
Gregory Arpin, Unicorn Ink Tattoo What’s your background? I’ve been tattooing (professionally) for about nine years now. I grew up as a normal hardworking guy with three jobs, but had […]