Okee dokee folks… In 1974 I bought the “45” (remember those?) of the pop hit, “Rock and Roll Heaven” by The Righteous Brothers, a song written by Alan O’Day and Johnny Stevenson. I still have it … somewhere. That song popped into my head today with the passing of Kris Kristofferson. The chorus of that […]
Earlier in September, the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) quietly launched a statewide rental registry for landlords. The Rental Registry is an online portal that will have important information about rental properties. This was created to meet the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act requirements. Landlords were originally required to submit the information by October […]
Painters: Francisco Goya, Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Edvard Munch. Musicians: Ludwig van Beethoven, Chris Cornell, Ian Curtis, Chester Charles Bennington, Kurt Cobain. Writers: Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Anthony Bourdain, Sylvia Plath. All are artists who suffered emotional disorders, neurosis and breakdowns, and, in […]
There are not many who can claim to have fought for and saved lives in both medicine and the arts. Dr. Joseph A. Chazan was a rare individual, whose dedication in both the fields of art and medical science left an indelible mark on the lives he touched and the communities he nurtured. After his […]
Monthly Mixology Swap Meet Croptoberfest
Our second annual Croptoberfest sponsored by Mother Earth Wellness Dispensary, an event where Halloween meets cannabis. Over a dozen local cultivators will be present, handing out info and swag to kick off your Halloweekend. Live music by Mighty Mystic (reggae rock) and Guess Method (funk) provide vibrations for the occasion, and there will be a […]
Did you know that Rhode Island never actually ratified the Prohibition amendment? How about that Providence had hundreds of speakeasies? Or that the Narragansett Bay was the scene of over 30 different shootouts between rumrunners and the US Coast Guard? These are the subjects that guests explore on the brand new Providence Prohibition Tour, a […]
EXPUNGEMENTS A few months ago, we reported on the process of automatic expungement for criminal and civil offense records mandated by the RI Cannabis Act (“Cannabis Records Expungement: Progress report and guide to the process,” Apr 3, 2023) which was required no later than July 1, 2024. The Office of the State Court Administrator confirmed, […]
Rhode Island was founded on intellectual and personal freedom principles by Roger Williams, author of a book banned in England and colonial Massachusetts. Today, RI authors are coming together to uphold our state’s tradition of free speech, which includes the written word. In celebration of Banned Books Week (Sep 22 – 28), the Rhode Island […]
The pantheon of American politics gathered at its proverbial colosseum, ABC studios, on September 10. The night was young, the stakes were high, and Donald Trump was visibly suffering to not let the words to “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” escape from his mouth as he shook Kamala Harris’s hand. Good thing she walked […]