TED talks have helped define viral video with their characteristic format. If you have email and a pulse, you’ve been forwarded at least a few TED talks over the last several years. Their “Ideas Worth Sharing” places experts and thought leaders — often people you might not have heard of, sometimes in fields you didn’t […]
Tattoos, plays and festivals happening over the next few days…
This week, we have interesting events coming up, covered by Katie and Josh. “Take Two”, a new monthly segment with Nicholas Iandolo and Rosemary Pacheco, discusses “The Place Beyond The Pines”. And Rosemary gives her Scene and Heard breakdown on local filmmaking.
Editor’s note: This is the latest Hummel Spotlight, a feature focusing on people and organizations making a difference in the community. It is a Wednesday night just after dark. And while the Madeline Rogers Recreation Center off Chalkstone Avenue in Providence looks quiet from the outside, it is anything but on the inside, as hundreds […]
If you drive along West Main Road in Portsmouth there’s a good chance you might miss it. But later this month, a nondescript, converted auto body shop will become Rhode Island’s newest dispensary for patients authorized to purchase medical marijuana. The Greenleaf Compassion Center becomes the second of three authorized by the Rhode Island Department […]
The dastardly veil of winter has finally rolled back, and the arrival of long, warm and sunny days means many different things to Rhode Islanders. For some, it means the start of numerous lazy hours spent on the beaches of Newport and Narragansett. For others, backyard barbeques and games of corn hole. But for many […]
Rhode Island may be small, but there’s no doubt it’s big on talent. To honor and preserve that talent, the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame (RIMHOF) was formed in 2011. “Rhode Island has produced an inordinately large number of truly great, successful and important artists,” says RIMHOF Vice Chair and Archive Director, Rick Bellaire. […]
The truck is running 15 minutes late on this snowy Saturday in February, but those gathered at a park in Woonsocket never doubted it would arrive. That’s because week-in and week-out, volunteers have come with food and clothes for those who need it the most. Social Park is the first of what will be four […]
Musicians – listen up. If you didn’t attend the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame’s event last week, you need to read this now. It’s time to Tune In & Tune Up, the newest Hall of Fame initiative. Board member Donald “D.C.” Culp describes the basic philosophy of the program with one of his favorite […]