Steampunk Rhode Island: We Are Not Amused
Fresh off the successful and widely acclaimed introduction of a new logo and slogan, “Size Doesn’t Matter,” the state tourism agency announced plans to convert Rhode Island into a theme […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Alt-Health: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
It is a mystery, an unsolved crime: The US demands more cash for medical care than any other country in the world, yet we rank a dismal 39 in overall […]
Department of Health Holds Hearings on Memorial Hospital Birthing Unit
On March 17, the RI Department of Health (DOH) held the last of three public hearings in regard to Care New England’s (CNE) proposed closure of Memorial Hospital’s obstetrics unit. […]
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 […]
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), […]
Birth at Memorial Hospital
The story of the birthing unit at Memorial Hospital of RI is one of evolving maternity care in the American hospital system and the health disparities within it. The community’s […]
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 […]
Frank Underwood vs Donald Trump: Who’s More Evil?
Netflix’s “House of Cards” season 4 premiered today, and it got me thinking about Frank Underwood. He seems downright charming and harmless compared to the rogues gallery of Batman villains […]
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 […]
News Analysis: Taxing Medical Marijuana
Few issues have proven hotter controversies than the proposal by Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo to impose per-plant taxes and other restrictions on individual growers of medical marijuana. As a […]