Shopping on Broadway
There’s something peculiar about the West End — a distinct vitality that sets it apart from the other Providence neighborhoods. As soon as you step foot onto Broadway, the energy […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Provlandia: Urban Agriculture on the West End
If you are what you eat, then West Enders are hyper-local, fresh and progressive. Providence has been on a long and interesting urban agricultural trip that hasn’t even begun to […]
A West Side Story
Long ignored by many in favor of the italophile strip just north, the West Side of Providence is considered by many to be the city’s up-and-coming place to live, eat […]
Taking Stock
I am a non-cooking foodie (and yes, I promise that is a real thing). I may not cook, but I love everything about food. How, what, where it is served. […]
Eat Your Way Through the Animal Kingdom at the Newport Jerky Company
If you are the kind of person who goes to the zoo and thinks, “I wonder what that son-of-a-bitch tastes like,” then the Newport Jerky Company is for you. I […]
Dare To Go Inside My Cranium?
With a name like that, you’d expect this traveling shop to be something out of the Mutter Museum. No, you won’t find flesh in jars of formaldehyde, rather something bred of flesh […]
Know Your Mom and Pop: M + L Landscaping
No one expected it to happen, but the air started to get warmer in the middle of March and the multiple inches of snow that fell this winter were completely […]
Hidden on Hope Street
When Rhode Islanders think of going out in Providence, few consider Hope St as their destination. It’s tucked away on the East Side, spanning just a few blocks with restaurants […]
Hope Springs
“Hope St. has everything you could really want, right here.” Says Aaron Lentz, who has been working at Hope St. Pizza for 8 years, and who has lived in the […]
Mother’s Day Events 2015
Think of the grandma, aunt or mother-in-law in your life to whom you still turn for their invaluable wisdom. Consider your hard-working sister, your co-worker with the newborn or the […]