Some Like it Hot: Depression never looked so spectacular

Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, Some Like It Hot is a non-stop fun fest of top-notch singing, dancing and heartfelt jocularity! PPAC presents this tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling Broadway hit that...

Primary Care Physicians

RI is in a state of emergency when it comes to primary care. Our state scores high on the national average for health insurance – only 2.2% of the people in Rhode Island are still...

Ask a Witch: Inspiration fruits desires

In Vedic tradition, soma is considered the bliss principle. It is called the nectar of immortality, a sweet, ethereal resin that descends from the heavens to blossom inspiration and possibility. The primary Vedic principle necessary...

Cabin Fever: Music-filled film review

It’s not every day you go to a documentary film and the director, star, producer, and writer (along with Kerry Gilfillan) is A. in the room and B. plays a few songs after the movie...

Weed Snackies: Cannabis recipes

MAGIC BUTTER ½ oz or 14 grams MJ 1lb Salted Butter (can use any fat, i.e., vegan butter/ghee/tallow) Instructions: Grind flower and spread on a piece of parchment paper. Put into preheated 230° oven for 20-30 min. In a...

April Showers Bring Hop Flowers

Do April showers bring hop flowers? Hops are planted in the spring and flower in the summer, from June to August. Shortly after the flower appears, the hop cone develops along with shoots. They are...

Essence of Community: A conversation with David Cicilline about the future of RI

A few months ago, I went to a feedback dinner at the Rhode Island Foundation, along with about 30 other people from all walks of life. The food was great. The only catch was, they...

Stop, Rock & Roll

Margeaux Lynn – “McCorrie Beach” Margeaux Lynn’s sophomore single is a breezy affair that harkens to the indie rock of the early 2010s, while also drawing from something even further back. The vocal delivery and lyrics...

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Roots Report

Okee dokee folks… It’s that time of year once again when the robins return and the buds start appearing on the trees. It’s also when the spectacle of Shen Yun holds its annual performances at...

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Rhode Island Music Awards: Winners and re-cap

Outside the walls of Fête Music Hall in Pawtucket, it was a rainy, brutal, Monday night. Yet, nice and safe within its doors, over 400 artists and music enthusiasts meandered about, waiting for the start...

On the Cover: Jeff Wheeler

For the cannabis cover, East Providence skateboard artist Jeff Wheeler used bright, neon colors. “I wanted a black light poster, something people look at when they’re stoned,” he says. Taking center stage in the illustration...

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Hamlet: At the Gamm Theatre

Jeff Church was born to play Hamlet. As lead in a retelling of the Shakesperean tragedy at Gamm Theatre, Church is physically and emotionally nimble, leaping and swashbuckling about the three-tiered stage to deliver iconic lines...

Picnic: Sometimes the ants show up uninvited!

The Arctic Playhouse presents “Picnic" by William Inge and directed by Karen Besson. In 1953, when the play premiered on Broadway, Picnic won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award...

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Fat Ham: Reinventing a Shakespearean classic

FAT HAM by James Ijames, directed by Don Mays, is a funny, poignant play that deftly transposes Hamlet to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty. Wilbury...

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time: Frailty of genius needs an audience!

Burbage Theatre Co presents The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the novel by Mark Haddon, and adapted by Simon Stephens. Its title refers to a short story that features a...

Pistachios, Phyllo, & Providence: How baklava became my passport during Arab Heritage Month

Forget your passport — I just traveled 5,500 miles from Rhode Island to Syria with nothing but a fork and a sweet tooth. In a cozy corner of Providence, where college students usually hunt for...

Step Into The Afroverse: Interview with poet and worldbuilder Vladimir Jean

As I strolled down a thriving and sundrenched Wickenden Street this past weekend and made my way toward Coffee Exchange to meet Vladimir Jean, the curator of PVD’s Afroverse and a nominee for the 2025...

Separate Houses: Books of poetry to celebrate National Poetry Month

Fernando Pessoa, early 20th-century Portuguese poet, is famous for the creation of his three literary personas, or heteronyms. Pessoa wrote under these heteronyms to not only distance the act of writing poetry, but as a...

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