Matt Farley Won’t Stop: In conversation with the prolifically silly songwriter
In early May, Matt Farley released his 464th album (according to his total, but who’s keeping track?) titled Song High School Songs Fun. The album cover is a photo of […]
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
Four Roosters
This is a story about tattoos, a grandfather, two of his grandsons, making art, a road trip, and mortality. I’m the grandfather. I’m an old guy. I’m in my 80th […]
It’s Like Riding a Bike: Notes on learning to ride a bike as an adult
I learned how to bike just a little later in life than many, at the age of 25. My friend, Shelby, who is an avid cyclist, had high hopes that […]
All Hail the Dutchess: A conversation with a RI comedian on the rise
Before Dutchess SS (aka Janaya Gonsalves) was gracing the stages of southern New England as a stand-up comedian, she was working a sequence of jobs that she says quickly resolved […]
Interview with Alexa
I have a small house, but that hasn’t stopped me from having an Alexa in almost every room. Alexa, Amazon’s “cloud-based voice service available on more than 100 million devices […]
Get Out of the House!: What’s worth leaving home for this time of year
Winter – when the sun is down by 4:30pm and most things, including my motivation, start to shrivel. Last year, after a bad bout of seasonal affective disorder, I came […]
Let a Little Apple in Your Life
Beginning before even the dog days of summer have ended, Dunkin’ Donuts, in their divine Providence, reveal to us the Holey Trinity of fall: The pumpkin doughnut. The pumpkin muffin. […]
Rhode Island: Basics for Beginners
Welcome to Rhode Island! The nation’s Ocean State offers a plethora of quirks for visitors, students, and residents. With the school year starting off, an influx of new students are […]
July Holidays, Ranked
It’s back. Now in its third iteration, this column ranking holidays of the month has already gone on way too long. Is anyone reading this? Good thing I can laugh […]
Phillipe and Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Automatic reaction and ProJo Opinions
Red Herrings Despite all the caterwauling over the atrocious, bought-and-paid-for decision to knock down Roe v. Wade by conservative Supreme Court Justices (pardon the oxymoron), Phillipe & Jorge are finding […]