Rhode Island is living in the wild, wild west… of cannabis! Though we’ve had a medicinal market since 2012, our recreational market is only one year old. We’re babies! Since we are in the infancy of this industry, stumbles and falls are bound to happen. A legalization like this hasn’t happened since prohibition. So how […]
You can determine the shape of snowflakes by surrounding conditions, the symmetry of dust particles frozen into crystals that sprout arms and legs different directions off one central core based on temperature. Each snowflake follows a different path from sky to ground, atmosphere that shapes it unique as prism, needle, or lace. A child crafts […]
The wheel of the year turns when the Sun enters the tropical sign of Capricorn on December 21 making the transition from autumn to winter. The chart for this event provides hints for the upcoming season. At this time the Sun and the Moon are in happy alignment. The Sun represents the head of state, […]
Since moving to Rhode Island earlier this year, I have been pleasantly overwhelmed by the cornucopia of cannabis products available at the dispensaries around the Ocean State. As a retiree whose history with cannabis goes back five decades, I recognize the flower, hash, pre-roll, and edible cannabis products available at the Rhode Island dispensaries. The […]
The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading is about more than poetry, and more than Langston Hughes – it is about the impact each force has had, and continues to have, on the “Beloved Community” around us. Headquartered in Rhode Island because of the fateful migration of the famed Harlem poet’s work, papers and legacy to […]
Jules Kang Sharpe is reading off their open tabs to me from their iphone on a sunny Friday morning in November. Lots of gluten-free recipes. Eels, which Sharpe mentions people have been really into, due to them being both “cute little grungy animals,” as well as the It Girls of the moment as they head […]
Motif put out an open call for visual artists and poets to submit work for an experimental new event: Pics & Poets. Artists and poets were randomly paired. Each participant had two weeks to create a new piece inspired by their partner’s original submission. Creativity ensued. For one night only, the work was displayed at […]
Juan Ferrer runs a blossoming new woodshop called Spoon + Board, featuring tree-to-table goods. Himself a lifelong chef, his love of crafting wooden kitchen products comes from a love and passion for the kitchen. To create his unique kitchen wares, Ferrer forages the woods of Rhode Island for fallen trees and logs, then hand-carves a […]
HOUSE COMMISSION TO STUDY FEASIBILITY OF SOLAR ARRAYS ON HIGHWAY MEDIANS PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island could be sitting on hundreds of acres of unused land for new solar installations, and thousands of drivers whiz past these spots every day. A new study commission is meeting this fall to investigate the idea of building ground-mounted solar […]
Every winter, our mammalian kin pack on the blubber and slow down the pace of life so as not to expend valuable calories on wasted efforts. Winter is the season of laziness for woodland critters like those industrious squirrels who kick back and relax over a mountain of nuts. In our fast-paced human lives, sometimes […]