The recently deceased, transsexuals, female impersonators – photographer Jeffrey Silverthorne, a professor in the visual arts department at Roger Williams University, flocks to these subjects like a moth to flame. Most known for Morgue Series, a collection of photos of the freshly dead in a Rhode Island morgue, his work is as grotesque as it […]
Did you know the Earth emits frequencies? It has a vibrational beat. Even though we can’t feel it, there is a confirmed relationship between the Earth’s resonance and the human brain. The human mind, in its relaxed Theta state, moves to the same beat that the Earth pulses to without effort. Everything around us is […]
RI Road rising above the rest– literally From a distance, Route 3 looks like any other busy highway in Rhode Island as thousands of cars and trucks use it daily to make their way through the town of Coventry. But a closer look shows a raised asphalt divider between the turn lane onto Reservoir Road […]
Don’t go on a drunk ghost hunt, don’t act like a ho, and other vital advice for tomorrow’s Halloween haunting There are two types of people in this world: those who love a good scare and those who don’t. I fall into the former category, which is why Halloween is a special time of year […]
The market for frightening, Halloween-related theme events is at its seasonal peak and Providence, especially, affords many opportunities for experiential adventures beyond the standard haunted corn maze parking lots. Walking along Benefit Street alone can be a Lovecraft-themed adventure, as evidenced by the ambitious Executor that Theater of Thought delivered a couple of years back. […]
Terrifying walk-throughs, haunted hay rides, ghosts and family fun in Rhode Island and Southern New England this Halloween season A-Mazing Halloween Party, Escobar’s Farm, 255 Middle Rd, Portsmouth. Come in costume and try to find your way through the huge corn maze. Oct 26 11am – 4pm escobarshighlandfarm.com Boo at the Zoo, Buttonwood Park Zoo, […]
Mentors’ and students’ collaborative art Do you want to make a difference? Well, if you don’t know anything about the New Urban Arts Center for mentors and students, shame on you. Many of the mentors are from Providence, like Rhode Island poet laureate, Rick Benjamin. These mentors foster creative talents in interested and dedicated high […]
The Normal Heart is an heroic production about a group of young men in New York City in the midst of the early 1980s AIDS crisis. Do not dismiss this as “old news.” It is not intense because of fireworks on stage, highly emotional performances, or even lots of shouting. Its intensity washes over the audience […]
Doubt as a philosophical concept has a bad reputation in traditional religion, and its advocates have tended to be heretics and apostates. Voltaire, one of history’s most famous agnostics, said, “Doubt is disagreeable but certainty is ridiculous.” Rarely has that aphorism been more eloquently expressed than in John Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt: A Parable, a […]
Newport Storm Angel’s Envy – Our Coastal Extremists are continuing to evolve and create new unique brews, experimenting with a good deal of success, I might add. A dark, semi-translucent porter with strong vanilla notes from the rum barrel and malt interaction. It’s surprisingly light and drinkable for a porter. One of the brewers mentioned […]