By Michael Delehanty #1 Friday, April 5: Brown Bird (Fits of Reason album release), Last Good Tooth, Alec K Redfearn and The Eyesores. $15 advance, $17 day of. 8pm. All ages. The Met, 1005 Main Street, Pawtucket. Brown Bird have been touring like crazy in the last year, not only repping Rhode Island while […]
Brown Bird – Fits of Reason (Supply and Demand Music) Brown Bird is another in the recent run of successful local bands to graduate out of the Providence scene to the national realm. They spent much of the past year on tour and played the main stage at festivals like the Newport Folk Fest. It […]
The Artists’ Exchange has been open since 2004 at 50 Rolfe Square in Cranston, serving both the community at large and developmentally disabled adults with innovative arts programs. The creative people who run the Artists’ Exchange, operating under the umbrella of Gateways to Change, Inc., have always had new ideas but limited space. With careful […]
Even without any foreknowledge of the plot of The Real Thing, we’re tipped off as soon as we walk into the space that Tom Stoppard’s tale will examine lives both onstage and off. Patrick Lynch’s set design incorporates a simple and obvious stroke of symbolism by blending raw, bare scenery into the surroundings, revealing the […]
It is reassuring to know that innovative and experimental theatre is alive and well at AS220. In the space formerly known as Perishable Theatre, now The Performance Space at 95 Empire, new ideas are thriving. Audiences who frequented the fresh, new theatre fare at Perishable were concerned that their initiative of supporting experimental, new […]
Stone Enjoy By 04.01.13 IPA Beer nerd’s log, stardate, em… March nineteenth… point two. After much trickery and guile, I’ve been able to obtain a bottle of Stone’s latest, super-limited, highly-sought-after and wholly coveted “Enjoy By.” This specialty brew is boasted as a “devastatingly fresh” double IPA. Freshness is the gimmick here, which ensures that […]
The Hot People of Local Rock ‘n’ Roll continues and this week we’re spotlighting our first male in the six or seven years of the series. This man is a giant, both in stature and on the local music scene. He has his own show on WARL that can be heard on Sundays at 5pm […]
Like thousands of small businesses in Rhode Island, Wilfrid’s Seafood in Woonsocket faces a full menu of taxes and fees every year just to stay in business. Lee Ann Sennick is the company’s comptroller and sees them all come across her desk. “In this industry in particular there are a lot of licenses and permits […]
CLICK HERE TO CAST YOUR VOTE Your local venues have spoken and the results for the 2013 music award nominees are in! So here’s how it works… We contact all the top music spots from north to south and present them with a list of categories. They send us back a nominee from each category that […]
Vudu Sister recently finished recording their sophomore release, Household Items, in the bowels of the Columbus Theatre, which they can’t wait to share with you. Now all they need is some help raising funds and for that Vudu Sister has put together a Kickstarter where you can get some cool swag and even a performance […]