Another week, another list: Aquidneck Island – Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth – is voted one of the 10 best islands in the United States.
On the other hand… Freedom of speech: two homeless Newport residents speak out about the city’s aggressive stance on panhandlers.
Good news for Tiverton’s Marsh Meadow Wildlife Preserve.
Here’s a ProJo primer on all the General Assembly races next week.
Meanwhile in Iceland, Yoko Ono is exhibiting a work based on a Yoko Ono joke from a 1993 Simpsons episode.
Inside Beijing’s BMW Museum.
Tom Hardy is going to play Al Capone.
Quebecois flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas did not single-handedly bring HIV to North America, it turns out.
Zoë Quinn is developing a free video game based on the ridiculous erotic novels of Chuck Tingle, author of Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt and Pounded by the Pound: Turned Gay by the Socioeconomic Implications of Britain Leaving the European Union.
Dummy presents the 10 best flute and sax samples.
(image: Robert Allen Whitman, Prince, Schmitt Music Mural, Minneapolis [1977] is now up for auction)
