I’m currently undecided but leaning towards No on the Tiverton casino measure, so I’m reading up on the pros and cons. EcoRI is hesitant about the environmental impact of the plan. The question about restoring the Ethics Commission seems pretty straightforward, though. This AP story regurgitated by the ProJo surely has the best title of […]
Rhode Island: The Drake State. Did you know that the world’s largest producer of communion wafers is based in Smithfield? It’s Providence Beer Week, which seems to have shriveled from prior years, with all the action fully centered around Julian’s and Pizza J and Rogue Island. Ballot Question 6 would include $10 million to link […]
Ten More than ten things to read this week. Providence resident Mark Baumer is about to walk across the United States. Barefoot. They’re making a sequel to Step Brothers, a 2008 Will Ferrell/John C Reilly comedy that doesn’t sound remotely familiar. But they’re filming it in Cranston! Micah Jackson recorded their set from the Dorrys […]
Ten things to read this week. I’m two weeks late but Motif’s fall theater preview is roughly 1000 times more thorough than anything you will ever read here. The forthcoming Magnificent Seven remake actually sounds pretty good. Your fancy expensive wireless headphones are just begging to be lost. “Another castle. Always another castle.” Another day, […]
Ten things to read this week. I took lots of notes on this Big Red & Shiny piece about the importance of art criticism in smaller cities. After thirty years, the Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Museum shut down this weekend. Providence photographer Scott Lapham got a really nice feature in Format about his […]
Ten things to read this week. WBUR art critic (and former Providence Phoenix writer) Greg Cook ranks the 50 best pieces of public art in Boston, from the Make Way For Ducklings statue to the perpetual motion machine at the Museum of Science. You can tell a lot of love and research went into […]