What is Civic Tourism?

Mission: To reframe tourism’s purpose, from an end to a means–that is, from a market-driven growth goal to a tool that can help the public preserve and enhance what they love about their place, while revitalizing the local economy.

This conference - Civic Tourism 2 - will bring a lively discussion to New England this autumn! Our conversation at the conference will be about rethinking the economics of tourism, connecting citizens directly to the touring public, and telling the next tourism story. This conference will focus on a new way to think about and do sustainable tourism. The conference will be held October 15-18, 2008 in Blackstone Valley, Rhode Island.

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Providence’s only outdoor movie screen continues through September! This week we’re screening MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL.

Every Thursday movies will be screened at dusk on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances.

As always, introducing the show are International shorts presented by the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Bring your friends and family down for a drink, some eats, and a free film. Movies start at Dusk, blankets welcome!!!

Mia Tais and Thigh Highs

The Old Money Honeys vs The Sakonnet River Rats

Friday August 22^nd

Bank of America Skate Center

2 Kennedy Plaza downtown Providence

Doors @ 7pm  starts at 8

Half time performance by the Chasers

After party will be held at Snookers  with a performance by Mustang Cobra!

This match will determine which teams will face off at our championship bout on September 19^th

Rock out and rock the vote this Sunday at the WBRU Dunkin Donuts Summer Concert Series.

Volunteers from the Secretary of State’s office will spend the afternoon on the Providence waterfront registering fans of Paramore, Jack’s Mannequin, Phantom Planet and Paper Route.

The voter registration drive is part of our push to get younger voters to the polls in 2008. The goal is to improve turnout among 18-to-24-year-olds leading up to the 2008 elections.

In order to register to vote, you must turn 18 by November 4, be a U.S. citizen and a resident of Rhode Island and have a valid social security number or Rhode Island driver’s license.

Catch us at the concert this Sunday or download a voter registration form. For more info, contact me at 222-4293 or cbarnett@sec.state.ri.us.

Providence’s only outdoor movie screen continues through September! This week we’re screening AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Every Thursday movies will be screened at dusk on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances.

As always, introducing the show are International shorts presented by the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Bring your friends and family down for a drink, some eats, and a free film. Movies start at Dusk, blankets welcome!!!

Providence’s only outdoor movie screen opens for its second season. Every Thursday through September, movies will be screened at dusk on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances. Bring your friends and family down for a drink, some eats, and a free film. Movies start at Dusk, blankets welcome!!!

Every Thursday through September, movies will be screened at dusk on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St.

As always, introducing the show are International shorts presented by the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances. Bring your friends and family down for a drink, some eats, and a free film. Movies start at Dusk, blankets welcome!!!

GET READY FOR THE 4TH OF JULY!!!! Come to Movies on the Block this Thursday.

Providence’s only outdoor movie screen opens for its second season. Every Thursday through September, movies will be screened on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St. As always, introducing the show are International shorts presented by the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances. Bring your friends and family down for a drink, some eats, and a free film. Movies start at Dusk, blankets welcome!!!

This week we’re showing FLETCH.

Chevy Chase anyone?

(And that’s THURSDAY, yo.)

Come downtown for another 80s classic. This Thursday at dusk.

Where: Westminster St., Downcity

When: Saturday 12pm-6pm

What: Over 40 vendors on Westminster St. in Downcity Providence. Lots of fun and food. Providence’s only open-air market with tons of good finds all made locally by a select group of artists and crafters. Plenty of yummy treats too!!

For those who have been clamoring for an immediate HRC exit, a counter-proposal, from someone who has been wishing she’d drop out since February: Hillary should stay in.

Not only does she have the right to stay in, but she should. It serves the interest of all Democrats and indeed America itself for her to stay in the race and champion her cause, at least for now. Sure, there are caveats: she should not stay in until the convention, she should run a positive campaign, and avoid reopening the wounds of Florida and Michigan that are just beginning to mend themselves. Basically, she should run, and is perhaps even now running, with the implicit understanding that she cannot and will not win. But for now, maybe for the next month or so, she should stay in.

Why?

1. Money. Hillary needs it. Still. Always. Forever. In West Virginia, a kid sold his bike and video games to raise money for her campaign and, as Jon Stewart said, she took it. Sure, staying in might give her the leverage to get Obama to help cut her debt, but that’s a contingency plan - and not one that serves the interest of the Dems in 2008. more »

Does it count as shameless self-promotion to promote my promotion of a friend’s event? Hopefully not. Scope my piece in this week’s Phoenix on the upcoming criminal justice reform festival, Justice or Just Us?, taking place at AS220 real soon.

The Manton Avenue Project’s annual benefit, Big Top - A Three Ring Musicale will take place on Monday May 19th from 6-8pm at the Pell Chafee Performance Center!

These eight tiny circus themed plays, each with an even tinier song, will be written by project kids in conjunction with special guest writers, Donald W. King, executive artistic director for Providence Black Repertory Company, Michelle Muscatello, WPRI Meteorologist, Lynne McCormack, Director of the Department of Art, Culture and Tourism, Councilman Cliff Wood, Ward 2 (College Hill), City of Providence and performed by professional actors from Perishable, Trinity Repertory Company, Providence Black Repertory Company, The Gamm, and 2nd Story Theatre. It will be directed by Peter Sampieri.

Tickets are $100. Call 401.331.7007 or visit www.mantonavenueproject.org

This coming Sunday — spend your tax return and stimulate the economy!

AS220/115 Empire Street

If the idea of a bunch of dominatrices and leather daddies running around Providence for the Fetish Flea Market tomorrow leaves you anxious to go somewhere a little more puritanical–Boston, say–then you might want to think again. Because if the folks from Improv Everywhere get their way, then tomorrow in Beantown you’ll be seeing a whole lot of leg and maybe more.

Saturday marks the seventh annual No Pants Day, a worldwide event happening in cities like New York, Baltimore, and Portland, not to mention Adelaide, Australia and even Salt Lake City. (Apocalypse watchers might want to start their Doomsday Countdown Clocks now.) The idea is for as many people as possible to ride public transportation in their skivvies. At least 233 people in Boston alone are planning to show up.

It’s all in good fun, brought to you by the same folks who convinced over a hundred New Yorkers to walk around Abercrombie & Fitch with their shirts off. If you long for the glory days of flash mobs but don’t like zombie makeup and Santa hats, this is the event for you!

(PS–No word yet on whether anyone’s planning on showing some thigh on RIPTA. Anyone up for a pantsless January ride on the Newport ferry?)