Noted sustainability champion, Ray Anderson, will speak today at the Rhode Island Convention Center from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. The event is sponsored by The Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living. I had a chance to hear this engaging and inspiring speaker in 2006 at the Society for Business Ethics annual conference. As chairman of Interface Carpets …
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Local sculptor and Steelyarder Nate Nadeau’s solo show opens Thursday night at 28 Wolcott. Giving the whimsy of Art Deco road sign art a modern ironic iconic spin, the work demonstrates yet another example of the vibrant arts scene blooming on the west side. From the release: Time of the Signs will feature Nadeau’s original …
But some sexy interacting galaxy action (mitosis or meiosis – only Hubble will help us know…) is. You’re In Control! In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous decision of where to point modern astronomy’s most famous telescope. …
Alright, so this was NOT a great movie. The fact that the film site itself promotes the Rotten Tomatoes review is a little beyond my last college skimming of post-modernist paradigms. Look beyond the frailty of the plot, and you’ll note the poignant post-Freudian take on death, dying AND the insatiability of teenage girls for …
I’ve been to a lot of live theater in my lifetime, and while I enjoy much of it, I generally prefer opera for the sheer emotive power song brings to a story. With Joe Wilson‘s performance in the Trinity Rep’s production of Raisin in the Sun, I felt uncomfortably close to the emotion of the …
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It was pretty amazing to arrive back in Providence over the weekend to not only find south side roads clean and dry, but to have plows come by twice on Sunday. While some of my earlier winter griping about allocation of snow plow resources wasn’t meant to snarky towards east siders, it really is a …
Without a doubt, for me, this masterpiece by Christopher O’Riley, performing the music of another maestro. If you like Chopin or Nick Drake, or are just curious to see what a virtuoso pianist does with improbable treatments (okay, Nick Drake is more probable than O’Riley’s Radiohead arrangements) of alternative rock, you should check out O’Riley’s …
One of my favorite workouts this summer and fall was spending a couple hours a week helping out at Zephyr Farms, our community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription. Getting out and getting dirty, hanging out with chickens, talking about global sustainability while acting locally and more often than not, heading home with some produce that Michelle’s …
While some of the incomplete plowing on the South Side probably resulted from the hard pack that accumulates almost immediately in places where people are the workers and not the bosses, it was pretty lame compared to how many itsy bitsy East Side streets were already clear and dry tonight. The South Side probably sees …
Looking to get out of the cabin for some of the good cheer you missed with all the cancellations last night? This just in from Dave Allyn – Winter wonderland greetings from Millcraft. In the height of the holiday madness Millcraft offers a brief oasis and happy hour gathering tonight from 6pm to 9pm, Saturday.Come …
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One of my earliest memories as a child was giving up some of my Fisher Price toys for some kids in Lake Geneva whose house had burnt down. I think it was the first time that I’d felt an emotional connection to someone I had never met. At first I was just mad and refused, …
Providence is a haven for weirdness and weirdos. This is what makes the town so great. Where else can your day start with a phone call from a Cheyenne “hobo,” checked in to the RI Hospital for a suicide attempt, and end with synth rock played in a downtown “gay” bar full of rockers, trannies, …