We warmly welcome back TOJB, who manages always (here. here) to put things in perspective, with his riffs on the classic Joe Bernstein comment to this post about the way gay people are treated at certain pizza parlors in downtown Providence. When I was growing up there was no negative connotation to the word ‘Norway …
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Be sure to make use of eco-friendly public transit. From GCPVD: [youtube]DF5LQeaetcc[/youtube]
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In an insane clusterf**k, the Arbiter Of Truth is asking the City of Providence to pony up $1.2 million/year to rent office space out of its downtown headquarters. •Providence Journal Company: 75 Fountain St., a five-story 194,915 square foot building completed in 1934 that is the current headquarters of the newspaper. Asking $9.75 million for …
A friend of the PDD recently had a brilliant brainstorm: Spend his idle time combing the wingnuttiest political sites and harvesting all the crazy crap he found out there. He was diligent about it for a month or so, but has let it lay fallow for the last few weeks. The above gem is indeed …
Could easily be a PDD headline, but so reads Indian Country Today, the national/international newspaper owned by the Oneida Nation, which named Carcieri the single person who had the most negative impact on the well-being of indigenous Americans in 2009: PROVIDENCE, R.I. – It isn’t often that an elected official so honestly expresses his anti-Indian …
To be so envious of a four-year-old. This Jonah kid’s been making the rounds. [youtube]ZaD4lIsGQlU[/youtube] Metallica’s Harvester of Sorrow after the jump.
A quick promo for RI Threads, from Myles Dumas: Need a sweet new t-shirt even though its 10 degrees and snowing out? Well then check out a new t-shirt collection called RI Threads, created by Providence locals Myles Dumas and Róisín McGettigan. The shirts aim to help promote Providence and Rhode Island, as well as …
The backlash over the Kennedy feud might be less severe if the Diocese took a harder line on broader issues of social justice. Hundreds of homeless Rhode Islanders are suffering — with a good chance that some will die of exposure in coming months, or of ill health otherwise exacerbated by the winter. Why does …
Woonsocket/Tolman high school soccer cat-fight goes viral: [youtube]uioMWs7rmFc[/youtube] The ongoing investigation will find that the players had heard that there were scouts from the NCAAs in the audience: [youtube]UvEobeNfGcc[/youtube]
Lots of comments on the Projo article to which David refers below, most of which were in favor of keeping prostitution legal. We liked this one: “Sex is yucky unless it is done in a manner approved by someone who has sworn to abstain from it.” And the reactionaries have this to say: Prostitutes speak …
The band is back in town this week, playing Lupo’s on Friday. The A.V. Club: Rhode Island isn’t known for having much of a country-music scene. What are your thoughts on being from the North and playing music generally associated with the South? John McCauley: That’s not all we do. I don’t know why it’s …
From those of us who “saddened” it by lamenting that its cartoon of Gordon Fox as a shoe-shine boy might have racist undertones. From the AP: PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Providence Journal says it’s “saddened” some readers have been offended by an editorial cartoon depicting a mixed-race Rhode Island lawmaker as a shoeshine boy…. The …
Beth will surely be devastated to learn that Marilyn Manson has the pig flu.
The DEM is warning Rhode Islanders to avoid contact with a wayward manatee that’s been spotted in local waters. The animal was last seen Tuesday morning at Sakonnet Point in Little Compton, and appeared to be headed north. Before that, it was seen in Point Judith Pond in South Kingstown. The DEM says anyone who …