A low-cost spay and neuter clinic held an opening celebration for itself last Friday. According to the Providence Journal the Rhode Island Community Spay and Neuter Clinic has actually been open since the beginning of July, and has since neutered 900 cats and dogs. Initial funding came in the form of a $350,000 grant from […]
If you haven’t seen this yet, you will soon. So might as well be here: [youtube]kzlIIL_rmLE[/youtube]
Officer Dan Famiglietti of the Providence Police Mounted Command is patrolling the Thayer Street area today — presumably to greet and guide the out-of-towners — on board this utterly imposing and gorgeous piece of horse flesh. According to the ‘Meet the Horses’ page at the Command website, The majority of the mounts are “draft crosses”
When I heard that Great Whites were being drawn to the burgeoning seal population of the Cape Cod coast, I had no idea quite what that looked like. Jeez look at this! The seals look like jimmies on a scoop of ice cream! I grabbed this aerial image from the Turnto10 report about the various
Okay, we have a scheduling conflict here but I see no reason why both events can’t start with a little drinking (see below: Beer Garden). According to the Providence Journal many Providence residents have started raising chickens in their backyards for the fresh eggs and plus they are kind of adorable. But raising any farm
[youtube]K9lZ2IJocqo&feature=related[/youtube] Paul the octopus has picked Spain to win today’s final game against the Netherlands. He is 7/0 so far. I just like that his name is Paul. Game live today at 2:30pm, Channel 6. [Nailed it! 8/0]
Any homesick expats living in the city, or more likely Brooklyn or Hoboken I suppose, the What Cheer? Brigade is playing tonight at Santos Party House, a club designed from the floorboards up by none other than Andrew WK. It’s a great venue and if Andrew happens to be there — he is gonna love
Attention Dick fans, for an evening of expertly executed weirdness check out Saturday’s show — The Preserving Machine — at AS220. A multimedia performance based on the Philip K. Dick story of the same name… sheet music is transformed into animals in an effort to enable it to survive the coming dark ages… music/sound/projections by
[youtube]89Kz8Nxb-Bg&feature=related[/youtube] This installation runs through May 23 at the Barbican in London, after which the lead bird will develop an intractable substance abuse problem and the flock will break up to perform various solo projects.
If you don’t know who this is then you must be new to these parts. In fact, it’s almost impossible to stay out of their way, but why would you want to? My favorite accidental meeting was election night 2008, heading for my car and bumping into the manic parade. Then there was that time
And we were finally able to put faces to some of the names. . . with mixed results. Of course there were some stragglers from the earlier party (lawyers!) so who knows. Big thanks to Chris at ‘The 201’ for helping with the pizza and letting us decorate his walls with all the ecumenical interfaith
Approximately 99% of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, and man had nothing to do with most of that. But the passenger pigeon? This one’s on us. And we didn’t do it by slowly destroying their habitat — we actually blasted every last one of them out of the sky. Although
UPDATE: The Projo has an update on the eviction, and plans to care for the animals. ORIGINAL,12/8: Fortunately Dr. Ernest Finocchio, head of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, appears to be on top of the dire situation developing at Bonniedale Farms in Glocester. Yesterday morning Dan MacKenzie, the owner
Events continue today and through Sunday at the Rhode Island Convention Center as the Bay Colony Cluster Dog Show takes over downtown Providence. ‘Best of Breed’ judging culminates in the final ‘Best of Show’ event. We all know the drill by now — groups include sporting, working, terrier, toy (seen here; Pomeranian, aerial view). Go
We’re finally waging war at the 54th parallel — against the Asian Carp. They’ve breached our first line of defense, an underwater electric fence. Next maneuver: chemical warfare. For a sense of why we hate them so: [youtube]PdcQ56OpxNE[/youtube] But if you wanna see a fish that really flies: [youtube]OmWRCdUw17E[/youtube]