(7.20) Touch a moon rock. Meet real astronauts. Saturday’s 80-brazier lighting has a theme: To the Moon and Beyond: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with art, science, and exploration. At Market Square from 5pm to 10pm — Apollo Legacy Rhode Island and Space Exploration. NASA astronaut Jeff Hoffman and NASA …
I finally got down to the wonderful sunflower installation on South Water Street. ‘Ten Thousand Suns’ is the work of local landscape architect Adam E. Anderson, director of Design Under the Sky. Ten Thousand Suns is a summer-long botanical performance in which over 10,000 sunflower seeds have been planted and being nurtured over the course …
Head over to the Carousel Classic Car Cruise Night in Roger Williams Park, Mondays through the end of August (excluding June 13 & July 4). Cruise down to Classic Car Night at the Carousel Village for a special all-ages event. Marvel at cars owned and maintained by local enthusiasts, with prizes awarded to car participants …
A diseased elm on the lawn of the John Brown House is scheduled for removal later this month. The Providence Journal has a much better photo by Bob Thayer (it is not easy taking a picture of these towering giants with a cheap camera). According to the article, Ed Desjarlais, the buildings and grounds manager …
I’ll bet the Sisters of Mercy over at Bay View Academy are doing a jig right about now. Normally, we here at the Dose would not be discussing the whole beauty pageant thang (least of all the one owned and operated by the most loathsome man in the universe), however . . . Rhode Island …
The newly renovated Henry Bowen Anthony Fountain at Lippitt Park was brought back to life this morning at 11am and children promptly swarmed all around and started splashing. Just so. According to today’s ProJo, Beginning in 2007, the Summit Neighborhood Association, aided by Councilman Kevin Jackson and the Parks Department, spearheaded an effort to raise …
One great bit featured on the old ‘SCTV’ television show was a ‘commercial’ for a business called Logos ‘R’ Us. The logo for this business was of course an over-designed tangle of illegible scribbles and letters. I suspect the designers of the ‘P’ sign did not see that particular episode, but they did have this …
The Providence Roller Derby invites the public to an exciting bout tonight at the Rhode Island Convention Center. Come out and watch the Old Money Honeys take on the Sakonnet River Roller Rats in a rematch of the 2009 PRD Championship game! Each team features a new team captain for 2010, with Sally Riot leading …
Kudos to those responsible for the planting around the statue on Blackstone Boulevard. The daffodils have come in nicely, intermixed with coral bells and hellebores, and all surrounded by a sturdy but delicate little edging fence. The statue is known as ‘The Spirit of Youth’, and while dedicated to the memory of the young girl …
Even in tight economic times, we need things like this. The City of Providence, the Summit Neighborhood Association and the Champlin Foundation are coming together to fund the restoration of the fountain in Lippitt Park, first erected in 1940. It is here, at the north end of Hope Street and Blackstone Boulevard, that the Farmers’ …
Your memory is in good hands. I have never been a fan of the modern ‘makeshift memorial’ concept. Not only do they become a bedraggled mess in about a week — mylar balloons honor no one, even when inflated — but they always seem more about the public mourning (getting on the six o’clock news) …
Works in Progress 2009 Fundraiser at the Steel Yard — the fourth annual Cruise Night featuring classic cars, custom, and (I don’t remember this from last year) bicycles. Also music, refreshments and raffles. And if you’ve ever wondered what goes on inside these buildings there will be studio tours as well. Come see hub caps …
This weekend the Rhode Island Orchid Society is hosting its eighth annual Orchid Derby in the Botanical Center in Roger Williams Park — open today and tomorrow with a lecture on growing orchids at 1pm on both days. Admission is included with admission to the Botanical Center ($3 adults, $1 children). Pictured here is the …
They always do. . . that’s where the plotlines live. As the resident 3-D correspondent let me recommend another excellent entry in the field. Coraline is visually stunning. 3-D technology is no longer a stunt but an enhancement. A.O. Scott writing for The New York Times, The 3-D aspects of “Coraline” are unusually subtle. Now …
Live GRRRL Revue tonight with belly dancing (Sheherezad Sisters) and burlesque (Charlotte Fever and London Britches, Betty Sioux Tailor, Jew-l of the Nile). Also Rory Raven, mindBender and MC Cathy Cathodic. 9pm to 2am, Saturday, Firehouse 13, 41 Central Street
Just as I was embracing the new ethos of anti-consumerism (although this is as much a life-style ‘choice’ as celibacy is for people who can’t get laid… I’m just broke) along comes Steampunk to fill me with lust for objects that I must possess before I die. Speaking of lust, the artist behind Datamancer, Richard …