Set your clocks back one hour tonight before going to bed . . . just what we needed, one more hour of anxiety. This year, Halloween will feature the second full moon of the month, also known as the Hunter’s Moon. According to NASA: Since the harvesters had reaped the fields, hunters could easily see …
If this baby could talk. Sad to say that the embossing notary stamp is going the way of the buggy whip. A new law concerning Rhode Island notaries took effect on January 1st, or so I have learned from a notice I just found in a pile of super duper important documents. Among other changes …
(9.22) This week at Movies on the Block it’s ‘The Terminator.’ Writing in The New York Times, Janet Maslin described the convoluted denouement of this 1984 action, sci-fi movie in her mostly favorable review. Both he [Michael Biehn] and Mr. Schwarzenegger’s Terminator arrive in Los Angeles stark naked, and they must somehow find clothes, weapons …
(9.21) Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Stanley Kubrick’s epic 1964 satire “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” on the big screen. Four screenings are scheduled: 2pm and 7pm, Sunday and Wednesday. This movie may not feel quite as hilarious today, what with a certain presidential candidate …
If you like watching car-sized chunks of molten rock getting tossed into the air like babies, then check out “Volcanoes: Nature’s Ticking Time Bombs” tonight on “60 Minutes.” Scott Pelley visits three of the world’s most active volcano sites, including the Yellowstone supervolcano which will take us all out someday but hopefully not till after …
(10.24) Special event at the Cable Car Cinema this Thursday and it counts as going to church for the week I think (with the new pope, definitely). Meet that way-too-hot Jesus feller who made you so confused, and give Pontius Pilate a piece of your mind. Actors Ted Neeley (Jesus) and Barry Dennen (Pilate) will …
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Robert Peabody was working a second job at United Nuclear when the sludge he was handling went critical and exposed him to a deadly dose of radiation. He died in an isolation room at Rhode Island Hospital. His family was left destitute and Charlestown was left with a Superfund site. Read more: Rhode Island’s Nuclear …
“People of Earth! Do Not Panic!” Brown University was just testing its campus siren. This was followed by Charlie Brown’s teacher delivering a garbled message about what to do. (RIP Kevin McCarthy)
This Friday marks the 15th anniversary of the original airing of the “Lisa’s Wedding” episode of The Simpsons. This anniversary is notable as the episode takes place 15 years in the future — in 2010. For me, it doesn’t seem nearly so long ago that the episode aired, but it’s funny to look back now …
Another good reason to go to Jess and Jenna’s Young Invincibles Dance Rally in support of health care reform this Friday: your heart will soon explode*. First KFC introduced the Double Down chicken sandwich exclusively to Providence and Omaha, Nebraska (Two kinds of cheese? Chicken breasts instead of buns? Thanks, KFC!). Now southern New England …
There may be a hint of back-to-school in the air, but it’s still officially summer. Summer ’09. Summer of death. Summer that came in like a lion, and went out like a blood-thirsty madman hell-bent on slaying every beloved person this cruel world has ever known. Summer has now officially claimed its second Kennedy, baby …
The next time a candidate for governor says something like “Running a state is like running a business, and I’m a businessman” run screaming into the night. Evidently Rhode Island needs a new business plan (and CEO). Governor Carcieri has announced 12 government shutdown days (first one is September 4th) as well as funding cuts …
[youtube]tWwyjwmYMEs[/youtube] Seriously?! Like, this shit would be hilarious if it weren’t so damned scary. What’s even more terrifying is that Dartmouth is only a 40-minute drive from Providence. Do we have this level of home-grown crazy here in Rhode Island? Because I swear to god, I’ll take names and go Barney Frank on your asses.
The latest victim: your childhood. It brings me great sadness to report that John Hughes, director of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has died of a heart attack at the age of 59. Weep for another victim of Summer 09; weep for the 80s; weep for yourselves, good …
It’s been a cruel summer, folks. Nobody knows this more than acclaimed choreographer Merce Cunningham, who is now dead. Merce joins the ranks of Walter Cronkite, Karl Malden, Billy Mays, Gale Storm, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, David Carradine, Dom Deluise, Oscar Mayer, Frank McCourt, and Mollie Sugden, as victims of the bloodiest celebrity …