Olneyville

Records For Sale — Olneyville

Meet Zach Warf, co-owner of the Music Research Library on Dike Street. Zach has a wide range of knowledge about music and recordings and is himself a musician (drums, keys). Zach is friendly and chatty — utterly defeating the record store guy stereotype — and smart enough to keep the “rare” merchandise right next to …

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New Sign For Olneyville New York System

And you probably couldn’t even tell. Alarm spread throughout the city last summer when the New York System announced that their neon sign was beyond repair and would have to be replaced. We needn’t have worried; owner Greg Stevens hired Providence Painted Signs with orders to “fabricate a brand new, yet still iconic, sign “that …

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Women Who Worked In The Mills — Olneyville

(5.4) The Assembly of Light Choir and the Strange Attractor Theatre Company will perform “She Died for Our Convenience,” one night only, this Saturday evening on Manton Avenue. We are surrounded by ghosts. We hear their stories through the objects, buildings, and traditions they’ve left behind. She Died for Our Convenience is a one-night-only choral …

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San Souci Drive Improvement Meeting

(10.4) Head over to Recycle-a-Bike and learn about planned improvements along San Souci Drive. The meeting will be hosted by the Providence Department of Planning and Development and the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council (WRWC). Facebook event. Come learn about improvements along San Souci Drive behind Olneyville Square that will: create a welcoming gateway between the …

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Happy Tenth Anniversary You Scürvy Dög

(6.16) Of course that would be seventy in dog years. The weather looks perfect for an all-day party celebration at the Scürvy Dög in Olneyville. Congratulations you guys! (Facebook event page.) We’re celebrating ten years of lubricating social interactions and encouraging poor decisions on Saturday 6/16/18. We’ll be opening up at 1:00 PM, breaking out …

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San Souci Improvement Meeting At Recycle-A-Bike

(3.29) The Providence Department of Planning and Development will be hosting a meeting to discuss proposed improvements to San Souci Drive behind Olneyville Square. The meeting will be held Thursday evening at Recycle-A-Bike. (Facebook event.) Please join the City of Providence Department of Planning and Development for a review of the proposed design for a …

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OV Library Grand Reopening

(5.30) The Olneyville Library is reopening after more than a year of repairs and renovation, and the public is invited to celebrate the results at a party Tuesday. The library suffered flooding in April 2016 after heavy rains overwhelmed the local drainage system, causing significant damage. Local residents and businesses rallied in June at Cluck! …

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Scürvy Dög Parking Lot Mega Show

(10.9) ‘Mega Show III’ to be exact. Live music all day Sunday at the Scürvy Dög in Olneyville starting with Detroit Rebellion at 2pm. From the Facebook event page: Hope Anchor — 9:30pm Benny Sizzler — 8:45pm Violent Anal Death — 8pm Olneyville Sound System — 7:15pm Laura Espinel — 6:30pm Tall Teenagers — 5:45pm …

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Draft Plan Release For 6-10 Connector

(10.3) If the Olneyville Expressway was a Led Zeppelin song? “What Is and What Should Never Be.” The City of Providence Department of Planning and Development will be holding a review of the draft plan for the 6-10 Connector. Some creative outside-the-box proposals had been aired at a prior meeting, but these have since been …

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