Providence Community Library is hosting Buddy tonight for a reading and signing of his new autobiography: Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale What more do we need to say? Tuesday, April 26th […]
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Providence Community Library will be hosting an evening of jazz with Forbes Graham on Thursday, April 14th, 7pm at the Rochambeau Library. Trumpet player and electronic musician Forbes Graham is part of a dynamic new generation of improvisers in Boston. In his solo work and as part such groups as the Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz
Providence Community Library presents an evening with author Sara Marcus for a reading and discussion of “Girls to the Front” this Wednesday, April 13th at 7pm at the Knight Library — plus a live set from LOLITA BLACK! “Sara Marcus’s Girls to the Front is not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture
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This Saturday, January 22nd at 1pm, Providence Community Library will be hosting local author sci-fi / horror author Walter Greatshell for a reading and signing of his latest book, Mad Skills! “Unconscious for fourteen months after a debilitating accident, Maddy Grant awakens at the Braintree Institute, where scientists have successfully implanted her with a radical
TONIGHT – January 13th, 7pm at the Rochambeau Library (708 Hope Street in Providence), Providence Community Library will be hosting Mike Howlett, author of “The Weird World of Eerie Publications” (Feral House, 2010). “Eerie Publications’ horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America’s newsstands from 1965 through 1975. Ultra-gory covers and bottom-of-the-barrel production values
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What better way to celebrate the upcoming banned books week than by buying armfuls of books, magazines and movies for super cheap? The Friends of Warwick Public Library fall book sale is this weekend at the main library. Sale begins Friday with the Friends of the Library ‘members only’ sneak preview from 6pm to 9pm.
Providence Community Library and The Friends of Rochambeau present a discussion with Dr. Michael Fine, author of “The Zero Calorie Diet” on June 10th, 7pm, at Rochambeau Library. “The Zero Calorie Diet” is a book about fasting, about eating, not eating, eating less, and about the commercialization of food and everything else in our bloated
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Providence Community Library welcomes Ryder Windham, author of over sixty Star Wars books, to Rochambeau Library on Saturday, May 15th. Ryder will present rare photos and illustrations related to Empire, and discuss vintage Star Wars toys, comic books, and comic strips. Ryder will also be signing books and we will be giving away signed souvenirs.
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Ever dreamed of churning out your life story but never had the time? Your problems will be solved tonight at the Providence Athenaeum, where a roomful of people will get thirty minutes to write their story in 200 words or less. Everybody can, if they want to, read their story out loud afterwards and, if
After a few years in disrepair/bureaucratic limbo, the Washington Park Library re-opened in historic Firehouse No. 11 on May 6, 2009, less than two months before its ownership transitioned from the anxious-to-close Providence Public Library to the anxious-to-stay open Providence Community Library. To celebrate one year of (renewed) existence, there’s a celebration tomorrow from 6-8pm
Providence Community Library will be presenting a free book discussion and signing with local best-selling author Ann Hood, on Friday, May 7th at the Mount Pleasant Library. Ann will be reading from her latest work, The Red Thread, with a discussion and signing to follow. For more info call 272.0106 or contact ddvorchak@provcomlib.org. 3pm, Friday,
Origami poems are actually a collection of one to five original poems which are “bound” in a “book” that requires one page of paper to make. This idea began as a class prompt given to a group of poets by Barbara Schweitzer. It was her idea of creating and spreading these books of poetry à
Rhode Island Library Association is sponsoring a Legislative Day February 9 on the second floor of the State Capitol building from 1:30 – 4 pm. Come and personally meet with your Representatives and Senators to make a case for Rhode Island libraries. As the economy bottoms out, so does library funding, but use increases. Rhode
UPDATE (BY DAVE): I went. Great vibes. A diverse board of residents from throughout Providence. Lots of work in front of us. There have been some large in-kind donations (computers from GTECH, a year’s worth of new books from the Projo) and some small donations have started coming in. But the PCL is trying to
Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books. Here in Providence, we’re fighting just to keep our libraries open and accessible. At the Cushing Academy, however, the headmaster sees books as “… an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,” and has gotten rid of them in the prep school’s “learning center” to make way
[youtube]iBU-MxydbWQ[/youtube] Today was long and my brain is currently jiggling like a bowlful of jelly and/or Santa’s belly, so forgive me if I’m not my usual witty self and I just copy and paste the press release I wrote about what’s happening at the nine neighborhood libraries tomorrow (tomorrow being Wednesday.) David already mentioned it,