(9.17) PawSox fans are invited to a Victory Celebration at McCoy Stadium today, Wednesday, September 17, at 12:30pm to honor the 2014 Governors’ Cup Champion Pawtucket Red Sox. The team is scheduled to arrive back at McCoy via bus from T.F. Green Airport at approximately 12:45 pm. Several players, manager Kevin Boles, coaches, front office …
Head over to Machines With Magnets tonight for an opening reception for ‘100Plus.’ Hosted by Mike Kelly & Machines With Magnets 100+ works for $100 by 100 Providence Artists. 25% of proceeds go to the Dave Lamb Education Fund. Music by Gavage + Ravi Shavi + Special Guests TBA. $5, 6pm, Friday, May 16, Machines …
(2.24) Machines With Magnets and World’s Fair are hosting a group exhibition of new sculpture and paintings — “The Conditions Were Just Right.” Exhibition runs through March 13. The featured artists: Justin Coleman (Pittsburgh, Ceramic Sculpture) Tanya Merrill (NYC Painter) Elizabeth Potenza (PVD, Glass & Metal Fabrication) Viewing upon appointment and during MWM venue programming. …
(2.2) Craft beer fans should head over to the Pawtucket Armory on Saturday for the first R.I. Brew Fest. Meet the brewers and taste the beers: 30+ breweries with over 100 styles. This one-day beer-tasting festival is divided into two three-hour sessions: 1pm to 4pm and 5pm to 8pm. The ProJo wrote it up. There …
According to today’s ProJo an indie Mafia crime drama starring Leighton Meester and Ben Barnes is filming around the Olneyville and Federal Hill neighborhoods. (If only the Mafiosi ever looked like this. Or cops. Or men.) The production of “God Only Knows” directed by James Modern has also been taking advantage of the Bucket’s rich …
Can’t let this go by without some mention. The Pawtucket Red Sox had a great season this year, winning the Governor’s Cup for the first time since 1984 (get your T-shirts here). A crowd of about 200, including Governor Chafee and Pawtucket Mayor Grebien, celebrated in front of Pawtucket City Hall on Thursday, unveiling this …
More music, food, and beer for Saturday. You can do both. Rocktucket is just one day in the weeks-long Pawtucket Arts Festival (film portion of the program still to come). From Chris Conti at the Phoenix, Official party ushers WHAT CHEER? BRIGADE will be on hand, as well as balls-out rock duo PARTY PIGS, Newport …
(5.5) This gets a special mention. Head over to Machines With Magnets Saturday night for the second annual Cover Grrrls fundraiser rock show and support the Girls Rock! Rhode Island (GRR!). See your favorite bands perform your favorite songs from your favorite decade — the Nineties! Who: Lolita Black, Whore Paint, Bob Kendall Band (ft. …
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Head over to the third annual Colonel’s Super Dooper Guitar Party in Pawtucket this Saturday. Great bands — Starline Rhythm Boys, Mark Cutler and Friends, the Sick-A-Billies, the Throttles, Electric Service, and dj Hula-Bomb — guitars and amps, food, drinks, memorabilia and more! Sponsored by Empire Guitars. Poster after the jump. $20 door, 5pm to …
First you can go listen to the the ‘Mericans at 3pm. Then from 4pm to 5pm watch about a dozen short subjects in the Visitor Center right in downtown Pawtucket. After that, more music and more movies. According to the ProJo, From 6pm to 7pm Saturday there will be rock music with a jazz influence …
Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them is now playing at The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket. About the play: From the screwball imagination of American playwright Christopher Durang (The Marriage of Bette & Boo, Beyond Therapy), an uproarious new comedy about America’s ongoing “war on terror.” A young woman, Felicity, wakes up to …
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On Saturday, September 25 and Sunday, September 26 from 11 am and 5 pm, over 80 artists will be welcoming the public into their studios during open studios : pawtucket. Their studios are located in five historic mill buildings in Pawtucket — Blackstone Studios, Riverfront Lofts, Lorraine Mill, Hope Artiste Village, and the Mill at 545 Pawtucket Avenue. …
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr. Gamm Resident Director Fred Sullivan, Jr., recently compared Mamet’s award-winning play to the popular 1992 screenplay, Mamet calls Glengarry “a gang comedy about vicious ambition.” Ten years after he wrote the play, Mamet expanded it into a screenplay and added a brutally hilarious speech for …
Okay, Pawtucket is not technically part of Providence and is therefore a bit beyond the original scope of this blog. However, the residents of Providence certainly have a stake in the economic and political health of our border towns lest they descend into anarchy and the revolting rabble spills over onto our side, pillaging and …
Park Place Congregational Church 71 Park Place Pawtucket, RI 02860 phone: 401-726-2800 Park Place Congregational Church: Sunday, March 28, Worship 10 a.m. /The Passion Story: The Passion Story is a narrative music filled event. Some adults and children will participate in this day. Holy Communion will be held. Thursday, April 1, Maundy Thursday, “The Shadow …
After Megan Andelloux attemped to open the Center For Sexual Pleasure and Health in Pawtucket — and after woman-hating URI professor Donna Hughes stuck her nosy nose in and tried to create a moral panic about it — the City of Pawtucket decided, strangely, to prevent the center’s opening because it was an educational center …
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