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Victory Celebration At McCoy

(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 …

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‘100 Plus’ Opens At Machines With Magnets

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 …

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Opening Reception — Machines With Magnets

(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. …

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If You See This Guy Around Town

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 …

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Cover Grrrls Do The Nineties — Girls Rock! Fundraiser

(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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Colonel’s Super Dooper Guitar Party

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 …

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Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

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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Open Studios: Pawtucket

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. …

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Glengarry Glen Ross Opening At The Gamm Theatre

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 …

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Pawtucket Just Got Lucky — Vote For Sawyer

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 …

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Holy Week @ Park Place Church – Pawtucket RI

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 …

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Education-Averse Pawtucket To Reconsider Sex Center

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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