(9.10) Providence’s free outdoor festival returns, sort of. Our new mayor decided to take a beloved Providence institution, move it to a new time, a new place, and extract all the crazy stuff that made it fun as hell. Now it seems like just another street fair, but it’s still worth checking out I suppose. …
Thank you Matthew Lawrence for bringing this to my attention. His Law and Order Party sends out weekly newsletters which have “inspired” me before. (Hey, he used to write for us . . . he owes us content.) This week a fundraiser launched for New England PPE, a group of Providence-based artists and designers who …
A real crowd-pleaser at PVDFest was this mesmerizing illuminated installation on the side of a parking garage on Washington Street. The colors move, morph, and glow. Credit design collective Pneuhaus for this beauty, a project they call Pnit. (As in ‘swimming pool’ the pee is silent.) Festival organizers tell us this 3D hanging installation “takes …