Friday’s line-up at
the Blackstone
The Swift Technique (from Philadelphia)/The Ringer Soundtrack/Stalemate/The New Buildings
$5/pub menu til midnight/outdoor seating/nice bathroom/free parking
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Friday’s line-up at
the Blackstone
The Swift Technique (from Philadelphia)/The Ringer Soundtrack/Stalemate/The New Buildings
$5/pub menu til midnight/outdoor seating/nice bathroom/free parking
[...]The weather for the long Labor Day weekend looks good on Sunday and Monday, but we'll need to get past tomorrow, which brings a chance of rain.
A high of 79 degrees is forecast for tomorrow. Highs are expected to kick up to 85 degrees on both Sunday and Monday. [...]
This Sunday night there will be a Candlelight Vigil outside of the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls to bring attention to the death of Hiu Lui Ng, a Chinese man who died while in custody during 
an immigration fight. The story is week know by now, [...]
Labor Day weekend is almost here -- and a few Rhode Island school districts are on the verge of weekend labors to try to reach contracts with teachers' unions.
In Burrillville, a negotiation session was slated for 5 p.m. today. School began last week, and teachers reported.
In Little Compton, a mediation [...]
Drivers should expect Route 95 north lane closings beginning at 11 tonight as the state Department of Transportation puts down new stripes at Exit 8 -- part of planned repair work on a damaged bridge.
The new stripes will shift lanes slightly to the left, the DOT said today. All lanes [...]
The beauty of Palin’s pick: the backtracking by Obama and the Dems has already begun.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was just asked about the conflicting statements from his campaign on Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate — first, an [...]
Rhythmafia describe themselves as an experiment in sound and style, a collection of creative landscapes that go well beyond the normal boundaries of music, using funk, jazz, rock, and latin grooves with ambient power noise.
Chaos Character is a fusion/live electronics psychedelic experience.
Geomancer is an experimental [...]
By Tom Mooney
Journal staff writer
Three lingering cases of alleged priest sex abuse that forced the Diocese of Providence to open some of its decades-old secret files concerning allegations of clergy misconduct, have been settled in principle, lawyer says.
And a fourth case, filed by two sisters on behalf of [...]
I’ve communicated or heard from a number of conservative leaders today, mainly in regard to McCain’s choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. I think “giddy” would be the right word to describe the mood. We’re still in shock that he got this so [...]
SMITHFIELD -- The School Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday night on a tentative contract agreement reached by its negotiators and the town's teachers union, school and union officials said today.
Representatives from both sides said they were holding off on discussing details of the tentative agreement until the School Committee [...]
By Edward Fitzpatrick
Journal staff writer
A Cranston lawyer who handles real estate closings has been disbarred, the state's chief disciplinary counsel said today, after admitting to stealing more than $2.5 million from homeowners who were refinancing or buying new homes.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court disbarred Pasquale A. Scavitti III on [...]
by Paul Grimaldi
Journal staff writer
The owner of the Twin River slot parlor is unlikely to reach a new financing deal with its lenders before the current one expires at the end of the day, according to a slot parlor representative.
"I don't believe we will have an announcement [...]
We have 67 days until election day. It's time!
Hold on to your birth control, ladies!
John McCain has chosen experience maven Sarah Palin as his running mate! The Alaska Governor, formerly a beauty queen and the mayor of a suburb of Anchorage, has been in office for a whopping two years. She likes Jesus, or at least the [...]
NEWPORT -- School officials and the Teachers Association of Newport have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, Schools. Supt. John Ambrogi announced today.
The next step is for the union membership to ratify the contract, which would then be followed by a vote of the School Committee.
Ambrogi said [...]
PROVIDENCE -- A grand jury has found that the actions of a Providence police officer who shot a man stabbing a woman with a bayonet were "lawful and legally justified," according to state Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's office.
The grand jury therefore did not return an indictment against Patrolman John [...]
Burrillville's Shippee Bridge will be closed next month for repair work that the state Department of Transportation said will raise the span's weight limit from three tons to 10 tons.
The closing is expected on Sept. 15, and work is expected to last about three months before the bridge reopens, the [...]
Most people may not remember it, but in 2002, Governor Don Carcieri ran negative adds against Jim Bennett, his opponent in the Republican primary. The issue: BACK TAXES!
I found this little gem:
Responding to a mailer Bennett's campaign sent to 22,000 homes in early August that assailed [...]
This is an unbelievably great choice!
Official statement from the McCain campaign:
U.S. Senator John McCain today announced that he has selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate and to serve as his vice president.
Governor Palin is a tough executive who has demonstrated during her [...]
On Monday I posted about the city’s new QAlert system for reporting issues to the city and tested it. I sent in a request to repair a brick crosswalk at the intersection of Benefit and Waterman. I received an automated reply today. [...]