. . . and the balloons are getting their freak on. Hey, it’s a long night.
[...]
And his name is George Hutchins. Just a couple minutes poking around his campaign website for North Carolina’s Fourth District will make it clear that Hutchins is the real deal, not one of those fake conservatives.
And as any REAL conservative knows, the reason [...]
I am calling for a boycott of all stores that stay open on Thanksgiving day. This is a little different from the No Shopping Day declared by many for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. That was an equally valid reaction to [...]
Buy tickets now for the Rhode Island Film Collaborative’s annual Black and White Holiday Party. This year’s theme is The Ice Cave — which, judging from my image search, seems to read more blue than black and white, but the party will [...]
Stuck for things to talk about on Thanksgiving? This will kick things off. Perishable Theatre has just announced it is holding auditions for its spring production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. (I hope they won’t take this the wrong way, but I’d [...]
This was originally posted on RIFuture, by AgentGreen:
In 1986, Rhode Island became the first state to pass mandatory recycling legislation, setting an incredibly ambitious 70% recycling rate as its eventual goal. At the time, according to a 2008 issue paper by the Rhode Island Senate [...]
The backlash over the Kennedy feud might be less severe if the Diocese took a harder line on broader issues of social justice. Hundreds of homeless Rhode Islanders are suffering — with a good chance that some will die of exposure in coming months, or of [...]
Save the date for a health care reform roundtable discussion next Monday, November 30th. Rhode Island Representative Patrick Kennedy is scheduled to participate along with: Edward Wing MD, Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences; Vincent Mor PhD, Professor and Chair of the [...]
“a student, a congressman, a professor and a dean
speak to health care reform”
On
Monday November 30 The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University will
host a roundtable discussion “Health Care Reform: What are the
Politics?” from 3-4:30 at Andrews Hall. Part of the 2009-2010 [...]
On Monday November 30 The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University will host a roundtable discussion “Health Care Reform: What are the Politics?” from 3-4:30 at Andrews Hall. Part of the 2009-2010 Paul Levinger Health Care Reform Roundtable Series, this edition has a panel with [...]
Ouch. The Moderate Party takes it on the chin:
PROVIDENCE –– The state Board of Elections has quietly offered to settle a campaign-finance dispute with the newly established Moderate Party of Rhode Island for what may be the largest fine in the board’s history.
State officials have asked [...]
For those of you who are in town on Weds:
Drinking Liberally is a national progressive social group that gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to gather, exchange ideas, and get involved. The hosts of Drinking Liberally are Chris Blazejewski, Meghan Grady, Matt Jerzyk, Ami Gada, and Jenna [...]
I’ve only recently heard of “The Mill,” a converted factory that serves as a cross between Stone Soup in Pawtucket and Passim in Cambridge, MA. Its no smoking/no alcohol location houses great music, hosts workshops and classes, rents recording space to artists, and has tasty [...]
U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy has been barred from receiving the sacrament of Holy Communion in the Catholic church. Kennedy told the Providence Sunday Journal that Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin has “explained the penalty by telling him [...]
If you answered, “Must Be Santa” give yourself a star (we also would have accepted Hunter Thompson as a correct answer). And then be sure to check out this new straight-up weird Bob Dylan music video for his Christmas song of the same name.
It’s quite hard to say at first [...]
Meet Maryalice Huggins, author of Aesop’s Mirror, today at Books on the Square.
What antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she stumbled across the mirror at a country auction in Rhode Island was this: She was besotted. Rococo and huge (more than [...]
Meet Jennifer Gonsalves, site manager of the Roger Williams National Memorial on North Main Street. She has posted a notice on the side blog that I feel merits greater attention. It reads in part,
. . . we have just [...]
Does that sign say “bacon wrapped pork meatloaf” and. . . “pork bellies with cheddar cheese sauce?!” Why, bless their thumping little hearts, it’s like the last 30 years never happened. The hell with turkey, this is what I want [...]
Bill Mott, social enterpriser (founder of The Ocean Project), committed environmentalist (founder of Providence Green Drinks), and city resident would like to see the city become a little more creative in how it runs the government. Writing for RI’s Future,
Earlier [...]
The opening has been delayed due to the morning rain, but it should be in good shape by Saturday morning. Between 11am and 2pm 50% of proceeds benefit Skate for Joy, a non-profit that provides skating lessons [...]
We’re finally waging war at the 54th parallel — against the Asian Carp. They’ve breached our first line of defense, an underwater electric fence. Next maneuver: chemical warfare.
For a sense of why we hate them so:
But if you wanna see a fish that really flies:
[...]In the interest of moving the words ‘Seacrest’, ‘Clarkson’ and ‘Lite’ at least a little further down the page, and because I have not put up a video in while, I give you the Upper Crust who performed at Jerky’s recently and brought down the house. I love these guys.
[...]Is anybody listening to the radio this afternoon? I ask because something kind of nuts just happened on 92 PRO-FM.
Maybe, I don’t know, half an hour ago, just as I was finishing my drive-time singalong with Kelly Clarkson’s “Already Gone”*, the DJ (I think David Jones) came on with a [...]
Hosts David Higgins and Nicole LeDuc welcome you to Blood from a Turnip, November style. Enjoy the late night puppet salon that has lasted longer than some marriages.
$5, 10pm, Friday, Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street
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Friday — @RISD Tap Room, Juiceboxxx, MNDR, Kokomo @AS220, Minky Starshine, the Red Attire, To the Depths, Last One Standing @the 201, Larry’s Larry’s Larry’s (see below) @Jerky’s, the Empire Shall Fall (cd release), Joint Damage, Diecast, Anubis Unbound, Burning the Canvas @the Blackstone, [...]
Strange shenanigans are afoot at the 201 Friday night with the “return” of superdeejay Larry (no last name given, or apparently required) and his solid gold (possibly literally) dancers and world-class superdeejay crew. From the “official” FB page:
Before Local 121, AS220, The Firehouse, AfroSonic, LoveLife, [...]
First in a series: I call this ‘Stephen and Chris install a new lamppost in Wayland Square’.
[...]Roger Williams National Memorial is at a very important point in its development and we NEED your input, advice, guidance, and great ideas. Working with the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, we have just completed the final [...]
Recently reunited trio Scarce have been playing here and there for the last year-and-a-half or so, and tomorrow night they’re going to be at Jerky’s. As part of the wave of Boston-area alternative bands to get major record deals in the mid-nineties, things looked really promising for Scarce until [...]
Good news for map lovers. As reported here last September, the building that houses the Map Center was the scene of a pretty impressive fire, but Andrew Nosal is up and running again and he has some great deals. Now thru [...]
The first solo album by the Knife’s Karen Dreijer Andersson (recorded under the name Fever Ray) is one of the year’s best. Creepy beats, absurdly distorted vocals, and a persistent sense of fear don’t make for easy listening, but the album is compelling from start to [...]
Tomorrow night at the Providence Athenaeum, I’ll be hosting the prize reading for the Not About The Buildings Second Annual Writing Prize. In a crazy turn of events that seriously had nothing whatsoever to do with me, the prize was awarded (by an outside judge who [...]
RIPTA has announced that the paving is going ahead of schedule, and that Kennedy Plaza should re-open on Monday, 11/23.
[...]
The Projo is generally correct in its take on the city’s new recycling program.
(Despite the strange speculative asides — like suggesting that it’s “perhaps” the same inertia that discourages people from voting that has them complaining here. More than half of the residents of this city [...]
Morgan Louis
Micah Jackson
$5 or free before 11 with your RSVP to gimmegoosebumps@gmail.com. (Include your first and last name)
10pm, 21+, Wednesday, Lot 401, 44 Hospital Street
[...]
If you’re equally pissed-off about Governor Carcieri’s deplorable, inhumane veto of the domestic partners’ funeral rights bill last week, come out and show it this Thursday, November 19th. From the Facebook invite:
On Tuesday November 10, 2009 Governor Donald Carcieri killed a bill that would allow [...]
UPDATE: The Colbert footage is now posted, here.
ORIGINAL: During last night’s Word, over the funeral rights bill. We’ll post the footage when it goes up on their website. For now, here’s Cypress Hill’s new song, written in response to the Don’s recent doings. Sad as it’s been, it’s [...]
Photo swiped from GCPVD, where you might as well head for the rest of the details.
Brown CS Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck – a world-renowned pioneer in optimization technology – founded Providence-based Dynadec in 2008 to help businesses optimize the decisions and processes critical to [...]
A recent study shows that we’re tops in the country on federal spending dedicated to pedestrian and biker safety, and one of the safest metro areas for walkers and bikers
Drivers around here are indeed out of their gourds, but we manage to do [...]
He Don us proud again! In the face of some serious competition, AfterElton.com just named Carcieri their Asshat of the Week, beating out the formidable Michelle Malkin and the Washington Times.
And they did up a nice graphic montage to commemorate the moment:
[...]With just thirty-nine shopping days left, Lite Rock 105 has switched to its perennially grating all-Christmas format. It’s thorn in the side of office workers and non-Christians everywhere, not to mention people that have ears and don’t like hearing sixty-eight different versions of Silent Night each and every day.
Cleverly, though, [...]
There was a pretty comprehensive article in the NYTimes last week which I’d meant to post about, detailing the 195 relocation and some of the policy debates that have followed from it. It gives a welcome chunk of space to the conversation in Fox Point, and [...]
The top of this guy’s head looks just like Andrew W.K. Actually, the front of his head looks like Andrew W.K. Hmm . . . might have to check this out.
‘I Love You’ is noisy diy punk with thumpin’ [...]
Is it South Asian Identity Week already? Gosh, the last year just flew by. Kick things off with a little Bollywood and come away with a more comprehensive understanding of what’s really going on besides the awesome music and dancing. [...]
Providence city councilman, Cliff Wood, sends out an open invitation to come poke around the shiny new Nathan Bishop. This should be of interest to the neighbors who advocated for the renovation, prospective parents and students, [...]
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