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Emanc****tion Day in PVD, Aug 1 Advertis*****t for Emanc****tion Day rally, 1854, in Providence on the 20th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. (Credit: RI Black Heritage Society) Slavery ended throughout the British Empire on “Emanc****tion Day,” August 1,... |
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Parties Connected to Virus Spread: A summary of the governor's July 29 press conference Governor Gina Raimondo, DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green gave the COVID-19 press briefing today at 1pm. First today’s COVID data: The governor announced a total of 61 new cases since yesterday.... |
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Get Out!: PVDFest announces a Downcity scavenger hunt PVDFest has joined the ranks of organizations stepping up to entertain and delight cooped-up locals despite the changes social distancing has forced. This certainly isn't the summer for the throngs of people dancing in the... |
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Functional Art on Empire Street: PVDFest sculpture installation encourages socially distant viewing “Bee Violet” is an outdoor art installation on PVD's Empire Street that was created by Allison Newsome and Deborah Spears Moorehead. Its patented design, a symbolic metal fish combined with a growing vegetable garden, redefines... |
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Writing on the Wall After a June night of violence in PVD, many downtown business owners covered their surviving windows with plywood to protect them from being broken during antic****ted protests. Local artists beautified the display by using the... |
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In Providence: Drive On In “We put the screen up in the driveway and I’ll tell you the truth: I didn’t feel like taking it down. That’s all it was. I never thought much about it to tell you the... |
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Supporting Portland: Protesters gathered in PVD Sat****ay night Protesters gathered in front of the Providence Public Safety Complex on Sat****ay night, with law enforcement in riot gear standing a block away. One hundred and fifty mostly young people came out to protest police... |
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Get Your Jocks Off: An interview with Strapped for Danger II director, Richard Griffin Richard Griffin Una***uming, welcoming, understated, even shy at times, you need to peel back the layers to uncover the man beneath the myth. But Pawtucket-based film director Richard Griffin has long been a legend in Rhode... |
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Governor Raimondo Announces Weekly Forum on School Reopenings: A summary of the governor's June 22 press conference Governor Gina Raimondo, DoH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green gave the weekly COVID press conference today at 1pm. The governor today began with COVID data. Since yesterday, DOH is reporting 76 new... |
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In Providence: Grandma's on the way “I drove down and I got her, because I’m watching the news and I see all these cases going up, and it’s getting me nervous. I call my daughter and tell her I want to... |
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Comic Book Junkies: The hero we all need Days after Lenny Schwartz and Nathan Suher premiered their film Far From Perfect: Life Inside a Global Pandemic, fans were clamoring for more. "I told them I'd only do if it they cancel San Diego... |
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Death Drop Gorgeous: Providence film to stream as part of Boston's Wicked q***** film festival Young g*** men who work at a local drag club are lured out through the dating app POUNDR and then brutally murdered. This is the story behind Death Drop Gorgeous, a film written and directed... |
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In Providence: Late Night Cooking “Where I grew up, we just left the doors open all the time, so I’m used to it.”Her wife gets mad at her. This isn’t the small town in the Midwest where she was raised,... |
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Theater on the Fringe: FRINGEPVD goes virtual! The time for a summer of theater is here, and it can all be accessed through whatever screen you feel the most comfortable with or even through an exclusive performance on your front porch --... |
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Stable Genius: Carnival clown turns the Oval into a three-ring What are we going to do about President Walking Eagle (he’s so full of s**** he can’t fly)? P and J thought Dubya Bush was the dumbest and least intellectually curious president we’d ever seen, but... |
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A Surge in Activism: Activist groups help white people show up the right way In the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Elijah McClain, we saw many more white people showing up in the streets in solidarity with Black people in the fight... |
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Cannabis and The Movement for Black Lives: The racist roots of the war on weed and the role of the cannabis industry now “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.” So believed Harry Anslinger, founding commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics and man of many terrible opinions, who did not even attempt to disguise his... |
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In Providence: Fireworks He almost had them one night.“I was two houses away in either direction, and then they stopped. It’s like they knew I was coming.” This is his first summer without his wife. She pa***ed away last... |
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Something to Sink Your Teeth Into: FANG's bail fund keeps people out of dangerously overcrowded prisons In the past six weeks, bail funds have taken social media by storm. They’ve been around for a long time -- bail’s pretty expensive and there aren't a lot of people who can afford to... |
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Bringing the Arts Home: FirstWorks' virtual summer camps keep kids creative Syncopated Ladies When Rhode Island schools closed in March, cutting students off from in-person arts education, FirstWorks, a nonprofit that works to ensure equitable access to the arts, stepped in to bring their educational opportunities virtual.... |
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Phase 3 in RI: Staying the course, alone As Rhode Island literally leads the nation in rate of decline for cases of COVID-19, Gov. Gina Raimondo moved forward with plans to enter Phase 3 of reopening the state economy on Tuesday, June 30.... |
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Governor Raimondo Asks for Caution on the Holiday Weekend: A summary of the governor's July 1 press conference Governor Gina Raimondo, DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and DoA director Brett Smiley gave the COVID-19 press briefing today at 1pm. The data released today is as follows: There are 27 new cases of the coronavirus... |
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The Road to Reopening: How are local music venues going to handle Phase III? This pandemic has taken a ma***ive toll on the entertainment industry, and it’s one that might be insurmountable for small clubs. On a national level, the newly formed National Independent Venue a***ociation (NIVA) revealed that... |
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Getting Loud: Gen Z: We Want to Live make their voices heard A group of students led by 15-year-old co-founders Jaychele Nicole and Isabella James is making their voices heard under the moniker Gen Z: We Want To Live. George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis... |
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In Providence: I was here until I wasn't She left Providence after graduating, having seen nothing of the city. “I really didn’t. Now I see that. I didn’t see it before, because I thought that was the nature of being in school. That you... |
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Phase 3 to Begin Tomorrow: A summary of the governor's June 29 press conference Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Providence Pedestrian Bridge. Governor Gina Raimondo, DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and commerce director Stefan Pryor gave the COVID-19 press briefing today at... |
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Do Si Do: Artist Christine Cho explores internal conflict in her work "Do Si Do," by Christine Cho Christine Cho is interested in “the power of the collective (people and images) and performativity’s relation to personal and historical narratives.” There is no doubt that Christine’s work is in... |
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Rough and Rowdy Ways: After 60 years, Bob Dylan has started to open up It’s comforting to know that at 79 years old, Bob Dylan is p****ed. A true American soldier, a wordsmith smitten with pugilism. An old, wealthy man who seems to be viscerally and cerebrally aware of... |
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En Plein Air: Picnicking like semi-pros Imagine the scene: two people are together-ish in a park, underneath the shade of a white elm tree, each wearing masks, standing on their own separate blankets, hovering cell phones over plastic trays of finger... |
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Navigation and Innovation: A conversation with Francis Parra Francis Parra Those of us in the performing arts are finding ourselves facing a new reality. As a member of the theater community, I’m lucky enough to be able to speak with leaders of artistic organizations... |
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