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2025 Grammy Award-Winner Ruthie Foster Playing the Greenwich Odeum Saturday, October 3

Ruthie Foster has spent decades making music that moves freely between blues, gospel, soul, and folk. With a commanding voice and songs that find hope in difficult moments, the Texas …
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New Harvest Coffee Roasters Is Turning 25

New Harvest has been part of the morning routine since 2001, which is enough time to outlast several coffee trends and a few questionable milk alternatives. Founders Rik Kleinfeldt and Paula Anderson …
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5 Spooky Dining Spots Across Rhode Island for Ghosts and Gourmets Alike

In Rhode Island, dinner often comes with a side of history and, if you’re lucky, a ghost story or two. From centuries-old taverns to seaside inns, these local favorites prove that great food …
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Mohegan Sun Marks 30 Years With Two Weekends of Music, Dining and Fun

Mohegan Sun is turning 30 this month, and the Uncasville, Connecticut resort is planning a celebration worthy of the milestone. Two October weekends are bringing major concerts to the arena, along …
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The Yodelling Millmen Bring Sketch Comedy, Improv, and Local Chaos to Narragansett

No, you weren’t hearing things — that was indeed yodelling ringing out of the Narragansett Casino Theater the nights of August 28th and 29th. Mostly laughter, yes, but yodelling too, as the …
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The Steel Yard’s 20th Iron Pour Unfolds in Three Fiery Acts

The Steel Yard is giving its 20th Iron Pour a three-act build, and by the finale, giant metal sculptures will be burning. This year, the Providence industrial arts nonprofit is stretching its …
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Sojourner House Marks 50 Years by Asking What Survivor Support Should Look Like Next

Supporting someone after abuse rarely comes down to one phone call, one court case, or one safe place to stay. Housing, legal protections, health care, workplace policies, technology, and financial …
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10 of Greater Providence’s Most-Booked Restaurants Right Now

The quickest way to find out where Providence wants to eat might be to look for the tables that aren’t available. OpenTable updated its Diners’ Choice: Most Booked list for Providence County …
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8 Stops to Make During RI Grown Week

Rhode Island grows a lot more than apples, and RI Grown Week is a good excuse to prove it. From October 5-11, farms, markets, orchards, and local makers around the state put everything from cut …
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Professional Spring Football Is Coming to Pawtucket in 2027

By next spring, Centreville Bank Stadium will be trading corner kicks for kickoffs. The United Football League announced that Rhode Island will join its 2027 season, bringing professional spring …
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Sézane’s Traveling Airstream Is Pulling Into Providence

Airstreams usually suggest campgrounds, but Sézane is bringing French fashion to Fountain Street in one instead. Beginning tomorrow, September 25, the Parisian brand will park its En Route pop-up …
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Ocean Business USA Will Make Its U.S. Debut in Newport in 2027

A global ocean-tech event is crossing the Atlantic for the first time, and Newport is where it plans to land. Ocean Business USA will run September 28-30, 2027, at Safe Harbor New England …
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Providence Children’s Museum Plans a Playful October for Kids and Grown-Ups

October at Providence Children’s Museum is shaping up to be a little less finger paint and a little more tarot cards and reptiles. The museum’s calendar stretches from an adults-only night with …
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Grey Sail Celebrates 15 Years With a New IPA and Returning Fall Favorites

A brewery anniversary could call for cake, but Grey Sail went with a new IPA instead. The Westerly brewery marks 15 years this fall, tracing the milestone back to November 11, 2011, when it tapped …
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11 Rhode Island Sips That Taste Like Fall

Fall drinking has a way of getting darker, toastier, and a little more dessert-adjacent as the weather cools. Citrus steps aside for apple, coffee, baking spice, dark fruit, and the kinds of pours …
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Drake Maye and Wife Ann Michael Clear Classroom Wish Lists for 54 Providence Educators

Back-to-school shopping looks a little different when someone else picks up the entire classroom wish list. At Alfred Lima Sr. Elementary School in Providence, New England Patriots quarterback …
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Little City Thrifty Brings Nearly 100 Vintage Booths Back to Providence

Some shopping lists are better left unwritten, especially when nearly 100 vintage booths are involved. That’s the situation at WaterFire Arts Center October 3 and 4, when Little City Thrifty …
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Where to Celebrate National Play-Doh Day in Rhode Island

Few childhood activities have the staying power of a fresh tub of Play-Doh. The colors eventually mingle into one mysterious shade, the tiny plastic tools disappear, and somehow there’s always a …
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Providence Public Library Has a Book Club for That

Fnishing a good book often comes with one problem: finding someone who actually wants to hear all the thoughts it produced. Providence Public Library has an answer for that, with book clubs built …
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Old-School Blues, Next-Generation Appeal - GA-20 to Play Narrows Center September 26

Expect a high-powered evening of great music when Providence-based blues trio GA-20 takes the Narrows Center stage on Saturday, September 26. The Fall RIver, MA show wraps up the U.S. leg of the …
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When to Pick Your Favorite Rhode Island Apples

When to Pick Your Favorite Rhode Island Apples Honeycrisp fans, Macoun loyalists, pie planners, and Rhode Island Greening hunters each have their moment Apple people have opinions. …
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HopArts Studio Trail Opens the Doors to Southern Rhode Island’s Creative Side

Fall drives through southern Rhode Island have a way of turning the scenic route into the preferred one. During the HopArts Studio Trail, those back roads come with another reason to pull over: …
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Rhythm and Roots Festival Sends Summer Out on a High Note

The 28th Rhythm & Roots Festival sent summer out on a high note, bringing three days of music, dancing, food, and plenty of familiar and new faces to Ninigret Park in Charlestown over Labor Day …
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PVDFest Mixes R&B, Gospel, and Big Freedia in Downtown Providence

An ice rink hosting an R&B block party while a gospel choir prepares to perform with Big Freedia sounds less like a carefully coordinated civic festival than a particularly busy Providence group …
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The Olde Mistick Village Garlic Festival Returns This September

The quickest way to find Olde Mistick Village on September 19 and 20 may be to skip the map and follow the garlic. For one weekend, the open-air Mystic village gets considerably more fragrant as …

Thinking of You Week Challenge and Giveaway with Ampersand M Studio

In a sea of rapid-fire communication, be a thoughtful card and let someone know you’re thinking of them in a tangible way. Thinking of You Week (September 21–27, 2026) is an international …
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Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular Takes a Punny Turn at Roger Williams Park Zoo

Providence has seen plenty of pumpkins, but 5,000 of them trying out their best dad jokes is a different kind of fall tradition. This October, Roger Williams Park Zoo’s Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular …

On Stage: You’ve Still Got a Friend at Theatre By The Sea

My early childhood was filled with sounds of the Laurel Canyon music scene emitting through the living room stereo speakers. This was the genre of my eldest sister Betsy, a lifelong fan of recording …
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Tiverton’s Fig Festival Returns with Rare Trees, Tastings, and a Very Big Leaf Contest

A fruit that spends most of the year minding its own business has developed quite the following in Southern New England. On September 12, fig growers from around the region will gather in Tiverton …
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At RIIFF, Lunar Sway Turns Mooncrest Into a Place Worth Getting Lost In

The moon may have been a waning crescent in early August in Providence, but the Apple Theater was under the spell of Lunar Sway , the new film written and directed by Nick Butler that screened as …
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Ten Must-Do’s at Rhythm and Roots

The Rhythm and Roots Festiva l returns to Ninigret Park in Charlestown this Labor Day Weekend, September 4-6, bringing an all-star musical lineup, great food, exciting vendors, and good vibes all …
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Bottled Up Finds Big Laughs Close to Home at RIIFF

After years of Rhode Island moviegoers hearing characters talk about traffic jams on Sunset and flights leaving JFK, the audience at RIIFF’s Friday night’s screening of Bottled Up cheered for …
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8 Fall Food Truck Events Around Rhode Island and Nearby

The lawn chairs may be a little sun-faded by now, but their season isn’t over yet. October brings another round of food truck gatherings around Rhode Island and just over the border, with giant …
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Peter Pots Pottery’s Ceramic Pumpkins Are Back for 2026

Peter Pots Pottery has spent nearly eight decades making the kind of mugs and dinnerware that quietly become part of everyday life. About 10 years ago, the West Kingston potters added a few ceramic …
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Track 15 Plans an Oyster-Filled Sendoff to Summer

Labor Day weekend usually comes with an unspoken assignment: fit in one more very summery thing before everyone starts discussing cider doughnuts. Track 15 has an appropriately Rhode Island …
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RIIFF Films Examine What Happens When History Is Frozen in a Frame

“Is dreaming of yesterday enough to understand today?” This was the structuring question for the Providence Apple Cinemas’ programming of the Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), …
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Ten Must-Do’s at the Rhode Island Folk Festival

Music fans - get ready for one of the best days of the summer! The Rhode Island Folk Festival is back at Crescent Park in Riverside, East Providence on Sunday, August 30, from noon to 6pm. The free, …
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Westerly Gallery Makes Room for Peace This September

What does peace look like when 50-plus artists get a say? This September, the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly (ACGOW) answers that question with “Making Peace,” a month-long …
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Dutch Filmmakers Find Common Ground at Providence’s RIIFF

A little piece of the Netherlands arrived at the Providence Place Mall Saturday night when a double feature of Dutch films played at Providence’s Apple Cinema through the 44th annual Flickers’ …
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Gordon School Librarian Inspires a Picture Book About Everyday Magic

At Gordon School, magic starts with a tap. A wooden book outside the library invites students to “Touch this page and magic will happen,” a tradition that has sent generations of curious hands …
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