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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …