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Neighborhoods
To Address Housing Shortage, Revolving Fund Sees Repairing, Not Just Building, As Crucial Strategy
In Greek mythology, there is the story of the Hydra—a snakelike monster with nine heads. It is formidable not only for its many snapping jowls, but also for its regenerative abilities. For every head chopped off, [...]
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No Business like Snow Business
It’s easy (and, admit it, enjoyable) to complain about the city’s snow plowing performance after a winter storm. But give some thought to challenges involved and perhaps you’ll take a deep breath before popping off about [...]
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Music From Junk
Making musical instruments out of recycled or discarded materials, ergo junk, is a worldwide phenomenon. There are entire orchestras in Venezuela and other relatively impoverished cultures, where children use junk instruments to participate in orchestras of [...]
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Letters to the Editor 01.22
To the Editor: Your article about dual language and ESL programs was very interesting. However, there is one important fact that was omitted: there are students for whom Spanish is [...]
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Arts/Food/Culture
Toaster’s Collective Bakery Leavens Delicious Bread and Community
In the late 2010s, Toni Jonas Silver and Anya Talatinian were talented bakers on the bread team at the formerly [...]
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Arts/Food/Culture
Girls and Boys [and Mom]
Let’s start with the recommendation: Girls & Boys now showing at the Gamm Theatre is a powerful one-person show with [...]
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Neighborhoods
How is Providence’s Historic Aesthetic Maintained?
Providence has 8 historic districts covering over 2,600 documented properties. These designations mean owners who want to make a change [...]
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Education
Legacy Laws Are Hurting Providence Public School Students
Failing urban students is a time-honored habit in Rhode Island, first documented exhaustively in the 1993 ProBE report. The equally [...]
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Arts/Food/Culture
New Interactive Art Project Shows Providence Through a Blind Lens
When Daniel Solomon first arrived at Brown University, he noticed students had few opportunities on campus to interact with blind [...]
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Environment
Stormwater Runoff Now Getting City and Resident Focus
This year, it has rained 55 inches in Providence so far, and with the projected rainfall in the remainder of [...]
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