Four Years of Renting in Providence Have Left Me Feeling Vulnerable, Rootless, and Unsure I’ll Ever Afford A Home.

by Daniel Morris

Editor’s Note: Few issues are more pressing in Providence than housing.  This week we’re publishing two essays from renters in Providence. They continue a conversation that began — for us, in the Eye’s Readers Voices section, at least — last year, with essays arguing for [...]

In The Wake of Our Tragedy, Hateful Conspiracies Flourished. This, Too, Was Terrifying.

by Daniel Morris

In recent days, while Providence residents reeled from the horrors that unfolded at Brown on December 13, a different horror was playing out on social media. A wave of racist and bigoted conspiratorial tweets emerged blaming Islam, “leftism”, and “wokeness,” for the shooting. Large conspiratorial [...]

Gaming in Providence Seeks Inclusion

by Daniel Morris

In the same decades when so many forms of entertainment went electric or digital, games played on tabletops, on boards, grew, nationally, into a fifteen-billion-dollar industry by 2023.  Ryan Praditkamollert, 34, of East Providence, began playing board and card games with friends regularly over ten [...]