Radical Roots Farm Leans on the Past to Ensure a More Sustainable Future

by Amber Ma

For the last few years, Radical Roots has been selling pasture-raised meat at farmers markets in Providence. In the summer, they are at the Armory Farmers Market in Providence’s West End neighborhood and from November through May, the Wintertime Market on 10 Sims Avenue. Alycia [...]

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 [...]

Cultivating Community: How Hope + Main Empowers Providence’s Food Entrepreneurs

by Margaret Rizzuto

Alison Mountford’s passion, not only for her work, but for Hope + Main’s mission and, most importantly, for its members, is infectious.. As Hope + Main’s Director of Marketing & Communications, she embraces people with big dreams and small business ideas, who come together with [...]

Poetry Out Loud

by Phil Whistle

Still time to sign up your school! Calling on High School teachers to register for the state Poetry Out Loud recitation competition Deadline to apply is Nov. 17 The national Poetry Out Loud recitation competition engages thousands of Rhode Island high school students each year, [...]

CHOP – Great Food, Community, and Training All in One Innovative Space

by Amber Ma

CHOP (Culinary Hub of Providence) is now open for dinner. Located at the corner of Washington and Empire Streets inside the Providence Public Library, CHOP offers visitors a delicious, mission-driven dining experience in a stylish, welcoming space. High, open ceilings and dark gray concrete flooring [...]

Leave Your Old Ideas About Aging at the Door

by Ellen Welty

Mildred Nichols, founding member of the Rhode Island Women’s Political Caucus: “I’m an elderly woman, I guess, though I don’t feel elderly.” Linda Miller, the woman behind what is now the Providence non-profit Inspiring Minds: “When people call me ‘hon’ and ‘sweetie’, I just explain, [...]

Community MusicWorks’ New Building in the West End Opens Its Doors Very VERY Wide

by Carole Saltz

“We never really had a place where all the things happened together…. Now we do. Now, you literally see what’s going on in the performance space. There are windows on all four sides on two levels so there’s always permeability between this very special space [...]

The Historic Newport Navy Sex Scandal of 1919 Resurfaces in an Immersive Musical Documentary Experience

by Ruthie Wood

Newport, February 1919, Chief Machinist’s Mate Ervin Arnold is transferred to Naval Station Newport. Arnold has severe arthritis, and he almost immediately checks into the hospital for medical attention. There, he overhears snippets of a thriving underground subculture within the Navy: drinking, partying, drugs, cross-dressing, [...]

History Under Our Feet: Unearthing Providence’s Past

by Ruth Marris-Macaulay

Did you know there was a prison under the Providence Place Mall, an early customs house below Hemenway’s Restaurant on South Water Street, or a red-light district beneath the Providence train station?  In the winter of 1981-1982, architectural historian Myron Stachiw worked on a site [...]

A Stellar Tribute to Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: Sylvia Ann Soares’ Captivating Performance

by Judith Clinton

In an evening that will be remembered for years to come, Sylvia Ann Soares delivered an awe-inspiring performance of her one-woman show, “Defiance! Art and Life,” at the RISD Museum Auditorium. The portrayal of Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, an artist whose life was marked by immense [...]