JWU Makes Providence A Culinary Destination

by Margaret Rizzuto

Thomas Delle Donne, Assistant Dean at Johnson & Wales University’s College of Food Innovation & Technology (CFIT) sat down recently with the PVD Eye for a conversation about food, technology, chefs, and chemistry–and all that lies between in our city’s vibrant restaurant scene.  We also [...]

Toaster’s Collective Bakery Leavens Delicious Bread and Community

by Amber Ma

In the late 2010s, Toni Jonas Silver and Anya Talatinian were talented bakers on the bread team at the formerly beloved, but now defunct Olga’s Bakery on Point Street in Providence. Shortly after Olga’s shut their doors at the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic [...]

Girls and Boys [and Mom]

by Mark Binder

Let’s start with the recommendation: Girls & Boys  now showing at the Gamm Theatre is a powerful one-person show with a stellar performance by Donnla Hughes. Blending (fictional) Moth-like storytelling with a heartrending twist, it is a riveting emotional rollercoaster ride. It’s a limited run, [...]

New Interactive Art Project Shows Providence Through a Blind Lens

by Lauren Clem

When Daniel Solomon first arrived at Brown University, he noticed students had few opportunities on campus to interact with blind or visually impaired people. The junior from Miami, who was born with ocular albinism and is legally blind, knew public education would be important to [...]

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, [...]