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“A Homecoming”: Elmwood Community Center to Reopen After Seven Years With New Computer Lab, Learning Center
An “anchor” of Ward 9 is opening up to community use for the first time since 2019. On Friday, the Elmwood Community Center unveiled new renovations including a computer lab and upgrades to the building’s basic mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. The center is already [...]
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Apr
Apr
Divestment and Democracy: Activists Attempt to Use Providence Ballot Initiative to Fight Against Genocide
“Today’s the day!” On March 27, staff at the Providence City Clerk office greeted about 15 activists delivering signatures of 1,200 Providence residents. The signatures represent the first step in a ballot initiative to ask voters a question in the upcoming November election: Will the [...]
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Apr
Apr
Local News Sites Launch Collaborative
Six Newsrooms Band Together to Strengthen Local News Coverage Editor’s Note: The following is a press release announcing the launch of Rhode Island News Collaborative (RINC), of which The Providence Eye is a founding member. Six independent newsrooms announce the formation of the Rhode Island [...]
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Apr
Apr
Right-to-Know 101: How You Can Request Public Records, and Why It Matters
A guide for anyone who wants to request local or state information The press plays an important role in holding the government accountable, but the public does too, by keeping an eye on their local and state officials. In 2021, a Webster, N.H., couple uncovered [...]
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Apr
Apr
Brown University’s Security Review Enters Final Phase. How Will Campus Change?
Brown University students returned to a different campus in January. New emergency phones appeared in front of their dorms. Twice as many police officers were on patrol. Private security guards checked for school IDs as they entered the library. New cameras watched them travel to [...]
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Apr
Apr
The Wilbury’s “The Comeuppance” Delivers Meaningful, Urgent Theatre
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “The Comeuppance” is a darkly comic, post-pandemic reunion drama that cuts with the precision of a scalpel and the force of a gut punch. In The Wilbury Theatre Group’s riveting production, five former high school outsiders gather on a front porch in suburban [...]
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Apr
Apr
Watching Controversy from the Other Wall: Providence Mural Community Reflects on Role of Public Art
A 43-foot tall, 38-foot wide mural on the side of Downtown bar The Dark Lady shows an outline of a blond woman framed by blue geometric shapes. Just one eye is finished—the rest of the face remains a beige and blue outline. The bottom of [...]
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Apr
Apr
In Twice Born, Hester Kaplan Merges Biography and Memoir to Understand Her Elusive Father
The opening entry in the magisterial compendium begun in 1855 and now known as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an excerpt from “The Song of the Harper,” a poem found in the tomb of the Egyptian king Intef. Dating to around 2600 BCE, the poem speaks [...]
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Apr
Apr
Factory on the Woonasquatucket Being Transformed into 500-Person Capacity Baptist Church
A new cupola sits on top of a large brick building on Kinsley Avenue, and on the inside, the shape looks like a cross. The structure lets light shine down into the second floor, which will soon open up into a new mezzanine that looks [...]
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Apr
Apr
Why Some Communities Don’t Trust the Media — And What Newsrooms Are Doing about It
Editor’s Note: To commemorate the upcoming celebration of Local News Day on April 9, The Eye is reprinting select articles from a series titled “Know Your News” by Granite State News Collaborative. About: Know Your News is a Granite State News Collaborative and NENPA Press [...]
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