If you answered, “Must Be Santa” give yourself a star (we also would have accepted Hunter Thompson as a correct answer). And then be sure to check out this new straight-up weird Bob Dylan music video for his Christmas song of the same name.
It’s quite hard to say at first [...]
Meet Maryalice Huggins, author of Aesop’s Mirror, today at Books on the Square.
What antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she stumbled across the mirror at a country auction in Rhode Island was this: She was besotted. Rococo and huge (more than [...]
Meet Jennifer Gonsalves, site manager of the Roger Williams National Memorial on North Main Street. She has posted a notice on the side blog that I feel merits greater attention. It reads in part,
. . . we have just [...]
Does that sign say “bacon wrapped pork meatloaf” and. . . “pork bellies with cheddar cheese sauce?!” Why, bless their thumping little hearts, it’s like the last 30 years never happened. The hell with turkey, this is what I want [...]
Bill Mott, social enterpriser (founder of The Ocean Project), committed environmentalist (founder of Providence Green Drinks), and city resident would like to see the city become a little more creative in how it runs the government. Writing for RI’s Future,
Earlier [...]
The opening has been delayed due to the morning rain, but it should be in good shape by Saturday morning. Between 11am and 2pm 50% of proceeds benefit Skate for Joy, a non-profit that provides skating lessons [...]
We’re finally waging war at the 54th parallel — against the Asian Carp. They’ve breached our first line of defense, an underwater electric fence. Next maneuver: chemical warfare.
For a sense of why we hate them so:
But if you wanna see a fish that really flies:
[...]In the interest of moving the words ‘Seacrest’, ‘Clarkson’ and ‘Lite’ at least a little further down the page, and because I have not put up a video in while, I give you the Upper Crust who performed at Jerky’s recently and brought down the house. I love these guys.
[...]Is anybody listening to the radio this afternoon? I ask because something kind of nuts just happened on 92 PRO-FM.
Maybe, I don’t know, half an hour ago, just as I was finishing my drive-time singalong with Kelly Clarkson’s “Already Gone”*, the DJ (I think David Jones) came on with a [...]
Hosts David Higgins and Nicole LeDuc welcome you to Blood from a Turnip, November style. Enjoy the late night puppet salon that has lasted longer than some marriages.
$5, 10pm, Friday, Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street
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Friday — @RISD Tap Room, Juiceboxxx, MNDR, Kokomo @AS220, Minky Starshine, the Red Attire, To the Depths, Last One Standing @the 201, Larry’s Larry’s Larry’s (see below) @Jerky’s, the Empire Shall Fall (cd release), Joint Damage, Diecast, Anubis Unbound, Burning the Canvas @the Blackstone, [...]
Strange shenanigans are afoot at the 201 Friday night with the “return” of superdeejay Larry (no last name given, or apparently required) and his solid gold (possibly literally) dancers and world-class superdeejay crew. From the “official” FB page:
Before Local 121, AS220, The Firehouse, AfroSonic, LoveLife, [...]
First in a series: I call this ‘Stephen and Chris install a new lamppost in Wayland Square’.
[...]Roger Williams National Memorial is at a very important point in its development and we NEED your input, advice, guidance, and great ideas. Working with the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, we have just completed the final [...]
Recently reunited trio Scarce have been playing here and there for the last year-and-a-half or so, and tomorrow night they’re going to be at Jerky’s. As part of the wave of Boston-area alternative bands to get major record deals in the mid-nineties, things looked really promising for Scarce until [...]
Good news for map lovers. As reported here last September, the building that houses the Map Center was the scene of a pretty impressive fire, but Andrew Nosal is up and running again and he has some great deals. Now thru [...]
The first solo album by the Knife’s Karen Dreijer Andersson (recorded under the name Fever Ray) is one of the year’s best. Creepy beats, absurdly distorted vocals, and a persistent sense of fear don’t make for easy listening, but the album is compelling from start to [...]
Tomorrow night at the Providence Athenaeum, I’ll be hosting the prize reading for the Not About The Buildings Second Annual Writing Prize. In a crazy turn of events that seriously had nothing whatsoever to do with me, the prize was awarded (by an outside judge who [...]
RIPTA has announced that the paving is going ahead of schedule, and that Kennedy Plaza should re-open on Monday, 11/23.
[...]
The Projo is generally correct in its take on the city’s new recycling program.
(Despite the strange speculative asides — like suggesting that it’s “perhaps” the same inertia that discourages people from voting that has them complaining here. More than half of the residents of this city [...]
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$5 or free before 11 with your RSVP to gimmegoosebumps@gmail.com. (Include your first and last name)
10pm, 21+, Wednesday, Lot 401, 44 Hospital Street
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If you’re equally pissed-off about Governor Carcieri’s deplorable, inhumane veto of the domestic partners’ funeral rights bill last week, come out and show it this Thursday, November 19th. From the Facebook invite:
On Tuesday November 10, 2009 Governor Donald Carcieri killed a bill that would allow [...]
UPDATE: The Colbert footage is now posted, here.
ORIGINAL: During last night’s Word, over the funeral rights bill. We’ll post the footage when it goes up on their website. For now, here’s Cypress Hill’s new song, written in response to the Don’s recent doings. Sad as it’s been, it’s [...]
Photo swiped from GCPVD, where you might as well head for the rest of the details.
Brown CS Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck – a world-renowned pioneer in optimization technology – founded Providence-based Dynadec in 2008 to help businesses optimize the decisions and processes critical to [...]
A recent study shows that we’re tops in the country on federal spending dedicated to pedestrian and biker safety, and one of the safest metro areas for walkers and bikers
Drivers around here are indeed out of their gourds, but we manage to do [...]
He Don us proud again! In the face of some serious competition, AfterElton.com just named Carcieri their Asshat of the Week, beating out the formidable Michelle Malkin and the Washington Times.
And they did up a nice graphic montage to commemorate the moment:
[...]With just thirty-nine shopping days left, Lite Rock 105 has switched to its perennially grating all-Christmas format. It’s thorn in the side of office workers and non-Christians everywhere, not to mention people that have ears and don’t like hearing sixty-eight different versions of Silent Night each and every day.
Cleverly, though, [...]
There was a pretty comprehensive article in the NYTimes last week which I’d meant to post about, detailing the 195 relocation and some of the policy debates that have followed from it. It gives a welcome chunk of space to the conversation in Fox Point, and [...]
The top of this guy’s head looks just like Andrew W.K. Actually, the front of his head looks like Andrew W.K. Hmm . . . might have to check this out.
‘I Love You’ is noisy diy punk with thumpin’ [...]
Is it South Asian Identity Week already? Gosh, the last year just flew by. Kick things off with a little Bollywood and come away with a more comprehensive understanding of what’s really going on besides the awesome music and dancing. [...]
Providence city councilman, Cliff Wood, sends out an open invitation to come poke around the shiny new Nathan Bishop. This should be of interest to the neighbors who advocated for the renovation, prospective parents and students, [...]
Friday — @201, Master of Pussy, the Tanks, Head of Horns, Blood Sacrafice [sic] Omnivore @the Blackstone, Stalemate, Tip the Van, The Flawed, Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes @Club Hell, Senior Discount, SBT, the Down and Outs, the Bubblegum Villains @AS220, SWC, Manni [...]
We’ve been asked to make sure that it’s known that this week’s salon, and events at the Athenaeum more generally, are open to Daily Dose readers, with free admission.
SALON - Series: So, What’s the Story?
Friday, 11/13, 5-7pm
Part Five: Candy Adriance on the long and [...]
Can you plug those things in? And who was the first woman to say “Screw the laundry, I’m rockin’ out.”? Get the weekend started tonight at AS220 with some music. Moaning Creek delves into the sounds of Appalachia and the Delta for [...]
In “Oh my God this world is going to hell in a handbasket” news, some rassafrassing so-and-so has stolen the wheelchair belonging to a special needs three-year old on the south side.
The ProJo reports that on Monday morning, the boy’s brother brought the chair out [...]
Shake your booty, open your wallet. Peter Asen of Ocean State Action invites extroverts, uninhibited dancers, and orthodox thinkers to the Fifth Annual Rock the Boat for Justice Dance Party. The party starts at 7pm at Rosinha’s Restaurant in the Hope Artiste [...]
As we accrue more evidence of this joke-of-a-governor’s detest for civil liberties, I’m reminded to wonder: How did he ever manage to live down his mini Patriot Act of 2004?
The 18-page bill included language from ill-considered laws dating back to World War I — a time [...]
I’m probably the least into the Low Anthem of all the people here on the Dose staff, so I have no idea why it took a blog in another country to alert me to this extremely lovely new stop-motion video for the song “Charlie Darwin”. The video was created [...]
Last Sunday was the Season Three premiere of Metalocalypse and it seems that the creative ambitions have expanded with the new 30-minute time slot. First a quibble with the people at Adult Swim — what is with the unbelievably lame [...]
Farm City, City Farm: Tales in Urban Farming from Farmer-Author Novella Carpenter and Farmer Rich Pederson
Join Southside Community Land Trust and Slow Food RI for a evening of stories — trials, tribulations, and triumphs — from two talented urban farmers; Novella Carpenter, author [...]
[Update: I'll bump this up as a reminder. Might be fun. BC]
At last, our long national nightmare is over. They have already had a ’soft’ opening — always a good idea for working out the bugs, so to' [...]
But let’s stop creating them. The BBC production ‘The Last Day of World War I’ features Joseph Persico whose book ‘Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax’ inspired the show. The armistice document had been [...]
But let’s stop creating them. The BBC production ‘The Last Day of World War I’ features Joseph Persico whose book ‘Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax’ inspired the show. The armistice document had been [...]
Figuring out the world together — come learn about the hot environmental issues of the day from regional experts. What does ‘climate change’ mean for you, and what can you do about it? Join Sandra Brownell, of the Environmental Protection Agency, and other [...]
UPDATE: Item #3 here was a little confusing, so here’s a blurb on it by Jim Taricani, who spoke to Senate sponsor, the super-duper Rhoda Perry.
ORIGINAL, 11/10: The governor just vetoed 3 bills which I sponsored, and which passed over the mini-session a couple [...]
All are welcome — the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition is holding a community meeting for patients, caregivers, advocates, and anyone else interested in learning more about medical marijuana. Whether for yourself or for someone in your care, this is an ideal [...]
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