Ruthie Foster has spent decades making music that moves freely between blues, gospel, soul, and folk. With a commanding voice and songs that find hope in difficult moments, the Texas …
New Harvest has been part of the morning routine since 2001, which is enough time to outlast several coffee trends and a few questionable milk alternatives. Founders Rik Kleinfeldt and Paula Anderson …
In Rhode Island, dinner often comes with a side of history and, if you’re lucky, a ghost story or two. From centuries-old taverns to seaside inns, these local favorites prove that great food …
Mohegan Sun is turning 30 this month, and the Uncasville, Connecticut resort is planning a celebration worthy of the milestone. Two October weekends are bringing major concerts to the arena, along …
No, you weren’t hearing things — that was indeed yodelling ringing out of the Narragansett Casino Theater the nights of August 28th and 29th. Mostly laughter, yes, but yodelling too, as the …
The Steel Yard is giving its 20th Iron Pour a three-act build, and by the finale, giant metal sculptures will be burning. This year, the Providence industrial arts nonprofit is stretching its …
Supporting someone after abuse rarely comes down to one phone call, one court case, or one safe place to stay. Housing, legal protections, health care, workplace policies, technology, and financial …
The quickest way to find out where Providence wants to eat might be to look for the tables that aren’t available. OpenTable updated its Diners’ Choice: Most Booked list for Providence County …
Rhode Island grows a lot more than apples, and RI Grown Week is a good excuse to prove it. From October 5-11, farms, markets, orchards, and local makers around the state put everything from cut …
By next spring, Centreville Bank Stadium will be trading corner kicks for kickoffs. The United Football League announced that Rhode Island will join its 2027 season, bringing professional spring …
Airstreams usually suggest campgrounds, but Sézane is bringing French fashion to Fountain Street in one instead. Beginning tomorrow, September 25, the Parisian brand will park its En Route pop-up …
A global ocean-tech event is crossing the Atlantic for the first time, and Newport is where it plans to land.
Ocean Business USA will run September 28-30, 2027, at Safe Harbor New England …
October at Providence Children’s Museum is shaping up to be a little less finger paint and a little more tarot cards and reptiles. The museum’s calendar stretches from an adults-only night with …
A brewery anniversary could call for cake, but Grey Sail went with a new IPA instead. The Westerly brewery marks 15 years this fall, tracing the milestone back to November 11, 2011, when it tapped …
Fall drinking has a way of getting darker, toastier, and a little more dessert-adjacent as the weather cools. Citrus steps aside for apple, coffee, baking spice, dark fruit, and the kinds of pours …
Back-to-school shopping looks a little different when someone else picks up the entire classroom wish list.
At Alfred Lima Sr. Elementary School in Providence, New England Patriots quarterback …
Some shopping lists are better left unwritten, especially when nearly 100 vintage booths are involved. That’s the situation at WaterFire Arts Center October 3 and 4, when Little City Thrifty …
Few childhood activities have the staying power of a fresh tub of Play-Doh. The colors eventually mingle into one mysterious shade, the tiny plastic tools disappear, and somehow there’s always a …
Fnishing a good book often comes with one problem: finding someone who actually wants to hear all the thoughts it produced. Providence Public Library has an answer for that, with book clubs built …
Expect a high-powered evening of great music when Providence-based blues trio GA-20 takes the Narrows Center stage on Saturday, September 26. The Fall RIver, MA show wraps up the U.S. leg of the …
When to Pick Your Favorite Rhode Island Apples
Honeycrisp fans, Macoun loyalists, pie planners, and Rhode Island Greening hunters each have their moment
Apple people have opinions.
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Fall drives through southern Rhode Island have a way of turning the scenic route into the preferred one. During the HopArts Studio Trail, those back roads come with another reason to pull over: …
The 28th Rhythm & Roots Festival sent summer out on a high note, bringing three days of music, dancing, food, and plenty of familiar and new faces to Ninigret Park in Charlestown over Labor Day …
An ice rink hosting an R&B block party while a gospel choir prepares to perform with Big Freedia sounds less like a carefully coordinated civic festival than a particularly busy Providence group …
The quickest way to find Olde Mistick Village on September 19 and 20 may be to skip the map and follow the garlic. For one weekend, the open-air Mystic village gets considerably more fragrant as …
In a sea of rapid-fire communication, be a thoughtful card and let someone know you’re thinking of them in a tangible way.
Thinking of You Week (September 21–27, 2026) is an international …
Providence has seen plenty of pumpkins, but 5,000 of them trying out their best dad jokes is a different kind of fall tradition. This October, Roger Williams Park Zoo’s Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular …
My early childhood was filled with sounds of the Laurel Canyon music scene emitting through the living room stereo speakers. This was the genre of my eldest sister Betsy, a lifelong fan of recording …
A fruit that spends most of the year minding its own business has developed quite the following in Southern New England. On September 12, fig growers from around the region will gather in Tiverton …
The moon may have been a waning crescent in early August in Providence, but the Apple Theater was under the spell of Lunar Sway , the new film written and directed by Nick Butler that screened as …
The Rhythm and Roots Festiva l returns to Ninigret Park in Charlestown this Labor Day Weekend, September 4-6, bringing an all-star musical lineup, great food, exciting vendors, and good vibes all …
After years of Rhode Island moviegoers hearing characters talk about traffic jams on Sunset and flights leaving JFK, the audience at RIIFF’s Friday night’s screening of Bottled Up cheered for …
The lawn chairs may be a little sun-faded by now, but their season isn’t over yet. October brings another round of food truck gatherings around Rhode Island and just over the border, with giant …
Peter Pots Pottery has spent nearly eight decades making the kind of mugs and dinnerware that quietly become part of everyday life. About 10 years ago, the West Kingston potters added a few ceramic …
Labor Day weekend usually comes with an unspoken assignment: fit in one more very summery thing before everyone starts discussing cider doughnuts. Track 15 has an appropriately Rhode Island …
“Is dreaming of yesterday enough to understand today?” This was the structuring question for the Providence Apple Cinemas’ programming of the Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), …
Music fans - get ready for one of the best days of the summer! The Rhode Island Folk Festival is back at Crescent Park in Riverside, East Providence on Sunday, August 30, from noon to 6pm. The free, …
What does peace look like when 50-plus artists get a say?
This September, the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly (ACGOW) answers that question with “Making Peace,” a month-long …
A little piece of the Netherlands arrived at the Providence Place Mall Saturday night when a double feature of Dutch films played at Providence’s Apple Cinema through the 44th annual Flickers’ …
At Gordon School, magic starts with a tap. A wooden book outside the library invites students to “Touch this page and magic will happen,” a tradition that has sent generations of curious hands …