News

News at what cost?

Local reporters and community members discuss ABC6's viral woman-attacks-news crew story. Plus, a talk with Melisa Lawrence
A 16-year-old girl is shot at a graduation party. Days later, after the shooter (also 16) turns himself in, a young TV news reporter heads to the home of the shooting victim’s mother’s in search of a comment.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 13, 2013

Slipping and sliding for Pride on Allens Ave

Club sports
Jacqueline DiMera — “Rhode Island’s Drag Sweetheart” — is wearing a red sequined dress and a healthy coat of eye shadow. And, at the moment, she’s strutting the length of the dance floor at Hush, a dimly lit, techno-thumping strip club across from a scrapyard on Allens Ave. in Providence.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 13, 2013

In it for the honey

Urban beekeeping
The flavor of the honey produced by Grove St. Apiary, according to its proprietor Peter Lutz, is in part attributable to the linden trees common to the West Side of the Providence. Bees don’t have to travel far to collect a variety of plant pollens in such a concentrated urban environment, Lutz says, so his honey is uniquely dense and flowery.

By: VIKKI WARNER | June 12, 2013

Kafkaesque

Maniacal machinations in Foxboro; facts are stupid things
It was only fitting that when the New England Patriots signed professional God-botherer Tim Tebow on Tuesday, they let go of back-up quarterback Mike Kafka. Tebow’s coming to the Pats was indeed a disorienting metamorphosis moment that old Franz K. and Gregor Samsa would have recognized.

By: PHILLIPE AND JORGE | June 12, 2013

Summer Guide: Full steam ahead

These New England alterna-races involve more than running
Are you ready for the Goruck Challenge? Or the Urban Dare??

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: Get comfy on the grass

Outdoor music to get your mellow (and aggro) on
The lazy, the restless, the cheapskates, yuppies, ravers, snobs, and prudes: the magic of the outdoor summer concert ecosystem is that it offers very nearly everyone who doesn't care about exquisite sound quality a reason to get out of their house or state for a day, evening, or weekend.

By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: Action!...and...action!

Mayhem rules the summer box office
When director Steven Soderbergh delivered the keynote address at the San Francisco International Film Festival in April, he identified the culprit behind what he sees as the dismal state of cinema: audiences' thirst for carnage and studios' zeal to quench it.

By: ELIZABETH GREENWOOD | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: The lo-down on froyo

Weighing the existential question of the summer
By the time you finish reading this article, another froyo lounge may have opened in Rhode Island.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: Fairs and festivals

Plus, celebrations, circuses, and other seasonal happenings
From Zoobilee: Feast with the Beasts to the Charlestown Seafood Festival

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: The sound of music

A magnificent menu of awesome audio options
From Boz Scaggs to Gogol Bordello

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 06, 2013

Summer Guide: That's entertainment!

Laughs, leaps, cinema, and thespians galore
From Bill Maher to 'Boeing Boeing'

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 05, 2013

Summer Guide: Look at that!

A win-win: Get out of the heat and into the art
Installations, mixed media, and 'The American Muse'

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 05, 2013

A journalism 'giant' sits for an exit interview

As the ' ProJo ' Turns
Robert Whitcomb set a ground rule before our interview about his retirement as longtime ' Providence Journal ' vice president and editorial page editor. He would talk about industry trends, he wrote in an email, but he would "NOT" talk about the paper's internal operations.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 05, 2013

'Street Sights' sends up a distress flare

A vital voice
It's Saturday afternoon at the George Hunt H.E.L.P. Center in downtown Providence, and the staff of ' Street Sights ' is sitting around a conference table, brainstorming ways for the paper to survive.

By: PHILIP EIL | June 05, 2013

Poker faces

Chafee ups the ante; colorful language; road worriers
May 30, when Governor Linc Chafee officially changed his party affiliation from Independent to Democrat, cannot have been a good day for Providence Mayor Angel Taveras or state General Treasurer Gina Raimondo.

By: | June 05, 2013

Save your banana peels, save the landfill

Food Scraps Dept.
According to the EPA, the average American generates more than 140 pounds of food scraps a year, the vast majority of which end up in local landfills.

By: ZACH GREEN | May 29, 2013

A professor maps out a smuggler nation

Contraband
In the epilogue of his recently published book, ' Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America ,' Peter Andreas describes an informal poll he took with his "Politics of the Illicit Global Economy" students at Brown University.

By: PHILIP EIL | May 29, 2013

Corporations as (unconscionable) people

Citizens, unite; the Mashapaug bash; peace, justice, and the red bandana
Abel Collins, program manager of the state's Sierra Club and former Congressional candidate, has a new initiative underway: trying to amend the Vo Dilun Constitution to say that a corporation isn't a person and political spending isn't speech.

By: | May 29, 2013

The real Rhode Island

A new wave of grassroots documentaries captures Ocean State life, from Haven Bros. to the Ladd School to Fanny the Elephant
There are no red carpets, flashing cameras, stilettos, or sparkling dresses tonight. Instead, at the Woonsocket Public Library on an overcast Wednesday evening, a small group hovers around a metal A/V cart, trying to figure out the right combination of wires to make the digital projector spark to life.

By: PHILIP EIL | May 22, 2013