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Le Jazz La France L'amour L'Premiere
Trinity Stages "Paris by Night"

Trinity Rep is staging the world premiere of Artistic Director Curt Columbus' original gay love story, Paris by Night. Columbus wrote the book and lyrics with music by Andre Pluess and Amy Warren. ...

Experience the Blackstone River
Boats Return to the Blackstone

The 49-passenger Blackstone Valley Explorer and an authentic British canal boat the Samuel Slater have resumed operations on the Blackstone River at Central Falls Landing located at the corner of Broad Street and Madeira Avenue. River Engineer, Ramon Rodrigues with the assistance from LJ Crane & Rigging Company returned the boats to the Blackstone River in Central Falls on May 1. ...

Conimicut Point Park
A photo gallery of a pocket-sized park with bay-wide views
Photos by Paul Pence
A little park in Warwick provides wonderful views of two lighthouses and the bay, swimming, fishing, and serinity...

Saratoga Museum Adds Exhibit
Graphic display panels depicting the naval history of WWII

The US Naval Academy has transferred one of its most significant exhibits to the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation for permanent display here in Rhode Island. The donation consists of interpretive/educational signage plus a number of museum-quality display cases. The collection includes more than 30 large panels, consisting of photos, texts and interpretive graphics, which tell and show the history of the US Navy during World War II and the Cold War. ...

More Joy of Art in Newport
Newport Gallery Night Continues Through the Summer

Want to enjoy the warm weather of May? Well, how about spending a lovely Thursday night strolling downtown and experiencing the diversity of art in Newport. Thursday, May 8, 2008 from 5 until 8 in the evening is Newport Gallery Night. Hands-on demonstrations, talented artists, and displays will be available at participating galleries all around the city. A map and brochure for the night is readily available at each participating gallery, online at www.newportgalleries.org, in hotels, inns, and many other local venues. ...

Staying Fresh on the Road
One-Day Stay Travel Packets for Her and Him
Product Review by Linda Eagleson
Finally, a company that has developed a really neat invention for those frequent flyers, last minute meetings and secret rendezvous that requires a quick refresher. Something that comes in a small container, is easy to pack and isn't that expensive. It's called One Day Stay Travel Packets for Him and Her. ...

Natural ADHD and ADD Relief
Evidence is mounting that dietary changes may help children control their Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder at least as well as Ritalin does. Evidence also shows that some dietary changes - like increased Omega-3 consumption - can also enhance learning skills in children who do not have ADHD.

Web Site Brings Disabled Community Together
Most young men spend their days working, hanging out with friends and doing their favorite hobbies. At age 23, Daniel Lifshen was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and found himself wondering if his future would still contain all these activities. He found a supportive community online.

Guy's High Tech Secret to Great Skin
Tired of all the creams that don't work? Here's a better way to get rid of pimples.

More May from the Archives!

A Housekeeper Who Won't Clean
Trinity Presents "A Clean House" Through June 3

Trinity Rep presents "The Clean House" by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Laura Kepley in the intimate Dowling Theater through June 3. Playwright Ruhl was hailed by The New York Times as “a provocative new theatrical voice,” and recently named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. In The Clean House, Lane, a career-oriented doctor hires a quirky Brazilian maid. The only problem is that the maid, Matilde, hates to clean but loves a good joke. Director Laura Kepley sums up this illuminating comedy as "an invitation to look at the state of our own houses – our love lives, our families, our relationships –and learn to embrace the chaos we can't control." ...

The Moby Dick Project
Mixed Magic Theater Brings the Wisom of Moby Dick to Urban Youth

Mixed Magic Theatre's Artistic Director Ricardo Pitts-Wiley has one whale of a goal to encourage 10,000 people statewide to read or re-read Herman Melville's great American novel. The Moby Dick Project's mission is to "bring together high school students, artists, scholars, members of the business community, and English, history, and literature teachers to read and discuss this great American novel and attend Mixed Magic Theatre's stage adaptation of the novel." ...

Hotel Viking Dishes Up New Canine Room Service
Landmark Hotel Lavishes Modern Day Dogs to the Max

Whether your canine traveling companion is named Rex, Bowser, Spot, Asta, Toto, Lassie, or Tramp, Hotel Viking has just started a new program to pamper your "pup-on-vacation" as much or better than you do at home. Doesn't every dog deserve organic gourmet food when he enjoys hotel living in Newport? ...

Spring in the Crabapple Orchard
URI Celebrates with the 5th Annual East Farm Spring Festival
By Todd McLeish
From weeds to ticks, from flowers to cuddly animals, from environmental do's to ecological don’ts — all of that and more will be available Saturday, May 12 when the 5th Annual East Farm Spring Festival is held. ...

Keeping Them Galloping
The Carousel Horses at Roger Williams Park Get a Checkup
By Marcia Maynard
I'm standing in the carousel building at Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island. It's early and quiet, before children bustle in for fun. Morning light streams through the large windows, reflecting off the horses. Mr. Fuller, carousel engineer, has already started working on the bimonthly check up of the ride. As I join him, he removes his greasy work gloves, tucking them into the pocket of his gray pants, and gives me an energetic handshake. ...

A Life for Art
A Westerly Artist Paints "All Creatures Great and Small"
By Sandi Gold
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face" said Bern Williams, American programmer and consultant. In 1993 I painted the mural, “The Temple of the Soul” in the Westerly Public Library and then erased it after being told I had less than year to live. In 1986 I was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and as an artist my goal was to express what I had learned. This show was covered by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Associated Press, People magazine and the National Public Radio along with ABC’s news show 20/20. I am an artist who uses my art to express what I have learned from the various experiences in my life. So why am I now painting animals? ...

Ballards Goes Green
Ballard's Inn Gears Up for Another Summer of Fun With a New Green Hotel Certification

Ballard's Inn, a Block Island summertime tradition will open for the 2007 summer season on Friday, May 25th. Ballard's will be open on weekends through June 10th, opening daily beginning June 15, 2007."We are very excited to kick off another summer at Ballard's," said Steven Filippi, Ballard's President. "With our traditional shore dinner, top-notch entertainment and our beautiful private beach, Ballard's is the perfect spot for families and friends to gather this summer." ...

A Dark Comedy in Rhode Island
Gamm Theater Presents Radio Free Emerson

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) presents the world premiere of Radio Free Emerson by Brown University graduate Paul Grellong through June 17. Set in Rhode Island, The Gamm’s first-ever commission is a raw, complex and often hilarious examination of the naked truth and its consequences. Gamm Resident Director Peter Sampieri (A Handwitch of the Second Stage, Crime and Punishment, Red Noses) helms the production, featuring Gamm Artistic Director Tony Estrella, Gamm Resident Actor Steve Kidd and, for the first time on the Gamm stage, Tanya Anderson. ...

Blurring the Line Between Science and Art
Woonsocket resident Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
By Michael Mullaney
Armed with a microscope, sharp eye, and knack for design, Woonsocket native Caitlin Piette isn’t shy about letting her creative side influence her work in the laboratory – and vice versa.A senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Piette will graduate May 19 with a major in biology, bioinformatics, and molecular biology. She takes just as much pride in her award-winning biology research as her role in the growing of Rensselaer’s student-run campus arts and music venue, Ground Zero. ...

Edible Providence
Johnson & Wales Students Make Providence in Bread

The final projects of 15 students in the baking & pastry arts bachelor's degree program at Johnson & Wales University look good enough to eat – but don't. They are works of art – decorative bread showpieces that range in shape, size and design. With some as high as three-feet, the collection of showpieces entitled "Providence: Rhode Island's Capital City," is now on exhibit at the Culinary Archives & Museum and will remain on display throughout the summer. ...

Providence is the Place for Fine Dining
Food & Wine and AAA’s Car & Travel magazine cite Providence as one of America's best dining destinations

“There’s been a thrilling change in the American culinary landscape,” states Food & Wine magazine in its June edition featuring Providence as one of America’s “truly dynamic food scenes.” The capital city has also captured the attention of AAA’s Car & Travel magazine, which names Providence one of “Five Cookin’ Cities” in its May edition. ...

Organized Mahem
Unexpected Company brings spontaneous comedy to the Ocean State
Entertainment Article By Paul Pence
Often, on Sunday evenings when I'm headed to bed, I mentally kick myself for once again missing a chance to laugh myself silly. That's because I missed yet another presentation of side-splitting comedy by Unexpected Company, the best Improv troupe in Rhode Island. ...

The House of Bernarda Alba
Five Daughters, One Dominating Mother, and A House Filled With Grief and Rage
Arts Article
For the eight years since her second husband died, Bernarda Alba ruled her family with an iron fist and a heavy cane, keeping the house sealed and her five daughters virtual prisoners. When Bernarda's eldest daughter, Angustias, comes into her inheritance, a handsome houseguest comes to court her, bringing the tensions of their cloistered existance to the point of implosion. ...

A Step into the Past
Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum
Article By Linda Eagleson
The American Indian has held a magical mystique for me. Their simple life styles, their belief system and their constant pursuit of happiness is a source of wonder for many. There are a multitude of museums located throughout the country that depict the history of these beloved people and the land that was once theirs. The museums are rich in culture, costumes, artifacts, tribal ware, hunting weapons, utensils, cultivation and their strong family bond that stands true even until this day. Every one of them tells the Indians' survival stories in a different way, but all of them say one important thing; that the Indian belief system was something worth pursuing ourselves. ...

Return of the Dinosaurs
Roger Williams Park Zoo Brings the Final Season of Dinos, Hollywood Style
Home & Family Article
This summer, Roger Williams Park Zoo will present DINOSAURS: HOLLYWOOD STYLE. It’s the encore – and final – summer of the zoo’s popular dinosaur display, where visitors will encounter seventeen moving, roaring robotic dinosaurs representing fifteen species, many of which have never been on display at the zoo before. ...

Newport RI
In Class of Its Own With These Four Experiences
Travel Article By Cliff Calderwood
Whether you’re out to experience the vibrant harbor area, relive the Gilded Age in a Newport Mansion, soak up the stunning views on Ocean Drive, or trek the famous Cliff Walk, then Newport RI is in a class of its own and your gateway to all this… and much more. ...

Boom! Splash!
The old Jamestown Bridge becomes history as first detonation takes place
Travel Article
Originally opened to traffic in 1940, the Jamestown Bridge was rendered structurally and functionally obsolete by the construction of the new Jamestown Bridge in 1992. The permits for building the new bridge required removing the old one, but due to funding problems, the old, narrow, rickety bridge remained. Until now. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) celebrated the detonation of the old Jamestown Bridge with hundreds of Rhode Islanders statewide. The controlled explosive demolition took place on April 18 after 10:30 a.m. bringing down the bridge's 1,100-foot main span. ...

A Selection of May Haiku
Anticipation of spring, spring flowers, and round stones all make subjects for these haiku and haiku-related poems
Poems By Patricia Wellingham-Jones and Davi Walders
Patricia Wellingham-Jones maintains a website featuring her work at www.wellinghamjones.com . Davi Walders' poetry and prose have appeared in more than 150 anthologies...

The Truth About Vinyasa Yoga
RI Yoga Expert Brings Understanding To Vinyasa Yoga
Health & Beauty Article By By Paul Jerard
Vinyasa is a Sanskrit word, which refers to breath and movement. For example each Yoga posture is matched by one breath. This is what you do when you perform Sun or Moon salutations, and these are also forms of Vinyasa Yoga. ...

It's Cyrano -- By A Nose!
Experience the power of romance at Trinity Rep
Arts Article
We all know the story of Cyrano de Bergerac -- the poetic swordsman with a huge nose. We've experienced it from time to time second hand -- from satire and copycats. But if you've never experienced Cyrano firsthand, it's time to get to Trinity Rep to see the play yourself. ...

MFA Row
Space at Alice and Peerless Lofts provide gallery space for the RISD grad students
Arts Article
On Thursday, June 3rd, in conjunction with GALLERY NIGHT, the SPACE AT ALICE presents the 4th annual MFA ROW, featuring a collection of thesis exhibitions of RISD Master of Fine Arts graduating students. The emerging artists and designers who are graduating this spring represent six RISD graduate departments: including Ceramics, Digital Media, Glass, Furniture, Sculpture and Photography. ...

A Beast or a Fool?
Art and Commerce collide with Hilarious results in the raucous, rhyming La Bête at the Gamm
Arts Article
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) will close its 2006 season La Bête, American playwright David Hirson's laugh-a-minute, award-winning French farce, a take-off on the work of the Moliere. Even the main character, Elomire, is named after Moliere, provided you're willing to unscramble the letters. ...

Waiting for Godot
2nd Story Theater celebrates 50 years of Samuel Beckett
Arts Article
"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett, opening at the 2nd Story Theater in Warren on May 25, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the play's Broadway premiere. Samuel Beckett's modern classic is the tragicomedy of Vladimir and Estragon who entertainingly contemplate life as they wait for one who may never arrive; this 'tragicomedy' balances a unique blend of vaudevillian slapstick with dazzling poetic prose. ...

Crouching Spider, Hidden Web
Confessions of an Anachnophobic
Humor Column By Amy Wink Krebs
An arachnophobic...one who believes that his/her world would do very nicely sans spiders. That's me. ...

RI Arts & Culture
You Never Know
A New Musical with an Award-Winning Pedigree Born In Providence

Trinity Rep offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness the world premiere of a new musical: Charles Strouse's You Never Know at Trinity Rep. This new musical has an award-winning pedigree with music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse, and will be brought to the stage under the guiding hand of director Amanda Dehnert with choreography by Christopher d'Amboise...

RI Travel & Tourism
Enhancements to Lush Bed and Breakfasts
Distinctive Differences in Newport’s Accommodations
By Linda S. Manning, Staff Writer
Newport houses more bed and breakfasts per square mile than any other tourist town with over 150 B&B's, inns, and guest houses for visitors to choose from. Setting one apart from another is the innkeepers and their personalities, the styles of the B&B's, the amenities offered, and of course the proximity to the area attractions, like the treasured waterfront...

RI Outdoors
Motoring on Newport Harbor and Narragansett Bay
Sights around the bay on an afternoon cruise
By Linda S. Manning, Staff Writer
What better way to enjoy a lazy afternoon than to board a privately chartered motor boat? Meander through the waters of Newport Harbor and inland Narragansett Bay for a glimpse of the elegant and graceful lighthouses used for guiding mariners for centuries. As you motor past unknown islands which have served as countless venues in the times of yore, the visual beauty creates a lost-in-time image in your mind.

RI History
More Reasons To Visit the Newport Mansions
New Tours and Exhibits for 2005

A refreshing Lunch and Garden Tour of The Elms, an expansion of the popular Elms After Hours Tour, and extended operating hours are among the new features awaiting visitors to the Newport Mansions for the 2005 season, which opens on Saturday, April 9. The 2005 season also marks the 60th Anniversary of the founding of The Preservation Society of Newport County...

RI Poetry
Molting
A poem of aging
By Marian Kaplun Shapiro
Born in 1939 in The Bronx (New York City), Marian Kaplun Shapiro received her B.A. in English (writing) from Queens College, and her Masters and Doctorate from Harvard. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where she practices as a psychologist and poet. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, and a Jewish Quaker. In addition to her poetry, which has appeared in various literary magazines, she is the author of a book, Second Childhood (Norton, 1989), a chapter in What Is Psychotherapy? (Jossey-Bass, 1990), and in Play (Wiley, 2002) and many journal articles.Since beginnning to send out her poetry four years ago her poems have appeared in twenty-nine journals and three anthologies...

RI Travel
TF Green Intermodal Transport Hub
URI community planning students spur development at T.F. Green Airport
By Todd McLeish
It has been nearly eight years since then-Governor Lincoln Almond proposed an intermodal train station adjacent to T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, and while the idea has generated enthusiasm and support, development of the project has not yet begun...

RI Family
TF Green Intermodal Transport Hub
URI Tour Guides know their way around
By Jan Wenzel
Three times daily you can see them walking across the quadrangle backwards or waving their arms while standing on benches in front of a swarm of visitors. They’re tour guides, the University of Rhode Island’s enthusiastic ambassadors who possess a wealth of Kingston campus knowledge...

RI Romance
Gardens Galore!
Romantic Gardens in Rhode Island
By Linda Eagleson
Well folks, spring has finally sprung in Rhode Island and as most of us would agree, "finally!" We have had a long winter at home with our significant others and probably are at the point of tearing each other’s hair out! Or maybe not. But in any case, it's time to rekindle the love we have for each other and enjoy the beauty of Rhode Island. It is my job as Romance Editor to find romantic things to do in this lovely state and since I am in awe of this wonderful weather we have been having and the flowers blooming everywhere, I thought it would be nice to list some wonderful "fragrant" places to visit and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors...

RI Humor
Very Precise Fortune Cookies
The Next Frontier For Improvement
By David Leonhardt
I cracked open the fortune cookie and read the little slip of paper on the inside. Immediately I realized that it had been written by a weather forecaster...

RI Home & Family
Bowen’s Wharf In Bloom:
Planting the Seed for a Bright New Season!

Historic Bowen’s Wharf is hard at work setting up a brand new event to celebrate the beauty of spring. Before long, planters, window boxes, and containers surrounding the one-of-a-kind shops and restaurants will spill over with vibrant floral arrangements. On the day before Mother's Day, Saturday, May 7, the wharf will host the first of what is planned to be an annual Bowen’s Wharf In Bloom: a flower and plant sale to benefit Newport In Bloom and Aquidneck Growers’ Market...

RI Movies
Beauty Shop
A well styled movie with a Humorous Twist
By Madelyn Miller
Has hair replaced sex and violence as the new entertainment focus? In the past week, I saw a touring production of Hairspay, Miss Congeniality, and BeautyShop...

RI Home & Family
The Bugs Outside
Uncovering some of nature's creatures in your back yard
By Jay Higgins
As the days get longer and the sun brighter take time to get outside and investigate the science of nature. All around us are tiny critters that live, eat and lay eggs without our notice. Children are fascinated with these small critters that live in the grass and under rocks. To encourage the excitement and observation skills of your budding scientist grab some basic tools and start a search for tiny critters right in your own backyard...

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