If you’re looking for a little chicanery while celebrating cross-border camaraderie with our Connecticut cousins, all for a good cause, make the trip down to the 22nd Annual Westerly-Pawcatuck Duck Race this Saturday, April 30 and take a chance on a duck for charity. After a two-year COVID hiatus, the event picks back up this […]
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PVD Food Trucks Opens 2022 Season
In the wake of a tumultuous off-season, PVD Food Trucks opened their 2022 season Thursday, April 14 with a highly successful “Food Trucks Roll into Richmond” event. It took place on the small, triangular lot that is home to Richmond Town Hall, and featured 13 trucks offering everything from RI favorites to BBQ, to “south […]
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Thom Cahir: PVD Food Trucks Getting Second Bite at Charlestown Apple
In what organizers and many townspeople thought was a “win-win” idea for weary residents about to be released from a mask mandate, almost everyone but the three councilors who voted down the event proposed by PVD Food Trucks were shocked at the results of the Feb. 28 Charlestown Council meeting. Eric Weiner of PVD Food […]
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Distinctive Charlestown Estate hits the Market
Arguably one of South County’s most unique properties recently listed with Amy Doorley-Lucas and John Blair of Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty. The 19.9-acre property at 160 C Ross Hill Road is a custom-designed compound with both Persian and Native American influences that was completed in 2018 and features such amenities as an outdoor yoga platform, an array […]
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It’s a busy season for skiing and more at Yawgoo Valley in Exeter
As Rhode Island’s only ski area, Yawgoo Valley in Exeter sits on one of the largest hills in South County and has been a recreational mainstay since the mid-1960’s. With 14 trails, ranging from novice to difficult, and a tubing run, the park offers something for everyone’s alpine needs in winter. Yawgoo is one of […]
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What’s Up at the Movies: We review the latest in streaming video
There’s plenty to watch this weekend for lovers of long-running franchises and year-end comedy reviews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJ1cw6mohw First, for Star Wars fans, The Book of Boba Fett premiered on December 29 on Disney+ and makes creative use of flashback scenes to let us know how the main character survived the Sarlacc on Tatooine in Return of […]
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What’s Up at the Movies: We review “Don’t Look Up,” “Hawkeye” and “Being the Ricardos”
Don’t Look Up – Streaming on Netflix ★★★★ “It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.” Feel great actually, if the spin doctors in Don’t Look Up get their way. (Lyrics courtesy of REM) One of the better moments in the new Netflix film “Don’t Look Up” comes when […]
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What’s Up at the Movie: We Review “Spider-Man: No Way Home”
Just in time for Christmas, Marvel’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” delivers a story that combines old school comic book history with modern MCU chronology by tidily gift wrapping the end of Peter Parker’s Thanos snap-delayed high school career, personal growth as a solo hero and Avenger, a tale of loss, multiple cases of redemption, and […]
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What’s Up at the Movies: We review “Eternals”
★★★ If you’re an inveterate Marvel fan expecting to see strong-willed characters making decisive choices between high-intensity CGI action sequences, you may want to think twice before putting down your money to see the franchise’s newest offering, Eternals. The film opens with a crawl to give viewers context to the weighty issues of the cosmos […]
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What’s Up at the Movies: We Review “Dune”
★★★★ The much-awaited remake of the Frank Herbert sci-fi classic Dune has finally hit theaters and streaming this weekend, and director Denis Villeneuve gives his version the detail befitting the epic nature of the series of books that Herbert wrote. Villeneuve chose locations that provided striking vistas and stark contrasts, while using more refined CGI […]
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Charlestown Seafood Festival returning this weekend (Aug. 6-8)
It’s that time again, one of the largest seafood festivals around (it does take place on a former auxiliary air base), the Charlestown Seafood Festival starts Friday at noon and will run all weekend long. If you’re a first-timer to the event, there is plenty of parking and it’s family-friendly with plenty of offerings for […]
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Food, Music and Culture in South County this Weekend
There’s a lot going on in South County this first full weekend of summer, something to suit everyone’s taste. Thursday night the 24th, Wickford Harbor Lights runs its family-friendly “School’s Out for Summer,” free event with music and food trucks for anyone to attend, starting at 5 pm and running until 10 pm. It […]
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Get a haircut and get out this weekend!
With summer almost in full swing, and many businesses opening with scaled back or restrictions lifted altogether, it’s time everyone looked their best after a pandemic-induced hibernation. I visited Don’s Barber Lounge on Canal Street in Westerly recently to remove the mop that took over my scalp. There’s an old-time feel inside with overstuffed leather […]
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Itchin’ to Get Out!
The feeling is there now, its palpable, we all feel it, everyone has been cooped up long enough and wants to break out and have a good time, especially as Memorial Day weekend approaches. With that in mind, here are a couple of ideas for this weekend that can get you out of the house, […]
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Out and About in RI – New Rules Weekend
That’s it, go out and enjoy the first week of relaxed restrictions since we were forced into pandemic rules in the Spring of 2020. I just got back from the South County Famer’s Market, which has switched from its Winter iteration of Saturday hours to the Summer version that opens from 3:30-7:30 pm on Friday […]
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The City, the Country, and of course, a Food Truck
This weekend has a little something for everyone, so strap in and get ready for a ride around the “biggest little!” First, if you’re in the capital city this weekend for the Farmer’s Market or the Providence Flea, you can’t beat The Coffee Exchange at 207 Wickenden St. in Fox Point. I had the “Blanca,” […]
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Food and Fun Around RI this weekend
This weekend looks like a mixed bag when it comes to weather, but that doesn’t mean everything has to remain indoors, not by a long stretch. Saturday between 9 am-1 pm at the Lazy K Ranch in West Kingston, the South County Winter Farmer’s Market is having a Food Trucks and Tulips event at their […]
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Get Outside, South County
Typically, it’s not a Rhode Islander trait to drive a long way for much of anything. However, when it comes to Napatree Point, hikers prove that they’ll “take a hike,” to take a hike. At least that’s what the “State of the Napatree Point Report,” for 2020 seems to suggest; stating that 2020 was the […]
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Out and About in South County
Now that the weather is warming up, people are getting vaccinated and more places are opening to larger crowds, there are plenty of things to do in South County this weekend. Although in the first instance, the weather warming has caused a slowdown. You see, Shady Tree Maple Farm in Richmond has finished their boil […]
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Food Truck Friday: Saugy’s at Shaidzon
Right on cue, Shaidzon Brewery had a scheduled event for April 2 at their facility, bringing the Saugy food truck to the brewery at Fairgrounds Road in West Kingston, enabling a Food Truck Friday review. First the review of the product. Outstanding! I ordered, “The Original,” version that comes with mustard, onions, and celery salt, […]
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RI Bookstores: We visit the Savoy in Westerly
Tucked away in a cozy nook at the intersection of Canal Street and Railroad Avenue in Westerly and backed up to the Connecticut border along the banks of the Pawcatuck River, The Savoy Bookshop & Café has come to represent the cultural and spiritual center of downtown Westerly, especially during the past year. Not to […]
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Cellini With a Chainsaw
With sawdust dancing in the air to the high-pitched whine of the two-stroke chainsaw as the faint smells of burning pine mixed with gasoline, Taylor Olson literally carves out an artistic niche along the side of the road in the rural village of Carolina. The sheer volume of work he has been able to turn […]
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Food Truck Friday – Rhody Roasters
As warmer weather approaches, we’re starting a new series, “Food Truck Friday.” We’ll sample area food trucks from time to time and give you the scoop on what’s cookin’ out there. This week, we check out Rhody Roasters in Richmond. As the weather turns, and spring begins to call more and more casual outdoor enthusiasts […]
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The Station Fire – 18 Years Later, A Call to Action
A generation has now passed since that terrible night in 2003 when so many of us were changed forever. It began as an early start to the weekend on a night when people were feeling a bit of cabin fever and ended as the fourth deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. Very few Rhode Islanders […]
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Local Author Wants Us to Channel Our Inner Italian
After a week where many of us were glued to television sets or constantly refreshing our browsers or glancing back at our portable devices to get the latest updates on the presidential race, it might finally be nice to have something soothing to remind us that the world around us still rotates around the sun […]