Good Morning, today is Saturday, May 21, 2022.
🌊 You’ll notice things look a little different in our newsletter and here on our website this morning. Short explanation – our newsletter format has become the victim of our own success.
What’sUpNewp is publishing more stories on a daily basis than ever before and we are not slowing down (more to come on that next week). When you couple the 20+ stories we’re publishing every day with the season ramping up and having to include more events, live music, and entertainment in our newsletter- we’ve simply run out of space to tell you everything that we want to in our morning newsletter.
If you’ve been paying close attention, you’ve probably noticed our newsletters more frequently getting cut short. I apologize for that inconvenience.
So, moving forward – we’re still going to email you every morning (and afternoon), you’ll just have to take one extra step in the morning newsletter (clicking on “What’s Up Today” included within the newsletter) to get the latest notes, weather, things to do, and other features that you’ve come to love in our newsletter.
This format will allow us to share more info, content, stories, photos, thoughts, and fun with you on a daily basis. We appreciate your patience and support as we work through this.
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🌊 The Newport Chowder & Oyster Festival returns to Bowen’s Wharf this weekend. Oyster growers will be shucking alongside local restaurants and live music under the striped festival tents. The event is open to the public and all food will be available for purchase directly from vendors. Multiple cash bars will also be on site. 11 am to 6 pm on Saturday and Sunday. More Details
🌊 A portion of Ocean Drive will only be open for bikes this morning when Elliot’s Ride For Everyone returns. The event takes place from 9 am to 10 am. More details.


What’s Up Today
Weather
- Air Quality Alert
- Hazardous Weather Outlook
- Today – Areas of fog before 10 am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid-morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 74. Southeast wind 8 to 13 mph becoming southwest in the morning.
- Tonight – Patchy fog between 10 pm and 2 am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low of around 61. South wind 7 to 10 mph.
Marine Forecast
- Today – SSE wind 7 to 11 kt becoming SW in the morning. Areas of fog before 10 am. Seas 1 ft or less.
- Tonight – SSW wind 6 to 9 kt. Patchy fog before 9 pm, then Patchy fog between 10 pm and 2 am. Seas 1 ft or less.
- Coastal Water Temperature: 54°F.
Sun, Moon, & Tide
- Sunrise: 5:20 am | Sunset: 8:04 pm | 14 hours & 43 minutes of sun.
- High tide at 12:39 am & 1:12 pm | Low tide at 6:52 am & 6:30 pm.
- Moon: Waning Gibbous, 20.3 days, 69% lighting.
Happening Today
Six Picks Events: What’s Up in RI this weekend (May 20-22)
Six Picks Music: The best in live music this weekend (May 20-22)
‘Coffee and Donuts at the Fort’ to be hosted at Butts Hill Fort on May 21
Elliott’s Ride for Everyone returns to Ocean Drive on May 21
Newport Yacht Club will host Vessel Safety Checks and No Discharge Inspections on May 21 – 22
What’s Up Interview: Pete Silva – playing Stone Soup Coffeehouse with Paula Clare May 21
Garth Brooks to perform at Gillette Stadium on May 21, tickets go on sale on Jan. 28
Rogers High School Class of 2022 hosting a Spring Cleaning Fundraiser on Saturday
Shops on Franklin Street to host Spring Into Summer Stroll on Saturday
Things To Do
- 8 am to 10 am – MWR Car Show – Coffee & Cars at Dewey Field
- 8:30 am – Goat Yoga at Simmons Farm
- 9 am – Elliot’s Ride for Everyone
- 9 am to 12 pm – Aquidneck Growers Market at Embrace Home Loans
- 10 am – Composting with Worms at Blithewold
- 10:30 am – Redwood Book Club – Go Tell It On The Mountain
- 11 am to 1 pm – Rogers High School Class of 2022 Spring Cleaning Fundraiser
- 11 am to 6 pm – 2022 Newport Oyster & Chowder Festival on Bowen’s Wharf
- 11 & 1 pm- Goat Hikes at Simmons Farm
- 11 – Fencing painting at the Common Burying Ground
- 12:15 pm, 2:05 pm, & 3:55 pm – Coastal Queen’s Spring Lighthouse Cruises departing from Bowen’s Wharf, Newport
- 1 pm – Colonial Graveyard Tours
- 2 pm to 6 pm – Spring Into Summer Stroll on Franklin Street
- 2 pm & 7 pm – Newport Children’s Theatre presents Cinderella at Casino Theatre
- 2 pm – Michelle Fishpaw signs CLAIRE’S VOICE at Charter Books
- 2 pm – Salve Regina Football Alumni Reunion at Pell Center
- 2:50 pm – Coastal Queen’s Spring Lighthouse Cruises departing from Jamestown Village
- 6 pm to 9 pm – Vineyard Vines Kick-Off to Summer at Hotel Viking
- 7 pm & 9 pm: Improv with the Bit Players at The Firehouse Theater
- For more events and things to do, visit our events calendar.
Entertainment
- Bar & Board: Mel at 7:30 pm
- Blue Anchor Grill: Steve Rodrigues from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
- Bowen’s Wharf – The Chase Ceglie Band from 11 am to 12:30 pm, Future Phase from 1 pm to 2:30 pm, and The Ravers from 3 pm to 6 pm
- Buskers: Brian Twohey at 9 pm
- Celtica: Karaoke at 10 pm
- Clarke Cooke House: Live music at 10 pm
- Gulf Stream Bar & Grille: Alan Bernstein Trio from 6 pm t0 9 pm
- Greenvale Vineyards: Dick Lupino’s Jazz Quartet from 1 pm to 4 pm
- Johnny’s at Wyndham: Live music from 6 pm to 9 pm
- JPT Film & Event Center: Downton Abbey 2: A New Era at 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm, & 7:30 pm
- Landing: Nick Sproviero at 1 pm, Jim Devlin at 4:30 pm
- La Forge: Dave Manuel from 6 pm to 10 pm
- Landing: Dave Alves Band at 4:30 pm, Blockhead at 8 pm
- Narragansett Cafe: Mark Cutler & Men of Great Courage from 8 pm to 12 am
- Newport Blues Cafe: Pogs at 9 pm
- One Pelham East: Live acoustic at 4 pm, Never In Vegas at 8:30 pm, DJ at 11 pm
- Parlor Newport – NPT Haus from 9 pm to 1 am
- Speakeasy: Live music at 10 pm
- The Firehouse Theatre: Live improv comedy with The Bit Players at 7 pm & 9 pm
- The Reef: Randy Robbins from 6 pm to 9 pm
- Top of Pelham: Dueling Pianos at 7:30 pm & 10:30 pm
- Vieste: Live music at 7:30 pm
The Latest from WUN
In celebration of its 43rd Anniversary, Brick Alley Pub will offer 50% off all nachos on December 4
Marchand scores late in OT to lift Bruins to 4-3 win over Maple Leafs
Hopkins scores 24, Providence beats Rhode Island 84-69
Salve Regina defeats Old Westbury, 77-56
Newport Salvation Army invites the public to Adopt A Kettle this holiday season
With Jayson Tatum ejected late in 3rd quarter, Celtics beat 76ers 125-119
Pinzon’s 15 help Bryant beat Brown 69-66
Newport Police launch a coyote reporting tool
Newport resident in the running for ‘Powerball First Millionaire of the Year’ on Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve
Hall of Famer David Ortiz hopes new Red Sox boss Craig Breslow turns away from analytics some
RIDOT to permanently close old Downtown Newport exit on Dec. 8
No credible threat found after shelter-in-place at Thompson Middle School
New England’s decades-old shrimp fishery, a victim of climate change, to remain closed indefinitely
DEM invites the public to celebrate 150 years of the Eisenhower House at special holiday events
Ellen Pinnock honored with the Joan C. Arnold Civic Participation Award
Local Obituaries
Obituary: Lillian Rarity Hargrove
Obituary: Bradley Joseph Mello
Obituary: Lila O’Hanley Farley
Obituary: Rosalyn E. Schmelzer
Obituary: Antone Semon Souza
What Else We’re Reading
ABC 6 – Newport expects tens of thousands visitors amid weekend heat
EastBay – Little Compton’s ‘Meehan Triangle’ to be a model for nature-based land stewardship
Salve Today – Attend evening with Angeline Boulley, author of NYT bestselling novel ‘Firekeeper’s Daughter’
WPRI – RI health officials expect COVID cases, hospitalizations to decrease in coming weeks