Comic – Sour Grapes: AI
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Land Trust’s student art and writing contest opens, with winners to hang at the Newport Art Museum
Entries are due Dec. 4. Prizes run from $50 to $250, plus $500 grants to the first-place winners’ schools, and the work goes on view in the Cushing Gallery in February
Free tour of St. Mary’s Cemetery on Saturday traces Newport’s Irish immigrant history
Guide Steve Marino leads a 45-minute walk through the burial ground of more than 1,000 Newporters. Meet at the Kingston Avenue gate at 1 p.m.
Salve Regina stages ‘The SpongeBob Musical’ at the Casino Theatre Nov. 5-8
Five performances, including a 10 a.m. Saturday show for families. Tickets are $17, $14 for children, military and seniors, and free for Salve students
Newport Classical brings pianist Michael Leonardo Davidman and guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre to the Recital Hall in November
Davidman, winner of the 2025 American Piano Awards, makes his Newport debut Nov. 6. Feuillâtre, the first guitarist signed to Deutsche Grammophon in decades, plays a Spanish and Latin American program Nov. 20
JPT marks Halloween week with a John Carpenter triple feature, a 100-year-old silent film and ‘Psycho’
Saturday’s marathon pairs “They Live,” “Halloween” and a 4K restoration of “The Thing” with a live set by Salem Wolves. An all-day pass is $40
Meet Lucy Darling, the character who took over Carisa Hendrix’s career
The magician and comedian brings “Lucy Darling: You’re Welcome” to the Vets in Providence on Nov. 7. She grew up in Saskatchewan, where “most of my friends were farm animals and wheat”
‘Spooky State House’ returns to Providence on Oct. 29 with free trick-or-treating
Offices of the governor, secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, lieutenant governor and both legislative chambers hand out treats from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Bring a canned good for the food bank and get a raffle entry
Bon Jovi returns to Gillette Stadium on July 28, 2027, first show there since 2013
The Forever Tour’s 2027 leg adds stadium dates in the U.K., Australia and North America. Artist presale registration is open now, with general sale Oct. 30
Newport Public Education Foundation screening ‘Counted Out’ at Rogers on Nov. 2, with a new math initiative to be announced
The documentary, about who gets access to math and what that means for democracy, screens free on the eve of the election. Spanish subtitles, discussion to follow
All-trans drag cast headlines TRANSylvania Halloween brunch at Stoneacre on Oct. 25
Newport OUT’s Sunday brunch features Ladda Nurv, Ninny Nothin, Rickey Diamonds and ZonLegacyPhoenix, with a two-course prix fixe. Tickets are $60
35th Bowen’s Wharf Seafood Festival returns Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine
Free admission, more than two dozen food vendors and six bands across two days under the striped tents, with bar proceeds benefiting Child & Family
Historian to discuss Irish Famine immigrants held in North American quarantine stations, Oct. 20 in Middletown
Loretto Horrigan Leary’s talk for the Museum of Newport Irish History covers Grosse Île, Deer Island and Staten Island, where many who fled the Great Hunger died before ever reaching the mainland
Violinist Geneva Lewis brings the Goldberg Variations to Rough Point on Nov. 7
Puddingstone Music’s salon series pairs Sitkovetsky’s string-trio arrangement of Bach with live dance in the Doris Duke house. Tickets are $75
Pumpkin Regatta at Newport Shipyard pushed to Oct. 23 because of weather
The fiberglass-pumpkin race benefiting Sail Newport moves back a week; same 4-to-7 p.m. window, same $25 entry
Jamestown cartoonist Will Henry talks ‘Wallace the Brave’ at CCRI on Thursday
The free hour at the Knight Campus library in Warwick includes a live drawing, a Q&A and book signing. Bring your copies
The Elms reopens Nov. 16 with projection, sound and scent woven through the Gilded Age mansion
The Preservation Society calls the multimillion-dollar project, three years in the making with Emmy-winning studio Digital Kitchen, the first multi-sensory house museum experience in the country. The house has been closed since Aug. 10
Nashville duo Golden Everything records live at Chepstow for Newport Mansions’ “Sessions” series
The Americana husband-and-wife act performed four songs — two of them unreleased — in a single take, captured on one microphone in the Bellevue Avenue mansion
IYRS seeking vendors for its Dec. 5 Artisan Holiday Market
The market and a Friday community party make up Holly Jolly Weekend on the school’s waterfront campus; vendor spaces are limited
Salve students curate a national juried exhibition on deviance, opening Oct. 22
Fourteen artists in the Hamilton Gallery through Nov. 22, with a free opening reception and a student-led symposium Oct. 28
The Vanderbilt hosts its annual Halloween soirée, themed “Ghosts of the Atlantic: Drowned Pirates Ball” on Oct. 30
Think candlelight, ghostly sailors, restless sea captains and Gilded Age socialites, all drawing inspiration from Newport’s long relationship with the sea.
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