St. Mary’s Church will mark the 73rd anniversary of the wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy with “Return to Camelot: The Kennedy Wedding Remembered” at noon on Saturday, Sept. 12, the anniversary itself. The program includes vintage film from the 1953 ceremony, a live performance of the organ music and hymns played […]
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Buster Keaton’s “The Cameraman” screens with live piano at Tiverton library
The Tiverton Public Library will screen Buster Keaton’s “The Cameraman” with live piano accompaniment on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 6 p.m. at 34 Roosevelt Ave. The program is free and open to the public. Richard Hughes will introduce the film and play the score, drawing on the mood music that accompanied silent pictures in theaters. […]
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Japan-America Friendship Festival returns to Touro Park on Oct. 17
The second Japan-America Friendship Festival takes over Touro Park on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with taiko drumming, martial arts demonstrations, Japanese food and a family cosplay costume contest. Admission is free and the event runs rain or shine. The day is built around the Newport-Shimoda sister city relationship, and is […]
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Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular returns Oct. 1 with a pun-themed trail
The Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular returns to Roger Williams Park Zoo from Oct. 1 through Nov. 1, with this year’s trail built around wordplay — pop culture references, puns and, by the zoo’s own admission, dad jokes carved into more than 5,000 pumpkins. All tickets are timed and must be bought online in advance. Friday through Sunday […]
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Newport robotics team opens its workshop Saturday with 10 spots left
Aquidneck Island Robotics will open its workshop to prospective students and their families on Saturday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 80 Fleet Access Road, in NUWC Building 80. The team, known as Team 78 AIR STRIKE, is the only community-based FIRST Robotics Competition team in Rhode Island, meaning students from any […]
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Cole Brauer brings her memoir to the Jane Pickens on Sept. 16
Cole Brauer, the first American woman to race solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, comes to the Jane Pickens Theater on Wednesday, Sept. 16, to discuss her memoir “First Light: Sailing Solo but Not Alone.” Charter Books is hosting the event, which begins at 6 p.m. with doors at 5. Brauer will be in […]
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USA meets England at Glen Farm on Saturday
Newport Polo hosts England on Saturday, Sept. 5, at BD Field at Glen Farm, reviving the matchup that launched the Newport International Polo Series in 1992. The six-chukker match starts at 4 p.m. with gates opening at noon. It falls in the club’s 150th anniversary year and the series’ 35th season. Both squads are fielding […]
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Rosecliff lecture looks at how Newporters used the Revolution to argue for their own
Nicole Williams, curator of collections for the Preservation Society of Newport County, will give a public lecture at Rosecliff on Thursday, Sept. 10, on how Newporters repeatedly turned the War for Independence into an argument for change in their own time. The talk, “Revolution Reimagined: Memory and Freedom Struggles from 1976 to 2026,” runs from […]
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Candlelight tour of Belcourt to benefit Middletown library’s new building
The Middletown Public Library is holding an after-dark candlelight tour of Belcourt of Newport on Friday, Oct. 2, as a fundraiser for its new building project. Guides will lead visitors through the Bellevue Avenue mansion by candlelight, covering its Gilded Age history and architecture along with the ghost stories the property has collected over the […]
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Newport String Project opens its 14th season with 15-minute concerts for an audience of one
The Newport String Project opens its 14th season on Sunday, Sept. 20, with Pocket Concerts, a day of 15-minute performances played for a single listener or a small group. Musicians from the Newport String Quartet perform alongside guest artists, with programs mixing familiar repertoire and original music. Instruments this year include vibraphone, electronics and viola […]
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“Chopped” judge Maneet Chauhan headlines Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival, Sept. 18-20
Maneet Chauhan, the “Chopped” judge and two-time “Tournament of Champions” winner, will headline the 21st Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival at Rosecliff from Sept. 18 to 20. Chauhan hosts the Vintner Dinner, a collaboration with festival Culinary Director Kevin Des Chenes, Adam Greenberg of Sparrow Restaurant in New Milford, Connecticut, and Adam Young of […]
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Classic yachts parade through Newport Harbor Sunday morning
A fleet of classic sail and motor yachts will parade through Newport Harbor at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 6, as part of the 47th Newport Classic Yacht Regatta. The parade starts at the south end of Goat Island and runs a circuit of the harbor, passing the wharves, IYRS, King Park, Ida Lewis Yacht Club […]
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Newport Classical opens its chamber season Sept. 18 with a quartet that plays banjos and mandolins too
Newport Classical opens its sixth full-season Chamber Series on Friday, Sept. 18, with the Austin-based quartet Invoke, the first of twelve concerts running through early June at Newport Classical Recital Hall, 42 Dearborn St. Invoke is a string quartet that doesn’t stay one — the group plays banjo and mandolin alongside the usual strings and […]
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Jane Pickens runs a week of 1960s cinema starting Friday, opening with a Beatles tribute band
The Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center will screen 10 films from the 1960s over seven days beginning Friday, Sept. 4, with three of the nights paired with live music. The festival opens with Studio Two, a Boston-based tribute to the early Beatles, performing at 7 p.m., followed by a restored print of “A Hard […]
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RENEWport volunteers return to Pell for a second year of morning greetings
RENEWport volunteers will be back outside Claiborne Pell Elementary School Wednesday morning, welcoming students on the first day of the 2026-27 school year for the second year of the group’s morning greeter program. The greeters are at the Dexter Street school daily from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Volunteers also help open the Pell library before […]
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Teton Gravity Research ski film screens at the Jane Pickens on Nov. 11
Teton Gravity Research will screen its 31st annual ski film, “Actually, It Is Rocket Science,” at the Jane Pickens Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the 120-minute film at 7:30. The film was shot across Bute Inlet in British Columbia, Haines in Alaska, Japan, Finland, Andorra, Montana, Jackson Hole and […]
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Newport meets Palm Beach at BD Field Saturday, with an all-white dress code and a Barbados trip hidden in the turf
Newport Polo hosts Palm Beach at BD Field on Saturday, Aug. 29, the 15th meeting between the two resort towns since the City Series began in 2011. The match is set for 5 p.m., with gates opening at 1. It falls during the club’s 150th anniversary season and closes out the August schedule. Palm Beach’s […]
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Puddingstone Music adds two September concerts at Rough Point
Puddingstone Music has announced two September concerts at Rough Point, following sold-out performances in August. Pianist David Kaplan performs “Quasi una Fantasia” on Saturday, Sept. 12. The program explores the territory between composition and improvisation, drawing on works with improvisatory qualities either in how they’re performed or how they were written. The title comes from […]
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Savannah Bananas at Gillette this weekend, with a $20 train from Providence Saturday
The Savannah Bananas play Gillette Stadium for the first time this Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28 and 29, taking on the Loco Beach Coconuts at 6:30 p.m. each night. For Rhode Island fans, the MBTA and Keolis are running a round-trip special event train from Providence to Saturday’s game only. It departs Providence at 4:15 […]
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Newport Mansions offering free admission to county residents in September and November
The Preservation Society of Newport County will offer free admission to Newport County residents on two weekends this fall: Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12-13, and Nov. 14-15. The offer covers residents of Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth, Jamestown, Tiverton and Little Compton, along with personnel stationed at Naval Station Newport and their immediate families and Salve Regina […]
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Newport Sings opens fall enrollment for teen and adult choruses
Newport Sings is enrolling teens and adults for two fall choral programs on Aquidneck Island, both free or offered on a sliding scale with no audition required. The programs are Aquidneck Singers, a multigenerational treble chorus for sopranos and altos, and Quorus, which the organization describes as the first and only LGBTQIA+ all-voices chorus in […]
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Tiverton Public Library’s September lineup: silent film, author visits and a book club at a cat café
TIVERTON — The Tiverton Public Library has released its September schedule of adult programs, ranging from a live-accompanied silent film screening to a book club that meets in a cat café. Film and music. Buster Keaton’s 1928 comedy “The Cameraman” screens Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 6 p.m., with Richard Hughes introducing the film and accompanying […]
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Tiverton library opens StoryWalk trail with Sept. 19 celebration
The Tiverton Public Library will hold a grand opening for its new StoryWalk on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. StoryWalk mounts the pages of a children’s picture book on signs along a walking path, so visitors read the story a page at a time as they move through the trail. The […]
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Jamestown Community Theatre holding auditions for Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along”
Jamestown Community Theatre will hold auditions for “Merrily We Roll Along” on Thursday, Sept. 3, at the Jamestown Recreation Center, opening the company’s 36th season. The musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth, follows composer Franklin Shepard, who achieves professional success at steep personal cost. The story unfolds […]
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MLK Community Center hosting free karaoke competition Tuesday
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center will hold a karaoke competition on Tuesday, Aug. 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. Each singer performs one song for the judges, with a second song prepared in case of a tiebreaker. First place wins a prize. Sing Your Heart Out Co. will emcee. The event is […]