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
MLK Community Center honors Gail Jacobs, Newport Mental Health and Liz Davis at annual meeting
Executive director Heather Hole Strout pointed to SNAP cuts, heavy snow and rising grocery and fuel prices as the year’s defining challenges
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
J.T. Commons giving 10% of sales to the Middletown library on Nov. 17
The Friends of the Middletown Public Library are raising money to furnish the new building, which is scheduled to open in December
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
Rhode Island Brew Fest returns to Providence on Jan. 30, with 15% off tickets through Monday
More than 50 breweries and 200 beer styles across two sessions at the WaterFire Arts Center. The discount runs through midnight Oct. 19
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
The Preserve’s Hobbit House is open for pumpkin photo sessions through Nov. 2
An hour slot at the Richmond resort’s Tolkien-inspired cottage runs $200 for up to four people — bring your own photographer
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
Gaudet PTG hosting a nighttime color run on the Middletown track Oct. 24
A mile around the track starting at 6 p.m., with white T-shirts for $5, the Middletown Boosters’ concession stand and a 50/50 raffle. Registration is $20 per person or $50 for a family of up to five
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