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Advice from the Trenches: Relationship Rush
Dear C: I’m 22 and still trying to figure out this relationship thing. My last relationship ended badly. It’s been a year, but I’m not completely over it. I spent two years with this person and it made...
View ArticleComic Book Shops Help You Get Your Geek On
In an era where the immediacy of the Internet is destroying most mediums, comic books seem to be at the height of their popularity. Television and film has paved the way for comic books to reach such a...
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Animating a Resistance to Trump: Some Thoughts on Star Wars Rebels
The Star Wars series is one of the biggest cash cows in human history. The absurdity of its storylines is only matched by the lunacy of its fan subculture. In any objective analysis, it is a...
View ArticleMass Shootings Fuel Fear of Crowds
Crowd stress is nothing new. Back in the ’90s, I was an on-air therapist for a reality-cam house full of 20-somethings in Boston. Without exception, the number one fear they all had was entering a...
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Advice from the Trenches: The Mating Game
Dear C, I’m so fed up with and pissed off at men right now that I don’t think I’ll ever try again. No matter how nice a guy is in the beginning, after about a month, the honeymoon is over. It’s like...
View ArticleAlt-Health: Are Supplements Necessary?
Vitamins and herbal supplements have become a standard product on American shelves. According to DC-based trade association and lobbying group Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), more than 71% of...
View ArticleComic Con Retains Crown
Comic Con continued to show its chops as the biggest event in the littlest state this year. Overall, the event successfully trafficked what was probably around 100,000 people [final numbers were still...
View ArticleDoc Digresses: An Interview with Mark Van Noppen, Co-Founder of the Armory...
If “white flight” is a novel phrase to you, I suggest you read someone who has more than a paragraph to explain its myriad causes and effects. Suffice it to say that most of Providence’s professional...
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Advice from the Trenches: Boundaries
Dear C; I am working on my masters in psychology and planning on going into teaching. In the meantime, I work part time as staff at a local psychiatric hospital specializing in children, teens and...
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Giving Thanks
Wild turkey, eastern US(Photo: Wikimedia Commons, public domain) I’m thankful that the potholes on my street are still smaller than my car, this time of year. I’m thankful that the Independent Man is...
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Can Rhode Island “Bounce Back” after Disasters? A New Climate Resilience...
Shaun O’Rourke wakes up thinking about Rhode Island. He was hired in summer 2017 as the director of stormwater and resiliency at the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (RIIB), an agency that uses...
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Alt-Health: Food and Drug Interactions
Americans take a lot of pills. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), at least 100,000 Americans die each year from reactions to properly prescribed prescription drugs. At this...
View ArticleTilted Barn Brewery and Christmas Farm: Like a Norman Rockwell Painting …...
It’s that time of year when everyone’s looking for the perfect place to grab a tree. We all want bountiful trees, gorgeous scenery, festive ambiance, you know, the Norman Rockwell experience. Well I...
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Drones: Mature Enough for Holiday Gifts
Hobbyist (non-commercial) drones, technically called “unmanned aircraft vehicles” (UAV) or “unmanned aircraft systems” (UAS), are still in the early stages of rapid growth in popularity. The Federal...
View ArticleAdvice from the Trenches: Harassment
Dear C; I was floored when I opened my browser and saw headlines that NBC “Today Show” host Matt Lauer had been fired. I’ve been listening to the news and it’s unbelievable – Kevin Spacey, Al Franken,...
View ArticleThe Gift of Experience
Sometimes the best gifts are the ones that can’t be wrapped. Whether that means signing your reluctant friend up for singing lessons (they have to go when it’s a gift) or buying a family a membership...
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The Nerdy Dozen
It’s THAT time again. Yes, deck the halls with over-the-top holiday spirit everywhere you turn and spread quirky RI cheer. As the charmingly overly extroverted introverts we are, it is our civic duty...
View ArticleHoliday Joy Without Emptying Your Wallet
As the song goes, “‘Tis the season to go bankrupt!” Or maybe not … but you would go bankrupt if you bought everything for everyone you wanted to. So what do you do? Get creative! The best gifts are...
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Learning to Fly
“That’s right. Look at that, you just took off,” said the flight instructor, with a tone calm enough to soothe a lion. The situation didn’t seem calm to me, but she was quite right – by following her...
View ArticleCuring Ill-Advised Piercing Combos
In many ways, the least qualified person to assess your appearance is … you. First of all, you can check yourself from front on – but that’s only one angle. With an ambitious array of mirrors, you can...
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