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Skateboarding
As a kid, I was pretty unfamiliar with the lay of the land outside of my quiet suburban neighborhood in Warwick, but I was a skateboarder, which put me in the vicinity of skaters from other...
View ArticleAlt-Health: Kids and E-Cigs
They look like USB drives, but they are a delivery system of a very different kind. “Pod Mods” are a new product class of e cigarettes that are quickly gaining ground in what doctors are seeing as the...
View ArticleAdvice from the Trenches: High School Fashion
Dear C and Dr. B It’s the first week of my daughters high school freshman year. She is a good kid and has always been a good student. She is well adjusted and has lots of friends. She is also fashion...
View ArticleNow Hear This: Aural Sex brings queer-positive porn to the masses
“Love can’t pay the rent, but lust…” / “Bo leans into Delilah, their nose touching her cheek as they lock lips. Long and tender.” / “Arriving at the house, he let himself in with his key – and headed...
View ArticleEngaged Anthropology: Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum collection reflects social...
As the sepia-tinged blanket of fall warms the landscape with hues of burnt orange, yellow and red, college campuses across New England are coming to life with all the bustle of a new semester. At Brown...
View ArticleTrail of Broken Promises: Mashpee Wampanoag Land Trust revoked by Department...
Wampanoag means “People of the First Light.” Having lived in Cape Cod for at least 10,000 years, they are one of the longest continuous cultures in the Americas. In 2015, the Obama administration...
View ArticleNo More Fake News: Teaching kids 21st century literacy
In our digital age and “post-truth” era, media literacy — the expansion of the definition and skills of literacy to include the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate messages in...
View ArticleRI Writing Project: Providing a lifeline for teachers
If you walk into any high school during the first few days of a school year, you’ll probably encounter some form of professional development. Often, it’s representative of the newest, flashiest thing...
View ArticleIf You See Something, Say Something: Our writer has something to get off his...
Last place aversion is the heuristic bias in which people support measures that ensure they don’t fall to last place, even if that means acting against the greater good and their own best interests. It...
View ArticleImmigration Enforcement and Public Schools
As RI settles into another school year, the nation continues to deal with a summer marked by news stories of detention camps, family separations and protests in response to the Trump administration’s...
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Brown Students Put a Satellite into Earth Orbit
Jacob Leiken and Mckenna Cisler (L-R), team project leaders for the Brown University EQUiSAT, show a true-scale mock-up model of the earth orbiting satellite, a 10cm cube.(Photo: Michael Bilow) “The...
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AltHealth: We Need Choices
There are two lessons that are burned into every American’s brain as we live and grow. Want a refresher course? All you have to do is watch one hour of television to hear them all over again: Symptoms...
View ArticleMission Electric: A Bike with a Mission
I paid a visit to Mission Electric Bike to have a discussion with Tyler Justin, the owner/operator of the new e-bike company in the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence. The store is normally closed on...
View ArticleAdvice from the Trenches: Free the Nipple
Dear C and Dr. B; I read your post on “Free the Nipple,” the movement that says that for true gender equality, wherever its appropriate for a man to be topless, it should be for a woman too. I looked...
View ArticleAn Interview with Trinity Rep’s Conversationalist-in-Residence, Christina...
I had the recent opportunity to speak with Trinity Rep’s conversationalist-in-residence, Christina Bevilacqua. Our conversation follows: Alison O’Donnell: What does a conversationalist-in-residence...
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Grave Concern: Historical cemeteries beckon volunteers to final resting places
You see them all over Rhode Island: white rectangular placards on metal poles — like bus stop signs — beside a highway, near a school, tucked between houses or in unexpected corners of land. They’re...
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Is Motif Haunted? An expert sussed out the spirits in our office and spoiler...
Motif headquarters sits on the Blackstone River in an old mill building that creaks and moans as if trying to settle its old bones. While no one in our office has seen a ghost, some folks have reported...
View ArticleThey’re Everywhere: We interviewed prominent Rhode Islanders who now slumber...
As the veil between the worlds thins this Halloween night, this time-travelling Irishman stepped into the land beyond the horizon to learn more about Rhode Island’s illustrious departed. Julia Ward...
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Zombie Night 2018 Photo
Taken by Small Frye at the Dark Lady, right after the Boo-lesque show: party to un-die for With boo-lesque dancers front and center, some of the undead crowd live the nightlife at PVD’s Dark Lady for...
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An Interview with RJ Heim: More Constant Than the Weather
RJ Heim is a familiar face and voice to most Rhode Islanders, as the weekend weatherman and a feature reporter for the longstanding, top-rated television station NBC 10 WJAR for the past 25 years. Like...
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