Advice from the Trenches: Affluent Shoplifter
By Cathren Housley Dear C and Dr. B, I am in college and my roommate is an upper middle class, well-heeled white chick. She is in want for seemingly nothing, but she has a secret habit – she shoplifts....
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Good Game Grill Brings Board Game Fun to the Masses
By Corey Finkle As much as I love board games, I also appreciate how difficult it can be for someone to get started playing them. There are tens of thousands of titles out there, ranging in price from...
View ArticleAltHealth: Vaping-Related Lung Disease
By Cathren Housley There have been some startling reports recently on a new and deadly outbreak of lung disease linked to vaping. Seven people have died from vaping-related lung disease so far, and the...
View ArticleIn Providence: Love and WaterFire
By Kevin Broccoli “He was shaking so bad I thought he was going to pass out,” she said laughing, while he nodded his head with a good-natured smile. “I was thinking, Oh no, this is not the man for me....
View ArticleThoughts from an Old Barfly
By Shirley Prisco Back in the day, if you could drink all night into the wee hours and still stand up; you wore a badge of honor. You were a “man” with a hollow leg and everyone wanted to hang out with...
View ArticleAdvice from the Trenches: Mean Girls
By Cathren Housley Dear C and Dr. B;Help! My daughter and her middle school best friend, Jeanne, were both in the artsy group and at the time they were both picked on by the in crowd. Since they’ve...
View ArticleIn Providence: A Piano in South Providence
By Kevin Broccoli He played me something on his piano. “That’s not my best,” he says, “but it’s the one I like the most.” His house is on the South Side across from a little neighborhood convenience...
View ArticleAltHealth: EEE and Germ Prevention Across Cultures
By Cathren Housley When I left RI for the Far East in the last week of September, they had just sprayed for mosquitoes in East Providence. There was a great concern over Eastern Equine Encephalitis...
View ArticleIn Providence: The Drop
By Kevin Broccoli I sometimes wonder if I survived the drop. It’s a drop that never happened, but could have– Maybe it did. Years ago, I was standing on a rooftop in downtown Providence on a date that...
View ArticleAnd Open Mics Are Scary Without Ghosts
By Emily Olson Leading up to the second scariest night of the year (the first being Black Friday), Providence Ghost Tours has teamed up with Stranger Stories to create true ghost story open mics at The...
View ArticleParanormal Pursuits: Dustin Pari talks ghost hunting and positivity
By Caitlin Howle The last time I was with ghost hunter Dustin Pari, we were sitting in the attic at the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River. All the lights were out, sans Pari’s computer screen and the...
View ArticleDecaying Icarus: Paranormal tales from an airplane graveyard
By Amadeus Finlay The rusted frame of a nosecone pokes out of a tangle of vines and long grass, permanently grounded, never to fly again. Behind, a cross-section of a narrow body jet slowly sinks into...
View ArticleAltHealth: Physician Salaries Around the World
By Cathren Housley What country has the highest paid doctors? The top 10 list holds some surprises. But first, a caveat: Take these statistics as a large generalization. A physician friend of mine...
View ArticleIn Providence: A Life Imagined
By Kevin Broccoli She works in a small office on the line where Providence meets North Providence, where she does medical billing and tries not to fall asleep. “I bartend at night, and when I first...
View ArticleIn Providence: The Communicator
By Kevin Broccoli We were sitting around a circular table trying not to eat the bread. “You put out food that gives off a nice smell, like fresh-baked bread or soup,” said our hostess, a woman in her...
View ArticleIn Providence: Stuck with Superman
By Kevin Broccoli On the second floor of an apartment on Parade Street, there’s a man with no shirt standing in front of a window trying not to draw Superman. “It’s hard when something gets inside your...
View ArticleAdvice from the Trenches: I Need a Pill!
By Cathren Housley Dear C and Dr. B; I’ve got a very high stress job. I know many people do, but recently the stress has gotten got to Red Alert; there’s been a lot of competition for a promotion...
View ArticleVoices of Turtle Island: An Indigenous women roundtable on identity, place...
By Amadeus Finlay Rhode Island may not strike you as a place of great migration, but for three Indigenous women hailing from distinct communities across the country, life in this corner of Turtle...
View ArticleIn Providence: Twelve Tattoos
By Kevin Broccoli “I wasn’t young for very long.”She takes me to Glorious West African Cuisine on Elmwood Avenue. We eat fried plantains and dry rice, and she accuses me of picking at my food. “You...
View ArticleSeven Generation Preservation
By Annawon Weeden Mitokwasak = All my relations. All across Turtle Island, the land the foreigners call the Americas, we preserve our resources for the survival of seven future generations. Our future...
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