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Books

Been a While: Sex Camel is pillow talk for modern lovers
Muggs Fogarty tackles not only the subject of sex, but all the complications and emotions that come with it in ...
Cannabis

Smoking Hot: Our expert tells you how to take your sexual experiences higher with cannabis
Cannabis has a long history of being used to enhance the human sexual experience. Since 700 BC in India, a ...
Dare Me

Global Scavenger Hunt
“Win a Free Trip Around the World!” the subject line said. Because I suffer from wanderlust, I apply to every ...
Environment

How I Became the Motif Weatherman
Weather is an endlessly fascinating topic: It affects everybody and can literally be a matter of life and death. Forecasting ...
Film

PVD Children’s Film Festival: Parents and Children Together Watch the Big Screen
In its 10th consecutive year, the Providence Children’s Film Festival, February 15-24, offers 27 different feature films and short film ...
Fine Arts

Providence Street Art Festival 2018
The Providence Street Art Festival was held at the downtown skating rink on Oct 20, 2018. Photos by Cristina Berrios ...
Food

Three Point One Four
Dust off your rolling pins, kiddies. It’s contest time! In honor of their May performance of Waitress, the Providence Performing ...
Got Beer?

Show-Down Slow-Down: The government shutdown ripple effect reaches Rhody beer
Beer is a many-splendored and (responsibly) intoxicating thing, but navigating the beer business is a sobering experience. The beer/wine/distilled spirits ...
Keep on Moving

Keep on Movin’: New Year, New You: Resolve to end your music dry spell this year
I’m already toward the end of my annual “go though an exercise routine for two weeks and pretty much give up” ...
Lifestyle

AltHealth: That Quiet Place Inside
The US currently ranks highest in healthcare spending among the world’s developed nations. Our average cost per capita is $10,029 ...
Lunar Notes

Lunar Notes
Aries: Explosive action rocks your world. You’re caught between the traditional and the radical, and it is getting difficult for you ...
News

Five Fun Things To Do: February 13 – 19
WED 13 The Riot Act: Standup-comedy night. 7:30pm. Alchemy, 71 Richmond St, PVD. alchemyri.com THU 14 AHA! New Bedford: A ...
Opinion

Why Are We Still Debating Blackface?
It’s 2019, and we are discussing Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s alleged yearbook photo in blackface. It wasn’t too long ago ...
Phillipe & Jorge

Philippe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Elbow-rubbing with Evil: Czars to the left of him, despots to the right
Mass Murderers, Inc. Way back in our childhoods, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, P&J trusted our country to be moving ...
Pin-Up/Profile

Pin-Up: Wayne St. Vincent
What’s your biggest pet peeve? I’ve got a lot of ’em. The biggest one is people on the phone when ...
Roots Report

The Roots Report: Beating a Deaf Horse: Protect those gorgeous lugholes, music lovers!
Okee dokee folks… Sometimes I feel like I am beating a dead horse, err, DEAF horse, when I talk about ...
Shopping

Know Your Mom and Pop: Super V Toys — the Latest Local Spot to Feed Your Need
The superhero movies that have dominated pop culture over the past decade or so are a boon for small businesses. Comic ...
Sports

PRD: Wrapping up the shakeup
The year of the skater shakeup is coming to a close in Providence Roller Derby. Many of the veterans of ...
Theater

Stadium’s Sister Act Is a Fun Night of Theater
The Stadium Theatre’s production of Sister Act may not take you to heaven (especially considering some of the devilish humor ...