Summer Strolling
You can complain about the potholes and the corruption or you can cheer about our vibrant arts community and quirky population, but what easily gets lost between these two extremes is how […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Art! Dance! And More Food: Looking ahead to PVDFest
Once again, PVDFest takes to the streets in celebration of rich arts and culture communities from RI and around the world. From June 6 through 9, there will be dance, […]
A Tisket, a Tasket, Pack Your Picnic Basket: Check out our top picnic spot picks for a dinner outdoors
I grew up in Texas and experienced more scorchingly hot summer days than I care to count. But when the sun finally went down on those blistering days, we were […]
Pie and the Sky: Take your dining outdoors this season
This year so far has given us snow, rain, more rain and grey skies. RI doesn’t get the promised four seasons. Growing up, it was a joke that our seasons are […]
A Festival of Festivals and Fests and More: An event for every weekend
Congratulations! You have survived another long, cold winter and wet, rainy spring. Now it’s festival season! RI offers an abundance of festivals, for all ages and interests. Family fun, music, […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Just a Gigilo: Before ghosting was popdular, making ghosts had a moment
Goodbye – and Good Riddance Phillipe and Jorge were sad to see that Newport’s most famous gigolo, Claus von Bulow, popped his clogs the other day at age 96. Not […]
No More Pencils, No More Books!: Kids let us in on their plans for the best summer since last summer
We conducted an informal poll of the kids in our lives to find out what they plan to do with what will be, as one child assured us with fists […]
Silly Grown-ups — Summer Is for Kids!: But this guide offers a few opportunities for you to play, too
Nostalgia for the lazy days of childhood. Fear that summer brain drain will put your kid at the end of the class come September. Theories conflict, heart and mind clashes […]
Get Active, Listening: Because opportunity knocks often and loudly
Humans are capable creatures, our purpose a hell-bent need for creation. We crave progress, we strive for prosperity, we work for success, we live for today. Yet along our journey, […]
Lunar Notes
Aries: A very busy period for you with much running around, multi-tasking and gaining knowledge that exposes you to experiences that are new, different and have a foreign flavor. You […]