Mall Brawl: It isn’t really a jungle out there
A recent set of skirmishes that took place on Saturday, December 28, at The Providence Place Mall, are an example of how buffoonery and optics contribute to a greater, misguided […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
AltFacts: A Sparkling Blanket of Satire: Citizens’ questionable decisions are snow surprise
Snow Joke Rhode Islanders were again taken by surprise Sunday and Monday as snow fell in the state for the first time this winter. “Snow isn’t that frequent in Rhody,” […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: No Deal!: Your superior correspondents decline to join the mall zombies
Blacked Out If you are like Phillipe and Jorge − and probably blessedly not so − we have now had it up to our eyeballs with Black Friday, Saturday, Sunday, […]
AltFacts: There’s a New Sauvage in Town: Newspaper Cowboy steps aside in the face of Indigenous half-truths
In light of Thanksgiving’s imminent arrival, I, The Sarcastic Sauvage of the Kiowa and Apache peoples, will be Custering the Newspaper Cowboy, and taking over this edition of Alt-Facts. Get […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Stuff of Legends: A brief education on Indigenous history
Me Tarzan A local athlete you might not have heard of (outside his community) is Ellison Brown, born on the Narragansett Reservation in 1914. A mind-boggling distance runner, Brown was […]
Phillipe and Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Stand Up or Sit Down, Staying on the right side of protests
Dumb Jock Basketball player LeBron James may now be the most famous non-soccer player in the world. (Sorry, LeBron, but Lionel Messi and Neymar have you for miles.) Although, if […]
AltFacts: Minimalism Gone Too Far: Eventually, we’ll slurp coffee from our hands
Save the Ice! (Lunchtime Quickie) Newly rebranded Dunkin, now without the Donuts, will enhance its stripped-back approach by dropping the ice from its range of iced coffees. Speaking from headquarters, […]
In Fourteen Hundred Ninety-Two: Columbus raped and pillaged, too
Indigenous People’s Day Let’s make no mistake about this. FUCK Columbus. He was, and ever will be, a murderer, a rapist and an enslaver, an unwashed pervert with baggy clothes […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Buckle Up for a Rant: Your superior correspondents have had quite enough
Beyond Belief Warning: This going to be a rant, so find a “safe space” to read it, and buckle your seat belt. When is someone going to shoot off the […]
Climate Strike 2019
The climate strike held at the State House was the first public and global protest that I attended since turning 18, legally an adult. And that shift changed my thought […]