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The ProJo's brave new world

Will going super-local on the Web strengthen the paper?

By IAN DONNIS | December 5, 2007

HANGING TOUGH: Although hardly immune to the woes facing most newspapers, the ProJo has
maintained its strong market presence in Rhode Island.

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[ 02/12 ] Boston Lyric Opera conducted by David Angus @ John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

[ 02/12 ] Stephen Petronio Company @ Institute of Contemporary Art

ARTICLES BY IAN DONNIS

RHODY'S LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT FINDS ITS GROOVE | February 23, 2009
Five years ago, when Farm Fresh Rhode Island (FFRI) launched its mission of promoting Ocean State-produced food, co-founder Noah Fulmer discovered a curious disconnection in the local food chain.

TICKET TO RIDE | February 11, 2009
In April 1999, two weeks after I started on the job at the Providence Phoenix , the FBI raided City Hall, formally unveiling the federal investigation that would land Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci Jr., Rhode Island's rascal king, behind bars.

ADVOCATES RENEW PUSH FOR PUBLICLY-FINANCED RI ELECTIONS | February 04, 2009
During a news conference Tuesday afternoon in the State House rotunda, proponents of significantly expanding publicly financed elections in Rhode Island — a concept they call "Fair Elections" — cited a litany of reasons for why it would be good for the Ocean State and its citizens.

THE UPSIDE OF HOPE IN RHODE ISLAND | January 29, 2009
Everywhere one turns these days, there's seemingly more bad news about Rhode Island: the unemployment rate, one of the highest in the nation, tops 10 percent — and the state's running out of unemployment assistance.

BROGAN TAKES ON TEENS, SOCIAL NETWORKING IN TEASER | January 28, 2009
Former Providence Journal reporter Jan Brogan is out with her fourth mystery, Teaser .

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CAN THE CHARLES RIVER ESPLANADE BE TRANSFORMED INTO THE WORLD'S BEST PARK?
What if — in place of the current three-story Museum of Science parking garage overlooking the Charles River — there loomed a giant Ferris wheel, on the order of the London Eye?

LOVE HURTS: EMO VALENTINE'S DAY CARDS
Sometimes it's hard to express how you feel to that special person. Well, womens' urban art collective Paint Pens in Purses has solved your problem with these lovely cards.

VAN HALEN | A DIFFERENT KIND OF TRUTH
Who would've thought Eddie Van Halen would still be innovative in his late 50s?

AN INTIMATE GUIDE TO DINING IN — AND EATING OUT — THIS VALENTINE'S DAY
Food and sex have long been intimate bedfellows. What's the endgame of a dinner date but the prospect of the coital desserts waiting at home?

THE BIG HURT: THE MIRACLE OF JAPANESE WIKIPEDIA
In a break from my usual bad-jokes format, I bring you something so strange and wonderful that I just had to share it with the world.