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Artistic vision

Providence bets on creativity
The vision is grand and ambitious, both in the big picture and in the details.

By MARION DAVIS | July 02, 2009

Living Colour, Michael Madsen, and Rhody's new media

Rhode Island has seen its share of media strife in recent years.
The travails of the Providence Journal are the stuff of coffee house and talk radio chatter. And the troubles afflicting the local newscast fill the pages of this week's Phoenix .

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 24, 2009

After a half-century, a theatre crumbles

Looking Glass Theatre closes
The spotlight has dimmed, sadly, on Providence's Looking Glass Theatre. The company, a small crew of three to four actors and a musician, entertained elementary school students across the state for nearly 50 years, at one time performing hundreds of in-school shows per year.

By CHRISTOPHER COLLINS | June 24, 2009

Of Twitter and Cassettes

Global Watch
There has been plenty of breathless reporting on the goings-on in Iran. And rightly so. The protests surrounding the recent presidential election are historic — the heavy use of Twitter and social networking technology a breakthrough.

By CHRISTOPHER COLLINS | June 24, 2009

Cicilline, the firefighters, and the politics of protest

Citywatch
It is, on some level, hard to pick any winners in the li'l Rhody's latest battle royale.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 17, 2009

Debating the Middle East muddle

Global Politics
US military aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan is being wasted and should be redirected to the police and moderate non-violent groups working for education and the rule of law, according to two Middle East experts who spoke Sunday at the Community Church of Providence.

By STEVEN STYCOS | June 17, 2009

A natural trio at Newport

In the Spotlight
There was a time when being a moviemaker meant first having to be a hotshot Hollywood player.

By BILL RODRIGUEZ | June 10, 2009

Grappling with Going Green

The waste-to-energy incinerator debate
Green energy," for most, is solar panels and wind turbines.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 10, 2009

Getting green

Small state, big push for sustainability
With Rhode Island's industrial sector in its death throes and the state in desperate need of a new economic engine, political leaders are talking with new urgency about wind and solar and all things green.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 03, 2009

Judging the judge

Facing the facts of the Sotomayor nomination
Women may not yet have full equality, but Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the US Supreme Court proves we can compete with the big guys now. It also means that women accepting patronage (and every political appointment is patronage) have an equal shot at getting pounded in the process.

By Mary Ann Sorrentino | June 03, 2009

Battle over open space in North Providence

Real estate
Will the last large piece of open space in North Providence turn into the site of 47 single family homes? That decision currently rests with the Rhode Island General Assembly and the Rhode Island Supreme Court. The outcome could jeopardize open space preservation statewide.

By STEVEN STYCOS | May 27, 2009

No free ride at Daily News' Web site

Media
The Internet may, in the end, crush the American newspaper.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | May 27, 2009

Hope city

Under the Bridge
Filmmaker looks at life Under the Bridge

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | May 21, 2009

Recession lesson

Drinkin 'n' thinkin'
Cigarette tax hikes in Rhode Island have smokers kicking the habit.

By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | May 20, 2009

Warming up to a green revolution

Action speaks!
President Obama's push for a green revolution has inevitably drawn comparisons to President Kennedy's famous call, 48 years ago, for a moon landing.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | May 13, 2009

You Snus you lose

Rhymes with noose
Unbowed by last month's $1 a pack increase in the cigarette tax, the tobacco industry is pushing new unhealthy products to gain more Rhode Island customers.

By STEVEN STYCOS | May 13, 2009

ACLU and Irons: Strange political bedfellows

LegalWatch
Politics has seldom made stranger bedfellows than those exposed when the RI ACLU hopped into the sack with former state senator William Irons.

By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | May 06, 2009

Labor Pains

Action Speaks!
With an economy in free fall, and popular anger mounting over bailout-mania, one might expect the labor movement to be front and center. But the streets are relatively quiet. And the nation seems as ambivalent as ever about unionism. There is, in short, plenty of fodder for discussion.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | May 06, 2009

Keeping 'the Hope' alive on Fountain Street

As the ProJo turns
The decline of the American newspaper is a story often told in bold print.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | May 06, 2009

A bad development

Citywatch
The most telling thing about this week's report on the R.I. Economic Development Corporation may be how many people didn't want to talk about it

By MARION DAVIS | April 22, 2009