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The Jersey Girls of JERSEY BOYS!
JERSEY BOYS, the musical that took the Tony Awards by storm in 2006, winning the award for Best Musical, is coming to the Providence Performing Arts Center this week! The show opens Wednesday May 12th and runs all the way though to June 6th.
In the meantime, check out this interview I had with Sarah Darling [...]
This Week in Politics: 06/22/09 – 06/26/09
The House Finance Committee approved a bill late Thursday night that would assess colleges and universities a fee for all their non-Rhode Island students. The “student impact fee” is valued at $150 per semester per student. It would be billed directly to universities and collected by cities and towns in order to cover municipal services [...]
Weekly Blog Round-Up: Flying Chihuahua Edition
Hello, and welcome to the Flying Chihuahua Edition of the Weekly Blog Round-Up. As always, we’ve got five great articles from our news blog to share with you, plus five awesome things from those other websites on The Internets. You know the ones we’re talking about.
From the News Blog
1) Definitely the weirdest story on our [...]
Providence mayor hires controversial lobbyist
A City Councilor in Providence is criticizing mayor David Cicilline for hiring a lobbyist to deal with the incoming federal stimulus money.
The mayor is paying $135,000 for the services of lobbying firm Peck, Madigan, Jones and Stewart. Councilor John Lombardi says this deal should have been made through a public bidding process.
Cicilline counters that the [...]
Crime drops in Providence
Crime is down in Providence. Providence Police Chief Dean Esserman says crime fell by 17 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the year before.
Last year, the police reported a 12 percent increase in crime. In this most recent quarter, officials say there were five murders, nine sexual assaults, 88 robberies, 344 [...]
No limos for students in Narragansett
Narragansett High School officials say students will not be able to come to the junior prom by limousine this year. They’ll be coming by bus instead.
Principal Daniel Warner says the ban on limos will help combat underage drinking. The school plans to provide coach bus transporation instead. Anyone who has already paid a deposit on [...]
Review: David Sedaris at the PPAC
A tiny man walks onto the stage like a proverbially cute button with legs. He declines to pose or mug for the audience but the women in the audience shriek, one man whoops out an “Ay-yi-yi” and the rest of Davis Sedaris’ adoring audience erupts before he even organizes himself at the podium.
OK, that was [...]
Weekly Blog Round-Up: Stolen Diamonds Edition
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Blog Round-Up, where we spotlight the best articles on our blog this week, plus five awesome things from elsewhere online that you need to see.
From the News Blog
5) Unless you’ve been living under a rock (a rock furnished with a computer for accessing the WBRU News [...]
