JOHNSTON — Did you encounter a “hoax”yesterday or today? I asked colleagues, family,  and friends; their answers were a resounding no. One reporter responded by saying, … more

NEWPORT – Did I really see the 2025 Newport folk and jazz festivals if I didn’t stay until the end? I have been covering the Newport Jazz festival since 2010, and the … more

FIRST, LET’S SET THE STAGE: Dim the lights and turn up the sound levels. During the past decade, Joanna Detz , publisher of ecoRI News , and Richard Asinof , editor and publisher of … more

NEWPORT , Rhode Island —  New and familiar faces will be onstage at the 2025 Newport Folk Festival, returning to Fort Adams State Park in Newport next Friday through Sunday, July 25 - … more

PROVIDENCE — Today, June 16, is Bloomsday , an eclectic literary holiday honoring the genius of James Joyce and his epic novel, Ulysses , a stream of consciousness celebration of everyday life … more

PROVIDENCE — Oh bla di, oh bla da, life goes on, as the Beatles once sang half a century ago. Despite the best efforts by the Trump administration to stir up a crisis of law and order on the … more