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You’d hardly expect a 23-year-old actor from Johnston to be familiar with a 1960s rock and roll band, but Ryan Boudreau was a little taken aback when he learned that so many of the songs that are …
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Joe Kernan
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5/22/13
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61 views
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HE'S A GOOD OLD BOY: Nemisis is a 21 year old cat …
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While the Jersey Shore continues to struggle with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, there’s a quiet little cat in Providence who knows that Sandy wasn’t the first or the last storm the New Jersey …
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Joe Kernan
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5/15/13
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34 views
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The Beantown Swing Orchestra, the high energy, 18-piece swing band that wowed guests at The Kent Center’s Swing into Spring celebration last year, will be back for this year’s swing May 17. …
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5/9/13
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20 views
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After three well received books on early American decoration, Ann Eckert Brown says she wrote her last book on the subject.
“After studying houses and working in houses all over the country for …
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Joe Kernan
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5/9/13
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27 views
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2nd Lt. Robert Thorpe stuffed himself with food …
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In the early 1950s, when the Cold War was heating up, the passion for war crime trials in Europe and Asia was deliberately toned down. Were a good many guilty people in Germany and Japan spared the …
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Joe Kernan
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5/2/13
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156 views
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Bob Hocking at the Grand Canyon.
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There’s nothing like a subtle sense of humor to catch a reader’s eye and ear, which is why we were immediately charmed by a news release announcing a book by a local author several weeks ago: …
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Joe Kernan
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4/25/13
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44 views
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Arlene, the heroine of “Arlene on the Scene,” a children’s novel about a Rhode Island fourth grader with a debilitating muscle disorder, is a girl trying to fit in with the kids …
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Joe Kernan
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4/17/13
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295 views
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Almost 170 years following the grizzly slaying of a wealthy and politically powerful Cranston industrialist, the murder still remains unresolved. Yet, just one day after Amasa
Sprague’s body …
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KATE LESTER plays Mrs. Gibbs and MEGHAN ROSE …
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One of the central ironies of Thornton Wilder’s timeless “Our Town” is that high school drama clubs frequently stage it. The high schoolers love the play because it uses virtually no props – …
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Joe Kernan
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4/4/13
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117 views
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Rhode Island-bred JODY ADAMS studied anthropology …
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Food is suddenly in all the news around here. First, we hear of Warwick Representative Joe McNamara’s bill to have calamari deemed the official Rhode Island State Appetizer, then we get word that …
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