Honoring our Past, Present, and Future Marianne Fleckner Dear MCSW Community: Happy Summer! It brings me great pleasure to be the first featured guest author of FY24. Here at the MCSW, we’ve just elected our new slate of officers for the upcoming year, and as an original founding mother, I can’t tell […]
Shooting the Soil : Soil Microscopy with Matt Wakeman Sunday, August 6th, at 11:00 AM The Meeting House, 3850 Main Road, Tiverton Four Corners, RI Admission: FREE Attention Gardeners! Join us at the Meeting House on Sunday morning August 6th at 11:00 AM to take an up-close look at soil on the big […]
What Is Your Angle? In life that refers to your motive/motivation. In PR, it’s a selling point on how we convince media outlets that our client’s story is worth feature coverage. PR Works’ top angler Steve Dubin pontificates on the art of the angle in this brief interview for the New Hampshire-based Evolution […]
THIS WEEK’S MUSE CARLA BLEY, MUSICIAN “Listening is more important than anything else because that’s what music is. Somebody is playing something and you’re receiving it.” Carla Bley is an American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader. She became an important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s and has composed or contributed to over fifty […]
RIHS Welcomes Writer McBurney to Discuss Latest Work Program to Explore History of Rumrunners in Narragansett Bay (PROVIDENCE, R.I.) – The Rhode Island Historical Society will host veteran research and writer Christian McBurney on Tuesday, August 1st, at 6 p.m., for a free talk highlighting his latest work, Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay: The Coast […]
Rennie Harris Presents: Rome & Jewels was the 2023 New York Times Critic’s Pick! “The most brilliant hip-hop choreographer in America” (The New Yorker), Rennie Harris restages his breakout masterpiece, Rome & Jewels. A story of love, fear, violence and triumph, Rome & Jewels challenges preconceived notions of Shakespeare with a hip-hop journey through the […]
SUN & FUN TO RAISE FUNDS TO RESTORE POMHAM ROCKS DOCK To help replace the wooden dock at Pomham Rocks Lighthouse, which was damaged in last winter’s storm surge, Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse is holding a benefit raffle. It is part of their effort to raise the nearly $70,000 needed to rebuild […]
12 Metre World Championship: A Live-Action History Lesson NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, USA (July 23, 2023) – The year 2023 marks exactly 40 years since the U.S. lost the America’s Cup to Australia on the world stage of Newport, R.I. That moment in sports history might not have gotten the attention it did had it […]
