City of Pawtucket Announces Cooling Centers     PAWTUCKET – Over the next 72 hours, temperatures throughout Rhode Island are anticipated to rise.   On July 26, the City of Pawtucket announced that several sites will be available as cooling centers to help cope with the warm weather.   The following local buildings will be open to […]

CHRISTMAS IN JULY SALE     Use code: JULY25 to save 25% off everything* at our   Polar Express Gift Shop   This is the perfect time to prepare for your trip this holiday season or pick up those hard-to-find officially licensed Polar Express gifts on your list!   SHOP NOW   Sale ends 7/31/23.   *Excludes already […]

Noites De Fado – Fado Night at Linden Place Mansion     Tickets Now on Sale!   Celebrate and honor RI’s Portuguese Culture and Tradition with this night of traditional Portuguese music, food and drink on Friday, August 18th     On Friday, August 18, let yourself be transported to the streets and taverns of Lisbon […]

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 […]