On Aug, 20, 1999, crowds streamed through the Providence Place mall, ready to celebrate the long-awaited opening day of the downtown shopping destination. On Thursday — exactly 27 years later — a much smaller and more muted celebration unfolded as the mall’s new owners gathered outside the first-floor Apple store to announce that they had […]
If seeing is believing, the single foundation shaft resting on the bank of the Seekonk River below an open sky where the westbound Washington Bridge once loomed offers little reassurance. Nor does Gov. Dan McKee’s repeated promise that the replacement highway construction is progressing well, even ahead of schedule. Enter animation. The 2 minute and […]
An “Aegean Breeze, a “Rhodes Island sangria,” the “Dirty Greek,” and “Aphrodite’s kiss.” Lagers from Greece, and red and white wines, too. These are some of the drinks on the menu now at Estiatorio Estiatorio Fili, a Greek restaurant in Providence’s Wayland Square. But its owner George Potsidis is planning for a September without libations. […]
More of Rhode Island’s high-schoolers are taking Advanced Placement exams in hopes of earning college credits. Rhode Island students earned potentially college-credit-qualifying scores on 10,427 exams during the 2025-26 school year — more than double the number recorded in 2021 — according to preliminary data released by the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) on […]
Is a mayor tasked with managing a city’s realities, or helping make new ones? These two ways of thinking about governance provided the central tension during a mayoral debate at the Rochambeau Library on Providence’s East Side Thursday evening. A crowd quickly filled the six dozen or so seats set between the library’s DVD collection […]
