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Oct 19, 09:20 PM (Links)
Jul 26, 01:25 AM (Issue #16)
Contributor: Ted Rao
Request for more units in same space to be decided by Zoning Board of Review
by Ted Rao
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #16, March 2006]
On Tuesday, February 21st, representatives of Premier Land Development, led by Dan Corsetti and represented by their lawyer, former Lieutenant Governor Richard Licht, appeared before…
Jul 25, 09:35 PM (Issue #16)
Contributor: Ashley Mercado
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #16, March 2006]
Downcity is a center of controversy—but not the up-in-arms, rally-in-the-streets, hullabaloo kind of controversy. Downtown Providence has become an architectural center of quiet contention.
“As far as I am concerned I am the city. So are you. You walk with it every…
Jul 25, 05:03 PM (Issue #22)
Contributor: Agenda Staff
Interview with IndieArts/ri Manager Tim O’Keefe
Who is IndieArts/ri?
IndieArts/ri is a splinter group of the Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island made up of a variety of artists, musicians, DJs and event producers who contribute to Rhode Island art and music. The day to day of IndieArts/ri, which will…
Jul 21, 09:53 PM (Issue #22)
Contributor: Agenda Staff
The Web is an amazing space. Point, click and shoot; search for anything. And thank goodness, because otherwise, how would we get our Providence Daily Dose? Locally based, this Internet locale is a gem among the often out-of-date and hard-to-navigate deluge on the web.
All right, in Web-time the Dose…
Jul 20, 08:31 PM (Issue #22)
Contributor: Agenda Staff
With so many bands, groups, troupes, and DJs at IndieArts Fest 2008, The Agenda saw an opportunity to ask the entertainers some questions about the City of Providence.
Is there a lack of diversity in music venues in Providence?
The ‘Mericans: No - you just have to go to places…
Mar 3, 05:47 PM (Blog)
Contributor: Adam Bradley
But, but Jef... we need more luxury condos.
I am writing on behalf of Greater City: Providence in regards to the petition being heard by the City Council Ordinance Committee on Monday, March 3rd to change the zoning of Lots 344 and 345 on Zoning Map 18 from Waterfront Mixed-Use…
Feb 2, 03:57 PM (Blog)
Contributor: Matt Obert
Matt Obert and Brooke Erin Goldstein are getting married, and you're invited to their engagement announcement party!
If you want to congratulate us in person, come to "The Engagement Show" at AS220 on Sunday, October 14. Wow, that is soon! We'll be hanging out in the bar, eating and drinking…
Feb 1, 02:26 PM (Blog)
Contributor: Adam Bradley
Don't be surprised if you hear that question a lot more often in the coming months. Rhode Island's premier manufacturer of Carcieri blankets has alerted us to the news that federal Medicare officials, looking to cut costs, have finally noticed an accounting irregularity here in Rhode Island. (Funny; you'd…
Dec 13, 05:45 PM (Blog)
Contributor: Adam Bradley
Today's ProJo, in reporting a license suspension for a South Providence liquor store, mentions that, “By statute, it is a criminal offense for a liquor licensee to sell alcohol ‘to any intoxicated persons or to any person of notoriously intemperate habits.’”
The epithet, “Person of notoriously intemperate habits” grabbed my attention…
