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Not About The Buildings: Micro-Memoir! (03/25)
Photo (cc) StrangeInterlude Micro-Memoir! This Thursday, Not About The Buildings and the Providence Athenaeum are teaming up for a fast, fun evening of extremely short memoir writing and memoir reading. Hosted by Karen...
Wickenden Traffic Changes (03/24)
Image from RIDOT Traffic changes which will last for the next two years begin Wednesday (weather permitting) on Wickenden Street at South Main/Benefit Streets. The following list highlights the changes: Wickenden Street...
March Mad-ish
Some photos from The Dunk area this afternoon: New England Cable News reporter: We already discussed the parking: Pretty much every block between Washington and Fountain has a block party, and people are wondering the...
Rolling out the welcome mat
Photos by Jef Nickerson At the “temporary” parking lots on Broadway near the Dunk (Old Public Safety Complex, and old circular gas station). FORTY! dollars NCAA parking! Really? I feel like if this is not...
Impromptu Blog Meet-Up (03/19)
Photo by Jef Nickerson Did you not get enough to drink yesterday? No? Good. Then you can join us tomorrow for an impromptu blog meet-up at the Skating Center in Kennedy Plaza. The Bank of America City Center...
Demolition Bonds
Head over to the Daily Dose to see what Rep. Segal is up to lately. Of special interest to readers here, is the Demolition Bonds Bill: H7584 would allow cities and towns to require demolition bonds and other assurances...
The Uncaucus Listening Party (04/01 New Location)
Photo (cc) bunkosquad 4.01 Uncaucus Listening Party It’s an undebate: citizens talk while the candidates listen! Thursday, April 1, 2010 – 6:30pm-10:00pm Waterplace Restaurant One Finance Way, Providence, RI...
Greater City Providence
RIDOT Pawtuxet River Flooding Slideshow
RIDOT has a set of photos on their Flickr page of the raging Pawtuxet River.
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Building Brown… and URI… and RIC
One of our Facebook fans shared this link with us. A 40-minute video of Brown University’s assistant vice president for planning, design and construction, Michael McCormick discussing Browns recent campus building...
4th Annual Marcia Marker Feld Lecture on Social Justice and the City (04/20)
4th Annual Marcia Marker Feld Lecture on Social Justice and the City SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE FOR RHODE ISLAND John Landis, PhD, AICP Crossways Professor & Chair, Department of City and Regional...
Big East to stay in Providence
Gateway Center in 2005, prior to the construction of Waterplace and BCBS, photo by Jef Nickerson There has been some concern recently that The Big East Conference which was formed in Providence in 1979 was preparing to...
Streets of Providelphia
This afternoon Mathewson Street stood in for Philadelphia as a crew filmed a pilot for an ABC program Body of Evidence. It is one of them Medical Examiner solves crimes type shows zzzzzzzzzz… sorry, I fell asleep...
Adopt a Doctor Dance Performance (04/03)
Interested in being part of a filmed Slumdog Millionaire “Jai Ho” Dance performance? On Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 at 10:00am, the international non-profit Adopt a Doctor will host a filmed “Jai...
City Plan Commission Meeting, March 16
PROVIDENCE CITY PLAN COMMISSION NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2010 4:45 PM Department of Planning and Development, 4th Floor Auditorium 400 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903 Opening Session Call to...
