Photo by Matt Siber Photography Matt Siber has an interesting (and cool, and scary) series of photos on his website. In the photos, Matt Photoshops out the support structures of roadside signs creating floating logos...
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Jef Nickerson
Replacement for the Russian Sub?
Reading Jef’s post below about the U.S.S. Saratoga reminded me of a piece that I had (somewhat) recently read in the Wall Street Journal and had been meaning to post about. The Navy has apparently been looking to...
David Rocha
Retail Updates: Almost Heaven
Future home of Gourmet Heaven at Weybosset and Union Streets. The plywood veil has come down from what any day now should be the home of Downcity’s new market, Gourmet Heaven. The market will be located in the...
Bring the Carrier Museum to Providence
ProJo reports today that the Quonset Development Corporation will not hold a berth at Quonset Point for the U.S.S. Saratoga Museum which would include the U.S.S. Saratoga aircraft carrier. QDC issued a statement...
Yurdin, Narducci Work on Shoveling
The Brown Daily News reports that Councilmen Seth Yurdin and Nicholas Narducci, Jr. are working on efforts to both increase awareness of shoveling ordinances and refashion the current one to give it more teeth (and a...
Bret Ancowitz
Pretty // Ugly
This annoys me. This is a building at the corner of Atwells Avenue and Bond Street on Federal Hill. Most recently it was Federal Hill Florist and soon it is to be Cafe Longo. Now I’m happy to see a new cafe coming...
The Squares of Providence
View Larger Map About two years ago on the Urbanplanet.org site (which was the primordial soup from which Greater City Providence emerged and was born) I posted about trying to maintain a list of all of the public...
New “Downtown” 5K?
I received an e-mail a while back screaming the headline “New Downtown 5k!” about the new St. Patrick’s Day 5K coming up this Saturday on March 21st. “Awesome!” I initially thought…...
$1.3 Billion for Amtrak
Providence Station platform | Photo by dpriddy from Flickr Boston.com reports that Vice President Biden (VP Amtrak as I like to call him) announced today, a $1.3 billion investment of stimulus funds for Amtrak. Biden...
Mapped: Pawtucket Historic Sites
J. Hogue from Art In Ruins put together this excellent map of National Register Buildings in Pawtucket. View Larger Map Blue is the Downtown District Light Blue/cyan is the Exchange Street District Pink/Magenta is...
Rep. Segal reports on a couple bills up in the Assembly
Site of current Old Public Safety Building Memorial Parking Lot Over on the Dose, Rep. Segal highlights a couple interesting bills: Restoration of the historic tax credits, for projects with a lot of affordable housing...
Providence Geeks – March 18, 2009
East Greenwich-based Cronk Games has developed and released an exciting action puzzler game for the iPhone and iPod Touch called Cronk. Joel Evans, who founded Geek.com in the mid 90s, teamed up with industry experts in...
Greater City Providence
Capital Center, a Neighborhood Opportunity Lost, Part I
A recent thread on the “New England” board of the food and restaurant site Chow.com started me thinking that Capital Center, Providence’s newest neighborhood, is perhaps the city’s busiest, most...
Florida’s Plan: Sprawlimulus
View Larger Map The St. Petersburg Times reports on Florida’s plan to stimulate the state’s economy. Basically they plan to deregulate the construction industry to make it cheaper and easier to build sprawl...
Providence Powerpoint Performance Art | Pecha Kucha
Tonight at Local 121 basement. 121 Washington Street, Providence 7PM Shmoozing 8PM-10M Presentations and more shmoozing Details from RINexus: Announcing the 1st Pecha Kucha night in Providence! YAY. Pecha Kucha is a...
No one thinks big of you
Funny public service announcement from New South Wales, Australia:
via How We Drive
