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2 weeks ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
While it feels like Rhode Island has become a mini, East Coast Hollywood as of late, I can’t say that a M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks supernatural romance collab featuring Jake Gyllenhaal was on my Bingo card for Little Rhody’s next big film venture. Yet, here we are. The Rhode Island Film and TV Office announced on Thursday that the Blinding Edge Pictures thriller is set to film in the Ocean State this summer.
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2 weeks ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
Hopefully, many of you reading this have never experienced leaving the hospital in a threadbare gown following a sexual assault exam. But odds are, some have. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 81 percent of women and 43 percent of men nationwide have reported some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime. In Rhode Island, reports that one in eight women experience sexual assault.
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2 weeks ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
“Sounds like too much work.”This was one of the responses I was met with when I initially texted a group chat asking if anyone would be interested in joining me for a viewing of Trinity Rep’s La Tempestad, a.k.a. Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I had explained that while I wasn’t sure of the exact logistics, the comedy would be performed in both English and Spanish with subtitles available for each.
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3 weeks ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
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1 month ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
The Providence theater asks patrons to come along for the ride. Buckle up, Rhode Island theater lovers: The Providence Performing Arts Center just announced its 2025-26 lineup and it’s promising to be a thrilling ride all season long. From magical engagements like Harry Potter and Wicked to all-new productions like the Tony Award winning Best Musical, The Outsiders, this is your chance to be transported to Broadway without ever stepping foot outside the 401.
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1 month ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
Buckle up, Rhode Island theater lovers: The Providence Performing Arts Center just announced its 2025-26 lineup and it’s promising to be a thrilling ride all season long. From magical engagements like Harry Potter and Wicked to all-new productions like the Tony Award winning Best Musical, The Outsiders, this is your chance to be transported to Broadway without ever stepping foot outside the 401. See the full schedule below.
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1 month ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
Spoiler alert: “Secret Mall Apartment” — a new documentary about eight Rhode Island artists who took over and lived in a previously unused space in the Providence Place Mall (learn more here) from 2003 to 2007 — ends with a title card claiming that the ring leader, Michael Townsend, is still banned from the property seventeen years after he was caught and arrested for trespassing.
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1 month ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
Whenever I tell someone newthat I can’t have tomato sauce, the conversation almost always plays out as follows. “So, no pizza or pasta? Wow, that’s awful. I am so sorry.”The sentiment is typically delivered with as much sincerity — and pity — as if my dog had just died. “Well, my cousin can’t have chocolate,” I’ll quip back. “So it could be worse.”Yet for many born-and-bred Rhode Islanders, nothing could be worse.
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1 month ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
Dinosaurs will roam the earth once again at Roger Williams Park Zoo this spring with the Return of the Dinosaurs exhibit. Open Sunday, April 6, through Sunday, August 10, the family-favorite exhibit allows visitors to travel back 65 million years to the Jurassic era with an immersive walk-through experience featuring nearly sixty life-size animatronic dinosaurs — twenty-five of which have only recently been “excavated”.
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1 month ago | 
rimonthly.com | Kaitlyn Murray
Yes, it’s true. After gracing us with their kind eyes and silly dance moves — scroll to the bottom of this article for video evidence — for more than three decades, Alice, Ginny and Kate the African elephants will soon be saying so long to the Roger Williams Park Zoo.
