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Take 10: Pizzerias
You can find great pizza just steps away from Boston. Here are a few picks around the region.
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R.I. Spring Flower and Garden Show set for Feb. 23-26
By Paul E. Kandarian, Globe Correspondent The weather outside has hardly been frightful this year, but all that gray and dreary, even if on the...
A Tank Away
Lincoln, R.I.
If most people have heard of Lincoln, they generally know it as home of the Twin River Casino, but this town just north of Providence offers much more than slots and virtual blackjack machines.
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Volunteering at WaterFire is engaging with the community
Providence's WaterFire can draw tens of thousands of people a night in a season with 14 or more installations. And it wouldn’t be possible without the help of upward of 100 volunteers.
They itch to play
It is the bottom of the fourth at the Hen House, and the Providence Grays are in trouble. And their woolen uniforms are getting itchy.
Forty 1° North in Newport
Forty 1° North's location seems ideal, just off lower Thames Street in Newport where Memorial Drive bends up toward Bellevue Avenue.
Go to the head of the classes
For children, “vacation’’ and “school’’ are mutually exclusive. But for grownups, learning opportunities can add a welcome dimension to a vacation.
New England food tours
From Vermont to Rhode Island, here in New England, a dozen or so tours tap into the food traditions of distinctive places.
Where laughing matters
In Providence, big-name comics sometimes perform at the Providence Performing Arts Center, but there are smaller venues such as AS220 and Perishable Theatre, which hosts Improv Jones every Thursday and Saturday.
World war stage in the bay
Though Narragansett Bay never saw a World War II battle, there will be one — noisy, historical, and simulated — when one of just two remaining vintage Liberty Ships still sailing steams into the bay.
Ponds and lakes aplenty
For tourists in Rhode Island, taking a cooling dip means hitting one of the state’s ocean beaches. But consider the salt-free alternative: The state is home to more than 200 inland ponds and lakes.
Two very different views
A year ago, Stone House reopened as a luxury inn, with two restaurants and a spa, and a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Colonial times still echo
Before the Vanderbilts and the Astors and the other moneyed bluebloods built their magnificent “summer cottages’’ up and down Bellevue Avenue, Newport, R.I. was a thriving Colonial metropolis.
Summertime acts up, live on stage
It’s summertime, and the living is theatrical in Rhode Island, where productions are going all season long.
Behind The Elms curtain
In its heyday, The Elms was one of the most fashionable houses on the most fashionable street (Bellevue Avenue) in the nation’s most fashionable resort.
10 reasons to love South County
More a state of mind than an official Rhode Island county, here is a tour of 10 things to love about South County.
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Art and luxury still abide by the sea in Newport
NEWPORT, R.I. — Mussel art is popular here. At the new latitudinally named waterfront hotel, Forty 1° North, they do up mussels big. Guests entering through the lattice front door see a whopping floor-to-ceiling installation of mussel shells created by French shell artist Blott Kerr-Wilson.
New England summer vacations in Rhode Island
Little Compton WHY GO It’s about an hour and a half from Boston, and getting there requires no ferries, planes, or Cape bridge crossings. Yet Little Compton feels a world away from the city – and from the throngs at Newport. So do its spectacular uncrowded beaches and rolling farmland.
A tank away: Pawtucket
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The city of Pawtucket lives in the shadow of Providence. Pawtucket will never have the arts, dining, or night life scenes that Rhode Island’s capital city has, but this smaller, proudly working-class city boasts its own attributes — among them the country’s first water-powered cotton textile mill, the home stadium of the Boston Red Sox’ Triple A ...