Antonia Noori Farzan
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.... did Google Streetview go for a ride in a Providence gondola?
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If “no one reads newspapers anymore” then how come people are always mad at me
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I’m not sure that “Port of Providence” is the best name for a scented candle
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It is so!!! rude!!! to screen this in Boston before Providence. Might have turned me against the movie tbh
Packed house for the Boston premiere of SECRET MALL APARTMENT (the documentary about the artists who built and lived in a hidden apartment in Providence Place Mall.) Boston really has a great movie theater scene, despite the odds and where the industry has been going.
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The controversial new wind turbines, seen from the Cliff Walk on a clear day
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Thank you to my phone for reminding me about the time I tried to give away a table on Craigslist and got this very normal response
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Teamsters say they’ve voted to authorize a strike at RISD
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Took the day off work and ran into my boss on the Block Island Ferry … I think this is what they call “Rhode Island problems”
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I really don’t think we talk enough about the derangement of the Block Island ferry cocktail menu
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I can’t believe I spent 11 years studying French in RI schools and never got one field trip to Woonsocket
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Dying at this Newport auction house’s reaction to seeing mid-century modern furniture
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If you are now wondering what would happen if a container ship from Quonset hit the Newport bridge, rest assured that I am too and am calling the relevant experts to find out
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thinking of starting a thread with all the vanity plates i see while driving around RI
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Huge news (at least for me personally) - there’s now a floating oyster bar in Newport harbor that will tie up at your mooring & shuck them for you. VHF channel 88!
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Seven Stars employees who unionized last year say they have secured their first contract. (Story from June on why they sought to form a union: )
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A Block Islander sent me this video of a fishing boat trying to leave on Monday
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a cool thing to do while facebook stalking a random acquaintance from high school is to accidentally tag yourself as their baby
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If the RI State Archives sold reproductions of the cool maps and stuff in their collection, I would personally spend so much money on prints that it would probably pay for the new building. Just a thought.
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Going to need Boston to fix its housing crisis so that the world’s most boring people will stop moving down here
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Growing up in Newport there were few things as mysterious as the “6-10 connector”… they always talked about it on Cat Country 98.1 but I never knew what it was… it felt as distant and exotic as the Azores and I was really disappointed when I drove on it for the first time at 23
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Just learned about Nunavut’s old license plates…what if we did this but with a clam…
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The “OK grandma let’s get you to bed” meme actually just depicts me walking down Thayer Street and reminiscing about what used to be where
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The best thing about the Southern New England foraging FB group is how everytime someone posts about clamming, the Massachusetts people are like YoU NeEd A LiCeNsE FoR ThAt and the Rhode Islanders all jump in and are like hahahahhaha no we don’t, losers
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For the past couple of months I’ve been following people who go out looking for the old roads that were used hundreds of years ago and often have virtually disappeared — but may still be found on paper. Here’s the story:
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Sorry I can't talk I'm completing my City of Central Falls Pigeon License Application
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I’d rather die in Rhode Island than live any place else
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“Wow, a book on the houses of Providence from 1919, this sounds great!”
Five minutes in…
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“He told me that on primary night, he even got calls from people in Liberia who'd heard Gabe Amo had won – they were following Rhode Island’s CD1 election during Liberia’s early-morning hours.”
@markpatinkin
with the column I’ve been dying to read:
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Things I learned: To be a pilot (the boat kind) in RI, you have to pass a test that involves drawing a detailed map of Narragansett Bay from memory
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Once again plagued by the memory of the time the cashier at a Portuguese market in New Bedford asked if I was Portuguese and I for some reason felt compelled to respond “No, I’m just a fan”
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Wish we could have a Rhode Island-specific Google that would understand that I would never voluntarily seek out information about Scituate, MA or Middletown, CT. And don't get me started on Warwick, NY!!!
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Some of you don't fall asleep at night envisioning how you'd get around the state using small-to-midsize watercraft in the case of a gasoline shortage or apocalyptic levels of flooding.... and it shows!
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Acquired some zeppoles in the parking lot of the Wendy’s on Bald Hill Road
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Last 5 minutes of the Independent Man and people are still trickling in and lining up for photos. Kids are sliding down the marble steps & I just heard a mom yell “You are at the State House!!” at her football-wielding child. It’s all very heartwarming.
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South Kingstown wants to mandate that dispensaries "take on the architectural vernacular of traditional coastal New England"
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my first
@projo
story is about a very large ship that turns out to be owned by a cult-like group and whose captain can't say for sure if slavery is good or not
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Wrote about an underrated development from last month's primary: Cherie Cruz (
@ConcernedRIer
), a former teen mom who was pushed out of school in eighth grade & haunted by a felony drug charge for decades, is poised to be Pawtucket's new representative.
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I love working at a newspaper because periodically strangers will decide to escalate random personal feuds by forwarding me the entire email chain, with zero context/explanation. I have never gotten a story out of it but always enjoy catching up on the drama!
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I will go to my grave reminding people from Massachusetts that Rhode Island is a true land of freedom, where each resident has the right to harvest up to one peck of clams per day
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This doesn’t go far enough, we need a quahogger parade. A quahog festival. A teen named Miss RI Quahog Queen.
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Annoying everyone around me by referring to the seafood market as the “clam dealership”
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Nothing stirs my heart like in fall when dusk settles on the white steeples & brick factories of a New England town
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Making a list of some of the weirdest locations for historic cemeteries in RI. Anything I should add? (Yes I know the cemeteries were there before the other stuff, that’s the point.)
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On the plus side I DID get a spreadsheet that contains every vanity plate in Rhode Island
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Truly cannot understand why some of you watch "television" at night when you could be watching PUBLIC MEETINGS
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Good morning everyone, it’s a beautiful day to read my story about how activists are scouring old maps and digging up archival evidence that may hold the key to opening up parts of Westerly’s shoreline where the public has been shut out
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Attempting to get public records from rural fire departments has been... eye-opening
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Inspired by a discussion with
@Miguel_de_RI
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PVD Fest coinciding with Gaspee Days... a real "choose your fighter" moment...
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One of the great things about pizza strips is they’re available at 7:30 am
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I will be declining all future invitations to speak on panels unless I am given this podium
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If you have power but are stuck at home... it's a GREAT time to read my story on the changing face of Rhode Island's ethnic social clubs
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Did not know this: “Providence possessed no less than seven octagonal homes, more than any other American town is known to have had.”
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This is what the founders envisioned when they created the New England town meeting
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Candidate trivia is BACK by popular demand
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I am always grateful when people are willing to explain things to me, which makes it possible for me to do my job. However, the other day a man felt the need to tell me what a quahog is, and that was deeply offensive!!!
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Remember the Pokémon Go craze? Well here’s something even better: Going on weird side quests to find the historic cemeteries hidden behind strip malls while you’re out running errands
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Didn’t have room for this in the story, but two people who are being housed at the hotel mentioned (with zero prompting) that they were really impressed that someone running for governor was sleeping outside as a protest. Both had done winters in tents.
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Woonsocket's city council will vote tonight on a proposal to use the first installment of ARPA funds for a skating rink and ergonomic chairs for the city council chambers. Residents had said their top priority was housing.
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Time to tweet about losing my blue checkmark just to make sure that everyone knows that I had one
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Checking in on the iced coffee that I left in my car overnight
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If you want to read 4,000 words about the drama going on with oyster farms, I have good news for you
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No one asked but my best New England survival tip is to go out and buy a new winter coat RIGHT NOW, it’ll be on sale and you’ll get to wear it like three times and then forget about it, so when you go to pull out your disgusting old coat in November you’ll have a nice surprise
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If you force yourself to stay outside until the sun sets, you won’t be sad when that happens at 4pm. This is my most important New England winter survival tip.
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Soon as I get a Boston Whaler to park in the driveway of my modest Cranston home I will truly be living the Rhode Island American Dream
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Area man who complained about local newspaper decides to actually read it for a change, and concludes it’s pretty good
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I hope everyone at this wedding reception in Charlotte, North Carolina wants to talk about Rhode Island license plates
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This is why I keep an extra pair of clippers in my car
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It’s Scallop’s first birthday! Obviously I had to bake a scallop-shaped cake
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Um I know everyone is appropriately focused on the current bridge debacle but this is wild!!!!
A South African con artist is nearly half a million dollars richer after taking the Little Compton Agricultural Conservancy Trust for $499,900 earlier this year. How’d he or she do it? By selling the trust a 31-acre tract of land owned by someone else. ?
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This was a stat that stunned me: More than 70% of Rhode Islanders live within 10 minutes of a bus stop
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Now would be a good time to unfollow me if you’re not interested in learning about New England agriculture
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Just my opinion, but when you buy somebody’s dead grandma’s house, it’s in kinda poor taste to make a “home renovation” Instagram account where you constantly talk about how ugly all her stuff was!!
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