Rhode Island Monthly - January 2008

January 2008

Features
	The Rhode Island Red Awards The best dubious moments of 2007: the dumb criminals, clueless politicians and misbegotten animals who remind us why we love living in our fair state. By Sarah Francis
	Doctor Feel Good Rajiv Kumar is a man on a mission: to help Rhode Islanders become the biggest losers (of weight, that is) and, in the process, get hooked on healthy living. By Richard C. Lewis
Room at the Top It takes more than a great idea to create a million-dollar business. You need passion, luck and drive, as these highly successful women have learned. Here are their secrets. By M.E. Reilly-McGreen
15 Winter Getaways Whether you yearn to embrace the cold or escape it completely, these fifteen getaways—to sunny beaches, powdery slopes and dynamic metropolises—all provide respite from the gray-season blahs.

Features

The Rhode Island Red Awards

The best dubious moments of 2007: the dumb criminals, clueless politicians and misbegotten animals who remind us why we love living in our fair state.

By Sarah Francis

Doctor Feel Good

Rajiv Kumar is a man on a mission: to help Rhode Islanders become the biggest losers (of weight, that is) and, in the process, get hooked on healthy living.

By Richard C. Lewis

Room at the Top

It takes more than a great idea to create a million-dollar business. You need passion, luck and drive, as these highly successful women have learned. Here are their secrets.

By M.E. Reilly-McGreen

15 Winter Getaways

Whether you yearn to embrace the cold or escape it completely, these fifteen getaways—to sunny beaches, powdery slopes and dynamic metropolises—all provide respite from the gray-season blahs.

Departments
Out Takes	Archive »
January 2008: The Urban League of Rhode Island Ball. AIDS Care Ocean State's ArtBeat auction.
RI Scene	Archive »

At Home: Drama Queen	Archive »
Orchids, less finicky than you imagine and worth every penny, are available in myriad colors, sizes and shapes to chase those winter blues away.
Letters	Archive »
January 2008
Local Flavor: Betting the Farm	Archive »
Five dairy farmers took a big chance when they started Rhody Fresh milk three years ago. Their overwhelming success proves the cream always rises to the top. By Mary Grady
Reporter: Creative Accounting	Archive »
Sure, the state budget is a grown-up mess, but that’s no reason kids shouldn’t clean it up. By Ellen Liberman