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Nest

Shades of View with Blakely Interior Design

The local interior design firm used cool blues and warm tones to tell the story of this waterfront home in Wickford.
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Photography by Greg Premru Living on the water calls for a coastal inspired interior, and Blakely Interior Design was able to deliver just that. This newly renovated residence in Wickford boasts crisp colors, fresh patterns, and a new layout that reflects exactly what the homeowners desired. Blakely was given full creative freedom for this design, as the home was “ours…

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At Home

A Seventeenth Century House Museum’s Path to Preservation

The historic property in Lincoln found new life as a private home with a little help from Preserve Rhode Island.
Dana Rae Laverty,

Courtesy of Preserve Rhode Island. A Lackluster ‘Crown Jewel’   Built in 1696, the Valentine Whitman Jr. House has traveled a circuitous route over the years: from family homestead to apartment dwellings to a house museum, and now — after an extensive $600,000 renovation project — back into a private home once again. The Valentine Whitman Jr. House in the…

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Art, Culture, Current

New Exhibit at Brown University Features Art Made Behind Bars

"Making Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" is on view at the university's Bell and Cohen galleries until Dec. 18.
Dana Rae Laverty,

“Apokaluptein: 16389067,” Jesse Krimes. Curator Nicole R. Fleetwood doesn’t disclose why the artists in “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” are in prison. “It’s an intentional and deliberate choice,” she says. “We as a society get very focused on why people are in prison and miss the larger critique of how easy it is for us as…

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Art, Film

This Rhody Resident Masterfully Recreates Frightening Figures from Your Favorite Horror Films

Longtime Burrillville resident Neal DeConte usually builds creepy creatures and other iconic characters for fun, but he’s also open to commissions.
Kaitlyn Murray,

DeConte with his model of Valek the Nun from the Conjuring 2 and portrayer Bonnie Aarons. Courtesy of Neal DeConte.   Nestled somewhere deep in the quiet, rural acreages of Burrillville, Rhode Island, lies a room of horrors. Well, horror figures, that is. It may sound like some creepy Cabin in the Woods plot line (or even something out of…

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House Lust

House Lust: California Vibes in a Sweet Suburban Setting

The 1928 Spanish Revival features stunning period details, original hardwoods and updated everything. Plus, it’s just down the road from one of Rhode Island’s best bakeries.
Dana Rae Laverty,

Full disclosure: I love this house. I’m not even going to try to hide it for the sake of journalistic integrity. I adore this sweet Spanish Revival and ogle it every time we make the trip to Wright’s Dairy Farm and Bakery, where it sits proudly on Great Road, just tempting passersby with its scintillating, scarlet-tiled roof, that stately brick…

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House Lust

Haunted House Lust: The Conjuring House Has Sold and Resumed Tours

While the haunted farmhouse was sold back in May (in large part thanks to the eeriest real estate video of all time), it has been deemed 'too powerful' to live in and now offers tours instead.
Casey Nilsson,

Photo and video credit: Blueflash Photography   UPDATE AS OF OCTOBER 2022: According to Forbes, the Conjuring House sold for $1.525 million (27 percent above original asking price) to Boston developer Jacqueline Nuñez in May 2022. Since then, tours of the property have resumed, with the website proclaiming, “The Conjuring House offers authentic opportunities for our guests to learn about…

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Art, Film

This Local Makeup Artist is Unveiling Thirty-One Spooktacular Halloween Looks Throughout October

Learn how Melissa Rodriguez first came up with MELtober and get a sneak peek of what she has in store for the rest of the month.
Kaitlyn Murray,

  While some of us may be just beginning to think about what creepy costume we will don two weeks from now, others, like Providence-based makeup artist, Melissa Rodriguez, already have plenty of ideas to choose from. Rodriguez has been celebrating spooky season all month long with MELtober, a self-made Instagram challenge where she debuts a different (incredibly realistic and…

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Culture, Current, Fashion

Meet the Rhode Island Business Behind Fierce “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Crown

The rhinestone symbol of glory was designed and crafted in North Scituate by John Griffin of Fierce Drag Jewels.
Ellen Liberman,

Photography courtesy of Fierce Drag Jewels. For the uninitiated, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — fourteen seasons and counting — is a festival of fab, as contestants vie for a cash prize and title of America’s Next Drag Superstar.  An achievement like that deserves no less than the most glittering, sparkling, dazzling tower of fire that can be rested upon a royal…

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Current, Family Fun

Find Your Fortune at the Dye House’s Queri Pop-Up Event

Providence artist Ben Sisto's collection of 200 decision-paralysis relief tools will be on full display.
Dana Rae Laverty,

Photography courtesy of CC–BY–SA Ben Sisto. Ben Sisto bought his first fortune-telling device, a Radio Shack Executive Decision Maker, in 2014. It was in jest, partly to help answer the infernal question asked of all artists: “Where do your ideas come from?” and to serve as a fun desk diversion. But he grew intrigued in the role that chance and…

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Health

A Wish Come True Celebrates 40 Years of Granting Wishes to Local Children with Life Threatening Illnesses

Rhode Island’s oldest wish-granting organization will hold a 40th anniversary fundraising gala at WaterFire Arts Center on October 8.
Kaitlyn Murray,

Courtesy of A Wish Come True  A Wish Come True — a Warwick-based non-profit organization devoted to helping children with life threatening illnesses (and their families) across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts — has a lot to celebrate in its fortieth year. Since its founding in 1982, the agency has raised more than $8.2 million and granted more than 1,700…