The bread and milk 🙄

Exactly my thought

It was open less than a year before the pandemic hit 😣 ... they probably only survived that because it is really that good. I have a friend from Turkey who raves about it

>Decades from now people are going to look back at this plan and be as grateful that it didn’t happen

Why wait? This is easily the best local news I've heard in the 2020s 😅

Silver Star bakery on Ives in Fox Point, Providence

Providencian

Just throwing it out there: AS220 used to have a community dark room anyone could use -- no idea if they still do, but if so it might be fun to shoot some b&w and try it out

>MA is home to some defunct mental institutions

I grew up on the North Shore and "Danvers" (we all just called it that) was a Victorian-era state mental institution still being used into at least the 70s. As children just the word "Danvers" was enough to be deeply scary.

They finally shuttered it and while the asbestos removal was going on, they allowed an indy film crew in to shoot a low budget movie. Watching that was how I finally saw the inside.

:: shudder ::

Rooms in the basement for shock treatment and lobotomies and other unimaginable horrors

Andre the Giant calibre sticker this is not

I have a friend who was married five times (he's sticking with lucky lady No. 5) and what he did between wives to find the next one was the tried and true suggestion: taking classes.

Look, even if you don't meet and match with someone in the class, taking them enriches your life and makes you a more interesting person (which will help your overall presentation).

My friend took so many! Even ballet (and he'd been a Marine 😆). There are so many great classes / workshops to take! Look for workshops at first -- you know, the one-day or limited-session ones.

Cooking, wine, mushroom growing in your basement, wildflowers of Rhode Island, The Steel Yard, glassblowing, seal watching, day sailing, Save The Bay, rockhounding. Volunteer to be an usher at PPAC or Trinity. Check whether AS220 has workshops.

And remember, anyone at any of the activities might not be "the one" but might have a sister who is. So just go to the activity and strive to be open and friendly to everyone there. Because any of them might know someone who's looking, too.

Good luck! ❤️

Just bear in mind that a lot of restaurants are closed on Monday and or Tuesday night, so once you chose a spot, call ahead to be sure they'll be open.

I think there's one for India Point Park for the RI native plants on the park end of the pedestrian bridge? India Point Park might be a state park, but call the City Parks Dept and ask. They should know.

Also, the rose garden in Roger Williams Park (near the Park St entrance) is maintained by a garden club.

>I lived in Somerville years ago when it was called “Slumerville”.

Ikr?! 😳 I lived with a bunch of artists in an old peanut factory just off the McGrath OBrian Highway. Dirt cheap.

One to three inches of slush: unlikely

Back around 2013/2014 I had a graphic artist friend who lived in one of the micro lofts in the Arcade. She absolutely loved living downcity-- but she didn't have a car.

>Goes well this Providence moving forward with an electric supply aggregation program that opts people in and has a lower base rate than RI Energy.

Sorry: what?

What a bunch of crybabies

AS220 was originally conceived as an open gallery where anyone could have a one-person show for the asking. Not sure how it works now but I doubt its core tenet had changed.

It has a cafe/bar. Just go check it out and ask. I'm sure the website has info too.

There are also gallery-like spaces. I once had a one-person show for a month at a bookstore / cafe space. Some banks also offer gallery space.

Good luck!

This is like the Tom Sawyer fence-painting seminar, amirite? 😆

And especially this time of year, when you cross the threshold it's like Dorothy stepping into technicolor Oz, leaving the black & white Kansas that is February in Rhode Island behind -- magical ✨🌸✨

Natural History Museum at Roger Wms Park is really cheap -- under $5. Last time I went, so was admission to the Botanical Gardens (and the citrus trees there should be in bloom now: the smell is heavenly.

Nah, I'm from MA: definitely no fun there either

So kind of you ❤️

It's way too cold out for a short-haired dog 🥶

My brother literally did this in college in his bathtub in an off-campus apt in Boston.

All I remember about the "gin" was that it was orange and had sliced rounds of oranges floating in it. And that it was potent.

The drawback to bathtub gin becomes: where do you bathe? 😆

Ikr?! 😆 AI can dream, I guess