Live Downcity

The go-to source of what’s hot and happening in Providence is publishing its 150th issue this May.  Providence Monthly is unveiling their celebratory 150th issue, along with a hot new design, including a redesigned masthead.  The special 150th issue features 150 people things that make Providence the city we love.
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Thursday
9pm-1am

This month’s Nerdsday tweet-up and work session features Wayne Franklin of Office Lab, DJs Tim O’Keefe and Ted James. Come out and be anti social with us. Bring your 20-sided die, laptops, projects and homework. Free.
Tazza Caffe’, 250 Westminster St.

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Curious passersby have been gawking at the corner retail space at the Peerless building, asking “What is Ristie’s?”…A steakhouse? Perhaps, a boutique?
The papered walls, with decals and intriguing laser light shows have created quite the buzz, and the evening for the unveiling is upon us.

Whether they are tooling through the streets on segways, helping old ladies cross the street, giving directions or hanging beautiful plantings from our light posts, the D.I.D. is a vital part of our happy little neighborhood. Founded in 2005, the Downtown Improvement District celebrated their fourth anniversary last Thursday, and Live Downcity congratulates them [...]

Congratulations to Providence Art Windows, for winning “People’s Choice” for best Public Exposure for Artists during the 2008 Boston Art Awards. They weren’t the only Providence art scenesters to win.  Visit the Providence Art Windows blog for more info, providenceartwindows.blogspot.com.

by Abby Saunders
Deca*go*go:  The Exquisite Corpse Plays created by Elemental Theatre Collective opened at Perishable Theatre Thursday, January 22nd, and runs through Sunday, February 1st.  The plays are much like a quilt, patched by someone’s very hip grandmother, one pattern ending, where another begins.  And, the end product is one of many parts, collectively creating [...]

Want to see the expression on Obama’s face in an Inauguration photo?   This 1600 pixel crowd shot allows one to zoom in on a single face without losing any detail.  Taken by photographer David Bergman, this panoramic photograph was shared on GigaPan as part of the Inauguration Day GigaPan by David Bergman collection.  Zoom [...]

Check out photos by Providence residents, who were among the masses of people in our Nation’s Capitol for Obama’s Inauguration Tuesday, January 20th.  If you have were lucky enough to attend the Inauguration in DC, send us your best candids, and we’ll post them.

by a Westminster Lofts resident
Who lives in Downcity? Doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs. Everyone knows that. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! The truth is that Downcity is populated by a wide spectrum of society, from graduate students to professors, movie-goers to film producers, newspaper reporters to magazine editors, construction workers to architects, cops to — oops, let’s not [...]

by Abby Saunders
Gourmet Heaven will open soon, but here’s a sneak preview of what Downtown’s new market will look like.  Project Manager, Russell Preston of Cornish Associates, gave a hard-hat tour of  the space that is housed by RISD’s Fletcher Building.  Contractor Site Specific was hard at work, finishing up the structure, which includes beautiful [...]

If you felt a disturbance in the force yesterday afternoon,  it was probably because none other than Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater on Saved by the Bell) was in Downtown Providence for a Channel 10 luncheon.  This early 1990’s heartthrob was barely contained by the plush decor of Aspire, and Downcity was that much better for [...]