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YouTube becomes obit guestbook for Doors' Manzarek
The YouTube video comments of this 12 1/2-minute performance in Copenhagen in 1968 have become a de facto guest book for The Doors' late keyboard player Ray Manzarek, who died of bile duct cancer at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim,...
May 22, 2013 10:28 am
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Photo: Dylan Night in Providence
Sheila LennonBruce McCrae (aka Rudy Cheeks) plays harmonica with The Zimmermen at the annual Bob Dylan Revival Friday night at Patrick's Pub in Providence. From left, Vincent Pasternak, Rick Bellaire, McCrae, Nick DiBiasio, Fred Wilkes and Richard Sage. Click the...
May 18, 2013 11:53 am
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Take an inch, a mile or a Rhode Island
It was just a matter of time before someone made a site like How Many Rhode Islands? Dan Bertwell, "a Rhode Island enthusiast," finally did it. On the voracious Internet, where no fact is too small to deserve its own...
May 17, 2013 9:36 am
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Bob Dylan Night Friday at Patrick's Pub
The right-brain side of the annual Dylan Night invitation to those on the mailing list Providence's annual Bob Dylan night happens at Patrick's Pub, 381 Smith St., Fri. May 17, starting at 7 p.m. $8. (401) 808-0184. This long-running gig...
May 15, 2013 7:53 am
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A year after I launch Time Lapse, Google and Time launch Timelapse
I wuz robbed!!! May 2013: Search Engine Land: Google & Time Inc. Launch Timelapse: See How Any Part Of The World Has Changed Over Time Timelapse Watch the world change over the course of nearly three decades of satellite photography...
May 10, 2013 9:48 am
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Haven Bros. Diner uses its backup truck
Peter PhippsHaven Bros. backup truckWe saw a different Haven Bros. Diner truck outside City Hall this week, more a self-contained food truck than a diner on wheels. Cassandra Giusti, speaking for her husband, Haven Bros. owner Ivan Giusti, said the...
May 9, 2013 2:40 pm
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Passing links: Bad digs, obit worth dying for, half cat, Mars vols
New Cat Species Found on Google Street View, pictured at right. The perils of stitching when one object is moving. THE WORST ROOM: "A blog about trying to find affordable housing in New York City." You can spend a...
May 8, 2013 10:15 pm
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25 food trucks on our list, but they aren't all piping up
Providence Food Trucks is the easy way to see the full version of the Providence Food Trucks Twitter feed on the sidebar at right. You can also view it at Twitter (it's a Twitter list), as Food Trucks, Road food...
May 8, 2013 10:00 am
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Former Boston Phoenix staffers start Webzine
It looks like a newspaper, a high school newspaper. It 's called "The Media" and had they not used a Roman interpretation of the letter "U" I wouldn't have been able to show it to you. The new Web weekly,...
May 3, 2013 9:55 am
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The Web turns 30 today -- first page revived
The very first Web page ever has been revived for the anniversary. The links all work, as well. Here's the CERN blog post about it. (Yes, the Web comes from the same folks who brought us the Large Hadron Collider.)...
April 30, 2013 4:39 pm
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Love record shops? Party surrounds documentary Sunday at Cable Car
If you're fond of record shops, you should enjoy the party around the screening of the UK documentary Last Shop Standing Sunday night at The Cable Car. From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m, record-store vendors will set up in the...
April 17, 2013 4:06 pm
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IRS bill for $33,331 meant my identity had been stolen
I e-filed my 2011 taxes last year, checked a few weeks later to make sure my state refund had been deposited, and forgot about it until a fat letter from the IRS last month said I owed for underreported income...
April 15, 2013 9:19 am
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Master Gardeners' fairy houses spring up at the Park for Sunday's Fairy Garden Day
Linda HaasAn award-winning fairy garden by professional garden designer Linda Haas of Tree Star Hollow, used in a brochure to illustrate the first Fairy Garden Day at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Garden. Jennie SadlerThis fairy house is made of...
April 10, 2013 11:57 am
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The mad fairy painter
While writing about fairy gardens, I went looking for fairy images I remember from childhood. This isn't one of them. Richard Dadd's painting "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" hangs in the Tate Gallery in London, and depicts a less sugary fairy...
April 10, 2013 10:04 am
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Facebook Home for Android: 'It sees you when you're sleeping, it knows when you're awake'
Facebook Announces "Home", A Homescreen Replacement Android App Designed Around People Facebook today announced a new apps called Facebook Home that replaces your standard Android's homescreen with an immersive Facebook experience featuring full-screen photos, status updates, and notifications. Facebook also...
April 5, 2013 10:11 am
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It's time to start your seeds
Sheila LennonTradition says, "Plant peas at Easter." Some prefer St. Patrick's Day, but not this year. Sow beets, carrots, lettuce and other salad leaves, peas and Swiss chard outdoors once the minimum soil temperature of your garden is above...
March 27, 2013 10:49 am
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17-year cicadas are due, but should skip us; if not, try bagpipes??
After 17 Years, the Northeast Is About to Be Blanketed by a Swarm of Cicadas SmartNews: It's been 17 years since the cicadas of Brood II swarmed the northeastern United States. A mass of winged creatures, red eyes glowing, the...
March 24, 2013 2:03 pm
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Recyclopedia tells you whether it goes in trash bin or the recycle bin
If you hesitate over which bin to toss the trash into as I do, here's one to bookmark: Recyclopedia - What to do with it when you're done with it, It's a clean page with a links list of things....
March 20, 2013 12:28 pm
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Fresh Hayes: Elegant Irish classical music for St. Patrick's Day
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill - Temple Bar TradFest 2013, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, January 23, 2013. Amazing energy building for more than 14 minutes. Their older album/cd The Lonesome Touch was described by a friend as one of...
March 17, 2013 4:44 am
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Easy, tender corned beef pot roast: Use the cheapest cut, braise it in the oven
We made this 2007 recipe again to raves last weekend, using the point-cut corned beef on sale at $1.99 a pound in the market. Corned beef and cabbage recipes for a rainy weekend. Start 5 lbs. of corned beef on...
March 15, 2013 8:07 am
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