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COURTESY WATERFIRE/BARNABY EVANS
ETERNAL FLAME? A WaterFire event at Brush Creek parkway in Kansas City, Mo., in 2007. The popular Rhode Island event has grown past state borders, but it now has a $200,000 deficit.

WaterFire’s flame is flickering

At a time when it is more popular than ever, with cities across the nation and indeed the globe seeking to host it, WaterFire...

RIDE supports business partnerships with schools

For the first time in 20 years, the R.I. Department of Education is proposing fundamental revisions to the career and technical education system that...
SETTING A COURSE: The course that 45-foot catamarans will follow in the America's Cup World Series race set to take place between June 23 to July 1, 2012, in Newport. Fort Adams is in the foreground. / IMAGE COURTESY EDC

Excitement builds for 2012 regatta

With the prospect of bringing $72 million in new spending to the Ocean State, the America’s Cup World Series regatta coming to Newport next...
COURTESY FESTIVAL BALLET PROVIDENCE/AMITAVA SARKARPERFORMANCE ART: Houston Ballet's Christopher Commer and Nao Kusuzaki were among the performers at Festival Ballet's Oct. 19 benefit gala.

Merchants, others rally behind Festival Ballet

National and international ballet companies, local arts organizations and a city merchants group are all working to support the Festival Ballet Providence, which is...

Eleven companies join trade mission to Israel

Woonsocket-based Aidance Skincare & Topical Solutions LLC, which designs and manufactures therapeutic skin-care products, has been doing business with Israel since the company began...
FERTILE GROUND: The nonprofit Mount Hope Farm has been a working farm since the 17th century, but is currently beginning a new life. Above, Mount Hope Trust administrative assitant Jean Coelho and Marketing Director John Paul Smith in the farm's Governor Bradford Inn. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

No winter doldrums at this farm

Mount Hope Farm, 127 sprawling acres along the waterfront in Bristol, has been in existence as a working farm since at least the 1680s,...
HAIR AND NOW: Luz Arteaga Pray, owner of Hairspray Salon on Wickenden Street in Providence, has transformed the salon into a full-service spa with an art-gallery component. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Her hair salon doubles as a haven for art lovers

(Corrected, Nov. 9) It was a little more than six years ago when Luz Arteaga Pray took over the Wickenden Street hair salon where she...
MISHA Djuric, artistic director in foreground, and dancers from Festival Ballet Providence respond to applause at the Oct. 19 gala.   / COURTESY FESTIVAL BALLET PROVIDENCE

Festival Ballet ‘back on its feet’ after benefit

PROVIDENCE – Festival Ballet Providence, the only professional ballet company in Rhode Island for the past 34 years, was concerned about its economic viability...

Chafee center grant to help R.I. small businesses grow exports

SMITHFIELD - Representatives of state government, the General Assembly and the state’s congressional delegation gathered Monday morning at Bryant University to announce the receipt...
CLASS OF ITS OWN: Barbara Dickinson, co-president of the Building a Community of Learning in Retirement, describes the group as “well-educated” and “interesting.” / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL PERSSON

Retirement doesn’t have to be end of learning

Some people dread retirement because they see it as a time of isolation and overall stagnation, but a group of local learners is chasing...
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