Natalie Myers
Reporter finds challenges marketing new products
Ideas for new products come easy to Julie Ruditzky. Bringing them to market is another matter.
Four months ago, she conceived of a decorative tie...
Videographer perfects art of underwater view
Carving a niche in underwater videography has taken Mike Laptew about 12 years. But recent successes, including a video contract with National Geographic, have...
Zimmerman’s instincts, ear help propel FarSounder
This is the seventh in a series of 12 PBN articles focusing on the backgrounds, challenges and successes of some of the area’s most...
National Amusements buys Feinstein IMAX Theatre
PROVIDENCE – National Amusements, owner of Providence Place Cinemas 16, has purchased the adjacent Feinstein IMAX Theatre from IMAX Corp. as of Dec. 31,...
Celebrating and showing off
For local entertainers such as Rory Raven, a Providence-based mentalist and mindbender, Bright Night Providence provides one crucial element to their business model: exposure.
Raven...
Newport tour operator gets international kudos
Anybody who can afford it can travel to Italy. But stopping in a Tuscan abbey just as the monks are chanting, or meeting a...
Next generation of entrepreneurs climb ladder
Finees Mendez grew up watching his father become the second Latino in the state to earn a master-electrician license, and then start his own...
Sponsors pitch in to save state map from extinction
Necessity became the mother of invention this year for the R.I. Tourism Division when it faced the threatened extinction of something most Rhode Islanders...
Group inspires leaders to be agents for change
Fred Presley doubts he would have jump-started the successful drive to recall former Smithfield Town Council President Stephen G. Tocco last month without empowerment...
Marketing, patience build gallery
As soon as visitors walk into Catherine Little Bert’s gallery on the East Side of Providence, they see her diverse taste. Though the first...
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