Patrick Healy
The sounds of this music are karaoke
Company: WRIK Entertainment
Location: 845 Oaklawn Ave., Cranston
Owner: Rick Lataille
Type of business: Disc jockey and karaoke service
Employees: 7
Year founded: 1980
Annual revenue: $300,000
Rick Lataille reads crowds...
T.W. Rounds to close doors
After 136 years, luggage and leather goods retailer T.W. Rounds is packing its bags for good.
Unable to continue competing with the malls and hurt...
Common sense urged to avoid computer virus hoaxes
When it comes to forwarded e-mails warning of computer viruses, there are more sheep in wolves' clothing Rob Rosenberger, editor of Vmyths.com, said the...
Realtors limit home sales data to quarterly reports
The Rhode Island Association of Realtors has decided to release statistics of residential real estate sales only on a quarterly basis instead of monthly,...
Air-travel risks, costs, delays boost videoconferencing
Concerns of airline safety, airport delays and the prospect of increasing airfares have prompted more and more businesses to consider videoconferencing as another way...
By the way, Wayland Bakery’s an East Side tradition
Company: Wayland Bakery
Location: 138 Wayland Ave., Providence
Owner: Luis Rodriguez
Employees: 4
Year founded: 1940
Annual revenues: WND
In 1953 the caterer who ran Wayland Bakery created the wedding...
Home building shrugs off slight decline
Although the homebuilding industry in Rhode Island has not been quite as busy this year as in the past few years, many experts say...
SE Mass becoming real estate magnet By<B> </B>Patrick Healy
Southeastern Massachusetts enjoyed the largest increase in single-family home sales in the Bay State during the third quarter.
Sales of single-family homes in Southeastern Massachusetts...
Newport boat show reports sales up, plans expansion
Although the Newport International Boat Show opened two days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, its organizers are reporting an 18 percent sales...
Performing arts regain their role post Sept. 11
Two months since the monumental attack on America and in the midst of a struggling economy, entertainment is no longer on the back burner...
