Collection of 5% hotel tax in R.I. declines 57.2% Y/Y in...
PROVIDENCE – Collection of the 5% hotel tax in October in Rhode Island declined 57.2% year over year in Rhode Island to $914,188, the...
Block Island tourism surprises
Amid the widespread economic carnage wrought by the pandemic in 2020, somehow tiny Block Island and its tourist-dependent businesses emerged to fight another day.
“No...
Down year is OK for Block Island
Block Island’s tourism-dependent business owners entered the summer fearful of the damage the COVID-19 pandemic would do to their livelihoods, but most report that...
Dining Out: Embracing the chile life
“Our Hatch green chile is the calamari of New Mexico!”
That’s what Bahjat Shariff had to say about the cuisine of his new home in...
Tidewater Landing master plan details design, construction timeline
PAWTUCKET - After a year of extended deadlines on a multimillion dollar, mixed-use development anchored by a soccer stadium, developers of the proposed Tidewater...
Combined collection of 1% hotel and meal and beverage taxes declines...
PROVIDENCE – The combined collection of local 1% hotel and meal and beverage taxes in October declined 24.6% year over year, according to the...
R.I. groups make arguments for vaccine priority
The highly anticipated rollout of the first vaccines for COVID-19 has begun in Rhode Island, but the order of those inoculations is under scrutiny.
The...
Stepping Up: Festival Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker Sweets!’ will go on – online
PROVIDENCE – For Festival Ballet Providence, the show must go on.
That mentality is not just for the local performing-arts enthusiasts who are in need...
Curtain will go up again, but slowly
J.L. “Lynn” Singleton, president of the Providence Performing Arts Center, has had to overcome hurdles since joining PPAC nearly four decades ago. The COVID-19...
Restaurant rebound will be ‘joint effort’
Dino Passaretta is CEO of the Downtown Restaurant Group, which operates five Rhode Island restaurants: Public Kitchen & Bar in Providence, Centro Restaurant &...
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