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Ordinance Committee moves to expand Providence’s live music rules

Economic Activity 11/14/2025

PROVIDENCE – The Ordinance Committee approved a major overhaul of the city’s entertainment laws on Nov. 4, which could broaden opportunities for live music...

DOUBLE LIFE: Rick Sunderland, a gym and health teacher at Classical High School, opened live music venue Dusk on Harris Avenue in Providence in 2010 because of a passion for live music and a desire to showcase musicians and artists.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

‘Creating a space for artists and musicians’ a labor of love...

Art & Culture 12/08/2023

Other than his 30 years as a Providence public school teacher, Rick Sunderland’s resume reads like a partial directory of Rhode Island nightclubs. Bon...

PIVOTAL PLAYER: David Podsnap, owner of Galactic Theatre LLC on Main Street in Warren, a performance venue offering live music and stand-up comedy and a micro-movie theater, says it’s been rewarding to see a livelier downtown district along Main Street and to know that Galactic played a role in this shift. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Galactic Theatre keeping Warren ‘weird’

Art & Culture 09/30/2022

It has a bar, but it isn’t a bar. It began as a vintage store and became the Galactic Theatre LLC “by accident and...

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