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(October 3, 2024) – Our local owls are busy setting up territories, finding mates and calling to each other in late autumn and through the winter. Join Audubon for brisk evening walks on the trails to search for resident owls during this magical time of year. Owl programs and prowls fill quickly – be sure to register early.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Roger Williams Park Zoo is bringing back its Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular for 2024, with a brand-new theme to keep people involved on their trek through. Five thousand pumpkins are spread out across Roger William’s annual Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular. The brand new trivia theme is giving...

In 1999, the Splendor of Florence event may have done more to put Providence on the map than any single event. Press coverage was global. The success of Joyce Acciaioli Rudge’s first festival in 1999 in Providence became the blueprint for subsequent city-wide festivals in Philadelphia and New York as well as art and photo exhibits throughout the USA giving visitors the opportunity to visit Florence without actually getting on a plane, said the group.

Whether your jam is old-school funk, the blues or songs that connect you to your spiritual beliefs, the live music scene in and around Rhode Island has something to tempt you into spending your entertainment funds this fall.  Here are our top 10 picks to help you plan your live music fix over...

DARTMOUTH — It wasn't a red tide, it was a yellow tide as thousands of yellow ducks descended upon Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary in Dartmouth. Don't worry. They weren't real ducks, they were rubber — all part of the Mass Audubon's annual Duck Derby. In its 21st year, the Duck Derby had 3,007 ducks racing on Buzzards Bay tides on Sept. 28 hoping to secure the top price. A donor sponsors each duck...

PechaKucha Providence hosts free monthly events where the Greater Providence community comes together to share ideas, creations, and stories using the PechaKucha format of 20 images that each last 20 seconds. It's kind of like a "show and tell" for grown-ups. Revill and Jenna sit down with PechaKucha Providence board...

Better World by Design, a joint venture organized by students at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design, will hold its 15th annual conference this Saturday. Design professionals and educators will give a series of talks on the “ways that design can center alternative narratives,” according to the group’s website. Speakers include professors from the University of Toronto and the University of California at Los Angeles as well as senior designers from Adobe and Sonos.

The hosts of Club Adventures’ new food tours read like a list of Providence culinary all-stars: Oberlin’s Ben Sukle. Robert Andreozzi of Pizza Marvin. Gift Horse’s Chris Pfail. The tours, twelve in all, take travelers all over the globe and were the brainchild of Rhode Islander Bethany Hodge, a fervent fan of the capital city’s restaurant scene and head of product at Club Adventures. “Food and hospitality are really linked industries in terms of values and encouraging people to step outside their comfort zones, whether it’s trying a new dish or visiting a new country,” she says. The small-group adventures kicked off this summer, with Sukle exploring the cuisine of northern Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. Travelers indulged in baked goods at Sukle’s friend’s bakery in Trieste, Italy, sampled cheese at a goat farm, and hunted for truffles in the countryside. In mid-October, guests will enjoy pintxo crawls and wine tastings in Spain’s Basque region with the husband-and-wife team of Luke Mersfelder, who works at Dune Brothers, and Britt Simons, bar manager of the Eddy in Providence. The seed for the trips was planted in 2019, when Hodge ran into Bethany Caliaro, Oberlin’s co-owner and sommelier, at a farmers market and asked for restaurant recommendations for an upcoming trip to Mexico City. “Every single place she recommended was incredible,” Hodge says. “That’s when I realized that the insight of a food professional could really take a standard trip and elevate it into something really special.” Caliaro will take guests on a ten-day journey to Sicily next April, and plans are in the works to add new trips to Portugal and Scotland to Club Adventures’ 2025 lineup. To that we say bon appetit! clubadventures.com/food-tours.

A drive to a wedding in Michigan led to the spark of an idea that will soon have Providence booming with cats and coffee. Kaylin and Max Mugica-Drumm came across a cat cafe in the Grand Rapids and fell in love with the idea of a place where cats could find homes in a cage– free environment. They have always shared a passion for adoption as they adopted their first pet, Kirby, together in 2020. The couple decided that they wanted to further this idea back home and thus “Cafe Gato” was born.