The Providence Eye

10/07/2025

Rong Chic owner Yao Liu moved to Providence in 2022 from China, where she was a practicing lawyer. While she quickly fell for Providence’s strong culinary scene and sense of community, she found herself often missing the flavors of home.

Learn more about how she and her business partner, Chef Xiao-Zhong, are bringing Sichuan cuisine to RI through Rong Chic.

🔗 Read More: pvdeye.org/wickenden-street-welcomes-rong-chic-with-grand-opening-celebrating-spicy-sichuan-flavors-and-unique-asian-desserts/

✍️ Amber Ma
📸 Amber Ma

05/07/2025

is bracing for a major tax shift as the city proposes a 6% increase in property taxes to close a growing budget gap. The Eye’s Bob McMahon breaks down the budget and shares what residents are saying.

🔗 Read More: https://pvdeye.org/seven-things-to-know-about-the-upcoming-providence-city-budget-and-tax-increases
✍️ Story by Bob McMahon
📸 Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel

03/07/2025

Beneath the moonlight on Benefit Street, a hidden rose garden kindled one of American literature's most intense love affairs, co-starring Edgar Allan Poe. Nearly 200 years later, the scene from that night can still be seen. 🌹

🔗 Read More: https://pvdeye.org/benefit-streets-enchanted-garden
✍️ Story by Levi Lionel Leland
📸 Photo by Levi Lionel Leland

It was a sultry July night in 1845 when Edgar Allan Poe, the world-famous American author and poet, walked north on Providence’s Benefit Street. During this visit to the city, [...]

01/07/2025

We're now accepting applications to participate in a new program that provides hands-on training for aspiring community journalists.

The Community News Fellow Program will take course over 3 months, teaching participants about the foundations of journalism, reporting and writing. Remote and flexible schedule. Applicants must be Providence-based.

Please be advised this is not a job position, but rather a training opportunity. Learning stipend included.

For more information and to apply, visit pvdeye.org/community-news-fellow.

27/06/2025

The 49th-annual Rhode Island Pride took place Saturday, June 21, drawing over 100,000 people to Providence for a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community — and just one of many festivals taking place across the state and the country in celebration of Pride Month this June.

🔗 Read more: https://pvdeye.org/providence-pride/

✍️ Sebastian Connolly
📸 Kim Deacon Collection, Providence Public Library

26/06/2025

Providence Parks Department manages more than just parks — they also maintain basketball courts, skateparks, cemeteries, dog parks, and other outdoor spaces that need routine care.

Check out some of the projects the PPD has taken on to maintain and improve the City's public outdoor spaces.

🔗 Read More: https://pvdeye.org/providence-parks-department-improves-maintains-and-builds-outdoor-city-spaces/

✍️ Nini Stoddard
📸 Providence Parks Department

25/06/2025

There are currently no rules in Providence about how often or how much a landlord can raise the rent. A subcommittee of Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) is on a campaign to change that.

🔗 Read More: https://pvdeye.org/the-case-for-rent-stabilization-in-providence/

✍️ Harper Keehn, from the DARE Tenant and Homeowner's Association (THA)
📸 DARE

20/06/2025

PVD-based horror writer and painter Victoria Dalpe's most recent book follows a professional resurrectionist. Raising the dead for a living proves to be the least of her worries when a string of supernatural murders plague her town of Goat Hill, "a quirky little city that will strike readers who know Providence as distinctly familiar."

🔗 Read More: https://pvdeye.org/the-lonely-road-of-monsters-a-review-of-selene-shade-resurrectionist-for-hire/

✍️ Diane Josefowicz
📸 CLASH Books

18/06/2025

Legally, Rhode Islanders have a right to shore access up to 10 feet from the high tide line. However, figuring out how and where to access the water is trickier said than done.

Plans to redesign Public Street's access point hope to change that.

🔗 Read More: pvdeye.org/the-plan-to-make-public-street-a-public-good

✍️ Joshua Geaughan
📸 Google Street View

13/06/2025

A former librarian explains why the real question is not whether schools can afford . It's whether they can afford not to have them. 📚

🔗 Read More: https://pvdeye.org/to-create-lifelong-readers-and-informed-citizens-providence-public-schools-need-librarians-thats-why-i-support-the-school-libraries-act
✍️ Story by Sarah Morenon
📸 Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel, via Wikimedia Commons

Several weeks back, I was notified by the current librarian at Providence’s Nathanael Greene Middle School that she had been laid off. The school’s new principal apparently told her that [...]

09/06/2025

👀 Peek behind the scenes at the RISD Museum with conservator Ingrid Neuman, who uses her chemistry background to preserve ancient sculptures and reveal their hidden stories.

🔗 Read More: https://pvdeye.org/how-ingrid-neuman-conserves-sculptures-at-the-risd-museum
✍️ Story by Kristine Yang
📸 Photo courtesy of the RISD Museum

This past November, Ingrid Neuman, senior conservator at the RISD Museum, wheeled a twelfth-century Japanese wooden Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara into Hasbro Children’s Hospital for a CAT scan. Conservators have repaired the [...]

07/06/2025

In , librarians, authors, and readers are rallying behind a bill to protect the right to read. 📚

🔗 Read More: https://pvdeye.org/the-freedom-to-read-in-providence-librarians-authors-and-more-speak-out-on-banned-books
✍️ Story by Eloise Narrigan
📸 Photo by Authors Against Book Bans Rhode Island

“Our public and school libraries are more than just buildings with books. They’re spaces where kids can grow and learn, students find the resources they need to succeed, and community [...]