PROVIDENCE, RI -- Basketball fans coming to Providence to cheer on their alma maters in the NCAA tournament in March will get to see the bright side of the city as the tourney planning group has found a sponsor for WaterFire ... Dunkin' Donuts will pay to create a limited version of the city's signature cultural event Friday, March 19 -- the off day that comes in the middle of the two-day college hoops tournament, according to the Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitor's Bureau. The WaterFire
Keith Cothran, the senior guard and scoring leader for the University of Rhode Island Rams basketball team, will take questions from projo readers Monday in a live chat from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m ... You can submit a question now: Go to projo.com/chat, click the red "launch chat" button, choose a display name (you don't need a password) and enter the "college hoops" chat room ... When typing a question, do not press enter or click send until you have completed your thought; doing so will cause an
The schedule is stacked this weekend. UW-Whitewater tries to clinch another title berth, WIsconsin and Marquette renew their annual rivalry and the Bucks, Admirals and Wave are home, too. And of course, it all comes to a head Sunday, when the Packers and Bears renew acquaintences for the 179th time, at noon at Soldier Field.
Special to The Journal ... THE HIGHLIGHTS: Mark Wagner's first two home runs of his Triple-A career paced Pawtucket to victory and prevented a series sweep. Both home runs came on 1-2 counts. Wagner's first shot gave the PawSox a 3-0 lead in the third. The second was a solo shot that extended the PawSox lead to 4-2 in the eighth. Brian Anderson, who scored on Wagner's first homer, got his first RBI as a PawSox when his double brought home Jeff Natale. PawSox right fielder Bubba Bell made a
The organizers of George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55, to be held in Newport Aug. 7-9, announced Tuesday that singer Chaka Khan would perform at the opening concert on Friday, Aug. 7, at the International Tennis Hall of Fame ... Khan will replace Etta James, who has backed out due to illness. She was scheduled to perform at the JVC Jazz Festival-Newport in 2007, but also had to cancel ... Clarinetist Anat Cohen and guitarist Howard Alden will open the show ... Tickets for the festival are
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The police arrested two Pawtucket men on charges that they stole wheels from the car of Triple-A All-Star pitcher Clay Buchholz of the Pawtucket Red Sox ... Detective Donti Rosciti said a neighbor of Buchholz's called the police at 4 a.m. Friday to report a theft in progress ... When officers arrived, they found Buchholz's 2007 BMW hoisted on bricks. Two of the car's four wheels had been removed ... Tony Reverdes, 28, of 172 Magill St., and Airton Monteiro, 21, of 52 Centre
Cirque du Soliel's acrobatic theater ... Calling Cirque du Soleil a circus is like calling Cinderella's splendiferous carriage a pumpkin. They're starting their 25th anniversary tour at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence (July 2 through 5) and, compared to Cirque, an ordinary circus appears vegetative, indeed ... SADNESS AND AFFIRMATION Alegría runs the gamut of emotions ... Calling Cirque du Soleil a circus is like calling Cinderella's splendiferous carriage a pumpkin. They're
PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News has chosen the 2009 class of its annual 40 Under Forty program, to be honored at a July 30 event at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport ...
What's in a name? Plus, a curious consultant, and bashing Obama ... The Department of Transportation has taken quite a few knocks in this space over the years. So to try to offset that, spurred by the story in the June 8 Urinal about the Pawtucket River Bridge, let us throw them a compliment: they do a hell of an artist's rendering ... The Department of Transportation has taken quite a few knocks in this space over the years. So to try to offset that, spurred by the story in the June 8