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Grace Potter performs at the 2021 Newport Folk Festival. Photo by Doug MacGunniglePhotos and story by Doug MacGunnigle, Cumulus MediaAfter a year’s absence due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic...

Billy Joel performs at Fenway Park in Boston on Saturday, September 14, 2019. Photo by Doug MacGunnigleby Doug MacGunnigle, WPROBilly Joel was refreshingly honest early during last night’s show ...

Brandi Carlile performs at the Newport Folk Festival with the Highwomen. Photo by Doug MacGunnigle, WPROby Doug MacGunnigle, WPROThe Newport Folk Festival kicked off Friday with an impressive array of...

Actors Miles Teller and Aaron Eckhart costar in the boxing biopic about local boy Vinny ‘The Pazmanian Devil’ Pazienza, "Bleed for This." Check out the first trailer BELOW:

PROVIDENCE- The lineup for this season’s Providence Event Series has been announced. The series will take place at the ALEX AND ANI City Center in late summer and fall and will feature the follo...

photo via HasbroPAWTUCKET, R.I. - Chewbacca Mom has a new toy to play with after Hasbro unveiled a custom action figure bearing her likeness.Candace Payne’s wildly popular video of her hysterica...

East Greenwich High Schoolby Doug MacGunnigle, WPROEast Greenwich High School is the best public high school in Rhode Island, while Moses Brown School in Providence ranks as the best private school in...

Check out this beautiful drone footage of Jamestown shot by Jon Pascua.See more of his drone videos from around New England HERE.

By Kim Kalunian, WPRO NewsThose outside of Rhode Island might not understand coffee milk, hot wieners or why it’s a sin to drink Del’s through a straw. There’s lots of things only tr...

Photo courtesy Slide the City.By Kim Kalunian, WPRO NewsAs a kid, what better fun was there on a hot summer day than donning a swimsuit, setting up the Slip and Slide and spending the afternoon speedi...