The rough cut is now a final cut, and posted on the Rhode Island International Film Festival site.  This is the short I mentioned in an...

Photo by Katy Miller After a funeral Mass in the Zambarano Hospital chapel that drew an overflow crowd of more than 200 -- and featur...

  My review in this past Sunday Providence Journal of this summer's smash debut novel, The Age of Miracles. Here's the Amazon page....

As far as I know, this is the final film of Frank, at Zambarano, celebrating his 82 birthday. He loved that hat! "Every Christmas, I p...

  CLICK HERE to read the full story of Frank. Page one, Providence Journal, Monday, July 23, 2012 passages | Beazley was champion for ...

Frank Beazley died this morning at Zambarano Hospital, in Burrillville, where he had lived since 1967, when a spinal-cord injury left him pa...

Editor Cile Prestamo has cut a promotional short that will be shown throughout this  August's Rhode Island International Film Festival...

With just three weeks until Opening Night of the 30th annual Rhode Island International Film Festival (7 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 7, at Vets Audi...

Arriving soon: the e-edition of my first book of non-fiction, THE WORK OF HUMAN HANDS: Hardy Hendren and Surgical Wonder at Children's H...

Crystal Tetreault and daughter Jada, 6. Journal photo by John Freidah. Single parenthood has never been easy, but the recession has onl...

Pulling the occasional weekend duty at The Providence Journal required me to check the overnight police reports in the Capital City. Always ...

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Carol on the right, me at head of table, photo by Wayne Coats.   Not often that I make a make a book appearance and am treated to a fin...

... have been greatly exaggerated. But there have been reports, most recently last week in Forth Worth, Texas. I must say my trip to heaven...

As the next installment in our year-long series  Reinvent Rhode Island, The Providence Journal on Sunday, June 17, will publish a story abo...

Exercising their free-speech rights, members of Occupy Providence have set up camp on the sidewalk alongside a four-story symbol of those sa...

Spending the morning watching Providence Journal films as we plan our participation in this summer's Rhode Island International Film...

  Amazon is methodically migrating backlisted titles to Kindle. With the addition of MEN AND SPEED, my 2002 book about NASCAR, five of m...

For a piece I am writing about possible new uses for an iconic building in Rhode Island, I turned for inspiration to Boston, where the vener...

We were nominated in two categories, but The Providence Journal did not take home an award last night at the 35 th New England Emmys, hel...

Cile Prestamo, John Freidah and me. A fine evening May 18 at the Newton, Mass., Marriott, receiving the Edward R. Murrow Award for best...

©Marianne Lee / Courtesy of Salve Regina University   The 2012 Pell Scholars, with Mrs. Nuala Pell, center; me, behind her; and Dr. Khali...

 I will be speaking at 1 p.m. this Saturday, May 12, at the 35th annual convention of the Rhode Island chapter of the Special Libraries Asso...

BEHIND THE HEDGEROW: Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport Society, opening-night feature film of the 2010 Rhode Island Internati...

  In my many years at The Providence Journal, there have been few public-service efforts that rival the year-long examination of ...

We learned last night that COMING HOME,  which already this year has won a 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award, has been nominated for a 35t...

            Sunday’s kickoff to the  seventh annual Roving Eye Film Festival at Roger Williams University was a fine success. We had ...