Articles by Will Weatherly
22 articles found.
Days of Our Lives
On soap operas and suffering
Like the plot of any good melodrama, my relationship to The Bold and the Beautiful was a matter of fate, and …
Six Men Spotted at the Glen Park Roller Rink and Rec Center
ROB It is hard to avoid looking at one another on the rink because you’re in a circle: somebody’s always following …
Three Poems
into its own fixless dew-thighed-today i set out to find my missing vowels with me i have only the things you …
Week in Messy Politics
Revolutionary Criminals People who work for the government in Rhode Island aren’t the best at playing by the rules. In the …
The Hand that Feeds You
Columbia graduate workers give a lesson in labor
content warning: sexual harassment On February 1, a group of graduate workers and faculty at Columbia University gathered in front of …
Week in Kingdom Animalia
Birdbrains “It is the things we love most that destroy us,” wrote Suzanne Collins in the third book of the Hunger …
Week in Post-Apocalypse
A Fizzling Housing Market Like a specter haunting Middle America, the remnants of Cold War industry are making for a strange …
The Lights Coming Down
An oral history of Aurora
If you live in Providence, it is likely that you have attended an event at Aurora at some point during its …
The Vietnam Syndrome
Losing the middle ground in Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War
cw: war, police violence, racism The speaker speaks and the truth still leakswhere even Richard Nixon has got soul... Neil Young, …
Lost in the Mall
On the writer’s residency at the Mall of America
content warning: anti-Black policing “You'll need the tools for survival / And the medicine for the blues / Sweet treats and …
Outside the Club
An interview with photographer Pedro Letria
Photos by Pedro Letria Pedro Letria is a Portuguese photographer whose work often deals with displacement, a subject stemming from Letria’s …
Week in WTF is Happening in the UK?
“The Pub is Closed, Long Live the Pub!” The walls of the nation-state are looking a bit knackered, but the walls …
Week in Superlikes
FIRST DATE IN A DUNKIN’ DONUTS America loves an underdog. The New England Patriots are not an underdog. But Providence, RI …
Back in the Culture Wars
On the potential defunding of the National Endowment for the Arts
Less than 24 hours before Inauguration Day, an unnamed source told The Hill that Donald Trump’s transition team had already been …
Week in Apologies
PUN-DER ROAD Bruce’s steed had never failed him before. Springsteen trusted the motorcycle, built for him piece by piece by his …
A Distance From The Moon
Coded empathy in Moonlight and American Honey
Early in the film Moonlight, released this past week, a young boy named Chiron asks his mentor Juan how he can …
Fair Exchange Is No Theft
RI defunds its only needle exchange
On October 2, a group of monsters, superheroes, and drag performers gathered at The Dark Lady, a gay bar on Snow …
Pit Fight
Making safer spaces in Providence punk and hardcore
The first Providence punk show I ever attended was a concert at AS220 last fall featuring Downtown Boys—a punk band whose …
Flying Signs
PVD's Moving Battles on the Criminalization of Poverty
On June 30, 2015, Michael Monteiro was issued a summons by a Cranston police officer while panhandling on a median on …
Sin of SimCity
Victory and Failure in Virtual Urban Space
To a 15-year old Providence Journal writer named Joseph Braude, it made a lot of sense: invite five of the candidates …
A Charming Zero
On Robert Walser's Microscripts
Writing, by nature, is a physical trade. It has motion, exertion, exactitude. Handwriting is formed by the tracing of a pen …