The Archive
In the Mood for Love
He saw the first one when he caught its corner behind a dust-bound volume of textbooks. A wrinkled page torn from …
Civic Duty Calls
Contested Civic Education in Providence
Standing in front of a poster board she had prepared for the Providence Community Day at Asa Messer Elementary, Chloe Feit, …
It's Personal
The Low-Tech Future of the Future of Learning
At Springfield High School in Southern Vermont, the entryway stairs not only lead students inside the school building—they serve as a …
March Madness
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Week in Worship
SOYlent Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter. This time mimics the same long 40 days in which Jesus …
Buying, Selling, Being
Gen-Z Self- Advertisement on Tiktok and Depop
Scrolling through TikTok is not unlike dissolving into a loop of repeating soundbites and punchlines as the definition between each video …
Success Stories
Succession and the soap-satire
Last October, then-presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg told the Hollywood Reporter that he was “struggling” to get into a buzzy HBO show …
Criminalizing Peaceful Protest
Anti-ICE Activist Sentenced to 30 Days in Bristol County Jail
photograph by Steve Ahlquist content warning: police violence In New Bedford District Court on Monday, activist Sherrie Andre was found guilty …
Call for Pitches - Vol. 40!
The College Hill Independent—the largest weekly newspaper in Southern New England—is a Providence-based publication written, illustrated, designed, and edited by students …
Haunted Paintings
The Female Ghost in Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The vocabulary of film discourse contains a rather reductive palette of praise, one critics love to slather on every striking …
love poem melting + Other Poems
love poem melting in the swell of the moving shifting bits of I can’t hear anything but the wind running against …
Chalked Up
Introducing an Indy series on public education in RI
In 1993, the Public Education Fund—a nonprofit organization composed of Providence business leaders, educators, and citizens concerned about local schools—sponsored a …
A Panoptic Education
How Public Schools Teach Us to Watch Ourselves
What does it mean to fix the very system of public education in America? As engineer W. Edwards Deming said of …
"I Let The Establishment Into My Home"
a modern sob story
I live in the little blue house on Kim Street with my mommy, my dad, and our small feline overlord. His …
KAINAN SA DUWAR
Finding Home at a Filipino Restaurant in Amman
Across the traffic circle, through screens of dust and exhaust, I could see that the long line of sandy buildings met …
Flesh Without Blood
Grimes, Digital Embodiment, and the Distinction Between Live and Recorded Performance
Grimes delivered her performance at The Game Awards in traditional cyberpunk fashion. Hunched over a bulky computer terminal while lasers …
School District Déja Vu
Two Education Reports, Two Decades Apart
This is the first installment in the Chalked Up Metro series The year was 1993. The Providence River was still covered …
Politics is a Feeling
A conversation with writer Jenny Zhang
There are mistakes in Jenny Zhang’s titles. The name of her 2012 poetry collection, Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, misspells …
Turning,
[Meat’s bit dry tonight, remarks Aldrin]
Our neighbors are busy undressing and dressing, entombed in black velvet, over-the-elbow gloves if she wants to make a statement—does this …
Healing Through Theater
How a Trinity Rep actor helped Sheila Bentley tell her version of PVD history
For Rebecca Gibel, the actor who played Sheila Bentley in Trinity Repertory's fall 2019 production of The Prince of Providence, the …
Muddy Matiello
A look at the RI Speaker of the House’s Abuses of Power
Speaker of the House Nicolas Mattiello, arguably one of the most powerful figures in Rhode Island politics, has been shrouded in …
Windows
The Stories We Tell
[CW: intergenerational violence, eating disorders, depression] I was five when I was first shown the window behind which my grandfather sat, …
God, Death, and the Florida Keys
Joy Williams’s Literature of the Guidebook
Random House was doing this series—Virginia, the Hamptons, the Keys. The Keys were still kind of strange and unspoiled in the …
A Love Letter to Spontaneity
My friend is a chronic soul-searcher. His favorite pastime is to sift through the empty shells of people around him, trying …
Cabbage: A Cultural History
“Cabbage guy,” or the cabbage merchant, is one of the most iconic characters in Avatar the Last Airbender, an animated TV …
Form Follows Function
How face masks as a fashion trend points to inescapable peril
Overshadowed by her own sweep of the Grammys, Billie Eilish walked the red carpet this past January with the lower third …
Week in Animal Magnetism
MUST PAY TO PAW-TY On February 16, crowds of eager New Orleanians gathered in the French Quarter to watch the 28th …
Tuning Out Reality
A Farewell to The Real Housewives
I was 10 when I witnessed a physical fight for the first time. It occurred at a country club. Upset by …
Unmasking Artistry
Inspecting the King of Mask Singer under the American Gaze
I have spent many afternoons with my grandfather watching K-dramas I cannot understand, appreciating the joy he derives from listening to …
Keeping an Open Mind
A glimpse at the fight to decriminalize psychedelics
For most, magic mushrooms carry connotations of hippies, music festivals, and perhaps a previous roommate. But, in recent years, there has …
The Leadership Function
Systematizing entrepreneurship in the university
Meritocracy is perhaps the most embedded of our various apologies for capitalism, and so its logic is familiar enough. With it, …
3 Stories
Candles, Please “Exhale.” The crowd—upwards of forty years old and clad in a variety of branded spandex—sighs. “Tighten your left buttock.” …
Race for Ward 1
The Independent's guide to the candidates
Blue, yellow, and white campaign signs mark homes and businesses up and down Wickenden Street in the Fox Point Neighborhood of …