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Boston Globe
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Hot Girl Summer: Where to go and what to eat with your besties in Rhode Island this summer
This summer is about being independent, indulging in what you'd like, and not waiting for an invite to live. Forget the Hamptons. Put your sunscreen on, and let's get into it. Advertisement The Castle Hill Inn in Newport, R.I. offers views of the coastline and passing by sailboats. Heather Diehl/For The Boston Globe SAILING & OTHER WATER ACTIVITIES Newport will always be the 'Sailing Capital of the World.' It even has Advertisement Take a to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Three Angeles Fund. There are Paddle board or kayak along the Pettaquamscutt River in Narragansett – Folk Vintage Co. is one of the many popular vintage clothing shops along Thames Street in Newport, R.I. Heather Diehl/For The Boston Globe VINTAGE FINDS & OTHER SHOPPING In Providence, Advertisement Along Newport's most bustling area, Thames Street, you can walk right past the tourist spots selling T-shirts and knickknacks and go into you can expect to find a pair of flattering bell bottoms, and disco balls glisten from the ceiling. Your friends can sit on their plushy sofas while you try on a new fit. For a whole district of shops, head to American socialite Doris Duke's Rough Point mansion along the Cliff Walk in Newport, R.I. Corey Favino GET IN YOUR STEPS You're eating and drinking well, but need to release some serotonin during the day. Get in your steps by walking the grounds at path along the ocean with beautiful views of the waves crashing against the rocky coast, beaches, and Gilded Age mansions. It's also free. The Take a tour of one of the famous Newport mansions — like the Breakers, Rosecliff, or Marble House. Or you can head to heiress and socialite Doris Duke's Advertisement Sachuest Point is one of five national wildlife sanctuaries in Rhode Island. Discover Newport THE PERFECT DAY TRIP Catch The Mohegan Bluffs on Block Island have cliffs that rise more than 200 feet above the ocean. HANDOUT In the morning, go to the Head to the Mohegan Bluffs, where cliffs rise roughly 200 feet above the ocean. A wooden staircase provides beach access. The Audette, a French restaurant of Thames Street in Newport, R.I., offers indoor and outdoor seating. Heather Diehl/For The Boston Globe WHERE TO EAT IN NEWPORT Newport will likely forever be glamorous, and an idyllic destination for a group. Seaside restaurants are often churning out delicious seafood and serving spritzes. Surrounded by many casual restaurants, Advertisement Head to A chef at Giusto shreds truffles on fried ricotta balls. Discover Newport A platter of shellfish from Little Clam, a new restaurant inside the Wayfinder Hotel in Newport, R.I. Little Clam New to the edge of Newport Harbor as of 2023, Bartenders prepare drinks while patrons socialize at the Gift Horse in Providence, R.I. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe IN PROVIDENCE If you're spontaneous, snag some bar seats at Advertisement If you're a planner, make a reservation at Head to the East Side to check out Crudo, squid salad, and oysters from Dune Brothers, a vendor at Track 15, a food hall in Providence, Rhode Island. Alexa Gagosz And then there's the legendary For brunch in Providence, head to ELSEWHERE If you're tooting around outside of Providence and Newport, head to Westerly to go to In Bristol, go to The deviled egg "Jello" shot at Club Frills, a new funky bar in Providence, R.I. Maurisa Arieta WHERE TO GRAB A DRINK I'm calling the deviled ramos, a deviled egg 'jello shot,' the shot of the summer. It's gin, condensed milk, passion fruit, and orange blossom in the shape of a deviled egg and served on ice in a silver bowl. You can find it at Go to A Champagne-style cocktail with red beet sugar, amaro sweet vermouth, and sparkling wine at LOMA, a Latin-American influenced bar and lounge close to Depasquale Plaza off Atwells Avenue in Providence. Lane Turner/Globe Staff In downtown, If it's daytime and you require a view of the city when sipping on a cocktail, take the elevator to the top floor of the Aloft hotel in downtown Providence to find The Castle Hill Inn, a 40-acre estate in Newport, R.I., offers and outdoor seating area with views of the coastline and passing sailboats. Heather Diehl/For The Boston Globe In Newport, sit in Adirondack chairs on the lawn at Bartender Zachary Joslyn pours absinthe in the Secret Bar at the Vanderbilt hotel in downtown Newport. Christopher Muther/Globe Staff Make your way to The Vanderbilt, a hotel inside a mansion, to their Parlour room during ' At night, head to Alexa Gagosz can be reached at
Boston Globe
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
At Jacob's Pillow this season, a chance to see new work in a brand new theater
'To bring this five years later to the new Doris Duke — being one of the first to perform [in the theater] after being one of the last — feels surreal, a full circle, like a phoenix rising from the ashes,' says Pitts, a 2024 Doris Duke Artist. 'This work really birthed on that land.' Touch of RED by Shamel Pitts. Touch of RED by Shamel Pitts. The Adeboye Brothers photo. Partly inspired by the mercurial footwork of boxing, 'Touch of RED' examines the perception of Black men in contemporary culture. Though it Advertisement The new Duke theater's embrace of technology is part of what makes its opening so momentous. Rebuilding the facility from the ground up allowed the Pillow to re-envision how it might best serve and inspire dance going forward. It is being touted as one of the dance world's most technologically advanced theaters, designed to help shape and inspire movement creativity as a 'living lab for the future of dance.' Pillow executive and artistic director Pamela Tatge says it can facilitate both intimacy and experimentation. 'We envision this as a maker space for new experiences that require time and resources,' she says. Rendering of the new Doris Duke Theatre's east entrance. Marvel/Jacob's Pillow Nearly twice the size of the original 1990 theater and seating from 220-400 people, the new theater complements the festival's fixed 600-seat proscenium space (the Ted Shawn Theatre) and the Henry J. Leir Outdoor Stage. It will continue to host emerging and experimental companies as well as those making US debuts, while offering the technical sophistication of artificial intelligence, extended reality, robotics, and immersive platforms. 'They set out, from the beginning … to make a performance space that changes with the new state-of-the-art, because it's always shifting, faster now than ever before,' says performer/writer/artist/ Andrew Schneider, whose world premiere 'HERE' using spatialized audio opens the Duke's ticketed season. '[They] asked the artists using the newest tech — how should we build this space, what should it look like? They really listened and they really got it right.' Advertisement Tatge says it was also important that the theater have a porous relationship between indoors and outdoors and is 'grounded in the Indigenous history of the land on which we dance.' Lead architect Francine Houben says she wanted to give dancers the possibility of moving not just in but through the building, from different sides and from above. Artists can even perform on the roof. The weeklong opening celebration features a schedule of free events, tours of the building, state-of-the-art performances, and multimedia installations that explore the intersections of dance, technology, and the human body. 'Dancing the Algorithm,' curated by Katherine Helen Fisher for the theater's new gallery, features artists whose works illuminate the boundaries of the human body and digital expression. Cherokee artist Brenda Mallory unveils her specially commissioned 'To Touch a Wide Span' in the newly redesigned Jameson Family Lobby. The gala opening program in the theater July 9 kicks off a performance season highlighted by world premieres and US debuts, with engagements by Pitts, Schneider, Elle Sofe Company (Norway), Eun-Me Ahn (Korea), Faye Driscoll, and Huang Yi (Taiwan). The star-studded one-night program, designed to unite past, present, and future, includes Annie-B Parson, Bebe Miller, Susan Marshall, Brian Brooks, Eiko Otake, Irene Rodríguez, David Thomson, Liz Lerman, David Dorfman, Dianne McIntyre, Dormeshia, Doug Elkins, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, among others. While in-theater viewing for the opening is invitation only, the Pillow's larger Ted Shawn Theatre, which reopened in 2022 after an $8 million renovation, hosts an on-campus screening ($75), and those of us at home can watch via a free real-time livestream (Registration for the livestream will be available at Advertisement 'I am most excited for artists and audiences to see the possibilities of this new space,' Tatge says. 'We're going to be so equipped for the possibilities of the future, and I hope artists and audiences feel that and it brings them hope at this time. … This theater belongs to everyone.' Karen Campbell can be reached at
