One of my favorite metaphors for open mic is that it’s the Swiss Army knife of entertainment. If that’s true…
If you’ve ever been to a slam, odds are that at least once someone stepped up to the mic and…
Fair warning: I am an unapologetically ardent fan of Elizabeth Gilbert. Not just her gorgeous novels and Gen-X-feminist-zeitgeist memoirs, from…
A while back I compiled some advice for aspiring hosts and organizers about how to name an open mic show.…
If you ask most people, tourism means sightseeing. Pick a city or a country and go see—and eat—whatever it’s known…
In a part of Providence called Mount Hope, at the bus stop where 3rd Street tees into HWY 1, there’s…
So I read this book semi-recently called How to Do Nothing. It wasn’t actually about doing nothing. More like the…
This is the third in a series that explores what makes an open mic worth doing—as in organizing, hosting, attending,…
This is the second in a series that explores what makes an open mic worth doing—as in organizing, hosting, attending,…
This is the first of a series that explores what makes an open mic worth doing—as in organizing, hosting, attending,…