CALENDAR

Thursday August 27 Mindfulness & Meditation For beginners at 5 p.m., for more advanced practitioners at 5:30 p.m., both sessions via Zoom, innerlightyoga.com, Nancy@nowmindfulness.org. Power, Privilege & Preservation Annual Winslow lecture on the history of African American Civil Rights in Newport via Zoom, 5:30 p.m., ProgramRSVP@newportmansions.org. The Next, NEXT Generation – Automotive Passion Under 15 Car fanatics, hear about the […]

‘Desert One’ is History Lesson as Action Thriller

FILM REVIEW

Documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple’s films have tackled subjects ranging from labor strikes in her landmark Oscar-winners, “Harlan County, USA” (1976) and “American Dream” (1990), to a feminist portrait of the Dixie Chicks in “Shut Up and Sing” (2006). After an astonishing, 50-plus year career, she’s now made the action/adventure/ war documentary “Desert One,” an edge-of-the-seat thriller about the top secret, […]

SPOTLIGHT on Music

Mixing it Up and Going It Alone

Sometimes, less really is more. Playing solo in front of a crowd is hard enough, but when you bill yourself as a one-man band, the pressure is really on. Newport This Week talked with guitarist Brian Cabral to learn more about what it’s like going it alone. “Being a one-man band, I am a heavy user of loops, a guitar […]

The Mysterious Case of Adam Emery


Surrounded by red roses in St. Ann cemetery in Cranston is a nondescript headstone bearing the names of Adam and Elena Emery, with an epitaph reading, “Together Sharing God’s Eternal Love.” However, according to law enforcement officials, only one of the names belongs to someone they can say with certainty is no longer living. And Newport has served as a […]

The Wealthy Women Who Pushed Suffrage Over the Finish Line

BOOK REVIEW

“Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote,” by Johanna Neuman, posits that women of wealth helped make the 19th Amendment a reality. While these women were sometimes resented by their not-so-rich compatriots who had been loyal to the cause for a long time, it became clear that when well-known people used their influence for […]

Black Regiment Ceremony Postponed

– Since 1967, the Newport County Branch-NAACP has hosted the Black Regiment Monument Commemoration Ceremony on the last Sunday in August, in honor of the men from the First Rhode Island Regiment, the Black Regiment. who fought valiantly in the “Battle of Rhode Island” in the American Revolutionary War. At that time, the British occupied Newport and were seeking to […]