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PVDFest Returns This Weekend

2026 PVDFest is the can’t-miss local event this weekend; one of the biggest fests of the year for our city-state. This year reprises last year’s footprint, encompassing Kennedy Plaza with three stages and reaching out through Mathewson St.…Music at Motif

Michael Ryan · Music

Local press Rhode Island Monthly

First Person: Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs

Jamie’s father, Robert Bellavance, with his favorite, a lobster dinner. Photography courtesy of Jamie Coelho It’s Aug. 22, 2025, and I have some time to kill while browsing Newport’s Bellevue Avenue shops. As I’m chatting with a local shop…at Rhode Island Monthly

Jamie Coelho

Local press Motif

Obituary: Kayla St. George

The local arts community suffered an unexpected and tragic loss recently with the passing from sudden illness of Kayla St. George, 39. Many knew Kayla as one of the leaders and a former director of operations of the Providence Drum Troupe,…Music at Motif

Motif Contributor · Music

Local press Rhode Island Monthly

Trendsetter: Meet Margaret Brassard

Photograph by Henrry Villafranca I know you’re involved in so many things as an event planner for your own company, Brassard Events, and as a board member for WaterFire, Teatro ECAS and as a commissioner of the Providence Tourism Council.…at Rhode Island Monthly

Jamie Coelho

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Providence’s Best 100

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  1. 1 Gift HorseProvidence · Korean Seafood Eat score, 93
  2. 2 Aurelia at Castle HillNewport · Classic New England Eat score, 92
  3. 3 COASTWesterly Eat score, 91
  4. 4 CaraNewport Eat score, 90
  5. 4 OberlinProvidence · American Eat score, 90
  6. 6 Sly Fox Den TooCharlestown Eat score, 88
  7. 7 Nicks on BroadwayProvidence Eat score, 87
  8. 8 NimkiProvidence Eat score, 84
  9. 8 PersimmonProvidence Eat score, 84
  10. 10 Al FornoProvidence · Italian Eat score, 82

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Higher than 62% of scored places

In this report

  • One score, 0 to 100, and its rank among every scored place
  • The good stuff within a walk, and within a drive
  • The weather and the air, right at that spot
  • How life goes in the country, and where it ranks

We score the map point and keep no record of who asked. The report names the neighborhood, never the street.

Eat Score

The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    Drink Score

    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.