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My weekend with rock stars (or why my wife rolls her eyes whenever I tell her that I’m going to hang out with Rob Azevedo)

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 Nathan Graziano 0

At the end of the night, my boozy bride and I settled our tab and took an Uber home where she enjoyed her beauty sleep, and I prepared for the next day where I would be attending a Tom Waits Tribute that my good friend Rob Azevedo had organized at the same venue—a day that my wife greeted with humor and resignation and a simple phrase: “You’re going to hang out with Rob,” she said and rolled her eyes. “Oh brother.” READ MORE

Rob Azevedo named a finalist in annual National Society of Newspaper Columnists competition

Monday, May 20, 2019 Carol Robidoux 0

We just got word that Rob Azevedo’s been named a finalist in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual writing competition for a pair of columns he penned for the InkLink. READ MORE

The humanity of storytelling: One stage + 6 brave souls = a night to remember at the Shaskeen

Monday, February 13, 2023 Nathan Graziano 0

Tales from the Queen City was an inaugural event concocted by Rob Azevedo as a way to bring community together around the city we all love. READ MORE

Downtown Queen City Basketball Jam balls at Pulaski Park

Sunday, July 18, 2021 Nathan Graziano 0

Rob Azevedo of Granite State of Mind and Carl Doucet of the Manchester Ballers’ Association (MBA) organized the free event with all the proceeds going to Families in Transition, a non-profit dedicated to helping people in the city struggling with housing accommodations. READ MORE

‘The economy is under siege, my good man! Take me to the real world!’

Monday, January 22, 2024 Rob Azevedo 0

Voting Day Tuesday, so I better get out and pay witness to the wasteland, where gas prices have soared into the $4-5 dollar range, so we are told, where everyone is bare-assed broke, famished, desperate for a break from the blistering grind of a busted economy. READ MORE

Ode to Tom Yeager, the ‘voice’ of Manchester Street Dunkins’

Monday, January 15, 2024 Rob Azevedo 0

Yeager, who has been working at Dunkins for two-and-half years now, has been, as he says, “fine-tuning my brand of delivery to lucky coffee drinkers for the last two years.” READ MORE

The discovery, the scouting, the juice, the big payoff of open mic night

Thursday, November 16, 2023 Rob Azevedo 0

Quick cuts of music dished out by locally known and unknown musicians, cutting their teeth, finding their voice, working out a new song, an old song, or just singing to sing, because some like singing more than wine. And the rush is twice as potent. READ MORE

How I became a poet

Saturday, August 26, 2023 Nathan Graziano 0

I was stoned—too stoned—the first time I watched the 1982 film “Pink Floyd: The Wall.” READ MORE

‘Born on a Good Friday:’ Graziano serves up a book of memories I buried long ago

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 Rob Azevedo 0

And that’s also why when my good buddy, Nate Graziano, (Graz!), handed me his newest collection of poems, “Born On Good Friday,” the cover alone made me feel the tickles of a panic attack. Graz as a kid standing at a tilt in a new blue suit with the price tag still on it. The new shoes soon-to-be play boots, the awkward smile, the crooked bow tie. Fall in Rhode Island. Barren and cold. Someone, please, knife me now. READ MORE

RIP Bill Reynolds (1945-2023)

Friday, July 21, 2023 Nathan Graziano 0

On July 13, Bill Reynolds, a Providence Journal columnist for almost 40 years, passed away at age 78. For the journalism community at-large, this is a monumental loss, and for me, personally, one of my literary idols is now gone. READ MORE