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Irving Avenue, Estate of the Day

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Today's home is a Georgian Colonial that was built on the the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island back in 1928. The home offer city living with a gracious style. Particularly delightful is the oversized living room which is open to a sunroom with delicately arched windows. Other rooms include a formal dining room, family room with a wood burning fireplace, wet bar, custom built-ins and two seating areas.The kitchen has granite counters and a large breakfast room. There are a total of seven bedrooms with a master suite that has a vaulted ceiling, atrium doors to a terrace, a marble bath with whirlpool and steam shower, dressing area, and his and hers walk in closets. The home is on a 23,766 square foot lot with two adjacent buildable lots available for purchase at $500,000 each with the purchase of the home. The home is listed at $2.995 million.

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Farmstead Wins Readers' Choice Award for Best Cheese Shop

by Carrie Coolidge (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining

Farmstead is the Readers' Choice winner in the Best Cheese Shop category.

The company was founded in 2003 by the husband-and-wife team of Matt and Kate Jennings. They're a well-qualified duo: Matt graduated from culinary school in Vermont in 1995, worked for artisan cheese stores and producers across the country, and studied with master cheesemongers in the U.K, France and Italy. Kate is a classically trained pastry chef.

As co-owners of Providence, R.I.-based Farmstead, Matt and Kate develop close relationships with producers and hand-select fine foodstuffs, specializing in small production, limited release cheeses. As an extension of this hands-on approach, Farmstead aims to educate its customers on the subtleties and history of cheese, offering product tastings, cooking demonstrations, and cheese and beverage pairing classes.

Farmstead's signature cheeses include "Sarabande," co-designed with Dancing Cow Farm of Vermont and boasting hints of hazelnut, sherry, and fresh farm cream at its peak ripeness. Another, called "Drunkin' Providence," is flavorful cheddar washed with Thomas Tew Rum from Rhode Island's Newport Distilling Company.

The Jennings founded Farmstead's sister restaurant, La Laiterie, in 2006 to augment their offerings. Located next to the cheese shop, the bistro serves seasonally influenced meals with fresh ingredients from local sustainable farms; the menu sometimes changes daily. Matt and Kate designed the restaurant themselves, accenting their rustic cuisine with hand-made rust colored paper lights and an interior made from reclaimed barn wood, forged iron and Vermont soapstone.

For those who can't make the trip to Wayland Square, the historical shopping district Providence, to inspect Farmstead's cheeses in person, the company offers a comprehensive website along with speedy delivery options. Rest assured, the cheese will still be just as stinky when it arrives.

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V.I.P Package at Providence Film Festival

by Alison Wellner (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Photo of Cable Car Cinema in Providence R.I.

Providence is quite the artsy town, what with the Rhode Island School of Design, the creative foment that is Brown University, not to mention all the culinary talent coming out of Johnson & Wales University.

So it's no wonder that the Rhode Island Film Festival, which goes off August 4th - August 9th, 2009, is quite a good one.The festival, now in its 13th year, shows 175 films and videos, and its philosophy is wide open -- it will show work of any type in any subject matter. It's one of the 63 film festivals in the world that's a qualifying festival in the Short Films category for the Academy Awards.

The deadline's been extended for the festival's V.I.P. Package, which costs $1,200 and includes access to everything, from exclusive parties, premiers, and even workshops. If you have an inner film geek, the included Working in Animation workshop with actor John Ratzenberger could be a thrill. And if you have an even geekier inner geek, you can watch William Shatner receive an award for Humanitarian of the Year for his philanthropy to the American Tinnitus Association, among other charities.

The package also includes two nights in the seriously cool Providence Renaissance Hotel, which was built as a Masonic Temple in 1929, and counts as one of the state's largest restoration projects.

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One Ten Westminster To Dominate Providence Skyline

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Providence, Rhode Island becomes the latest place to get a crop of luxury condo complexes. One Ten Westminster, a 35-story skyscraper, will become Providence's tallest building. The tower will hold luxury condos, a W hotel, rooftop garden and a spa. Condos will cost between $500,000 to over $2.5 million and the project should be completed some time next year. The big question is whether or not the Providence real estate market is large enough and luxe enough to support this and other projects which are being created in the area.

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