Rhode Island PBS Weekly
“Rhode Island PBS Weekly” is a newsmagazine anchored in journalism that searches for truth and examines today’s most important regional and local issues. Viewers are introduced to individuals, ideas and places in Rhode Island and beyond that they won’t see anywhere else.
Latest Episode
Contributor Steph Machado has a wide-ranging interview with Michelle Wilcox, who this year rose to President and CEO of Rhode Island’s largest provider of housing for the homeless, Crossroads Rhode Island. Then, Rhode Islanders have long flocked to Trinity Reparatory Company for their annual performance of A Christmas Carol, but this year there’s a twist. Producer Isabella Jibilian takes us behind the scenes to see how costume designer Amanda Downing Carney is giving Scrooge and his ghosts a new look. Finally, we revisit producer Isabella Jibilian’s story on toy designer Khipra Nichols, one of the designers behind such iconic toys as Mr. Potato Head and My Little Pony.
Stories From Rhode Island PBS Weekly
Khipra Nichols unpacks a career designing toys for Hasbro
Amanda Downing Carney had some unique ideas for the theatre’s biggest show of the year
A Pawtucket man provides antique typewriters to a new type of customer
Schools are failing students, mayor says
Ashley Kirsner saw loneliness everywhere. Then, she had an idea