Off The Beat

On this week’s show, John McGarry gives us the skinny on the move to ban trans-fats in Rhode Island; Eli Halpern reports from Firehouse 13, and Elana Goldstein goes choclatiering. Will Bowling reads a roundup of the week’s headlines.

Hosted by Chris Gang, and produced by Peter McElroy and Chris. Music by Spoon, Grizzly Bear, and Belle & Sebastian.

Off The Beat is excited to be back for a sixth season! We welcome your feedback here or at offthebeat [at] bsrlive [dot] com.

Britt Harwood catches up with the pioneers of avante garde literature at Conjunctions, a literary festival; Elana Goldstein treats us to the sounds of the Jewish New Year; Allissa Wickham reports on CASA, a volunteer-based children’s advocacy organization; and Natalie Smolenski tours Providence’s haunted sites. To sew it all together, we give you a positively puzzling Sounds of the City. Host: Will Bostwick.