Psychedelic Farm Girls to perform in Warwick
WARWICK — The Psychedelic Farm Girls will perform at Warwick Town Hall, 12 Athol Road, on Saturday, March 21.
Wooden Fender, a music-focused offshoot of the Warwick Arts Council, will present the concert and dance from 7 to 9:30 p.m. A traditional St. Patrick’s Day dinner provided by the Trinitarian Congregational Church of Warwick will kick off the evening from 5:30 to 7 p.m., also at Warwick Town Hall.
Attendees can enjoy corned beef and cabbage with vegetables, bread, carrot cake and beverages. A gluten-free option is available as well as a vegetarian option with veggie sausage.
Takeout dinners are offered, though patrons are advised to bring their own containers and order on site. Meals cost $15 for adults, $8 for children ages 12 and under, and kids ages 3 and under can eat for free. All proceeds support the Trinitarian Congregational Church.
The Psychedelic Farm Girls play original tunes drawn from the traditions of rock, blues and country with a psychedelic flair. They sing three-part harmonies. Concert organizers request a minimum donation of $5 to help support future programs.
Thomas Aquinas College launches weekly podcast
NORTHFIELD — Thomas Aquinas College has launched “The TAC Podcast,” a weekly video and audio series examining the Great Books and the matters they contemplate.
“Our goal is simple,” Thomas Aquinas College Vice President and Dean Emeritus John Goyette said in a statement. “We want to give you a window into what we do here. We want to introduce you to the books we read, the questions we ask, the types of conversations we have and the search for truth that motivates all our efforts.”
“The TAC Podcast” is co-hosted by two alumni who are also senior members of the college’s California teaching faculty, Christopher Decaen, Class of 1993, and John Finley, Class of 1999. Each week, the duo considers a different work drawn from the college’s classical curriculum, discussing the reason for the book’s inclusion, its implications and its enduring influence. Among the series’ first episodes are shows about the nature of the economic order in Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto,” the relationship between happiness and morality in Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics,” and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s treatment of the problem of evil in “The Brothers Karamazov.”
“In these episodes, we are having a serious but unscripted conversation about some of the greatest works of the greatest minds of Western civilization, discussing, wondering about and sometimes critiquing the insights contained in these works,” Decaen said in a statement. “The curriculum at TAC is broad, and so are our conversations on the podcast: We discuss works of theology and works of natural science, works of literature and works of mathematics, and, of course, quite a bit of philosophy.”
“The TAC Podcast” follows the success of “The Mind and the Machine,” a recently concluded, 10-part series on artificial intelligence.
“Both series are an attempt to bring the work of the college to a broader audience,” Goyette said in a statement. “But whereas ‘The Mind and the Machine’ had a preset number of episodes and focused exclusively on one subject, ‘The TAC Podcast’ launches with no end date and a wide range of topics. Our hope is to start a dynamic, free-wheeling conversation, like those that characterize our classrooms, which carries on for many, many years.”
Episodes of “The TAC Podcast” can be found on the Thomas Aquinas College website at thomasaquinas.edu/podcast, YouTube, iTunes, Spotify and all major podcasting platforms.