Here are some of The Providence Journal’s most-read stories for the week of Oct. 20, supported by your subscriptions .
- Halloween is frighteningly close, so join us as we go behind-the-scenes at 13th World, a “haunted trail” at Cumberland’s Diamond Hill Park. The Journal’s Paul Edward Parker talked with the otherwise mild-mannered folks who get a rush out of dressing as blood-spattered ghouls and evil clowns to throw a scare into people once a year. Besides the theatrics, the gig comes with more mundane tasks, such as crowd control, finding lost cellphones and handling the occasional intoxicated customer. Read all about it … if you dare.
- Speaking of scary subjects, Election Day is also near. Check out our Q&A on election security with Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore, and hear from the Rhode Islanders who’ve volunteered to take the heat as poll workers in one of the most contentious election seasons in American history.
- Why did the chicken go to college? It’s not just a riddle, as food editor Gail Ciampa can explain .
- Catch up on high school and college sports news, and the Patriots’ search for answers after their sixth straight loss, at providencejournal.com/sports .
Here are the week’s top reads on providencejournal.com :
Yelp releases its top 25 places to eat in RI. See what made the list
Yelp unveiled its annual “best of” lists this week, more than 50, in fact. They include the Top Places to Eat in each U.S. state , as well as in Canada. Food editor Gail Ciampa says the online, user-generated reviews might not inspire fear in restaurant circles as they once did, but there’s still power there. And she thinks they largely got it right in Rhode Island this year .
Read the full story to see which Rhode Island restaurants made the list .
Dining: Yelp releases its top 25 places to eat in RI. See what made the list
He triggered RI’s banking crisis. Now, Mollicone’s restitution payments were just lowered.
PROVIDENCE – A Superior Court magistrate has declared Joseph Mollicone Jr. , the once fugitive embezzler whose theft triggered Rhode Island’s banking crisis , in violation of his probation for failing to pay his monthly restitution payments in full…