Warwick Radio: The Voice of Warwick, Rhode Island
A podcast for the City of Warwick with news and stories about the city’s people, businesses, and one-of-a-kind culture. Hear your friends and neighbors explore their community and home. Write to us at WarwickLife@gmail.com
Episodes
Warwick has so many awesome places to eat and drink. Join Leslie Wasilewski to find out what makes them Wicked Good.
Today, Leslie talks with Cara McCoy and Matt Bernardo from Not Your Average Joe’s Warwick and samples their buffalo Caribbean chicken tenders, ‘The Works’ pizza, tropical white sangria, and an espresso martini.
Visit the Not Your Average Joe’s website hereGo to the Wicked Good Warwick Instagram page.
Write to Leslie at ...
Frankie & Johnny In The Claire De Lune
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Tony Estrella Artistic Director of the Gamm Theatre about the upcoming show Frankie & Johnny In The Claire De Lune.
Hear about how a 2-person show is different from other shows and how the Gamm takes you on a journey with a short order cook and a waitress bring life to their journey.
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney provides details about the Warwick Pumpkin Walk the weekend before Halloween and the Pumpkin Carving Contest both happening at the Rocky Point Blueberry Farm!
Details on the carving event:
https://visitwarwickri.com/event/pumpkin-carving-contest/718/
Details on the Pumpkin Walk:
https://visitwarwickri.com/event/wicked-woods-pumpkin-walk-2025/719/
Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode...
Nora’s Haven
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Jennifer Rourke about Nora’s Haven. Learn about their mission to provide comprehensive culturally sensitive support, housing, and education for victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking.
Learn how you can support their support Wish List at: https://a.co/cAym1ZV and their general support page: https://www.norashavenri.org/support-us
Conimicut Village Association
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks withLeslie Dering about The Conimicut Village Association. Learn about their organization’s efforts to promote the area, how they work with local business to enhance the community. Leslie has a great team of volunteers, and they are looking for more to be involved in their upcoming events. Hear about the October Art Festival, Christmas Stroll and Tree Lighting and h...
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Sara DelSesto from Project Sweet Peas.
Hear about all the work Sara and her team do to help families with NICU babies and how they help with the emotional toll these events bring to a family. Also hear about their upcoming fundraiser and how youcan be a part of something special for the community.
Find Project Sweet Peas on Facebook @ ProjectSweetPeas
https://www.projectsweetpeas.com/
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Warwick has so many awesome places to eat and drink. Join Leslie Wasilewski to find out what makes them Wicked Good.
Today, Leslie talks with John Papa from The Greenwood Inn Restaurant & Bar and samples their hand-cut, breaded mozzarella sticks dipped in their homemade white sauce.
Visit the Greenwood Inn website.
Write to Leslie at wickedgoodwarwick@gmail.com.
D.K. Mckenzie, Warwick poet, musician, and creator of The Poe Underground, explores the possibilities of combining the voice of the guitar with the haunting words and expressions of poetry.
In this episode, hear the poems Encounter by Polly Chase and Luscious Beach by D.K. Mckenzie accompanied by improvised classical guitar.
Encounter
You move alone the avenue like one
Alone, exultant, among mountain snows;
And through your hair the...
Learn how to find a career in a competitive job market in this monthly series by Warwick career management specialist Kathleen Dohoney.
Today, Kathleen interviews Lisa Picillo, Certified Financial Planner at Spinnaker Asset Management, about finances and starting a new career. Hear about assessing your finances before making a career change, making a plan to step backward in order to move forward, how having a financial plan can rel...
A “trip” on the subway makes for a bizarro story!
You never know who's going to turn up in the stories on Elly McGuire's podcast, Shaking The Bushes—Yoko Ono, Jonas Salk, Richard Hatch (Richard Hatch?), even a former President, to name a few—as she shares humorous and often unpredictable autobiographical anecdotes and social commentary about living parallel lives in her "cozy" apartment in Manhattan and her childho...
Join lawyer and true crime fanatic Kate Itacy for stories about crimes allegedly committed by Warwick citizens or within Warwick city limits.
Today, hear the tale of reputed bootlegger and bank robber Carl Rettich and his Crime Castle, a Warwick Neck mansion owned by Rettich and alleged to be the hub for the Rettich gang’s criminal activities during the 1920s and 1930s. Underworld legend credits Carl Rettich with the invention of ce...
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.
From Patti Page in 1952 to Weezer in 1994, concerts at the Palladium and Midway stage were an essential part of Rocky Point. Hear about shows by small acts that would become big, the night in 1978 when REO Speedwagon, AC/DC, Blue Öyster Cult, and Thin Lizzy all played, the group that caused the power to go out three tim...
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.
The Rocky Point saltwater pool was an Olympic-sized pool at the front of the park that was filled with water from Narragansett Bay. Hear how George watched divers make painful belly flops while he cooled off in the pool, about Olympic trials and AAU competitions at the pool, how it became a freshwater pool, and why it c...
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.
Scott and George continue their conversation about Rocky Point Park. Hear about the Flume, funhouse, Laff in the Dark, and Castle of Terror/House of Horrors. Find out about the Rocky Point jail, and discover where some of Rocky Point’s rides went when the park closed.
Visit the Laff in the Dark website.
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.
George LaCross made his first visit to Rocky Point Park in 1962 and became an immediate fan. Hear Scott and George reminisce about the Paladium ballroom, Shore Dinner Hall, baseball field, petting zoo, and Rocky Point’s first carousel and Ferris Wheel.
Visit the Laff in the Dark website.
As Warwick Radio Online draws to a close, the podcast gang takes a wild journey through time into a future none of us could ever imagine.
Listen to Shaking the Bushes with Elly McGuire.
Tune into to The Poe Underground with D.K. Mckenzie.
Watch The Rhode Island Wave Spotlight Series with Scott Nerney.
Sound Effects: Roller Derby - San Francisco by RTB45 -- https://freesound.org/s/193804/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Season two of Elly McGuire’s Shaking the Bushes podcast has begun. Tune in at ellymcguire.com or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Enjoy episode one, Chutzpah!, and find out what a U.S. President’s slipper, Taylor Swift, and a splinter have in common.
You never know who’s going to turn up in the stories on Elly McGuire’s podcast, Shaking The Bushes—a former US President, a wife of a Beatle, a “Survivor”…to name just a few—as she share...
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Warwick Public Library Deputy Director Evan Barta.
Evan Barta began his stint as Deputy Director in August 2024 after serving as the library’s Coordinator of Technology for 13 years. Hear about working with library staff, what the Warwick community gets from their libraries, events for all ages, Miss Junie the spider, how Evan spends his free time, and how many books are borrowed in a year.
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Staff Sergeant John Richards from the Rhode Island Army National Guard.
John Richards is a Recruiting and Retention NCO with the Rhode Island Army National Guard. Hear how John joined the military at age 17, about playing saxophone with the 88th Army Band, working in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a day in the life of a recruiter, how the National Guard is a second family, and can you join in your 40...
Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Miss Rhode Island 2025 Alexia Rodrigues.
Native Rhode Islander Alexia Rodrigues is Miss Rhode Island 2025 and Sgt. Alexia Rodrigues with the Rhode Island Army National Guard. Hear how Lexi started competing in pageants, about being a foster child and advocating for a better foster care system, and how Lexi will compete in the Miss America pageant in Orlando, FL.
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