There’s nothing more Rhode Island than a quahog. At least, that’s what the Coventry Junior High Shell Club argued in 1987, when they lobbied (successfully) for it to be named the state shell.

As a legislative commission looks at the declining population of the quahog, The Journal's Alex ... commercial fisherman about how a symbol of Rhode Island is disappearing from the state.

Among other seafood, the plate displays lobster, squid and, of course, a quahog. It was designed by Andrew Lloyd Goodman, an assistant professor at the Community College of Rhode Island.

It will have eight species commonly caught in Rhode Island waters: black sea bass, summer flounder (fluke), American lobster, quahog, longfin squid, Jonah crab, scup (porgy), and channeled whelk.

Influential screamo vets Jeromes Dream released their great second reunion album in 2023, The Gray In Between, and they’re continuing to tour as well. They’ve announced a new run of East Coast dates ...

Regional seafood specialties include stuffies (or stuffed quahog clams), Rhode Island clam chowder (which has a clear broth unlike the clam chowders found in Manhattan and New England) and Rhode ...