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Terry and the Boys: Timeless rock act NRBQ hits southern Rhode Island
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Jazz Insights: Irving Lipson
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Keep On Moving: Happiness, Crowns, & Astronauts: What more could a music-lover want?
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The Roots Report: Rap Battle: How I learned to stop worrying and love the hip-hop
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Saddle Up For Nashville, RI: Tennessee meets Rhody for a new country music fest
Books
Beach Reads: Books for Summer
Abundance by Michael Fine (320 pages, PM Press, published May 1, 2019). Doctors among warriors occupy an unusual position in ...
Cannabis
4/20: Do its origins appear in Lovecraft’s writings?
H.P. Lovecraft wrote these words in 1936, describing a psychoactive plant that may sound familiar to some readers: “I had ...
Dare Me
Global Scavenger Hunt
“Win a Free Trip Around the World!” the subject line said. Because I suffer from wanderlust, I apply to every ...
Environment
Unclogging the Drain: New project encourages local citizens to help keep trash out of the oceans
Some of the best benevolent ideas can come from unlikely and unexpected places. A few years ago, Bonnie Combs, marketing ...
Film
Power to the People: Low-cost filmmaking puts creative pursuits within reach
Back in the misty days of the mid ’80s when I first started toying around with making movies, the common ...
Fine Arts
Highlights of Yesterday’s Pieces: A selected guide to the RISD Museum collection
Mummy of Nesmin, 170-30 BCE: It rest among us! The mummy Nesmin is the heart and soul of the museum’s ...
Food
Locale Profile: Three in One: A night on Cromwell Street
When I was growing up, the only type of doughnuts I was accustomed to were Krispie Kremes. They overtook the ...
Got Beer?
Got Pete?
It’s been my great pleasure and honor to write the craft beer column for Motif for the last 10 years. ...
Health
AltHealth: CDC’s Latest Outbreaking News
I like to check out the CDC.gov website at least every other week to catch the latest Vital Signs and ...
Keep on Moving
Keep On Moving: Happiness, Crowns, & Astronauts: What more could a music-lover want?
Happiness — Live The long awaited debut album from Happiness is a demented thrill ride down the rock ‘n’ roll ...
Lifestyle
A Walk on the Weird Side: Lovecraft is long gone, but echoes of his footsteps remain
A few years back I saw an advertisement on Craigslist that offered up an apartment in PVD that claimed to ...
Lunar Notes
Lunar Notes
Aries: Summer’s end brings all fun and games to you, but as the month ends you get down to business, ...
News
HP Lovecraft Writing Contest
It Won’t Be Ignored She sat at the desk, tapping her keyboard, liking the click of the keys but not ...
Opinion
HP Lovecraft: His Racism in Context
There is no question that HP Lovecraft, influential writer of horror fiction and son of Providence, held views that were ...
Phillipe & Jorge
Philippe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Don’t Bet on it, Gigi!: They can’t help the scheming — it’s cultural
Keeping Tradition Alive Kudos to Governor Gig Raimondo for keeping the grand tradition of sleaze in Little Rhody politics alive ...
Pin-Up/Profile
Pin-Up: Wayne St. Vincent
What’s your biggest pet peeve? I’ve got a lot of ’em. The biggest one is people on the phone when ...
Roots Report
The Roots Report: Rap Battle: How I learned to stop worrying and love the hip-hop
Okee dokee folks… Last week I was fortunate to attend a production of the musical Hamilton at Providence Performing Arts ...
Shopping
Open and Closed
Opened12 Metre Cafe: Inside the Seamen’s Church Institute, 18 Market Sq, Newport. A seaside cafe along Bowen’s Wharf. Bar ‘Cino: ...
Sports
Providence Roller Derby: Rhodey Robin Roundup
The second ever Rhodey Robin tournament is in the books with Providence Roller Derby’s A and B teams claiming three ...
Theater
Creation Is the Greatest Thing: An interview with Taylor Mac
On the same day that Robert Mueller testified before Congress, I had the pleasure of interviewing MacArthur Fellow, Tony-nominated performer ...
