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Impact! Rudy Cheeks is the inaugural winner of Motif’s lifetime achievement award
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The Roots Report: When I Was Young: Some advice for phone-addicted youth who want to pick their heads up and start a band
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Mann, We’ll Miss You: The jazz community mourns the loss of one of its greats
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Revolution Evolution: The local music scene remains vibrant even as it evolves
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Keep on Moving: Total Blackout: Ravi Shavi’s Rafay Rashid talks new music and his plans for 2019
Books
You Know It, Poet! Local poet Jay Walker rereleased three books of poetry
Being a poet is not easy; publishing a body of work is even harder. But it’s a challenge Jay Walker, ...
Cannabis
Smoking Hot: Our expert tells you how to take your sexual experiences higher with cannabis
Cannabis has a long history of being used to enhance the human sexual experience. Since 700 BC in India, a ...
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
How I Became the Motif Weatherman
Weather is an endlessly fascinating topic: It affects everybody and can literally be a matter of life and death. Forecasting ...
Film
Speaking the Same Language: Ulya Aviral seeks to help people in conflict connect through her short films
Ulya Aviral is a New England filmmaker who lives in Cambridge and teaches at CCRI and RISD. She was born in ...
Fine Arts
Pretty Is a Blind Man’s Playground
Beware the pretty; it is a spinning maelstrom, a black hole that will suck you in and leave you in ...
Food
Hometown Poké Finds a Home
Rhode Island is a small state — the smallest, in fact, which you all already knew — but here’s another ...
Got Beer?
Sweet Thing! Revival’s Doug and Scarpetti Vanilla Porter is perfect for beer lovers with a sweet tooth
If there’s one thing I always look forward to, it’s a new Revival brew, and Revival’s Doug and Scarpetti Vanilla ...
Keep on Moving
Keep on Movin’: New Year, New You: Resolve to end your music dry spell this year
I’m already toward the end of my annual “go though an exercise routine for two weeks and pretty much give up” ...
Lifestyle
Advice from the Trenches: Extreme Activist
Dear C and Dr. B; I live with my brother, who is an environmental activist. Nothing wrong with that, but ...
Lunar Notes
Lunar Notes
Aries: Explosive action rocks your world. You’re caught between the traditional and the radical, and it is getting difficult for you ...
Opinion
News Analysis: What Happens if Roe v. Wade is Overturned?
Currently, the right to abortion is protected under two landmark US Supreme Court decisions, Roe v. Wade in 1973 and ...
Phillipe & Jorge
Philippe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Elbow-rubbing with Evil: Czars to the left of him, despots to the right
Mass Murderers, Inc. Way back in our childhoods, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, P&J trusted our country to be moving ...
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: Beating a Deaf Horse: Protect those gorgeous lugholes, music lovers!
Okee dokee folks… Sometimes I feel like I am beating a dead horse, err, DEAF horse, when I talk about ...
Shopping
Know Your Mom and Pop: Super V Toys — the Latest Local Spot to Feed Your Need
The superhero movies that have dominated pop culture over the past decade or so are a boon for small businesses. Comic ...
Sports
PRD: Wrapping up the shakeup
The year of the skater shakeup is coming to a close in Providence Roller Derby. Many of the veterans of ...
Theater
Rachel Hanauer Dials Up the Opera with Who’s Calling? for Two Nights Only
The popularity — and profitability — of programming an evening of one-act plays is quite undeniable for most smaller theaters. ...
