Tyranny Dies, but Shakespeare Lives on at Trinity Rep
Sitting down for Trinity Repertory’s production you know one thing: This is not going to be your run-of-the-mill production. We all know the story. Julius Caesar is killed by conspirators […]
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The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Film Review: Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution
Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution is a documentary that explores the formation and history of The Black Panther Party, a revolutionary African American political organization started in 1966. […]
CD Review: Houston Bernard Band’s Knocking Boots
Full disclosure time: I am not a country music aficionado by anyone’s definition. Don’t get me wrong, my record collection contains more than a few selections from the likes of […]
Design Week: An Experiment in Packing Talent into One Week
The macaroni I glued alongside of the edges of my third-grade school picture (my major design accomplishment) is propped up by decades of dust on my parent’s bedroom shelf. As […]
Rhode Island LGBT Community Honors Steve Ahlquist
RI Future blogger (and Motif contributor) Steve Ahlquist was honored by the LGBT community Sunday at the Rhode Island Pride Honors with the Spirit of Pride Award. The event, which honors […]
For Your Reading Pleasure
College kids and books go together like a keg and a red cup. You just can’t have one without the other! But if you’re sick of spending time in your […]
Grappling with Growlers
When talk turns to beer, it doesn’t take long for the topic of the tangled web of alcohol laws — particularly growler sales at breweries — to rear its convoluted […]
401 CounterCulture: A Smoker’s Pipe
A smoker’s glass pipe means the world to him. Ask a smoker — they’ll tell you. It’s a beloved vessel of mental sacrament and a cherished friend. When one day […]
How to Cheat Your College Meal Plan
You’ll probably be surprised to learn — as I was some odd six years ago — that your average college or university factors in an upcharge to your meal plan […]
Got Beer? Lagunitas: Trying to Take On the World
No one likes a sellout, but in the complicated world of craft beer sometimes even the most fiercely independent beer makers look the corporate world in the eye and blink. […]