Album Of The Week: Dirty Streets’ White Horse
Everyone wants to talk about what’s happening in Nashville. But what about that other city in Tennessee? What about Memphis? With a long history of blues and soul music, The […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Cloud Eye Control: Half Life
In Cloud Eye Control’s Half Life, performed at Columbus Theatre on November 21, images projected in front and behind an actor create the illusion that the woman, moving subtly on […]
An Interview with Chris Simpson, Contemporary Theater Company Artistic Director
Kevin Broccoli (Motif): What would you say is your biggest challenge when it comes to producing theater? Chris Simpson: Audiences have access to infinite modes of on-demand entertainment, and are […]
Lunar Notes
Aries: Life’s a roller coaster ride. Often you don’t know if you are moving up or sliding down. It is a mix of power struggles, belligerent people and lucky breaks. […]
Never Stop Learning, Rhode Island!
Students of the world, unite! You don’t need to matriculate to scoot up behind a desk and start learning or help those you love learn something new. Does someone you […]
Bidding Adieu to Pretty Things
Seven years ago, when the craft beer renaissance just arrived in Rhode Island, Dan and Martha Paquette, a married couple with a passion for good beer, started the Pretty Things […]
Hope Street Merchants Association Wants to Install Solar Powered Lamps
“How can we do something to make the streets more beautiful?” asks Line Daems, co-president of the Hope Street Merchants Association (HSMA). Their answer: Install locally designed solar powered street […]
Need a Gift? Buy Art!
With the approaching holidays, my list of gifts to purchase is ever-growing. Yikes! This year I’m taking a twist on an old tradition. Art. Yup, I’m searching, viewing and seeking […]
Gift Giving Tips from the Pros
’Tis the season to make with the beer-giving. I asked a few local luminaries for recommendations to thrill the hops enthusiasts on your list — and what they would like to […]
Local EDM Events To Take You Into 2016
Here’s my Christmas gift to you: a rundown of some of the month’s most sizzling local EDM events! …Thank me later. First up, pull an all-nighter at Therapy (which DJ […]