It must have been a Saturday in something like late June when I introduced one of my good friends to Long Live Beerworks, as I’ve been quite an evangelist for the relatively new craft brewery on the West Side of Providence. It’s a neighborhood I lived in for a few years, led a Motif neighborhood profile […]
While August gives way to September, area dance companies are busy preparing for their 2016/2017 season. Leading the way is Providence’s resident professional ballet company Festival Ballet Providence. Their season gets underway Halloween weekend with the popular “chatterBOXtheatre,” a dance series geared toward children, with an encore presentation of the “spooky Hansel and Gretel.” This […]
Okee dokee folks… Almost exactly one year ago I saw Weird Al Yankovic at the Zeiterion in New Bedford. In all honesty it was one of the BEST shows I have EVER seen. It was fun, funny, energetic … basically AWESOME! I had a grin on my face the whole time. Weird Al is a […]
Manhattan Short does not consider itself a travelling film festival per se. It screens simultaneously across the globe from September 23 to October 2, coining the phrase, “one world – one week – one festival.” Each year, audiences around the world view the same program of 10 films and vote for their favorite. The results are […]
Something new is brewing in the dance world, and it’s brewing right in our neck of the woods. This fall, some of the country’s most innovative choreographers will descend upon Rhode Island for the inaugural Northeast Choreographers Festival. The festival is the brainchild of Fusionworks Dance Company in Lincoln, founded in 1987. Back then, the […]
Unless you’ve been space-traveling for the past month, you’ve heard about Pokemon Go. It’s a free mobile game that taps into the nostalgia of anyone over the age of 18, and is coaxing even the most timid of Pokefans outdoors. It’s also turned the city of PVD into a paradise for people who wanna catch ‘em […]
Rory O’Brien has written an enjoyable piece of historical fiction set in the high brow of Newport in 1892. The World’s Fair in Chicago was in full swing (I off-topically recommend Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, which is about that World’s Fair and a serial killer living in Chicago at the time), Lizzie Borden […]
The 2016/2017 Artistic Icons Series launches at The Vets on October 29 at 7:30pm with Cirque Mechanics’ “Pedal Punk,” a steampunk spectacle of stunning circus arts featuring a dazzling whirl of acrobats, cyclists and mind-blowing, one-of-a-kind machines. Other featured entertainers include the renowned Rennie Harris Pure movement, igniting the stage with the art and […]
Motif’s team took to the emails, the phones and even tracked down those candidates and office holders we could find in person to try to find out where they stand on the issue of legalizing cannabis so we could share that with you. Three things surprised us: 1.There was a lot more agreement than we […]
As leaves begin to fall, we tend to get caught in the nostalgia of summer, but if we only look behind us we end up missing the bounty of great music ahead. Fall is a time of celebration in New England with crisp air, trees engulfed in explosions of color, cups of warm apple […]