Student Debt: Pop Goes the Bubble?
The idea that our children can have a better life for themselves goes hand-in-hand with the values of hard work and improved education. And few states value education as highly as […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Nethers at Brown, Matt Lauer and So Long, Bobby
Hygiene News You’ve come a long way, baby. The reigning academic LGBT king/queen of political correctness and insipid and fragile sensitivities, Brown University, recently announced it will provide free tampons […]
School Theater Spotlight: TAPA
When I’m not writing articles for Motif, I can be found in a classroom teaching high school English classes. I feel as passionate about teaching as I do about theater. […]
Education Issue Cover
Artist: Zack Deus www.zackdeus.com
Black Coffee Won’t Keep You Awake
Best selling mystery novelist Agatha Christie sold millions of books by sticking to a tried and true formula: stick a colorful batch of characters together, murder someone and then […]
Opinion: What’s the Matter with Providence?
I write this a few minutes after receiving a $25 ticket for overtime parking at a meter in Providence. I walked out of Olga’s Cup and Saucer, where I had […]
Motif’s 5 Event Picks of the Week: September 7 – September 13
Thru Saturday, October 15 Narrows Art Gallery, 16 Anawan St, Fall River, Mass. narrowscenter.org. “Newport Folk Festival Moments: Photographs by McCaffrey and Mojo” Thursday, September 8 The VETS Open House: For […]