Film Review: The Accountant
A socially awkward math savant accountant specializes in sorting out the finances of the world’s most dangerous criminal empires. Unfortunately, when he figures out the source of a new client’s […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
The Providence Garage Fest Bring Cosmonauts To Dusk
There is so much going on during a weekend in Providence, it leaves people wishing for an out-of-body experience to catch everything. The city is always buzzing with live music and […]
Motif’s 5 Event Picks of the Week: October 12 – October 18
THRU OCT 23 Billy Elliot, Ocean State Theatre Company, 1245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick. A young boy discovers his extraordinary gift for ballet in this Tony Award winning smash hit musical […]
Album Of The Week: Big Jesus’ Oneiric
The post-Cobain era of the mid-90s was a weird time for rock music. Fans were still recovering from the death of the Nirvana frontman, and there were a bunch of […]
Advice from the Trenches: Drop-Out Drudgery
Dear C, I am trying to decide if I should stay in college after this semester. I just don’t feel like I need a degree in order to do what […]
Hip-Hop: An Interview with DJ John Gotem
When working on events you meet tons of people. Some people you will see over and over and others come and go. When people mention artists, they’re often referring to […]
Motif Interviews Keith Zarriello of The Shivers
The first time I ever saw Keith Zarriello, he walked onto a darkened stage with an antique oil lamp and belted out an a capella stunner about owning the stage […]
RWU’s Peter and the Starcatcher Charms Audiences
Theater today impresses audiences with the extravagant; the more authentic and intricate, the better. To keep up with television and movies, sets and props have to be so lifelike that […]
Go Brew Yourself!
Go on any brewery tour these days and they’ll try to stump you by asking to name the four ingredients of beer. If you slept through Beer 101, it’s barley, hops, […]
Bleed for This Hits the Big Screen Next Month
Paz has rightfully become the stuff of Rhode Island legend, a topic of constant local – and national – discussion in the ’80s and ’90s. Soon, that legend will be […]