Top 5 Fun Things To Do: Aug 22 – 28
WED 22 The Flaming Lips: Alternative rock/ psychedelic rock/ post-punk. 9pm. The Strand, 79 Washington St, PVD. thestrandri.com FRI 24 – SUN 26 NEON RetroFest 2018: For those who think […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Letter to the Editor: RI Business Climate
To the Editor, Recently, RI candidates have been arguing about the business climate and whether or not it is improving and who will do more to improve it. The problem […]
EDM Event Preview: Tight Crew’s Block Rockin Beats
This Saturday, August 18, Tight Crew will be back with another block party! The aptly titled Block Rockin Beats party is happening from 3pm to 1am at The Met (both […]
2018 Theater Award Winners
This year saw a number of records broken at the Motif Theater Awards. The number of voters was the most yet, with 4,565 readers weighing in on their favorite performers […]
Fine, Just Fine! Everything Is Fine!
[See also motifri.com/dirty-war] By today, August 16, the number of participating newspapers and magazines editorializing about the importance of a free press has grown to more than 300. The New […]
Speak-Up … While You Still Can
When the integrity of an entire group of professionals is called into disrepute in order to qualify the deceit and subversion of an individual in power, we must collectively pause […]
Cannabis Competition Sparked in Wakefield at the Cultivators Cup
If you’re a medical marijuana patient with no plans this weekend, head on down to Wakefield for the first-ever Cultivators Cup, presented this Saturday, August 18, from 1 – […]
Top 5 Fun Things To Do: Aug 15 – 21
THU 16 Bellerophon and the What Cheer Brigade: Synth and electronic music, followed, perhaps literally, by the super friendly marching band. 4:30pm. Burnside Park, 40 Kennedy Plaza, PVD. provparksconservancy.org SAT […]
Doublethink: Make America Non-Orwellian Again
On August 16 – our publication day – almost one hundred newspapers and magazines, ranging from major national dailies to small local operations, will respond to a call from Marjorie […]
Robert Ellis Smith, 1940-2018
Robert Ellis Smith, who died unexpectedly July 25, was an independent journalist whose influence on our understanding of privacy – indeed, on the definition of the term – cannot be […]