Poor Little Rich Girl Phillipe and Jorge’s TV watching time has been significantly reduced of late, because we run screaming from the Boom Boom Room every time a political ad comes on. Hard to believe, but Governor Gigi, Trump “Fanboy” Fung (and full credit to whomever came up with “Fanboy”), the horde of personal injury […]
Askew is hosting a new monthly literary event called Wordsmiths & Storytellers. It will take place on the fourth Monday of the month at 6:30pm, and four featured published authors will read from their work at each event. “Rhode Island has a fantastic array of writers,” event coordinator and author R. Forand said. “This […]
Watch on the Rhine, written in 1941 by Lillian Hellman (and winner of the New York Drama Critic’ Circle Award in the same year) is a perfect combination of drama, old-fashioned comedy and historical storytelling. The audience is seated in an intimate and well-to-do living room. Pillows and blankets are in the seats so you […]
Eager to get your spook on? Now’s your chance to check out HeARTspot’s Art of Darkness, back for its second year. “Most of the artists in this exhibit are locals,” said gallery owner Jennifer Gillooly Cahoon of the 42 pieces in the exhibition. “Some pieces are creepy and others are whimsical and funny.” The show […]
Okee dokee folks… I hate to beat a dead horse, mostly because I am an animal lover, but it is imperative that folks get out on November 6 and exercise their right to vote. We are in dark times, people, and it is getting darker. If it gets much worse, we may never be able […]
Motif headquarters sits on the Blackstone River in an old mill building that creaks and moans as if trying to settle its old bones. While no one in our office has seen a ghost, some folks have reported “getting a feeling” while alone in the building late at night. With the approach of Samhain (Halloween), the time […]
Got Beer? readers – from diehards to casual page-flippers/screen-scrollers – know that there’s an embarrassment of beer riches out there. The deluge of craft/independent/top-shelf beer is undeniably droolworthy; it’s easy to get overwhelmed, and even easier to drain your debit card. But when your beer budget has been exhausted (those $18 four-packs make a […]
We spoke with RI native and cover artist William Schaff about the inspiration behind this issue’s cover art and what he finds most frightening about politics. His answer to the latter? “The disingenuous behavior of so many politicians, and the mistrust that causes in the electorate.” We agree, Mr. Schaff. We have truly entered The Twilight […]
Rhode Island is a decidedly blue state with a decades-long run of nearly every major statewide office, General Assembly, congressional delegation and presidential election favoring Democrats. Save for a couple of turn-of-the-century Republican governors and the two Chafees, Democrats have held — and continue to hold — a massive power bloc in the Ocean State. […]
Native America occupies a shady area in the mainstream national consciousness, but the indigenous people of the Americas have neither vanished nor must be seen as an intangible unknown forced to linger on the fringes of society. Rhode Island-based documentary filmmaker and founder of Providence Pictures, Gary Glassman, has long been interested in the wealth […]