You guys are sick. When we put out a call for entries into our Lovecraft art and writing contest, we had no idea what horrors lurked in your minds. Consider us enlightened. Congratulations to our writing contest winner, Dylan Ingham, for his story titled “Starry Stan,” and to our art contest winner, “The Stars Align,” […]
The massively popular podcast Chapo Trap House often references Lovecraft in their recordings about politics. Because what better describes American politics than an ancient leviathan that lives underground, will someday wipe out all there is, and offers humanity zero hope of overcoming it? For those uninitiated, Chapo Trap House is the vanguard of the “dirtbag […]
Every other year it descends, creeping in from the shadowed corners of the unhallowed and ancient city, seeping into the minds and souls of the willing, drawing forth horrors of indescribable and inescapable grotesqueness, culminating in the great and pervasive corruption of all we know by an idea, a philosophy, more accurately — a fear […]
RI music fans soon will have the opportunity to experience one of rock’s best-kept secrets. The long-standing, battle-tested band NRBQ, once described as “the best band you’ve never heard of,” will roll through The Courthouse Center for the Arts on August 24 to deliver a night of high-energy music. “We got lucky with this group,” […]
It’s been my great pleasure and honor to write the craft beer column for Motif for the last 10 years. I’ve watched the industry blossom, grow, struggle and overcome. I’ve tasted the good, the bad, the weird and the bland. I’ve attended Beervana and the GIBF, and I’ve had the privilege to work for one […]
We need to talk about Howard Phillips Lovecraft. He was enormously sexist and xenophobic, and his bigotry isn’t the subtext — it’s right there, front and center. His letters reveal that he believed in phrenology for much of his life and feared the intermingling of cultures until his death. His story “The Horror at Red […]
Okee dokee folks…Most of you probably know that I hate summer. It’s the heat — I am not a fan and being in the sun actually drains me. So to stay cool, I wear shorts as often as possible, but I WILL NOT wear them on stage! There has been a meme floating around that […]
The Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund is calling for applications from visual artists for one of its three $25,000 fellowships. In addition to these fellowships, three runners-up will be invited to an artist residency stay at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt. This is a fantastic opportunity for the many talented visual artists […]
Providence City Council President Sabina Matos is considered a buzzworthy figure in Providence politics. During a recent interview, President Matos and I discussed the ongoing state intervention into Providence schools. In the following excerpt, we delved into what I have been referring to as a “bilateral” approach to addressing RI schools: attacking infrastructure issues with an […]