Becherovka Green Toddy: A Drink to Warm You Inside and Out
It’s my favorite time of year! I love the cooler weather, the flannel, the beanies, the way that strong and stirred drinks overtake bar menus… I also love hot drinks, […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
The Four Turtles
by Isaiah “Sleeping Turtle” Johnson The cloudy sky in my waking eyes is adorned with blue, gray, and white. The yellow sun blazed in full as I lay in the […]
Indigenous Diner: Sly Fox Den Too
While working on the November issue of Motif, we kept hearing about an indigenous restaurant called the Sly Fox Den Too. It’s a wonderful and quintessentially Rhode Island kind of […]
About The Cover: Shayla in RED by Nayana LaFond
On July 5, 2004, five-year-old Tamra Jewel Keepness went missing in Regina, Saskatchewan. You’ve probably never heard of her, because she’s just one of many indigenous women who have been […]
News Analysis – William Blackstone: The First White Guy
On Indigenous People’s Day, an alternative to the official Columbus Day holiday on October 11, 2021, a few dozen attendees at Veterans Memorial Park in Pawtucket protested the recently erected […]
Greenleaf gets the Green Light: Dispensary Review
In the brief time that cannabis has been legal(ish – for recreational use in MA, and in Rhode Island for medical marijuana card holders), visiting a dispensary has gone from […]
The Price of Becoming Invisible: Family and Connection
As I put pen to paper or rather fingers to keys, I am reminded of the time, when on this land everyone was Indigenous, and everyone else who came to […]