Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Medical Marijuana Update: The Long-Awaited Lottery
We’re finally here folks, the moment you’ve all been waiting for – and I seriously hope none of you were holding your breath. It’s been two and a half long […]
The Birds & The Oysters: EcoRI News Roundup
From Superfund Site to Solar Farm Nestled between Pontiac Avenue and the Pawtuxet River in Cranston, the Beacon Solar Project hosts 9,000 ground-mounted solar panels that can power 509 households. […]
Will Holiday Deliveries Be Grinched?: Buy local to bypass supply chain problems
As shoppers enter the heat of the holiday buying season, worldwide supply chain problems are making it tough for American consumers to find products sourced from overseas, particularly Asia. Sometimes […]
I Only Have Pies For You
Hartley’s Pork Pies is a Rhode Island secret treasure; “The Great British Baking Show” wishes they could make pork pies this perfect. Located in an unassuming building in Lincoln, they’re […]
Everything Old is New Again: Fabulous finds in Pawtucket
A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VHS tape. A jacket worn by USPS letter carriers in the 1950s. A mirrored end table with Levi Strauss & Co.’s elaborate vintage logo embossed […]
Hopped Up Gifts and Guilded Memories
Props to Tilted Barn in Exeter. In 2007 the farm began as Ocean State Hops, Rhode Island’s first commercial hop farm, with the goal of producing beer with as much […]
¡Qué Padre!: Providence’s sole tortilla factory serves them up hot
La Mexicana Mini Mart & Tortilleria is the only tortilla factory in Providence. Located in a building that serves as both a restaurant and convenience store, it packs a lot […]
Stock Culinary Goods: Food lovers, feel free to salivate!
When Motif caught up with Jan Faust Dane, owner of Stock Culinary Goods on Hope Street in Providence, she didn’t jump to sell us on some of her top-of-the-line wares, […]
Concrete and Cardinals
Scott Turner’s brief articles in The Providence Journal always provided welcome glimpses of natural landscapes. Beauty in the Street – Nature Tales from the Neighborhood collects many of these, as well […]