Staying cool and vibrant this summer starts in your closet! During a heat wave wear light colors, white, gold, or powder blue, bright neons or rainbow hues. Not only do lighter colors make a difference when the temperature reaches the hot zone, but having breathable material to prevent anti-chafing is a plus too. Read that […]
While most people are groggily searching for the snooze button at 7am, then reluctantly rousing themselves out of bed, you can bet on finding local designer Jourdan Christopher already at his sewing machine, deep into the process of repurposing something like discarded curtains into a one-of-a-kind statement piece sure to turn heads and elevate any […]
“I finally found my niche,” Sydney Bienstock says of her journey from doing arts and crafts as a youngster to fashioning distinctive collages, like the one gracing the cover of this Motif issue. Bienstock always loved art. But she didn’t consider herself a good illustrator or painter, she relates. Wanting to be a creative, she […]
It’s no coincidence that interest in Y2K fashion is reaching a fever pitch. With every passing year, more and more bygone fashion eras are being rescued from irrelevance as they get old enough to be associated with the prized term, “vintage.” What makes an item vintage, though? Turns out it’s more than just frayed threads […]
Okee dokee folks… In 1994 I produced the first Hear In Rhode Island music festival. Though I had worked other fests before, this was my first time producing one on my own. Originally this was a big showcase for members of the Rhode Island Songwriters Association. It was quite the undertaking. Back then I was […]
In the corner of the media tent, a thin man sits between two reporters. He holds a mic in his hand and speaks into it with ardent gestures. “Jazz is something alive, something moving. Think about Thelonious Monk, Coltrane, Davis, all those giants, and we’re here moving with them, always moving, always improvising,” he says, […]
