Month: November 2025


It’s the Most Bazaar Time of the Year: Christmas Bazaars of Rhode Island

What exactly is a Bazaar, besides a word describing utter ridiculousness? Which, at *my* first RI Bazaar, I rather thought was an appropriate word to describe said festivities. Pizza strips, for example, were *quite* bizarre, and they aren’t how they sound. I thought something was wrong when they brought out the strips with only sauce […]

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Motif Bartender Awards 2025

Welcome to Motif Magazine’s 2025 Bartender Awards, held at R1 Indoor Karting in Lincoln, RI.  This year featured a mixology competition, burlesque, cabaret, games and more! Thanks to all of our volunters & sponsors, and congrats to all the winners. Check out our brief recap videos of this year’s festivities, featuring interviews with the winners […]

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Opinion — Zohran Mamdani and the Pyrrhic Victory of the Democratic Party: Why he is the leftist version of Donald Trump with all of the same problems

Mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani is a self-avowed “democratic socialist,” and his policy proposals include free public transit, free child care, city-run grocery stores, and free everything else, all funded by increasing taxes on corporations and wealthy city residents. Mamdani has based his suddenly rocketing popularity on telling people what they want to […]

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Full SNAP Benefits Must be Paid by Fri, Nov 7, Court Orders: Judge seems incredulous that partial payments resulted in delays; government appeals

Michael Bilow of Motif attended the 3:30pm court hearing and is reporting based on his personal observations. At a hearing in US District Court in Providence on the afternoon of Thu, Nov 6, Judge John J. McConnell Jr seemed incredulous that the option in his Oct 31 order to make partial instead of full Supplemental […]

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RI Football Club FINISHES THEIR HOME SCHEDULE STRONG: Will Face Charlestown Battery in First Round of the Playoffs Nov 2 on CBS

I immediately noticed that there was a unique feel in the air surrounding Centreville Bank Stadium as I dropped a friend off at the gate and sat in traffic for about 20 minutes to park in the lot that I could basically see from my car. This was ten minutes before the start of their […]

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