Food truck award winners
Asian Influenced Cuisine Ming’s Asian Food Truck Italian Influenced Cuisine Bird’s Nest Italian Street Food Latin Influenced Cuisine Cultro BBQ South County Barbeque Burger / Slider Griddle Me This Sandwich […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Drink award winners
Ale / Saison Goibniu by Trágmar Ale Works DIPA Captain’s Daughter by Grey Sail Brewing IPA Tiny Truck by Ragged Island Brewing Co. Lager Lawn Boy by Tilted Barn Brewery […]
2025 Motif Food Truck & Drink Awards Favorites
The RI Food Truck & Drink Awards managed to dodge the rainclouds and have a beautiful night on Sunday. Below, you’ll find all the winners: Good Vibes, the new mobile […]
Map of Fall Fun
Apple Picking 1. Barden Family Orchard (pumpkins) 56 Elmdale Road, North Scituate 401-934-1413 2. Old Stone Orchard 33 Colebrook Road, Little Compton 401-635-2663 3. Jaswell’s Farm (cider donuts) 50 Swan […]
Whats your favorite vintage item? Motif asks the crowd
The hotel clock reads 7:05AM central time. The dull spring Chicago light starts to fill our interior facing room. My body aches from yesterday’s flight and the Caipirinha. Only 9 […]
2025 DRINK AWARDS NOMINEES
We ask our beer writers, the coordinators of local brewfests, and 59 breweries, wineries, and distilleries to tell us their three favorite home-grown products and their three favorite products by […]
Motif’s 2025 RI Tattoo Awards Winners and Interviews!
Our Tattoo Awards took place the night of May 13th, and what a night it was! Narragansett Brewery was packed with tattooers, tattoo-bearers, and folks who just rolled in to […]
Mixology Winning Drink: Jimmy Vithaxay- Clemintine Cocktail Bar
Grand Pagoda 2 oz Moet Hennessy .75oz dry curaçao .75 oz lemon grass syrup .5 oz lemon juice .25 oz orgeat 2 dashes of grapefruit and orange bitters Shaken and […]
OBIT: Dominick J. Ruggerio, 1948 – 2025
The longtime Democratic member and president of the RI Senate passed away on April 21 after battling cancer for over a year. Ruggerio was the longest-serving member in either the […]
Spoken Word Award Winners & Interviews
A night full of laughs, tears, and a literal double rainbow, Motif’s 3rd annual RI Spoken Word Awards ceremony was one for the books. With live performances from Julius Morris, […]