2025 Motif RI Tattoo Awards
Winners have been listed below. Save the date! Come out to Narragansett Brewery for our Tattoo Awards spotlighting the best in local tattoo talent. Expect live tattooing, free Hi Neighbor […]
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
WaterFire Providence Announces the 2025 Season
Providence, RI: WaterFire Providence announces the 2025 WaterFire season, which currently includes six (6) full lightings, two (2) partial lightings, and four (4) Starts at Sunset lightings on the Michael […]
Rhode Island Music Awards: Winners and re-cap
Outside the walls of Fête Music Hall in Pawtucket, it was a rainy, brutal, Monday night. Yet, nice and safe within its doors, over 400 artists and music enthusiasts meandered […]
Obit: John “The Mad Peck” 1941-2025
The intersection of Power and Hope will forever conjure thoughts of artist The Mad Peck for Providence residents familiar with his iconic poster. His other alias, Dr. Oldie, was known […]
Motif Music Award Winners
AMERICANA FAVORITE AMERICANA ACT Consuelo’s Revenge FAVORITE WORLD MUSIC Sidy Maiga FAVORITE LATINE Maria Rose FAVORITE R&B ACT Steve Smith and the Nakeds FAVORITE SMALL-MED VENUE Myrtle FAVORITE LIVE AMERICANA […]
Mixology Winning Drink: Mel Lopez
When I learned the theme was punk and that Mr. Black would be the spotlight liqueur, I immediately began thinking about how to create a cocktail that felt truly subversive. […]
2025 Motif’s RI Spoken Awards
Tuesday April 15th6 – 10pmMyrtle, East PVD For the third time in a row, this April the Spoken Awards return with categories embracing storytelling, poetry, spoken word, and stand-up comedy. […]
Robert “Rob” Yaffe: Obit. 1954-2025
If you’ve ever enjoyed a meal at Pawtucket’s Garden Grille or a vegan dessert at Wildflour (or back in the day at the still-missed Grange in PVD), you have Rob […]
Open & Closed
Opened: Royal Fried Chicken: Upon first inspection, I wasn’t sure if this place was real or not. But, judging by the Yelp reviews, it boasts amazing popcorn chicken, fries, coleslaw, […]
Open & Closed
OPEN Track 15, a huge food hall featuring several different flavors of restaurant, from the local to the national, will be opening sometime in February. Keep your eyes open for […]