The Scoop: Guide to local ice cream shops
Map and graphics by Michelle Perez
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
On the Cover: Gina Lerman
Cover art: Gina Lerman, @lermworm IN THIS ISSUE
April Mixology Madness Cocktail Winner: The Regal Bee
April’s Mixology Madness winner was Brendan Maddock, whose winning drink was a springy cocktail named the Regal Bee, featuring the night’s star ingredient, SmokeLab’s saffron vodka. Maddock gave us the […]
Motif’s 2024 RI Tattoo Awards: Recap and interviews with the winners
On a sunny April evening, the local New England tattoo community, as well as a Lycra-clad crew of runners, flocked to Narragansett Brewery in Providence, across from India Point Park. […]
Motif’s 2024 RI Spoken Awards Recap
At the 2024 Spoken Word Awards, hosts Chip Doug and Anjel Newmann ushered in a night of storytelling, poetry, comedy, and more by welcoming nominees and spectators alike. Doug is […]
On the Cover: The Cannabis Guide
COVER ART BY MICKEY ZACCHILI mickeyz.org IN THIS ISSUE: What’s the Vibe: Cannabis Dispensaries in RI by Lenny Brennan – An overview of the seven dispensaries in RI, with cannabis […]
Motif’s 2024 RI Spoken Awards: And the winners are…
A poet, a comedian, and a storyteller walk into a bar… it sounds like the beginning of a joke, but on Tuesday, April 9, it was a beautiful reality manifested […]
March’s Mixology Madness Cocktail Winner: Lucky Thyme
On Sunday, March 17 — St. Patrick’s Day — Motif held its monthly mixology contest at Kimi’s, a cozy and beloved neighborhood bar in Federal Hill. Competing bartenders and spectators […]
Enter to win tickets to COMPANY
If you’re 35 this year, you are in good company: Taylor Swift was famously born in 1989. Nina Dobrev of Vampire Diaries fame is 35; so is Daniel Radcliffe, Jason […]
2024 Motif RI Music Awards Recap
On Monday night, March 19, Motif threw the RI music community’s version of the Oscars, the 2024 RI Music Awards. A record crowd of over 600 musicians and music lovers […]