Jim Vickers started Motif Magazine in 2004. He started Motif to give voice to marginalized groups of underrepresented Rhode Islanders. Vickers agreed to write an article for our special 20th anniversary edition. This is his story. In the beginning, there was the NewPaper and Nice Paper. It was a friendly rivalry between Rhode Island-based alternative […]
Kids used to do that with their fingers. Nowadays they use video games to mock shoot each other. In San Antonio, Texas, an armed security guard stopped a mass killing when she shot and wounded a disgruntled employee who opened fire in the Chinese restaurant where he worked. A would-be murderer recently broke into a […]
Electro Dance Music (EDM) has reached a critical mass in America and dominates much of the club and event landscape in our region. The rising prominence of these once underground DJs has come so far into the mainstream that last year, Rolling Stone magazine ran a feature called the “25 DJs that Rule the Earth.” […]
Long overdue for new eye glasses, I went to one of those one-hour places to exercise a $99 frame-and-lens coupon. Not naïve enough to believe anyone walks out of there with a decent pair at that cost, my assumption was I’d drop double that. Took the exam for an updated prescription and they lobbied me […]