Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, is back! The humbug’s wrenching, covetous, and cares more for money than all else. When the clock strikes midnight one fateful Christmas Eve, the ghost
November 23 - December 29Swinging rock music.
December 4 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmWith a cast of five amazing actors playing all of the parts, this is the wonderful holiday story and tradition that you love with CTC flair. Full of fun, energy,
December 5 - December 22If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmRI country artist.
December 5 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmIf you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm‘70s, ‘80s rock & roll radio tribute show!
December 6 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmThe band reimagines and recreates their favorite Laurel Canyon hits using their eight-piece band as the mini-orchestra to bring it all to life. Actually, our world might not be that
December 6 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmOnly the top-shelf holiday acapella, please.
December 6 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmClose enough to the Grateful Dead.
December 6 @ 9:00 pm - December 7 @ 12:00 amThese ladies put a new spin on Motley Cruexxx.
December 6 @ 9:00 pm - 11:30 pmCountry rock dance and sweet cover band.
December 6 @ 9:00 pm - December 7 @ 12:00 amIf you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 6 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pmIf you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 7 @ 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmIf you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 7 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmPerforming Moondance, setting a jazzy, romantic mood.
December 7 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmWe love the Indigo Girls! A classic, and closer to fine than ever!
December 7 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmIf you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 7 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pmWine, beer, and festive food stations including holiday desserts, a hot cocoa bar, and holiday cookies. Plus fire pits with vineyard views. Break out your ugly holiday sweater – there
December 8 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pmA series of concerts featuring the pianist and singer.
December 8 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmMeg moved from Oakland, CA to PVD in May 2018 and works as a freelance writer and marketing specialist. For her, writing isn't a choice or even something she thinks about- it's her primary method of communication and the way she processes information. Meg is excited to write for Motif because ever since moving to PVD, she's been developing crushes on all these RI residents, so that's what she wants to write about – the people who make this strange little state so dreamy and worthwhile.
Thomas Fantasia speaks articulately, then cuts himself off. Modest, respectful, cautious. He interrupts himself to emphasize: he’s still learning. “There’s so much more I have to learn about our traditional […]
“I was born and raised in Providence. I’m locally grown organic,” says cartoonist and illustrator Matthew Kramer. Kramer graduated from Brown with an MFA in Literary Arts and works as […]
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i.The manacles: heavy irons coursed through with rust, ghostly webs tracing the blood, sweat and tears of Africans, ripped from their lands and torn from their relations, herded across the […]
Photo: Meg Coss. In late summer, the dark purple drupe of the black cherry tree reaches maturity and the resident birds – the robins and sparrows, the finches and crows […]
Is there a moment in a horse’s stride when all four hooves are off the ground? was the question Leland Stanford wanted Eadweard Muybridge to investigate. In 1878, Muybridge, a […]
When art succeeds it inspires. It asks questions. It holds mirrors. Curating Commemoration: Poiesis / Remedy, on display at the WaterFire Arts Center, features the works of 45 area artists. […]
Two years ago Rob Pena began work as a community organizer for a marijuana justice campaign within Reclaim Rhode Island. He was campaigning to help craft the future of Rhode […]
On May 25, 2022, Gov. McKee signed the RI Cannabis Act into law. The law legalized cannabis for adult use and stated a three-member commission (aka the Cannabis Control Commission, […]
Photo courtesy of RI Film Office ‘90s movie nostalgia is alive and well in Rhode Island. 2021 saw the resurrection of the Sanderson sisters for the filming of Hocus Pocus […]