Open & Closed
Opened: Bistro Locale: Not brandy new, but opening a second location! This popular Attleboro restaurant has doubled in Lincoln. Goodbye Nathaniel’s Bistro, hello huevos rancheros! Husband and wife duo, Luis […]
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
Open and Closed
Opened Yellow Door Taqueria: Not quite open yet, but on the docket, this popular Bostonian restaurant is moving to RI. Mexican food under the reign of Dropkick Murphy’s frontman Ken […]
Stride grease: Sunday at the 71st annual Newport Jazz Festival
In the corner of the media tent, a thin man sits between two reporters. He holds a mic in his hand and speaks into it with ardent gestures. “Jazz is […]
Open & Closed
OPENED Rong Chic: Celebrating the authentic flavor of Sichuan cuisine, this place is boasted by one yelper as “up and coming!” Scrolling through their socials provides a tasty glimpse at […]
Opened and Closed
Opened: Lobanton: Moving into PVD’s popular Weybosset Street, this spot boasts gourmet Asian street food. Taking a peek at their insta is enough to tell that they’re not lying! Man, […]
What’s Happenin’, Summer?: All the things you don’t want to miss
Winter is finally gone, and summer is rearing its big and beautiful head. Now, we all know Motif is known for its listings, especially its Summer Guide listings (which, if […]
Open and Closed
OPENED Monarca Authentic Mexican Cuisine: The Hummingbird Café off-Broadway in Newport is getting a Mexican takeover. The owners of the popular Caribbean restaurant are moving to North Carolina after an […]
“How Powerful Is That?”: US Naval Academy removes close to 400 books from shelves, among them Brown University authors
Traditionally, higher education has been regarded as a space of intellectual freedom. The secular university is a special continuum that allows for a vacuum of art and thought, and is […]
Separate Houses: Books of poetry to celebrate National Poetry Month
Fernando Pessoa, early 20th-century Portuguese poet, is famous for the creation of his three literary personas, or heteronyms. Pessoa wrote under these heteronyms to not only distance the act of […]
The Poetics Of The Oyster: Emily Packer’s surreal experiment in her latest documentary, Holding Back the Tide
Under the waters of the New York Harbor, a bed of oysters quietly listens to the landscape of life on the surface. There is the dull roar of motorboats, of […]