Honed at clubs and colleges all over including the Comedy Cellar, Caroline’s, Gotham and Stand Up New York and he headlines regularly at Mohegan Sun.
September 24 @ 7:30 pm - September 26 @ 9:30 pmThe monthly arts and crafts day returns!
September 26 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmOutdoor electronic dance jams.
September 26 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pmDid the first lead to the second? AC/DC tribute and rock.
September 27 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmSpice up your Mondays with live Americana played by an ever-changing roster of musicians.
September 28 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pmAn event every week that begins at 9:00 pm on Monday, repeating until December 31, 2020
Acoustic music.
September 30 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmThe author of more than 20 books, he is a leading academic historian of US presidents.
October 1 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmA comedian who’s best known as ‘Mafee’ on the hit Showtime series “Billions.”
October 1 @ 7:30 pm - October 3 @ 10:30 pmA food truck event to benefit the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation.
October 3 @ 4:00 pm - 10:00 pmLobster rolls, quesadillas and tacos paired — at a distance — with local brews.
October 3 @ 4:00 pm - 9:00 pmThemed party, live music from Steve Smith & The Nakeds on the Lanes.
October 3 @ 10:00 pm - October 4 @ 12:00 amRecognizing the historic and cultural contributions from the Caribbean with music, food and cultural events. Postponed from June.
October 4 @ 11:00 am - 6:00 pmSpice up your Mondays with live Americana played by an ever-changing roster of musicians.
October 5 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pmAn event every week that begins at 9:00 pm on Monday, repeating until December 31, 2020
Country rock, perfectly timed.
October 10 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmA band of high-energy musical misfits too rock for folk, too folk for punk, too punk for bluegrass.
October 10 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmFall/Christmas crafts and items.
October 11 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 amSpice up your Mondays with live Americana played by an ever-changing roster of musicians.
October 12 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pmAn event every week that begins at 9:00 pm on Monday, repeating until December 31, 2020
The band that did the theme song for The Adventures of Pete and Pete on Nickelodeon.
October 15 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmSpeaking of peak ‘90s rock.
October 15 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmOften referred to as the punk rock pirates of the math rock world.
October 15 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Natalie Andrus Fleming is a school psychologist based at the Asa Messer Elementary school in Providence. On Wednesday, September 16, the third day after schools partially reopened in Providence, one of two cities in RI that were not approved for full in-person reopening due to high COVID-19 rates, Fleming said she was directed to stop […]
In RI, during the COVID-19 emergency Gov. Gina Raimondo has limited informal social gatherings to no more than 15 people and in-person school classrooms to stable groups of no more than 30 students. Where do these numbers come from? The governor has described them as “judgment calls,” but she is not just arbitrarily picking numbers. […]
“Twindemic” is the trendy buzzword for the nightmare scenario in the medical community right now: seasonal influenza rampaging at the same time as the COVID-19 pandemic, two respiratory illnesses with similar symptoms – fever, headache, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, fatigue – stressing health care resources, especially hospital beds. “Getting vaccinated against the flu is […]
How deadly is COVID-19? How does it compare to seasonal flu? These are difficult and controversial questions. Above all, it should be emphasized that some sub-populations are definitely at much higher risk for bad outcomes if they become infected, such as people with compromised immune systems due to existing underlying illness or simply old age. […]
The live event scene, decimated for months by the COVID-19 shutdown of the economy, is holding a #RedAlertRESTART event on Tuesday, September 1, from 9pm to midnight, to illuminate the exteriors of publicly visible buildings with red light to draw attention to their desperate economic plight. “The hope is to get as many people involved […]
Slavery ended throughout the British Empire on “Emancipation Day,” August 1, 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. Free Blacks in the United States began celebrating the anniversary as many had personal and community connections with the former slaves of the British West Indies, the Caribbean Islands (including Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, […]
“Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” has been the official full name of the state since the colonial era, created by the unification of the original “four towns,” which in order of their dates of founding were Providence (1636), Pocasset/Portsmouth (1638), Newport (1639), and Shawomet/Warwick (1642). In 1643/1644, the towns were combined under their current name […]
On July 8, we sent out the first printed issue of Motif since April 1, a hiatus of three months. The world changed: On April 1 at least half of the usual distribution points were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but on July 8 the state was a week into Phase 3 of reopening […]
As Rhode Island literally leads the nation in rate of decline for cases of COVID-19, Gov. Gina Raimondo moved forward with plans to enter Phase 3 of reopening the state economy on Tuesday, June 30. Depending upon criteria, Connecticut and New Jersey are in contention for second place, but everyone agrees RI is first. The […]
Only 2.2% of Rhode Island residents have antibodies in their blood, known as “sero-prevalence,” against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, Brown University Professor Philip Chan, MD, the consultant medical director for the Division of Preparedness, Response, Infectious Disease, and EMS at the RI Department of Health (RIDoH), announced this morning on a press conference […]
