2017 Food Truck Awards
Vote Now Last year’s Food Truck Awards were a great time, so we’re back for the second annual. This year we’re excited to have our event at the newly opened […]
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
2017 Music Awards
The nominees in each category were suggested by local live music venues (over 80 of them) as well as local labels, radio stations and, of course, Motif music writers. […]
Water on the Rise
There is a wonderful interactive global map where you can zoom way in – far enough in, even, to see Rhode Island. It’s at seeing.climatecentral.org/#11/41.6988/-71.1681 (or just go to seeing.climatecentral.org […]
RIMHOF Inductees Announced
The spirit of camaraderie was contagious at the recent Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame (RIMHOF) press conference on Friday, February 17. Many of the august collection of experienced rockers and […]
The Health of Health Care in RI
Every year we set out to write about the state of the state’s healthcare industry – from the perspective of all involved. That includes patients, physicians, insurers and hospital systems. […]
Bleed for This Is a Knock-Out
On November 18, Bleed for This will open on 2,500 screens nationwide. In anticipation, Open Road (the distributor) and Verdi Productions (the production company) staged a press screening/RI premiere on […]
Comic Con: The Con That Ate PVD (in a good way)
RI Comic Con is like that radioactive mutant that just won’t stop growing. But in a good way. This year’s event once again took over the entire Convention Center and […]
Trump Carnage
That Donald Trump won the US Presidency should be old news to you now. What is a surprise is how few saw this coming. It seems like even those who […]
An Interview with Chad Verdi, Bleed for This Producer
Bleed for This, the story of RI boxing legend Vinny “Paz” Pazienza is a film that many on the filmmaking side figuratively bled for as well. Producer Chad Verdi, of […]
An Interview with Christine Evangelista of Bleed for This
We talked to Christine Evangelista, who plays Ashley in the upcoming film. (You can see her in the trailer here: ) Motif: Had you heard of Vinny Paz before this […]