7 Referendum Questions
What should you do about the referendum questions on this year’s ballot? Rhode Island voters have a history of approving bonds because they seem like free money: buy now, pay […]
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
An Interview with The Walking Dead’s Michael Cudlitz
The question, “Who shot JR?” still resonates in American culture – the cliffhanger was a summer obsession for a generation of Americans. But not too many people remember the answer […]
Anti-Social Media
I recently posted on Facebook asking people if they’d unfriended or unfollowed people this political season over their political posts. (Unfriending leads to no further contact. Unfollowing means not receiving […]
Bleed for This Hits the Big Screen Next Month
Paz has rightfully become the stuff of Rhode Island legend, a topic of constant local – and national – discussion in the ’80s and ’90s. Soon, that legend will be […]
Pick Your Monster!
As each Halloween approaches, the twisted winds of fall urge us to plan our special insert of monsters. Space constraints prevent us from putting all the monsters in the insert. […]
Student Debt: Pop Goes the Bubble?
The idea that our children can have a better life for themselves goes hand-in-hand with the values of hard work and improved education. And few states value education as highly as […]
CannaScore: Where Do the Candidates Stand on Cannabis?
Motif’s team took to the emails, the phones and even tracked down those candidates and office holders we could find in person to try to find out where they stand […]
The Slow Boil of Last Days of Summer
William Fichtner is a prolific character actor with a long and prominent body of work. If you don’t recognize the name, you definitely would recognize his distinctive face — stretched […]
2016 Motif Theater Awards Recap
The 2016 Motif Theater Awards may have been the best yet. The grand ballroom at Fete was filled to capacity — fortunately, theater people get along in close quarters — […]
Lupo’s Not Closing
Rumors have suddenly been swirling around the internet about the sale or closure of Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel. Today Motif spoke with the man himself, legendary music promoter Rich Lupo, and […]