On a warm summer night, Nick Paciorek’s Pitcher-Goff House gallery provides a unique and inspiring environment in which to appreciate art from around our region. If you haven’t visited this unusual space yet, there’s still time before the weather cools. The Pitcher-Goff house is an odd and twisty marvel of a bygone era, once the […]
Did you know there is a state program in RI to rebate people who purchase e-bikes? “We are definitely hearing from more people who have questions about the rebates,” says Tyler Justin of Mission Electric Bikes on the east side of PVD, one of the earliest pioneers in bringing e-bikes to Rhode Island several years […]
Voting for the 2023 Drink Awards is now open at motifri.com/foodawards. The celebration of the winners of both the drink awards and the food truck awards will take place on Aug 14, a Monday holiday, at R1 Indoor Karting, 100 Higginson Ave, Lincoln. Beer Amber/ Red/ Brown Neapolitan Brown by Crooked CurrentBattle Scar by LineSiderAngry […]
Hollywood seems like a distant and peculiar land to most of us in RI. It entertains us from a distance, but we don’t usually think of it as directly affecting us. Right now, however, there are both a writers’ strike and an actors’ strike taking place that impact the part of Rhode Island that engages […]
The Black Ships have been a staple festival in Newport for as long as most can remember. This year, they’re celebrating both a proper return from COVID and their 40th anniversary by changing things up a bit. The traditional recreated, historically accurate black ships will still be landing in Newport, but the shadows of their […]
Organization Description:Motif is a free alt-paper dedicated to the arts and entertainment in Rhode Island and surrounding areas, and to bringing readers alternative local news about subjects of all kinds. Motif was founded in 2004 to help bring to light some of the amazing music, art, and culture happening around Rhode Island that escapes coverage […]
Nominate yourself or other bartenders for this years event! The event will be on August 11th at R1 Indoor Karting in Lincoln RI. The awards will be part of our 20th Anniversary Celebration and will be happening from around 7pm-11:30pm. Use this link to nominate: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2GMPLZC More information coming soon…
Motif’s RI Bartender Ball is a chance to celebrate the incredible people who keep our glasses full from behind the bar. There is an awards ceremony with categories ranging from Favorite Cocktail Bartender, Bartender as Therapist, Local Icon, to Best Multitasker and Sassiest Bartender. In between the awards there are live bartending competitions put on […]
If you cast your mind back, back, beyond COVID-brain and our seismic societal shifts of the last few years, you might remember that Motif came out twice a month. That was more work and more expensive, but it was also lovely because not all shows, events and experiences know their details more than a month […]
You may have noticed something major missing from our coverage of festivals and fairs over the summer. This issue is full of info, but no mention of PVDFest. What happened? No, rumors of its cancellation are not true. The eponymous festival, one of the biggest outdoor events of the year in the city (perhaps second […]