We danced the dance of summer love,Stolen glances on the ferry,The not-so coincidental strolls up the beachwhen I wished for you to appear,and you did.Tideline chats,so charged by the ions of the crashing wavesthat I thought I would combust.Each time you were near,the desperation of wanting to taste you grew.I remember the lambent light when […]
OPEN A new business called Archery Games has opened up in Olneyville at 40 Sonoma Court, PVD. Billed as combat archery, it is an interesting twist on dodgeball, but played with bows and soft, foam-tipped arrows. If you can dodge a wrench, hopefully you can dodge an arrow. archerygamespvd.com Some West Side residents may take […]
The historic John Hunt House is steeped in local history. Next to Hunt’s Mill Park in East Providence, the site features guided tours in period garb, gardens, an in-house museum and a gallery room as well as housing the East Providence Historical Society. It’s open to the public on the second Sunday of each month. […]
Cover artist Joey Moreira is now a two-time winner of Favorite overall tattoo artist and co-owns Cloud 9 Studios in Burrillville. In creating our cover, he chose a non-tattoo approach, using colored pencils and challenging himself with a different style of illustration. “I wanted to take on something that’s been weighing heavily on my mind […]
“These are the photos they don’t want you to see.” Says Carl Q. Hog, of the Instagram post he made after finding what might be the final remains of the long-sought-after legend, the Block Ness Monster. Sighted most often during hurricanes over the years, “Blocky” has been a constant, if rarely seen, companion to Island […]
Profiles by Bobby Forand, John Fuzek, Marc Clarkin, Bradly VanDerStad, Meg Coss, Tess Lyons, Lee Adrain & Mike Ryan. AMERICANA Favorite Americana Act I don’t entirely regard The Silks as an Americana act, personally. Their sound is heavily grounded in the blues, which was invented in America… so I guess that sort of counts? The […]
1989 Law Says Nips Are Illegal in RI The law has gone unenforced for three decades. In fact, few people walking the halls of the Statehouse or working inside the state Department of Environmental Management headquarters on the other side of I-95 even know it exists. In 1989, the Legislature passed the Beverage Container Recyclability […]
March 2023
Years in the making, this madcap indie comedy, directed by Sean Michael Beyer, was shot in RI during the pandemic. They chose RI because of the diverse locations close to each other, and the state ended up standing in for nations around the world, including Italy (Venice, of course), Germany, France, England and Frankenstein’s castle. […]
On March 20 at Fête Music Hall, we once again celebrated local with one of Motif’s favorite annual gatherings: The RI Music Awards. Although we’re the smallest state, RI has a never-ending supply of fantastic music spanning all genres. We seem to be post-COVID, at least as far as live music coming back is concerned, […]