On The Cover: Joseph Heroux
The cover artist for our Holiday Issue is a psychedelic illustrator whose enjoyment of the ’60s / ’70s era leant inspiration for the cover. Joseph Heroux, this month’s cover artist, […]
Events:
A Christmas Carol
Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, is back! The humbug’s wrenching, covetous, and cares more for money than all else. When the clock strikes midnight one fateful Christmas Eve, the ghost
November 23 - December 29A Christmas Carol
With a cast of five amazing actors playing all of the parts, this is the wonderful holiday story and tradition that you love with CTC flair. Full of fun, energy,
December 5 - December 22Buddy Cavaleri
Musician/composer. Not Buddy Cianci.
December 22 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmPolar Express
Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that traverses the uncanny valley to visit the North Pole. I’m ready whenever!
December 23 @ 4:30 pm - 7:30 pmJoe Potenza & Friends
Jazz from some of the best friends in RI.
December 23 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmIt’s a Wonderful Life
A classic holiday movie that will bring tears to your eyes.
December 23 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmAli Siddiq
In the Shadows tour for the Houston-based observational comic.
December 24 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmSons of Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd experience… Whoa man.
December 28 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmSugar Ray and The Bluetones
There’s a halo hanging on the corner of my girlfriend’s four post bed.
December 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPitbull
There is so much I want to say. If you were in middle school from 2012 onward, you know the hold this man had on the world.
December 29 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmNeal & The Vipers
9th Annual New Years Eve party – see you in the new year with these blues-rock RI legends.
December 31 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pmAndrew Victor
Folk music for the new year.
January 1, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmThree Stooges Festival
Annual Three Stooges Film Festival featuring Larry, Moe, and Curly at their comical best in classic episodes from the 1930s and 1940s. Nyek, nyek, nyek.
January 3, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmFunky White Honkies
Big party band.
January 3, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMarie Claude
Listen to some music and drink your coffee.
January 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmSaints in the City
Bruce Springsteen tribute band.
January 4, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmPearly Baker
This band plays Grateful Dead music their way, with some Stones, Beatles, Allman Bros, and JJ Cale pearls thrown in for good measure.
January 4, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmRoger Ceresi’s All Starz
Paying tribute to the great music legends of the ‘50s & ‘60s.
January 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmMoxie
’90s & 2000s rock, with some old-fashioned attitude.
January 10, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm1964 The Tribute
Beatles tribute.
January 10, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Saint Nip: Santa stroll hits bars in Jewelry District
What do you want for Christmas? Put aside your wishes for world peace and that shiny new bike, here’s one better: A Santa Stroll. What’s a Santa Stroll you might […]
Video Screening Series: Every type of music descends on Dusk
We had metal. We had opera. We had Latin music. We had folk, and pop, post-pop and pre-pop and some videos about music theory. But most of all, we had […]
2022 Music Awards
Motif Magazine 2022 Music Awards are BACK! Live musical performances, yummy food from The Biggest Little Easy, and spotlights on the best local talent during the awards ceremony! Where?: Fete […]
2022 Bartenders Ball
We want to recognize bartenders that elevate tending to an art form. Join us in celebrating your favorite local bartenders! We are still taking nominations. Voting is now closed. But […]
Crowdsourced Valentine’s Day Ideas: We asked the Hive Mind and Dating in RI what their VDay plans were, and shared our thoughts too…
Instead of leaving our Valentine’s Day plans in the hands of advertisers, promoters, and self-serving bloggers, we thought to ask you, dear readers and social media followers, what it is […]
A Whole Bucket of Fun: The Pawtucket Arts Festival brings two weekends of arts programming to the state
Twenty-three years ago, the Pawtucket Arts Festival was just a small arts fair that allowed vendors to set up shop and sell their art. This year, festival director Anthony Ambrosino […]
Ecstatic Ekphrastic
Public art is meant to inspire conversation, and What Cheer Writers Club and The Avenue Concept recently teamed up to formalize that exchange in an event called Ecstatic Ekphrastic. The […]
Writing on the Wall
After a June night of violence in PVD, many downtown business owners covered their surviving windows with plywood to protect them from being broken during anticipated protests. Local artists beautified […]
Getting Loud: Gen Z: We Want to Live make their voices heard
A group of students led by 15-year-old co-founders Jaychele Nicole and Isabella James is making their voices heard under the moniker Gen Z: We Want To Live. George Floyd’s death […]