On Saturday night, April 27, the Rock & Reel music video competition came to a conclusion with a screening and awards ceremony. In its inaugural year, the grassroots Providence-based project pairs local musicians with independent filmmakers for one weekend only to conceive, write, shoot and edit a music video. The 9 teams of musicians and filmmakers revealed their narrative […]
Motif’s very own Nick and Iandolo and Rosemary Pacheco duke it out monthly over a movie in theaters. This month’s feature film: Beyond the Pines
Occupation: Freelance illustrator/designer Favorite Book: I don’t have a favorite book, but Jeff Loeb & Tim Sale’s Batman in the ’90s was pretty formative. Favorite Movie: It’s a tie between Sense & Sensibility and 300. Biggest Pet Peeve: Tough guys on the internet What do you never leave home without? Somewhere to go What’s your dream job? I […]
Forecast Period: April 30, 2013 to May 5, 2013 Aries: This week you connect with friends, acquaintances and colleagues. In that process you make new connections. The bottom line is you are discovering the connections that matter to you. As new folks enter your life some simply fade away. It is a busy time for […]
What happens when four friends get together and hatch a plan to bring more local organic food to the Providence area? You get the Alternative Farmers Market, Rhode Island’s newest farmers market, which opens May 18 at 10am in the Miriam Hospital Lot at 1111 North Main Street. Jacob Brier, Richard Suls, Rachael McCaskill and […]
Forecast Period: May 2, 2013 to June 5, 2013 Aries: Prepare yourself for some big financial changes this year. You may get yourself in debt or pull yourself out of the hole. Whatever the scenario, you will be paying close attention to how you spend your money. You are awakening to what is really important […]
One form of entertainment that often slips the mind of Rhode Islanders is hitting up the local comedy club. According to John Souza aka Johnie Armani, owner and operator of RI’s newest comedy venue The Joke Store, as a state, we have a far less progressive comedy scene than Boston or Connecticut. After frequenting the […]
Anthony Demings, owner of the Brooklyn Coffee Teahouse in Providence, Rhode Island, is pleased to announce his film Children of the Asylum (COTa) will have its world premiere at the Columbus Theatre on Broadway on Saturday, April 27, 2013, at 5:30 pm along with other great short films at the SENE Film, Music & Art […]
With the passing of 2013’s National Poetry month, I mourn the random email notifications that there is a poetic happening within moments from where I’m standing, all of my poet friends engaging in a NaPoMo 30/30 (that’s when people commit to writing a poem a day for 30 days) , and most of all, the […]
I’ve been known to plan entire vacations around street art. Give me a dilapidated building and a dusting of spray paint, and I’m putty in the hands of the graffiti gods. One aspect of Lisbon that originally drew me to the city is its wealth of murals, most of which marry architectural details with carefully crafted […]