Giant Steps Phillipe and Jorge’s movie of the week has to be Andre the Giant, now running on HBO stations. Andre Roussimoff was the famously huge French wrestler who became a cult figure and huge draw in the wrestling world (and The Princess Bride) in the 1980s, but who eventually fell victim to the gigantism that saw […]
Rick Scianablo is the manager of Studio Blue Providence, a local recording studio. So he knows bands, and thinks bands need places to hone their craft. “We’re a creative city, and creative cities need to give bands a place where they can practice in front of an audience and get good enough to play in […]
WED 25 – SAT 28 7th Annual Eat Drink RI Festival: This foodie festival to end all foodie festivals includes traditional multi-course dinners, food trucks and various tastings. Yum! Times and locations across PVD vary. Keep an eye out for the Sommelier Smackdown on Wednesday and the Grand Tasting on Saturday. eatdrinkri.com WED 25 PechaKucha: […]
A group of concerned residents came together to rally against a proposal to build a gas station at the currently defunct corner of Warwick and Park Avenues in the middle of Cranston’s Edgewood, a historic and residential neighborhood in Cranston in a classic battle of corporate interest vs. public welfare. The neighbors’ chief concern […]
“Enough is enough. Today is the beginning of change, today we honor Parkland and all that they have lost. Thank you everyone for being here, you yourselves are making a difference.” Those are the words of Sofia Capaldo, senior at Johnson and Wales University and organizer of The March for Our Lives rally that […]
The commission created last year by the Rhode Island General Assembly to study legalizing recreational cannabis has missed its reporting deadline of March 1, 2018, and a possible extension remains mired in disagreement between the two legislative chambers. Proponents want to regulate and tax cannabis for recreational purposes similarly to alcohol. Although the study commission […]
JARheads Phillipe and Jorge are a bit late to the party concerning the Sinclair Broadcasting/Channel 10 debacle over shilling for President Pussy Grabber, but we’ve never been averse to putting the boot in once a man is down. To be brief, Sinclair, which is owner of WJAR-Channel 10 and nearly 200 other local stations in the […]
Since April is both Earth Month and National Poetry Month, I thought it would be fitting to write a piece on environmental activism and poetry. In the civil disobedience of Pawtucket resident Tim DeChristoper against the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline, I have seen poetry and activism converge in a profound way. Together they illuminated the […]
Welcome to Motif’s new complaint department. We are past the age when letters to the editor were numerous and needed sorting and selection. Motif gets four or five “letters to the editor” a year. What we get instead is the modern version – phone calls (some of those belong on “SNL”), texts, Facebook messages and […]
Rebel Reef is a local company formed in October 2017 that took a good thing and made it better and then used that better thing to make a different good thing better. You following me? Let’s back up. Jenna Fontaine is a board certified massage therapist and herbalist with 20 years of experience who owns Urban […]