2017 Perhaps only Phillipe and Jorge know how difficult keeping the Cool, Cool World going for over 38 years has been, but this past year has been especially challenging in a world seemingly gone mad. As Jorge’s brilliant friend the Sun Queen recently put it, “Just a bunch of creators and destroyers, wandering around earth […]
Average Lifespan Statistics In the spirit of our health issue, we wanted to look at a truly bizarre trend in the US. Statistically, people are living longer, and people are dying younger. Try that math on for size. What we’re talking about are the advances in medical science that allow the old and frail to […]
Like a good magician, Trump has the ability to get people to look down when the important stuff is happening above, or vice-versa. Instinctive, an accidental side-effect of his instability, or a deliberate outgrowth of his reality show-life training? Regardless of how he acquired this trait, he and much of our leadership use it extensively. Right […]
Big News It is a bit surprising, but not at all incorrect, to see that the Pell Center, the local journalism overseer in the state, has named the United Health Infrastructure Project (UHIP) computer system idiocy at the RI Department of Human Services the 2017 Rhode Island Story of the Year. Surprising in that […]
Your friends at Motif are never sure whether this is a satire column, a humor column or a horror column. We do know we love being able to make up things whenever we want, without fact checking or verifying anything (just kidding – we do fact check. We also make stuff up, but that’s for […]
Local Lad Makes Bad Both Phillipe & Jorge knew NBC’s recently deposed “Today Show” host Matt Lauer back when he was doing “PM Magazine” at WJAR in Providence in the early 1980s. Lauer did a profile segment on Jorge in 1984, after Jorge began doing a talk radio show on WHJJ. The last P&J heard […]
Dear C; I was floored when I opened my browser and saw headlines that NBC “Today Show” host Matt Lauer had been fired. I’ve been listening to the news and it’s unbelievable – Kevin Spacey, Al Franken, George Bush Sr., Louie CK … unreal! Harvey Weinstein, that douche who set the ball rolling, was a […]
To the Editor, The headline on the business page of the Thursday, November 16 Providence Journal said it all: “More state help for developer.” For the umpteenth time, the I-195 commission is giving more money to some very wealthy developer so they can build a building where the highway used to be. We are told […]
Charles Manson finally died last night, at 11:13pm Eastern Time Sunday. I don’t think anyone who is too young to personally remember the 1960s can come close to understanding why his particular brand of evil never quite faded, and why he still received about four fan letters daily until his death. I believe that the […]
AltFacts, really meant as a joke about national-level distortion of information, took on a frightening new meaning locally in November, when a series of ugly police-related incidents spiraled out of control. Now, with social media, information distortion can truly explode into digital panic. On one day, two police incidents that felt related took place. In one, […]