Lunar Notes
Aries: You’re ready to move along with your life into new territory, but some last-minute snags hold you back. Month-end will bring progress. In some areas of your life, there has […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Casting About in RI Politics
We played a little game at Motif one day. If we were making a film about RI politics and money were no object, who would we choose to portray our […]
Tre Maison Dasan: Three Boys Grow Up with Parents in Prison
Rhode Island filmmaker Denali Tiller directed a documentary named after three boys: Tre, Maison, Dasan. At the start of the film they are 13, 11, and 6 years old, and […]
IMBIBE: Well Spritz Me Already
Warm humid days are upon us and we are tired – if that’s even possible – of our usual summer brews. Take a break from your hazy IPAs and summer […]
That’s Amore
There has been a bright spot for the union nurses and technologists who were part of the strike at Rhode Island and Hasbro Children’s Hospitals. It sits right behind Women and […]
Chef’s Corner: Caitlyn McGuire
Gabrielle Halliday (Motif): What menu item would you recommend to someone who’s never been to Ellie’s? Caitlyn McGuire: One of the items that is very much quintessentially Ellie’s are our […]
Oh Boy! There’s a New Hot Spot on Westminster!
I’ll start with an admission: When it comes to food, I like it spicy. Since my collegiate youth spent in Western New York in the late ’80s when the rest of […]
His Pen Is Smitier Than the Sword
Mr. Fish is the nom de plume of Dwayne Booth, an artist whose clever, biting, often funny, sometimes gut-punchingly painful work is the subject of the documentary Mr. Fish: Cartooning from […]
Tommy Denucci Opens the Vault
I recently interviewed local film director Tommy Denucci about his most recent project, “Vault,” which stars Don Johnson, Theo Rossi and Samira Wiley. The film is based on the 1975 Bonded Vault […]
And Now, for Your Feature Presentation
Shawn Quirk is the program director for the Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), and this is his eighth year working at the festival. In 2011, Quirk had friends with films in […]