Doing DIY Events Legally
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, […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Top 5 Fun Things To Do: April 25 – May 1
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 […]
Edgewood Neighbors Fight Gas Station
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 […]
March for Our Lives: Why This March Was Different
“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 […]
News Analysis: What Are Your Elected Officials Smoking?
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 […]
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: JARheads, Candidates and Kudos & Congrats
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 […]
Environment: The Poetry of Tim DeChristopher’s Climate Disobedience
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 […]
The Complaint Department
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 […]
CBD Massage Comes to RI
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 […]
About Photographer Sam Stiles
How did you get into photography? I started working with photos and video because I struggled to tell stories as a writer. I met a photographer who freelanced and he […]