Album Of The Week: Broncho’s Just Enough Hip to Be Woman
If you delve deep enough, you’d be surprised how artistically and musically weird Oklahoma can get. Psychedelic dream punks The Flaming Lips started out there and The Philbrook Museum of […]
Minimal Snow Possible Tue – Wed: Fraction of one inch total, may mix with or change to rain
At Providence, there is a 15% chance of snow Tue 9 – 11am, but then a 40% chance Wed 3 – 7am. Later Wed, a 20% chance of rain 12 – 4pm would coincide with...
The Father: Play review; a tragic farce
Winner of the Molière award for France’s best play, The Father, by Florian Zeller and directed by Wilbury Theatre’s Artistic Director Josh Short, flirts with the cruel nature of time while exploring the limits of...
Five Favorite PVD-Area Stage Productions, 2024
We live in a time when many theaters are still in a state of recovery from the crisis of closure and contraction caused by the pandemic. Fortunately, we live in a region where national tours...
Cocktail Recipes
Rejoice! The holidays are over … or are they? Lurking right around the corner is the highly anticipated Lunar New Year. The Lunar New Year is a time of celebration and the beginning of the...
Craft Beer Lover With a Six-Pack
Is it possible to maintain an abdominal six-pack after drinking craft beer on the regular? Professionally speaking as a registered dietitian my answer is, “It depends.” You have to work for your beer. This means...
Tune In & Tune Up
Tune In & Tune Up has had a productive few years. The organization is a health and awareness program that helps local musicians obtain mental health and other services and has given $25,000 to the...
Stop, Rock & Roll
Happy New Year, Motif readers! Here are five tasty local cuts to kick-off 2025 with style. Sure Thing - “Kidding Myself” Opening with banjo and gentle acoustic guitar, Sure Thing’s debut single harkens back to...
Opened & Closed
OPENED Roti Boti Restaurant: Traditional Pakistani cuisine in the lovely corner of Johnston. They also have a sister restaurant in Connecticut. You can find them at 100 George Waterman Rd, Johnston, or at their insta...
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Off the Beaten Path: A guide to meditative trail running
Rome Point, North Kingstown, RI It’s no surprise that runners flock to RI for fast, flat courses and expansive ocean views. Our little state boasts some popular races that many use to qualify for major marathons...
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Roots Report
Okee dokee folks… We are facing the recrudescence of the mango moron and a return to a dark and dumb age. It’s just unbelievable to me that we have to put up with his shit...
Elder Fitness: Celebrating what our bodies can do
When I work out at the South County YMCA in the afternoon, there are often high school athletes doing after-school training routines. One impressive thing they do is standing leaps to the tops of padded...
Bad Woman Winter: A literary examination of the intrigue behind the bad woman trope
Whether you are a “BookTok” veteran, casual enjoyer of contemporary fiction, or astute literature connoisseur, you have most likely encountered the bad woman trope at some point. Also referred to as the “messy” or “unhinged”...
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A Witch Looks At 2025: The one where we realize our dreams are boats in the storm
2025 is going to be pretty punk rock. It’s the year we claim our birthright as creators of our personal realities – we take up the torch, the pen, the mic, the ladle. It’s the...
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It Pays to Walk
It may seem that walking is merely obsolete transportation, superseded by faster, drier, effortless means. But never indulging in a good walk may be a fate more sad than never knowing the joy of a...
On the Cover: Ill-Russo-Strator
Anthony Russo is a freelance illustrator living in Little Compton. His clients include the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Esquire, Random House, LA Times, Vanity Fair and...
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Irresistible. Irreplaceable. Irregardless Biscuits.
I’ve been living in the West End of Providence for a few years now and one of my favorite things to do is to explore the neighborhood for small adventures and good eats. Fortunately, it...
3 Local Releases You Should Know About
Dudemanbro, Live From The Rhode Compiled of live performances from throughout The Ocean State, Live From The Rhode is a welcome release from South County’s favorite reggae group, Dudemanbro. Anyone who has already seen the...
GIRLS & BOYS: Love and the dark truths that lie beneath
Girls & Boys is a one-woman production by British playwright Dennis Kelly, directed by Rachel Walshe, that unleashes a tale of love, marriage, and family violence as told from the perspective of an unnamed woman....
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Stuff to Do
Monster Jam
January 31 - February 2Beth Killian
January 31 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pmNeal Vitullo and the Vipers
January 31 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmClub D’elf
January 31 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads
January 31 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Home Improvement Gone Wrong, or How I Spent The Last 3 Weeks Of Summer
My house was built in 1940 and has had virtually no renovations done to it. It was a “handyman special” when I acquired it. I wasn’t a handyman at that […]
This Is NOT Your Un-funny Friend’s Improv Group
We’ve all been there. There’s one friend in your circle, which if you were questioned by a stranger you may say is just an acquaintance. And he thinks that he […]
CD Review: Ryan Adams’ Self-Titled Album
Ryan Adams has made a career doing pretty much whatever he wants. As a young man, he became an alt-country icon, mostly for his work with his band Whiskytown, but […]
Theater Award Winners
Motif seeks to recognize the excellence in local theater at many different levels. We polled the critics and the theater companies themselves – about their own best work, and the […]
Be Part of the Show at Guido’s: Scenes from a Restaurant
Starting this weekend, Rhode Island’s own Radioactive Theater Company will debut its latest production: Guido’s: Scenes from a Restaurant. Written by Rhode Island natives Shannon McLoud and Stephen Nani, Guido’s […]
The Gamm’s Grounded Aims for the Sky
The one-person show is a producer’s dream. Less overhead, same ticket price, more control over the process. Often the domain of comedians and comedic actors, the one-person show does actually […]
PINUP: Vanessa Hernandez
Do you have a nickname? Nessa What’s your occupation? Air National Gaurdsman, Brand Ambassador, Sales Associate at DSW What’s your dream job? To be a flight attendant What do you […]
Album Of The Week: Death From Above 1979’s The Physical World
When a band takes a decade to put out the follow-up to their debut album, it can either ruin high expectations or keep things fresh so they can create a […]
Telling Fairy Tales in Providence
World premieres are a rarity, and are especially uncommon in smaller cities like Providence. Even more unusual is to have two world premieres by the same composer in the same […]