On Saturday, October 28, Motif will make its first foray into cannabis events, partnering with Mother Earth Wellness Dispensary and The MET for the first in a series. From 6 – 8:30pm we will have at least 10 vendors, no cover, a smoking section, low-key scavenger hunt, food, drink and live performances, including DJ Matt […]
Motif is doing its first ever astrology-centered event this year, on November 15 (a date chosen by the stars and verified by our astrologer as a great day to network). At R1 Indoor Karting, 100 Higginson Ave, Lincoln. Doors at 5:56pm, running until 10pm We will have astrological readings, tarot readings and vendors, a talk […]
Save the date and warm up for Halloween with our TimeMission-sponsored cosplay event! Date: Thursday, Oct 12 Time: 6 – 11pm Location: R1 Entertainment Center, 100 Higginson Ave, Lincoln Cosplay is for everyone, and there will definitely be something for everyone at this showcase! Show off your costume or cosplay in our Stage Strut (open […]
It’s 1973. A 22-year-old Steve Smith hops out of the ocean in the haze of a Matunuck Beach summer. He shags his hair, throws his longboard up over his head, and takes off at a gallop towards the special community that is Roy Carpenter’s Beach: a collection of “shacks” which features porch sittin’, beer drinkin’, […]
Motif is excited to welcome illustrator and visual artist Jeremy Ferris to the cover of our 2022 Fall Guide. Ferris is currently living in PVD where he is the Digital Projects Librarian at Providence Public Library. Ferris holds a Master of Library and Information Studies degree from Simmons University as well as Bachelors degrees in […]
Welcome to Rhode Island! The nation’s Ocean State offers a plethora of quirks for visitors, students, and residents. With the school year starting off, an influx of new students are moving into their dorms and will soon crowd the city’s hottest locations. If you are one of these new students, a first-time visitor, or have […]
Rhode Island is known for iconic music festivals. For decades, Newport has been home to two iconic music festivals: folk and jazz. As time has progressed some festival goers have started to feel that these shows have gotten too big, that the festivals have gotten too commercial and some people just go to them for […]
NecronomiCon Providence is a four-day convention held in the city Aug 18-21, calling itself the “International Festival of Weird Fiction, Art, and Academia.” Previously held every two years since 2013, due to the pandemic it skipped 2021 and resumes in 2022. The name is a pun combining the “con” of convention with the fictional “book […]
Before we get to our Top 10 Whines, this just in… Our hackers uncovered three subversive plots! One comes from a cowardly corporation, and another by what we call the “shallow state” government… RI’s own CVS is renaming itself “Craven Venal Sellout” and has decided to follow the lead of WalMart, by allowing pharmacists to […]
Under the Influence The legendary writer and public provocateur H.L. Mencken once wrote that a serious journalist had to do two things: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. That has been one of the touchstones for Phillipe and Jorge since we have been writing this column continuously (albeit for a variety of media outlets) […]