Vault Review: Love Letter to 1970s Providence
There are a lot of things to like in Vault, the new crime film about the legendary 1975 Hudson Bonded Vault robbery from director Tommy DeNucci and producer Chad Verdi. […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Hot Summer, Hot Rods
Car show season is upon us, and if you have a little drive it’s not hard to find classic car enthusists hanging out near a multitude of sweet rides. Don’t […]
Amateur “Ham” Radio – Just Right for Summer
Amateur “ham” radio has been around since the dawn of the technology, but has stayed current into the 21st century. When radio was invented, the airwaves were the wild west […]
Juneteenth RI: First Annual
The first annual Juneteenth RI celebration will take place on Sunday, June 23, 12 – 6pm, at the Temple to Music in Roger Williams Park, PVD. Musical performers announced include […]
Extend the Mythos: Are you as scary as Cthulhu?
NOTE – the timeframe to enter this contest has expired! Good luck to the roughly 50 authors who made the time and effort to submit stories. >> Motif is excited […]
Vault: Made-in-RI film about made-in-RI crime
The long-awaited drama Vault, based on the audacious 1975 robbery of the Hudson Bonded Vault company in PVD, a private safe-deposit company used by big-time criminals to store their loot […]
Beach Reads: Books for Summer
Abundance by Michael Fine (320 pages, PM Press, published May 1, 2019). Doctors among warriors occupy an unusual position in society, witness to much yet trusted and expected to respect […]
All Shook Up at Community Players: Escape from Heartbreak Hotel
Set during “a 24-hour period, during the summer of 1955” in “a small you-never-heard-of-it town somewhere in the Midwest,” All Shook Up is a jukebox musical based on recognizable and […]
ARIA v. Savage: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the First Amendment
Whether non-fiction books are entitled to the same sales tax exemption as fiction books is a dispute that has been simmering for years, resulting in a federal civil rights lawsuit […]
The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Granite: Yesterday Is Another Day, Too
The Last Night of Ballyhoo is the second installment of the “Atlanta trilogy” by playwright Alfred Uhry, all of which are set among the Jewish community of the American South […]