Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Reading Together While Apart: Continuing to connect PVD’s literary community
After coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns caused What Cheer Writers Club (whatcheerclub.org) to close its co-working space and podcasting studio in downtown PVD and to cancel in-person events beginning on Monday, March […]
Bubble, Bubble
If you’re washing your hands eleventy-million times a day, you’re doing it right. If you’re not using local soap, you could be doing it better. Check out our roundup of […]
Hot Stuff!: Local chefs provide their best recipes using ingredients already in your kitchen
In my last six years as a food writer for Motif, I have gotten to know and love the people whose food and drink I write about, and they are […]
Student Perspective: One high school student’s view of the coronavirus
Right now the only thing on anyone’s mind is the newest strain of coronavirus. How it’s affecting our community, economy and other nations around the world has taken over every […]
Pet portraitist Scott Groome on weathering the coronavirus
Scott Groome is a local Rhode Island artist. Originally from Woonsocket, Groome got his start at The Stadium Theatre as a set painter and scenic artist. After two years of […]
Watch It!: 20 films, shows, and novels to keep you paranoid while quarantined
Either by choice or not, we all will be spending a lot of time indoors. Even after lying in bed contemplating our mortality, raiding the fridge and fighting over toilet […]
From In-Line to Online with Twenty Stories: PVD bookseller drives into an escalating pandemic
After converting a 30-year-old Chevy G20 van into the Twenty Stories bookmobile in 2017, Alexa Trembly and Emory Harkins drove around Los Angeles sweltering through summer highs, some days struggling […]
Shop Safely
Local grocery stores are setting aside some of their hours of operation to be used exclusively for those most vulnerable to COVID-19 — seniors and those with underlying medical conditions. […]
Bored in the House and in the House Bored
Not even a pandemic on unfathomable scale can stop Motif from bringing you the very best in entertainment. Running out of things to do while you’re quarantined? We made a […]